I have a date with the devil

Chapter 23

　Ye Miao did not expect her brother to have an accident on the eve of her return, and rushed to the palace where he lives. When I arrived, the memory of a very bright and airy room, the curtains are now tightly drawn, the afternoon light, but also lit candles, giving a very uncomfortable feeling of oppression.

Ye Miao took a big step forward and lifted the curtain next to the bed, and saw his brother, whom he hadn't seen for half a year - Ye Cheng.

Ye Cheng has just turned twelve this year, and looks more like his mother's sister than his father's features. Compared with the last time we met half a year ago, he has lost a lot of weight, sinking deep into the bedding, eyes tightly closed, the eyes are dark, cheeks reveal an unhealthy greenish white, and even the luster of a head of blond hair has dulled a lot.

Ye Miao's heart seized, sat on the edge of the bed and softly shouted his name, but no response, then turned his head and looked at his parents: "What is going on?"

The queen sighed: "Just half a month ago, the maid heard the sound of dogs barking in the stable, went in and found little Cheng unconscious in the grass. After we brought him back, we didn't find any marks or wounds on his body, but he just wouldn't wake up, and every midnight he would say something nonsense."

Ye Miao knew that her brother liked to ride horses and had personally taken care of the pony before he moved into the palace, so it wasn't surprising that he would go to the horse farm.

King Al also frowned sadly: "The royal doctor came to see the first time and said that it could be poisoning, however, so far did not find what kind of poison. Tried some conventional antidotes, but also no effect."

"Is it really poisoning?" Ye Miao frowned: "The king's palace certainly does not contain plants with toxicity inside, no wounds, can also be ruled out as poisonous snake bites."

Perhaps it was because she had just experienced that shocking coup in Abil, and now seeing her brother who was unconscious for no reason, her first reaction, surprisingly, was - could this be related to dark magic.

"Also asked the priest of the Church to look at it, did not see anything wrong."

Ye Miao pursed her lips.

This situation, Berial should know something ...... but now so many people are present, he must not appear easily, can only wait for tonight.

Ye Miao, who had been on a long journey, went back to his room to rest for the afternoon, and waited until nightfall before folding back into his brother's palace.

Since the incident of Ye Cheng, in order to prevent someone from harming him, the palace's security has been strengthened, and no one is allowed to visit at will. But Ye Miao, as her own sister, came back half a month after the incident, so she was not stopped in any way. The two attendants guarding the door saw her and immediately bowed to her, "Princess Hermola."

Ye Miao nodded, and pushed the door in.

The palace was very dark, and the candlelight was shadowed. Ye Miao had just closed the doorway when she felt a pair of arms take her into their embrace, and by her ear, a familiar voice exhaled, "So you have a name called Hermola."

In the old days, when a person suddenly appeared behind her, Ye Miao would have been scared stiff. Now that she's used to Berial's ghostly presence, her heart has gotten a lot tougher, and she doesn't know whether to be happy or not.

She smoothly locked the latch on the door and nodded, "Right."

Berial said, "I've never heard you say that."

When she said that, Ye Miao remembered that she had indeed not mentioned much about herself to him. Because she always had the illusion that Berial was all-powerful, she explained, "Ye Miao is the name I grew up with, and 'Hermola? Ezeka' is the name used only on formal occasions, but since childhood, basically no one has called me that."

Her father, Al, was the half-brother of Raymond, the former king of Kardan, and the two were more than ten years apart. Raymond was already over a hundred years old when he succeeded to the throne, and was very suspicious of the Prince's brother, who was in his prime.

However, he guessed wrongly, Al himself is not an ambitious person. He was more like a lazy nobleman who loved to travel around than to fight for power. Then he offered to leave Imbal for a while to remove his brother's suspicion.

It was in the process of traveling around that he met his wife today. After a simple wedding, Al took his wife back to live in the territory he had been awarded when he was young, and no longer interfered in the politics of the capital.

Considering that his wife was from the East, their children grew up with two names. Formally, the Western name with the surname "Ezeka" was used. But both siblings prefer to use the Eastern name that follows their mother's surname "Ye", which is simple and convenient.

Since the birth of the two siblings, the family has not been recalled to the royal capital. Al also does not mind whether the child with his own or his wife's surname, so the Western name was basically not how to be called, dusty and forgotten in the basement.

I thought such a life would last forever, but the fate of the encounter will always catch people off guard. During the battle of Abil, Raymond's only son went into battle and chose to kill himself after being captured by the enemy. As the main warrior, Raymond was sent to the gallows. As the closest bloodline to Raymond, Al had to return to Imbal to protect the other nobles, clean up the mess and sign a truce as the new king of Kardan.

"By the way, you're just in time." Ye Miao came back to his senses, grabbed Berial's wrist, and pulled him toward the bed: "Come here quickly, see what's wrong with my brother, this shouldn't be poisoning."

Berial lifted the gauze curtain, glanced at it, and said, "Indeed it's not poisoning, it's a curse."

"Then what should we do?" Ye Miao was anxious, and without thinking, she hugged his arm: "Do you have a way to save him?"

Berial "shh", towards the bed of the young boy extended his hand, five fingers slightly open, hanging in the air above his face.

Berial's hands belong to the most beautiful type among men, slender and well-proportioned, pale and bloodless, the delicate texture, like a layer of flowing golden sand of jade. The veins and undulations of the skeleton clearly belong to the male, so it does not look female, but only reminds people of a pampered aristocrat.

Upon closer inspection, shortly after he placed his hand on it, a thin wisp of darkness slowly spilled from the corner of the bed's young teenager's mouth, converging and hovering in Berial's hand. As more and more black smoke rose, Ye Cheng's features began to twist slightly, his body twitched violently, and beans of cold sweat continued to emerge. It was as if something deeply rooted in his body was being forcibly dragged out with the black smoke, and even his body was affected by this, leaving the bed.

Ye Miao a heartbeat, see in the Berial palm swirling wisps of black smoke more and more dense, and from Ye Cheng's body out of the smoke began to reduce, finally completely can not suck something, the teenager's body suddenly fell, fell back to the pillow.

"Little Cheng!" Ye Miao's heart tightened, busy pouncing on the front, fixed eyes to see, has been draped in Ye Cheng's face of that green-black death gas, really dissipated a lot.

She breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

The black smoke that Berial had made was still floating in mid-air, like a translucent bubble, and inside it lay a greenish-gray worm, about as thick as a small thumb, still wriggling slightly, very disgusting

"Is it the one that is doing evil in my brother's body?"

"Hmm." Berial asked, "Ever heard of a corpse chrysalis?"

Ye Miao froze and searched her memory. She had read similar books before, and the corpse chrysalis usually only appeared in large mass graves. It is a demonic creature that grows out of a mass accumulation of decaying corpses and grows an evil miasma of resentment, which can burrow into people's bodies through food, making them defenceless. Those who are entangled by it will fall into a coma and gradually be eaten away by the life, even the strongest people can not support more than three months time.

The way to help is to find its owner, use three drops of blood from the owner's index finger to draw out the chrysalis, and then crush it on the spot, and the victim's pain will be immediately reduced. Of course, from the moment of crushing, the owner will notice the failure of the corpse chrysalis because the connection is broken.

This is not a time of war, and there are no large mass graves in Imbal, this corpse chrysalis, must have been brought in by someone with ulterior motives.

In fact, it is not a very difficult magic creature, the biggest feature is rare, even the book is not pictured. If not Berial, Ye Miao even if she saw this worm, probably would not associate it with a corpse chrysalis.

The problem is that she does not know it is still justifiable. Couldn't even the priest of the Church see that it was haunted by a demonic creature?

Ye Miao hesitated and voiced her concerns: "I want to wait until tomorrow when my parents arrive and show them this corpse chrysalis with my own eyes."

Seeing is believing and hearing is not believing, although her parents would not doubt her words, but there are some things that can only be truly alarming if you see them with your own eyes.

Thinking about this layer, however, gave her an additional layer of concern. According to the book, the corpse chrysalis could only be drawn out with the owner's blood. This one beside her, however, was above the rules, ignoring the shackles and drawing out the corpse chrysalis directly.

If Berial is not confessed, it is impossible to explain how this corpse chrysalis was made. If Berial is given, it may attract the attention of the divine court. What if Berial, the "evil force", cannot withstand the attacks of the holy water and crosses ......

Berial seemed to understand her fears, smiled and said: "If you believe me, this matter will be left to me to deal with it."

It was late at night, and Ye Miao could not stay here too long, so she returned to her room. After washing up, she lay down on her bed, her eyes glazed over, and muttered, "I thought that when I returned to Kadam, there would be no more troubles, but I didn't expect that there would be a bunch of troublesome things here too."

The mattress beside her sank slightly, Berial lay beside her on his side, one hand supporting his cheek, the other hand on the small of her stomach, gently stroking, as if to eliminate her food, sniffing, raised an eyebrow: "With me by your side, what is there to worry about?"

Ye Miao was stunned.

It seems that this is indeed the case.

The conspiracy behind the corpse chrysalis has not yet surfaced, the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, originally the most disturbing state, but she did not feel frightened and helpless, this is because, like the shadow of Berial gave her a full sense of security.

Suddenly, the thin nightgown moved, and the cool air rushed in, like a cold snake's belly rubbing over the delicate skin. Ye Miao shuddered and suddenly curled into a ball, but was still forcibly unfolded.

Berial sucked her chin, his voice tinged with a hint of compulsion, murmuring, "Today's payment, you have not yet given me."

Ye Miao blushed and raised her arms tremblingly, wrapping them around his neck and instructing weakly, "Then you be gentle."

Anyway, he never hurt himself. Anyway, it's not that she didn't expect it. The many times of lingering and love|lust had long dense her tailbone to softness. The so-called point to stop is all about building a fire for the next time.

Berial was stunned, his red eyes darkened, and his throat knot twitched slightly.

He originally thought that she should be quite tired after so many things today, just to scare her, pressed a few kisses and let her sleep. I didn't expect her to put on such a give-and-take look, taking the initiative to the mouth of the sacrifice, and how can there not be a good bullying reason.

The next day, Ye Miao slept until almost noon, only to be woken up by Margo.

Yesterday has been in a hurry, Margo also knows that the little highness is very tired, sleep until this time is also very normal, so did not go to wake her up at the normal time. Now look, her highness is not only still breathing heavily, her eyes are still a bit red and swollen. However, this is not the time to sleep anymore.

Marg patted Ye Miao's shoulder: "Your Highness, please get up quickly. There is a man from outside the royal palace who says he has a way to unlock His Royal Highness's illness!"

Ye Miao last night instructed Berial to wake her up early the next morning, not expecting him to have quietly disappeared. She was still in a daze until she fell asleep, and only when she heard Margot say the words twice did her mind snap awake: "What did you say?"

She thought that when Berial said "leave it to him", he meant that he would find a way to explain. She hadn't thought he would go straight to her parents ......

"The king and queen are on their way to meet him." Margo took out a dress from the closet and said with a smile, "Princess, how about wearing this today?"

Kadam's customs were slightly more conservative than Biale's, but it was already summer, and the robes of noble girls were all one-piece flat-necked, elegant and not too stuffy.

Ye Miao's face inexplicably reddened, shrank back into the quilt and said, "Not this one, choose me one with a higher neckline."

She urged not to make marks on the neck. Berial agreed without blinking, but ended up moving the position down ...... Although the neckline of this skirt is not opened very low, but if the red marks are exposed from the edge, it will be evocative, and no one will believe it when they say they scratched it, and in case they are seen by their parents, it will be It's not good.

Margot was unsure, but did as she was told. Ye Miao quickly organized his clothes and ran towards the main hall, but he ran into King and Queen El at the entrance.

"What are you running for?" The queen doted and helplessly stroked her head: "You're so old, why are you still adventurous."

Ye Miao was anxious, but could not show it, so she could only say, "I heard that there is a person who claims to be able to solve my brother's illness, is it true? Will it be a white collision liar?"

"Xiao Cheng was in a coma for half a month and this matter was not publicized. But because he didn't show up for too long, it also caused some speculation within the nobility. So, it's not surprising that that person heard the rumors and came." The queen's face showed a hint of hope: "However, that person can tell the symptoms of Xiao Cheng word for word, this should not be known by wild guesses."

"Just call him in immediately and find out." After King Al took his seat, he instructed the guards to bring the man in.

From a distance, the three saw a man wearing a hat walk in through the door of the great hall, without the excitement of meeting the king for the first time, he walked unhurriedly, gracefully and calmly. Coming to the seat, he took off his hat, revealing a short curly black hair, bowed to the king and queen, every move was impeccable.

Ye Miao suddenly held his breath.

King Al made a gesture: "Please excuse yourself. Young man, what is your name?"

The teenager at the bottom raised his head, a pair of upside-down red eyes slightly bent up, and said gently, "Your Majesty, my name is Serial."