Datu Dimakulem together with his hundred subordinates surged trough the forest and looked for the couple. They can't find them wherever they go. They even gush through the summit of the twin mountains but still haven't seen them.
"Ahhh! Where is my daughter? You bastard man, no matter how strong you are depicted by beasts and kings, I would cripple every hit of your bones!"
On one side, the Shaman is watching from a hidden ground, her eyes glinting with evil sharpness, yet concealed to the senses of the people in the forest.
They went around the forest, and everyone appears tired and extremely exhausted. This is because the mountain ranges are known to be rocky and steep. Despite being sturdy and muscular, the hundred men who go back and forth to every corner of this vast land also reached their limits.
It's not until dark that one of them shouted, "Datu!!! Here is Miss Maliya! She's sleeping!" The sleeping lady magically appeared in the middle of the twin boulders, sleeping peacefully in a cushioned green bed adorned with flowers.
This is in fact the Shaman's power, she concealed the bruises, the damages that she and the other beasts had done to the lady using some of her forbidden spells, she even let the woman appear as if she is just sleeping peacefully. But no. She received a really painful death like what Tadeo repeatedly sees.
The Datu rushed through Maliya's side, who instead of his rage and his wrathful aura is now appearing with a face full of relief and gentleness. But it's not to soon that a cry, a heart wrenching cry was heard from the old man, "She is... She is dead. My baby is already dead." He sobbed like a child and all he can do was to hold her daughter's hand. "No dear child. You're not dead right? You aren't dead"
"My Lord, the Lady was poisoned by Bernardo, the bastard child" said a crying small lady with a brown dress and shabby clothes. A skull insignia in a form of a tatoo is seen on the slave's left elbow but this is invisible to the eye of anyone except the shaman. Because this slave is a beast pretending to be a human.
"I saw the lady struggling to stop the brute when he wanted to claim her highness Lady. That animal! He is too lewd for wanting to get and take advantage of the Miss before marriage"
"The miss kept struggling so Bernardo just poisoned her and even mentioned how she now can't be taken by anyone"
Tadeo, witnessing this very scene again feels the terrible tear in his heart, as if countless daggers are continuously hammering through his heart. He feels everything deeply. Specially since he and his beloved, and those who committed the crime are the only people who knew what really happened.
The scene shifts again...