Beast of the Frozen Night

Lonely? No one passed on their loneliness to others. Because of that immature person, all that time was wasted in vain.

Anne screamed with seething rage.

“You mean you did all that just because you didn’t want to be left alone? Then what about us? How are you going to make up for that!”

“No matter what Anne says… I would have done the same.”

No matter what Anne said in the midst of the heat, Luciel repeated the same words with an insensitive face. On the contrary, that face suppressed Anne’s anger as she was going to let it all out.

Anne laughed bitterly.

“Luciel, do you remember the conversation we had earlier? I’m using the favor you owe me now. Take your mind off my child.”

Luciel’s face turned ambiguous.

“Then Anne, are you thinking of leaving Daymond to die and leaving me alone?”

“Luciel…”

Anne closed her eyes tightly as she looked at the drooping Luciel. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand what he was saying, but it was hard to bear the fact that all these misunderstandings had come from him.

On the other hand, she felt sorry for him as well. He had lived alone for a long time. She couldn’t even imagine going through all those years alone. The fact that he was a different being from humans hadn’t fully settled in her mind yet, but the Luciel in front of her was still an immature existence like a boy.

Anne slowly raised her eyes and put her hand on Luciel’s shoulder.

“Human time is short, but it doesn’t just end. Descendants of that blood continue to live. It’s just in a different way from beings like you.”

“Continues to live?”

Luciel narrowed his eyes, asking what she meant.

“My and… Daymond’s child lives on our behalf. Even if Daymond dies, there will be descendants. Thus, you are not alone.”

Anne held Luciel’s hand and met his eyes.

“Even if the child grows up and bears another child, then another person will be by your side. If you keep expanding your relationship like that, you will get more family.”

“Fa… mily?”

Luciel’s blank eyes wavered slightly. Family had never existed for him until now, but if he had to choose, it would be his brother, and now it was Daymond.

Slowly, a small ripple entered the eyes that were like calm waves. If he had looked at Daymond so far, there would be more descendants after that. There will be someone who will recognize him from birth.

Luciel’s long eyelashes slowly opened and closed as if he had just realized it.

As soon as Luciel seemed to have calmed down a bit, Anne brought up the question she had been wanting to ask the whole time she was listening to him.

“So…. Did Daymond kill me because he misunderstood that my child was another man’s?”

“It’s not Daymond.”

Anne’s eyes slowly widened.

“It’s Anne.”

Luciel was also there that night.

Hearing that Daymond had gone to see Anne, he too went to visit her at the mansion where she was giving birth. Unlike Daymond, Luciel went to Anne with the intention of killing her, but the sight he faced was Daymond crying sadly as he embraced Anne, who was already dead.

“Isn’t it funny? He was a human being after all. He cried like an animal and lost his mind. Later he couldn’t even remember it properly. Daymond was holding a sword, but Anne didn’t have a single wound.”

“Then…”

Anne hurriedly recalled her memory. Her memory of death was not accurate, but the last thing she remembered was Daymond’s red eyes and the excruciating pain in her stomach. She thought, of course, that he who was holding the sword had killed her…

When Anne, who held Luciel’s trembling shoulders, looked up at him, he returned to his calm expression and said,

“Anne couldn’t overcome it.”

Anne slumped to the ground in shock. Luciel put his hand on Anne’s hair, who was sitting on the floor in shock.

“Anne, you lost your life during childbirth.”

Anne slowly shook her head. It couldn’t have been. It was the child she had been waiting for— there was no way she would give up on it. Even if there was a misunderstanding about the cause of her death, it was all Daymond’s fault.

She concluded, “Still, I can’t forgive him for everything he did.”

Anne murmured, regaining her cold heart. For whatever reason, she couldn’t understand his circumstances.

* * *

Daymond had many dreams during his unconsciousness.

The unorganized scene was changing moment by moment. The dazzling sunlight was pouring down and then the terrible darkness came alternately.

What unfolded incessantly was not chronologically, but jumbled in altogether, but it was all his past.

[Daymond, what will we do if we have a child?]

Blue eyes like the clear sky asked him. Daymond was happy to see the smile. At last, a normal daily life had come to him, like other ordinary people.

He thought that he would be happy if he had a child like her. So he was about to tell her what he thought. However, his lips, which opened freely, gave a terrifying reply.

[There is no such thing. Because I can’t tolerate it.]

Hearing the answer, she lowered her head helplessly with a sad look. That’s not it. He hurriedly opened his mouth, but his voice did not come out.