Soul crusher

Reine was at the meeting, the lords as well as the king were dying to talk to him about the matter of his awaken ability, ever since they heard about the news, they wanted to have a meeting with him and talk to him concerning this matter, as they were worried as well. All other creatures except the vampires ofcourse, once they enter the city of Mirrormoor, they would become powerless compared to the vampires, the vampires would always be more powerful than all of the others in mirrormoor, but Reine, he attacked the lord, and the fact that the lord was a vampire and still got almost killed by Reine who was a non vampire, mad the other lords be alert about this situation, especially with the people in mirrormoor calling him the soul crusher as soon as they heard the news, made things even worse to them. if Reine attacked lord Henry and he almost got himself killed, this could only mean that, now in mirrormoor, there was someone who was more superior than them all, superior than the king himself, and this thought.. which is as well as a fact, made them feel threatened and become anxious that a new ruler will soon rise from them and take over mirrormoor.

And Reine was well aware of this, for the past few days, he has actually been running away from them, leaving the palace early in the morning and coming back late in the evenings where he was sure that they've already left by then, but yesterday, he was caught by the king when he was on his way to his chambers, he told him tomorrow... which is today ofcourse, he must attend the meeting with the lords as well as himself to talk about something important, though he never told him what it was, Reine already figured it out that it was non other than the topic of his power. he wanted to reject his offer and decline it but, seeing the king's look, he was left with no there choice but to attend it, and now here he was, sitting at the head of the table directly to the king, while the other lords sat in the right and left of the big table. Reine looked at the lords and saw how they looked at him, they looked at him as if he was some sort of threat to them. he sigh and faced down waiting for their questions which were about to come in few seconds of this silence that took over at the meeting, and then finally, the king started the meeting.

"I don't think there's a need for I to repeat the reason why we're all here today because we all have been waiting for this day since the last few days and ..finally he has agreed.. (turning to Reine)so prince Reine, please explain yourself "

Reine raised his gaze and looked at the king, he sat up straight and sigh and started.

" I have nothing to explain about"

" With all due respect your magesty but Ofcourse, I think we all agree that his highness has a lot to explain about...."

The lord turned and looked at prince Reine as the prince looked at him as well, then, he said to Reine.

"Your highness, you have a lot to explain, your powers have awaken and ..... "

" My powers has always been awake, living and kicking my lord... "

" Then why didn't you say anything about it? "

" No one asked"

all the lords and the king remained speechless after what Reine has answered because it was true, no one asked about his powers when he arrived here, they all thought he was powerless just like all the others and they were superior, even when the king took him in, and so since no one asked, he never bothered to explain... the other lord's head raised to Reine and asked him

" Even if no one asked, you should've told the king concerning this matter.... "

" I didn't find any reason to..... There was no critical or essential problem that required my powers to be used.... "

" So your powers were required then and that's why you attacked lord Henry? "

Reine looked at the lord who asked this question. he was the one who had dark hair tied and pale skin with those golden brown eyes sitting on the left side of the table, Reine looked at him with that look in his eyes clearly stating that 'If you don't know anything, shit that trap of yours....'

as if the lord understood Reine's gaze, he told him

"I mean, apart from the king here, no one knows what happened that caused you to your power against him. and from there, I think you prince Reine, have something to explain"

Reine still looked at him with that same. gaze, looking annoyed by his question and his absurd requests.... he sigh and looked at the king

"May I?"

"You may"

"Alright then...."

Reine turned and faced them all as he started explaining what happened that day in short and clear form

"Lord Henry, kidnapped my woman, torture her and threw her off into the dark forest to be killed by the viscous monsters and beasts there so he could get rid of the evidence that he had my woman while I was searching her for three days straight.."

the lords all were surprised by this information, they were taken aback at what the prince called that slave and referred to her as his woman and the lord kidnapped that slave and torture her.

"Are you talking about that slave of yours who run away from you your highness? Wasn't she the woman whom you took and declared to everyone as your own even after lord Henry has already bought her? Are you talking about that same slave whom you are now referring as your woman???"

the atmosphere got tensed when he said that to Reine..... Reine again felt shuttered after what the lord said.

she did run away from him, after lying to him and using him to go out of the palace, Reine felt that cracking, disturbing feeling again in his chest, eating him up. and suffocating him, he stared down and thought about what this man just said to him....

The lord seeing Reine in such a state, he said again

"Seeing your reaction, I guess am right.... your highness, if you would ask me, I think lord Henry tortured that poor girl because of your mistakes, you took her away from him even though he already bought her and ...."

"a second auction was made lord Kiel.."

the king interfered and interrupted Kiel from continuing any further, but kiel didn't stop there

"Your right your magesty, a second auction was made by you in order to make things fair in both parties but..... we all know that the prince would win no matter what happens, even if the lord gave everything he had, the prince would still win.... and if we think carefully about such a situation, I think that the game, from the start was on the prince's side and not on the lord.... so I think the lord kidnapped her inorder to take what was rightfully his from the start and tortured her inorder to exact revenge from his highness.......

prince Reine??? "