Unseen by me, high within the shadows of the trees and the forest, something watched.
Perched atop an enormous tree, several meters above the ground, a dark figure hid silently. The overlapping shadows of the forest concealed its presence so completely that even if the entire forest were flattened, its silhouette would remain unseen.
Its eyes glowed with an eerie, blood-red light as it gazed down at me.
"Oh? I've caught a prey," the figure whispered softly.
"My, my… judging by his appearance, he seems to be the first to have sensed that thing. A child from a nearby village, perhaps."
The red glow in its eyes intensified.
"Oh… I could make use of him. It wouldn't be so bad to gather children from the lowest levels of society—understanding their structure, their hierarchy. If His Majesty's experiment succeeds…"
The voice faded into silence, unanswered.
[Ragna POV]
And that, my parents said, was how it all began.
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CURSED CHILD POV...
