-3 minutes ago-
While Diana was forcing the answers out of Soren, Dallius and Kana were reading some books, while Diana's actually body was sitting motionless right next to Kana. After finishing reading The Prince's Nightlight, she left an ecstatic and weird noise before she said:
"Uhhh... That was such a great romance story. That ending with Pablo kissing Irene under the pink tree while it bloomed, that was so good I already read it 3 ti-"
While Kana was still in cloud nine from the bool, Dallius suddenly threw a pillow at her face and said:
"Can you shut your trap already? Your noises are making it quite difficult for me to focus."
"Meanie. Take this." Kana said angrily before throwing the pillow back at Dallius' head. This caused Dallius to drop the book he was reading, which at that moment, he lost his cool and was almost ready to charge to Kana and start pouncing her, when suddenly Diana's body moved for a bit, before she fainted.
"Mother!"
"Mom!" Both Dallius and Kana saw Diana fall right in front of them and went to check on her condition and some of the guards came to check on her as well.
"How's her condition?" Kana asked one of her guards who was putting the back of his hand on her forehead.
"Hmmm... I believe she has only fainted. Something must have happened during her interrogation, otherwise she would show signs of shock." The guard explained with a calm demeanor.
"Go bring the guest here. I'm going to make him spill the beans about the events that led up to this mess." Kana ordered with a fierce expression.
...
"Well, she probably left the body by now, consider that this fell down like a log. Is this how these fall down after their owner stops using them? What an intersting thing." Soren said after examining the homunculus for a bit. As Soren was going to sit down again, a couple of guards came with their swords unsheathed and one of them said with a loud voice:
"The Duchess requests you to come."
'This is not good. Considering what I said just before, she might have not believed that and the absurdity of the answer could have caused her to faint, actually I hope that is what actually happened, but something else have happened?' Soren was trying sort out his thoughts for a bit until the guard from before yelled loudly again:
"Are you coming or not?"
"Fine, fine. Just stop shouting so loudly, my ears hurt." Soren said while being slightly in pain and having his ears closed with his hands. Being forced to come in with Lavenza on his shoulder, he was rather nervous for what was about to happen next, but once he entered the big room, he saw that it looked a lot more like a fancy study with bookcases, couches, desks and chairs. It also had 4 doors, one for each side of the room and there were around a dozen guards stationed around the room. Once Soren got a grip on his new bearings, he saw at the center of the room the three fancy nobles, Kana, Diana and Dallius, although Diana was currently unconsious, he still saw the angry blue-haired girl from before and a new face which was only a fleeting memory for Soren.
"Sit down." Kana spoke in a formal and angry way. Of course, Soren sat down immidiately next Dallius, since there weren't any other empty places to sit. As he was sitting down, he noticed something about Diana, he saw a star mark on one of her hands.
'Did she have a birth mark that the homunculus couldn't show or something?' Soren thought to himself while taking a good look at her. He was rather suprised that she had such a birth mark and wonderes if she had any bizarre adventures during her life.
Once a couple of seconds passed after Soren sat down, Kana was the first to open her mouth and she didn't even try to sugarcoat the things she wanted to say:
"What did you do to my mother, you lecherous r*per? Explain now, before I castrate you and then send you to the piranhas!"
Soren was shocked by Kana's foul mouth and even Dallius was taken aback from Kana's words. He was somewhat expecting to be at the receiving of some harsh words, but such foul language coming out a cute voice, this is a first for Soren.
"I don't know. We were just talking and then she just suddenly fainted in front of me." Soren explained the important stuff and left out the game and the information about him.
"Then what were you two talking about, because I know there are very few things that could cause her to faint." Kana ordered Soren with a fierce expression.
"Hold it miss. Aren't you jumping the gun a bit too fast?" Soren tried calm her down a bit.
"No, I'm not jumping it and what does "jump the gun" mean?" Kana asked while still burning with fury.
"You are getting a bit ahead of yourself, that's what it means. Besides, is this the way for you to start a conversation?" Soren answered back slightly angry.
"Fine, then how do you want to start?"
"Let's start with proper introductions, at least provide that courtesy."
"Fine, my name is Kana Longinus, now can you tell me what you two talked about before I rip your head off?" Kana yelled while barely maintaining her own sense of reason.
"Nice to meet you miss Kana, my name is Soren and as for what the two of us talked about, how about you ask your mother once she wakes up, because saying it once was nearly enough to put me on my emotional limit." Soren retorted back a calmer demeanor that Kana's but there was still a hint of anger behind his voice.
"No! I want to hear it now from your stupid mouth, before I send you to sharks." Kana started acted like a spoiled child who didn't get their way.
'What is she, five, to be acting like a brat? And didn't she say she would send me to the piranhas?' Soren thought to himself while he was seeing Kana act more and more like a spoiled child.
"Sorry, but my lips are sealed and that is final." Soren answered back with a calm demeanor.
"No! Tell me now! Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!..." At that point, she tried to annoy Soren as much as he could so she could force him to answer.
'It's official, this girl is nothing more that a 10-year old brat. Talking about- What's this?' As Soren was degrading Kana in his own head, he noticed that book from before, the one was going to give him some extra room to breath during that mind game. At that point, he decided to ask about the book from before.
"May I ask you, did you read any other books from the time youbpicked thisnbook up?" Soren then pointed at The Prince's Nightlight.
"Tell me! Tell me! Te- No I didn't. I was very close to finishing that book and there was no way that I would pick another book, while being this close to the ending." *thud* At that moment, Soren punched the table with a dark and menacing look on his face. For the first time, in at least 4 years, he had never felt this angry and furious, but at this moment, he felt like he could even go through with shedding innocent blood and not even bat an eyelid about it. The two main reasons for that, were the fact that Diana cheated on their game, something which was an absolute taboo for him and the fact that he fell for that last trick and then spilled everything about him that he had wanted to hide for some time at least.
"So... You really are that kind of person, aren't you? I had dealt with a lot of crap back in my early years of my childhood. Bullying, ostracism, lies, pranks and even downright physical beating from at least five of my peers. But no one and I mean truly mean, no one would dare to pull this kind stuff and get away with it." Soren said with pure and anger and killing intent in his eyes.
"What do you mean by..." Just as Kana was going to ask slightly nervously, Soren looked straight at her with his bloodshot eyes and that was enough to cause her to panic. In reality, it wasn't only Kana panicing, Lavenza was trembling and couldn't lift her head, Dallius was barely holding his calm demeanor, but internally he was scared to the point wetting himself and even some of the guarfs' hands were trembling with fear from Soren's killing intent. Only those who were the most experienced with this kind of killing intent, were able to keep a calm demeanor while holding onto their sword's hilts.
In the next couple of moments, Diana started waking up and moving her body, but once she opened her eyes, she was left speechless by the image in front of her. It was Soren's pure killing intent that made Diana shiver on the spot and at that moment, Soren broke the silence and said slowly and menacingly while staring at her:
"Finally. The lady of the house has finally woken up."