Kaye knew there was no rush. Since the bars formed from Infey metal couldn't be broken without the presence of the highest Infey, his prisoners had no way to escape. Kaye wasn't stupid and knew that Rue was one of them, but he also knew that he was a wanted criminal whose connection with Luck had been severed two hundred years ago and thus posed no threat.

He wasn't sure how he got out of prison, but he wasn't about to pass up the chance for the praise he was sure to get for catching him. When he spotted Rue with Ylre in the cave, he hesitated for a moment whether to actually step in and let his superiors know. Everyone who came to Infey from the surface at least once in a while knew that Rue had escaped and that his guard was looking for him on the king's orders.

Kaye guessed that the red-haired man with Rue was a middle Infey, the guard who was supposed to bring him back. But as he had clearly heard the confidential chatter they were having in the pond he assumed that he had betrayed them.

That's why he wanted to report their location and be rewarded for his merits.

He didn't want to delay, but he wasn't in a hurry either. However, on the way to Alycante, which was the closest to connect with Infey, he met some familiar people. A group of Rinsel people, whom he once robbed and led into a cave, again offered themselves to be deceived by him, and he bit his tongue not to do so. Although it was tempting.

All the time he had been working both for the Church of Bad luck and Luck, he couldn't figure out how people could be so unbelievably stupid. He joined the Church of Bad luck only out of boredom...over time he started to enjoy it and currently his merits were so significant that it would be a shame to lose them.

His work was simple. As a mid-tier Infey, he served his highest Infey, whose luck he accepted in the past as his guardian. He came whenever he called him and fulfilled everything he wanted. However, his Infey was busy, he didn't come to earth often, and all of his commands were few in recent years. Usually related to work for the Church of Luck in one of the countries. That's why he was here most of the time and hardly saw his Infey.

His work for the Church of Luck, or Infey, was completely narrowed down to a few jobs a year, and he was bored on the surface. Therefore, when the Church of Bad luck was formed, which never had enough help, he happily joined them and began to kidnap people for them from time to time. At first he wasn't sure what they were for, but over time he understood that people were just a disgusting creature with a hobby of torture each other.

He usually scouted out a group of people, led them to a cave, had fun with them, stunned them and locked them in cells. Then he put black collars on their necks, connected to the crystal pillar that the church had given. He wasn't sure how it worked, but each of the collars in it had a specific spot where the stone could be inserted.

Once inserted, the stone became filled with either bad luck or luck depending on whether the person wearing the collar was a Rinsel or Lacrisan. And Kaye simply collected them, transported them and had fun. At least he tried to, as he would much rather spend time with his highest Infey

He didn't care what happened to the stones next, he didn't care who was really giving the orders. He wasn't bored and that was the main thing.

As an Infey in the human world, he was able to experience something he normally couldn't in Infey...sex. It wasn't very common for Infeys to seek out this kind of things. No one who hadn't experienced it before would have thought that he could do it without permission from Luck. But he was different.

As one of those whose highest was once blessed by luck with a opportunity to have a child, he experienced sex to the fullest. Once Infey tasted the pleasure, he couldn't longer go into abstinence, so he did the only thing he could without disrupting the flow of Infey offspring...sleeping with his guardian or another Infey of same sex.

His first sexual experience wasn't the most pleasant, but with time he got used to it...and once he got used to it, he was able to love it. Therefore, when his Infey didn't have much time, he missed their moments....so he had fun with people.

However, since he didn't have time at the moment, he didn't deal with the group of men and moved on. He walked all night and half a day, as he didn't need to sleep often, and reached Alycante sometime in the afternoon. He entered the first church he saw and was led to the high priest.

Each of the churches of the Church of luck was led by a mid-tier Infey, exceptionally by the highest, overseeing the world to ensure that the course of luck ran smoothly. Kaye explained the situation and since there was no reason for him to lie, Infey contacted the government. Just as he expected, at first no one believed that Ylre would betray the king's orders and they remained in doubt, but they couldn't leave anything to chance, so they sent a group of Infey from Alycante to the cave with him.

It was really strange how many Rinsel soldiers they encountered along the way. Some were off duty and looked like they had just been fired, but some stopped them. He didn't understand at all why they were concentrated near Alycante, since the city doesn't fall under the power of the government, but they had no choice and had to show them their documents every time.

Although the government and the church were separated, they still lived in peace and no one wanted to destroy their alliance. That's why the nobility went to churches at clearly given intervals as a sign of faith, and that's why the church supported the government as such to keep their relationship.

The delay wasn't long and soon as they had passed through the forest and reached their horses, the road went faster.

"Kaye, did you see him?" one of the Infey asked.

"I did," he understood, "he was beautiful."

"I heard he's majestic…does he look like a king?" he asked.

"I'm not sure...his eyes glow from afar, colored by gold as if you were looking into the luck itself, " he said, "if I didn't know he had a broken connection with Luck, I'd have the impression I was talking directly to it." he added.

"Did you talk to him?" the other couldn't believe.

"I did," he nodded, "I wanted to touch him too, but Ylre wouldn't let me."

"Ylre...that idiot...if what you say is true, when the king catches him, he will definitely have him executed this time." Infey didn't understand Ylre's stupidity.

"I don't know him, but he wasn't nice...he didn't even look intelligent...if he's not thinking about the consequences, it's his fault," Kaye said.

"If you knew him, you wouldn't say that...he's two hundred years older than you, show some respect," said the other Infey, who didn't sound like he was joining Ylre's slander by his two colleagues.

"If I were three hundred years old, I wouldn't be so dumb. Why should I show respect when he betrayed us for a criminal?" he declared.

"We don't know if that's really the case yet, we'll ask him," Infey clarified, not seeming to want to arrest Ylre.

Ksye said, "I mean, they were really close...he didn't look like he wanted to take him to Infey."

"Ylre is good at lying," one reminded.

"That's true," said another, ,,and plus he's an incredible hard worker... you have no idea how much he worked, although he didn't have to... practically for two hundred years, every day, except for the king's trips, he only had time off when the king was away... I suppose he wanted to prove his loyalty…I don't think he'd give up his chance now that he's finally built up the king's trust."

"He never had time off?" Kaye didn't believe.

"Aren't you listening?" the other asked.

Kaye sighed, "You say that when the king had trips, but that's not often, isn't it?"

"Once a year, sometimes every two...you haven't been in Infey for long, but the king is away for a month or more...Ylre always worked the whole year and when the king was away, he took a time off too...it says that he comes to the surface to remember old times."

"It says?" laughed Kaye.

"No one went with him, no one knows what he did, it's his free time, no one cares," he said.

"Absolutely unsuspicious," Kaye nodded.

"We'll meet him and we'll know... Ylre isn't a guy who can't follow orders," other added.

"I'm under the impression that I summoned his followers to arrest him," Kaye added.

"Don't say bullshits…to tell the truth, I just want to see Rue with my own eyes…they say Luck still loves him." Infey laughed.

"If it really loved him, it wouldn't have led him to the cave, don't you think?" Kaye reminded.

"Who knows," he added.

The journey went quite well, and when in a few hours they reached the cave, they dismounted. However, after entering it, they discovered things that didn't please them. First, Rue really still had luck...second, their trip was completely pointless...and third, all the work Kaye had put into catching people all that time was gone.

He was standing in the middle of the hall, which until recently had been filled with the shouts of the people, looking at the empty pillar from which all the stones were visible and at the pile of black collars that no one wore anymore. He stared at the broken door, unable to understand what had just happened.

All of his work, all of his goals, the effort and time he put into making it...all gone overnight. He was silence for a moment before he let out a loud laugh.

"Bastard," he growled as the rest of the Infey debated.

"He escaped," one couldn't believe, "what did we come here for?"

"Why did he escape?" another wanted to know.

,,Why? He was locked here, you usually want to escape when someone locks you."

"He saw the bars holding them...he must have known that we were from Infey and that we were after them...why would Ylre escaped, we're on his side. Does it mean he really didn't intend to follow orders?"

"He clearly wasn't the one who broke the door, so who knows...what if Rue destroyed it and because he didn't want to be suspected, he just went with him?"

"I don't know, the whole thing is strange... let's call the highest ones," he thought.

"We should," nodded another.

Kaye couldn't take it anymore and shouted in anger, "Don't you think it's strange he could destroye the door all?! He's supposed to be disconnected from luck!"

"Calm down," tried one Infey.

"Calm down? Calm down? Do you know how much work I put into this? Do you know that the leader is waiting for me to deliver the stones?"

"A leader? What are you? A human? Stop with this fun of yours, don't forget who you really work for, you're still Infey," the other reminded, ,,your only leader is your highest, the king and the luck itself."

"I know that," Kaye was pissed off, "but you never had a hobby?"

"Serving my highest is my hobby," he refused.

,,АААА-shut up! Wait till I catch him, bastard!" Kaye said with anger.

"Don't catch anyone, leave it to the highest, we're going to Alycante to report it...come with us. Don't make trouble."

Kaye stood angrily in the center of the hall for a moment longer, watching the empty cells, before making his way to the exit of the cave in exasperation. The rest of the Infey watched him with a sigh, wondering what was really going on.

The Infey who knew Ylre, either by hearsay or as a colleague when they were working in the prison, didn't think he would betray them, but they shad to report him to the highest each way. They weren't cheering, but they clearly felt better than Kaye, who had just lost the people and stones he had collected over the years.

And so they got out of the cave and headed for Alycante...unaware that they had the same destination with the pair of Infeys they were looking for.

***

In the forest, through which they walked all night and half the day there was nowhere to get lost. On the way, they saw no villages, no resting points and not even chapels, which were usually easy to find all around the world.

They didn't know how much longer it would take to reach their destination, but they didn't really care. Rue, feeling strangely happy after his nighttime experience with the fireflies and filled with the feeling of being a little closer to Ylre, kept smiling and continued his usual behavior.

Ylre watched him walk by him for a moment, then by the trees and by the water...watched him run up to him and ask if he ever saw the kind of flowers he spotted, if he saw the kind of animals he met. And Ylre always enriched him with knowledge of the species which hadn't been there two hundred years ago.

They walked for long hours, stopped at a few rivers, ate a few forest fruits and moved on. No one stopped them, and they had no reason to rest anywhere, since neither of them needed it yet.

The first person they met after a long time was a little boy who attracted them with his cry. Although Rue didn't know what was going on, he changed his steps towards the children's sobs while Ylre just watched him in silence. They reached a tall tree near the path, with a boy sitting on one of the branches.

He was clinging to the trunk in terror, as if afraid to climb down.

"Child, are you alright?" Rue asked, catching the boy's attention.

"H-help...help..." he whimpered, "help..."

"It's all right, just stay calm. What happened?" Rue didn't know.

"A bear," sobbed the boy.

"A bear?" Rue asked, looking around but didn't see any animals, "There's none here."

"There w-was...I climbed up and can't go down..." he cried.

"Ah," Rue understood, "it's okay...it happens," he smiled, "jump down, I'll catch you," he promised.

The boy shook his head violently and gripped the branch tighter, "I-I'm scared."

"You don't have to be," Rue promised, smiling softly, "or should I go to you?" He wondered.

Ylre beside him wordlessly approached the tree and simply put his foot into one of the holes in its trunk. In no time he climbed up to the branches and grabbed the child. The boy screamed in fear and held tightly to Ylre in terror. Without a word, Ylre climbed down and pulled the boy off of him.

"You're saved, go away," Ylre said and looked at Rue, "shall we continue?" he didn't want to hang out with a human child.

However, the moment Rue nodded, Ylre's dress was firmly grabbed by the boy, stopping him. One sharp look from Ylre made the boy flinch in fear before he approached the friendlier looking Rue next to him.

"Th-thank you," he muttered to Ylre, though from a distance it looked like he was more afraid of him.

"If you're down, disappear, we don't have time for you."

"Ylre," Rue sighed and bent down to the boy, "don't worry, he's a good person, he just doesn't know how to behave sometimes," he laughed, but Ylre didn't respond, "if you're fine, go home...do you know where is you house?" he asked.

The boy nodded and pointed in the direction they were going.

"If you want, we can take you home." he added.

The boy hesitated for a moment before nodding and lightly touching Rue's robe, which in his eyes was a more beautiful fabric than any he had ever seen in his life. As soon as Ylre realized that the boy was coming with them, he gave him a displeased look, but didn't speak.

They walked together, but it wasn't even twenty minutes before they got out of the forest to a more open space. In front of them was a vast meadow, end of which couldn't be seen. There were some houses, but the area was nowhere near what could be called a village.

Ylre stopped in shock as he just realized what a mistake they had made.

If the boy hadn't run to one of the houses and pulled Rue with him, Rue would have noticed something was wrong. However, he didn't notice and watched the boy. They got across the meadow to one of the houses. It didn't look like rich people lived in it. The boy ran into the house while Rue waited outside until a woman emerged from the door with more children. She looked at them in surprise while the boy explained to everyone what had happened.

As soon as the woman understood what her son was talking about, she ran to Rue and knelt at his feet gratefully, "Thank you...thank you, good sir..." it was clear to her from their clothing that they must be someone from the nobility or senior members of the church.

Rue blinked in confusion, "You're welcome...don't kneel...there's no need."

The woman stood up, "How will I repay you, sir?"

"My name is Rue, I don't need a reward...besides, I wasn't the one who saved your child," he looked at Ylre next to him.

The woman reached him and he began to thank again warmly, but Ylre didn't like it and just backed away from the woman in displeasure.

"No need...shall we go?" he asked Rue.

But Rue didn't have time to answer when they heard a voice from the house, "Jennet, where did you go?" The old man slowly came out and looked at the group of people in front of the house. He stopped for a while and raised his voice, "We've already paid the tax! Get out!" he shouted.

"No father, no..." the woman stopped him.

"They're not bad, grandpa!" the boy ran up to him, "They saved me...one looks scary, but he's said to be good." he clarified.

The older man visibly relaxed and walked towards them in confusion, "I'm sorry, thank you very much," he changed his words and looked at the people carefully before he came even closer in shock.

Rue backed away slightly as the guy approached his face inappropriately and when the man walked over to Ylre, he simply stopped him, "What do you think you're doing?" he didn't understand.

The old man looked at the couple in disbelief for a while, and after a while he said, "How is this possible?" He didn't understand.

"Is something wrong?" a woman came up to him.

"What's your name, boy?" the man asked Rue, who just answered calmly.

"Rue, my name is Rue," he smiled.

"Rue...and you're...you were..." he blinked as Ylre shut him up sharply with his own words so the guy wouldn't say another word.

"I'm Ylre," he stated as he knew they shouldn't be here, "we should go." he looked at Rue, who however was interested in the man.

"What's going on?" he didn't understand.

"How come you're still the same?" the man couldn't understand, "It's been fifty years...why do you look the same as you did then?" he didn't believe.

Rue blinked, "Fifty years? Have we ever met?" he asked, but immediately denied, "That's not possible, I've never been here."

"I have no doubt...your golden eyes...I would never forget...you saved my life," he declared, "and now you saved my grandson."

Rue, who didn't understand the situation, disagreed, "Fifty years ago, I certainly wasn't here," he smiled, "You are wrong...I was in a much more unpleasant place." he clarified.

"No no...it's definitely you," he said and held out his hand to Rue, but Ylre stopped him.

"Enough of that bullshits, old man," he growled with genuine anger.

"You don't recognize me either?" the man didn't understand, "Thanks to you I built this house...thanks to you I left Alycante and started a better life...don't you remember me?" he wondered, "What are you anyway?"

"Father...father, you're saying things again," the woman pulled him away, "I'm deeply sorry, my father is old, sometimes he doesn't think well." She clarified.

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Ylre nodded wordlessly, "We should go."

Having no idea what was going on, Rue just nodded. They walked for a while as more confused words spewed out behind them from the front of the house.

,,Who was it? You think he really knows us," Rue didn't understand, "No, he can't...I wasn't here fifty years ago...and I didn't know you then." he clarified.

"He's an old fool, don't listen to him," Ylre said.

"But don't you think...it's strange here?" Rue looked around the spacious meadow.

"Strange?" Ylre didn't understand.

Rue stood in the middle of the grass for a moment, looking at several houses. He didn't know why it seemed to him that they weren't here once, another image flashed through his mind, a weird one that hadn't been in it before.

He ran his eyes over the stream of river that filled the space with a pleasant rustle of water and turned back to the forest from which they had come. In his mind, he saw a scene of lower trees than what he actually saw, he felt the taste of fish and the fresh smell of water, as if he recognized the river next to him.

He blinked for a moment incomprehendingly. For a split second, he saw himself by the water with a smile on his face next to the fire, surrounded by the smell of fish and happiness. However, a strange memory disappeared from his mind as quickly as it appeared in it.

He thought for a while, trying to connect the pieces of something he couldn't place anywhere with the surroundings he saw right now, but he didn't know how.

It was strange...familiar but unfamiliar at the same time.

"Rue?" Ylre snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Ah," he recovered, "yes?"

"Are you okay?" he didn't know what happened.

"Yes...I just...I just thought about what he was saying...strange, isn't it?" he laughed, "Fifty years ago...I wasn't here," he mused, "I wasn't."

At this moment, Rue had absolutely no idea that if Ylre was Lacrisan, it would be strange for him to even hear about him being alive fifty years ago. However, Rue still didn't really understand the whole world, so he didn't accept anything he said himself as strange. Anyway, he regained his composure and gave Ylre a look as if nothing had happened.

"Everything is fine... shall we continue?" he asked and stepped forward with a smile.

"Yes," Ylre began, walking along with him for a while until they reached the middle of a meadow with a long hill leading down, "but I have a feeling we took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere we weren't supposed to." he clarified looking at the familiar city in front of them.

Rue blinked in surprise at the wide city they could see from the hill. He practically didn't see the end as it spread everywhere it reached and by the time Rue came to his senses, Ylre added with a deep sigh.

"I think we're in Alycante," he knew.

"Alycante?" He blinked, "How? We didn't turn anywhere."

"I don't know...but we shouldn't be here at all," Ylre knew.

"Luck has plans for us," thought Rue.

"Luck has nothing to do with it...we didn't take a good turn somewhere," Ylre clarified, "we should go back and find where it happened...we must not stay in Alycante."

"No," Rue said, "Luck brought us here...there will be something for us," he smiled, "although it's dangerous here...if we've already arrived, we'll find out what awaits us here." he declared and moved forward.

Ylre stared in disbelief at Rue, who rushed into trouble without hesitation. However, Ylre didn't even have time to object when he had no choice but to catch up with Rue. Although he knew that they couldn't really be here, although there was no place less suitable than Alycante at the moment, he couldn't object.

Because just as Rue couldn't defy Luck's will, Ylre couldn't defy his...and now that they were here, the best thing he could do was protect them from the trouble in this Infey-infested city. And although he usually believed in himself, he was currently filled with doubts about whether he would be able to do it.

For though protecting Rue from the others alone would be easy, something else was at stake with their arrival here. The moment a confrontation happened, he knew that Rue would find out who he was, that he would find out what Infey wanted from him... and although Ylre was ready to destroy anyone, he wasn't sure if he can do it on time.

And if he won't...if Rue discovers his identity...everything he's worked for will be in vain. And he wasn't going to allow that.

***

Nielle had everything ready for tomorrow's trip to Alycante. The number of soldiers that Louis had fired formed patrol parties in and out of the city at his command, improving the chances that the Infey would be in his hands upon his arrival.

That way, everything could be solved before he had to come up with more complicated plans. It was an advantage to have soldiers both in camps, on patrols and without the supervision of other soldiers.

Discharged soldiers were able to form groups in bars, shops and on the streets without being noticed or controlled. Although Nielle would normally use spies for these purposes, things were always more difficult near the church towns and the only way to keep the number of his spies at usable values was soldiers whose training included this sort of missions.

He wasn't going to leave anything to chance, so he made sure nothing went wrong. However, as he knew his luck, he was sure that it wouldn't be nearly enough. However, the basis of the whole plan was that the king and his brothers wouldn't notice his steps.

Because once his father figured out something, if he only suspected that he had a higher power than he thought, his life would be in danger again like many times before team. And Nielle didn't like it if his life was in anyone's power, least of all the king's or his brothers'.

Since he intended to concentrate mainly on the search for the Infey in the coming days, the search for the head of the church of bad luck had to take a back seat. However, this didn't mean that he didn't intend to devote himself to it at all. He sent orders to his people around the countries about what information he needed and believed that by the time he returned from Alycante, or while he was still in the city, the answer would reach him.

However, the two main things that were currently the source of his interest were different. The two new duties didn't change the ones he always had, so he spent the rest of the day meeting his people, giving instructions, listening to their reports, and solving problems.

When he finally got to the town where he planned to pick up some money, it was early evening and he had absolutely no energy left. Shane had been with him all day, but Nielle hadn't asked him anything since the interrogation at the church.

He acted like he was air all day and Shana was fine with that. He walked with him, watching Nielle take care of things, sometimes in private, sometimes in front of him, and wondered why the third prince had so much to do while the other spent his days in the infirmary.

But since it wasn't his problem, he got lost in his own thoughts and tried to figure out how to move forward with his own mission. He didn't know if he would be able to do anything on the trip to Alycante, but he doubted it. That's why he didn't cheer at all.

Plus the state in which his psyche remained after a disgusting night was also not a reason to keep a good mood. That's why Shane was currently oscillating between anger and wanting to work to keep himself occupied somehow. He wanted to clear his thoughts, he wanted to get to a state where he didn't think about those disgusting scenes. But he knew it wouldn't be that easy.

Anyway, he had no time for this, as he needed to carry out some of his plans. He wanted to at least go to his man in the bank, but Nielle kept him close. He had no doubt that if he asked anywhere, he would be followed...and since he had been to the bank once, Nielle would have know that he probably wanted something more than just money in it. Plus there was a chance that Nielle would give him some money, which Shane didn't want.

But when Nielle finished chatting with his people in town and entered the bank, Shane tried anyway.

"If we go to Alycante...I also want to take some money."

Nielle looked at him for a while and said, "If you want something, just say it," he laughed and added, "You don't need your money."

"I want quite a lot things, I've never been to Alycante and I have a long list of souvenirs I want to buy," he lied, "Do I have to come to you every time I want something?" he didn't know.

Nielle considered for a moment, not sure if he wanted Shane to keep bothering him, and said, "I didn't know you were the type to clean up your room with junk from your travels," he laughed and added, "okay, but I will choose who you go to the treasury with," he declared.

Nielle wasn't sure which of the stores Shane had visited in the past was his real target, but since a bank was one of them, he was wary. However, he didn't have the time or desire to solve his plans at the moment, so he left it to chance and intended to solve the rest in the future.

Shane, who was in excellent shape today, nodded, knowing that Luck was on his side.

They reached the counter in the bank, where Nielle was immediately taken care of by one of the employees. Since everyone knew him, there was no need to even verify his identity and one of them directed him underground to the cash registers. Before that, Nielle randomly picked one of the guys at the counters to lead Shane to his.

Shane waited for Nielle to disappear before making it to the cash registers with the familiar man as well. Of course, Nielle had chosen the only employee he needed to see, so they walked in silence to a section where he was sure no one would hear them.

They stopped at his safe, which the guy opened and said: "How come Nielle allowed you to take the money?" he didn't understand.

"Who knows...but it's best if we speed things up...I wouldn't be surprised if he knew about us and let us go here on purpose...so speak quietly," he declared, whispering, "what about the necklace?" Shane asked.

The guy just sighed unhappily, "Nothing...it looks rare, but it's just a classic black stone."

"What?" Shane didn't understand, "Nonsense...I saw Nielle's ring...they look the same...there's no way it's different."

"I don't know what you saw, but I say it's not this one," he pulled the necklace out of his pocket, "only its appearance is rare." he declared.

Shane examined the necklace and took it in his hand in confusion. He blinked incomprehendingly and was silent for a moment.

"What is it?" the guy didn't understand.

"That's not it," Shane said.

"How is it not?" he didn't believe, "The same one you gave me."

"It's not the one I saw on his neck," he said.

"You didn't give me another one...could you have taken the wrong one from him?" he didn't understand.

"Who would wear two necklaces in one day?" Shane denied, "I fell on him...and took it then...I didn't check him anymore." he declared.

"Maybe he had it in his pocket...and you took it by accident...or he doesn't wear only one , the Rinselans carry a lot of black stones...either way it's a fake...who knows if it's Nielle's ring real." he clarified.

Shane didn't answer, replaying the scene of him and Brelle falling to the ground in his mind. He was sure he had taken the jewel he wore around his neck, he was sure his fingers didn't go down to his pockets…and he was sure the stones in both of the prince's jewels looked different than normal crystals. That's why he didn't understand what happened.

"What's the plan?" the guy asks, handing Shane's pouch.

"I don't know yet... I'll be in Alycante for a few days," he clarified.

"Unpleasant...we don't have many men there." the guy locked the chest. Shane nodded as he was aware of this fact. Without delay they made it back to the top of the bank where Shane waited for Nielle to return.

Meanwhile, Nielle took out enough money from his own treasury and after ordering the banker to wait in the corridor for a while, he walked a few corridors by himself. In one, he met a man who was already waiting for him. The banker who worked for him as a spy gave him a brief summary of Shane's meeting with the other banker.

"Necklace...Lacrisan stole Brell's necklace," he wondered.

"The fake one...I didn't hear well and I don't know what it was exactly, but I heard the prince's name and saw his jewel," he clarified.

"That's enough," Nielle laughed, "Brelle only lives on stones, it's normal for him to have more than one black pendant. When he was smaller he even wore three around his neck...if my Lacrisan is looking for royal black stones," he looked around his ring, "he chose the wrong prince as his first victim. I don't even know which of his stones is real," he said.

Satisfied with the fact that he had at least discovered something new, he made his way upstairs, where Shane was already waiting for him. He didn't intend to do anything for now. He wasn't going to catch the banker, who was clearly connected to Shane, or let it be known that he knew what he was looking for in the palace. However, he didn't think that some jewelry was his only goal, so it was still too early to let him be.

"Do you have what you wanted?" he approached Lacrisan.

Shane nodded, together they hit the streets and headed for the palace.

"I'll search your room thoroughly Lacrisa, just in case you're hiding something inappropriate," he clarified, even though he knew he hadn't. However, Shane didn't know Nielle was following him and Nelle had no reason not to tease him, when he had the chance.

It had been a long day and there was nothing better than tying Lacrisan to the bed in the evening and have some fun...or a ride...Nielle wanted to play with him in both positions today and didn't want to delay.

It wasn't long before they arrived at the palace and Nielle made his way to his chamber with his Lacrisan. He didn't feel like inventing anything in complicated positions today, preparing a torture chamber and fiddling with toys. Today he was planning an evening in his room, which he usually didn't use for sex.

"It seems to me that your luck is in better shape today... you got used to Rinsel faster than others," laughed Nielle, hiding the money bag in a drawer and giving Shane a look next to him.

Shane was actually feeling better as far as the state of his luck was concerned and he had the impression that at least that side of him had more or less recovered...but he didn't answer. There was nothing he could gain from Nielle knowing about his improved condition.

"Undress and take out what you took from the bank," he ordered Nielle.

Shane didn't protest the second part of his words and pulled a pouch from his pockets. He gave it to Nielle to examine and when the prince assessed that it was indeed harmless, he gave it back to him. However, Shane didn't like the first part of the sentence.

"We're leaving early in the morning, we won't have time for fun," Nielle laughed, "so if you don't want me to fuck you in the carriage, take off your clothes and maybe you'll enjoy it today."

Shane measured him in disgust, but knowing that his protest was meaningless, he began to undress. He slowly took off his outer robe, folded it on the bed. Today he was wearing only the white pants as his underwear.

"You have other Lacrisans...how about you leave me alone and we'll live happier lives?" he stated.

"There's not much fun with anyone elseĺ, Lacrisam," Nielle laughed, "but sometimes I'll gangbang you with them, don't worry," he promised, "but right now you're the most fun for me," he said, as he didn't intend to admit that any other luck isn't enough anymore...even though he's only been with him for a while.

However, since he wasn't nearly lucky after the night in his harem, but a little blood from Shane was enough to make him feel alive, it was clear that he wasn't going to get used to a lower quality any time soon. And luckily, he didn't have to.

Nielle slowly approached Shane and touched his firm chest. He lightly ran his fingers down to his lower abdomen and touched the hem of his pants: "Lie down," he nodded to the bed.

Shane gave Nielle a displeased look. He didn't feel like sleeping with him. The whole day his mind was filled with memories from a dream that seemed to him and he was absolutely not in a state where he would feel like having sex.

He was sick to his stomach at the thought of his brother, nauseous at the thought of the Rinsel soldiers, and he was sick just from feeling the black collar around his neck. He wanted to get rid of it, he wanted to put all his thoughts together, get rid of them and have a moment of peace. But he couldn't do it on his own at the moment, and he didn't like his only chance.

However, since he didn't have much of a choi, he tried: "What do you want to do today? Will you use that?"

Niella was no longer surprised by his directness, "I don't plan anything special," he laughed, "but you're adorable, so I'll tell you…if you're afraid I'll play with this part of yours," he lightly touched his neck, forcing Shane grabbing his wrist sharply.

"Don't be afraid, Lacrisan," Nielle broke free from his grip, "If you're good, you won't even remember you own that collar," he clarified.

"If you don't want to use it, what are you going to do?" Shane didn't know.

"It doesn't matter what I have in my drawer, Lacrisan," Nielle declared, "but apart from torture, nothing new...I'll ride you...and if you obey, I won't fuck you today...so lie down, or we'll go to red torture chamber...and believe me you won't want to ride a horse tomorrow." he laughed.

Shane stared into his eyes for a moment before letting go of his hands and simply pulling off his pants. He wasn't in the mood for sex, and although he guessed Nielle was lying, his shoulder hadn't yet healed and he wasn't about to undergo any major torture in the awkward positions the red torture chamber could put him in. So he sat on the bed and waited.

"You see," said Nielle and undressed himself giving Shane a pleased look, ,,I knew you can be good, Lacrisan."

Shane watched his clothes disappear from Nielle's body as he tossed his robe on the floor and climbed onto the bed next to him. The prince's naked body was paler than his own, solid, but the color made it seem more fragile. Nielle's muscles were tempting to the touch and if their roles were reversed, if Shane could repay him for all his work, he might have enjoyed his time in bed with him somehow...but that wasn't the case at the moment.

At least he couldn't say that he wasn't his type for sex games... Nielle fell into the category of people he would willingly sleep with if he didn't know him... but he did and instead of lustfull feeling Shane hated him right now.

Nielle approached him on the bed, "Lie down, hands over your head," Nielle commanded, roughly touching Shane's bare chest.

Shane complied as there was no point in protesting and no reason to as his main goal was to stop his disgusting thoughts. And Shane knew nothing would stop them like pain.

"You don't have to do it…I'm not fighting back," Shane added watching Nielle.

However, Nielle simply bind him, "I do after you've repeatedly surprised me with your behavior...be glad I forgot about the audacity you've done," Nielle recalled as Shane nearly choked him unconscious.

Shane only gently pulled the ropes Nielle used to tie his hands to the bed and concluded that he wouldn't get out of them.

Nielle looked contentedly at his Lacrisan and ran his hands lightly over his warm skin. He caressed his abdominal muscles with his fingers, ran them up his chest to his nipples. He dug his nails into one and pull it roughly. Shane closed his eyelids slightly, but didn't react more, much to Nielle's amusement.

The Prince caressed his body with one hand before moving the other between his legs. He spread them wide apart, lightly touching his inner thighs as if teasing him.

The gentle movement of Nielle fingers between his legs were quite pleasant and Shane just gulped as he could feel Nielle's hand getting to his dick. As Nielle ran his palm up-down his length, he looked at Shane with a lustful smile making Shane shiver in subconscious desire.

It never took much for Shane to get hard, but Nielle's experience with unyielding Lacrisans was another reason why his erection was in full size faster than usual.

Shane looked at Nielle's satisfied face while the prince ran his hand over his cock, playing with his nipples with the other. Shane didn't know what he looked like, but Nielle's job was working on his body. With Nielle tight grip on his glans, moving up-down his sensitive parts his body was filled with Intense heat.

His lips parted slightly and after a moment he laid his head back on the pillow and let Nielle continue his work. He knew he wasn't going to enjoy himself today, but he wasn't in the mood to wasre his energy protest while he was doing something pleasant to him.

"How cute are you today," laughed Nielle, "did I tame you?"

"Dream on," Shane said.

"I will," Nielle let go of Shane's cock and leaned over to the bedside table next to him, pulling out two items. Shane shifted his gaze to them and blinked in confusion.

Nielle reached his fingers towards them and took a smaller box. He opened it lightly and took out a long needle: "Do you like them?" he asked.

"I didn't think you used things like that." Shane didn't think of needles as something scary.

"I do...they're effective if you know how to use them," he stated and lightly took one of the candles from the table. He warmed the needle in its flame for a moment before bringing it lightly to Shane's nipple. Without hesitation he gripped it, stretched it and pierced it through with the red-hot point of the needle.

"AAGH!" Shane yelled, not expecting Nielle to actually pierce his nipple completely, but before he could say anything, Nielle was already holding the second needle.

Shane felt the touch of Nielle's hand on his other nipple and jerked roughly as he knew he was planning the same thing.

However, it wasn't in his interest to fight back, and when the red-hot point of the needle touched his sensitive spot, relief filled his insides rather than fear...because it really hurt like hell.

His mind went blank as a sharp pain shot through his body the moment Nielle pierced his nipple. His scream of pain filled the room, but in a second he bit his lip to silence his moans. He closed his eyelids and heard Nielle's contented laugh for a moment before he felt the sharp pain on his chest again. Another needle pierced the skin near his right nipple and before he knew it, another was inserted into his body.

"You scream nicely," Nielle stated, "but I didn't expect you to like it so much." he clarified, piercing one of the acupuncture points on Shane's chest, making Shane yelp in pain.

Shane opened his eyes sharply, twitching roughly at the unexpectedly intense pain, he gave Nielle a look of surprise, as if he didn't know Nielle could use these methods. Nielle just laughed and ran the tip of the hot needle over his sweaty skin.

"Nghh.." Shane moaned as the needle gently dug into his body but didn't penetrate any deeper.

Shane knew there were points on the body that could produce more intense sensations. Acupuncture points that doctors used to treat and people like him to torture, he was familiar with all his life, so he could literally feel Nielle approaching another one with a red-hot needle.

He closed his eyes as the touch of the needle, though not intensified, stopped over a spot near his stomach that made Shane hold his breath. It was strange how easily Nielle was able to find his sensitive spots and before he knew it he screamed again in sharp pain. The needle pierced his acupuncture point, forcing him to tense up his entire body, wince in agony, and look at Nielle.

"I've never seen a Lacrisan go hard under definite torture...a true masochist," laughed Nielle, jabbing another needle into a sensitive spot on Shane's lower abdomen.

,,AAAGGH! Agh!" Shane's mind went blank again, and for a moment he felt nothing but intense pain. And he couldn't be more pleased.

The moment the needle went into the right spot when the nerves were connected, it sent a violent impulse through his entire body, forcing countless people to confess even before he had even begun the harsher interrogation.

They couldn't make Shane say anything though, but they were definitely enough to shut his mind off and offer him the relief he was looking for.

Nielle didn't even know how good he was entertaining Shane and although the prince noticed that Shane was unusually quiet, although he noticed that he wasn't responding to his remarks, he didn't bother and continued to enjoy himself.

"Nghá-ágh..." Shane moaned each time the needle pierced one of his sensitive spots, "áh-ágh-áágh-áh!" he panted and turned his face slightly to the side, starting to feel exhausted, but still feeling better than when they started. Pain engulfed his body, he trembled slightly, gasping for air with slightly parted lips and jerking violently every time Nielle even touched him.

However, the moment Nielle pointed the needle between his legs, he alerted.

"Do you want one through the glans?" Nielle asked.

Shane tensed sharply in the ropes and said, "You dare."

Nielle laughed in a, "What? Do you?" he smiled and put the needle to his glans.

"Stop it...wait-aaagh-agh—fuck-agh!" he roared in shock as Nielle simply pierced his hard tip, forcing him to jerk madly with his cuffed hands, "AAGH!" he squealed as Nielle moved the needle in his cock, contentedly pulling it out a bit and pushing it back in.

It hurt like hell, and for a moment Shane completely forgot that he even had any thoughts that he wanted to suppress with pain, as suddenly he didn't want Nielle to do something like that again. And at the same time, deep down, he knew that it was doing him more than good.

"Another one?" Nielle teased, putting the needle to the first one in an attempt to pierce Shane's cock again.

,,Stop-ah--d-don't pull it-damn...you crazy bastard...agh! ААААgh!" he screamed as Nielle pushed the tip into his hard penis and then inserted the needle deeper.

The hot metal pierced his sensitive spots and made him scream in a rush of agony that shot up his crotch through his lower abdomen, muscles to nearby nerves.

Nielle looked at the result of his work with satisfaction and lightly tugged at the needle in Shane's nature, playing with it.

"It suits you," he declared, "I don't want to take them off." he laughed and continued to twist the needles.

"Ah-ah..ah..ah!" panted Shane in a strangely pleasurable weird state where his thoughts couldn't focus on anything but the intense pain in his cock.

"Never mind...then I'll start...it would be a shame to pick them out when I only had time to put them in there wouldn't it?" Nielle laughed and touched Shane's ass with his hand. Shane noticed in a second as he realized what Nielle said and started to fight back...but NieIle wouldn't let him.

"Be good and I'll fuck you without toys," he motioned to the metal dildo next to them which Shane didn't like, "you don't want me to heat it up too, do you?" he laughed.

Shane looked at him and didn't speak for a moment. However, the moment Nielle slipped his fingers between his ass and pressed them against his hole, he tried to kick him.

However, Nielle simply stopped him and smiled lightly, "Do you want it hard?"

"You said you just wanted to ride...that's not how we agreed," Shane growled and let out a painful gasp as Nielle slammed one finger into his body, "Nghá-" he opened his lips and closed his eyes as Nielle's finger stabbed deeper into him.

Meanwhile, the other two massaged Shane's entrance as to prepare him. Nielle bent over his sweaty body while playing with his contracted insides.

"Ngha!" Shane yelled as Nielle thrust two fingers into him without hesitation and roughly pulled them apart. He shook his head to the side and tried to get away from Nielle's movements again, "áágh-aagh!" he snapped his handcuffs and glared at Nielle.

,,We had a deal-áagh-" he moaned.

Nielle reached his face and roughly grabbed his chin with his free hand. He pulled him closer, bringing his lips to Shane's ear and sadistically muttered, "I lied," he laughed, ,,but don't worry, I won't use your collar. As I promised. I will just have some fun," he said, "you can choose if you want." he uttered a sentence that filled Shane with a wave of unprecedented fury.

Nielle didn't even have time to recover when Shane bit him hard on the hand that was folded next to his head, making him jump back in shock.

"Aagh!" Nielle shook his bleeding forearm, where Shane's teeth mark was like the one he had left on his when Shane tried to strangle him.

Niella's anger filled him at the sickening pain. He glared at Shane but Lacrisan glared at him the same way as he couldn't take sentence like that from a Rinselan…not after trying to get to rid of those thoughts all day.

However, Nelle didn't know why Shane overreacted, didn't know why there was so much anger in his eyes, so he just focused on his own. Nielle pulled his fingers out of Shane's ass and laughed sadistically.

"Crazy Lacrisan ," he growled and simply stayed between Shane's legs, "you're going to regret this." he declared and without hesitation pushed his cock into Shane's not well prepared entrance.

Shane glared at him, trying to calm his pounding heart before Nielle rammed his cock into him. But it didn't work, he couldn't do anything to stop him and he clearly wasn't going to explain to him why he bit him... so he just snapped the handcuffs in frustration and tried to kick Nielle with his thigh. Well, Nielle was already penetrating his body again.

He pressed his penis deeper into his hole and forced him to scream in intense pain. The burning feeling of his ass being filled with Nielle's hard penis shot through his body. For a moment Shane felt nothing but disgust and anger at the bastard who was once again doing what he wanted with him.

"Ágh-ágh—aaaagh—you bastard-ááááh!" he clamped his eyelids shut and gasped as Nielle roughly rammed his entire cock into him. He stopped in this position and roughly pushed himself in a little deeper, forcing Shane to a painful gag.

Nielle watched Shane's expression filled with pain, his eyes clenched shut, his bottom bleeding under the pressure of his member. He looked really uncomfortable and Nielle smiled contentedly as the sight filled him with satisfaction. He hated Lacrisans and this side of them was what he liked. He moved roughly inside Shane, drawing a pained sound from Lacrisan and thrust deeper into Shane's ass again.

"Ngh-nghá-ágh-ágh!" Shane's lips quivered and he tried with all his might to pull himself as far away from Nielle's cock as possible. But it was quite hard.

"Aaaagh!" he moaned as Nielle drove his cock into him again, "W-wait..ah-fuck..wait-aagh!" Nielle didn't listen to him and thrust into him more roughly with a satisfied smile.

Nielle just leaned down to his face, clearly aware that Shane didn't feel like biting again right now. He moved to his ear and sadistically muttered in a horny voice,

"You're in for a long night, Lacrisan."