The Werewolf King's Bride

(From Blue's Perspective)

"Dem! Be care…"

Some kind of green liquid splattered across my face and body as Dem slashed the creature in half with a single blow of his sword. He was so first that I noticed nothing but the corpse and heard the agonizing scream of that monster before its last moment.

"Fucking monster!" Dem grumbled, wiping the green liquid off his face.

He faced me with a relaxing posture as if a monster did not attack us and he did not slash it in half.

"That… that thing…," I mumbled shakily.

'What dark mage? I am so scared right now… My biological father would be ashamed of me, wouldn't he?'

"Ah, it was a nuisance," he said, casually slicing another monster that jumped from the side with just one hand. "These are the monsters I talked about. They are not that dangerous, such puny things."

"These… are puny?"

More and more monsters started to come. Their growls were filled with anger and hunger. Dem did not let any of them get near me and fought them all alone.

The scariest thing about them was their appearance. They were huge, at least seven feet long, hairy creatures with gaping mouths. Their teeth were sharp and yellowish and they had sharp claws. The iris of their eyes was black and the white part of their eyes was red, which made them look scarier.

Dem slaughtered at least twenty of the monsters, but they kept coming. According to Dem, it was a very small number.

After seeing Dem fighting that way, I gained some mental strength too, and decided to use my power as well.

I targeted the group of ten monsters ahead of us and hit them with an electric shock. It looked like thunder erupted from the tip of my fingers. They turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

"See? They are easy to kill, huh?"

"Yeah… But it's gross…"

It took us half an hour to kill all the monsters that came our way. It was my first time seeing a creature like that, so I was taken aback greatly.

When we returned to the palace, it was night. Dem did not let me use my power much as he said I did not need to help him. Looking at the way he was killing those monsters, it truly looked like he did not need my help. But I was worried, so I kept on helping him sneakily.

He perhaps knew about it though.

"Oh my, what happened?"

The maids gasped seeing our states, or probably just my state as they kept looking at me more to make sure I did not get hurt. They acted like they were used to seeing Dem that way.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

All of the knights that we met on the way kept on asking if I was alright. They had the same worried look on their faces.

"We met a few monsters on the way," I said to the maids. "Help me clean up."

"Yes, Your Highness. The bath is prepared. Please come with us."

The blood of those monsters was green and slimy. It was gross. The smell made me want to vomit. The moment I saw myself in the mirror, I could understand why people were giving me looks. I was covered more in that green blood than Dem even though he was the one who mainly killed them.

The maids took off my clothes and I sat down in the bath. My clothes were a bit hard to take off, especially my pants because they got tight because of the slimy and sticky green blood. Thankfully, my hair was tied in a bun, so not too much blood was in my hair.

"Your Highness doesn't seem to have gotten hurt," one of the maids said.

"No, Dem was very fast."

"At least, the monsters there aren't that smart and strong. They are easy to defeat," she said. "Even Ruby… I mean, Lady Ruby also defeated one on her own."

"What? She did?" I asked, surprised.

"Yes, Your Highness. When we went to collect berries from that mountain and enjoy ourselves on our day off, a monster appeared out of nowhere. Ruby turned into her wolf form and bit its eyes off. It was scary looking, but the monster was weak."

'Ruby did that?'

I always knew that Ruby was quite strong, but I did not know that she killed a monster on her own.

The main question was- was that monster so weak that any werewolf could defeat it? Or, was Ruby exceptionally strong than most werewolves?

Ruby always said she did not like to work out and she was always with me, so if she worked out, I would have known. But she never did so.

Perhaps it was her hidden strength that I did not know about.

"Your Highness, may I report one thing?"

"Yes?"

"There is another rumor that Your Highness had… a miscarriage last month," she said.

"… A miscarriage? It's my first time hearing of a woman suffering a miscarriage when she is not even pregnant. Is there something special about women that I never knew?"

"We don't know how a rumor like this even spread," she said. "Probably some stupid people spread them."

There were constantly more and more new rumors about me and Dem. If someone wanted to spread a rumor, they needed a base first. But these people did not seem to know one and thought whatever they felt like about us.

I was pregnant at least six times in the rumors after our marriage. According to the rumors, I was a manipulative woman who made Dem hate his mother and send her to the island where she committed suicide because of her sadness and severe depression. Dem apparently drank blood as some rumors said.

When Dem heard it, he did not care. He said there were many rumors about him over the years. Though it was a weird one, there were no less weird rumors about him before as well. He admitted that once a rumor said that he did not eat cooked food, but raw food which was very weird.

On the contrary, Dem's food always needed to be cooked thoroughly, or he could not eat it. He preferred his steak fully cooked. I did not have any problem eating medium rare, but he said he got a raw smell from it if it was not cooked.

"That said, Your Highness, Lady Ruby came today."

"When?"

"In the afternoon," another maid replied. "We told her that Your Highness has gone out with His Highness. She left some documents and told us to tell Your Highness to check them when you have time."

"Documents?"

"We don't know what they are about."

"Hmm… I will check them."

When I returned to the bedroom after the bath, Dem was back after taking a bath as well. He looked even more handsome with his wet hair. I was quite a pervert for my husband's after-shower look and his bed hair.

"Done?" he asked, sitting up straight. He was leaning against the bed frame, looking at the bracelet I made for him closely. It looked like he truly loved it and there were times when I found him smiling at it. He had been wearing it since I had gifted it to him. I had also been wearing the waist chain he made for me.

"Uhm," I nodded.

"Come here," he said, spreading his arms.

I chuckled and walked up to him. He pulled me by the waist as soon as I reached at his arm's length.

"You look so beautiful. You smell so good," he mumbled, rubbing his nose against my chest.

"What's up with you?" I laughed.

The maids were used to seeing us quite playful and intimate. They were not the least bothered by it anymore. If Dem did not have the ability to read minds, they surely would have walked up on us while we were having sex. I was grateful for Dem's ability for this reason.

"You are so soft," he kept mumbling. "Your breasts are so soft. Everything is so soft."

"Gosh… Dem…"

"Hmm?"

'My god, he is so cute…!'

"Babe, let's just wait a bit… I know what you want. But after dinner, okay?"

He suddenly bit on my nipple from over the oversized t-shirt that I was wearing. "Ow!" I moaned in pain. "Babe, please… Later…"

I pushed him gently by the chest. "I am not telling you to have sex. Let me just…"

"Let you what? Bite my nipples?"

"… You can do whatever you want to. Let me just be close to you."

"Haa," I sighed. "I will check the documents Ruby has sent. You have to be good, okay?"