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Chapter 9

"Your highness, a guy tried to-"

"Kill him." Canton interrupted coldly, without giving his guard time to complete their sentence.

He kept walking ahead, desperately trying to reach the throne room as fast as possible, not bothering to care about another life he just ended.

The guards outside the room opened the doors wide for King Canton to walk in with a small bow of their heads.

Canton stepped inside and rushed to sit on his throne, dismissing everyone's respectful aknowledge of his presence.

Errot and Oda were standing at the side of the room, their heads lowered and their gaze stuck to the ground. Adan was leaning against the wall next to them, wearing his usual smirk and Elvina was already positioned at her place, next to the king's throne. Her head was high and her smile gave away her impatience and curiousity that was consuming her.

"Bring inside whoever had the guts to waste my time and be fucking quick about it cause my patience is running low" Canton's voice held darkness and the entire sentence he just uttered was dripping venom.

Errot was amazed at Canton's ability to always keep his tone calm when his words could literally be used as daggers.
He then remembered a whole different version of him from this morning when he lost his temper completely and found comfort in violence. It was in that moment that he realised that Canton is actually either not οn his right mind or he's putting a show for his people everyday. Errot would place bets on neither of the two options.

Not even two seconds passed when Canton's guards dragged two handcuffed people inside and dropped them a few feet away from the king, in an abrupt motion.

They looked like a couple, young and not very different from Errot and Oda. They were covered in bruises and their clothes were tore apart and extremely dirty. They looked like they were in pain in every possible place and their eyes were open wide in terror. Errot started feeling very uneasy. He dared to look up and stare at their non-pointed ears only to confirm his worst fear. They were merlots.

King Canton fixed them with his usual icy stare. "I'm listening."

"My King. Those pathetic humans trespassed into Ink Blood and had the nerve to come close to the premises."

The boy raised his head to look at King Canton, ready to defend himself and didn't realise he would regret this decision for the rest of his very short life.

Canton's eyes widened in fury and disbelief and rose to his feet in seconds. He grabbed the boy's hair hard and yanked his head back with extreme force.

"Looking at me in the eye is the second worst thing you could do, Merlot." Canton's calm voice was starting to lose it's peacefulness.

Errot tried to remain unfazed, the fast pace of his heartbeat now betraying him.

"I'm sorry! I didn't know I couldn't- I won't do that again, I swear!" The boy was now looking up and away from the King before him.

"Hm. You see, there is a small problem here, buddy. I happen not to trust creatures that can lie their way out of everything. Especially if those said creatures are mortals. So, let me just make sure that you will, in fact, never look at me again with those pretty little eyes. "

The screams that followed right after would scar Errot's heart for a very long time. Agonizing cries of help echoed through the entire throne room while King Canton was ripping this boy's eyes off their sockets in very slow and careful movements and no one was doing a thing to stop him. Nobody was moving, talking. They were all staring.