Chapter 13

"Huh? W-what? W-werewolf? What does that mean?" Sera was shocked to hear Claude's confession about who they really were.

Her eyes widened, her mouth opened, she couldn't believe what she had just heard. He looked at Leo with an expression of disbelief and doubt. She had known Keith since childhood, they had lived together for two years and they had been very close until their grandfather's death five years ago.

How could she believe that Keith was a werewolf? It sounded so impossible.

"Keith, tell me what all this means?" asked Ellen. His eyes were wet, his hands were shaking. He really wanted Keith to explain everything to him.

"I'm sorry, Elen! I didn't mean to hide it. But I'm sure you know that it's impossible for me to tell you, my mom and dad about this!" Keith said with a sad face. Confessing this to Elen alone required enormous courage and a lot of deliberation. If it weren't for saving Elen from Charles, Keith would have kept this secret his whole life.

"Impossible! I can't believe it! Since when are you like this?"

"Since grandfather died five years ago. I have memories of my past life, I used to tell you about it often, didn't I? If I always felt that I was reincarnated. As time went on, those memories grew stronger until the peak occurred when grandfather died. I accidentally saw grandfather's body in the coffin before the funeral ceremony, I saw grandfather's body looked unnatural and terrible. His eyeballs were missing and his mouth was torn up to his ear, at that time I knew that grandfather did not die by drowning, but because he was killed by that person! "

"Huh? No way! You're lying, right? Keith, please tell me you're lying!"

"Elen, I'm sure you understand that the only one who can do that is Charles!"

"No! That's impossible!"

"Elen, the Charles you love and the killer monster are two different beings. Edward Charles Robinson, he is the reincarnation of my mortal enemy, Charles Von Mavros for 3000 years. He has lived 79 times and I am the one who always kills him!"

Elen was silent, she couldn't digest what Keith said. Knowing that Keith was a werewolf alone had made him barely believe it and now Keith was saying that Charlie had been reincarnated 79 times.

"Charles used to be a king of a very prosperous dynasty, initially he was a good king. But he was afraid of death, he wanted to live forever so he decided to sell his soul to the devil so that he would gain great power and be blessed with a long life. I was a young priest who dedicated myself to the temple of the gods, but thanks to a prophecy from a fortune teller who was trusted by the king, I was taken to the palace and appointed as the king's personal bodyguard. It was a matter of pride for me, our relationship became very close like brothers and I vowed to devote my life to her. But everything changed when Charles fell in love with a woman named Ruby. She was a very beautiful woman and Charles was so crazy about her. Charles wanted Ruby to be his consort, but Ruby flatly refused the proposal Charles. He didn't love Charles at all and thought of him as king cruel, selfish and cold hearted. Ruby's refusal made Charles angry, he ordered the palace soldiers to drag Ruby to prison and ga ve him heinous tortures until he changed his mind and accepted Charles' proposal. That day, I who could not stand Charles' cruelty tried to take Ruby away. However, my actions were discovered by several palace guards, they reported my actions to Charles. Charles was furious and thought that I had betrayed him. He ordered hundreds of soldiers to find us, Ruby and I were forced to move from place to place to escape! However-"

"But what? What happened after that?"

Ruby and I fell in love and we decided to get married and live in a village. Ruby gave birth to a son and a few years after our child was born, Charles' soldiers managed to capture Ruby and take her to the palace. At that time, I was cutting down a tree. I was looking for firewood and when I came home I only found our son crying alone in the room. The neighbors said that Ruby had been captured by the soldiers. I felt very angry and vowed to kill Charles if he did anything bad to Ruby. I tried to follow them to the palace, but I was too late, Ruby had been beheaded in the middle of a ritual performed by Charles. I don't know, what ritual and agreement he had done when he killed Ruby. But it was enough to make me swear to take my revenge on him ."

"No way! This must be a lie!"

"I know that I won't be able to defeat him with just a sword and arrow. He has demonic powers within him, that's why I decided to sell my soul to the demons to gain great power. That power made me have to accept a curse in which I will continue to be reincarnated to search for Charles' whereabouts and be the one who will continue to kill him. That curse made me finally find out that Charles has two curses because he sold his soul twice!"


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