The Three Guardians

"Ughh..."

A zombie like groan could be heard in the room. Reaching out for something but realizing that something is wrong, Shin Ah feebly opened her eyelids. Squinting through her eyes, she disclose her mouth and tried to say something.

She thought that she would hear her voice but what came upon her is pain. Her voice cracked like a desert that is begging for water to drink.

The guardians who were still gawking and blankly staring down at her were now scrambling to her side when they heard it.

Still in pain, Shin Ah decided she needed to ask for water. Compared to partial pain, what she want is a permanent solution to her throat and so she tried to say it again. But what came through is a soft mumble.

"W-water."

"Oh! Oh! Kienne, she's alive!" Said Gradious.

"Of course she's alive you dimwit!"

"But what did she say just now?" Asks the other guardian, leaning on to the mouth of Shin Ah.

Shin Ah, who's strength just now weakened again by saying that was exasperated.

'Ah, what the hell. My brain hurts. My throat hurts. My whole body hurts. Jesus, how could someone be so deaf?'

"Waterr–"

She wanted to continue but her voice cracked at the end.

Kienne, one of the guardians immediately ordered someone to bring a warm water as he shamelessly without regard of his status, sit on the side of her bed.

Not later on, the water came in. Kienne and the other guardian whose name is Zak help Shin Ah who's still laying on the bed to sit. Gently and carefully adjusting her body while handling her a cup of water.

The guardians watch her drink greedily, intently staring at her without a blink.

Even though Shin Ah is sitting limply on the bed and not that fully awake, she could still feel the burning gazes of the guardians.

"What?"

Gradious, who was the one who stared at her the most was embarrassed. Trying to hide his embarrassment, he looks away and abashedly said nothing.

Kienne glanced at him and sneered.

'It's not like it's his first time to see humans so why in the God's name is he acting like a cat who's shyly purring.'

When Gradious saw how Kienne sneered at him, like a cat whose tail got stumped on, he jumped up.

"I'll go and notify His Excellency–"

By the end of the sentence, he already vanished without a word.

Without caring about the dimwit, they placed their attention back on the human girl again.

"Who are you?"

"How do you get in here?"

Zak and Kienne asks at the same time.

Shin Ah, the poor human girl who's still being attacked by the nerve wrecking pain was not that conscious so she just ask back, "The nerve of you to ask me?!" And straightly gaze at them.

"Why am I here? I thought I had died? Where is this place?"

The other who's clueless as her look at each other and explained to her what happened.

"Ah so in short, am I still alive or what? If I'm dead then I should've not be feeling hungry, cold or itchy right?"

Shin Ah asks but then she just remembered she was only 'clothed'—in leaves.

"Ahhhh! You mother*beep*!!"

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Meanwhile, on the side of Gradious who's still blushing like a maiden strutted his way through His Excellency's royal room.

'Aha ha ha haha.'

Just like that, he became a little deranged, laughing creepily on the quiet hallway of the palace. Shyly cupping both of his cheeks with his palms.

'Ahh, what is this? Am I in love?'

While musing about that, he unknowingly reached the royal room so he got his bearings and cough softly.

"Your Excellency, the human girl is awake now."

He said while bowing.

The room was filled with nothing but pure extravagance. Wispy smoke that came from a high-end incence lingered across the room. And like a lovers that bids farewell to each other, the thinly layered smoke parts away and vanishes through the air as His Excellency moves past at it.

"Let's go."

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'No wonder that bastard's face got so red. So it's like that.' Zak, the most innocent, pure, naive and has an insufficient balance of EQ just realized why they were acting like that.

Shin Ah was changing in the bathroom when His Excellency came in.

"Where is she?"

"In the bathroom Your Excellency."

They replied quickly.

Minutes passed by quickly when Shin Ah uncomfortably came out of the bathroom.

She have never felt so unsettled before but here she is right now, dressed in the most thickly clothe she had ever dressed in her whole life. The dress is almost choking to death.

'This dress is clearly made to kill someone.'

While she was busy on her own thoughts, the man who is also the Excellency almost made his way to the bathroom to see why she is taking so long when she just need to put on her clothes.

She made her way through them as she shamelessly invited her own self to seat and relish on the delicacies on the plates while the guardians and His Excellency is still standing around.

'Oh what a shameless woman.'

So they just sit down while Gradious hastily sit on the chair next to Shin Ah and calmly reaches out for a tea, ignoring the distasteful gaze of Kienne and Zak.