A Demon Duchess
3. snow white

sometimes people hear better than they speak..

altheana Amaryllis's

a year after the queen's departure, Althea was officially appointed crown princess to replace the queen's duties, but Alvaro was not happy about it he hesitated to marry someone he now hated, he wants a married life like his parents who love each other.

"you'll be fine Thea, I know Dad's daughter is strong" said the duke as he stared at Althea's iris.

"dad," called Althea in a tone that seemed ordinary but actually she trembled with fear what when the full moon would be okay, whether Alvaro could accept Althea as it was.

The duke hugged his only daughter tightly and whispered an important message to her daughter.

"don't let them know who you really are" the Duke whispered to Althea, after taking off his arms the Duke stroked the top of his daughter's head and let Althea go to the palace.

"mom, please protect me," Althea said in her heart as she stared at the duke's residence nanar which was increasingly disappearing from her sight.

a few months later, Alvaro's treatment of Althea was absolutely unkind, often saying cruel words to Althea, ignoring the things that hurt Althea did not even hesitate while practicing the sword Alvaro deliberately made Althea injured.

on that sunny day Althea and Alvaro got a task from the king to exterminate the monsters in the forbidden forest that is in the territory of the duke Crisan.

although it was called the extermination of the moster, but in fact it was one of the high-class events where young nobles competed to kill low-level mustard, it was the same as hunting competition.

the winner of this competition will be given precious magic stones that dio can from high-level monsters and usually a man will give them to the lady he likes.

although it was snowy and some of the troops were cold, Althea did not even feel anything he even easily walked on the river that was half frozen, Alvaro was furious to see the nature of Althea which he thought was very arrogant.

though the position of Althea here as the lady who waited but Althea instead followed Alvaro and went hunting with him, even worse the king did not dispute it and instead allowed Althea without any conditions.

"i know you're a sword master but can you just act like a real woman once? is that long hair and face just a display?!" upset Alvaro, Althea just looked down even though his face remained flat but his heart was scratched with Alvaro's words, it hurt he wanted to cry also angry but he remembered his father's message.

unstable emotions can also be the cause of the release of the demon side of althea, he does not want to hurt anyone especially Alvaro men who became his first love.

"come back, I won't forgive if you stay here and hurt my pride." Alvaro heard Althea's words immediately felt like he was on thousands of needles simultaneously.

althea took a breath and looked at the back of alvaro meaningfully, riding his white horse althea left Alvaro, he put his horse forward quickly while thinking about Alvaro's words just now until he unconsciously tears out.

and sure enough that the previously purple iris had now turned a fiery red, altheea noticed the change in his eyes as he turned his way towards the deepening forest.

a small roar suddenly distracted althea, and althea quickly advanced his horse towards the origin of the sound.

in front of Althea's eyes a baby white tiger seemed to tremble in fear at the sight of some monsters that looked hungry.

quickly althea took out a sword from her scabbard, her unstable demon side made her head ache and made her gaze blur.

Althea was careless before her eyes the white tiger baby lost its life viciously, half of its body was eaten but the other half was thrown away.

as soon as the bright snowy sky turned dark, althea could no longer control his anger, his eyes were now completely lit up and a black mist began to lie around him, the wind began to make a very large snowstorm the sword in allthea's hand was changed along with the snow that enveloped it.

the sword that had not had any decoration now had a spiked rose from the handle to the blade, the rose was made of ice and at the end of the blade was a carved symbol inscribed with the letter 'A'

althea stared cynically at the monsters that were now ready to eat her, unknowingly dripping from her eyes as her gaze diverted to the baby tiger.

he imagined the mother was also the Queen who left him just like that, why should all those who love him end up like that why should althea not cry when he wants why can't he show himself to others why?

mercilessly Althea slashed at the monsters before her one by one no matter the bloodstains that littered some of her clothes, Althea enjoyed it as she slashed at those monsters, no matter what the bloodstains were, he enjoyed it when he freely expressed his feelings at the time.

Althea approached the carcass of the baby tiger and smiled sincerely and thanked him as he shed his tears.

at the touch of the head of the baby tiger that had been smeared with blood, again he shed his tears, tears that had long been in his possession.

slowly the blue light formed a 'snow flow' which also slowly changed its form into a glowing blue rose.

accompanied by the blue light was slowly the body of the baby tiger back to normal, smeared in the middle of its white fur like snow absorb the blue light and let it shine.

after the light was gone the eyes of the althea that was originally red light now back into a bed shortly after the baby tiger was awake and approached the althea as if thanking him.

since that day Althea decided to take care of the baby tiger of course he did not take her to the palace Althea brought her home to his true residence duke Amaryllis.

every day althea visited to see the development of the baby tiger that he named Canace.

it felt like the burden of althea was slightly reduced when she poured her heart out at Canace, even though the baby tiger only replied with a roar for some reason it was better than someone talking directly to her.

Canace, which means white, your feathers are like those piles of snow, the pile of white snow I saw when I first met you..

altheana Amaryllis's.

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how to read Canace is 'canas' yes the name of canace itself I take from Latin which means white so my pen name means white rain ya hehe..

- Ran.nace