Everyone was looking at me with an odd look on their faces. I felt something was off, but what, I had no clue about that . There was an utter silence there despite having almost whole palace collected at a particular place . No one was saying anything to me. I did not know what was going on out there, I pushed the people who were standing there, they made a kind of space for me to the center so I can see it myself .The horrifying reason for the silence.

As I arrived at the center of the crowd, I saw a woman\'s body lying there all bloody, her head was hurt, it was bleeding severely.

Her body was lying on the stomach she had lost too much of blood, that I assumed she might have been dead already. It felt like she died because of a fall from balcony behind her, the same balcony I was standing at a few minutes ago.

I sat to get a closer look at her body. She was dressed beautifully, her white dress was stained in blood. I flipped her body to see her face. As I got a look at her face, my heart broke into a million pieces...

It was my love, the queen.

I never wanted to see her in such a horrific position. Thousands of questions rattled in my mind, the tears in my eyes were not stopping. At first, I couldn\'t accept the reality of mine.

"What happened to her? Why is she here?" I asked the surrounding people. I was numb, my mind was not working, everyone was silent. They looked at me with eyes full of pity.

"Hey, you will be all right don\'t worry love, I\'m here. I\'ll hold you close to me no one is going to hurt you." I held her head in my lap and assured her I will protect her so she can open her eyes, and there\'s no need for being scared.

"Honey look, who have I brought with me our son look, he\'s looking at you" I tried to wake her up by showing her our son, whom she was so worried about. Our son, who was watching her without even blinking an eye, began to cry, but she still was not responding.

"Don\'t cry, mom is just playing with us she will wake up, ha-ha, don\'t worry!"

"Why? Why is she not answering, is she sleeping? Is she sick? Please, can anyone wake her up? My son wants his mother" My voice was cracking now, I was falling into pieces. I never wanted to accept her death. And that was the reason I lost my mind.

"Your grace, please get a hold of yourself. I know it\'s hard to accept, but she is gone." An old lady held me by my shoulder and told me she was dead.

"NO! what are you talking about? She\'s right here in my arms you can see it. She told me she will never leave me. You all have gone mad." I smiled full of pain and tried to convince them that she was not dead.

A few of other women held me by the shoulder "Your grace, accept it. You have to. She is dead. Leave her, let her go into heaven and let her soul rest in peace "

"No, she\'s not dead, look she\'ll reply" I patted her cheeks to wake her up, but she did not give me a response.

"Mirella ! Wake up and tell them they\'re wrong, please wake up." It was the first time when I called her by her name in years and yet she was not waking up and I had understood my terrible fate.

"NO!!! NOO!!" I screamed my voice box out. I yelled in denial, but now I knew she was gone.

It started pouring out of nowhere. The sky was pouring like it was crying in my pain, it started lightening. They pulled me from her body to keep me safe from the thunder. While two of the guards rushed and wrapped her body and pulled it away from my arms.

I was screaming soundlessly, even though she was dead I still wanted to be with her for some more time. Now my tears were converted into blood.

[When a devil is in so deep sorrow, his tears turns into blood. But it\'s rare]

They pulled me back to my room and used some magic on me to make me unconscious so I can get a hold of myself.

I was in so much pain that I felt the sorrow even when I was unconscious.

Now I was unconscious and was in a dream where I saw a familiar face. It was "The Witch of Endor."

She was in my dream, she stood there covered in her evil aura. She was laughing at my pain. I ran to her and yelled at her with my eyes filled with tears.

"Why did you take her away? Why did take nothing but her?" I yelled.

"HA-HA, Daniel, boy what did you think before making the deal did you really think I would take a doll or something ??"

"You did it on purpose. why ? why ? tell me!"

"I had to, you know, there\'s always a price to pay. You wanted a gift from death, so you have to pay it in the same form. A life for a life."

"You could have killed someone else, why her?"

"You did not think about the succubus who died for you, so why are you so concerned now. Forget about her, live a new life with your kid."

"Take him and give her back !!" I was saying things I did not understand the meaning of. I wanted her back so badly that I put the thing on the line I worked so hard for.

"No, I won\'t. someone who is dead stays dead. Doesn\'t matter what you do, forget her" she left after saying these words to me. And white light covered the whole place and the next thing I saw after the light was the ceiling of my room. I sat on my bed I was crying in deep sorrow when my son came in sight.

"You\'re happy, aren\'t you ? She died because of you. If I can\'t get her back because of you, there\'s no need of you as well. I DON\'T NEED YOU!!"

"I WILL KILL YOU!"

He woke up from his terrible nightmare and the first thing he saw was his son playing happily in his cradle. Unaware of his mother\'s death, the king was in deep sorrow after knowing the reason for his wife\'s death.

"It was my fault for her death. I never would have brought this in exchange for your life!!"

"So, why? Why?" He was screaming in his bed. No one was there to console him. And the only person who ever did was now gone.

His son laughed after watching him scream. For a kid, everything that was happening was nothing more than entertainment. But for his father, it was not the same. His giggles were stabbing his heart like pieces of glass. Daniel didn\'t take it well. The laugh of his own child enraged him with hatred and rage.

"You\'re laughing at me, huh!"

"DID YOU JUST LAUGHED AT ME?"

He was flooding with anger; his eyes were red due to pain and suffering his breaths were getting heavy he was blinded by rage and turmoil now.

"SHE\'S DEAD SO THAT SOMEONE LIKE YOU COULD BE BORN INTO THIS WORLD! I WILL KILL YOU. YOUR FACE REMINDS ME OF EVERY MOMENT I SPENT WITH HER!!!" He had lost all his senses because of constant pain from love and hate.

He grabbed him by his neck and was not holding back from strangling his own son. The same son who he revived after being through so much of suffering. But when he almost killed his son, someone barged into his room.

It was \'Belphegor\' who was at the palace at the moment.

"Beelzebub! What are you doing?" As he saw him strangling his child, he rushed and pulled his arm so he does not end up covering his hands with the blood of his own son.

"No! Leave him! He\'s your own blood, your only heir, and only last thing left by her!!" Belphegor was right on time he was quick so he was able to pull up the child from its death on time, he yelled at him to knock some sense back into the king.

"No! Belphegor, leave me. I\'ll kill him! I can\'t bear to see his face anymore."

"I won\'t let you kill him, it\'s not even his fault. And think about him, he just lost his mother. Can you even imagine how it feels like to grow without a mother"

"HE WAS THE REASON, SHE DIED! IF HE DISAPPEARES SHE WILL COME BACK HERE! TO ME" Daniel had lost his mind, darkness devoured him and he was left alone with a broken heart.

"Doesn\'t matter what you do, you can\'t bring her back. Only one you have now is this child her only memory and killing him will erase that last memory of her. Look at this innocent child you have other wives you can love them, but what about him his only mother is dead. Do you think Mirella would have liked it?"

"No, she wouldn\'t" Belphegor\'s words worked on Daniel as a charm. He gained control over emotions soon. But his broken heart was not healed.

"B-Bel-Alastair! I can\'t do it, I can\'t raise this child I might end up killing him! I know myself there would be a moment when I will again try to kill him. I don\'t know what is my future now !" He was calm and was saying everything in his sane mind, but still he was filled with various emotions of hate, sorrow, and confusion.

"I don\'t know if I will ever forget her, if I can ever be what I was before. I want this child to be safe but at the same time I want to kill him because only if it wasn\'t for him she\'d be still alive."

"No! Daniel, that\'s not his fault for Mirella\'s death. Try to understand it." Alastair was trying his best to console him, but he could only help him with things he knew and not with the thing only Daniel knew about.

"It is all his fault, I can never forgive him but I can\'t do anything too he\'s my only heir" did not matter how much he loved his son or how he was the last thing of his late wife, he was still the murderer of his wife for Daniel.

It\'s the natural instinct of a person to blame someone to get out of their pain and to consult themself that it happened because of someone else. And Daniel was doing this to his son by distancing him.

"I know it\'s hard for you to accept it but you have to."

"I don\'t want to see him anymore. Please raise him for me. I don\'t know what kind of person I will become after the war, and I have no idea what could happen to him in my absence." Daniel, on the other hand, cared for his boy too he wanted him to be safe.

"He\'s not safe here. Someone can kill him when I will not be here, and I\'m not sure about myself too. I might kill him, too. Y-you\'re the only person who can keep him safe, you\'re my best friend since childhood. I make you the godfather of this child. Please, I beg you."

"W-what I should raise your son? That\'s absurd, he\'s a Beelzebub it\'d be better if he grows around his own people." Belphegor was shocked he never expected things to turn this way.

"Please I beg you,"

"Hmm, I understand. Your worry and I know about you too. I\'ll raise this boy under my supervision, but he\'ll still be a Beelzebub, and I will tell him everything about this. What happened here because he should know why his dad left him, so he never has the urge to go back home."

"Anything is okay until he\'s safe,"

"Does he have a name?"

"Yes, I and Mirella decided to name him \'Tom\' when he was in her womb."

"Hmm."

"So from today, he is Tom."

"Tom Beelzebub"