Shell sits before a monument, sitting cross legs. He drank from his flask reminiscing of something he'll never experience again. The love of a family as he contemplates the words of the judgment. He couldn't help but remember what happens next.

After judgment burns down me orphanage he disappears but only the father died and the orphanage burned down the children and sisters of the facility or safe, but unfortunately everyone heard where the father said about shell and the senior most sister reported it to the Grand Drago. After he heard word of a spoken and what happened. He decided to move all the children and sisters to a new organizing a different drakian territory. However, show was not that lucky instead of being moved with the others, he was brought back to the Grand dragos pavilion where he would remain in a single room with a single guard who would only bring him food three times a day and check when him poor time today to make sure he has not escaped. This continued for about 6 months on the 7th month he was brought before the Grand Drago the ruling. Figure the drakian Nation.

Grand Drago: so this is him.

Advisor 1: Yes my Lord. According to the reports, this is the kid from the event the father spoke of.

The boy looked at the Grand dracout like all Drakians, he had black inhaled signifying his cursed skeleton which requires Merrell to prevent curses from manifesting red eyes that are burdened with the knowledge and white hair bench dark skin signifying their thick hides but sensitive awareness. But of course, since he's royalty and also has the Royal stigma that makes him appear dragonic in nature, a trait passed down and the core members of the loyal drakian family.

Grand Drago: is what what I heard true about this boy. Jade, normania truly participate in the involvement of this child's parent's death.

The drakian Lord, gazed at shells direction you of course would have given the ruler the information he wanted but refuse to speak not out of spite but simply because since he wasn't being spoken to Norse looked at instead the Lord's side landed past him to another man he had felt just walked into the room.

Normanian representative: we do apologize the great Lord Grand Drago cried master of the varying colonies of the drakians territories.

After they got introductions out of the way the two spoke in great detail about my parents death. It was obvious that normanian representative was leaving a lot of details out. The Grand Drago did not point it out. He was well aware of what details he was leaving out and felt no need to approot something he didn't clearly lie about. But after all was said and done. The Romanian representative had one of his escorts present the Lord of this land with a bag of many jewels and gold and silver coins as reparations of the events that occurred due to Armenia's negligence. This was of course, under the assumption that they would take to normania with him. Giving the information provided below. Its arm was twisted show was a member of his people a problematic member but stealing nonetheless. Someone is outbound to protect. But unfortunately normania has a right to him , so he had no choice not to send him away.

After being transferred to the kingdom normania he was immediately brought before the current king and shell sensitivities were going off left and right. Not only was he prop before the king but before all of his top grass the glares he was receiving were coming from all around. Everyone in this room didn't like them. He could feel that with every fiber of his being and during the jury which took 3 months, Joe hasn't eaten any bones. While he was in the care of the pavilion, they fed him chicken bones. But during his long travel all the way to ormania's Capital at which takes several months to get there had any bones but no bones and he could feel a curse began to manifest inside of his body.

King of normania : so you're the last of my mistakes, no, that's not correct. I make no mistakes. You're the remnants of the sin I chose to bear for this nature.

As the King began to flatter himself in front of his people, the knights began to close in on shell. He could feel himself in danger.

Normanian King: look child. This is nothing personal but your existence. Exposes the world to what happened to the former King and princess , we can't allow such a thing to walk around the fact that another Nation, especially one of forced Hicks knows of what I did to claim. My right is unforgivable so I shall put you to death. Unsubjects bear witness to this act so that they may carrying out my intentions should something similar in nature like her compromising my role.

Shell could feel it. This was purely lip service. The fact that these people were here is so that they are all held just as liable in the event that any of these comes to light. But of course the fact that the man responsible for the death of his mother and father, as well as his grandfather and grandmother and Aunt irritates him to him. Alarming a degree. Allah's face didn't Express it. His anger was so strong that is Aura began to flare, Laney knights and nobles in the room since the change in Aurora and if that wasn't all the wolves he had brought under his control began to crawl The mata The Shadow. The number of wolves and a seemed endless.

The night started preparing Nana onto their weapons nate to fight off the wolves but the curse manifested with in shows body took effect. Apparently it was a curse consumes surrounding Mana and stores it within his body. Confused more and more knights started to use their Mana and even nobles started to join in the struggle no matter who tried their minda was consumed by shell. The wolves had surrounded everyone and the King was climbed on top of his throne trying to create as much distance as possible from the wolves. The knights tried to find an opportunity to strike the wolves but in the opening they saw was covered by another wolf guaranteed a death for every injury meaning of the wolves number would not lower. but the number of people in the room would clearly drop. This was not good. The king knew this.

Normanian King: foolish boy, you've played your hand. Now I know that you have rules at your command which will make killing you all the more easier. You should also be aware that killing me would bring the wrath of the kingdom down upon you. My child would see to this you vile hick.

The king tried to spit on the ground for some antics but a nearby wolf saw the opportunity to growl and snap at him causing him to resend his action. Shell looked around the room and contemplated executing everyone in this Kingdom with his wolves in this curse. It would be doable but then he couldn't help but remember a certain being who judges people's actions and takes away The souls of the guilty. As he remembers judgment, a spine begins to tingle not just his fine. The sensitivity had gone off. Someone had just appeared in this room. His eyes wandered over to a corner. There stood a familiar drakians drinking from a rather large gourd. He was dressed like either a scholar or an aristocrat but still he was drakians no matter how he looked at him and the aura he exuded was extremely familiar. Presence that compels you to expose your sins onto the world and those eyes that judges all of things without bias. It was the pillar of judgment. Realizing he had been spotted, he decided to clap for the performance he seen had seen.

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Judgment: it's been about a year since I saw you last and you have already located on majority of the people who have wronged you. I'm impressed. Perhaps I will be able to judge you soon enough.

The king of normania managed to break enough out of his fear to notice an additional drakian in the room.

Normanian King: who are you and what brings you to my castle? Also I order you to slay this insubordinate fool.

The two ignored the king and his attempt at bravado. Judgment walked over to a nearby pillar and arrested himself upon it as he walked the wolves made room for him not because they wanted to, but because they could feel instinctually that this man something wasn't right about him resting on her life. He continued his conversation with shall.

Shell: what brings you here.

Judgment: after I left you, I remembered some of the priests words which really stuck with me, especially some details. I really felt I needed to confirm so I took a trip to the underworld. I had just recently left the underworld and could feel with every fiber of my being a great crime about to be committed here. I know I had to see this for myself.

Judgment cracked a smile at those words.

Shell: I admit I considered killing everyone in this Castle, but I know not everyone is as guilty as the people in this room. Although not everyone in this room is the majority of the people who have wronged me.

Shell felt compelled to speak about this matter to judgment. Not that he trusted the man. Not the or he exuded just made him somewhere he could trust with his thoughts and feelings without feeling belittled or betrayed. Hearing this the man rubs his chin in thought the king.

Normanian King: please hear me. Oh great pillar of the evil God. He who judges right and wrong. Take the soul of this sinner your lord commands it.

Judgment: pride, especially unearned pride is a sin just is great if not greater than wrath. The way I see it your arrogance brought you to this point. But of course no matter how things play out, All souls will be collected for the God of balance.

He lifts himself off of the column he was leaning against, then walks to the center of the rim. Where shall and the King stood blessing himself in between the two he points at the both of them.

Judgment: I have a suggestion Shell hear clearly feels that killing you has way too many cons than pros and from my opinion I can see that some of these cons can be easily overturned with time. As for the man who thinks he rules everything you'll argue of defense against your own death. Is that your death would bring down the wrath of the Kingdom led by your son.

Judgment smiled and gazed up to the heavens. No, there was no ceiling nor lights up above where he stood a giant godly. Ray began to envelop the three.

Judgment: by the power invested in me by the god of balance. I propose a contract. The king shall live until a suitable heir is available to take the throat. Upon doing so, shells right shall be invoked should he choose the path of vengeance then the god of balance shall allow him to bring down the heads of every individual who played a part in the demise of his family , on the off chance. He chooses to abstain from vengeance on that day. I shall judge him on the life he lives for claiming the souls of those who bond him.

The God Ray broke into three distinctive lights. The first light in circles judgment producing a Goldy rain on his index finger. The second night encircles the king christan a metal ankle brace made of iron. The last light circle shell producing a steel collar with a chains only visible through his shadow.

Judgment : I see this here collar keeps you in line. Should you attempt to kill the king, the collar will bring you before me to be judged whether it be early or late. If it's early, the color will bring you before me. If it's after the fact, the collar will bring you before me then disappear from your neck. If you abstain from killing him at all, the collar will just disappear. Then there's that iron ankle brace. It weighs you down in the presence of the collar should you choose to run away or do anything to prolong yourself from his rightful Vengeance the brace will weigh you down. But if you face your sins head on the brace shall lighten your load. Finally, this ring it's to remind me of this contract. Should the contract be broken, it shall bring me to the offending party. The contract is fulfilled. The ring will disappear and I shall be informed of the events and I shall find and judge whatever remains. But of course any attempts both direct, indirect or through anyone who is is directly or indirectly under the king's influence, the king shall die for his actions.

After that, judgment left the kingdom. The king of normania now in an extremely difficult situation had no choice but to put shell someplace. he could not easily reach the king, fortunately for the king, when the kingdom has an orphanage on the far side near a forest full of dangerous monsters due to the fact that the hermit has taken up residence there.

Shell was placed in the care of the father of you orphanage for the SSS rank armories, the director was giving a folder explaining the situation in its entirety to him. At first the director pitied shell for his situation and tried everything he could to get him to fit in with the others. But unfortunately, the new found curse Jill had manifest had taken rooting to his bonds so he could no longer be purged with marrow. Due to this, everyone within the vicinity of him starts losing an alarming amount of Mana. Whenever they're near the closer they got the more Mana it was sapped away. The director couldn't have this, especially since it put the other armories at risk, so we cleared out a space in the basement for him. Sadly, the only room in the basement was a prison cell and that was the collar was not a good look. But the thing is he's just too dangerous to be kept upstairs. Of course the director tried to be accommodating. He was well aware of Shell's various activities you would go out at night and wander the holes of the orphanage. Occasionally sneaking food from the pantries and some of the sisters would occasionally see him with wolves of different Ace species patrolling the forest and occasionally killing monsters eventually and type of niche was formed between New orphanage and shell you would control the animal population and stay in the basement during the daytime and at night you would have free rein of the area so long as he stayed away from the other armories.

A couple of months later another new armory was brought to the orphanage a skytopian by the name of Maria. At first she was under the impression that she was the only non-nomanian in this orphanage but in later day is when when this one of the sisters realizes how out of out of place she feels she was led towards the basement. Introducing her to shall feeling a sense of kinship. She willfully made herself a big sister Phil figure for shell every time she had free time. She would spend it mother and shall who had taken on and more nocturnal lifestyle. Only sparing small amounts of time during the daytime to be awake to humor. Maria, the director had come to the conclusion that the reason for this was he felt for her and her situation being the only other non-normanian in the area.

Shell let out a long sigh. He looks down at the pedestal of the monument he gazes upon on the left side was a heavenly orchid, a popular flower among skytopians for honoring the dead. He runs his hands across the engraved where it is" this monument is in place of the grave for the heavenly forge" The monument was the Statue of a cross with a. Forging Hammer leaned up against it having his fill. He placed down the flowers. He brought a set of blaze Willow Lily's a drakian tradition for honoring the dead. He wipes his face. For some reason his cheeks were wet yet it hadn't rain. He knew it had to be something like rain considering you could not fathom crying for someone he did not have the chance to meet.

Deciding it was time to move on. He heads back to the hotel room where he knows Evelyn is waiting for him from the day she randomly showed up. He knew that this was a sign from the god of balance. That is his decision must be made soon and while he does hate the man, he doesn't know if he's hardcore enough to kill him. He had been contemplating his decision since the moment they stuck him in the orphanage of course after meeting. Maria and that Prince his decision had become less and less obvious then then out of nowhere Evelyn showed up. Somehow. Maria knew that she was exactly what he needed. He couldn't leave his decision to Evelyn, that would be unfair for everyone involved. What he felt that letting her guide this journey would do wonders for him in helping him make a decision. At first, you didn't want her becoming a pawn in this nonsensical situation. He found himself in but he had to admit something about her screams, trustworthy, not the kind of trustworthy he felt from judgment but genuine trustworthy. Miss you can only find someone you've known a while which was odd considering he only just a matter but he just knew in that moment that he can make a vow when the time comes. He wants her by his side when he decides if he'll execute the king for what he did.