Death to Power
Copyright© 2025 by TheSmartOne
Chapter 52: I like you
Night came, and under that beautiful sky, Kaden stood in front of a restaurant called The Golden Fork.
It was a well-known place—especially among nobles. Usually, around this hour, it would be filled with aristocrats, merchants, heirs, and their tailored silks.
But tonight?
There was only Kaden.
And right in front of the grand golden doors, two women stood wearing waitress uniforms, polite, practiced smiles on their faces.
As for Kaden himself, he wore the same plain black clothes from earlier that morning. He hadn’t even tried to change or prepare for the evening.
Because truthfully?
He didn’t care all that much about this so-called date.
It wasn’t about Meris—not really. Even if she was weird, even if her behavior leaned toward the obsessive, she was still beautiful. Still dignified. And in all honesty, it wasn’t unbearable.
Not yet.
It was manageable.
No, the real issue wasn’t Meris at all.
It was that Kaden had other priorities right now—he needed to focus on getting stronger. And that meant finding an Evolution Stone. Taking his evolution quest. Pushing forward.
That was his goal.
His only goal.
But even beyond that ... there was something else. Something he often forgot himself—
Kaden had a fiancée.
And in his family ... No one ever had more than one wife. They were strict. Old-school. Proudly monogamous to the grave.
Something...
‘I am completely against,’ Kaden thought to himself, eyes narrowing slightly, a quiet disdain building in his chest.
One woman?
Hell no.
Kaden may have been bullied in his past life, but he was a man—and every man’s dream, no matter how deep they buried it, was to have multiple wives. There was something magnetic about it. Something intoxicating. Something that felt right.
But unfortunately, that dream was at odds with his family name.
And Kaden wasn’t stupid. He wasn’t naïve. He wasn’t some dense protagonist who didn’t understand what was happening around him.
With the way Meris acted toward him?
He knew exactly where this was headed.
He sighed once more, lifting his eyes toward the moonlit sky.
“A troublesome girl and a complicated family,” he muttered to himself.
It felt like the path to power was lined with distractions.
But before he could spiral any further, his perception suddenly triggered.
His head lowered.
And then—even for someone like Kaden, someone who usually didn’t care much about appearance—his eyes widened, just a little.
Because Meris...
Meris was stunning.
She wore a black robe with red streaks that danced like living ink across fabric, patterns shifting so subtly that you’d swear it was blood spreading out from her waist—but when you blinked, it was just fabric again. Nothing more.
It was mystifying.
Elegant.
Powerful.
Her hair was pulled back, sleek and sharp, held together by a crimson pin. Chains and rings shimmered on her neck and fingers, refined yet fierce.
But none of that was what really caught Kaden’s attention.
No.
Because beauty isn’t just about looks.
It’s about how you carry yourself.
A man can be handsome, but if he walks like a coward, talks like a fool, and stares at the floor every time a woman looks his way, he’ll never be anything more than the pretty guy in the background.
And being pretty is never enough. After all,
There’s always someone better looking than you. Always.
So in the end?
Presence is what matters.
And since the very first time he met her, Meris had carried herself with a presence that was hard to ignore.
She looked at him with intensity. With curiosity. With something else he couldn’t name—or maybe didn’t want to believe.
But now?
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