Vengeance of The Broken Lycan Prince [BL]-Chapter 466: The Endless Vicious Cycle

[KOSTA]

Instead of leaving, Kosta held onto Tamiko closely and firmly as if he was telling his guardian that the woman would have to fight him if she wanted him to leave Tamiko.

That was the wickedest idea from Yilena and Kosta had to mind himself that this woman was his guardian and now an enemy.

Gods, had the lies gotten so damn blurry over the years.

"No... I won’t. I’m not leaving him," Kosta insisted, like the world was going to collapse if he let Tamiko go. Maybe not everyone’s world, but he was damn sure that he would collapse. It was the unfortunate fate they both shared.

Yilena shook her head in disappointment, like she had not imagined she would be dealing with a petulant kid. But then again, she seriously didn’t expect Kosta would stay away for still after all what the kids and both had to deal with over the years, right?

Maybe she was insane for even considering that, but the desperation in Kosta’s eyes didn’t seem to work any magic on the old woman or even soften her stiff, cold heart.

And it pissed Kosta even more.

"I feel fine... There’s no need to be cruel to each other. Let him stay; besides, he’s the love of my life. What is my life without him by my side?" Tamiko forced out in one breath, desperate to remind them what Kosta meant to him in case they were forgetting how important Konstantin was.

The royals stared at him as they had just seen such a stubborn kid.

Then again, it was pointless because they all were aware of what Tamiko and Kosta meant to each other. And to keep them apart would be the greatest insensitivity, regardless of what was needed and what was to be used to save both their lives.

It was the kind of reality that no one was agreeing to, and yet Yilena didn’t seem to care about that.

The ultimatum hung between them, and Yilena was trying so hard not to throw it before them again, though she was doing a pretty shitty job at keeping things together. Then again, what else was there for her to do right now?

It was sure they had reached the final stage of whatever hell was waiting for Tamiko, then?

"Yilena..." Lord Sadako tried as he looked at the woman who seemed to have made up her mind.

Yilena was on her knees before the kids, trying to keep them steady. She could see the way Kosta’s tears were falling and the way that Tamiko was tired of hiding. Surely Yilena could also see that Tamiko didn’t want Kosta to go, right?

But then some choices had always been hard.

Some choices had always been inhumane, and this was one of them, because Yilena didn’t relent to them despite how challenging everything was starting to be.

Not even the king’s questions stayed hovering over her heart.

Not even when the expectations of an entire kingdom lingered in her life.

She knew everyone wanted an answer, and right now, she wouldn’t be able to give them one anyway if they didn’t leave.

Maybe that was why Yilena cast a barrier spell, one that separated the local citizens of Kawai from the royals. One that kept the Lycans gone and the royals here waiting for a choice, something, anything.

It was only acceptable in the state the prince was in.

Perhaps that was also why when the barrier stood between them and their royals, the Kawai Lycans didn’t try to fight it. They could tell that privacy was important, and as much as the banquet had been ruined, they knew better than to try and complain.

This was the hardest thing for everyone. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

They all hoped to the goddess that their young prince would be fine, because no one wanted to think of what life would be like for them if Tamiko didn’t make it out alive.

It was the kind of horror that was waiting, and yet even then, they all understood it to be the wickedest of choices.

Maybe that was what life was for them, but was Kosta supposed to lean into that, too?

Was he supposed to listen to Yilena and leave Tamiko’s side?

Was he supposed to act like he didn’t have a thousand and one questions while his Erasthai was suffering, and his guardian was adamant about kicking him out instead of giving them all a workable solution?

Was that something that they could deal with, too?

"You must leave, Konstantin. Did you stay... if you keep touching him, he won’t survive the night," Yilena said, like she was not leaving any room for argument. She was not in the mood, and they all could see it.

Even the king had somehow managed to stay silent.

Once again, Kosta froze.

In all his years of life, he had never come to such a hard decision. He had never thought there would ever prove to be a crueler lifeline after the past eleven years.

Yet here he was, trapped in the vicious cycle with the guardian who was supposed to keep him safe, and yet one who had made it her mission to make his life miserable.

What the fuck was the use of a guardian anyway if Kosta was always going to end up hurting and with no one to lean on in cases like these?

Where was his sanity, and where was she supposed to look, because honestly, this was the kind of madness that no one ever truly dared to speak up against.

But Kosta was not open to being kicked out with ease, not when it came to family and certainly never when it came to Tamiko. And once again, he insisted.

"Fix him if you can. I am not leaving him," Kosta said defiantly, nor relenting.

Tamiko left a soft cough, one that had Kosta’s vicious eyes snapping from his guardian to his Erasthai. But when his eyes reached Tamiko, they were soft and tender, fixed with hints of mercy, and begging the prince to hold on.

If the desperate grip that Kosta had on Tamiko was not enough for the Lycan prince to know how hard this was, then surely the scared caramel that had filled the air already should have been proof of it all, right?

"He’s barely conscious, Yilena," Lord Sadako pointed out the obvious.

And it took everything in the mad king not to snap his sister’s neck. This was a fate so painful. A truth so haunting, and yet in the middle of it all was the question of what the fuck was happening.

The desperation of a father who had sworn to make his child happy, only for them to end up on different sides of life, as fate had deemed best for them. This was the worst, harshest fate, and there was never going to be a way to deny that.

But did anyone care?

Did the moon goddess care that the broken Hinata mad king had already lost his wife and now he was slowly losing his child, too?

Or was that just a circus that was never going to end?

"Kosta... It’s okay. I’ll be okay. I promised I won’t leave your side, remember?"