Chapter 781: The truth from the past
Chapter 781: The truth from the past
Kace looked at Torak and Jedrek back and forth, he was not sure whether he understood their current situation or not.
"Weren't they left to the other realm and stayed there?" Kace frowned. "What do you mean by 'what happened to them?'" he looked at Jedrek. "What happened to them?"
"Tell us Jedrek," Torak spoke and sat down on his previous chair. "We can't go to the battle when we don't trust each other."
"I don't think I want to trust him," Kace complained, but he was rewarded with a glare from Torak. "What? Do you want to trust the person who had hunted you down for years? Just like this? I am sorry, but I am pretty good with holding grudges."
"So what do you want to do with that grudge of yours?" Jedrek sat down on his chair as well, leaving Kace as the only person standing up inside the room. "Do you want to get back at me?"
With his two older brothers sitting, Kace felt like he was being inspected by them. This kind of feeling was pretty annoying. "Can't I?" Kace asked defiantly.
"I don't think you have the guts to kill even a fly now," Jedrek commented rudely. "When Maximus cursed you with these wounds, you didn't kill him. And when Killian hunted you, you didn't kill him as well."
"What you had done were disgusting," Torak gave Jedrek a look. "I would have you killed if you dared to touch my mate."
"You don't have any right to complain when you did nothing to help him." Jedrek glared at Torak. There was a lot of antipathy and bitterness between the three of them.
Torak knew about what Jedrek had done to Kace, but he had to admit that he didn't take his older brother's action into consideration. To put it simply, he didn't want to have anything to do with his brothers.
But the situation was different now.
"He didn't need my help if you didn't do what you had done in the first place," Torak glowered at Jedrek.
"Can we focus on the question; what happened to our parents? Instead of talking about me? I had been through all of that and I didn't need to be reminded again." Kace raised his hands and leaned his back against the damp wall. "I will even the scale with him at the first chance given," he said.
"Do as you please." Jedrek didn't take Kace's words seriously.
After that, silence fell among them before Torak posted the same question. "What happened to our parents? What do you mean when you said you had killed them?"
"What?!" Kace was shocked, he stood straight and glared at Torak hardly. "What do you mean…"
Torak raised his hand to stop Kace's blabbering. "You owe us an explanation, brother."
It had been ages since the last time Jedrek heard that word from Torak. In the past, before Jedrek drove him out of this realm, they were often talking to each other about a lot of things regarding this realm, since Kace was too young to exchange ideas with them.
"I killed them," Jedrek started and this stirred Kace's anger, yet Torak forced him to stay calm and listen to what Jedrek was about to say. "To save you." He nodded to Kace.
"What do you mean to save me?!" Kace didn't seem to understand what Jedrek was saying. It sounded like he was talking in a different language.
"Father wanted to kill you. So, I killed him," Jedrek spoke lightly, as if this fact was not a big deal for him.
"You are a liar!" Kace shouted. However, he couldn't help thinking that what Jedrek had said was the truth.
Despite being the perfect father for the three of them and ruler for this realm, Kace could feel his father's resentment toward him, after all, he was the weakest and softhearted among the three, yet Kace didn't think his own father would kill him.
That was not true, right?
"You want the truth? That is the truth." Jedrek looked at his brother who was in denial, yet he didn't budge or show his sympathy. "I don't think I need to hide it any longer. There are no consequences for me to say this."
"Father would never do that," Torak narrowed his eyes. He had prepared himself for the worse, but he didn't expect this. How could their father want to kill his own flesh and blood?
Lycanthropes upheld kinship more than anything in all the realms, thus Torak couldn't think of any plausible reason why their father would do that to Kace. "What is his reason?"
"Mother," Jedrek replied to him truthfully and started to tell them in light tone, as if he was telling a story and the story didn't involve any murder or violence.
When Diana was pregnant with Kace, she was having a difficult labor on the day she gave birth. And ever since that day, her health started deteriorating.
Janus did everything to save her and sought for help. However, he ended up asking help from the devils. That was his first mistake that led them to the series of catastrophe later.
Janus sold his soul to Mamon in order to prolong Diana's life and in return, Mamon wanted a huge sacrifice. It was the time when Jedrek went berserk, giving crazy orders to execute many creatures in the name of expanding their territory.
Diana's health recovered, but it didn't take much longer before she was sick again. Kace and Torak were not completely aware of this because they were often stayed out of the castle to execute Jedrek's orders.
Meanwhile, their father would appear to be always agreeing to whatever Jedrek's plan. He seemed like a supportive father, who taught his firstborn about how to rule the realm, when the truth; he was the mastermind behind all of that.
And when the deal with the devils didn't work any longer and Diana became even more sick to the extent of leaving the bed became a strenuous effort, Janus met a fae, who told him he needed the guardian angels.