Chapter 8

I got a Snow White fox cub after searching for a whole day. Arthur would certainly love this fluffy little thing.

But when I came back home, the house was empty.

Our furnitures were a mess. My heart started to pound. I immediately sensed the surroundings and found a trace leading to the imperial castle.

I rushed towards the palace hitting, knocking and pushing every soldier that tried to stop me.

The castle was in a chaos but so was my heart.

When I reached the dungeon. I suddenly stopped running.

I couldn't.

Cause there were no living being inside this Dungeon.

Step by step my feet's felt heavy.

At the end of the trail I found two bodies.

A man

A child

Both not breathing.

My head went blank. I slowly knelt down ignoring the swords pointed at my back.

Caressing their cheeks, my hands only felt the coldness of corpses

"aahh ahhhk AHHHHH!!!" My shoulders trembled, I couldn't hear my voice but it must sounds extremely broken.

I could feel two familiar presence approaching me.

The emperor

The crown prince

"Why?" My voice suddenly sounded eerily stable and emotionless.

"Miss Riett-" the crown prince tried to say something.

"Why?" But I only wanted to know the reason for their death.

So on the orders of the emperor an official came and told me some absurd things.

They said Zen was a corrupted and was convinced of being a part of a treason. It was a clear nonsense. My husband who couldn't even tell a white lie to me. He who was already a imperial healer but still healed the common people on his vacation, treason?

It was clear that he was wrongly accused.

"hehe khehehehe HAHAHAHAKHAH!?" It was so absurd that I was laughing in pain.

I thrusted my sword and the official who spouted such nonsense dropped dead. Zen was not a high ranking official so i guess the emperor didn't bother to investigate if he was truly innocent or not. Maybe he just got a report saying one more guy who was planning a treason was killed.

I started to swing my sword madly. Every swing took a life.

Pure fury was evident on my face.

They were screaming protect his highness and majesty.

I started a slaughter. The imperial castle was soon dyed in red. I went inside the east building. There were hundred or so guards protecting a woman and a child who was trying to flee. Must be the crown princess and her child.

A life for a life right?

When I released my aura no one could move. I leisurely walked to them. Their faces filled with fear. The crown princess was begging me to spare her child.

My husband must have begged like this till his throat hurt too, but my child still became a stone cold corpse.

"Why should I spare yours?" I didn't wait for an answer. With fresh blood dripping from my sword I went back to the dungeon and carried my husband and Arthur.

I buried them in the deepest part of the said most dangerous forest, in the only place where sunlight reaches deep in the forest, even as I was burying them I tried to talk to them hoping they weren't actually poisoned.

Hoping they would say welcome back.

After a week of kneeling there looking blankly at their tombstones I left the Averik empire which left me nothing but the most painful bittersweet memories