Chapter 52 - THE WITCH BECOME CURIOUS

"You're here."

The King walked into the room that housed his proudly throne and noticed the presence of Freya, the palace witch, who already awaiting him there with a boring look plastered in her face. In fact, he just about to call her to come and see him.

"I know you will ask me to meet you after you come back. Just me being kind enough to save your energy from screaming, talking about my punctuality." Freya said in sarcasm.

"I'm glad for once, you finally use your head to think."

"Tch." Freya began to feel disgusted.

They had only met for a few seconds, but the atmosphere there had already begun to show signs of war. It's all because, as usual, that King never the one that take her sarcasm. In the end she is the one that will be insulted and hurt by it.

"So, you meet the girl. How was she?" Freya get into the business. Not wanting to let her engross with the anger that started to build in inside her heart before her ultimate goal today was achieved.

King Liam handed an envelope to the witch which she took that willingly. She actually already knows what was the thing that keeping inside that envelope anyway.

"Find out if you can see her. Her future or past. Anything."

King Liam directed her as always, even though the witch already knows what to do. It's not the first time they are doing this, and resulted in making Freya stare at King Liam with a strong, killer look. After all, she was the one who taught the King about the ritual long ago.

'That ungrateful brat! ', Freya cursing in her heart and mind.

She actually couldn't stand being told to do this and that, and love to taking her long time to do something as one of her ways to rebel against the King, but this time is different. She was also actually curious about the girl who suddenly appeared in the land.

Her hand now opened the envelope that provided. There were several strands of hair in it which actually belonged to the girl . When and how King Liam took it, no one knew but himself.

"Well, are you sure this is hers?" Deliberately she started teasing.

"Just do your job. I didn't have time to entertain you." The King never the one, like to humor anybody.

Freya just lets it slide on whatever the King said with a loud laugh. She just teases as she suddenly remembers before, when they did this for the first time, the King actually brings an animal fur and not the human hair. Which is entertaining her for years every time she remembers that.

After she calms down abruptly, with a sudden serious face, she started asking the King more detail.

"Her name, age, her mother's name." Freya asks while her hand touching her crystal ball that she already prepared earlier before the King is arrived.

"Jieun. 23. Aera." The King answer is just like his personality. Short and rough.

Hearing the mother's name making Freya smirking while looking at the King, who is still wearing his non-expression face. Cruel. That's what crosses her mind every time she try to find something on that face.

"How is she? Does she look a lot like her mother?" Freya tries to make conversation about that, even she know the King didn't like that.

"You better start your work now or you may find that your head is no longer in your body anymore." King Liam threatening her. And he means it. Every word that he utters.

"Humph! You said like you can do it. You can never kill me." Freya confidently said.

Even the King has a power, his power cannot suppress her the witch. Sometime she wonders where he got that confident to treat her like that. It's not just one and two times but he has done that every single time. Like he actually has something, some weapon in his sleeve that could kill her just like that.

It was King Liam's turn to smirk.

"Don't forget that we are enemy before anything. You should not let your guard down." Their eyes now clashing with each other full with hatred. Both realizing that very well.

No more wasting time Freya is the one break the stare and start performing her ritual there.

"Apparaître praeteritum futurum."

She said her spell, which means appear the past and future.

Her eyes now losing the white, and are shrouded in thick blackness. Her hand that's holding the girl's hair, let out a black looking flame that continued to burn until the hair is disappeared completely. Thick black smoke began to float over her hand after that.

With that, she blew the smoke towards the crystal ball. Hoping that she can take a look into the girl's life.

Freya, watching intently to the crystal ball until the vein around her eyes seem to pop out, even visible to the King now.

Unsatisfied, she took another last strand of the girl's hair and called her spell again. The same ritual.

"Argh!" Freya finally screaming.

She hit strongly the table there, where her crystal ball are, with both her hands until her crystal ball fall down to the floor and split in two due to her anger.

Then, she started to grab her long dry looking hair so hard that it became tangled.

"Again?" King Liam with his hand fold together said in mocking voice. "Seems like your power is not that strong to beat the 'special one'."

Unable to contain her heart when mocked, Freya is rushing towards the King, choking him there. But the King didn't even sweat, in fast he reached his knife around his spine that already penetrated with the black magic and scrape the witch in the stomach. Just enough to make the witch to let go of him.

"Argh! You! How dare you!" Freya now screamed in pain.

"Why are you going berserk when you know this probably happen. You can't see Lady Aera past and future also before." Casually King Liam said even though he had just been attacked by the witch. He then put the knife back in its place.

This is not the first time they fight like that after all. Both of them know how much they hate each other. This is must be what happen when you work with your enemy. Each of them must be prepared for the worst case scenario.

With a sour face, Freya looked at the man who was often to be the one who went crazy when something didn't go his way.

"And why are you suddenly become so positive now?" Freya asked, still in her frustration mood.

She holds her wounds there. Luckily, it's not a deep one. The man uses to stab her worst than that. Well, it also her fault, introducing black magic to the man before. She know in silence the man practiced black magic behind her and no doubt that the man will use that to her.

She can't believe there's someone else, rather than Aera that she can't see their all the time life. It's like insulting indirectly to her power. Which, she cannot accept that.

"I already know this will be the result, but its not harm to try. Its been said that her father is someone in the Elysium Land. Probably one of his traits protecting her."

"Elysium Land? Her father?" Freya chuckle.

No wonder she has it hard. People in Elysium Land in the higher rank are powerful enough to suppress her power. And she hates it. After all, they are enemies since time immemorial.

"If that's so, her father probably someone in the higher rank." Freya start assuming. "I need to see her in person. This... lady Jieun. Her history and everything makes me curious enough."

"The engagement party will be held next week. You can see her around the time. But make sure you're not scaring her. I don't want her to get the wrong ideas."

"Huh... The King is finally afraid of something?"

"I don't want to have a problem with Eun-Woo anymore. Furthermore, this is beneficial to you also. Don't ever forget that. You hate it when I remind you about that but you are the one who asks to be reminded."

Freya just keeps silent after that. Think of something.

"You said she got a power. In that case she is different from her mother. What kind of power is that?" Freya asks really want to know. She just remembers about that.

"Healing power. Something that I never saw and feel before." King Liam said while observing his hand. The hand that Jieun heals. He actually still can feel the soothe feeling when the girl healing him.

Jaw-dropping. Freya is definitely amazing after hearing that. As she finds it so weird.

"Healing power? You mean she can go around and heal people just like that?"

"Don't ask something so stupid." King Liam snorted angrily. They are not a child to discuss that childish question.

"She was born with no basic power and skill, but suddenly she got that healing power? Power that never once existed in this land. This is so... interesting. The girl is really making me all curious." Freya cannot hide her eagerness to know the girl. She can't wait to come face to face with her. It's not that long now.

Before the meeting ended, King Liam wanted to ask something that make him all curious.

Before going to the Hilleo Village, he actually asks the witch opinion, about who he should pair the girl with even though he already decides by himself that Eun-Woo will be the one. And Eun-Woo also already said his approval. That's easy. But, to know second opinion, is never hurt anyway. To his surprise, without doubt the witch said the fourth prince is the most suitable. But at the time, he did not ask her why.

"Your reason, choosing Eun-Woo to pair with the girl. Why?"

The question sounded like an interrogation like usual now heard. And the witch didn't feel bother to answer.

"Why? Because its Eun-Woo fate. To meeting and knowing her. That's why."

When she looks at Eun-Woo life, years before, when the King brought him to the palace, she knows that he will meet some girl that he cannot avoid and spend the rest of his life with, and Freya know this is the time. She can feel it.

The witch's prophecy is not telling the hundred per cent story of one's life, but enough to make choices, whether to avoid or continue with the fate.

"Elaborate." King Liam was not satisfied with the overly brief explanation. Well, even though he always did that to others.

"You said it's hard to control Eun-Woo, and now you find the perfect tool for it. That girl, will make Eun-Woo living in heaven and hell at the same time. Its probably some new epic love story if I must say. Sad and happy at the same time. Probably surpass yours. The pitiful one."

King Liam narrowed his eyes now. Doesn't like where the conversation is leading.

But before the King decides to do something, or screaming as he usually does, Freya has already gone. Disappear to the thin air.. Making the King sigh roughly trying to contain his anger that started to boil.