It didn't take long for me to figure out the extreme pain I was in. My chest was burning as though acid was poured all over it. My body was sore and tired, I could hardly get up.

As soon as I heard my father's cold voice, memories began to flood back in my mind. My mother taking care of me, teasing me, helping me and in the end dying for me.

Even though I was feeling nothing and I was completely calm, I realized my face was wet, I then used my hand to inspect and was surprised.

Tears were wildly coming out of my eyes, I had no control over them, they slowly traveled through my face, rested a little at my chin and finally crashed into the bed I was laying on.

What I was thinking now was, what if I had done this? what if I had done that? then maybe, maybe mother would not be dead.

I was all focused on these thoughts that I forgot about my father until another cold shout rang in my ears forcefully bringing me back to the real world 'I said explain it to me, Dammit!'.

It didn't matter to me on how loud he shouted or how fierce his expression was but I was surprised on how he changed, since never before he was like this.

I took a deep breath and almost choked on it, with some 'coughs' I cleared my throat and wiped the tears off my face using the bed sheet since I was half naked I had no sleeves up for the job.

I began from the start hiding nothing except that hidden passage, on how I was fed up with this bullshit religion and all these dark things and I wanted to leave. Followed by what happened after that.

As soon as I finished, I saw that my father was choking me, pressuring my small neck with his giant hands as he shouted 'you s*n o*f * b***h, you killed you own mother, you ungrateful demon'.

Now that I clearly think about it, I did kill her and I was demon to begin with, so everything he said so far was simply the truth.

If I hadn't left, she wouldn't have followed me and ended up dead. Before I realized once again tears began to flow from eyes, as though there was no tomorrow they rushed out of my eyes.

Then the captain of the legion barged in and quickly stopped him in a polite and respectful manner. My father left with him without even sparing me a single glance, while leaving he slammed the door so hard that it broke. Maybe the wooden door was already past its age or my father murdered it, I simply don't know nor do I care.

There was no one in the room with me, not even a single maid not that I minded it a single bit instead I liked being alone.

I don't know when I dozed off but I was asleep again, when I woke up there was a young maid sitting beside me.

She was quite tempting, her clothes were too revealing and her body was too sinister. Had I not been acquainted with darkness I would'ave never imagined in my wildest dreams that this seemingly pure maiden would do those kind of things. She slept with almost half of the noble advisers to my father and stole from them very skillfully it seemed she was a pro with a lot of experience. She is quite evil but it is very hard to think like that, since up close her scent is almost making me feel dizzy.

When she saw me acting like this she giggled while covering her mouth, realizing that I had been caught I blushed a little but with my mentality I quickly recovered.

I was feeling empty and calm, like an endless sky but it was not long before the wound on my chest throbbed and made me remember all of it once again. Seeing I was on the verge of crying I turned my back towards her and changed side while laying.

Even doing this took considerate amount of effort, it seemed as though I couldn't locate any of my previous strength.

I buried my face in the white soft pillow and tried my best to cry discreetly but despite all my efforts some sounds escaped, my nose was the cause of it 'sniff, sniff' I don't know why I cry, I simply feel nothing, no kind of sadness but only emptiness. 'Is this sorrow?' I questioned myself.

Now when I regained somewhat control over my situation I realized that Elifa was sitting next to my face staring at me intently.

I observed her gaze, I don't know what I sensed in those beautiful eyes, it was pity maybe or maybe that too was a deception just like her pureness.

She waited for a while and then said in a very soft voice 'young master', even her voice was angelic, she extended both her arms forward, she was holding a green leave in her palms, the leave was facing the sky, without saying anything I accepted the leave and wiped tears off my face once again.

I tried to get up but I didn't have the strength. I just didn't care, I forced myself to get up, as I got up, I staggered while moving each step, Elifa ran up to me but I stopped her with a wave of my hand but despite this she was right behind me. I walked towards the bath, there was a bucket full of water there.

The young maid quickly ran towards it but I once again stopped her. I knelt down in front of it, in the clear water I could see my face floating. I looked pathetic, my eyes looked hollow and dead, my face was full of dry tears while my hair were all messed up.

I stared at my reflection for sometime, then extended both my palms in it. I washed my hands and face thoroughly.

By the way the pain coming from my chest was killing me, my body too was making weird cracking sounds due to its soreness but little did I care about it instead I welcomed it, the pain was the drug. I enjoyed the pain, it made me focused and collective.

Anyways I moved back to my bed with help I received from Shilfa. She then left for a while and came back in with a silver plate covered with a giant green leave in her hands. She placed it in front of me without saying a single word and stood straight right beside me.

I placed the leave aside and saw my food, without thinking much, I just ate. It didn't even taste although it was considered a delicacy world wide, my taste buds weren't up for the job.

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Three whole days passed like this, I cried, I ate and I slept. During all this only this young maid Shelfa would stay by my side.

Now I was truly confused about her behavior, even if I was normal I don't think I would be able to guess accurately why this woman was behaving this way towards me.

Most likely it was a deception forced because of her obligation or she may even be trying to tempt me so I can fall for her, I am already in a this pathetic state and being tempted in this state is not so hard so it makes sense. No matter even if I am a demon murderer prince who murdered his own mother I am still the only prince to the king who rules this whole world so now it makes even better sense.

After these three days my wound is almost healed, though there is a claw mark right in the middle of my chest between my nipples. It is fairly small, there are three small tilted parallel lines, its kind of like a tattoo.

I am very stable now, even though I still remember past scenes time to time, I don't cry often or lose control every time.

My father never visited me in these three days, some maids would regularly come to clean the room and I would pretend to sleep even if I was not since talking to people, I really don't like.

The thing is, these maids would engage in their gossips and the goat was off course me. The main topic would be, I laughed when I came into this world, I then fed my mother to a leopard, when my father inquired about the matter, I kicked him out of the room.

Now I know more about myself, since I always saw these events in another light. Even though these rumors are not true but they are not entirely false either.

This one time I was pretending to sleep just like usual, while just like before these maids were busy in their idles chatter. A fly came close to my nose, off course I wasn't scared, how can I be scared of a fly after facing a leopard? Anyways I was interested in how it flew, those random patterns along with how it would suddenly accelerate, these were all too fascinating to me.

While I was busy stalking this fly, the maid caught me with my eyes opened. She quickly fell to the ground, she was on her knees, her whole body was trembling, she even started crying, her hands joined together like how one worships a god or asks for forgiveness, she cried 'youn...g sniff Mas..ter ple..ase for.ive this insolence of your maid'.

The other maid who was standing on the opposite side saw her and quickly realized the situation, she too just like her knelt and said some similar words 'I have young kids, have mercy'.

Well if I was angry with them for anything, it was for disturbing me while I was observing that fly, now I don't know where to it escaped.

Anyways whats done is done, I said 'stand up and leave' unexpectedly my voice was quite cold but the maids quickly obeyed my orders and left while wiping their tears. My room guards sure saw them leaving with tears in their eyes and with this another rumor started on how I eat maids, since I am a demon who fed his mother to a leopard.

Well as a result I became infamous throughout the world, being a good prince attracts the attention of many people but being an evil prince attracts the attention of everyone or even more people.

Those maids didn't leave the castle, they knew better than that, since if I pleased I could always hunt them down and kill them with ease so they resigned to their fate.

On the third day they came to my room once again, cleaned it thoroughly, this time around none of these two made any sound much less a conversation.

I was once again pretending to sleep, both of them would cast glances to see If I was awake or not. I admit I was caught once but that was when I was distracted. So now the maids were finally a bit relieved seeing I didn't take any action, I simply didn't care for what they thought.

So after three days, I finally left my room, during these three days only the medic uncle Jefro, that tempting witch Elifa and those two maids would dare to enter my room. Not even guards would take a step in though they would occasionally glance at this infamous demon whenever the door opened.

It was the night of the third day, I had already rested for three days, I wasn't feeling tired anymore so I thought I would pay my secret passage a visit.

I observed the royal court, the royal harem and the executioner stand but everything was all the same, naked ladies, nobles having fun, poor people crying in misery and the black mask man still beheading people.

I was going back to my room that I decided to check up on my father, I knew how much he loved my mother so I thought he may have committed suicide, though I don't care for that, it may make things troublesome for me, I will have to become the king and will be eternally trapped in this darkness.

So I moved towards his room then I heard some sounds coming from his room, there were no guards around, it was truly weird.

Is it an assassination attempt? I thought to myself. But what I saw made me feel like a boulder weighting tons dropped on me while I was totally unprepared.

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