17 17. The Time-Space Labyrinth

Both Sansara and the old woman looked at him in utter shock as he said the word.

So this is why he has been like this all the way! But then, if it’s his sister, then that means, she is…..

“Queen Zaharia, she is my older sister. Go and tell her Vin is here to see her,” Vinasaka said once again.

A lot of questions were hurdling up Sansara’s mind one after the other and he didn’t know which one to ask first. Questions like ‘Zaharia is indeed his sister, but wasn’t that a long time ago? How is she still alive? An angel or a demon can’t be a queen!’ “Wait...is she really a demon?” Sansara didn’t realise that he actually blurted out those words loud unlike he had thought. However Vinasaka replied, “No, she is not.” Now this made things even more difficult.

The woman carefully observed Vinasaka and said word by word very slowly, almost whispering near his ears, “Are ...you...the ...demon king?”