The bird landed on the ground then it stared into the captain’s eye, the bird’s eye showed some mockery but it still spoke politely:

“Mister? Such a great word to hear from captain”

Captain: “No, it was you who deserved it…thus can we start the talk now?”

The bird: “Hahaha, don’t be too enthusiastic, captain”

Captain: “…”

The captain stopped saying anything, he glared at the bird coldly, his killing intent raised again.

The bird sighed as it examined the captain, such a short-temper man.

The bird: “For the talk, I reach my limit, therefore I leave it to you, Moonlit~”

The bird’s eyelids gradually closed, and at the same time, there was a light shining out of its belly then the bird’s body collapsed on the ground, lost consciousness.

 

The knights and captain’s eyes opened widely at the scene unleashing in front of them. The knights couldn’t help but drop their jaw…Was the affection of the poison of Dark Magenta Forest able to create an illusion?

***

Back to a few hours ago…

Nightfall Castle…

A small head poked out of the bush, its eye actively moved left and right, up and down, and even circled its surrounding. That small head was none other than Venta.

After he was thrown down from the castle, he stayed hiding, observing the circumstances.

He was able to escape from the castle, naturally, he would continue to deliver the letter as they had planned.

However, out of the blue, his body had a problem.

It was the worst timing to feel unwell. He was also able to guess the cause of the sudden problem, it should be related to the lack of nutrients plus stomach cramps. It wasn't a strange feeling for him, he used to it.

It caused him to feel shaky and tight feeling in the muscles of his stomach.

He couldn’t find the right word to scold his luck…it was too much!!!

Venta was truly frustrated because of the sudden change of plan even he could force himself to fly, but he might be unable to cross the Dark Magenta Forest successfully.

His head also started to hurt, he had a lot going on in his head.

What did he suppose to do to get Moonlit out of here? In the blink of an eye, everything became a mess just because he felt sick, Shit! Fuck it!

Venta stopped moving around, he hid in the bush. He relaxed his body and focused his mind solely on finding a solution that was suitable for the current state.

Venta began by sorting out his thought. Honestly, many things were shoving onto him unstoppably since the start of his transmigrating, he was a bit at loss. Thankfully, he didn't lose main points, delivering the letter to Novaculata to help Moonlit out of the Demon Lord’s castle and avoid meeting Lux .

He didn’t have time to prepare plan B for the unexpected. Thus now he stuck.

In such a critical situation, he had no choice but to dump his main plan then push himself to come up with the new one in a short time. How annoying! How frustrating! He pitied himself ( ╥﹏╥)…Fuck!

Anyways, what did he have on himself?

He had his innate abilities which he couldn’t use right now, crossed out…How about his space storage?

…

How should he use it?

…

Venta’s face brighten, he got one ridiculous idea that might work out. He hoped it would do so.

 

After Moonlit went back into the room, he felt worried. Did those guards really bring the baby bird to Dr. Zero? Their facial expression and tone were odd compared to normal times.

He prayed if the guards didn’t take the baby bird to Dr. Zero, at least he hoped they didn’t directly kill the baby bird.

He knew how risky of this plan to leave the baby bird in the guard’s hand but he chose to gamble on the baby bird’s luck?

If the baby bird got no luck…

No no, he shouldn’t be thinking about the bad outcome, the baby bird would be okay…

But why did he keep getting an ominous feeling?

Baby bird, please be safe, he hoped nothing bad happened to it…

 

During midnight…

The guards glanced at the servant who was coming in their direction briefly then they ignored her.

The servant came to stop in front of the Demon Lord’s bed-chamber, she didn’t hesitate to knock on the door.

She waited for a bit but didn’t hear any reply from the inside, however, the servant still opened the door. She was already used to this activity.

After she entered the room, the scene that she saw countless times but still left an impact on her.

Sir. Moon stood at the window, he watched the starry sky, his long jet black, smooth silky hair, flowing gently following the rhythm of the wind.

He unhurriedly turned his head around to face the servant.

The servant couldn’t help but secretly admire Sir. Moon beauty.

Sir. Moon was very beautiful as if he was out of the painting. When you took a glance at Sir. Moon’s face, you wouldn’t be able to forget it.

His jet black beautiful arched eyebrows, his thick eyelashes which made his peach blossom eyes undeniably charming and dreamlike, his exquisite high bridge nose, and the best part was his pinky plumb lip that drove people in to taste it a hundred times, even so, all of it was covered by his captivating oval face. One word to describe Sir. Moon’s beauty, was ‘PERFECT’.

Not only his face was exceedingly beautiful, yet, his body also was very appealing, even though Sir. Moon was a man but his skin was extremely fair and flawless which completely contrasted with his jet black hair, creating the surreal image, moreover, his body appeared to be on the slim side combined with his long legs. It was gorgeous.

Sir. Moon’s body could easily arouse both genders' desire to take control of it.

The servant snapped out, she embarrassingly took her eyes away from Sir. Moon. It was too dangerous if one stared at Sir. Moon more than one minute, they would trap in their lust to want him.

Moonlit didn’t care about how the servant looked at him, his mood was terribly bad during this hour, he hated this time the most.

Moonlit clenched his hand tightly, it arrived, the time for him to drink the drug, those disgusting drugs. He hated it! He hated it! He hated it! He hated it so much!!!

Moonlit said lightly: “Give me the drug”.

Servant: “Today have no drug, Sir. Moon. This low servant was ordered by the Great Lord to inform Sir. Moon that tonight the Great Lord is unable to come to LOVE Sir. Moon like usual. He hopes Sir. Moon won’t feel lonely in this room alone. That’s all from Great Lord, Sir. Moon. May this low servant excuse herself?”

“Get-Out” Moonlit said through gritted teeth, came to love him? Felt lonely? It was too humorous.

The servant left the room, Moonlit didn’t pay attention to his hand that was bleeding because he clenched it too hard until the nail went into his hand’s skin. He was too outraged to feel pain.

How humiliating! How funny…all he could do was obediently listen to everything, he didn't have enough ability to go against Demon Lord. He hated himself for being so weak!!!

Moonlit sneered, he dejectedly turned his body to look at the sk…

!!!

Moonlit: “Baby bird!!!”

Venta: “…Yo!”

…

Both of them looked at each other awkwardly. Venta didn’t purposely eavesdrop, he was just accidentally arrived at the same time as the servant, and he had no option but heard everything while hiding himself.

It was also good that he was able to hear everything. He swore to remember Demon Lord’s every single word…but for what?

Well, there would be a day for payback (^_^) ---🖕🏻

Moonlit was a bit stunned to see the baby bird, could it be something goes wrong? Why didn’t the baby bird leave the castle?

Moonlit knitted his brow, he asked: “What’s going on?”

Moonlit didn't care about his eavesdrop?

Venta: “Um…hm…well, the plan needs to change”

Moonlit: “?...But why?”

Venta wetted his throat before he said: “Ahem! It’s my fault, sorry, because my current body can’t fly across the Dark Magenta Forest…but I have another plan”

Moonlit didn’t care about the other plan part even a bit, he was so worried when he heard about something wrong with the baby bird’s body.

Moonlit: “What’s wrong with your body? Are you ok? Do you hurt anywhere?”

Moonlit became restless, his hands were moving around the baby bird’s body, he didn’t dare to touch the tiny bird, and he was afraid to hurt it.

Venta didn’t expect Moonlit to react to the part related to his body, he was confused at first before he hurriedly explained to Moonlit:

“No need to worry, nothing serious…just…stomach cramps?”

Moonlit: “Stomach cramps!? Isn’t that because I feed you the wrong food!?”

The situation seemed to become worse? Why?

Venta: “No…yes…no…just…Forget that, I have another way to help you out of here”

Moonlit’s face sank, the baby bird’s stomach cramps were definitely caused by him.

If he didn’t feed the wrong food to the baby bird, their plan would be processing now. Everything returned to the start point.

Was he doomed to stick in this castle? Nothing would work out if the baby bird can’t fly…what should he do? …Was he have to give up? …

Venta observed his beloved Moonlit’s face that kept on changing color, Moonlit was too nervous than usual.

Venta wanted to grab Moonlit’s face to aim at him, however, he couldn’t bring himself to touch Moonlit’s delicate face.

He's shy!

Venta raised his voice slightly: “Listen! I said I have another plan so hear me out first”

Moonlit quickly made eye contact with the baby bird, he saw that the baby bird’s eye was calm and collective, didn’t look like someone got their plan mess up.

Moonlit was able to calm down his worked up. He breathed out loud then he said:

“What’s the next plan?”

Venta sighed of relief: “Good, for the next plan, you need to do @#$%&*”

Moonlit’s eyes filled with doubtfulness about the plan: “Is it going to work?”

Venta shrugged its wing: “Give it a try first”

Moonlit: “Ok, if it works, it will be incredible”

Venta: “Coincidentally, I think the same”

Both of them smiled at each other then they nodded their head to show their agreement. Then they continued to their discussion.

***

“Take a rest, baby bird”

The baby bird completely lost consciousness, it wouldn’t be able to know what happen later on.

Moonlit’s melodic voice rang out, everyone held their breath, were they dead or alive???

There was the youngest prince, Prince Moonlit, the main reason for their mission, he was right in front of them. They couldn’t believe their eye that the prince appeared out of nowhere.

So the bird was telling them the truth? After they left the forest, their mission would be complete? And it did!!! What’s with that strange bird? Was the prince in front of them real? Or fake?

Moonlit thoroughly put the baby bird in his palm.

The confusion on the knight’s face drew Moonlit’s attention, he gazed at them one by one before stopping in front of the captain, he smiled warmly then he said:

“I will take care of explanation”

Captain: “Greet, your highness, Prince Moonlit”

The captain kneeled on one knee to show respect to his royalty, the youngest prince, Prince Moonlit.

The rest of the knights without delay did the same, the prince was real!

Moonlit rushed to stop the captain but he was still late: “No need to do that, please get up, right now we are the same, no talking about the ranking and I think we should quickly leave here because your co-members need emergency treatment”

The knights: “…?”

They were indeed injured, however, they were still able to move… but not much even so they didn’t truly require emergency treatment.

“AH!!!”

Panna rose her head up, she saw something eye-popping. Her tear unruly poured out of her eyes, she rushed toward in a certain direction.

They were alive, Vice-captain and Ban!

Other knights also noticed their lost members, everyone smiled until reached their ears, without saying a word, they were also rushed to welcome back their lost teammates.

In contrast, Vice-captain and Ban watched their co-member's reactions nonchalantly.

Hmph! They had been out exactly the same time as the prince but they were completely ignored by their teammates as if they were dust that stood near the moon and the moonlight omitted their existence. 

Is it their fault that their excitement of reunion was already cool down?

While Vice-captain and Ban were surrounded by other members, they didn’t forget to take a peek at their captain, the captain nodded at them then he turned to discuss something with the prince.

Captain: “Your highness, will you return with us to Novaculata or the Sun and Moon Palace?”

Moonlit: “Don’t you need an explanation!?”

Captain: “No, this disgraceful knight doesn’t deserve it, please your highness keep it to our grace, Duke Lumen Novaculata”

Moonlit wanted the captain to drop the formality but forgot it, they had to leave first: “Ok, and I will go with you to Novaculata”

Captain: “Yes, your highness”