That trail keeps leading me down, I followed it in a nearby hidden hideout of the castle. It always say 'kill' which is very much my forte but I was trying so hard to repel it but I can't do it, I don't know how.
"How far must I go?" I told myself and it was a very long staircase down and some hidden passages.
'Come fort the chosen one' I heard it again which is making me get shivers all over my body but I never thought this feeling will come back to me. Ever since I was subjected to a crude training like that, I shut down all of my emotions to be a killing machine for years.
When I opened the door a burst of dark energy came surging in and it pulled me inside. It was a powerful force where even I don't know what to do.
When I opened my eyes, I can't see anything but darkness that surrounds me. I heard some growling, whispers that I cannot understand, and something that's touching my shoulders.
"The one who wields great amount of light and the vessel in which the dark queen shall reign. HAHHAHAH" a whisper from my right ear said which I felt a cold touch on my shoulder.
"That's her? She smells delicious!" Another voice whispered in my left ear.
"Who are you?" I asked but laughter can only be heard in the room.
"Let's see, how you lived your life" another one said and my past memories came surging in. All those painful memories I wish to bury appeared in front of me in an instant.
At a young age, I was raised into a perfect assassin. Killing all the people who are in the list of people I was tasked to kill. From the age of eight.
"There it is! The delicious painful memories, we could have eaten her as soon as she was born but she was still being protected by the Divine Grace of Monicious." I heard from one of them.
"If you have eaten her then we failed our task to revive the Queen" Another one said.
"Our main task is to welcome the Queen. You know the first step and we should hurry up and do it" a demanding voice said.
After seeing all of my past memories, a dark entity is weighing me down and for a reason my hands and feet were tied and stretched with a glowing red thread while below me was a very peculiar drawing.
I smelt blood and saw that it is filling all the gaps in the drawing while they continue to chant something which is so hard to understand.
At first, I cannot feel anything but when a man said 'this is the blood of the offering who possesses the vessel of the one who conquers the darkness. May this union give rise to the dark seed deep within'
The moment my blood keeps dripping on the floor, I felt all my nerves turned numbed and I suddenly feel pain all over my body. I can't breathe and felt like I am being electrocuted in a chair for how long it takes.
'Dark past and memories as painful as being slashed for a thousand times in a thousand years, a perfect vessel to hold you' they said while continuing a chant.
When they started getting louder and suddenly turned silence, I felt something that struck my heart which allowed me to breathe again.
Those pain and suffering that I was feeling became numb.
"Your highness! Your highness!" I can feel a warm hug that is hugging me tightly.
I wondered who it is but I feel something dripping on my cheeks, while the hug is getting tighter.
"Your highness! Please open your eyes" she said while I heard her sobbing. I felt her cheeks on my forehead and she was crying continuously as if she lost a child.
Ahh it must be Daisy, did I die again? Is this really my punishment from those above? For killing those innocent people?
"What are you all doing?! Call his majesty right away!" An angry man's voice appeared but maybe he was not mad but worried?
"Daisy~" a man's voice said
"We cannot let her highness die! She's sooo cold that's why I am just keeping her warm" she told him but she can't stopped her tears from flowing down.
I heard a flapping sound of a cape and I know it must be the worrisome Carl again.
I felt a little warmer and it must be Carl who continuously warm my hands with his warm breath and hands.
"Where is she!" I heard someone shouting.
"What's wrong with her? Tell me" he said again and I felt he lifted me up and now I am hearing his irregular heartbeat. He is even catching his breath, as if he runs from a faraway place.
"I found her h-he-here, with a s-sl-slash on her wrist and with her c-cold body, I can't h-hear her heart beat and she seems like she lost her breath." She said and she broke down again.
"What do you mean?" he said while I felt a hand tightening my hand where the slash is located.
"She's not breathing, your majesty!" She shouted and I heard her sobbing again. Daisy has a weak heart and was always over protective against me. I am worried because she might have a heart attack because of me.
Why am I hearing them? I am already dead right? But why can't I see anything.
"Sumon the royal physician at once" he said and even now I can sense that he is giving them a sharp glare.
"The wound is still fresh, she has a faint heartbeat, she's breathing but it is not normal" he assessed and I am amazed by Ignatius.
"Yes your majesty!" They shouted and I heard a lot of feet stomping here and there.
"Don't go yet daughter" he whispered and it did warm my heart a bit.
I never did experience being called someone's daughter as in my past life, I was an orphan and my so called father gave me grueling tasks and always sending me to my death.
Ignatius' voice is so soft which is so not like him, it kept me wondering if he is worried about me or not, and I felt water kept dripping down on my face.
Is Ignatius crying? But why? I am in his top list of persons he wants to kill.
This acts he is doing is getting me confused but it is comforting to have someone crying while I am on my deathbed which means that someone loves me.
I didn't know but I suddenly hold his hand that is holding mine.