Basement

I was silent while looking at the three talking, it was obvious to Pavel that he was excited to leave the palace, while Cynrad and Bael were still confused. I took a deep breath and then looked in another direction, how can I start teaching him bad things? It was difficult to act because we were with two of his friends who I was sure would oppose what I would say to Pavel.

Looks like I'm going to have a hard time with these two.

"Ksara, what will you bring?" I glared at Pavel when he mentioned my name, he just smiled and scratched his head.

"I'm sorry, it's only as good as saying your name." He said that's why I was tormented.

"I won't bring anything," I said and his eyes widened.

"But what about your clothes? food and some gold so we can survive outside the palace? we need--"

"Does it look like I'm the one who has the test between the two of us?" I asked so he stopped and pouted.

"Whenever your tongue is sharp," Bael said while crossing his arms, I ignored him.

"Prepare what you will use and take with you then go to sleep because tomorrow we will leave early," I said causing Cynrad to look at me.

"If you can speak, you think you are the leader." He told me so I looked at him and smiled.

"Why? Am I overlapping you?" I asked so he looked at me, I laughed.

"I'm a hero, what can you do?" I teased then looked at Pavel who was looking at Cynrad and me.

"I'm going out so you can have time with each other," I said to Pavel then turned around.

"You should be thankful because you're a woman because otherwise, I might have beaten you," Cynrad said annoyed so I looked at him with a silly smile and then grinned.

"Well, then thanks," I said which annoyed him even more, I turned my back on the three and my face became serious again, I walked out of the prince's room. I looked around and looked for something to entertain myself.

People, their lives are very boring except for sleep, eat, and talking with their acquaintances, they don't do anything else. They just do the same things over and over again, boring.

I stopped walking from where I was standing when I saw a cloud of smoke, I frowned and slowly followed it. The black smoke floats as if it has life.

It's not a soul and it's not a demon either, I can't tell what this creature is so I followed it, it went down the stairs so I also went down the stairs. I took out my sharp nails because this smoke makes me feel weird.

I stopped when the black smoke suddenly disappeared in front of a door, my sharp nails slowly disappeared when I saw the door.

A door that looks familiar to me but I don't know where I last saw it.

I turned the doorknob but it was locked so I used my power to penetrate the door to get in, I frowned at all I saw was black, I think I was in the basement of the palace.

I lit my horn and looked for the light switch then turned it on, I closed my eyes because I was dazzled by the light, I slowly opened my eyes and I was right, I was in the basement of the palace where things that are no longer kept they use.

I frowned when I saw the black smoke floating in front of me again, I sharpened my claw again and prepared to catch the smoke when it suddenly floated so I followed it again.

As I followed the smoke, I looked around and sharpened my senses because the enemy might be just around the corner.

This smoke seems to be taking me to the farthest part of the basement, I looked at the smoke slowly turning white, and I stopped for a moment while looking at the smoke. white?

I was alarmed when the smoke disappeared again, I looked around and slowly went to the place where the smoke disappeared, while standing in that place I looked around, raised my eyes, and stared when I see a big picture in front of me.

My nails slowly lost their sharpness while looking at the picture, my forehead frowned while looking at it. I took a step closer to the picture.

I swallowed hard and couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was an old picture, some parts of the picture were blurry but the part where the woman was engraved was still quite clear.

"Why am I here?" I asked myself as I looked at the picture in front of me.

I look exactly like the woman in the picture, the only difference between us is that I have Horns and she doesn't. I slowly approached the picture and looked at the man next to the one in the picture.

I couldn't recognize who that man was

because the face of the man in the picture was erased. I slowly raised my hand to hold this picture, When my hand landed on the picture frame I suddenly pulled away and held my head because of the inexplicable pain that I suddenly felt.

"Karma, hurry up let's take a picture!"

"Wait, Bael isn't here yet!"

"You guys miss me so much, I'm still waiting for Cynrad for a while."

"Let's go first Karma."

"I'm on my way!"

"Okay, look at the camera, 1,2,3."

"Look at us."

"It's so cute here."

"You are really beautiful Karma."

"Cheat doesn't come along!"

"You're so slow."

I sat down with a headache as those images appeared.

"AHHHHH!" I screamed and took away the things near me then threw stones at them, I couldn't control myself anymore, and my fingernails suddenly grew long and scratched the lower part of the picture, I immediately fell to my knees in pain my feelings It just ahead, what am I seeing? Why do I feel this pain? I shouldn't feel it because I'm a demon. A few minutes passed when my body and self calmed down, I was sitting looking at the picture with a big scratch between the woman and the man. Who is... The girl they call Karma? Who is the girl who looks like me in the picture?

"When you finish the mission, I will tell you my most guarded secret." I looked again at the face of the girl who looked like me in the picture.

Alada, you said you were hiding a secret that had to do with me, is that it? Is this one of the secrets you keep?