The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 168: Mikael

I and Veritus walked while he spoke of why he summoned me, while I drank my medication to hide my non-human characteristics. I should have drank it at the castle, but it doesn’t really matter since no one would be at the mansion anyway.

"An official summons from the king has occurred, and as my representative, you need to go there and resolve this matter," Veritus says as we walk towards the main hall.

"Why?" I ask him.

"I have given you full authority over the duchy, and that’s why the king always summons you, after all, even if it’s not official, you are the owner of everything and everyone knows it, it was similar to the case of the heroes’ summons where the grand duchess was called," He finishes the explanation.

"The summons is for right now, so you should already depart," We both go outside where a carriage with the royal family’s symbol is waiting.

"Ok..." I think I understand enough from this little conversation, so I get into the carriage, which soon begins the journey.

’I wonder why they’re summoning me? Is it about the war plans?’ If so, it’s a useful thing to know.

After a few hours, I arrive at the castle, my gaze towards it is pure disdain as it reminds me of what happened to me.

’One day I will make this castle into ruins...I also need to see the matter with the princess, after all, she is my aunt.’ I enter the castle, hiding my hatred and disdain for this place, and am guided by a servant who was already waiting for me.

I am guided to the throne room where some people are already waiting, while the king is seated on the throne.

’This ugly swine doesn’t have an ounce of majesty.’ When I sit on the throne, my aura is majestic and worthy of a king, mainly due to the power I emanate, while this king simply seems to ruin the sight of the throne.

"!!!" I get excited by what I see.

Gray hair, red eyes, nearly two meters tall, a strong build, pale skin, and an enormous sword on his back that is practically a giant metal plate on a hilt.

How could I forget that appearance that I only glimpsed for a second?

’M-Mikael...’ I think all dazed like a lovestruck girl, all my anger has vanished. Finally, this useless kingdom has done something good by allowing me to behold Mikael, whom I could only fantasize about.

Mikael looks at me, who is frozen in front of the door, staring at him shamelessly, the blush on my pale skin is so obvious, but I don’t care.

"Grand Duchess? You may enter," The guard says as I stand in front of the door.

"What? Oh, yes, right, I’ll enter," I respond with some confusion, I got too distracted observing my beloved.

I walk with somewhat erratic steps, I can hardly believe that just seeing him has thrown me off balance so much, his oppressive aura is the same, though less intense since it is not focused.

But even being less intense, it is still exciting, my eyes roam over his body, recording all the patterns I can find in my memory with extreme precision and speed.

Mikael is not bowing to the king, and I won’t bow either. I walk and stand next to Mikael.

"G-Grand Duchess, your place is... e-e-excuse me," The saint who is also here was going to say that I shouldn’t be where I am, but I look at her with pure murderous intent. How dare this cow try to move me away from Mikael?

She trembles with fear and apologizes, her body tries to shrink as if she wants to get out of my sight. I stop looking at her and turn my gaze back to Mikael, who doesn’t seem to mind being stared at by me.

"Hey, look here!" The king tries to get attention, this is already a mess, first there’s me and Mikael who don’t care about the king, then there’s the frightened saint like a child.

In the end, only the other two who are also here are silently bowed.

"Great..." The king says when we look at him.

"I summoned you because I need you to go to the kingdom of Nymfara to try to negotiate with them about matters related to the current war against the demons. For some reason, they have completely stopped helping," The king says something in a forced manner, as if he’s reading a script.

’I bet it wasn’t him who thought of this...useless puppet.’ I think as I remember the kingdom of Nymfara. This is the only kingdom that is not under the control of this kingdom because they worship a water spirit instead of the human goddess.

Although they are treated as heretics for worshiping another being besides the goddess, they still do nothing to them because they are strong and would cause a lot of damage even if they lost the war.

"Two of you will go to this kingdom, while the other three will go to the guild to resolve a matter that has arisen with some kind of monster in the Mana Dead Forest that has eliminated two famous groups," The king speaks again as if reading a script.

’It’s me, hahaha, idiots, I’m not even in that forest anymore, they’ll just waste their time.’

"So I would like Mikael and Rosaline to go to the kingdom..." The king tries to say who will go to the kingdom.

"I will go to the Nymfara kingdom with Mikael," I say without letting him finish. How dare this cursed pig want to send my Mikael with that cowardly prostitute?

"W-What? No, you should..." He tries to deny it with some fear.

"I will go to the Nymfara kingdom with Mikael, no more discussions," Fuck if he’s the damn king, if he speaks nonsense again, he’s in trouble.

"A-Ah, yes, hahaha, I, uh, I read it wrong, you will go with Mikael..." He speaks somewhat terrified while looking into my eyes, his discomfort is clear, my passive helping in this situation.

12=Aura of Despair - Beings with opposite inclinations feel uncomfortable in your presence.

’I knew he was reading a script, because he knew that now I’m the one dictating the direction of this script.’

"Great," He can’t challenge me, and he knows it. Mikael doesn’t seem to care at all about this, in fact, his boredom is obvious.

I bet he wanted to be killing something strong.

’Dear Mikael, don’t worry, our next fight will be in bed, I guarantee you won’t be bored.’ I will definitely seduce him on this trip, even if I have to drug him to attack me.

And after I reveal myself as the Demon King, I will beat him for sleeping with me, after all, he didn’t know it was me, so it was a betrayal.

"G-Grand Duchess, about the academy, you will have special permission to be absent to resolve this matter," The Saint speaks to me about the academy.

’Ah, yes, I forgot about that.’ The academy is so irrelevant compared to Mikael that I forgot about it, but it doesn’t matter, it seems to have already been resolved.

Between ruining the heroes’ lives and being fucked by Mikael, the choice is obviously Mikael, after all, I can always screw the heroes later, revenge is important, but I have few chances to find Mikael since he likes to wander the world and rarely appears.

He’s like the ultra-rare characters in games that never stay visible for long and only appear once in a lifetime.

After this little exchange, the king keeps babbling a bunch of nonsense, but I don’t care and focus only on Mikael until it’s time to leave, we need to go as soon as possible, so I don’t need to go back to the mansion.

A carriage was prepared for the two of us to go to the kingdom together, after the meeting we walk together to the carriage while I don’t take my eyes off him as if he could disappear if I don’t keep watching.

"Pandora, that sword is staring at you," Violet warns me, Mikael’s enormous sword has disappeared, but it’s obviously still with him.

"What do you mean?" I murmur while using mana to prevent him from hearing, after all, just whispering wouldn’t stop him from hearing.

"I don’t know? It’s staring at you fixedly since you started staring at him, it also seems to have noticed me, though it didn’t find me completely," When she says this with a certain urgency, I realize the problem.

’!!!’

’He’s already seen Violet.’ No matter how well hidden I am, Violet was with me when I fought Mikael, so he can connect me to the past if he discovers that Violet is the same sword. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

’I can’t draw Violet...’ I suppress Violet’s mana even more, making her as hidden as possible.

"This could work, Pandora, but as soon as you draw me, his sword will notice who I am," Violet has lost her usual arrogant tone, she seems to be afraid of Mikael’s sword.

’Both are living swords..., but which one is stronger?’ Violet is currently limited and recovering after using that curse to connect to me.

However, what Mikael’s sword did is absurd.

"Violet, can you communicate with his sword without making it obvious that you know each other?" I ask Violet as we approach the carriage.

"Yes, it’s possible, but I’d rather avoid it...it looks at me strangely, especially at my hilt."

’The hilt?’

"What about your hilt?"

"Nothing much, it’s just that my legs are an intimate part...I mean, it’s because I’m an incredible sword, so it’s obvious that it would be interested, hahaha," She says something, but realizes she said nonsense and changes what she said.

’The legs are an intimate part? Is it because she’s a sword?’ Normally the only part of the sword that has "clothes" is the hilt, since the blade remains exposed.

"Pff hahaha, you’re the definition of the leg and foot fetish, that’s why you wear thigh-high stockings?" I mock her for this, now it makes sense why in her humanoid form her outfit has dark thigh-high stockings.

"N-No, I don’t know what you’re talking about, be quiet you lewd bitch, I try to help you and you mock me, you shameless whore," She starts cursing me with arrogance.

"Think what you want," I retort to her while we get into the carriage.

’I’m alone with Mikael...’ This excites me, ignoring the two swords, we are completely alone.

"Demon King, what are you doing here?" Mikael looks directly at me now that we are alone in the carriage and asks.

"...Huh?" A confused sound comes out of my mouth as he uses my title.