Chapter 35: Why is fate unfair? How can we live with our heads held high?
Iskana, the eastern continent.
It was midnight and everything was quiet.
The walls of Hov Yalin, the capital of Iskanar, are towering, one circle after another.
David, the soldier guarding the city gate, was already yawning. His companion glanced at him and sneered, "You're done? Didn't we see you having a great time at the brothel last night?"
David, who had a scar on his face, snorted contemptuously upon hearing this. "Come on, you know what kind of stuff I like. There aren't many good ones these days."
"Isn't the girl named Nosi from your neighborhood working as a maid in Minister Moyo's mansion? I heard that the minister... uh huh..."
The scar on his face made him look much more ferocious, and he was full of disdain: "Damn bitch! I was wondering why you ignored me lately, it turns out you were spotted by a noble."
"I heard that the minister doesn't even acknowledge her as a lover."
Although the night was quiet, a woman's screams could be faintly heard.
The two looked at each other, and they could hear the woman's sobbing even through the city wall. They instantly understood what the other meant and smiled cunningly.
Suddenly, someone came running up ahead, shouting, "Her Royal Highness Princess Avril has returned! Open the city gates!"
Both men clearly saw shock in each other's eyes and hurriedly stopped. The soldier in charge of opening the city gate received the news and hurriedly opened the gate.
A soldier hurried to the gate on the other inner wall and shouted, "Princess Avril has returned! Open the gate!"
"Her Highness Princess Avril has returned! Open the city gates!"
"Her Highness Princess Avril has returned! Open the city gates!"
The sounds came one after another, and the city gates were in chaos. No one expected that the Ninth Princess would come back so soon.
Just because they look down on women doesn't mean they can afford to offend the princess.
None of them dared to offend her. After all, she had always been fighting monsters, and she really dared to kill them without mercy.
David stared at the front. This was the first time he encountered the Ninth Princess returning to the city during his night duty. Unlike what he had imagined, a thin figure was walking towards them in the middle of the night.
David stopped suddenly. Yes, there was only one of them, no one else.
He lowered his head, trying to reduce his presence even further so that Eulite wouldn't notice him.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and he smelled the smell of blood. He held it back and didn't dare to look up. He could feel his heart beating fast.
He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the sound faded away.
The main people in charge of the city wall did not dare to send anyone to follow her, just because she didn't like her.
Avrilite moved step by step towards the inner city palace. She knew of the guards' fear of her, but she didn't care.
His eyes were calm and his face was expressionless.
"Help! Help! Don't come over here!" A desperate and sobbing voice came closer and closer to her, "Please! Save me! Please!"
Aiwulit looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman with disheveled clothes running towards her in a panic.
When the woman got closer to her, she realized she was covered in blood. She was horrified, but she realized she was a girl much younger than herself. Despair and pain washed over her face. She quickly turned around to look at the men approaching. Her mouth trembled, tears streaming down her face. She hurriedly said to Avril, "Run!"
The woman's eyes showed an emotion that Avril was familiar with. She had already submitted, no, to be more precise, compromised with her fate.
Just like her dead mother, she was unable to resist and could only watch her become a test subject and die for her.
The mother's resistance was of no use to the king sitting on the high throne, but it was the strength of a woman who had crawled on the ground all her life.
Seeing that she still didn't run away, the woman rushed forward and pushed her, constantly looking back at the men chasing her: "Run, run."
Avril didn't move, but the men caught up with her.
The woman stood in front of her.
"Eva, why don't you run away?" The shirtless young man looked smug.
"So you like this way of playing, hahaha! Why didn't you tell us earlier? We will all satisfy you!" The man with the eye mask looked at Eva as if she were an object.
The five men burst into laughter. However, a man with gray hair noticed Eulite behind her and said maliciously, "Eva, you did a great job. You know I love this."
After saying this, she stretched out her hand towards Avrilite, but Eva quickly blocked it: "Don't touch her!"
Aiuluit looked at the trembling woman in front of her, and quietly scanned the men's faces one by one, her gaze settling on the sword at the eyepatch man's waist.
The gray-haired man, whose interest was dampened by Eva, became furious and said, "How dare you reject me! I've already given you a lot of face! You should just beg for mercy under us like your cowardly sister! Let everyone see how shameless you are!"
"Shut up! My sister is not that kind of person! You should just rot in the mud like worms!" Eva's body trembled even more. She was clearly speaking, but it sounded more like a roar. After she finished speaking, she opened her arms and protected Avrilite behind her.
The gray-haired man raised his hand towards Eva's face as if insulted.
Avril raised her eyes, took a step past Eva, and kicked him not far away with controlled strength.
It happened so suddenly that the other people present were stunned.
Avril took a few steps forward and before the gray-haired man could react, she stepped hard on the key part of his lower body.
Listening to his heart-wrenching screams, she remained calm and said in a calm tone, "Do you like it?"
Not hearing his answer, she crushed her foot hard.
"Ah——" The gray-haired man subconsciously reached out to where her feet were, shaking and curling up constantly.
Her eyes fell on the other four men: "Do you like it too?"
Only then did they get a clear look at the girl in front of them.
Although she had a sweet face and a little bit of fat on her cheeks, her whole body was covered in dried blood and she looked like a ghost.
Before anyone could react, she rushed towards the man with the eyepatch at a speed that no one could see clearly.
By the time they reacted, blood was spurting from the necks of two of them, splashing all over Avrilite. They looked at her in disbelief.
She stepped on the leg of another intact person and broke it, and screams rang out one after another.
In the distance, several figures staggered towards the city wall. The soldiers stood aside, watching the scene in front of them, but no one dared to say a word.
When Eva saw the soldiers coming, she took a step forward and wanted to pull Avrilite to run, but she found that none of the soldiers dared to step forward. She hesitated because she didn't understand why.
The shirtless man was the only one who was intact. His face was pale with fear, and his legs were trembling and weak. He could never have imagined that he would meet such a person tonight.
In the past, they would end up with just a slap on the wrist at most.
He stumbled backwards, turned around and ran away with all his might, staring at the soldiers in front of him, his eyes shining: "Save me! Save me quickly..."
The soldiers couldn't help but take a few steps back.
In a trance, he felt a pain in his chest and lowered his head in a daze. The sword pierced his chest.
Before he lost consciousness, he heard the monster's calm voice: "So you like this kind of play, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Avril stepped forward and drew her sword, then looked back to see the man with the broken leg desperately crawling, trying to escape.
The other one who was still alive was curled up in a ball, worse than a dog.
Without even glancing at them, she walked up to Eva and offered her the sword.
Eva's body stopped shaking, but her tears were still flowing.
She stared blankly at the sword, then at Avril, and finally she gripped the sword tightly.
In Avril's eyes, Eva stepped forward and attacked the two men with sword after sword.
Until they lost their breath and their blood was all over the ground.
Until she pays back all the injustices in her life.
There were bloodstains on Eva's body, left by them before.
Here, men can even spread rumors about women as a matter of course and then force them openly.
The country found them innocent, and the punishment they faced was little more than a slap on the wrist.
The women's reputations were ruined, and they had to either leave the city or lose their jobs, and no one dared to hire them anymore. Otherwise, they had to go to public brothels and make a living from that profession.
Their lives seem to have a clear end in sight.
"Clang!" It was the sound of a sword falling to the ground. She turned around to look at Aulite and smiled at her slowly.
Why?
She killed someone, but there was a happy smile on her face.
She walked up to Avril, half-knelt down, tears on her face, but spoke with unwavering determination: "I killed the man."
She confessed her sin, and as long as she took everything on herself, then everything was her fault.
But is she really guilty?
Avril lowered her eyes to meet hers, and held down Eva's body as she tried to stand. Then she bent down and looked her in the eye. Her face remained expressionless, but her purple eyes held a subtle softness as she spoke her first words to her: "Your name is Eva?"
She pulled off the badge tucked into her belt and placed it in Eva's hand: "I've remembered your name. Now go home and pack your things, don't leave anything behind, and come to Maan Palace."
She glanced sideways at the soldiers, who immediately stood up straight, not daring to relax.
"Escort her." Avril said calmly, her tone leaving no room for doubt.
The soldiers' eyes wandered, and although they were hesitant, they did not dare to disobey her order: "Yes!"
Of course, Avril knew what they were thinking. They simply thought that escorting Eva was degrading and that she was a woman of the lowest class, and would be ridiculed if the other soldiers knew about it.
Eva was stunned. She felt like she was dreaming. The touch she felt on her hand was something expensive that she would never be able to touch in her life.
And the person in front of her was someone she should not be able to reach.
She clutched the badge.
Maan Palace is the palace given by the current king to his ninth daughter, Princess Ayulete. She is also the only one among the three existing princesses who has the right to live outside the royal palace.
And she earned all this with her life.
Avril got up and left. Eva looked at her back, but her heart was sad. How could they survive in such a country?
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