Chapter 425: DID I KILL HIM?
"Did I... kill him?" Iris felt her throat turn dry when the question came out of her lips, while the lycan was still fast asleep in her lap.
She couldn’t say what actually had happened because she was afraid they would judge her. After all, no matter how she put it, it was her who harmed Cane and brought the lycan to the surface. But Haco was different, he was not from this pack and he didn’t share the same bond with Cane like the members of the pack did.
Iris was not sure how Jace and Ethan would react if they learned about this. She had enough people judging her unfairly already, she didn’t want the Beta and the Gamma to join the mix.
"I don’t think so," Haco said, deep in thought, as he stared at Cane, who was sleeping peacefully while clutching Iris’ dress. "I don’t think you killed him, but you indeed weakened him." Haco moved closer to observe Cane more. He furrowed his brows and mumbled something to himself and Iris was unable to read it.
"How can we get Cane back?" Iris asked. This was the most crucial question that needed to be answered. Haco was the only person who knew the lycan really well, since this cursed creature had resided within him for over five decades. "Can we get him back?"
"There is one thing that you should know about the lycan, Iris," Haco said, lifting his head. He looked tired and his grey hair looked a little bit dull, which made him look very old. "The lycan doesn’t usually appear like this."
"But, did the lycan ever appear while he resided in you?" Iris tried to grasp all the information that she could to understand their current situation.
"Of course," Haco said affirmatively. "Just like how he appears every new moon, the same thing happened to me too."
"But, you are not a shifter." In Iris’ mind she imagined Haco turning into a lycan or something.
"Nah, it’s not necessary for him to appear as a lycan, but because I am not a shifter, usually he would take over my body, he would control my consciousness. Probably, the same as what happened now. The lycan took over Cane’s body because you injured his beast. Even though this is not the new moon yet, probably because the vessel is weak, the thing inside it has leaked out, that’s how things seem to work between Cane and the lycan."
It was also the moment the lycan took over his body that he messed up in the Holy Kingdom, which caused him to be banished from that place and he eventually left the continent and ended up here.