The Punisher

Just as his question landed, the two immediately stiffen. One was confused while the other one tremble.

That question was a big blow for Trisha, causing her face to slightly shaken. She bit her lower lips and hurriedly repair her broken expression.

She lowered her eyes. "Master, I don't know what you are talking about."

Raja glances at her and shifted his gaze to the red haired youth who remain calm and serene. There is no other countenance in his jade like face.

"Jungle of Aroha, Fifty members of tribe. All dead by the ambush. Three traitors, one was the cousin who frame you. Running away from the tribe for almost fifteen days. Arriving at the house of Obelima and immediately stole the identity of the maid named Trisha. So tell me, what is the shape-shifter doing here?"

Every sentence and words cause an uproar on the maid's fix expression. Her fist tremble, and her lips never stop shaking. She doesn't know how the hell did this youth know all of that. She stared at the lad in horror. Furthermore, she gritted her teeth and straight away kneeled with her face on the ground.

"I'm sorry for lying to you, master! I have no other way!"her lips tremble. This person in front of her was seriously frightening!

Raja unconsciously gulped. He had no idea that his new master was this powerful. Despite his angelic appearance, he was truthfully the son of the Duke! Now, he started to feel pressure.

Sylvester glances at the kneeling maid. Together with the angry sun reflecting his exquisite face. He looks like a god punishing some unfaithful servant. With or without a reason, his aura will let them willingly accept the consequences he will construct.

He spoke in a low tone. "Rise."

The maid unwillingly obeyed. She lifted her chin, what she saw was a pair of dark red eyes glowing. Unconsciously, she didn't notice that her appearance change to her real form.

Raja gasped in horror. The ugly maid just now change into a young boy who look like an eighteen or seventeen years old. He had green hair and emerald eyes, making him appear harmless.

Sylvester smiled gently. "What's your true name?"

The maid who turns into a young man widened his eyes. He raised his hands, and he notices that his skin color change. He immediately glanced at the youth with an extremely terrifying appearance. Just who is this red haired lad?!

"I-I'm Elvis m-master!"he answered automatically.

"Good. From now on, you are my servant."

Elvis stared at the youth for a long time. That, that means that he won't punish him, right? He was accepting him as a servant!

With a heavy heart, he hurriedly express his gratitude. "I will serve you with all my life, master!"

Sylvester gave a satisfied smile and nodded. He long knew that this shape-shifter in front of him carried a deep grievance within his heart. Taste like sweet anger, sour pain and bitter heartbreak cooking a recipe of an unripe revenge. He licks his lips. It was truly delicious!

Raja flustered at the sudden action of the youth. He can't help but unintentionally stared at the red, moist lips of his new master. He immediately cleared his thoughts. Such a powerful master, he will straight away die if his master know his dirty thoughts.

In fact, Sylvester knows this naive knight thinking. He shifted his gaze to him. "Come here."

"M-Me?!"

Sylvester nodded. Raja feels his heart tremble. He doesn't know if his master will also reveal his secret! He walked over towards Sylvester, but he avoided meeting those pair of demonic eyes.

"Lean closer to me."his voice was charming and tantalizing.

The knight gulped and lowered his head. But he didn't expect the next movement of the youth. Sylvester pulled the neck of the knight closer to him and give a hard bit into his open skin.

Raja almost scream, but some invisible force blocked his mouth. His eyes closed and felt the pain of the sharp object on his neck. But instead of pulling away, he suddenly feels paralyzed. Despite the pain, there is freshness building inside in his body that he never felt before. He didn't know what his master just did to him.

Elvis almost jumped in horror by the action of the youth. When he noticed the knight subconsciously moaned, he calmed down. Because the gloomy atmosphere in this knight was slowly disappearing. Like a snake that was crawling outside in his body where the youth was biting. His eyes widened. In his eighteen years of his life, he knew nothing about the power of his new master has.

Sylvester feels a negative flow in his body while continuously sipping every negative mana of this knight. His eyes glowed red until he let go of the stunned knight.

Raja touched the wound on his neck, but to his surprise he doesn't feel any wound or pain.

His eyes gawked at the youth in shocked. "M-Master y-you—"

"You are curse. I cured you by removing the negative mana in your body. Now, try to feel the new mana in your body." Sylvester explain.

Raja hurriedly manipulate his mana and he notices that he can now feel the mana in his core. In his early teens, his mana was completely sealed by an unknown energy. His parents almost consult all of the expert, but none can cure him. He shifted from being a mage to a knight, but somehow he will felt gloomy or sad without a reason. No one knew the reason, but this youth in front of him was able to cure him without the slight sweats! He looked at his master in admiration.

"But master, the curse now transferred to you?" Elvis asked.

Raja gazed at the youth in worry. He doesn't know what he feels right now. His curse was cured, but his master...

Sylvester give them a gentle smile, looking serene and sincere. "Unlike you, I don't have mana or spirit energy."

Raja and Elvis stared at him in confuse. No mana? Then how can he construct those amazing spells?

Sylvester knew what they were thinking. His eyes glow, some dark shadow encircling him. His dress and hair flutter through the wind, giving him an appearance that was full of evilness. Yet his eyes stayed in calmness that does not suit to the aura he was giving now. But unconsciously, this new combined calmness and evilness gave them a unique temptation that one eyes can't look away.

Raja and Elvis gaze at the youth. All the strands of hair in their body rise. The coldness was sticking to their skin. But they seem like willingly surrendered in the evil. The youth in front of them was both temptation and disaster!

"Instead of mana..."he slightly smiled. "I was fed by the negative energy."

"The pain of your suffering is my snacks, the agony in your hearts was my lunch, the evilness in your mind was my dinner. Every thoughts, action, emotion that produced some wickedness in any body was my supply and nourishment."

"I am not feed by your mana core nor elemental core. I am living inside in your hearts and minds."

"I am your pain, I am your sin, I am the result of your struggle and revenge. Because unlike you, I am not a mage, a warrior, a magus or a soul soldier." Sylvester narrowed his eyes to them. "Because some people like me in this world are called..."

"The punishers."