粉红的窗帘

Tisha looked at the forest while standing on the wall, beneath her there was a flower bed but unlike last time none of those flowers had colours.

Most of them were either white or black showing those weren't from her happy tears.

"I ruined everything, now if something happens to him or other girls, it all will be my fault," She wanted a shoulder to lean on right now, but the only shoulder she had to do that, refused to help her breaking Tisha's heart and swallowing it in loneliness.

It all happened after a few hours, Zenda and alliance troops left for the battle.

Tisha kept looking after Nikol's paralysed body without even looking away for a minute without even letting an insect harm him.

From time to time, she touched his face, and body and wiped his body, but more than that, she wasn't in the mood to do anything freaky. If this same situation happened in a more normal situation, things would have been a little too weird for Nikol, as Tisha didn't know the limits when it came to Nikol.

The time went by slowly, and the atmosphere around the kingdom became more and quiet, as everyone went back to their work anxiously. They couldn't help but feel something wrong is going to happen. And their premonition wasn't exactly off because that's what going to happen.

"Ughhhhh!" Suddenly Tisha heard a grumbling sound behind her, which startled her a little, but she quickly recovered noticing that it was Nikol.

'Is he ok? Does he want to pee?'

She misunderstood Nikol's intentions and approached him only to see his eyes with a purple colour shade gazing at her like, she was an enemy.

It was a piercing gaze that could easily kill someone if Nikol had the power to do that. Tisha backed down a little intimated but she didn't feel scared at all-knowing, it was Nikol.

"I'm here with you, dear," She tried to pat his head and calm him down, so she could use her magic to create a plant with storage like a bladder in case Nikol wanted to do that, but unexpectedly she heard Nikol's voice.

"Why? Why?" His voice was still trembling to show how hard it was for him to talk, but Tisha heard her words clearly. She looked at Nikol with a complicated face.

In the first place, she didn't know how he could talk because she was pretty sure he was paralysed earlier.

"I don't know, Nikol, please don't hate us, we are doing this for your sake," Nikol heard these words, but he wasn't in a condition to listen to her words and analyse them to find deeper meanings behind her words.

"Hate? Hate?" He was like a toddler, who kept mumbling the words he heard again and again.

*Sobs

"Please don't hate us," Sitting on the floor with a fed-up look, Tisha covered her face filled with tears and snot.

"Tisha," Nikol tried to complete his sentence.

"I want to see other-" Before he could finish the words, all the emotions on his face disappeared. Suddenly, his body shot up from the bed with such a velocity that even Tisha felt this was something impossible to do even if he is a son of their goddess but then she realised, what does she even know about goddess?

A mere mortal like her trying to guess what someone like Nikol can or cannot do, she felt like a jester thinking about him.

"Where? battle?" It was just a simple question, Tisha was conflicted about whether to tell him or not but in the end, she knew if she didn't give him that information, Nikol will definitely hate her even more.

"To the north, in a barren land," After muttering those words, she looked at Nikol's face to beg him not to go, but the moment her eyes met his figure she knew, this wasn't the Nikol she used to know.

Nikol didn't even reply to her, as he broke the wall behind him and escaped, without even letting Tisha ask how or why he got up from his paralysed state. She looked at the antidote which was on the table and sighed with disappointment.

"I'm really useless," With those words, she quickly tried to follow Nikol's track but she couldn't even see his shadow.

The only thing that showed Nikol's presence was the huge hole in the wall which is said to be indestructible. At that moment, Tisha knew things won't be the same for anyone here after because now their perfect defence wasn't perfect at all thanks to Nikol.

***

"Stop this, I don't want to kill anymore," Looking at the light in front of him, Nikol muttered with a fed-up look.

He saw everything like a movie about how this battle is happening, but his consciousness didn't feel any emotions. He just acted on his muscle memory and cried because he felt like crying, not because he was sad. He got angry because he felt like getting angry, not because he got betrayed by the girls whom he used to love.

Nikol started questioning himself, while he was inside this space, which felt more familiar to him than anything, be it heaven or the elven kingdom, nothing felt better than that space for him.

"Did I really love them? Did they really love me?" He kept asking himself but he got no answers.

"Can our relationship be called love, when the only reason most of them fell for me was that I was the only male on that strange island?" Looking at the battlefield, he questioned.

"Haha! you worry about the strangest thing, why should you even care, as long as you act like a stallion, all of them will follow you like bitches, what are you so worried about?" This mocking tone came from the prideful and arrogant voice Nikol heard before coming here.

"So you don't care if the people you love, just seek you because they want something?" Confused about what to do from now on, Nikol questioned without even knowing who he was talking to.

"Of course, I care, if you're so worried all you have to do is make sure you will be a drug for them, a drug that they will seek even in the death or even after the death, don't let them think you're a weak man, it's such shame you're like this when we are exactly the same person,"

The obsessiveness in that voice gave chills to Nikol, but he felt a familiar sensation in his words, more like those words were something he would want to hear.

None of them felt unpleasant or creepy because every time this voice told him something, it was exactly the same thing Nikol thought, it was like this voice understood him better than anyone.

"Same person?" Confused about his last words, Nikol tried to question, but he didn't get any answers as the voice went back to his silent mode leaving Nikol in this lonely but comfortable space.

The wooden wall which was supposed to protect the dark elves prevented Nikol for a small time, but for someone who broke the heavenly wall which was fifty times more harder than metal, this wall felt more like something he would break even if he contacted a little and just like everyone expected, it didn't even take him a few seconds to obliterate this wall leaving the front side of the dark elves camp open for everyone.

The panic behind the gate increased as soon as they heard the sound.

The people started pushing each other and some even started to climb the wall without waiting for everyone to finish exiting the gate. Those who witness Nikol's horror were the people, that were most desperate to leave because they didn't want to get their heads crushed like watermelons.

Some of them were even foolish enough to try cursing Nikol, even after seeing it didn't work on him.

The black smoke collected around his body right after someone cursed him and it collected until the volume was enough to turn it into a liquid. It was a strange phenomenon but Nafina and Ibalina knew, they should report this to Eldora as soon as they can to avoid future casualties because of this monster.

"Move, move, what the hell are you doing? Do you want to die?" Ibalina shouted to all the dark elves that were blocking the exit.

"Damn it Ibalina, if they won't move just kill them, we can't afford to die here," Nafina shouted seeing the monster approaching with its fangs shining with blood giving a heavy iron smell the moment he got closer to them.

Ibalina was lucky enough to exit the gate, but the same cannot be said for Nafina who fell behind because of how scared, she was.

Never in her life, had Ibalina expected to see one of her comrades, one of the people she believed to be her equal would die a humiliating death like this. but in front of her was Nafina's body spewing blood from her mouth, but what was strange about her body was the hand that had something which looked like a bean-shaped lump of meat.

"Nafinaaaaa!" Ibalina shouted seeing her rival, and friend getting her chest pierced and her heart falling on the floor. But she didn't stop her legs, Ibalina kept running and running until the camp looked more like the size of an ant.

"Monster, Monster, that monster," While running holding her head with fear, Ibalina started to shout like she just went crazy.

That day one of the great three cursed duchesses got traumatized while one got killed and the other one went missing dealing a huge blow to the legacy of the dark elves.