After fighting Moraf to assess the progress of the antagonist whom Mart Sevec was trying to turn into the protagonist of the demonic species, he went to his room to rest a bit, since his body was still exhausted from the titanic effort he had expended during the war between the Presial Kingdom and the Venrac Empire.
...
It was nighttime.
Mart opened his eyes; he could sense that someone was attacking Princess Alice.
"They want to exploit the Emperor's weakness and provoke him at the same time. Who dares to attack my hostage?"
Mart could sense what was happening to the princess, because every strand of the Venrac Empire princess's hair in his possession was bound—through a "cursed bond"—to the owner of that hair.
Mart stood up.
He rose silently, because Asfil was standing beside him.
Then he walked to the window and looked out at the night sky.
