[VRMMO] Dead One

"He came back home... With a woman." – said the dragon king as he sat on the rock while telling the story he had forgotten.

"That woman... She.... She was tall."

"Her golden hair and silver horns shined with beauty to the point that even my own wife was jealous upon seeing them."

"She had a long silver tail with golden scales covering bits of her tail, turning it into an artwork.

"She was.... Beautiful. That is the only description I can give."

"Our son... He was apparently missing for two days because he was going on the date with that woman... He apparently been doing that in secret for long time."

"He said he was meeting with that woman over and over again... But kept his relationship a secret, because he was worried that we wouldn’t accept the woman from outside of empire."

"...But something wasn’t right... Our son... He knew we would had accepted her no matter what... Not only that, if he was truly meeting her in secret for long time, we would had known about this.... And yet... We didn’t found it odd or tried to find anything about her."

"..."

"No... Over time we started trusting her... Accepting her."

"Like a facility... She was there... And there... And even back then... But what she was doing?"

"She was just... There... Nothing more."

"Honestly, I don’t know.... I don’t know why we even started accepting her overtime."

"We didn’t trusted her at first and we were even keeping eye out for her as the time would go by."

"But over time, we started lowering our guard more and more."

"...Then one day... She just disappeared."

"Nobody even noticed that she was gone... Or more like, nobody remember that she was even here?"

"..."

"Then afterwords your son went mad?" – asked Oron.

"Yes.... No... She disappeared around the same time our son went mad...."

"Now that I think about it, how did they rallied the soldiers behind my back? Those were MY soldiers."

"No... Even if the one leading our army was truly closer to my son than myself, he could had NEVER rallied the soldiers without my notice or permission!"

"This..."

"NON-OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE!"

"..."

"That bitch."

"These weird feelings... It happened ever since she appeared."

"She... She was behind everything."

"SHE MUST HAD BEEN!"

"MY MEMORIES!"

"MY FEELINGS!"

"EVERYTHING IS FUZZY!"

"...That whore...."

"She did it... She did EVERYTHING!"

"IT WAS HER DOING!" – shouted the dragon king as he couldn’t contain his anger anymore as he instantly reverted back to his true dragon from while roaring in fury as the entire castle could feel the roar echoing throughout the whole building.

"Your majesty! Is everything alright!" – said the lizardman knight as he and several other knights entered the open space room in panic.

"..."

"No." – said the dragon king as he stared at his knights as his bloodlust straight up consumed his eyes, making the knight straight up experience the madness that the dragon king was experiencing.

"..."

"Out."

"?"

"I’m sorry?" – said the confused knight.

"I want you all out." – said the dragon king.

"Now."

"Please." - said the dragon king as he dug his claws into the ground and started crushing it, trying to somewhat not give himself completely into the madness.

"..."

"Y-you heard him! Back off!" – said the lizardman knight as he led the troops out of the open space room, while Oron repaired without anybody noticing that he was even gone in first place.

"..."

"What was her name?" – asked Oron.

"Minerva." – said dragon king.

"Her name was Minerva."

"But it could be fake." – said the dragon.

"I remember her face."

"Her looks."

"I remember everything about her."

"..."

"What was her race?" – asked Oron.

"Dragon origin... Just like ours." – said dragon king.

"But did she ever revealed her true form to you?" – asked Oron.

"..."

"No." – said the dragon king as the anger of the dragon started affecting his surroundings once again.

"I never saw her true form."

"...Then it could had been a lie... Everything about her could had been a lie." – said Oron.

"Yes.... FUCKING YES!" – shouted the dragon.

"But I will hunt her."

"I will hunt her to the end of the earth."

"And murder her."

"For everything she did."

"..."

"Thank you." – said the dragon king.

"...If.... Fuck... If it wasn’t for you... I would had never remember the truth."

"... There is no need to thank me yet." – said Oron.

"First thing first, we confirmed something."

"That the fiancé was involved with everything."

"It seems she posses ability to manipulate memories, manipulate people emotions and even manipulate their minds."

"Considering what you just said, there is no doubt about it."

"The madness that the prince went through."

"It was 100% her doing."

"However, there is a problem."

"She could had never done it just by herself."

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked the dragon king.

"My sources, the one that made that potion for you, they are saying that do that kind of brainwashing in massive scale, which also included a powerful dragons, such as you, your wife, your son and your family as a whole, they must had done something."

"They must had used some kind of specific form of brainwashing."

"However, too powerful kind of brainwashing power could result in traces being left behind."

"But, when I investigated the people, I couldn’t find anything."

"That means the culprit, the fiancé, must had poisoned the people of the Wumi clan."

"Wait... You saying she poisoned us too?!" – asked the shocked dragon king.

"According to my information, she must had done that, in order to somewhat weaken you, making you way more vulnerable to the mind type attacks." – said Oron.

"If she didn’t done that way, she may ended up leaving too powerful traces that would lead right back to her."

"...So that is how she made everybody forget...." – said the dragon king as he started putting pieces together himself, confirming in his mind that it would be the only course of action that the fiancé could had taken to erase everybody’s memories, while not leaving any tracks.

"..."

"The fact that we could even recall that the fiancé was even there, must had mean that we are no longer being fed that poison too." – said the dragon king.

"They must had stopped doing that in order to make sure that even less evidence is left behind." – said Oron.

"But at this point? They think that you had already lost."

"No proof."

"No evidence."

"No truth."

"Whoever is responsible for this, they wish to destroy my whole clan." – said the dragon king."

"And their preparations are finished."

"..."

"I’m sorry." – said Oron."

"I’m really sorry for what happened to you."

"But I still want the truth."

"And so do you."

"Tell me."

"Do you know anything specific about her."

"..."

(Did she told me anything?) – thought the dragon king as he started recalling his past with his son’s fiancé.

(No.... Everything could had been a lie... From where she came from, what she was, who she was....)

(Everything could had been nothing more than a lie that she made.)

(Common! She couldn’t had manipulated you from the get go!)

(I didn’t fell under her control from the very beginning; she must had obtained my trust at the start in order to not get exposed.)

(What she said?!)

(Was there anything odd!?)

"..."

"Question." – said Oron.

"What was she exactly before she was your son’s fiancé? Where she worked?"

"Worked?" – said the dragon king as he started looking through his mind.... And this time, he was onto something.

"..."

"I remember."

"Fish..."

"?"

(Fish?) – thought confused Oron.

"She... She sold us some fish... Yes... I remember it correctly." – said the dragon king.

"Before she was my son’s fiancé, she was a merchant, a fish seller."

"Red Scaled Blue Finned Piranha."

"A delegacy that I’ve never tasted before."

"But... We only ate it while she was with us!"

"...Then I guess we will have the clue." – said Oron."

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["Oh, we know what you are talking about."] – said Blueberry via usage of {Chat – Video Call}.

"?!"

"Wait a bloody minute! You fucking know something?!" – said confused Oron.

["Well not me per say, but triples said that they knew something."]

["Wait a moment, I will add them to the call."]

"Oh... Okay?" – said Oron.

"..."

(WOW! THAT WAS WAY TOO WIERDLY EASY???)