Seeing Fang Cheng lie back down, Oni Takizawa finally relaxed a little.
His strength still hadn't fully recovered. Dealing with this Vampire who'd appeared out of nowhere would be quite a hassle.
"Great. Now you're finally willing to let me finish, right?"
Oni Takizawa lay on his side on the floor, propping up his head with one hand. He looked perfectly at ease.
"Oh, Your Highness, I'm your subordinate."
Tsukikage Hoshi protested, "Why did you scheme against me too?"
"You?"
Oni Takizawa looked at her with a mocking glint. "When the Ghost Lord sent you to work under me, didn't he tell you to keep an eye on me?"
Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori stared at her in surprise. How had they never heard about this?
Tsukikage Hoshi's expression stiffened slightly. The Ghost Lord had indeed hinted back then that she should keep a close watch on Oni Takizawa and report anything unusual immediately.
But all these years, Oni Takizawa had always kept to himself and never shown anything out of the ordinary. If anything, he'd only grown more useless.
If he hadn't brought it up now, Tsukikage Hoshi might have completely forgotten about it.
There was a lot more to this than met the eye.
Tsukikage Hoshi had started working under Oni Takizawa eighteen years ago. Fang Cheng had only just been "born" at the time.
In other words, the Ghost Lord had been wary of Oni Takizawa eighteen years ago, when he'd still been a child.
Oni Yunjie had already calmed down and realized that there had to be a complicated backstory here, one she didn't know about.
"You said the throne had always been yours."
She suddenly asked, "What exactly do you mean?"
Oni Takizawa turned his head toward her. "I mean exactly what I said."
"That's