The Demon's Bride

Chapter 577: Princess To Be Feared-III

The demons were in a talk, each of them entertaining their own mind and opinion once they saw her and Elise could feel it through the intense eyes of the demons. Elise looked at her grandfather, wondering what he was planning.

"Let's all take a seat to further discuss this matter," Satan raised his hands on the air.

When Elise thought they would be moving room as there were no enough table or chairs in the throne room as there was only one lone chair standing firmly which was where Satan had sat on when she saw table and chairs tailored according to the number of heads in the room had appeared in the room out of thin air.

Elise wasn't surprised. After stepping to the world of angel and demons, she began to accept the impossible.

As they took a seat, she felt the demoness who sat in front of her continue to keep an eye on her. Apart from her in the room she was the only woman. Although her face bore the appearance of a human, she had a pair of purple horns and eyes that were more purple than red. She was a beautiful woman whose skin on the darker side, who can enchant those near her; but what made Elise to note the woman apart from her constant gaze was the fact that the woman looked at her as if they both know each other.

Oddly, Elise felt she knew the woman even if it was a little.

"I do not like to beat around the bush. As I have said, I would like to make my granddaughter the next reigning Queen. In all honesty things like voting doesn't matter much to me," Satan uttered. Then why the meeting? Elise questioned back in her mind.

But she fond the answer after assessing her grandfather.

This was a test.

Satan wanted to see her determination to become the next Queen and if she could really give her all in order to bring Ian back from death. He wanted to see if whether she had planned for a way to break the contract they made.

But what Satan didn't know, Elise had gone from tinkering a way to break the contract into making certain her grandfather would suffer the consequences of breaking the deal they made— the penalties were what she had laid her eyes on.

"But my granddaughter spent some time of her life in human world for too long. There are things she lack and thing she possess too much like kindness that us don't possess. Kindness is great but being too merciful isn't what I need of a Queen," Satan stated while looking at her.

The gaze Satan had wasn't exactly fierce or stern. Instead, Elise could feel that Satan was truly trying to teach her a way to become a Queen. It was similar to how a grandfather would do to his granddaughter. It only pose more question to Elise. Why does Satan treat Leviathan differently?

"With all due respect, your majesty," spoke the demon whose head was a snake instead of a human face. The person slurred and hissed when it was trying to talk. "But I hope you can address our confusion and questions."

"Fine," Satan waved his hand, "Tell me what's the question? I don't think I have to make it clear again that the girl here is my dear granddaughter?" action

"Pardon me sire but how sure are you?" Asked the demon beside the snake, "from what my eyes tell me she is not only a demon but a human," the man stressed and as if it wasn't enough he did it again, "A human."

"A human. That's tricky, most humans always trick and lie," whispered someone from the chair and followed by chuckle by the rest of the people in the table except Elise, Satan, and a few others.

"Do you mean to say that I had tricked my grandfather?" Elise raised her voice which echoed as the moment she opened her mouth and her voice left her, it caused the people silence. For a moment, Elise moved her eyes sideways to look at her grandfather. She found him smiling.

Clearly he didn't want to help her. The man decided to sit back and enjoy.

Elise nodded her head faintly. If amusement was what her grandfather wanted, she knew exactly how to make one— an amusement which demons would enjoy.

"Well, your highness?" The man questioned as if he couldn't put the title on her name. "I have to say that humans does love tricking people. We have seen some of the nutcase," the man tittered.

"Nutcase?" Elise question in repetition. Her tone was distant but the man thought she was interested in the topic he brought up.

"You haven't been long here which explain why you don't know the types of demons," the man answered with a hum, "Let me help to fill your knowledge, milady. There are some demons with mixed blood of humans. Those type of mixed demons, they mostly try to trick us. Not that they could do it well. You can say the demons which has mixed blood of humans are more or less idiotic."

Once again Elise heard the echoing laughter of the demons.

No one here feared her which was clear and Elise had expected this. Though they tried to be polite to her, it was all because they feared her grandfather and not her. If Satan didn't introduce her as his kin, she could tell how ready they were to feast on her soul.

The same man spoke, "There are also other type which is the crazy kind of mixed demon. Like that one demon— what was his name again?"

"Oh the successor of undead demon, Caleb, you mean?" The snake beside the man filled in.

"Yes that one for certain!" The man clapped his hand. "That one crazy demon who killed his own mother and then killing off the town and the rest of the villages. He is insane, your highness. After we brought him here, he was still filled with rage and caused a mortal wound on some demons."

"But the moment his wings were torn from him, it was such a pleasant scene to enjoy," chimed the other.

The people continue to entertain the talk about Ian without knowing what kind of existence Ian was to Elise and without noticing how Elise's smile had fell.

A cold and bottomless anger filled her blue eyes. After being more aware of her blood Elise could feel her own rage, the wrath that she had inside her after loosing Ian only strengthen with time.

Satan who was watching this saw the expression that flickered on her face and his smile curled higher.