粉红的窗帘

"What\'s happening? Why didn\'t you send this month\'s shipment of test subjects?"

It was a beautiful yet terrifying sound. No one could have guessed that this voice belonged to a well-known cursed duchess who massacred more than hundreds of innocent kids and women, one of the most despicable and disgusting beings.

"My lady, we got attacked, and our commander got captured by the elven army, that\'s why we couldn\'t deliver this month\'s quota," Making excuses, one who escaped before the camp got attacked by Nikol and others said with a timid tone.

She was worried about how their duchess would react to this.

"Haaaa? Why would you try to attack the elven kingdom, didn\'t I order your group to wait until we get orders from above?"

She was angered by how irresponsible they were.

"Lady Ibalina, humans attacked us and rescued some elf kids, we wanted to capture them before humans join with elves but it was too late," As soon as the messenger said those words, Duchess jumped from her chair with anger.

"Humans, you say, how did they get here? Wait, first of all, why are they here, damn it," They knew the last thing they wanted was all the races they attacked getting together to fight against them.

They knew moment every race decided to build an alliance, it will be their end and demise.

Humans were too good at close-range and innovations, and Elves were really good at long-range and magic. Ibalina couldn\'t help but see this duo as a deadly combination for them as they make up for their lack of skills when they are together.

"Damn it, what\'s Nafina doing without keeping humans under her control? Why should I deal with her part too?" Lying on her chair with an exhausted look, she decided to write about this to the other two duchesses as she foreshadowed some disaster from this.

"Girls, come here for a minute," Ibalina shouted as two girls came into her hut, they didn\'t even question why they got invited as they stood there like statues until Ibalina gave her orders.

"Top priority orders, ask everyone to get ready to attack the elven kingdom including the other two duchesses, we need to remove this from the root," Hearing their leaders order, they got ready to leave the room only to be interrupted by the messenger girl from the camp.

"Lady Ibalina, I have something else to report,"

"What is it?"

The whole hut was awkwardly silent indicating the seriousness of this conversation.

"They had two things which lead to our defeat,"

"Firstly, elves had a wall which could attack us, it is absolute defence and offence at the same time. Our commander got captured by one of their strange magic,"

Ibalina listened to her words carefully. She wasn\'t a foolish leader to order her girls to charge blindly without even doing a background check on elves.

"And what\'s the second one?" With a curious face, she questioned.

"A stone, on my way here I got attacked by two elves, they had a shining stone on their neck which prevented me from using curse magic, as soon as I used it, my magic automatically got weakened,"

Everyone in the room gasped upon hearing about this. This was the most disturbing for them, not being able to use magic meant they couldn\'t reach their full potential while battling.

"What did you say it felt like?"

"It sucked my curse almost like-" She paused for a minute seen Ibalina\'s face.

"Our mortal enemy, the thing our queen wanted to destroy a few years ago, light magic," It wasn\'t hard for the duchess to come to this conclusion as she already knew about it from Eldora even though she didn\'t personally face it herself.

\'Damn it, I thought queen killed the last light mage, did she survive?\'

Thinking to herself about what to do from now on, she ordered two girls standing in front of her waiting for her orders.

"Orders remain the same, ask the other two duchesses two send support, and we will use them, it\'s not complete yet but if they can counter our attacks, it\'s dangerous,"

As soon as Ibalina gave her orders, they left after giving her a little bow showing respect.

"You can go, make sure to ask your vice commander to change bases, if they send spies that means they are going to attack your base,"

"Yes, my lady,"

Ibalina smiled a little while walking up to the table near her and took a letter which looked just like a piece of dried leaf.

"We are so close, I won\'t allow anyone to disrupt our queen\'s plan," Renewing her motivation, Ibalina took her seat back with a grin while planning different scenarios in her mind.

***

"Hehe, don\'t look at her," Alva and Emily kept staring at Zenda who had a reddened face.

She didn\'t know exactly, why they were looking at her like that but even she could imagine the reason.

"How was it? You visited heaven yesterday right?" Tired of just staring, Alva questioned as she was curious.

Everyone in the kingdom knew what happened between Zenda and Nikol since their voice was too loud. Some even thought it was grunting from wild animals by how loud they were.

*Pfft

"What do you mean?" Zenda didn\'t know how everyone knew about this. She had no idea how loud she was since halfway along the second round, she already lost her consciousness and started to moan like an animal whenever Nikol moved his hips.

She tried to act ignorant but even Lydia had a little grin on her face.

They were having not-so-grand breakfast at the same table with everyone looking at Zenda for answers. Especially Tisha who looked more and more curious every time, she saw how different her usual stern and upright commander is acting.

"Well, I don\'t blame you after experiencing that amazing night, you will feel embarrassed to talk about it, same happened to me, you will quickly get used to it, all of us are sisters who got tamed by the same rod,"

The way Alva put it, even Lydia felt a little embarrassed. Emily didn\'t react much as she didn\'t even mind having sex in front of the whole town as long as she had Nikol.

"Girls, don\'t tease her too much, look she\'s red like she\'s about to explode," Nikol who looked at everything with interest decided to support Zenda.

"I\'m not!"

Everyone was having a great time at this breakfast except for one person, Tisha didn\'t know why but she felt sad. She wanted to be by side of Nikol but Tisha knew she can\'t do it since she was a queen who had the responsibility of a whole kingdom and because she was a high elf.

Nikol didn\'t even notice this because of how good Tisha was at hiding her feelings. She had a smile which looked even brighter than the morning sun but inside she was sad with her heart sinking in the sea of sadness.

"Where\'s Treiya?" Finishing their breakfast and thanking nature for giving them this wonderful fruit, Nikol questioned as they didn\'t have time to relax.

"Early in the morning, she decided to practice with our girls," Tisha answered his question. Normally Zenda would be the one to know about this information but she couldn\'t even walk straight without limping in the morning, so she had no idea about it.

"Good," With Nikol\'s words, everyone went silent. It almost looked like they were about to drop a huge bomb on each other.

"Tisha, Zenda, I need help from you two,"

"What\'s it?" Both of them felt strange, they knew this was something big as everyone in the room had serious faces.

"I need you two to gather elves and get ready for the huge war, I\'m going back to the human kingdom for a little bit since I promised Usha and Eva, that I will come back within two weeks,"

Zenda and Tisha both gasped upon hearing this. For a moment, they almost forgot that Nikol is not an elf and he was not from the elven kingdom because of how close they were.

"You will go? But-"

They tried to argue but Nikol quickly stopped them as he requested them to let him complete his speech.

"Listen, I thought really hard about this, I have the responsibility of acting as an intermediator between human and elven races and doing scared impregnation," Everyone listened to his words carefully as they didn\'t want to miss anything.

"I can\'t abandon one race and favour another, I can\'t also travel between two kingdoms from time to time and waste our time, so I came to this conclusion,

"Humans will also move to the elven kingdom, this is a huge kingdom with enough space to accommodate at least another one hundred thousand people, so I thought this will be the best option, what do you think?"

Hearing his words, some of them looked conflicted especially Alva and Zenda. On the other hand, Tisha, Lydia, and Emily didn\'t even bother to hide their happy faces as they quickly agreed with their words.

"But that\'s our motherland, I don\'t think mother will agree with this," Alva knew how much Usha loved her city.

In the same way, Zenda felt conflicted because if humans moved into the elven kingdom, then it won\'t be an elven kingdom anymore.

"I understand your concern but listen, if we live together it will be easy for us to protect each other and believe me when I say, I don\'t want anything happening to either of you when I\'m absent, I don\'t want to feel that bitter feeling again, besides this heavenly elven wall is the best defence I\'ve seen in this land, it\'s such a waste for us to ignore it and live in a shabby rock wall,"

Nikol\'s words made sense to everyone in the room. Even Zenda wanted everyone to be safe including her newfound partner and human friends.

"Ahhhhh~ whatever, if the queen is ok with that, I don\'t mind," In the end, even Zenda had to give up.

"I don\'t know yet, let\'s see what mother tell," Alva was the only one who was still conflicted but Nikol was confident in convincing her, so he just ignored it for now.