After he left, Ignius went on to look for the butler and saw that he was helping in the main hall on the first floor. He watched as the man was quietly helping in lifting heavy things and cleaning the whole place. He wanted to tease him but he held himself back because they were in public.
Mr. C noticed the presence of the dragon and took the initiative to approach him. "What is it?"
"Have you seen the master?" the dragon asked. He wanted to report to him what happened to the task that was given to him but he was nowhere to be found.
"He went to visit the council members," the butler answered. "Apparently, Duke Galahad allowed him to deal with those people as he saw fit and the master agreed."
The dragon's eyes sparkled as his mood suddenly became excited, "That sounds fun!"
The butler shook his head at how childish the dragon could be. "Are you going to go after him?" He asked just to make sure that his guess was right.
"Of course, I will!" The dragon's high-pitched voice attracted the attention of the servants but he did not care. At that moment, all he wanted to do was to go and watch the master in action.
"Okay, you may go then and please do not disturb him, just help him when he asks for it, do you understand?" Since the butler couldn't do anything to stop him, it was better to let him go with a reminder.
"I understand!" Ignius saluted before he scurried away and flew into the dark sky.
The butler sighed, "It would be a long night." He turned around and returned to his current task. He must finish it before the master returns.
The first council member that Cygnus visited was one of the two that came with Enrick the last time. It was one of those who had burned all the evidence so that they wouldn't get dragged to the mud when everything came to light. This time though, he would literally be dragging him in the mud.
Cygnus appeared inside the man's bedroom and saw that he was about to go to bed. The man did not even notice that there was another person in the room. He was too relaxed that Cygnus was amused at how he was able to even take a bath and go to sleep after what they did.
"This is truly amusing," his red eyes glowed in the darkness of the room which startled the old man. Even the voice echoed which made him nervous all of a sudden.
"Who are you?" his voice trembled as he started to look around in his room, "how did you get in?"
eaglesnovɐ1,сoМ "That doesn't matter, what I am curious about right now is that how humans can even sleep after they did something so bad?" His voice was not loud but it felt like it was a whisper to the man's ears.
The man continued to look around until he finally locked eyes with those red eyes with an iris that was similar to that of a snake. He trembled like a leaf as those eyes continued to stare at him. He stood up and backed away slowly but a few more steps, he gained momentum and ran towards his room's door.
He tried to twist the knob but it did not budge. He then pounded on the door and started to scream and yet there was no answer from the other side. The old man stopped when he felt the presence behind him.
Beads of sweat started to fall on from his forehead and his heartbeat started to beat faster. The shaking of his body did not stop as he felt a hand being placed on top of his. He was hyper aware of all the movements that the person was doing.
"You feel warm and your heart is going crazy right now. I will tell you something and this will be a secret between us, I hate that all. I despise your warmth and I want to hear your heart stop beating. That's what suits people like you." Cygnus whispered before he took a step back to watch as the old man continued to tremble in fear. "Humans are amusing indeed."
After those words, the old man screamed in agony as he felt his body being torn apart. Splatters of blood stained the door, the walls and the floor. Cygnus watched as the bright red blood flowed out from the man and he even closed his eyes as he listened to the man's fading heartbeat.
"That is too gruesome," Ignius couldn't help but comment. After searching for the master, he finally found him and when he reached the mansion, he heard a scream.
"Gruesome? Yes, that is one way to describe this scene," Cygnus nodded. He turned around and went to the mansion's balcony.
He let the wind caressed his body as he closed his eyes. The smell of dampness from the air slowly soothed his raging blood lust. It took him a few minutes before he could finally open his eyes and look at his surroundings.
"This will slightly become a very long night," he gave the dragon a grin before he himself floated and took off in the air.
The dragon chuckled and followed him closely behind. Throughout the night, Cygnus visited several council member houses and all the people related to the incident were disposed of. All of them died in the same manner. This thrilling event shook the entire Blackwell territory as the morning came.
This event also struck fear to the remaining council members as they convened an emergency meeting to talk about what happened. They were whispering to each other as they looked at the empty seats in the conference room. They were afraid that they might be the next to be found dead.
"What should we do now? Are we all going to die?" one of them asked. The fear could be clearly seen from his face and felt from his voice.
"We should find out who is doing this! I'm sure that the duke has something to do with this!" One of them angrily spoke. This was something that was already in their mind but without proof they couldn't blame the duke for it.
