Chapter 100

**Tzalmon Point of View**

"This is not even a very big city. Why couldn't we find them at all?"

I ran a hand through my hair and groaned as a new level of frustration took over me. How come the more it seems I get close to her, the more she slips out at the last moment?

The funny thing is even the captain and lieutenant, who is not new to the city and has wide connection, couldn't find her quickly.

"Did you find out who got her books from the bookstore?" I rubbed my face as I inquired Azar. Azar gave me a disappointed face which gave me enough answer.

"The shop owner said someone else came to take the books on her behalf but the men I sent there to spy on couldn't tell who it was. That particular bookstore is quite a popular one with tens or sometimes hundreds of customers going in and out. The one who joined in the bookstore as helping assistant only knows that the person has come around eleven in the morning on Tuesday but he has no idea who that person is."

This is a mess!

The owner is not ready to share the information. The people I sent came out with zero results. There are surveillance cameras in the market but as a citizen I have no right to go through them.

Every door seems to open to a dead end road. This is truly maddening.

"M-majesty" Seeing that I was like an active volcano ready to erupt any moment, Eelk called me hesitantly. I noticed that he was having an internal fight with himself about something and scowled at him.

"If you have something to say, then spit it out." Eelk paled when he looked at me, trying to decide whether he should or should say what he wanted to.

"Majesty, do you - do you think Lady Dawn knows?"

"What do you mean?" I raised a brow, expressed how enraged I am with his question.

"M-m-majesty, please calm down first and think. If - If Lady Dawn saw you or knows you are here, will she want to come before you?" I couldn't help but chuckle out in anger.

Is he saying Eblilis is intentionally avoiding me?

"Impossible!"

"Is it though?" Holy heavens! I want to punch this imperial commander of mine!

"You said you couldn't find her out of the bookstore even though you were right on her tail. She must have at least felt it. Felt your presence or felt some kind of danger. She was after all the lady who broke the curse on us, she would have better instincts than normal." Without waiting for him to continue, I raised my fist and punched him on his face.

"She will not hide from me." Although I shouted, I wasn't completely with my own statement.

Eelk crashed the table in the living room to pieces and fell hard on the other side of the room. The room fell silent for a moment before Azar dared to speak something I wasn't ready to hear.

"Well, Majesty, you weren't exactly a Knight in shining armor to her in the past. She has the reason and right to actually avoid you and hide from you."

Hearing what Azar said, Gyles hissed and cringed a little when my anger turned into murderous one.

How dare he!

How dare are they!

I took slow deadly steps towards Azar as I towered him with my aura. "You have quite an opinion there, Azar. Do not for a moment forget who you are and who am I just because we are on another land."

"We do not mean to offend you, my king. You were, are and will always be our Majesty, the man who we look up to and put our lives to protect. However, please calm you heart and mind and think. Is what I and Azar said not true? We are your subordinates and our duty is to follow you without a word back however, now we are on the foreign land, experiencing foreign culture. Lady Dawn was born in this world with broad mindset which is different from us. She has suffered so much in our kingdom, the first and last chance she got; she used it to escape from us. Majesty, is it not obvious what she thinks of us?"

Eelk has always been the one who truly supported and helped Eblilis in the past. Even if he did reported her activities back to me as a part of his duty, he was also a true assistant and guard to her.

To say he was the only one who understood her suffering well is not an exaggeration.

I know... somewhere deep inside me, I know what he said is right. He was right about my , our and the whole kingdom's behavior towards her. She was suffocated there. She faced pain and injustice. She went through hell, I know but -

"I hope you give it a good thought of what we said, Majesty. Even if we do find her, will she come back with us? Or we will use force against them and take them back?" With the final flick of courage Eelk mumbled those words to me and bowed before limping away.

Following him, Azar and Gyles left as well leaving me alone in the living room. Even though Gyles did not say a word just now, I can tell he was feeling a tinge of guilty in his heart.

Gyles was also one of those who was harsh to her in the past, who looked down on her because was a female and who did not like her much.

I know Eelk was not wrong. I know it in my heart!

The next day, everything went back to normal. Azar and Eelk watched sports until it was time for them to go to work while Gyles was in his room doing god knows what.

The self defense and martial arts academy will be starting from today so we were quite busy with it. However, I took a small break to go and visit Captain at the police department.

Since the news of Eblilis being spotted near a kids school was revealed to me, I have been going there frequently to see if I could get a chance to find here.

I asked around if there was any construction or renovation going around there and the answer I got was negative. If there was no architectural activity going on in that area, then she must be visiting the school itself.

I wanted to go and ask about her in the school but Captain called me and told me not to inquire about it.

The police guards working in the front hall are now acquainted with me and knew I would come here frequently to meet the Captain and Lieutenant so they did not stop me to inquire and allowed me inside.

"Mr. Ebernus, here you are." Captain ended the call he was in and greeted me with a smile.

"Captain, thank you for finding clues about her. It truly means a lot to me." I thanked him sincerely.

"That is alright, Mr. Ebernus. We can be considered friends so it was not a problem. But you cannot inquire about your wife in the school directly sir. They might file a case against you for being suspicious."

"I was just - I just want to see her. I want to find her and my son." I sighed loudly and frowned at myself.

"That I do understand. However, it is not the right way to do things. This is an unofficial task to me so I cannot use my subordinated for the job so we can only wait around the area to find her." He smiled apologetically and to be honest, I'm truly grateful for his help.

He was really doing his best for to find Eblilis even though it is not his job or duty to do so.

"In that case, we can wait for her to appear again. I understand your reasoning Captain. Thank you for helping me with this."

"I already had few of my connection on lookout in other places. We shall wait for the news. Right, Thunders gym was brilliant, I had a brief spar with Mr. Gyles on the other day and it was truly a learning experience. His combat levels are high." Captain smiled excitedly.

"We were trained in several styles of martial arts back in hometown. Some of them are now vanished from here."

And so after having a chat with him for few minutes, I walked out of the police station to my car. Just when I opened the car door and was about to get in, I felt it again.

Her presence.

This time too I felt it strongly which means she is close. I looked around hastily to find the source of the feeling.

I ran around the police station and browsed the area carefully but urgently. I can still feel her presence strongly. She is here, close to me, very near.

Just as I was getting worried that I would miss her, something caught my attention.

Eblilis.

She was there, a few meters away from me, getting into a car and driving away.

And this time, I saw her face clearly.

She was Eblilis. My Eblilis.

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