(From Blue's Perspective)
That night, right after dinner, Dem took three magical devices from the table drawer in our bedroom and established one of them in the bedroom.
"What is that?" I asked.
"It's used to cut the possibility to use teleportation in this room. No one can co here from outside and no one can go anywhere from here using teleportation," he said.
I did not know what to do, so I was sitting on the bed, watching him do everything. "Why didn't you do it before? I an, you are the King, so…"
"That's because of that silver punk," he said. "He used to co to my room frequently by teleporting. So, I did not establish the device sooner. Even if soone else tried to assassinate by coming to my room, I could sense them imdiately."
"Yeah, you are a light sleeper."
"Yes, that's why there was no need before. But things are different now."
He set up another one on the balcony. Then, he went out of the room with the last one. He ca back after a while. He was rubbing the side of his head.
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Just put one in the library," he replied. "I hit my head on the side of a table."
"Oh my… Are you okay?" I asked.
He climbed onto the bed, took his shirt off, and put his head on my lap. "No, it hurts," he said.
"Let see. Where?"
"Here~"
I gently rubbed the side of his head. "You should have been careful. Does it hurt too much?"
"Can you rub there? It feels good."
It was not until five minutes passed that I realized he was a werewolf. "… You did it on purpose, didn't you? There is no way you would feel if you hit a table."
"I just wanted you to massage my head…," he sulked.
"… I would do it if you had just asked , Dem…," I sighed and chuckled. "You are really childish, aren't you?"
'No one else knows how childish he is. Sotis, it makes feel special.'
A few days passed by. I talked to Azure every single day in the library. He taught how to use my power properly. With his instructions, I could now make any objects fly, or toss anything against the wall. The lighter the object was, the easier it was to carry with my power. A bookshelf was by far the heaviest object I could move in the air.
Actually, I did not find sothing heavier than the bookshelf to practice on.
Azure's personality was very close to mine from so points. These days, he started ntioning Dem. According to him, I was not the type of person to get settled and live like a bird in a cage.
But he was wrong. I was not a bird in a cage; rather I was a bird who was tad. Even if I had the chance to fly away, I was tad enough to not do that.
Azure kept telling that I should go to him. He could teach more in person. He could even awaken my power. He said only he could awaken my power, but did not clear the reason.
Magic provoked . Learning magic was like an addiction. I had never felt like this towards anything other than buying gifts for Sapphire. Since it interested a lot, Dem never stopped from learning magic.
As the Queen, I always wanted so leisure from my work. But I never thought about what I would do in my leisure all alone. I sotis talked to Perita or Calix or took a long bath or slept; sotis, I also read books. When Dem was free too, we chatted or did sothing else. But I never truly looked forward to doing a particular thing in my leisure.
It was different now. I wanted to finish my work as soon as possible so I could practice magic. I did not know I would like it that much.
"It's normal. To mages, magic is like the air they breathe," Azure said. "And to you and , magic is sothing more. There are so desires that co with magic. We should not fight it, we should let it go wild, just like we are supposed to."
"Desires?"
"It will feel natural, just like getting angry at soone because they hurt you is natural. We need to learn how to accept that part of ourselves as normal things."
"… Does this make you want to kill soone?" I asked.
"Of course. It can happen when you are very angry at soone."
"But killing…"
"It's only natural for dark mages. We cannot control the desire. Sotis, sothing can happen that you did not expect to happen, but you have to learn how to accept that."
'I will accept it if I kill soone just because I was angry?'
"Does it happen to you too?" I asked.
"Yes," he said. "It's a strange sensation, but very natural and normal."
"What about when you were young? I an, when you were inexperienced? Did it feel natural even then?"
"When I was young?" he repeated; his voice suddenly turned cold. The air around felt chilly. "I don't know."
I wanted to ask him what he ant. He was not old enough to not rember his early days as a dark mage. But for so reason, I could not ask him anything else. My conscience kept telling that I should not ask him that.
"Tell , my daughter, how would you feel if soone told you you could not leave this room?" he suddenly asked.
"Right now?"
"Yes. You can't leave this room now, or not until they let you. How would that make you feel?"
"What will I eat?"
"What if you get what you want to eat?"
"Then, what about my bath?"
"There is a bathroom in the library."
"How do you know that?" I asked suspiciously.
"There is always a bathroom in the library. A long ti ago, Royals used to take a bath while reading books. That does not happen a lot now since people have beco more dignified and their habits changed over the course of ti," he explained. "But answer my question. Alright, let make it easier.
Suppose you are in your bedroom and the person told you that you cannot leave that room, your food will be sent to you, but you can et no one. What about then?"
"That person- are you implying to my husband, Azure?"
"I am asking a typical question. I do not find the need to bring your husband, the King in it. But you thought about him right away after hearing this- that's quite impressive," he chuckled, but I could bet that he was smirking. "I did not even ntion him today."
"…"
"It is a sign that you should run, but what can I say? My daughter is sohow too blind to see and too deaf to hear," he sighed. "What I must do to make you understand?"
"Nothing, just do nothing. I am fine the way I am. Do not try to break my family."
"You are my family too, my daughter. I am worried about you."
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"Oh, please, I don't even understand why you are talking to right now. If you care about , should you not just let live my life? You keep telling to go to you, but was it not you who controlled my husband's mind for seven years so he would bring here as his wife and then, you can take over the kingdoms one by one?"
"… Control your husband's mind? What are you saying?"
"Don't act ignorant!" I yelled. "You are the one who did it!"
"Do you know how hard it is to control soone's mind? I can do it, yes. But, controlling soone's mind for seven years is no joke and impossible for dark mages. Dark mages nowadays do not have enough power to do so. I am a dark mage of this age too. How can I do that?"
"What?"
"Aren't you too naïve, my daughter? How are you so sure that he is lying to you?"
"Why would he lie to ?"
"Hm, let see. There are many reasons. Perhaps he wants you to go against , your father, because he suspected that soday I might co to take you. He was worried that I will take you away and you will agree to go with ," he said. "Who doesn't know that the King doesn't want to part from you?"
'His words slightly make sense and perhaps I would get confused too. But even Luc said that he saw changes in Dem's behavior suddenly. A lot of people said that Dem suddenly changed when he was seventeen and then returned back to how he actually was after marrying .'
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