The Demon King's heir
CHAPTRE. 03 - WOLF LORD

”Mother! Look at! He's up!” exclaimed Shin Yixuan who kept paying attention to the young man's face last night. The face looked sad and his voice sounded so sad. His eyes were wide and as bright as the sun. However, being overwhelmed by his sadness, his eyeballs turned cloudy like dusk.

”Whose house is this? Where am I?” muttered the young man who looked confused while staring around. A very simple bamboo house and has fragrant Azalea flowers growing around it. He will not doubt. Anyone would feel comfortable after living in this house.

”Thank God, you are aware.” said Shin Buyen who immediately walked up to him with a bowl of meat soup and deer blood sauce for him. ”... Yixuan brought you here. He said you were the wolf that saved him last night. So, he wants me to treat you.”

The young man was stunned and immediately looked towards Shin Yixuan who was on top of her bed. ”... Thank you young master. I really appreciate it.” he said.

”Before, there were some things I wanted to ask you.” Shin Buyen said as he folded his arms. ”... How did you get to be here? The seventh demon king has put up many barrier spells to expel you from this place.” he asked because before, he already knew that this young man was not human.

The young man was surprised then said, ”... Let me introduce myself first, ma'am. My name is Guanyun from the Wolf clan. I am the servant of the fifth Demon King San Wuzhi. Madam must have known that the seventh and fifth Kings were not hostile to each other like the other five Kings.” was clearly a young man named Guanyun.

”Fifth king?” exclaimed Shin Yixuan who looked astonished. ”... I heard the fifth Demon King is very powerful. He almost matches my father! If the two of them were to fuse their strength together, it was possible that the other five Demon Lords would instantly collapse!”

Guanyun looked delighted when he heard that. ”Young master is right once.” he replied.

Shin Buyen was silent for a while while looking at him seriously. ”... After this you can go. I don't know what the seventh King will do if he sees you here.” he said while bringing Shin Yixuan back.

”Why did Mom take me too? I want to play for a while with Uncle Guanyun.” Shin Yixuan said.

”Mom doesn't allow you to play with her. I've treated him until he's cured so, our deal is over!” said Shin Buyen.

”But, mom!”

”No!”

After the two left him there, Guanyun grabbed a bowl of his venison soup. He looked at his face reflected on the surface of the food. His face looks better than before. No more injuries from the fight. He even wondered why Shin Buyen could heal him so quickly like this.

”Your Majesty, you have a very precious treasure that deserves to be protected. But, unfortunately, he did not know that this could weaken his strength. The longer he protected the two of them, the sooner he might die and someone would have to take his place.” Guanyun murmured as he stared sinisterly out the window.

In the afternoon, Shin Yixuan returned to practicing throwing knives alone because right now, Shin Buyen was going to the city to look for food that had been used up. Previously, Shin Buyen also left a message to him so that he did not go anywhere like last night and always watched Guanyun's movements that always looked suspicious.

However, Shin Yixuan did not really follow what Shin Buyen told her. He would practice the sword however, he would go out to look at something. ”I will hunt rabbits outside after I successfully hit the target.” muttered Shin Yixuan who did not stop staring at the target point in front of her.

”I'm sorry, young master.” said Guanyun who tried to comfort the sad Shin Yixuan. ”... I came here because I wanted to take the young master for a walk out to look around.”

Shin Yixuan looked at the Guanyun who was in front of her and asked, ”Is that true? But what about the danger there? Like the wolf that attacked me yesterday and the huge ravine that was preparing to devour anyone there?”

Hearing that, Guanyun chuckled and said while patting Shin Yixuan's narrow shoulders. ”... Take it easy, I'm here. Young master will definitely be fine as long as I am near you.”

Meanwhile, at a market in the city when Shin Buyen was about to find some food needed by him. A trail of blood covered by dust became the target of his attention at this moment. The extremely unusual blood trail and no one noticed it, made Shin Buyen feel anxious about the existence of a killer who could come anywhere.

Slowly, his steps began to be very confident to follow the trail. People started to feel strange to him as he kept staring down and never turned his attention to the merchants around him.

After a few minutes he continued to follow the trail of blood, his steps immediately halted as he had arrived in front of an empty house filled with a rancid aroma inside.

”The blood is dry and the flesh is rotting. There were about fifteen people who were inside there and all of them died with their eyes wide open from seeing something terrible.” Inner Shin Buyen after he inhaled his scent. ”... Without heart and blood!”

”What is this? Already since I smell the scent of blood in this house.” said a middle-aged woman who also approached him with a look of wonder after seeing it.

Shin Buyen pretended not to know it and said to her, ”I happened to stop here and smell the same scent as you. Maybe something was in it. Did no one open it?”

The woman immediately shook her head and said, ”The residents here no one dared to. There was a group of demon hunters who wanted to kill the seventh Demon King as well as his descendants. They always look terrible so, we dare not open it.”

”Demon Hunters?” asked Shin Buyen who looked surprised.

”Iya, that's right.” replied the woman. ”... They announced to the people who were here that they would finish off the seventh King and restore peace. However, it has been two years no change at all.”

Shin Buyen was silent for a while and thought of something that might happen in his house. ”... Then I'd better just go. My son is waiting for me at home.” he said while staring at the woman and was about to walk away. ”... But, there is no harm if you look at their circumstances occasionally to avoid even worse events.”

The woman smiled at him and said, ”You are so kind Miss.”

A second later, Shin Buyen finally left the place in a hurry because he was afraid that something might happen to Shin Yixuan in his house even more, he left her together with Guanyun whom he had not known well.