Chapter 25

The young old servant stood by Damian's side restlessly.

"This wound?! Master, could this be..." The maid said in horror.

"Ugh… Maybe you could sew it up first…" Damian bit his lip until it bled to hold back his painful moans then slowly fell unconscious.

As the days passed, Damian still had a high fever. On the tenth night, the young man miraculously made a full recovery.

However, the residents had been paying close attention. The noble youth named Damian had been locked up for days and the windows were always covered with thick curtains.

Since then, stories about Damian suffering from an unusual disease have spread around the residents.

Damian was born a noble in that small town. He lived by receiving a good education, he was brave, honest, his high family background never made him a child of rich parents who liked to have fun. In fact, Damian was a quiet child. He is always clear-headed with what he wants and he will devise a strategy to achieve that goal.

Damian inherited gray hair from his family. His usual faint smile was one that was dangerous but captivating.

Damian's indifferent attitude resulted from the loss of his parents from a young age. All he can remember is his faithful servant taking care of all his needs as he grows and develops.

But recently, his servant noticed how his master would smile even brighter than before. Every day his master would wake up in a happy mood, he would change clothes and then leave the house quickly. At night only his master would return home.

Whenever he asked his master about what his master was going through, Damian would smile mysteriously broadly in response.

To his servant, even if the answer given by his master was only a mysterious broad smile, that would not be a problem in the future. Indeed, there should be someone who is present in the master's life and can make his master reduce the sadness that his master has been feeling. This was the thing the servant wanted the most to happen to his master.

However, what the maid didn't expect was when her master showed her cheerfully a photo showing a photo of a girl and the girl was Emma.

Emma who was only seventeen years old at that time was a girl who was blessed with beauty and grace with beautiful bright eyes than anyone else. Her family was not among the rich, but Emma was an educated and balanced girl with her master.

The photo looked perfect in the maid's eyes, but the maid knew that Emma already had a boyfriend.

Emma's lover is a young man from a neighboring village. The young man had grown up with Emma before, but had left the village for the past few years. However, according to rumors circulating among the residents, Emma never completely broke up with the young man.

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Ever since his master was seriously injured from that incident, his master had locked himself in his room for quite a long time and ended up becoming more and more depressed every day.

The servant's heart couldn't bear it and was filled with the urge to quickly get rid of the grief that his master was experiencing because he had witnessed everything that had happened to his master from the start. So at sunset, the maid visited Emma's house and immediately knocked on Emma's door.

"Would you mind visiting our master even for a moment? He really needs your presence, Miss." The maid said pleadingly to Emma.

Fear flashed across Emma's eyes, she was silent for a moment before finally saying, "I don't think Damian and I would be a match for each other... He's been seducing me all along, it's just that I've never rejected him properly..."

"Miss Emma, ​​stop hurting our master. You know how much our master loves you... Please don't abuse his feelings and then betray him, or misfortune will befall you one day." Said the maid trying to persuade Emma again.

"...What are you saying? What do you mean I betrayed Damian?" Emma said confusedly.

"Then please explain to me, how did our master get injured at that time? You were by our master's side at that time, so you must know what really happened!" asked the waiter sternly.

Emma could only stare blankly at the maid.

"He saw it, didn't he? At that moment he was seeing you again with another young man. You are both being chased by something that could harm you. Do I have to remind you what happened then? If not for giving you both opportunity to escape and save yourselves, how could our master be bitten by a werewolf at that time?!" The servant said urging Emma to make Emma feel guilty and finally to meet her master.

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Every year, in that small town there will be a very brutal attack by werewolves.

However, this monstrous creature usually lives deep in the forest and rarely roams outside its territory just to harm humans.

To avoid the residents from being caught by them, Emma will meet a young man from the neighboring village next door at the entrance of the forest. Unfortunately, that day, they met a werewolf.

"A-after all, Damian has been infected by that werewolf... Because of that, I can't be with him anymore." Emma closed the door guiltily as she finished her sentence. Holding back and brushing off her guilt towards Damian, Emma walked away from the door as if the maid had never begged her to see Damian.

The servant came home sad because he could not invite Emma to meet his master. As he got closer around his house, he was surprised to find a group of people gathered in front of his house, everyone there holding a fire torch in one of their hands.

"Are you all crazy?! What are you guys planning right now??" The maid charged in front of the group of people but was quickly pushed to the ground by the several people.

To be continued