474 Edessaks Story (1/2)

Inside the solarium of Red Rose Manor.

Edessak Augustus stood by the full-length window, looking at the indifferent Trissy with a gloomy face, and he said in a voice that was like a volcano about to erupt, ”Why did you run away again?”

Trissy looked past him and beyond the window, chuckled, and answered with a question, ”Did you see the meteor shower? Did you feel the trembling of the earth?”

Behind her, porcelain and other items in the cabinet had fallen onto the thick, soft carpet. The old butler, Funkel, was standing beside her.

”It's not too rare for that to happen,” Edessak replied in a low voice.

Trissy raised her eyebrows slightly.

”You are very dull.

”Then let me be frank with you. I am a Demoness!”

Prince Edessak's expression didn't change at all. He turned to the old butler and said, ”Guard the door and prevent anyone from entering.”

”Yes, Your Highness.” Funkel gave Trissy a cold look and walked out of the solarium.

When he heard the door close, Edessak exhaled slowly.

”Trissy Cheek, heh, you prefer to be called Trissy.

”I know you're a Demoness. The person who helped you purchase the Beyonder ingredients failed. What you received was provided by me!

”I don't mind that my princess consort is a Witch or a Demoness. I've even seen your wanted poster!”

Trissy was surprised at first, but she then revealed a mocking smile.

”You sure know a lot…

”Did you know that I was once a man, and that my real name is Tris?”

”… What?” Edessak's eyes widened, and he tilted his head a little, as though he couldn't believe what he had heard.

Upon seeing this, Trissy couldn't help but laugh. She laughed so hard that she frantically bent back and forth like a lunatic.

”Haha, you didn't make a mistake. I was once a man! I used to be like you, and the thing down there was longer and thicker than yours! However, the Witch potion had forcefully changed my gender!

”Are you disgusted? Does it give you goosebumps?”

She vented the words she had been repressing all this time before taking two steps forward.

Edessak instinctively retreated, his Adam's apple moving involuntarily.

”No, it's not like that… You're a real woman. There's no problem. I can definitely confirm that!” He mumbled to himself, then he raised his voice and said, ”From the moment I met you, you were a real woman. I don't want to know what you were like in the past! I can pretend that nothing like this happened! What I like, what I love is the present you!”

Stunned, Trissy raised her hand to wipe away her tears of laughter.

”You're a really pathetic man.

”Do you still not understand? Our meeting wasn't a coincidence. Even your interest…”

She paused in disgust and continued, ”Even your interest in me was a result of someone else's arrangement. Don't you think that everything happened too quickly? I believe in love at first sight, but I don't believe that it possesses such powerful bewitchment properties. You act like the main character in a third-rate romance novel, becoming obsessed with love from just one meeting. You fell in love with a stranger, forgetting the type of person you once liked. That's crazy!”

Prince Edessak's eyes went blank as his eyes turned agape, but he didn't speak.

His body suddenly swayed, as if he had finally awoken from a long dream.

”Y-you are indeed my type… But my reaction, it's r-really too exaggerated…”

The corners of Trissy's mouth curled up, and she turned her head to the side to let out a sneer.

”What a pathetic man, to have what you like being arranged by someone else. It's like you're a puppet on strings.

”Don't you understand? You're a person that can be sacrificed, and I, as well as being a hostage for the cooperation between the royal family and the Demoness Sect, am also a necessary disguise for this deception.

”I possess an important item of the Demoness Sect, and under your strict supervision, I can be destroyed at any time and result in the loss of the treasure. This is the sincerity of our cooperation, and once the matter is exposed to the other three Churches or the military, the development of this matter will be very simple. Prince Edessak secretly kept a Demoness due to his lust. After knowing of his heinous sins, he shoots himself in the mouth. Then, all the problems would be covered up.”

”No!” Edessak blurted out.

Then, with a twisted expression, he asked, ”Why are they cooperating with the Demoness Sect?”

”How could a hostage who might be abandoned at any moment know?” Trissy gave a self-deprecating laugh. ”That's the whole reason behind why I want to flee.”

She lowered her head and chuckled in a low voice. Her body trembled slightly from the laughter.

After a few seconds, she raised her head once again, curled the corners of her mouth, and said, ”What do you want to do with me? Strip me down and throw me onto the bed? No, you've probably formed a psychological resistance. Actually, I don't mind giving you some warmth right now. It's not a shameful thing for two poor people to comfort each other.”

Prince Edessak darkened his rotund face and looked at Trissy silently for nearly a minute.

Suddenly, he closed his eyes, pointed to another side and said, ”You can leave.

”Leave through that door.”

Trissy raised her eyebrows in astonishment.

”You're letting me go?”

”Yes.” Edessak turned to look out the window and slowly replied, ”I'll stop Funkel. As for whether or not you can escape from the other pursuers, that will depend on your own strength and luck.”

A dazed look flashed in Trissy's eyes a few seconds before she quickly ran towards the hidden door.

Before leaving, she couldn't help but look back.

”What about you?”

Edessak didn't turn his head, but he continued to stare out of the full-length windows as if searching for the shadows of his past.

He smiled and said, ”Me? Let me live in this beautiful story and welcome its final end⁠—good or bad.”