She Belongs To The Devil

The dark mist had completely engulfed Theodore.

But before Theodore completely vanished from Lilith's sight, he rematerialized again and stumbled. "Mhmm…" he closed his eyes and moaned in pain while grabbing his thigh very tightly.

"What happened?" Lilith raised her head, alarmed that Theodore was hurt out of the blue. She focused her eyes on the aura in the room. She was worried that some invisible enemy was attacking him. "Is something wrong?"

"Adeline!" Theodore groaned. He flung his eyes open. They were burning red in a fury.

---

After Cerberus dealt with the problem at the Palace – Lillian, Edwin was taking his wife and daughter to Raphael's quarter so that they could rest. They had already been through a lot.

When they were near the quarter, Raphael came to welcome them to his quarter.

"I have already asked the maids to prepare a room for the three of you." Raphael glanced at Edwin and further said while walking alongside his brother, "I will work with the soldiers to clean up the mess that has been caused. So you should stay with sister-in-law and Joy and take a rest. I will take care of everything."

"Thank you, Raph." Edwin patted Raphael's shoulder and said, "I appreciate it a–"

Edwin abruptly stopped walking and limped, almost falling on his knees and accidentally dropping Joyce.

"Whoa!" Raphael was quick enough to take Joyce from Edwin's arms. "What happened?"

Edwin groaned in pain and clasped his thigh. Blood started to sip out of his thigh out of nowhere.

He looked at his palm and saw that it was covered in blood.

His face turned black. He furrowed his brows and looked at Raphael. And he said in a worried voice, "Adeline!"

---

"At this rate… I'm going to die!" This ghastly thought crossed Reginald's mind after getting slashed by Adeline's sword for the thirteenth time.

By now, he had already realized that the sword that Adeline was using was not an ordinary sword. Not a single wound that he got from that sword had healed. Rather than healing, the wounds were getting worse by the second.

His vision was getting blurry. He was feeling dizzy. And his speed was also slowing down.

Adeline was also breathing heavily. Though she was not hurt, the speed of her attack had slowed down because the battle between her and Reginald had been going on and on for over an hour.

She tried to gulp to moisten her parched throat, but her mouth was too dry for that.

"Why is this one so hard to kill?" Adeline ground her teeth and darted her eyes at the wounds all over Reginald's body. "The other vampires would have been dead after taking this many cuts from my sword."

"And somehow he keeps on evading all my direct attacks on his heart or his neck!" Adeline screamed in her mind in frustration.

Even she had to agree that Reginald was the strongest and the toughest vampire whom she had faced till now.

But still, she was not going to rest, not even for a second until she got rid of that Vampire King and stopped the war.

Adeline raised her sword again and closed the distance between her and Reginald. She swung the sword hoping to decapitate him this time.

Reginald forcefully pushed his body backward and away from Adeline, but in the process, he stumbled upon a dead body and fell on his back.

Adeline came at him again, this time aiming her sword at his heart.

Reginald tried to crawl backward and right then, his hand felt something sharp on the ground. It was a sword. He hastily grabbed that sword and blocked Adeline's attack by swinging it around.

When both of their swords clashed against each other's, the sword that Reginald had picked got broken into half and the shard flew in the air.

"Damn it!" Reginald cursed because he was now only holding half of the sword.

The half of that sword's shard happened to fly towards one of the wolves of the Beta Team nearby who was jumping in the air to pounce on the Royal Guard he was fighting. And that shard pierced that wolf under his ribcage, narrowly missing his heart.

That wolf landed on the ground with a thud and howled in anguish, drawing Reginald's attention.

The opponent of that wolf grabbed him by his skin and lifted him only to slam him back down on his knee and break his back.

The wolf howled and whimpered even more than before.

While Reginald was distracted, Adeline lifted her sword again and swung it down to strike that vampire on his neck.

Reginald's attention was back on Adeline when he heard the whipping sound made by the sword. And his immediate reaction was to throw the broken sword at Adeline blindly.

"Arghh!" Adeline groaned and slouched a little. Because of it, she missed his neck and instead gave a deep wound below his collarbone.

"Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Reginald screamed in pain and landed on the ground on his side. The left side of his body had now almost fully turned ash-grey in color.

That broken sword had impaled Adeline's thigh. But she didn't let out too loud a cry because she didn't want Reginald to know that she had also been wounded. She didn't want him to be happy that he was able to hurt her.

When Adeline was trying to pull out the stub of the sword, Reginald was trying to get back up on his feet. He grunted and pushed his hands and knees. However, his hands were not even strong enough to support his body anymore. They trembled and he fell down on the ground again.

"Adeline! Are you okay?" Arion came close to Adeline and asked while keeping his eyes on Reginald.

"Yes, it's just a small cut," Adeline bit her lower lip and tightly gripped the hilt of the sword that had hurt her.

Arion glanced at Adeline's thigh. He could see the sword coming out on the other side of her thigh. And he scolded Adeline, "That's not a small cut Adeline! That's–"

"Shhh…" Adeline pointed her brows at the Vampire King who was still on the ground and shook her head gesturing not to reveal her state to Reginald.

Arion moved even closer to Adeline and whispered to her, "Take a pill! Quick!"

Adeline clenched her jaws tightly and then pulled out the sword from her thigh without making a single sound. The chilling pain ran down to her tailbone. Pulling out that sword hurt her more than it hurt her when it pierced through her thigh.

Blood began to sip out of her open cut and soak her cloth.

"Damn it!" Adeline glanced at her wound and then glanced at Reginald. Reginald was lying defenseless on the ground. He was so close to her that she didn't want to miss the chance.

"I will kill him first and then take a pill," she whispered back to Arion.