Chapter 94 - Sensitive Queen

"That crone has wings…" Venedette muttered under her breath while watching her kids fight those Crones on their own from the tinted one-way mirror of the library.

"And they can regenerate," Petunia added after arriving beside Venedette inside of the library.

"Venedette, come here. Why are you watching that?" Sir Grand said thoughtfully while patting the chair beside him, away from the window which Venedette followed reluctantly.

"I don't know… I guess I'm still worried about them, you know?"

"I know, but trust the process, hon. Everything will go well." Sir Grand said while patting Venedette's hair softly after arriving beside him.

"I'm so sorry, your highnesses, but may I ask how these creatures were able to pass through our heavy security? Especially since the Queen is currently here, I doubt anyone would be able to pass through our very meticulous security just like that…" Sir Fred said, voicing his opinions out of concern.

"We should ask Fily that.." Venedette only answered since she also has no idea of how they were able to do that.

"Speaking of the Queen, I wonder what she's doing right now? She hadn't called me yet since this morning, which was actually a lot weirder than her calling me every second before…" Petunia murmured while still watching the action outside.

When everything seemed to be dying down, Petunia was able to guess that it was because of the sleeping potion that she gave Von directly.

"I guess he will hate me more now." She thought to herself while looking at the now deserted tower where the Crones and Lei were just fighting before.

"Maybe I should have given the sleeping potion to Lei too? Or will that be too much of a betrayal to them?" Petunia thought and laughed secretly to herself, actually enjoying the thought of betraying Von and Lei for a much better cause which they totally had no idea of.

"I should stop thinking about that." Petunia thought to herself and shook the thoughts out of her mind. 

But the moment Petunia set her eyes outside of the windows, she immediately became alert after seeing the Queen walking towards the direction where the disgusting Crones were.

"Oh no, the Queen!" She thought out loud which alarmed the rest of them inside the library room.

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"What are they doing? Why isn't anyone coming to help? And Petunia… I'm sure she gave something to Von but what was it? Was that the reason why Von's dead-asleep despite being abducted by these ugly demons?" Lei thought to himself while looking at the real palace maids who were just bypassing towards them as if they were invisible.

"They must be using the same trick as earlier." Lei thought again while looking fondly at Von.

"Don't worry Von. I'll find a way to get us out of here, no matter what." He promised and looked around, finding another way to escape with Von even though he was just by himself this time, versus more regenerating Demons from who knows where.

"Where are you even taking us?" he asked the closest Crone from him.

"You're going to be our dinner." She answered honestly with a very stern face, unlike her sisters.

"Caution," Posy said which echoed from all four corners of their very long invisible train while passing through the main hallway of the castle.

"The Queen!" Lei thought to himself while watching the Queen bypass them from the center of the hallway.

"Halma!! Halma help us, please!!! Halm-!" Lei shouted while kicking the invisible wall beside him which made all the Crones glare at him intensively.

Hope sparked in Lei's heart when he saw Halma pause for a minute.

"I think I heard my name." She said which made Lei struggle out of the Crone's hands even more.

"Hma! Hlma!" Lei's muffled voice continued which irritated Halma even more.

"I feel something wrong," Halma said with furrowed eyebrows.

"If you don't keep quiet I will kill your friend in this instance!" the same Crone who threatened Lei earlier whispered which made Lei stiffen at the thought.

"That's right. You just keep quiet, child." She whispered once again, but little to her knowledge, Halma could actually hear her voice as little buzzes like from a bee.

Between Halma's doubts, she decided to use her ultra senses and Supersight just to get the irritating feeling off her skin, but instead of the playful boys just talking bad about her again like what she was expecting, Halma was genuinely surprised to see a lot of concealed presence beside her, near the walls of the hallway as if they all stepped aside to make way for her to pass through.

'Halma!' Lei called to her in his mind desperately.

"What's happening here?" Halma said out loud, making the Crones tremble with fear and even sweat nervously.

"Can she still see us beyond this Illinox?" one of the most nervous Crone asked innocently which made her the first target of Halma who immediately burned her head precisely using her lazer eyes even without actually seeing anything.

"Halma! What are you doing?" Petunia suddenly appeared before Halma, blocking the hole that she just made from that invisible sense-defying box called Illinox.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I heard something weird. Could you also hear them?" Halma asked Petunia with a smile which Petunia only responded with a shrug.

"W-What are you talking about?" Petunia laughed nervously.

"Your senses are beyond advanced right? Because you're a cat."

"Yes…"

"So, could you also feel them?" Halma said while pointing at where she could feel the disruption of senses were at. "I could hear a little buzzing sound from these disrupted areas so I thought there was something here…"

"Uhmm… Are you okay, Halma?" Petunia said as if Halma was saying something ridiculous.

"No?" Halma asked again and when Petunia shook her head, Halma just laughed it off while saying, "Sorry, I think I'm just a little bit too sensitive right now after waking up  late and without you by my side." 

"Oh? Is that so? Why didn't you just call me earlier?" Petunia laughed nervously while signaling the Crones to continue on their way now.

"It's okay, at least you're here now," Halma said and carried Petunia out of her Gummy cloud, just like what she usually does.

"What the hell, Petunia?" Lei's eyebrows furrowed even more while letting himself get dragged by the Crones away from them.

Somehow, he had a feeling that Petunia could actually sense them even from inside this sense-defying structure but for some reason, chose to betray them intentionally.

Why would Petunia do something so despicable such as offering them to the devils?

"I thought we were friends…" Lei contemplated in his mind even more.