
Krystal and Lucio entered the forest on their horse, but strangely there was not a single animal they had found since. The hunting participants were struck by confusion, let alone the atmosphere of a very quiet forest adding to the astonishment of everyone. The silence of the forest made Krystal put great suspicion, Lucio's premonition also grew in the heart. Krystal came down from the horse, she circulated an eye-watching look around her, there was really not a single animal that was there.
“Your Highness,” call Lucio with low voice intonation, his pair of neutrals not to gnaw, as if he felt a frightening thing coming at them.
“What's up, Lucio? Are you sick?” krystal asked worriedly at Lucio's unusual expression.
Lucio held his head, he sat limp on the ground, both of Lucio's hands shaking from the sudden, inflamed pain in the head. Krystal tries to call Lucio, but there is no response from Lucio as the growing pain drowns her in the voice that makes Krystal's call not reach her consciousness.
‘What sound is it? Why is his voice getting closer?’ Lucio heard the sound of a huge crowd of feet approaching towards them.
“LUCIO!” sergeant Krystal shouted Lucio's name.
Lucio flinched, he stared at Krystal's nanar, “Your Majesty, run.”
“Running? Why should I run?” confused Krystal.
“RUN, YOUR MAJESTY! MONSTER PORTAL WILL OPEN!” shout Lucio.
However, before it could turn towards the outside of the forest, a great tremor suddenly came rattling the ground where they stood. Then not far from their current location, a purple-colored portak opened wide. Monsters that were large and looked strong flashed from the portal. All the people who were in the forest scattered out looking for shelter from the raging monster attacks.
“Lucio, quickly stand up! What the hell happened to you? Which part hurts? Let me treat!”
Krystal shook Lucio's shoulder, but there was still no response from her. The throbbing pain in Lucio's head grew worse, Lucio began to show a strange reaction, he roared in pain between the monsters that were destroying the forest.
“Kill man! They have killed our King.”
“We have been given a chance to get out of the monster world, it's time we trample them.”
“Portal monsters will open wider, so we have many opportunities to exterminate all humans on this earth.”
“Kill them! Don't give them a chance to live. All this time we have been waiting for the time to come today, our King who fell in love with humans ended up being killed by other humans, we must not forgive them, humans are vile, they are the most despicable creatures.”
Lucio was able to understand the language of monsters, he clearly heard and understood the conversations of those monsters. An endless grudge caused by their King dying at the hands of men, their pain and sorrow could be felt by Lucio through the words they spoke now.
“I can understand their language, why can I understand what they are talking about?”
Krystal gasped in shock, she was at a loss for words as Lucio revealed that she could understand the language of monsters. As long as Krystal lived, she had never encountered any human being who could talk to monsters, not even the gods could understand their language.
“Your Majesty!” Shion suddenly emerges from space with Heros, Vicenzo, and Cleon.
They immediately moved to destroy all the monsters that were targeting Krystal, their arrival made Krystal feel relieved. This time he really had to take care of the matter of Lucio who had not responded to him since earlier. The number of monsters that came out of the portal grew more and more, their numbers already filled half of this forest.
“What happened to Lucio?” ask Heros.
Heros fell silent, he was stunned when Krystal said that, “Are you serious? No kidding, right? Where there are humans who are bis—”
“STOP! YOU GUYS DON'T MESS AROUND AGAIN IN THE HUMAN WORLD!” lucio shouted, he got up to stand facing towards all those monsters.
Lucio's shout reached the hearing of the monsters, they froze as the sound of Lucio's cry echoed to the corners of the forest. The monsters reacted strangely, they moved to one point then dropped the weapon. They then kowtowed before Lucio, not a few of them shedding tears.
“Prince Lucio, is this really you? Thank goodness..thank God you are fine,” said one of the monsters.
Krystal, Vicenzo, Heros, Shion, and Vincenzo were shocked, they did not understand what the monsters that were prostrating before Lucio meant. Then Krystal's jeweled necklace let out a small light, the light coming into Krystal's body.
“We have been looking for you all this time, Your Highness Prince.”
“Since the King's death, we have not found your whereabouts anywhere, we have searched you all over the place but there is no trace of your whereabouts. Why can you be stuck in the human world?”
Krystal smothered her mouth, miraculously Krystal was also able to understand their words, which no less surprised her anymore, they referred to Lucio as the Prince.
“Prince? What do you mean? I am clearly just an ordinary human being. Why can I be the Prince of monsters?” ask Lucio who has calmed down.
“Maybe this is hard to believe, but once the King of Monsters fell in love with humans then they married and gave birth to a son. The child was named Lucio, but the end was not happy to be obtained by the King. We found the King dead horribly, then a god came to us and said that the one who killed the King was human.”
“That is why we have always disturbed human life, we just want to avenge the King and look for the existence of the Prince who is said to have also been kidnapped by a human. But, we are grateful, after wandering for more than 4000 years, we finally found you,” is definitely one of the monsters who are alleged to be their leader.
“Wait first! You say the King of Monsters was killed by humans? Do you never think which human can defeat a Monster King? Looks like you guys have been fooled,” sela Krystal firmly.
Lucio turned his head towards Krystal, he was surprised Krystal could also understand the language of monsters.
“So, if not human, who else killed the King?”
Krystal sighed heavily, “Your King was killed by the god himself! Ahh shit! From the beginning their goal was to create a conflict between humans and monsters. I can guarantee that, man is not the one responsible for your King's death. I used to find your King dead after being beaten by the god it—”
Krystal immediately closed her mouth, her chest bloated due to the tightness that felt suddenly. A shadow of memory flashed about him who had once been involved in a fierce fight between one of the great gods with a burly man who was suspected as the King of Monsters at that time. Krystal helped come when the Monster King was dying against the god, in the end he intervened to beat the god.
“When I die, please take care of my son, Your Majesty.”
Those were the last words that the Monster King said to him, he also found a little boy who was next to the dead father's body.
‘True, the boy's name is Lucio. I took him away after the death of the Monster King, how could I forget about him? So, that means I met Lucio once? Now, why is Lucio here? Has his soul experienced reincarnation?’
Krystal lifted her face then looked fixedly at Lucio, “Why can't I remember clearly? What happened to my memory? Why can I only remember a piece of our meeting? Why can't I remember how our story ended 4000 years ago, Lucio?”