I’m handsome now?

Elena looked at the headless body that lay on the floor with blood gushing out of it, her nose turned up in slight disgust at the sight.

"Must you be so dramatic?" She asked Haze.

Haze shrugged and put his sword in its sheath. "Not my fault that the sword cuts through anything".

"You don't have to swing so hard and you know". Elena said as she went to pick her daggers, Haze had previously thrown them to distract the guard and they now laid scattered on the floor.

Haze knew she was right, he didn't have to behead every monster or human he fought but he did it regardless.

Was it because it gave him a degree of satisfaction? He supposed he had a level of bitterness that always festered in his heart but it had grown even stronger since he reincarnated to this world.

"What can I say?" He shrugged. "I guess my control is not that perfect yet". He smirked and twisted the doorknob.

Elena studied him with something like pity and a little bit of fear, at first Haze felt anger rise in his chest at the sight of pity on her face, he didn't want sympathy from anybody. He had gone through life as a scrawny little weakling and he didn't get any pity from anybody back then, not that he needed it then, and he definitely didn't need it now. He had more than enough hate in his heart to carry on living.

Then he saw the small bit of fear in her eyes as she looked at him and his mind blanked, it was well concealed but it was there, dormant. Was Elena scared of him?

He studied her and realized she wasn't scared of him, she was scared for him, of what he could do, she was scared that he would snap one day.

She thinks there's something wrong with me. He thought and a frown came on his face. She thinks I'm a ticking time bomb.

The thought shook him but Haze kept his face neutral as he pushed the door open, maybe Elena was right and he was a ticking bomb, a man-made disaster waiting to some day happen to all of them.

The door groaned as it swung open and Haze looked around, worried someone would hear and decide to investigate. A few moments passed and nobody showed up, Haze let out a sigh he didn't know he was holding and looked at Elena. With a nod, he stepped into the rom, Elena closely on his heels.

The queen's bedroom was more normal looking that Haze expected, a giant bed lay in the middle of the room, shrouded in a veil of darkness that looked like shadows had somehow been infused with light.

The queen loves her comfort. He thought and smiled, he didn't know what he expected the queen to sleep on but it definitely wasn't a large mattress.

The room was cluttered with clothes and artifacts of all type, there were crystals, orbs, snail shells, cowries scattered all over different places in the room.

A large mirror stood in the corner of the room, it had a faint glow around it that let Haze know it was no ordinary mirror.

Haze turned to look at Elena and she stared at him with the same curious yet tense look he was sure was on his face too.

He shrugged. "Let's search". He whispered and Elena nodded her agreement.

They both walked quietly into the room and went towards the drawer in the opposite corner of the room.

Haze was busy studying the weird patterns drawn on the floor when Elena suddenly screeched.

Eeeekk.

Haze's hand immediately flew to his sword and he turned to look at her, Elena was standing frozen in shock, she had an horrified look on her face and stared at the bed. Haze followed her gaze to the bed and saw what made her scream.

On the bed lay two naked men, their hands and feet were bound to the bed with chains causing their bodies to form an 'X' shape, their thin dry chests rose and fell rhythmically as they slept unaware of the strangers in the room.

But that wasn't just what made Elena scream, a glance at their lower bodies showed the huge appendages attached to it. Even while they were soft, the two rods were inhumanly thick and long.

A smirk grew on Haze's face. The queen knows how to have fun huh?

He grabbed Elena and yanked her back. "We still have work to do, you know?" He said to her with the smirk still on his face.

Elena's cheeks reddened as she shrugged his arm off and continued walking.

As he got to the corner, Haze passed in front of the mirror. At first he simply walked past it, his reflection barely registering in his mind, then he realized something was wrong, he stopped walking sharply and walked slowly backwards until he was in front of the mirror, Haze's mouth fell open.

The person in the mirror wasn't him, at least it wasn't the him he was used to in his previous world, it wasn't the him that woke up in the bed in Gatti's room.

Haze blinker again to be sure he was seeing properly, the person staring back at him from the mirror looked like him well enough, but it was a slightly taller and more muscular version of him, even his face was different, Haze couldnt believe it but his face was now handsome.

It wasn't a huge level of change that occurred to his body but to Haze, it felt completely different, it was almost like he'd aged one year in the few weeks he'd spent in this world.

Why am I changing? And why am I improving at such a fast rate? Haze thought, could it be that the system was improving his physical looks too?

"When you're done checking yourself out, feel free to come search for the ring". Elena whispered to him and Haze jumped, he hastily left the mirror and headed towards her.