The Incubus System Chapter 1341. Eye and Envy
The Incubus System Chapter 1341. Eye and Envy
I simply turned to the source of the voice.
And there it was.
Floating just above the sand like it had been there all along, watching. Waiting. Silent until it decided the time was right.
The creature I always called the Colossal Eye.
But now? It wasn’t colossal.
Now it was… portable. About the size of a tennis ball. Hovering gently, almost lazily, just a few feet off the ground.
And the eye was open.
Staring straight at me.
“You really like to show up wherever you want, huh?” I said, exhaling.
“Yes.”
The voice didn’t come from the outside. Not from the wind. Not from the sand. It was direct. Personal.
It rang straight in my skull. Like an idea I didn’t choose.
All around me, my girls reacted instantly.
Emma stepped back with concern.
Ruby hissed again, defensive.
Mia’s tail uncoiled, protective.
Zalira’s posture stiffened like a coiled serpent.
Maria muttered an incantation in her throat.
Celia had already picked up a volleyball. Somehow.
My servants. Miranda, Foxy, even Ivy shifted into attack readiness. Magic rippled.
I raised a hand. Calm. Firm.
“Stand down,” I said. “He just wants to talk.”
The Eye rotated in place once. Slowly.
Then it said, “An anomaly like you… mixed blood…”
It hovered closer. Still gentle. Still no aggression.
“…but you are surrounded by so many people who like you. Protect you. Touch you. Care for you. Why?”
The tone was… not accusatory. More like curiosity. Not human curiosity. Something deeper. Older.
I tilted my head. “Call me lucky,” I said, letting my voice go casual. “Or blessed. Depends on the lighting.”
Silence followed. Long enough for the tension to start curling again.
Then the Eye spoke.
“I envy… you.”
That stopped me. My mouth twitched.
“…yeah,” I muttered, “I figured.”
My arms dropped to my sides. I exhaled through my nose.
“I mean… you were desperate enough making those two demon lords hang out with you. And you called them your friends—”
“They were my friends!”
I blinked. “Okay. Not friends. Maybe… conversational accessories?”
The Eye spun once. Like a twitch.
I kept talking.
“I know what it’s like to want people nearby. Even if you don’t understand them. Even if you don’t say anything. Just someone… who doesn’t make you feel so alone.”
The Eye didn’t move. But the silence after felt heavier.
So I gave a smile. Tried to. It hurt my cheeks.
“Hey. I can be your friend.”
That silence grew deeper.
My girls looked at me like I’d just offered a hug to a cursed statue.
Ruby whispered, “Are you out of your mind?”
“I don’t know what your problem is,” I said softly, still to the Eye. “Don’t know your name. Or your trauma. But if you’re showing up here? To talk? You don’t hate me that much.”
The Eye looked at me.
Or… kept looking. With only one giant eye it was hard to tell.
Then it said. “I need no friend.”
Inside my head, my brain started screaming.
‘What are you?! An avoidant? Trying to act cool?! You little... floating eye shit!’
But none of that came out my mouth.
Instead, I just kept smiling.
My face hurt.
“So…” I said, dragging the word out. “Why are you here, Eye guy? Wanna cool down in the sea? We’ve got towels. Some leftover sunscreen. Volleyball’s still warm.”
“No.”
Of course.
“I came to warn you.”
Now that got everyone’s attention.
Emma’s brows furrowed. Mia narrowed her eyes. Zalira leaned in.
“Warn him?” Puriel asked softly.
The Eye didn’t answer her. It hovered back toward me.
“The king of light… has taken interest in you.”
That stopped the world.
The waves went quiet.
Even the sun dimmed in my mind.
My smile faded.
“…so he’s watching,” I said, voice flat.
“He is thinking.”
“About what?”
“About you. What you are. What you’ve become. What you will become. And what he should do to you.”
My stomach twisted, but my voice stayed steady.
“I already got his first message,” I muttered. “Disgusting creature. Hybrid filth. Tainted bloodline. Whatever insult of the day he wanted.”
“This message is not insult. It is assessment. He watches you because you break logic.”
Ruby scoffed. “He’s just pissed Ethan isn’t on a leash.”
“He is aware you survived where others failed. That your presence has bent systems. Paths. People.”
I frowned. “So what? He wants to smite me now? Exile me? This place isn’t his realm.”
“No. He will do worse.”
“Worse?” Mia asked.
“He will wait. Observe. Then move. Not as a god. But as order. He will not act to punish. He will act to correct.”
The word sat wrong. Correct.
I clenched my jaw.
“He sees me as a bug,” I muttered.
“Not a bug.”
The Eye’s voice paused.
“An anomaly. Just. Like. Me.”
I hated that word.
“Then what are you?” I asked.
The Eye hovered in front of me.
“I am a watcher. A failed guardian. A being born in the center of nothing and tasked with keeping everything in its place.”
“And now?”
“I exist. I observe. And I envy.”
For a second, he just… stayed. Hovering like a floating thought.
Then his voice dipped lower.
“If I were you, I would cherish the ones beside me. Because when the king moves… he will not go for you. He will go for what you love. What holds you to this place.”
Everyone tensed.
I didn’t.
I just nodded slowly.
“I figured.”
I looked at Emma.
Then Mia.
Then Ruby.
Celia. Maria. Puriel. Even Foxy.
All of them.
Every piece of chaos that had clung to me and still called me theirs.
“I know what’s at stake,” I said. “But I’m not going anywhere.”
The Eye hovered one last time.
“Then I have done what I came to do.”
He paused.
“Goodbye, anomaly.”
And with a flicker, he vanished.
No flash.
No portal.
Just… gone.
Silence followed.
Then Ruby whispered, “That little floating freak gives me the creeps.”
“Same,” Celia muttered.
I exhaled. Sat down in the sand again.
No one laughed.
Great.
Now I was interesting.
Again.