粉红的窗帘

"No, that's too dangerous, we can't do that,"

Even after Nikol explained his plans to everyone, more than two third of them disagreed with his words including Emily who always listened to him like a faithful bitch no matter what it is.

"Why can't you understand this girls? If we send normal girls, there's a huge chance that they will get cursed by these cursed elves, but until now I have never even been cursed without even wearing that stone," Nikol tried his best to convince everyone since he wanted fewer casualties.

If Nikol from a few months ago saw current Nikol trying his best to protect girls except his sister, he would have laughed at him but now he couldn't help but feel an attachment to most of them.

"Until now, you haven't been cursed, but can you say for sure that you won't get cursed in future?"

As expected of Usha, she used her biggest brain to come up with a counterargument, which actually felt valid since there's no way Nikol can confirm that he won't get affected by cursed magic in future, if he's exposed to it for a long time.

"Then tell me what's your plan? Zenda, are you going to send humans and say bye-bye to this alliance?" Looking at Zenda, Nikol questioned.

"Usha, what are you going to do? Attack them despite their warning and put our kids in danger?"

Everyone had confused and troubled faces listening to his words.

"What are you going to do? Someone tell me,"

The whole atmosphere was awkward and silent. It was like everybody had run out of options.

"Listen to me, I know my value for most of you, but if we didn't erase this cursed elf threat you won't be able to live in peace in this land and my future children won't be able to live in peace, I'm sorry but I don't want anything like that,"

"..."

Tisha looked at Nikol with sadness. Usha didn't even have the guts to look at him. Eva was still confused and angry about what was happening.

Alva wanted to run into Nikol's arm and hold him tight. Everyone felt warm by how caring he was so in the end, they had no choice but to go along with his plan.

"Fine, so what are we going to do now?" In the end, everybody gave up but Nikol didn't know at that time things won't go as he expected.

"Listen-"

***

It was not a fertilised land with a lot of greenery or monsters, instead, this flat land had a lot of rocks and skulls of dead animals showing how much of a dead environment it was.

"Will they really come?" Nafina questioned while wiping her face from how sweaty she was.

The sun was shining brightly in the sky giving a magnificent light but at the same time, it was viciously hot enough to evaporate a small lake if exposed to that heat.

"I don't know, if I was them, I would sacrifice these kids for the light mage, but something tells me that elves are foolish enough to try us," Ibalina answered her question with a rather irritated look.

"Nafina, why did Eldora choose that other bitch as our partner, I can't stand her,"

These two cursed duchesses hated each other and always tried to compete, but if there was something common about them, it was that both of them hated Ubela enough to forget about their rivalry.

"I heard she is physically stronger than us, it is wise to improve our combat power, but I can't stand that bitch," Gripping her hand hands tightly, Nafina complained with anger.

"Once all of this is over, do you want to form a temporary friendship to teach her a lesson?" Suddenly, Ibalina proposed something rather insane, but instead of freaking out by how absurd it is, Nafina smiled with a vicious-looking smile.

"I'm in,"

While they were planning how to betray their own kin, Ubela was looking at the army behind her with disappointment.

"No strength, no style in fighting, no skills, not beautiful," She muttered to herself.

"Is this really what I want? Damn it," Her disappointment was rather apparent to anyone through her emotionless face.

"Humans or elves, I hope at least you won't disappoint me," With that thought in her mind, she went back to her training after taking her top off, showing her well-sculptured abs and muscles which looked magnificent for a dark elf.

***

After burning the corpse of the monster without letting it spread any unwanted diseases, everyone gathered in the alliance hall to further discuss about what happened.

"Nikol, what do we do about humans? I don't think they know that all of us are here, but it's not impossible, they can detect us when we travel in such large groups.

Tisha and Zenda had troubled faces seeing the atmosphere of this room. Especially, Zenda after witnessing the horrible things that dark elves can do.

"I can say for sure, that dark elves won't release kids, even if they capture us, humans," Nikol said noticing everyone's troubled faces.

"In the first place, why do they need to kidnap our girls?" As soon as Tisha asked that question, Zenda twitched a little.

Nikol noticed this and looked at her only for Zenda to avoid his eyes.

'So, she didn't tell her about what we saw the other day'

He could understand why she would be reluctant to do that. If strong and experienced Zenda couldn't handle the fact that they are using kids to make transformations, how can Tisha who is a crybaby and a kind woman can tolerate that pain?

But it was time for her to witness the truth.

"That is because," Lydia, Alva, and Emily knew what was going to happen. Usha, Nym and Eva looked a little confused.

Nikol explained things to her without going into details about how their bodies were cut to do experiments. He just muttered the basic idea of what they saw but it was enough for Usha and Eva to go berserk in anger.

"Fucking dark elves!" Eva muttered under her breath.

"Nikol, we should exterminate this pest, we can't let our children face this," Usha felt her determination rendering as soon as she heard it.

But the main problem was Tisha. Just like both Zenda and Nikol expected, she wasn't strong enough to take these deaths.

Tears started to flow from her eyes but this time neither Nikol nor Zenda wanted to see it. Every time her tears fell on the wood, flowers started to bloom there like it was a farewell ceremony for the innocent souls of her kind, who had to go through this sadness and pain.

"Tisha, I know it's painful but we should move forward," Nikol stood up from his seat and went behind to hug her, giving her the warmth required for her to calm down.

Zenda also did the same without even worrying about their status.

"Don't cry, we will avenge those kids,"

"My queen,"

This crying went on for a few minutes. The whole dinner table looked like a flower bed of sadness when she finished her crying.

Other girls on the table also felt sad about this beautiful and motherly queen crying, Usha wanted to say something but she knew more than her words, Nikol and Zenda were the most suitable to talk with Tisha right now.

"I'm ok, thank you two," She quickly wiped her tears off her face, while Nikol and Zenda both sat next to her.

"Well, now this is how we are going to proceed with the attack," After calming down everyone, Nikol talked about his plan.

"Let's do that," Everyone agreed without even questioning him. The only part they were troubled about was Nikol himself.

Sending him to the battlefield as a hostage felt absurd to them, even though it was supposed to be a decoy. None of them felt great about it.

"Meeting is over, let's rest for tonight," Getting up from his position, Nikol said but he quickly rephrased his words before others misunderstand it.

"By resting I mean real rest, so don't come and knock on my door today," Nikol was pretty sure he heard someone clicking her tongue in disappointment but he wanted everyone to be in their top condition tomorrow.

"Good night girls," Giving his regards, Nikol went into his room and changed his clothes. After coming here, Nikol didn't even bother to wear clothes while sleeping because he knew somebody would visit him but today for a change he decided to wear something.

While changing his clothes, Nikol looked at the night sky and the beautiful-looking city illuminated by the natural light of the stars.

"How beautiful! The world is really beautiful, why would people seek to destroy this world from war, I don't understand," Muttering to himself, he lay on the bed with his windows open giving his body a comfortable breeze which felt like the gentle touch of a mother.

Suddenly, he heard a familiar noise outside the door. He couldn't help but facepalm as soon as he heard this sound.

*Knock *Knock

"They really need to listen to me," Hoping to scold the person outside the door, he quickly went to open it but, the person who was in front of that door was totally unexpected to him.