Midnight Sun's Paradise

Season 1: Chapter 8: Hiding Behind the Tree

"Why is he with that bastard?" Vergon clicked his tongue and looks so pissed off while observing the two of them walking together. "Are they together now?" 

After what Vergon did to them, Bryle had goosebumps, "I feel like someone's been watching us."

When he heard what Bryle said, Leloux felt the hard glaring of somebody so he took a glance out of it. That's when he knew, it was Vergon who glared at them, looks so pissed off by just staring them at the distance. As a result, he wanted to tease him to see what would his reaction be like, whether it's amusing or boring.

"I guess you're here to get him, huh," Leloux thought and smirked since a plan came up to his mind.

At this instant, Leloux tried to put his arm on Bryle's shoulder and whispered, "Let's eat lunch. My treat." Then he smirked at Vergon, who clenched his fists because of jealousy.

"That's my mate, not yours. Why are you with him?" Vergon continued mumbling.

It wasn't just him who was in that tree spot because besides there, a bench was displayed. Normally, students sit there to take a break, but since the students who sat there knew someone has been mumbling and his aura was a bit weird, the students had no choice but to transfer to another bench. They see Vergon as a weird person.

"L-Lunch?" Bryle shoved off Leloux since he was flustered by what he did to him. "W-We just ate though? A-Are you still hungry?"

Leloux shamelessly smiled. "Yes! I'm still hungr---" 

"Hey, Bryle!" It was at that moment, Gerard showed up and called his friend. "I'm done passing mine. How about you?"

Without hesitation, Bryle immediately ran towards Gerard and said, "Yes, I'm also done."

"Ahh, you saved me there. Thanks, Gerard," Bryle thought and was feeling relieved.

For him to be able to get away from his nervousness, it was the best timing ever. It's not like he still wanted to stay away from Leloux but for some reason, he was just feeling embarrassed being around him. 

These past days, Bryle seemed to be developing friendly feelings towards Leloux. He was confused whether it was because of Leloux's friendly personality or it's just because he's a caring person. Maybe both. 

Ever since Leloux accompanied him to the infirmary on that day he collapsed, he already knew Leloux wasn't a bad guy. He thought that maybe this Leloux had no inferior motives at all. It was just his false guts that drove his mind with the wrong objectives.

"Who's that guy? Why is he surrounded by a lot of guys?" Vergon bit the nails on his fingers while looking so annoyed, secretly following the three of them. "Not to mention, this extra guy must be popular," he added. And for some reason, Gerard got involved with Vergon's jealousy.

And after that, he seemed to sense something towards Bryle. It's the scent of him that was already bonded with his mate. Vergon had no idea his scent had this sweet and alluring smell, so it's a bit foreign for him. And now since he smelled it from Bryle, it's making him crave for him even more. Vergon wanted to go near him but he just can't approach head-on since it might startle Bryle. It's bad for the pregnant to get startled so he tried to control his thirst. 

"Tch, why is he here?" Leloux murmured and glared at Gerard. Of course, Gerard didn't know since he was blithely talking with Bryle. He had no intention of talking to this Leloux.

"A-Anyways!" Leloux uttered and in a while, the both of them turned around at him. "I will now go first," he excused. After excusing himself, Leloux didn't wait for their responses and just walked away.

"Take care, Leloux!" shouted Bryle.

"Why is he not going with them? Is he mad of that human? I saw him glaring at him." It looks like Vergon quickly grasped the situation, but it seems like he didn't know the reason yet.

As for Leloux who walked away, he called Vergon by provoking him, but he wasn't listening. He made a butterfly to seize his attention but it didn't work. He made an illusion where Bryle was marrying someone, but still, it didn't work on Vergon. Leloux stopped teasing him when he was bombarded with a lot of girls who ran towards him, giving him gifts and asking him a lot of love-involved questions. 

On Vergon's shoes, he wasn't looking at Leloux since his attention was so focused on Bryle, jointly walking with Gerard. There's no deep meaning in between their relationship since they see each other only as friends. Vergon was even trying to control himself when Leloux made all of those failed attempts on him. In the end, he's still drawn by Bryle's scent. But as usual, he tried to control himself.

"H-Hey, it's kinda chilly, right?" Bryle asked Gerard and was shivering. 

"I-I think so?" he answered, also shivering.

Vergon sensed something beside him so he was distracted and unknowingly glanced at it. It was a werewolf, huffing and drooling while looking at Bryle. That's when Vergon knew, the werewolf was also craving for Bryle because of his alluring scent. Both Gerard and Bryle went inside the classroom building so as a result, Vergon wasn't able to follow where they were headed since he was distracted by this puffing werewolf. 

"Where did they go?" Vergon wondered.

After then, he glanced at the werewolf and glared all over him. The werewolf's attention seemed to be so glued to Bryle so what Vergon did, he called him by saying "ahem" as an excuse. The werewolf then looked at him and realized, it was Vergon, one of the clan leader's trusted knights. 

It may seem to be so confusing about what's Vergon's original status is since he had a lot of titles in his entire life. Vergon was a prince and at the same time, he's also a knight of Lycaon. All of the princes in the Thorfa were also Lycaon's trusted knights. There were over fifty kingdoms in their world, and a total of eighty-plus knights since some have their siblings.

All of the princes were ranked according to their skills and their abilities. That time, Vergon was ranked second among all of the knights. He may be so powerful, intelligent and a great, trusted knight but he's always slacking off, thus, he's down to the second rank all the time.

Ivan was ranked third among all of them. He has such a great skill; he could immediately kill an enemy in one snap, and he's a mature one. But the problem is, he's always overthinking and gets easily distracted even if he's in a fight. His overthinking and his environment caused him a distraction, hence, he was ranked as the third knight.

And for Zenero, he was ranked as fifth. He would study his enemies first so that he would know their weaknesses and their strengths. He's a smart werewolf but the problem is, he gets easily startled even if the fight has not started yet. In conclusion, Zenero was afraid of fighting.

But since Vergon, Ivan, and Zenero were cursed by their clan leader a long time ago, everything Lycaon must say will be their fate. So as to say, if they oppose his proposals and decisions, who knew what would be their punishments be like.

When the werewolf knew it was Vergon on his side, he bowed at him and ran away from tension. It was Vergon's glare that made him panic like that. There weren't many students walking around as earlier since the afternoon classes might have started already so no one could see there's a running werewolf in their university. 

"Wow, what a nice way to scare a werewolf."

Vergon heard someone talking so he looked behind to see who was it. It was Leloux who leaned on the tree, playing with a dark flame on his palm and smirking all over. Vergon wasn't kind of shocked since he already knew Leloux was on this campus. He expected much of this to happen.

"We meet again, demon terminator," sighed Vergon.