The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 33

Erlos might look like a mess, but his fall was in fact cushioned by a pile of leaves, thus although it hurt, there were, in fact, no broken bones. Sensing that, the guilty servant groaned as he peeked at his master’s expression, understanding that Draven had caught him running away. With an awkward laugh, he stood up to bow before the King.

“S-Sire, how come you are here? I was just about to return to the palace.”

In response, he only got a glare from those red eyes which then moved up to look at those tree houses above them.

Leeora followed the King’s gaze and said, “I have arranged Ember’s stay in the house next to mine.” She pointed towards the particular tree house with a hanging bridge connected to her own home.

Draven took a glance at that house and then turned towards Leeora after giving a passing look at the human girl who was still hiding by Lusca’s side.

“Are we free-loading the outsiders here?” Draven asked.

Erlos knew that tone. The young elf, who was feeling bad about his pain, now looked at the human girl with a pitiful gaze. ‘Seems like she is going to suffer under him as well. Poor human.’

“Of course not, Sire,” Leeora said. “She is injured at the moment. Once she is better, I will assign her some decent work to do.”

“As long as it is not in the palace, everything could be considered decent work,” Erlos commented, sarcastically pointing out that working in the palace for this heartless king was the worst ever.

“Not a bad idea. Once she is able, put her to work in the palace,” Draven instructed.

Erlos felt like slapping his own month for saying it. Unintentionally, he had pushed that pitiful human into the devil’s den. Promise, he didn’t mean to pull another fellow to suffer alongside him!

“P-Palace, Sire?” Leeora asked as she could not believe her ears that the King had asked this human to work in the palace. Moreover, she had decided to take things slow. She was worried that this girl who seemed to have no social manners nor a bit of education could adjust to the palace environment. She wished to keep her by her side for a while longer.

“Is there any issue?” he asked in a manner where the person in front of him had no other option but to obey him.

Leeora forced out a smile. “What can be the issue? In fact, Ember is fortunate to have the chance of working in the palace.”

Erlos and Leeora exchanged silent gazes that showed pity for that human girl, but they could do nothing in front of the King’s order.

Meanwhile, the human girl whose name was now Ember felt her hands turn sweaty, ‘Palace? Is he talking about taking me back to that place where he lives?’ Her beautiful emerald green eyes were covered with anxiety.

It’s been barely two days since she stayed in Ronan and she had just started being able to talk to a tree spirit. She liked this place more although the palace was more beautiful, but he was talking about taking her back there already?

‘I don’t want to go there! I like Leeora and this place better!’

Sadly, no one could hear her thoughts.

Draven looked at Erlos. “We are leaving.”

The King informed him before teleporting. Seemed like he finally felt a hint of pity for his servant. Erlos got the chance to protect his body with his powers so he would remain fine even after teleporting.

The next moment, the King and his servant disappeared into thin air, causing Ember to blink as she found it familiar.

After thinking for a while, Ember recalled that she had seen some kind of energy traveling at the speed of lightning back when she was staring at the palace from her window. Now, she understood that what she had witnessed before was probably something caused by Draven.

There was nothing to like or not like about it. It was far better than being nameless. These people were not aware, but it wasn’t that she refused to tell them her name. She had no name in the first place. All she had heard throughout her life was one person calling her ‘little princess’ and nothing else.

“You are fortunate that His Majesty has named you. He had done it only once when he named Erlos and now you are the second one,” she heard Leeora continue. “His Majesty is not fond of having people around him, and neither is he good at expressing his feelings, but he is not someone to be scared of. He is much warmer than one could imagine.” Leeora turned her gaze to look at the girl who was trying to figure out what Leeora meant. The elf smiled and said, “I mean to say, there is no need for you to be scared of him.”

Although Ember felt reluctant to agree, she nodded.

“He is the one who saved you and brought you to Agartha. Though I don’t know how bad your life has been so far, I assure you that you will only get to experience better things from now on,”,” Leeora added. “You should be thankful to him for giving you a chance to live a new life.”

Ember found herself staring at the palace once more.

‘He saved me?’

Her encounters with him had been pretty terrible—his scary appearance inside her room when she woke up, the way he tied her up with his powers when he caught her escaping, the way he punished the silver-haired elf by making him fall from the tree house. There was nothing among them that gave her a good impression.

‘But he brought me out of that hellish place…’

All this time, she had been wondering how she reached this magical place. The last thing she remembered was the fire in the mountain and how she was trying to escape it. Though she didn’t want to return to that cave, there were things there that belonged to Gaia that she at least wanted to preserve as remembrance…

There were many things she wanted to ask.

It made her wonder if she asked him, would he answer her?