The words echoed out in the realm at the same time as they both stared at each other in slight perplexity, before Ryuk’s chuckle followed.
"I guess we both have a lot to catch up on, don’t we?" And she nodded.
"So... wanna tell me about it?" he asked, moving to one of the chains that bound her figure.
"Don’t. It will..." Isha tried to warn, but it was too late.
Ryuk’s hand grabbed the chains.
CRAAACKKLLLLEEE
Immediately, a powerful crackle of white-colored electricity bathed his figure,
But much to Isha’s disbelief, it was like a fancy spark of white light simply danced all around Ryuk.
His expression never changed at all.
He reached his second hand out, the sparks increasing in magnitude, only to be broken apart and shattered to pieces when Ryuk pinched them with his draconic claws.
This led to Isha’s left hand finally falling from its outstretched position.
"I’m sorry, you were saying?" he asked, moving back to her and breaking the remaining chains around her wrist.
Her wrists were red from the hard bondage, and when he touched them, he felt her wince in pain slightly.
"It hurts?" he asked, but she shook her head.
"Just... sore."
"So, I’m guessing you reached the Beast Realm?" he asked, moving to the other side.
The same scene of grabbing, sparkling white electricity, and the chains breaking apart repeated itself.
This time, she could move her free hands, propping herself free from the remaining chain on her wrist.
"We did. About three months ago," she said, and Ryuk hummed, slashing off the chains binding her ankles.
But Isha didn’t remain floating in the sky; she fell instead, only to be grabbed by him as he gently cracked the chains around her ankles, completely freeing her from them.
"I can sense quite a lot of Wyverns around," Ryuk said, and the instant he completed that,
The realm sky shattered like a mirror, and landing upon the surface were gigantic, scaled claws.
A couple of frost wyverns had their head emerging a moment later, their piercing silvery eyes immediately locking down on both Ryuk and Isha.
"The Accursed has broken free!"
"Alert the Royals!"
One of the Snow Wyverns’ orders rang out through the realm, as the other Wyverns tried to leave.
"Halt."
Ryuk ordered, and immediately the Wyverns paused where they were.
Those trying to go back to alert paused in their steps.
Those who were preparing to make a move on Ryuk also halted mid-motion.
’Th...this...A Monarch’s Order!!?
Their piercing silvery eyes soon painted in complete shock when they watched Ryuk continue his walk, Isha in his arms.
And they could do nothing but watch him pass right under their nose.
"For some reason, I can’t seem to smell that smelly cat close by," Ryuk muttered with squinted eyes, extending his senses to search for Void, but the rascal was surprisingly nowhere to be found.
"He was returned to the Void Cats," Isha responded. Ryuk muttered a slight "O"
’I thought he had been locked in some special cage or something,’
"And Raksha?" He asked, eyes blinking with curiosity.
"She got banned from appearing within a kilometer distance of the Wyvernoid Kingdom, so she had no choice but to leave," Isha said, and Ryuk’s eyes dimmed.
"That sounds hard," he muttered beneath his breath.
His eyes brightened up once more when another thought popped into his head,
"How about Elder Celine, and the Snow Wyverns from Endearth. Hope they’re reintegrating into the Kingdom without much problem."
"They were never allowed to step in before they were denied and told to leave or risk imprisonment," Isha replied.
"Tell me they didn’t return to Endearth..." he said, and she shook her head.
"I’m not sure. I never got a chance to talk to her or them before getting locked up," she explained.
[Sounds like they really got hit with the worst case scenario,]
The system panel blinked before Ryuk’s furrowed gaze.
’Yeah, things never worked out the way I thought they would at all,’
He had thought Elder Celine and the Frost Wyverns would have no problem being allowed into the Wyvernoid Kingdom.
And while he wasn’t sure, Raksahsa would stay with them.
He at least expected Isha and Void to be together with Elder Celine.
But this?
"So You’re The Low-life She Bonded With?"
A voice brimming with utmost disdain suddenly echoed through the silvery corridor, and Ryuk turned behind him, watching a being descending.
A white haired humanoid man, with scales of white covering half his face.
He donned white priestly-looking robes, dotted with expensive-looking gems.
A look, and it was clear to the eye that he was far from ordinary.
While he had an order for everything to halt, the being didn’t seem to be affected by it at all, and Ryuk gave his disdainful face a deadpan stare before looking away from him.
He turned to Isha:
"We have to look for Elder Celine and the Frost Wyverns. Hopefully, they didn’t go far from the Kingdom."
"But before that, you..."
"YOU PATHETIC LOWLIFE!"
"YOU DARE TO IGNORE ME!?"
The curse was so loud it drowned out Ryuk’s words, and he noticed Isha wincing in pain from the shockwave that followed the roar.
He allowed the shockwave to pass before he continued
"You need to get—"
"YOU LOW—"
The words had not reached halfway when—
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
The sound of something tearing through an object rang out as the man felt something hot around his chest.
"Huh?"
He turned his head down, and there he found a pair of cold purple eyes staring at him.
His mouth opened, and white blood came flooding out.
The Frost Wyverns, who were paused in their positions, had their eyes widen to the maximum as they got to witness the full scene.
The scene of the Invader’s right hand covered in white scales, having torn right through their leader’s chest, and more horrific, the silvery-white heart that was still pumping within those bloody claws.
"You have my attention now. Happy?"
Ryuk whispered coldly, ripping out his hand as the man fell from the sky like a sack, spasming on the ground.
"YOU!"
"YOU!"
He kept spamming the word like a broken record, unable to believe the sight of what ought to be his own heart pumping within the claws of one he had regarded as low-life.
He watched in even more horror when Ryuk’s claws slowly folded into the heart and,
"DON’T!"
BUUUUUURRRSSST!