I Became A Zompirewolf

Chapter 120 - Trial (1)

The week got over sooner than expected. To no one's surprise, Ashton was able to heal miraculously once the staff started doing their jobs properly. Well, especially when the mistress took various members of their family hostage. 

Yes, she kidnapped at least one family member of all the doctors and nurses in case they pulled a stunt again. All of them were safe, but only till Ashton had recovered completely. To Ashton, it seemed like she was trying to compensate for not being attentive enough. 

However, she looked really pissed as well. Probably because her half-sister was the one to come to Ashton's rescue and not her. Her precious pawn was on the verge of dying and yet she was oblivious to it all. 

The doctor could not report the kidnappings either. So far, the secret of what happened in the infirmary was being kept a secret. However, the mistress warned them if they tried to report her or any of her lackeys, she would not hold the truth back. 

This would have ruined the reputation of the infirmary and possibly the academy. On the other hand, nothing would be done to the mistress as even though she felt repulsed by it, she was still royalty as well. And no one in their sane minds wanted to mess with the royal family. 

Then there was a secondary purpose of kidnapping the relatives like that. She wanted to use them as a bargaining chip for the doctors to tell her the name of the person responsible for all of this. It was important to get rid of such a foe who was hiding in the shadows. 

But nothing ever came out of it. The doctors told the mistress to go ahead and kill them. Still, they were not going to give up the said person's name.  They were not taking the mistress seriously and were going to regret making that choice, had it not been for the intervention by the director. 

In the meantime, Ashton sat back and relaxed as he had never before. He was still planning to take revenge on the infirmary staff, but that would have to wait for two reasons. First, although he had recovered quite a bit, he was still far from attaining his peak again. 

Secondly, he did not want to cause any more trouble. At least till his trial was over. Even though the princess had told him not to worry about it, he had his suspicions about her. Trusting someone who was an enemy just a few days ago was the biggest mistake he could have done. 

Thus he wanted to stay as clean as possible. However, once the trial was over he would start working on the list he had made while remaining in his room. Since he had taken a lot of beating, Ashton wasn't surprised at all after finding out his werewolf genes had levelled up again. 

Which meant one thing... the harmony of his genes was in danger. Although it would take quite a while for Ashton to level up the werewolf genes again, he wasn't willing to take any chances. 

'Well, all of that logic are just excuses for doing what I want to. I have been itching to get my hands on these bastards. That's it.'

Although the mistress was doing her best to make the lives of the staff members hell, Ashton was not satisfied. These fckers tried to kill him and it would rude of him to not return the favour while he had the chance. 

After all, he had to feed his other-selves and frankly speaking, sucking the blood of these doctors might even give him some kind of a healing skill that he needs so much.  It would be a shame and a disaster if the infirmary staff did not have any skills related to healing that he could learn. 

But for now, he had to think and prepare for the trial. Since the king was personally overseeing this case, all of Lycania had their attention on it as well. After all, it would be more than two decades after the king would make a public appearance and that too in his courtroom.

The king was generally someone who had the least interest in anything happening around his kingdom. At least that had been the case for the last couple of decades. The only thing he had been interested in, was conquering the swamps.

Thus seeing their ruler be interested in something else for a change was... peculiar but a happy surprise nonetheless.

However, they were not only interested in their ruler, but also the one who was about to be placed on trial. The citizens were speculating that either the person being trialled was someone important, or that he had committed some heinous crime. Those could be the only possible two reasons for the king to himself take interest in the trial. 

This soon sparked the beginning of a series of rumours against Ashton. From rumours branding him as a mutt who had lost control of himself and given into the bloodlust to rumours branding him as the resistance's spy sent to infiltrate the academy and cause trouble there. 

There were a lot worse rumours spreading about him like he was a molester and stuff, but Ashton did not care about those. In fact, he was thankful to whoever started this trend. Because of the generosity of that person, no one would even think about messing with him for some time. 

That is, once he got back into the academy. Thanks to the combined efforts of the Mistress and the director, it did not seem too far from happening. 

"You ready?" The mistress walked into his room as soon as he was done dressing up, "The tux suits you. Now let's leave, even after using the portals, it would take us a couple of hours to get there."

"Just the two of us?" Ashton asked when he saw that there was only one car in front of them with no bodyguards around, "Isn't the king your mortal enemy or something? Why would you go there without backup?"

"I'm returning home in the eyes of the citizens. Even my father would have to think twice before even thinking about causing me any harm.. Now shut your mouth and get in."