Moonlight After Sunset's
Recovering

"A little pain will make you stronger. Take it off and calm yourself down afterwards, take a valuable lesson from the pain and make it a motivation to survive."

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"Ugh," said Dusk as the pain in his head grew worse.

"Where Am I?"

Dusk looked around after finding himself in a room so foreign to him. The room looked simple, there was no other furniture other than chairs and tables to relax on.

"I need to get out of this place."

Dusk began to crawl down from the mattress but before his feet could touch the floor. Dusk felt pain all over his body coupled with the aroma of drugs that filled the room made Dusk more dizzy and nauseous.

"Ugh, it hurts so much" said Dusk as he held his head.

Unable to bear the pain, Dusk then decided to go back to sleep.

"I can't move, my body is numb," murmured Dusk with an annoyed expression.

"If it continues like this."

Instantly Dusk recalled Ristia, his sacred animal capable of treating wounds with her magic power.

Dusk raised his left hand and found Ristia fast asleep.

"What's this?" dusk asked in panic when he could not feel the energy from Ristia at all.

"Wake up."

Dusk then touched Ristia's body and shook it violently but there was no response at all.

"Ristia, wake. Come wake!"

The twilight continued to shake his weak arm not feeling any tears flowing out. On the other hand a man was sitting at his desk just outside the Dusk room. The man looked frustrated hearing the twilight scream.

"Go."

The man told his subordinates to leave the house. He then stepped into the room and opened the door.

"He's still alive despite being weak" the handsome man said as he stepped closer to the bed.

"Lucas!"

Dusk was a little surprised to see Lucas who had just arrived into the room.

"How can you...."

Twilight's words were cut off as Lucas pulled his body into an embrace. Lucas then stroked the twilight silver hair and kissed it gently.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time" whispered Lucas sorrowfully as he tightened his embrace.

Twilight was silent, he did not understand what had happened to him and Lucas. Long Lucas hugged Dusk until a voice stopped him.

"Tok, tock, tock."

Lucas took off his arms and walked to the door of the room and opened it.

"Master, please,"

The waiter carried a tray containing a bowl of warm soup as well as lemon juice. Soon Lucas picked up the tray and closed the door before the maid could finish her sentence.

Ariel who saw Lucas' possessive behavior could only shake his head. He then lightly hit the servant's shoulder while saying.

"Come on."

The two of them walked out of the house with similarly shocked facial expressions.

"What's wrong?" ask the other knights who are standing guard outside the house.

"You won't believe what just happened inside" Ariel replied as she walked up to the Pine tree beside her.

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The Royal Capital

A horse-drawn carriage was speeding down the highway, the horse-drawn carriage seemed to be in a hurry.

"Hurry up" Eza's great-grandson as the horse-drawn carriage made it past the crowd of people.

"My time is not much." Eza repeated what he had said since the horse-drawn carriage departed.

"This master is already at full speed," the coachman grumbled tired of hearing Eza's chatter from the start.

"Dam."

Eza's face looks upset, he really panicked when he got the news if the lady did not come back.

"That's been three days, Miss, there's no news. I've even searched all over the lotus forest but only found a collection of animal corpses,"

Not long after the horse-drawn carriage stopped at a gate where the Adeline Academy was located. Eza immediately got out of his chair and ran inside the academic building.

There Eza has been welcomed by Prof Edward and also Dian who had been waiting for his arrival.

"Come here" exclaimed Prof Edward with open arms welcoming Eza. They went to a secret room near the warehouse.

"Sit down first."

Prof Edward then took his wand and turned on the lamp. The room looked simple with bookshelves surrounding it.

"Where is Miss Dusk?" ask Eza directly at the point.

"Take it easy first" cried Prof Edward as he sat in one of the chairs.

"Calm down a bit" whispered Dian as she held Eza's trembling hand slowly.

"We must be calm to be able to find Miss," continued Dian while still half whispering.

Eza's annoyed face slowly began to control, he then stared intently at Prof Edward who had brought his lady into danger.

"Alright Prof tell me what really happened" exclaimed Eza, asking for an explanation from a letter he got after two days of searching for his lady in the lotus forest.

"This is the story."

Prof Edward began to tell everything from the beginning of his arrival with Dusk to the lotus forest to the sacred animals that turned crazy and the possibility of the emergence of the Nara clan. He also recounted this relationship with the nobles, but was not too sure of it.

"This is just my speculation. To be clear, this matter is still under investigation."

"Damn" lirih Eza getting upset. It knows if the nobles are a wedge group**and are greedy for status and standing.

"Then, where is my lady now?"

Prof Edward begins to explain that Dusk is currently under the protection of a man. Edward could not explain who the man was. He can only say if the situation is good - fine at this time.

"So you're saying my lady is now being held captive by a foreign man?" ask Eza while pulling Prof Edward's collar.

"Mom, not taken prisoner but cared for," replied Prof Edward as he tried to remove Eza's grip from his collar.

"Calm down Eza," cried Dian trying to pull Eza's hand.

"What Prof Edward said was true. I felt it from Kun's energy that was starting to improve" Dian continued trying to convince Eza.

Eza's grip began to loosen but his hand was still clutching the collar of Prof Edward's shirt.

"If Dusk is brought here then he won't be safe, you know that right?"

Prof Edward tries to calm down in the face of Eza's emotions.

"He will be safe in the man's protection. You'll know if he's not a bastard who would hurt a woman carelessly" Prof Edward said.

"I know that but still," Eza's great-granddaughter who was worried about the worst that could happen to her missus.

"This time try to believe, just once," pinta Prof Edward while lightly holding Eza's shoulder.

"Alright, but if anything happens then you will accept the consequences," exclaimed Eza while releasing his grip.

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Pony Forest Cottage

"How's it?" lucas asked when Dusk had finished putting the last mouthful of porridge into his mouth.

"Do you like it?" asked Lucas again who was only answered dumbly by Dusk.

"If you're still hungry I'll have the waiter bring some other food," the great-grandson Lucas still tries to get the twilight's attention.

"No need, this alone is enough," replied Dusk as Lucas tried to exit the room while calling - call his servant.

"That's true, but it's too little." Lucas's face looked sad and it looked funny to Dusk.

"Grt."

Dusk tries to hold back his laughter when he sees Lucas acting like a child at his adult age.

Lucas who saw Dusk started to laugh a little happy. He was previously angry and hated himself for only being able to come late when Dusk suffered a calamity.

"Thank God you're okay now,"

Lucas then warmly stroked the twilight hair that decomposed freely in the air. "If I'm a little late, maybe" Lucas recalled the incident.

"Well, what did you say just now?" dusk asked when he heard Lucas's vague murmur.

Lucas who still remembers about the incident at that time did not hear the question of Dusk and still glares deep into it.

"Hey, Lucas," the twilight great-grandson answered a pushy gaze by Lucas.

"Lucas do you hear me?"

The sun started to look upset. He then pinched Lucas' arm which made Lucas momentarily return to the real world.

"Arg, sick," cried Lucas as his skin was warmed by the twilight pinch.

" ... "

Dusk just looked at Lucas annoyed while he was plunging his mouth forward.

Lucas, who knew that Dusk was upset, could only laugh.

"Ah forgive me Princess," exclaimed Lucas who got a sharp glare from Dusk.

"Which girl are you daydreaming about?" tanya Dusk is upset with a face as red as a tomato.

"Geez, is my princess jealous."

Temptation Lucas who makes Dusk can no longer stand against him.

"If you're done, then get out,"

twilight Grunts then turned his body against the wall of the room.

"I want to rest" he continued, pulling the blanket and sleeping.

"All right,"

On the other hand Lucas who was already outside the room could only laugh amusedly at the annoyed expression of Dusk. The laughter grew increasingly uncontrollable when he heard the shrill twilight in his ears.