Suotuo City Turmoil (Part 5)

Half an hour after the attack on Bing'er. Restaurant in Suotuo city.

She was a little girl back then. Abandoned, betrayed, and completely unnecessary. It was about ten to eleven years ago, a nine years old girl who can't even properly use the power of the spirit was starving on the streets of third rate city in the corner of the world.

Now already a beautiful woman, she downed a drink in the luxurious restaurant. Her cold, yet charming eyes looked to the side. She smiled slightly, but it was akin to a grin of a predator. That silly servant can't even breathe loudly in front of her. Yes, they both knew who held power here.

She played with the glass and slightly squeezed it. Feeling pressure on her fingertips, the woman seemed to draw the analogy to the throat of a man and felt fulfilled.

Yes, she can snap his neck even without standing up. Right for here, from this soft luxurious seat, she felt warm and comfortable in. This feeling brought her a sense of fulfillment. She took a little sip and looked at the night outside the window.

She was young back then when she met him for the first time. Her master in life and death. He brought her out of her misery. Showed the broadness of the world. Together they slaughtered her family down to the last child. She was dancing and laughing on their bones, feeling exhilarating freedom and liberation.

Back then, she was reborn anew.

All those who beat her oppressed her and bullied her, until they were all dead.

"So, Mei, how do you feel? There you cut your mother in pieces and there is your father with seventy-eight stab wounds. Oh and let's not forget your elder cousin. She was quite good, I liked her. So, are you ready? Are you feeling it?" - the man who gifted her new life smiled with a bloodied face.

She saw his face and enjoyed the perfection of his visage.

He seemed to find a new lamb to play with.

"I feel... free, master. It is just like you said. Pain is gone! I don't feel depressed anymore! All I needed is to revenge them, to kill them."

"Yes. Kill or be killed. This is the way of the world, Mei." - answered the man. - "If someone bullies you, you need to kill. It is normal. Don't let them step over you."

"I understand. I don't want to feel pain anymore. And to be depressed. If I feel that way, something is wrong and I need to find what it is."

She reminisced about her past and again glanced sideways. Somehow she felt her mood worsening and frowned. Something was very irritating. Her hand placed the glass on the table and her eyes glanced at the tableware.

As soon as she saw their position, she frowned.

In a practiced move, she turned the fork slightly, making it completely parallel to the others, and lightly moved the plate. It shifted right to the center.

"It was off." - she said in a cold tone, not looking anywhere in particular.

"Do you need something, miss?" - came a voice from the side.

"It was off." - she repeated herself and turned to look at the servant. - "I don't like it when something is off. It leads to trouble and to the things that can hurt me. And that means pain. I don't like to feel pain. My master taught me to always revenge pain. You made a mistake, do you want me to feel pain?"

The servant was shocked by what the woman said. He was sent here to serve her because he always was the most diligent and learned noble etiquette by heart.

'This woman is strange.'

"Of course I don't want you to feel pain, why would I, miss?" - he said.

"Then why was it off?" - she asked, staring at him. It seemed that she really wanted to know as if she couldn't understand.

"I'm sorry, I made a mistake, it won't happen again." - servant learned one thing about nobles. It is easier to admit your mistake than to reason with them. After all, it was a minor thing.

"So you did it deliberately? Otherwise, why would you apologize?" - she asked and now her tone changed to apathetic.

'I really don't understand what this woman wants from me... what is she talking about?'

"Anyone who wants to cause me pain should die. That is what the master taught me to do." - she said and stretched her arm.

"Wai... arh..." - servant fell to the ground without a head.

"Ah, now I feel free again." - the woman smiled and looked outside the window. It was at this time something shifted at the corner of her vision and her body felt rammed with tremendous force.

'huh...? How did I end up here... my table is on the other side of the hall... what?'

She heard footsteps.

And a youthful voice, devoid of emotions.

"You know, I thought, you are at least some semblance of the human being. I was wrong. That happens sometimes." - she looked at the young man and was stunned. His eyes... they hurt her with just that nauseous aura of purity. He gazed at her with platinum eyes. And clasped her head in his palm, turning it around. - "See, the servant is alive, but you will die today. Yun, you can go, don't stay here."

"As you command, Sovereign." - the servant man bowed and respectfully went out, closing the door behind.

"Just a simple illusion, that made you misplace target by a single step and you hit the air." - said Aiden. She was not only corrupted to the core of her soul and brain. She was insane, broken. There is nothing he can do here at all. And actually, he never wanted.

Every murderer will have a reason to be one. Emotions, hard past, family abuse, cruelty at school, or academy. The society is not perfect. It will be harder to find a murderer who did it without reason or justification.

But no matter how hard her life was, she tried to kill Hongjun. That was enough. Sometimes, thinking deeper will only make one hesitate more.

Aiden stood up and looked at the woman on the floor. She is lower in cultivation than him. How can she withstand a single punch? Her cultivation was crippled and nerves experienced a tremendous shock.

She can't even move.

He waved his hand. True Dragon Sword aura flared up for a brief second on an ice sword that flashed in and out of existence for a moment. Her head rolled on the floor.

"Is he upstairs?"

"Yes, Sovereign." - said Sixth respectfully, not even looking at the body on the ground.

"Good, let's go. Seal the entire floor and place these stones around the hall. We don't need any interruptions. Call the Shadow back. Let him clean up here."

Aiden waved his hand and Horont power spread out, completely refining the woman's body with blood and every part of clothing and jewelry. It removed even strands of hair that fell off from her head when Aiden sent her flying through the hall and residual aura without an owner, making the scene spotless.

Only the ruined wall was an indication that something happened here, but that was not their headache.

'Three down, the ring leader left.'