粉红的窗帘

"Is that true, what you just said to me?" It wasn't a complex or confusing question for Usha to answer instead she just had to nod her head but seeing Nikol's eyes, she forgot how to respond for a minute as she kept looking at him with a complicated gaze.

Nikol didn't doubt the authenticity of her information, but it was safe to ask, as their previously built trust wasn't there anymore because of the previous incident.

Nikol was pretty sure that Usha won't lie about something so important but still, he decided to doubt her this time.

Usha kept staring at his cruel yet beautiful eyes. She noticed something different about his eyes both physically and mentally.

'Was it always this purple?'

Even though she found this change rather amusing, for now, she had more important things to focus on.

"I'm not sure, but I've been feeling sick recently and today one of the dark elves said, I have another life in my belly," She had no reason to lie, so she decided to tell the truth.

Nikol listened to her with interest, while looking at her face with curiosity.

"That's great, Congratulation," Sitting next to her slowly, he said something rather awkward.

"Aren't you happy about this?" Bothered by his short answers, she decided to be straightforward and question him. But she didn't expect Nikol to look at her with the same kind of look, he had before all this happened ruining everything for them.

"Usha, how did you feel when you were asked to paralyze me by Arti? Why didn't you even believe me for a minute?" Without answering her question, Nikol questioned her again showing he wasn't going to forget about everything just because of a kid.

Usha noticed Nikol's face which looked quite bothered by all this and she felt, they need to build everything including their trust and love before this child sees the daylight.

She didn't want this awkwardness to swallow the happiness of their life. She didn't want this mistake to dictate their whole life.

"I felt devastated, I didn't know what is right and what is wrong, Because she was a fairy and because she was your mother, I couldn't ignore what she said. I still believe this because there is no way she would intentionally try to hurt you, but I agree we could have done things differently," She paused for a minute and took a clean piece of clothing, and started to wipe Nikol's face.

"But now there's no point crying over spilt milk, I have to worry about the future and no matter what it takes, I'll make you forgive me." Her face had the seriousness it needed showing how genuine her words were.

"Well good luck with that," Taking the piece of clothing from Usha's hand, Nikol started to wipe his own face showing he doesn't need others to do such mundane things for him. But he wasn't cruel enough to completely disregard Usha's feelings.

"I'm pretty sure, you will be a great mother, don't worry, I'll try to be the greatest father this child can find," Leaving the blood-stained clothing on the floor, Nikol's hands slowly reached for Usha's belly and slowly caressed showing he wasn't completely emotionless.

"Be careful from now on, you will stay in the backlines even if we fight the weakest monster,"

Nikol got ready to leave but then he saw the body of Eva, which had cuts all over it with her body colour was no different from Nikol's because of all the blood.

"How did she get injured this badly?" Nikol questioned hoping this isn't something serious but, he knew with these kinds of injuries on a human-like her, things cannot be that simple.

"She tried to protect me, I don't know who that dark elf was but, she didn't even use cursed magic to fight with her, she was strong," Usha explained to him everything that happened on the battlefield, then she questions Nikol with confusion as she wanted to know what that abnormal power of his.

"Don't you remember? I think you fought with her and her comrades,"

Nikol tried to remember their faces, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't clarify their faces. Everything and everyone looked the same to him in his memory.

He still didn't understand why he decided to let that voice take over him, but he wanted to find out about this strange power soon before he harm someone else because of it.

"See you soon, Usha, If Eva got her consciousness back, call me," With those words, he said farewell to both of these chiefs and decided to plan their attack, but before that, he wanted to see how his new skills and body that felt odd worked since he wasn't in his right mind when he was attacking with it for the first time.

While all the humans and elves started to clean up their mess, Nym did her best to suppress the pain of all the cursed people so, all of them had no time for chit-chat, even after they finished the war. Before nightfall, they also had to go back to the kingdom so as to not face another attack from dark elves or monsters.

'This area looks good'

Before he start his traning, Nikol made sure that nobody is there in the area, so he didn't have to hold back as he decided to go all out and check his new skills.

First, he looked at his nails which had the same dark purple shade to them, but this time it was too long for him to think about it as normal fingernails.

"These are claws, no way these are normal fingernails," He thought while observing them carefully and decided to check their sharpness.

Aiming at a huge tree nearby, he released a slash hoping that it would at least damage the bark of the tree but without him realizing he cut through the whole trunk. Unexpectedly, it didn't stop there, his hand even went as far as to damage the trees nearby it causing huge havoc inside the forest.

*Boom

The trees which were damaged by this slash fell on the floor unable to stand proud in front of this attack making a huge sound that echoed throughout the forest.

"Holy shit! Three trees in one slash, no wonder those dark elves couldn't even get close to me," At that point, he didn't even realize that his power was greatly weakened after he woke up from his hallucinating slumber.

Nikol decided to continue his experiments, he continued with his sensory perceptions, vision, throwing skills, and many more. Everything he tried brought a mini-disaster to the forest destroying more than half of its vegetation and creating a huge scene.

Alva and Emily, who noticed this came to scout the area only to see the devasting power of Nikol. Until now, they never saw him going all out, so when they saw this, both of them couldn't help but laugh in awe.

"As expected of him, this isn't something weaklings like us can do, truly magnificent," Alva muttered with her eyes carefully trying to burn every image of Nikol's moves into her retina in case she had to fight him and she felt a strange tingling in her heart seeing this version of Nikol.

Emily had nothing to say because she thought the same way.

They wanted to keep observing him, but they didn't have the freedom to do that. Both of them had to give support to Lydia and Zenda to arrange things since they were going to leave the forest as soon as possible to avoid conflict.

It was a hard task for them because of all the casualties they had to suffer but it was not about whether they can do it or not, If they want to survive they had to do it and escape this place as soon as possible.

"Emily, do you think Nikol will forgive us for what we did?" Curious about her friend's idea, Alva questioned.

"He will, I won't stop bothering him until he embraces me again in his warm hug," Without any hesitation, Emily said her plans hoping others will also do the same. She wanted everything to be like the past and enjoy life with other girls.

They went back to their camp talking about many different things, while Nikol finished his traning and decided to go back with a surprised look.

He was surprised by his own skills so much that he had to doubt whether these skills were real or not. But no matter what skill he had, Nikol couldn't use any magic unlike others but at this point, it didn't even bother him because what's the point of having magic when he can crush his enemy's head with his bare hand?

"Arti, you will be next after dark elves,"

Clenching his palm with anger, Nikol looked at the sky and wondered whether his supposed mother was watching him and enjoying his agony because right now, his heart felt like a bed of fiery volcanoes from all the pain and suffering he had to go through.