Chapter 236
After all, this Witch is already so powerful, and possesses an unfading beauty and an almost endless lifespan.
Of course, the Witch's madness wasn't limited to this.
This later even influenced the Flower Demon King's desires.
One day, just like any other.
She, a little lamb confined in this cramped cage, met the Witch who brought her food.
She was a woman who was exceptionally beautiful, even for a Monster like the Flower Demon King, whose world was shrouded in darkness.
The woman had a pale and cold face, with an exceptionally indifferent gaze, yet one couldn't deny the beauty of her eyes, which faintly shone with a grayish-purple hue.
The Flower Demon King sometimes imagines that a woman's eyes might actually be more vibrant than she sees.
After meeting the Witch, she began to do things she had always taken for granted.
She sat down in front of the woman, picked up the food from the plate the woman was holding, put it in her mouth, but didn't eat it; instead, she gently bit it.
Then she raised her head.
Like a dog with a frisbee in its mouth, she looked into the woman's cold and gloomy eyes, said nothing, and simply waited for what would happen every day.
After a while, the woman, who could be described as tall, slowly bent over.
The woman bit the other half of the food she was holding.
The food has acquired the scent of a woman.
Only then did the Flower Demon King show any interest in swallowing his food.
She found the woman's scent very pleasant and alluring.
If it were to be compared to a flower, it would be a forbidden sweet fragrance that is not strong at first whiff, and whose scent doesn't even spread very far, but which you will find yourself increasingly drawn to as you get closer.
I wonder if her other compatriots think the same way.
The Witch fed her until she finished her meal.
Perhaps the Witch appears cold and merciless towards them most of the time, but they are just a group of ugly and sinful Monster. The reason they haven't been killed is simply because the Witch still needs them.
But only occasionally will the Witch treat them with the gentleness and unpredictability of a mother.
Teach these Monster people about being human, about good and evil they cannot comprehend, and feed them food that is as dry and fragrant as candles.
They were made to stop maintaining their Monster appearance and instead become human, and their bodies were given a bath and they were dressed in human clothes.
That's strange.
Why did they turn into humans?
And why did she feel that the person in the mirror looked familiar, as if she had truly existed as a human being in a certain period of her life?
But how could that be possible?
After she finished eating, the Witch did not leave.
The Flower Demon King knows what to do.
At times like these, she should lie on the Witch's lap like a baby, preferably babbling and exchanging warmth with the Witch to please her wicked sense of Witch.
Perhaps it's not a bad taste.
In the eyes of the Flower Demon King, this woman had gone mad to some extent.
This woman is always trying to become a mother.
While cruelly treating these Monsters, the Witch would also pretend to be a mother and gently take care of them.
Therefore, the Flower Demon King knew that she could use this method of pretending to be a child to please this woman.
Although her figure is not like that of a child.
This was not because she clung to the Witch's embrace, but simply out of fear and obedience to the Witch.
She felt that her compatriots should feel the same way.
Okay, that's a lie.
The Flower Demon King admitted that she found a feeling she had never experienced before in the maternal instincts of the Witch.
Attachment, affection, longing, and the accompanying blind obedience.
What an incredible warmth.
During that long period of time, these Monster people were actually raised by someone like children, which brought a moment of peace to their crazy and twisted minds, allowing them to feel a sense of solace and belonging in this sorrowful life.
Even in this dark prison cell.
Even though that woman never smiled at her.
Even if she is a withered flower that cannot even bask in the sunlight.
If it could gain more recognition and favor from this woman, the Flower Demon King would be willing to wither in the darkness, willing to suffer the bites of aphids, and become a diseased bud with broken branches and withered leaves.
Unfortunately, although she was blinded by desire and impulse for a time, she eventually came to her senses.
That was because of a sudden act of leniency from the Witch.
She was allowed to go outside the secret room for some fresh air.
The Flower Demon King learned for the first time that he had been living in that woman's tower all along.
What she wanted to do, of course, was to see the Witch's room.
Let's see what's inside.
Perhaps there will be something to commemorate their time together, such as the wreath she recently gave to that woman, which she wove with her own Magic Power.
Before this, she rarely used her Magic Power to create beautiful things.
However, when she found the woman, she didn't see the scene she had imagined; instead, she was greatly disappointed.
In the woman's room, you can't see the flower wreaths she made.
Instead, it was filled with things that looked like they belonged to children.
Perhaps they were things that a little girl owned, and all of them were a bit old, with signs of mending, like rag dolls, picture books, hair clips... from childhood to adolescence.
These things have nothing to do with her.
The woman seemed to be deliberately trying to leave a trace, a trace belonging to someone else, spreading things related to memories throughout the place, in order to create the illusion that another person's phantom remained here.
The Flower Demon King is very clever.
The ability to see through other people's desires and hearts is an innate talent of hers.
So she quickly and vaguely began to realize something.
Until she saw a portrait of a young girl, showing her from childhood to adulthood, and portraits of the woman and the girl together from childhood to adulthood, the Flower Demon King finally understood what role she was playing when the woman was playing the role of a mother.
But why are they imprisoned here?
She suddenly remembered that every now and then, women would torture them with the purpose of experimentation, leaving their marks on what they considered the Crystal of their souls.
That's truly enviable.
The Flower Demon King, true to his Monster nature, told her this.
She was jealous of the favoritism the girl received.
She also felt jealous of the good things that other ordinary people possessed.
Furthermore, she was also jealous of the foolishness and naivety of her compatriots.
But so what?
The status quo will not change, but as they mature as lambs, the relationship of being raised and controlled by the Witch will end.
Before that, she couldn't do anything.
She's willing to be deceived by women, as long as she can still be held in their arms every day.
As for why the Witch would offer such false warmth to the lamb?
Who cares?
Perhaps even the Witch herself felt lonely.
Perhaps the Witch herself wanted to draw warmth from these Monsters.
Perhaps there was some tragic glimmer in them that stirred a sliver of pity in this cruel and cold-blooded mother, making her willing to temporarily spare a bit of her love for them.
Until... the day this mother inflicted the greatest pain upon them.
Chapter 41 The Fate of the Demon King
What exactly does the Witch want to do?
That must have been something that even the Demon King would find foolish, yet it was something insignificant and meaningless to others.
The Flower Demon King could probably guess the Witch's desires.
After all, many pitiful and ignorant mortals had made such wishes to them, hoping that these Monsters could use forbidden powers to fulfill them.
The result was predictable.
However, the Witch never confides her thoughts to anyone.
Sometimes, the Flower Demon King wondered what kind of Monster would be created if he injected the Crystal into this woman's body.
What will that Monster try to do next?
Speaking of which, if she used her power to bring the Monster into being born from that woman's desires, wouldn't that make him their child?
Of course, the Flower Demon King wouldn't think that way.
She couldn't possibly believe that the ugly, Monster was her child with that woman.
She couldn't even tolerate the Monster used the word "pregnancy" to describe Witch.
If they really do have a child, it should be a cute and beautiful human baby who inherits all the woman's good qualities.
The word "child"... made the Flower Demon King feel a strange pang of pain.
Will she really tolerate the child?
If she hadn't given birth to that woman, she might have gone mad. What she meant was that the love she wanted wasn't to have Crystal with Witch, but rather for her Crystal to be the Witch herself.
This isn't because the Flower Demon King has gone mad.
Rather, it is precisely the "desire" she possesses that is so.
Royal Capital is utterly pure.
They are the essence of desire, the symbol of a twisted mind; whenever they feel they want something, they will stop at nothing to plunder and possess it.
Since her birth, she and her kin have each harbored their own twisted desires.
That was something they could never understand, something they had lacked since birth, yet something they desperately longed for.
She, a fellow bird, longed to become a "human".
Therefore, the Bird Demon King is the one who hates humans the most among all his kin.
The little bird deeply loathed its ugly appearance, hated its body that couldn't perceive color and taste, and felt uneasy and desperate about its incompleteness.
The other two compatriots also had their own desires.
As for the Flower Demon King himself, he wanted to understand "motherly love".
A mother's warm embrace, the tenderness of a child, the happiness of nurturing and raising flesh and blood—and if the child is someone she loves, then the Flower Demon King believes that it will surely fill the emptiness and void within her Monster.
The topic of the desires of Monster has perhaps been discussed for too long.
A lamb kept in a cage like her could not possibly hope to have Witch as her child.
Let's get back to the topic of Witch.
The Flower Demon King has a vague concept of time.
However, compared to her compatriots, she was perhaps quite good, after all, she knew the concept of one or two years, knew the length of a year, and knew the significance of the alternation of night and day.
But the Flower Demon King had no idea how long she had been imprisoned in this cage.