The Beauty And The Wolf - Chapter 110

~White Coven Castle~

After leaving Laswich Mountain, Aston returned to his place at the East Wing.

He was inside his room, pondering about Azere’s claim that she activated the~Time Loop~ which in his opinion is an exaggeration because only powerful people can activate the Time Loop. It’s as a situation wherein a person or group of people will experience the same specific repetitive situation in their lives daily and can’t get out of that situation unless…

Damn!

He hoped that Azere was lying!

He was slightly bothered by it.

He was hoping that Azere was lying just to prank him to get back at him. If she’s telling the truth, he will know about it tomorrow!

A big part of him is in denial that Azere is more than capable of activating the Time Loop with her mediocre ability.

If her claim is true then all this time she was just disguising her real power beneath that weak exterior of hers.

Or she got some help from another source, then who could it be?

Maybe, it’s the powerful medallion granting her wishes? If not? Then who else is capable enough to activate the Time Loop besides Azere?

The more he thought about it, the more he suspected that Azere has the medallion in her position and she was lying all this time!

Damn!

He’s getting super hyped now at the same time truly annoyed with the confusion going on in his mind.

He’s getting restless!

He can’t wait for this day to flip over so that he will know if today’s events will repeat the next day. He would not go to Laswich Mountain tomorrow to avoid killing her.

But if the Time Loops was fully activated, no matter how hard he will resist not going back to that place, time would repeat everything that happened in Laswich Mountain in the same way.

Ugh!

He’s going crazy! He needs to talk to someone or else his mind will explode because there’s a little voice in his head telling him that Azere’s serious expression earlier means that she’s telling the truth!

He was gone from his room in seconds and appeared inside his friend’s clinic in the prison facility.

The doctor was arranging his medical tools in the cupboard when Aston suddenly materialized inside his workplace. He looked at him and saw the anxious expression on his face. He raised a brow. “What’s wrong? What’s eating you?” he asked.

“Azere told me that she activated the Time Loop after I demonstrated my power on her earlier in the Laswich Mountain by choking her neck, causing her to pass out,” Aston said.

The doctor’s eyes widened in surprise. “W-what? Time Loop? That’s suck man! If that is the case then you will keep killing that poor woman every single day. People stuck in a time loop always have to relive the same situation over and over again, it’s an endless repetitive cycle…”

Aston sighed. “I know that,” he said worriedly.

“But don’t worry too much, maybe that woman was bluffing and just want to get back at you for trying to kill her,” the doctor retracted his statement quickly.

“Hopefully so, but I have a negative feeling about it. The more I think about it the more I’m convinced that she was telling the truth,” Aston said.

The doctor raised a brow. “Why do you look so worried, man? Can’t your power prevent it? Can’t you get out of the Time Loop if it’s indeed true?” he asked.

Aston sighed deeply. “Sad to say that once Time Loop is activated I won’t be able to prevent or stop it. Sure, I’m capable enough in some areas but when it comes to preventing a Time Loop from involving me, it’s beyond my capabilities especially if the one who is responsible for orchestrating this event is more powerful than me,” he explained.

Victor, the doctor was shaking his head. “Oh, that’s scary man! Let’s just worry about it tomorrow, not today. Maybe we’re just worrying for nothing,” he joked. “Just chill man, you’re getting paranoid!” he said.

Aston was shaking his head, he’s getting paranoid indeed. “I’m leaving now, sorry I took much of your time,” he said.

“Come here tomorrow at the same time you went to the Laswich Mountain. I want to see with my own eyes how the Time Loop works,” Victor stated.

“Okay,” Aston replied and vanished from the room.

Victor was shaking his head while resuming his chores around the clinic.

Meanwhile…

Aston was back in his room in the East Wing, brooding about the mystery of the Time Loop.

Hours went by.

Daytime faded and evening finally comes.

He was restless the whole night, unable to sleep early, and finally drifted into a deep slumber before the midnight strikes.

~~~0~~~

The following day.

Aston woke up late in the morning, precisely at 8:00. After exiting the bathroom he went to the dining room and eat breakfast, then back to his room to change his clothes and proceed to Victor’s clinic hurriedly.

When he arrived there, the clinic is empty and his friend was already waiting for him.

Victor glanced at the time on the wall clock. “It’s still 9:00 in the morning. You still have one hour to kill. Why are you here so early?” he asked as he lowered himself on the chair.

Aston was pacing back and forth on the floor. “I’m getting restless. I wanted to know if the Time Loop is indeed true and it’s going to take effect today,” he answered.

“So, what’s going to happen? I mean are you going out of the castle today?” Victor asked.

Aston shook his head. “No. I’m not going anywhere. I’ll just stay here in your clinic and wait for the Time Loop to take effect. You will know if I suddenly vanished in front of your eyes, that means I’m back on the Laswich Mountain doing the same thing that I did to Azere yesterday,” he explained.

“Ah, okay… let’s wait then,” Victor said and arranged the stuff on his table.

Half an hour later.

The guard arrived and brought a patient complaining about an extreme headache.

Victor instructed the patient to lie down on the clinic bed and handed him a tablet to pop in his mouth along with a glass of water. Then he began asking the patient about his health history and so on and wrote them down in the patient’s record.

Aston was sitting quietly on the chair in the corner, staring at the clock. As the hands of time keeps rotating, his heart was also beating faster in his rib cage.

Minutes went by.

After observing the patient for a while and his headache gone, Victor was ready to send him back to his prison cell and gave him some medicine to drink every time the headcase strikes again.

Victor opened the door and instructed the guard to escort the patient back to his prison cell.

After they left, he looked at his friend whose gaze was fixed on the clock on the wall.

“The time is near!” Victor commented.

Aston nods his head. “Yeah…”

Minutes went by.

At 10:05…

Aston and Victor looked at each other waiting for what’s going to happen next.

A few minutes later.

Suddenly…

Aston vanished from the room in split seconds without saying goodbye to his friend.

That’s when Victor finally realized that the Time Loop was indeed a reality! Unless his friend decided to play a prank on him at the last minute.

He will know later after his return.

…

~Laswich Mountain~

Aston was already knocking at the door of the house…

Azere opened the door and released a deep sigh. “Now that you’re finally here, do you believe me now?”

Aston looked at her in shock and disbelief. “This can’t be!” he said in denial. He was having a hard time accepting his fate. Today, he never wanted to be here in the first place, but why he’s here now? As if there’s a powerful force controlling his actions and bringing him here against his will.

Azere smirked. “The earlier you accept it, the better for you. You can’t blame me though, I told you from the very beginning that if you hurt me physically you will supper the consequence in the end. Unfortunately, you ignored my warning, and now you’re in a Time Loop with me. You have to kill me again and again without any end unless someone will come along and break the cycle,” Azere said.

“Tell me, how to break the cycle and return everything to normal again? I can’t live like this! Why did you have to do this!?” he asked angrily.

“I activated the Time Loop to protect this place. If you and the witches are gonna tear this place apart – there’s still a window of hope to save this place in the future. Someone would come along that is powerful enough to break the cycle and stop the repeat allowing the preservation of this place. After you leave later, it’s your responsibility to inform your people that if they don’t want to be included in the endless repetition of events, they better not come here to destroy this place. You understand me?” Azere said, enjoying the sadness she saw flashing on the guy’s face.

Aston was silent for a moment. “I just want to know something… Did you activated the Time Loop itself? All I know is that it requires immense power, and it’s obvious that you don’t have it in you. Is there someone helping you in activating the Time Loop?” he inquired curiously.

Azere breathed deeply and looked at him sharply in the eyes. “Does it matter if there is someone? I could have easily kill you… but I’m the type of person who looked beyond grudges and I always repay gratitude.. Killing you is not worth it even though you will end up trying to kill me again and again.”