Chapter 359 - Visit (1/2)
While everyone was staring at Ignác with gazes full of fear, Ceni was pulling his arm like a child. And standing next to him she really did look like child.
Ignác was over 9 feet tall even while sitting. He was almost 3 times as wide as a normal human being making Ceni look even smaller.
”Uncle~! I'm bored!” she pouted, trying to make him move but failing completely. The other 6 people looked on with horrified expressions. Even if she was a princess, she must know who, or rather what this person was!
Ignác, a real-life Cambion! Cambion's were offsprings created from the mating of true demons and humans. They were not very uncommon in this world where demons roamed the plane of mortals in the shadows. But most of them followed in the footsteps of their demonic parents rather than accept their human natures.
Ignác was one such being. That was his natural appearance which induced fear in everyone that crossed his path. No one knew how old he was or how powerful exactly. Cambion's had extremely long lifespans so it wasn't easy to trace back their origins.
But Ignác had been serving as the captain of this ship only for a little while now. This was his second journey and the underlings assigned to him were still not used to his presence. To them he was both an enigma and a source of constant fear.
”Little girl...” a hoarse voice rang in the room. It sounded like it was coming from every direction at once, well every direction but Ignác's. A couple of the other individuals took a step back, grasping the edges of their uniforms as tightly as they could.
Ignác turned to face Ceni, and she looked back at him with an innocent face, completely devoid of fear.
”...you are still as mischevious as ever.”
Ceni gave a proud grin in return as if he was praising her.
He then slightly opened his fingers and the coin raised up into the air on its own and returned in between them like it had never left in the first place. It was almost as if time itself had wound back.
Out of the 11 other people in the room, 4 had a drastic change of expression upon realizing what had happened. Alte slowly came forward and gave a bow from the waist.
”It is a pleasure to meet master Ignác once again. The king sends his regards.”
He sounded neither proud nor too overly subservient which actually made Ignác take another look at him. The blue fire in his eyes burned brighter for an instant before returning to normal.
”Child, you have grown up well. Your future is very bright, having even obtained 'that' thing.”
Alte who was pretty confident just a second suddenly faltered and looked up at Ignác respectfully.
”Thank you sire.”
Their interaction made the rest of the observers let out a few breaths of relief. It seemed like he was already acquainted with the princess and her caretaker.
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