Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

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As soon as Kai's eyes began to flutter open...

He wished that they hadn't.

His body was throbbing in pain, like he had just been hit by a truck, ran over by a train, dunked in a vat of boiling oil and then had a marching band perform on his body.

Still, Kai had to open his eyes, so he gritted his teeth and endured the agonising pain.

The first thing he noticed was... the white sky?

He knew that snow was white and all that, but the clouds were more of a gray colour, not normally as white as they looked now.

It was only after looking to his left did Kai realise that what he was looking at wasn't the sky, but the roof of a tent.

To his left he also spotted Remy, Umbra and Petunia all cuddled together beside a lantern. The young girl was clinging to the wolf in an effort to keep herself warm, which wasn't actually working that well considering she was shivering. Umbra seemed to be doing a little better because of all her fur and Remy was sandwiched in between them.

Looking down, Kai saw that his armour had been taken off him and his bodysuit had been peeled down to his waist.

His body did not look good to say the least.

Practically all of it was purple with bruises, some of them even being a dark shade of black. He wasn't sure if bruises were supposed to turn that colour, but they had.

There was also some strange pads stuck to various parts of his torso, and he barely noticed that light liquid they were secreting. It was like a sort of gel, which the bruises seemed to be absorbing.

He still felt like shit though, no doubt about that. It was like he was being sapped of all his energy, like his very being was leaking out of him.

Kai tried to get up, but he was quickly overwhelmed by a wave of agonising pain. Quickly lying back down, he took a minute to compose himself before attempting to move again.

But after he tried to sit up, Kai thought that it felt like something was pinning his arm down, so when he turned his head to the left he-

Blushed ever so slightly.

Cecilia was lying down beside him, her head resting on his injured arm. It didn't really seem like a good idea to use someone's injured arm as a pillow, but she must have been so exhausted that she had accidently fallen asleep.

And Kai couldn't help but noticing that she was shivering too, only unlike Petunia who had a furry wolf to cuddle up to, Cecilia had to make use of the heat of Kai's body, which there wasn't really that much of.

Kai let his body relax, trying to ignore as much of the pain as possible. He closed his eyes, wanting to be moody and sour, but he just couldn't bring himself to do so.

He hadn't lost hope just yet, there was still time to escape, just it was going to be a very small window which didn't leave much room for error.

But Kai was still upset.

Who the fuck had broken the teleporter? It had to have been Anastasia as she was the only one unaccounted for at the time, unless the Plague Harbinger had accidently broken it when pursuing Castillian.

Or could it have been Yelena? Kai still had no idea what her goal was, pretending to be a maid and all that, it was a possibility that it had been her who destroyed their way out, but it was one that he didn't want to believe.

He was in no rush to wake up Cecilia, she probably deserved some rest, considering that Kai had no idea how long he had been out for.

Plus, he had more pressing matters to tend to.