Royal death (this time fr lol) - Neil Sleek

“Come to your senses, Neil! They are using mind arts to make you lose your consciousness.” Art’s voice broke my trance. I’m alive after all. If they just want to make me pass out, I guess they are not here to kill me.

Clang

But if that is so, wouldn’t it be better to come out peacefully and tell me to go with them since I am their prince?

Clang

Cough

I coughed up blood. This is the end. Right in front of me, I saw Art being pushed back. He wasn’t doing any better than I was.

No, get yourself together. I still have a way. I jumped in the middle and pointed the index nail of my right hand towards my throat.

“Leave him out of this.” I said loudly: “Or I will kill myself right here.” Everyone stopped at the moment. The person who was the most shocked at this development was Arteyel but still, one by one, the assassins bowed down. “Please don’t be rash, young Shah! Even if you were brought up by him, he is still an Ifrit. We cannot trust him.” The one in front said this as I replied: “He is more than trustworthy. He may have Ifrit curses from his mother, but he also has his father’s Marid goodness in him.”

Art shuddered at this. So, Neil managed to figure it out with Furaith using the derogatory term here and there, Arteyel thought. Arteyel was sobbing at the thought of leaving Neil.

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I decided to leave with them. Even if it is the same thing as then, this time I actually managed to save my guardian. And this is all that matters. When we parted, I saw a hint of a tear in his eyes while I cried in his arms. In many ways, he had been a better father to me than both Claude Davis and Brave Unnamed. For one thing, he was alive and did not re-marry.

I left with the envoy without wasting any time. Our journey was going to be long. We had to traverse the whole wide realm since if the Ifrit Kishver was in one corner of the world, the Sleek Empire was in the other and so we embarked on our journey. Just when we stepped into the huge canyon… he came. Yes, Shah Furaith was coming from the other side and had sensed us. From that far, he could never know who we were but he must have made out that all of us were Sleeks because he had taken out his nails and all of us were paralyzed. Right from there, he slowly gathered the wind with the movement of his nails. Everything was happening very slowly.

Just like when you have less amount of the tasty food, you eat it slowly to savor the taste, our remaining time also passed slowly because that was all that remained to our lives.

He directed the sharp wind to come at us. It was like a flood, but without water. It reached the one at front, then two more, and then…

…

…

Ring, Ring

Where am I? How did I survive that? Wait, I am in… my room. I am back on Earth. I really am. I can’t believe it. Ouch! Yes, it hurts, and that means it’s true.

Ring, Ring

I shut the alarm clock off to see the time.

7:00 AM

Why is there an alarm for 7 in the morning?

Oof! Oh I have school today too? God! No! I just came back!

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After brushing my teeth and taking a bath –Oh the joy of steaming hot water! - I picked up my schoolbag when my eyes reached to a certain book placed on my study table.

I could make out what was written on the cover of Ms. Amrita’s book:

Possess

Yes, that could also work but the most accurate word would be:

Bedevil

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