Kinder Things | vampire chrollo

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chapter thirty two: choices

Kurapika had seen the missing posters on the way back to his town. So far twenty citizens had gone missing, most of them women. None of them being children had given him the clue that it was his half brothers doing. It wasn't shocking. He knew that his brother had been on edge lately and it wouldn't be long till he finally attacked once again. 

Kurapika had grown to get over it and knowing how this led, he'd have to go back to the fallen kingdom and see if he could fix the issue before it got worse. The same night he arrived to his town was the same night he turned around and headed back into the woods, until he caught sight of a grave.

What the hell? He paled at the sight of her name engraved into the stone.

(Y/n) (L/n)
daughter and sister

"How?" He asked himself. The church was all the way across the town but he could still see that it had been completely abandoned. For how long, he did not know but he knew that it had been a while since anyone stepped inside the church. The overgrown weeds assured him that not even Killua or Gon had stepped foot into the grounds. During the months he had been away many things had happened, none of them being good.

Kurapika left his lonely town to go home without another thought. He had walked through the gates without any trouble and was prepared to go through another round of fighting if it meant putting his brother back in his place. The only reason vampires hadn't attacked was because of him, so what strange reason had caused these attacks to start up again? After peacefully agreeing to feast on animals, now his brother suddenly wanted to attack people?

What had caused him to fall into temptation again?

Kurapika walked into the castle and headed towards the throne room knowing that his brother would most likely be there.

I can't believe him. What the hell has he done to this...place. He stopped in his tracks. Shocked to see the curtains wide open and full of life. Plants and flowers decorated the place. It was empty but so full. And from across the room he finally saw her. The sun shining on her. Her dress was a pale pink and she had a book on her lap. She was so focused that she hadn't even noticed him standing at the door.

This was the witch bride. This was the devils queen. And she sat so high on his throne. He was looking up at her like how most did to the gods they prayed to. Beside her stood a blonde woman, a servant who was happily standing by her. The missing girl on the newspaper wasn't dead but was living another life in a new world. Did she know that her mother was praying for her return every day? Did she know that the price for eternal life was eternal torture?

"(Y/n), you're alive-" No. That's not her.

She looked up from her book and nearly dropped it when she saw him. His smile faltered when he felt her eyes on him. Like a coyote hiding in the bushes, waiting to leap and bite her preys neck. The girl most definitely did not know what she had just gotten herself into. Not when (y/n) had most likely convinced her with her slick words, traveling through one ear and out the other. The witch bride knew how to seem convincing, after all, her lover was known as the charming devil.

What has he done to you? He was tempted to ask but he was afraid if he uttered another word he'd end up dead.

"Kurapika." She smiled at him just as before. The same smile she had when he left for his travels.

"How-" he stopped himself. How did this happen? He was so curious of how things had led to this situation. She had promised to wait for him back at the church. She had promised to keep the town safe and to welcome him when he returned. Instead she welcomed him in a new world that she would never be able to leave. If she believed to be trapped in their little town then she'd only come to the realization later that she would be trapped here in this kingdom for eternity.