Chapter 915: Over Possessive?
She was right.
Ryuk had indeed never been told anything by Zaffree, just that they would be going somewhere and he was accompanying her.
He didn’t know about the Krakenoid Kingdom, nor was he aware of its king being her father, nor her mother being a Mermaid.
“I’m sorry.”
“You’ll have to blame her father for her impulsive acts,” she said, turning to look at King Yorimunda, who had his brows furrowed at her.
But then she furrowed hers in return, and immediately his expression faltered as he gave up.
He turned to look to the side instead, avoiding her gaze.
[For a being as powerful as he is, he does seem to fear his wife.]
The system panel blinked before Ryuk’s eyes.
“He might be a tyrannical king,” the woman said to Ryuk,
“But he is also a good man.”
‘That doesn’t even go together,’ Ryuk thought quietly before he turned away from her, looking at Zaffeee.
He communicated telepatically,
“I cannot stand the presence of your father, but… You deserve time with your parents.”
“Stay as long as you want, I will be around the kingdom.”
“Ryuk, I…”
In the next moment,
VROOOOOM!
The space where Ryuk stood collapsed in, covering him, and when the water settled, he was no longer there.
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Stepping out, he appeared right above the entire Krakenoid Kingdom, overseeing it all.
His brows creased at the center building that held that crowned being, Zaffre’s father.
For some reason, he felt like raking his claws through that man’s heart and ripping it out in cold blood.
He truly couldn’t stand having him around. Even after the woman had lessened the pressure, his bloodlust refused to calm.
[You’re very possessive.]
The system suddenly noted as Ryuk furrowed his eyebrows, silently floating away.
‘Am I?’ he replied.
Possessiveness as a topic had never occurred to him before.
[Yes. You are. Especially to those you consider yours, even though you don’t show that much possessiveness to them in person.]
“What made you say that?”
[Back when Morgaine had kneeled before that elder of her clan, the second she was out, you crushed him to the ground, almost killing him in the end.]
[The same thing is repeating with Zaffre now.]
It said, having noticed a pattern that had escaped even Ryuk.
Truly, seeing Morgaine kneeling before Elder Nogarasukue had sent him into a frenzy, and he indeed felt like killing him off back then.
But he had an inkling why that was, and it was different from the system’s:
“I’m not very possessive,” he replied.
“I just consider kneeling as a degrading act. When Morgaine had kneeled before that elder, he had looked down upon her from his throne with a higher gaze.”
“It wasn’t the act of kneeling, but that degrading stance and gaze that made me want to kill him.”
“The same is true for Zaffre.”
“Kneeling for a being who couldn’t even be bothered to open his eyes to honour her kneeling.”
“Even if he is her father, I still cannot stand that.”
“In a way, kneeling before a person to me is like a way to show they’re superior to you.”
“And that’s something I hate to see being done to my own.
“So even if that can be considered being possessive, I think it’s the right amount of possessiveness.”
He added, and the system didn’t try to argue with it.
Indeed, what type of man will allow others to walk over his own or look at them with a condescending gaze?
Having left the castle, he swam aimlessly around, and by the second, he continued swimming farther and farther away from the krakenoid kingdom.
After some time,
‘Hmmm,’ he hummed silently, noticing the water had somehow gotten even darker and there was suddenly a higher concentration of abyssal energy in the water.
But that didn’t bother him; it only made his Knullic side even more comfortable due to the abyssal energy.
But soon enough he came across a wall.
A truly bizarre wall that went as high as Ryuk could see.
When his hand touched the wall, his eyes flickered with surprise:
This wasn’t a wall.
It was…
[Dead bones.]
Exactly.
It was bones stacked up so high they formed a gigantic wall that stretched up for as far as his exceptional sight could see.
Krakens were huge creatures, so he didn’t find it surprising that killing enough could form such bones, but that also made him curious.
Why did so many Krakens die?
And was the wall a dead end or a divider?
To answer the question, Ryuk swam up, but after almost an hour of swimming, the wall continued, and he never reached the surface at all.
That was when it occurred to him.
‘It’s like a loop. You keep going up only to somehow arrive where you started, and then go up and get thrown back to where you began again.’
‘There’s probably some runic formation around,’ Ryuk mused to himself, looking at the walls.
[Just leave it alone,] the system panel blinked, but that only made Ryuk’s interest kindle.
“I want to know what lies beyond this wall.”
[Why?]
“Just curious.”
[Whatever.]
It said.
In the next moment, Ryuk’s form changed from his previous draconic form to a Knullic form, and in the next moment, his massive dark claws slammed into the wall.
BOOOOOOOM!
The water rippled massively, and he watched as a purple runic wall suddenly appeared all over the bone wall.
It was the loop runic formation.
[Hey, Ryuk.]
“Uh-huh?”
[You know for them to have a wall of bones and even place runic formation all over it, then it’s quite clear it’s not ordinary.]
[If the wall is used to hold something back and you break it apart, you’ll be dooming the entire kingdom for your act of curiosity.]
The system panel flashed, and it wasn’t something Ryuk could ignore.
‘I don’t have to break the runes. I can—’ he said, and in the next moment, his body shifted back to his draconic form.
Ryuk’s hands reached toward the runic line, and it naturally came to a stop.
But then, his body suddenly turned ephemeral.
He lost his physical form, becoming a coalescence of motes of light, and at that moment, Ryuk’s hands also lost their solidity, phasing straight through the formation.
His body instantly underwent the same change, and Ryuk phased completely through the runic formation as if they didn’t exist.
The same occurred for the bone walls, and he completely disappeared from the Krakenoid area of the Kingdom.
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