
...-AUTHOR POV-C...
In the main palace of the Eilidh Empire, Sonne Palace looked so desolate and almost uninhabited as everyone in this region of Eilidh Imperial Palace went to the hunting match event. Only a few soldiers were on guard, it was just on guard at the outside. While no one was guarding the inside of this important Palace.
However, don't worry about intruders intending to enter this Palace because the Emperor and some powerful Imperial Magicians had already installed a barrier magic so powerful that the security of the oni palace would not be able to be breached.
But unfortunately that barrier magic only works on people trying to infiltrate from the outside.... Not to someone who had been in this palace in the shadows from the very beginning.
"Hm~ Hmm~"
A girl of about seven years old with long red hair surging and golden-yellow eyes was leisurely walking down the quiet and silent hallway while singing a small hum.
The boy was wearing a fancy black dress set and carrying a brown teddy bear that looked terrible. The reason, the teddy bear is not a cute teddy bear as owned by children his age but the teddy bear has eyes decorated with Ruby stone bags, red as blood, and the, the doll's smile was so wide as an evil grin and displayed monster-like pointed teeth.
The daughter was Emira, another Princess resulting from the Emperor's illicit affair and his personal servant Kayla.
Emira then entered the throne room, where she began to run around the throne and when she arrived in front of the Emperor's seat she sat holding her creepy teddy bear.
"Finally get out too! I'm bored in that room all the time! I also want to go out!" Emira grumbled while puffing her cheeks in annoyance.
He then swung his feet on the throne seat alternately. Not long after that he got off the chair and walked forward and stood right in the middle of the vast throne room.
An unnatural smile bloomed on his face. The face of a child who was once so beautiful, sweet, and innocent suddenly disappeared without a trace and showed such a terrible grin.
"Ahahaha~ I forgot! Today Mr. Det must get candy and red wine! Almost forgot hehehe~" Kekeh Emira with a plain tone that actually makes the atmosphere more gripping.
He placed the doll in the middle of the throne room and instantly a magic circle so large in blood red appeared.
Not long after, a pitch-black mud appeared with almost lava-like red patches around the magic circle. And slowly the mud formed a shell.
"Fufu~ Come Mr. The det! It's time to find some light candy and some quality red wine so you can grow up!" Emira exclaimed vigorously and slowly showed a pair of eyes that were so terrible....
...-VIVI POV-...
The game of hunting began, the noble men began to enter the forest with their horses. While the women waited for them while having a tea party. I was at a tea party with kids who were my age. At first so many noble children came over to me and began to seek my attention.
I politely began to reply to their greetings and words. But I started to feel uneasy myself. It's been almost two hours of this tea party I haven't found Miss Luna Arcadia Erickson at all. Indeed, many rumors about him are very anti-social and also rarely to go to crowded places like this. But where is he now? Is it not-don't he's been....
NAY! If that happens, my plan will be a failure! I have to prevent Luna from getting out of this barrier's magic boundary and going into the forest!
I quickly started to leave the tea party in order to rest with the other noble children. They said yes and I immediately went and ran a little while looking for the whereabouts of Sar Miss Luna.
I am so grateful because thanks to physical exercise so far in sword lessons, I can run quite fast and not easily tired too.
I stopped at a tree near Duke Erickson's tent.
I looked back and saw that the soldiers had started to move away. With a careful movement, I began to approach Duke Erickson's family tent and finally succeeded!
I also began to peek at the entrance to the tent that was slightly open. My eyes began to look for Miss Luna's figure but the results remained nil, I did not see Miss Luna being here.
How'this? Did he already come out of the barrier magic border and go towards the forest?
All right, let me begin to recall what happened in the past.
Miss Luna was found dead at six in the afternoon, just as the sun was already sinking after the soldiers who were being helped with the noble men who were looking for him for two hours after the first day hunting match was over.
According to the news, the doctor and also the Imperial Shrine official confirmed that Miss Luna's time of death was less than five hours before she was found. It's been two hours..... Means being in these hours!
I quickly started to run to find Miss Luna's whereabouts to the border of barrier magic and also the forest.
The Empire's own party doesn't guarantee your safety if it dares to break out of this barrier magic. Which means, if there's a reckless exit from this barrier's magic border, it means you're ready for all the consequences.
Especially if there are ferocious beasts from the Nature Forest that suddenly attack you.
I started to take a long living and exhaled slowly then started to prepare to run through the barrier magic and.... I managed... I made it out!
I began to look around and saw a forest that looked a little dark with towering trees.
Uwahs... Now I became so amazed at the man who participated in this match. They had already dared to enter the free realm like this...
"PLEASE!!!!!!"
That shout immediately jolted me, this is the voice of a female! I quickly ran to find the origin of the sound.
I continued to enter the deeper parts of this forest, after being far enough away from the border of barrier magic I saw a scene that completely shocked me.
"GHGRRR............."
My eyes widened when I saw Miss Luna who was sitting on the ground with her feet bleeding to the point of dirtying the dress she was wearing and her whole body seemed to tremble violently in fear. I also saw the figure of a gigantic pitch-black wolf and blood-red eyes. The body of the giant black wolf also seemed to be enveloped by a cloud of black smoke that was so dense and continued to incubate towards Miss Luna.
All of a sudden the giant wolf came forward and was about to pounce on Miss Luna but I quickly released my fusion magic power.
"ICE WALLS!!" I cried and there appeared a thick wall of ice that was long and wide that blocked the path of the giant wolf. I quickly used one of the applied magic that I had mastered that was flying magic and landed in front of Miss Luna.
"Tu-sir Princess..." With that choked voice, Miss Luna called out to me.
I turned to him and pulled his hand, "Let's get out of here, Miss Luna!"
Yep... I will make sure we can escape from this sinister figure of the black giant wolf!!!