DARKNESS - ENHYPEN
36. Curses

His meeting with Sunghoon yesterday cannot be forgotten. He never expected that Sunghoon was the successor of the wolves. What does this have to do with Nicholas?.

"Did Nicholas know that Sunghoon had a family with him?" Elena played her fingers on the cup.

Sunghoon and Nicholas never got along. What looks like a regular showdown between vampires and wolves is not due to a serious problem like the usurpation of the throne.

"Is it possible that Nicholas didn't know that Sunghoon was his brother? So why wasn't there a commotion between Sunghoon and Nicholas yesterday?" Elena thought hard trying to figure it all out.

Elena remembers when Nicholas said Elena was going to meet Sunghoon. Was yesterday's meeting planned by Nicholas?.

"Nicholas invited me and brought me together with Sunghoon. What was Nicholas really planning? Did he deliberately make Sunghoon waver to become a king?. Ah~ is impossible. Nicholas couldn't possibly want to be king. It's not like that. But what if it is like that? what if it turns out that Nicholas planned something bad for Sunghoon?." Elena leaned straight into the chair. His head hurt a lot, from this afternoon he couldn't stop thinking about Sunghoon and Nicholas.

The girl exhaled as she recalled Sunghoon still caring about her.

"I'd love to hear Sunghoon explain everything that's happened to me."

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Inside the enormous hall Sunghoon was fighting with a grown man. He darted fast using the right timing, his claws managed to injure the man's back. Sunghoon smiled proudly but too soon for him to feel victorious. His body had already floated against the wall until it cracked.

The adult man had already turned into a wolf. He approached Sunghoon with sharp fangs.

This is not the first time Sunghoon has fought wolves. He immediately ran to the back, looking for a room wide enough to freely attack and dodge.

Sunghoon ran and was about to stick his claws but his body was hit by a ram. He was too rash against his own teacher.

The wolf released Sunghoon.

"You need to learn a lot more." His words turned into human.

"I can win if I use my magic." He tidied up clothes.

Teacher smiled. "If you're invincible you should be able to fight me without magic."

"I can't turn into a wolf. I'm a mixed man, you should have taught me MiX wasn't a werewolf."

The man closed the ears. "Your martial lesson will continue tomorrow night by the lake. Don't babble. I should have taught a disciple in the forest in broad daylight. Not in a hot hall like this. Basic shameless~." It was obvious that he left the hall in annoyance.

Likewise with Sunghoon, he was also upset because he had to meet again with a teacher who sucks like Mr. Reo.

When he walked out of the hall, Viola was already waiting for him. The woman held Sunghoon's arm.

"You tired?" Ask.

Sunghoon shook his head, he released Viola's hand which was coiled around his arm.

The smile on Viola's face instantly disappeared.

"Do I make you uncomfortable?"

"I just want to be alone." He nodded first.

Last night's incident made Sunghoon unable to think clearly. Though he had promised himself to establish Viola as the only woman but could not. Sunghoon could accept the circumstances that brought him closer to Viola at this time but his heart could not be as it used to be. There was someone who filled the recesses of Sunghoon's heart.

"El~ you're all the way from town, come here? what's up?" Nicholas asked as if yesterday had never happened.

"Is Sunghoon here?"

Nicholas was surprised.

"You came all the way here to meet Sunghoon?"

Elena exhaled.

"Yesterday, did you deliberately meet me with Sunghoon? Apparently you know that Sunghoon is still alive."

"I don't intend to hide it from you."

Elena didn't react.

"Call Sunghoon. Tell him to meet me here."

"You have no authority to order a prince like that. ."

Elena rounded her eyes. "Then let me, who is an ordinary man, call him."

"Your relationship with Sunghoon is over. He will have a wedding with his fiancee. So you better go home and don't come here again."

"I don't care about that fucking wedding. I just want to know one thing, what happened on Sunghoon's birthday night so Jake disappeared. It was a birthday night that made me lose both of them." Elena continued her determined steps of calling Sunghoon with her own mouth.

Nicholas exhaled to look at Elena from his place. His footsteps stopped when he met a group of children. Elena chatted with them.

"You guys have practiced?" Ask Nicholas who Elena doesn't realize that the man is already nearby.

"You know these kids?" Elena asked, but she was not answered.

The five men greeted Nicholas.

"We've been training at the waterfall, sir." Reply Yuma.

Nicholas nodded then looked towards Shio.

"Your hand's improving?"

Shio nodded slowly.

"They're kids who've just had a change." Nicholas answered Elena's question.

"You mean they're wolves too?"

"Hm (yes). Go home, your mother has prepared meat to eat."

Elena noticed the five boys running around after being told to go home by Nicholas.

"You're letting Shio train in a state that hasn't recovered yet?"

Elena turned her head immediately as Nicholas let out a voice.

Apparently he was talking to a big man that Elena recognized.

"You're here again?" Ask Elena the man.

"You know him too?" Nicholas pulls Elena's hand. He slightly covered Elena from Uncle Reo.

Elena was a little confused but still answered the man's question.

"I'm looking for someone." Elena ignored Nicholas.

"There's no one in this place, miss."

"I'm looking for a vampire." Instantly, Nicholas gripped Elena's hand to surprise her.

"You must keep your word, miss. There are no vampires in this land we live on." Uncle Reo said.

"There was a vampire passing by. Looks like he's still hiding, you'll have to find him before the vampire escapes." Nicholas said making the man in front of him frown.

"I'll have the guards catch him alive." It seems that Reo's uncle knows that Nicholas is protecting Elena.

"You can kill him right away." Answer Nicholas.

"No-no I have to ask first if the vampire we caught is really the vampire that this lady saw or not. If we catch a vampire wrong, we can be punished by the King's master." His words smiling widely gave Elena goosebumps.

Nicholas held back the look on his face, he had to keep looking calm.

"We're gonna catch that vampire before dawn. Please let the lady wait. Excuse me."

The man left them both.

"I have to wait here?"

"Damn! I'm trying to help you avoid trouble, but I'm adding runyam."

"I don't understand, Nicholas."

"You can't just talk about vampires here. I'm afraid you're saying that Sunghoon is half vampire and half wolf. If you say that, then you can be suspected of being his servant. You could die for helping a MiX. Like Viola and the old servant Sunghoon. They died for helping Sunghoon perform the ritual." Nicholas rubbed his hair a little frustratingly.

"You should have left after I kicked you out. If you hadn't gone to see Sunghoon, Uncle Reo wouldn't have suspected you."

Elena was silent saying nothing. Will this matter make him meet with Sunghoon? then what if Uncle Reo finds out that no vampires are hiding. What Nicholas said just now was just a lie.

The man in front of him looked towards the west, the sun was already on the verge of the waves. Before drowning Nicholas must figure out a way to keep Elena from getting into trouble. He pulled the woman's hand making Elena's footsteps through the gate stepping on the main part of the ground Luga Ru. He was in wolf territory that it might even be difficult for Elena to set foot out.

to be continued...