38 – Advent – 8
It was a dark night.
The guards who were hastily recruited to protect the lord, who was only able to survive, with a low-level adventurer in a devastated city, who was probably sleeping in a building, were struggling with drowsiness and tension.
It was because it was an unscheduled night guard, so he was put in this position as soon as he finished training.
The same was true of his colleague who stood by his side. He was bobbing his head up and down, using the window pole as a pillar.
Then, when his body gave up and his knees bent, he stood upright again in a fright, and staggered from his drowsiness.
In the end, the guard who couldn’t stand sleep stumbled along with his comrades and was about to fall asleep when he heard footsteps in the dark.
The startled guard hurriedly shook his colleague to wake him up. His colleague seemed to have lost his senses for a while, and then straightened his back straight, as if he finally heard the sound of footsteps.
The blonde hair that shone as brilliantly as the sun, and the beauty that you would never forget once you saw it, shone colorless in the deep darkness.
The person in front of them was wearing plain shorts and a long-sleeved top, but the guards immediately recognized who was approaching. He was an unrecognizable figure.
“The 1st Royal Knight Commander!”
The guard, who had run away from sleep, saluted with his neck and back stiff. His colleague, likewise, stiffened, saluting with an awake face.
The first thing I thought was that I was lucky. Because if you were the knight commander of the royal knights, your status was higher than that of most nobles.
In order to prevent a chaos of command in an emergency situation, the Royal Knights had higher command priority over the armed group than anyone except the Queen.
In other words, it meant that to the guards of the outskirts, Serena was like a distant superior.
Above all, isn’t the royal knights the organization that the blood queen goes through the process of selecting herself and turns into the royal guard? There was nothing good about being caught in a book by such a person.
The guards knew that all too well, and they did their best to correct their posture in order not to be found guilty.
If the head of the Royal Knights even sneakily said to their superiors that your subordinates fell asleep while standing guard, that day would surely be the memorial day for the guards here.
“What have you come for!”
“Is Kartina here?”
“That’s right!”
“I get it.”
Before that Meiri could even resonate, the two guards’ throats ran away at the same time.
The severed head didn’t seem to understand how things were going yet. Two round eyes stared blankly at the body that had lost its head.
The last thing they saw was the leader of the royal knights expressionlessly kicking the body that was about to collapse.
Tuduk, the head that had been floating in the air for a while fell to the ground. Serena even crushed them with her foot.
Broken skull fragments and brains mixed with blood flowed down the floor. But Serena’s shoes didn’t have a single drop of blood on them.
There was no hesitation for Serena as she approached the door. He yanked the handle, ripped off the hinges, and destroyed the entire door, throwing the ripped off door somewhere.
As Serena entered the building, the guards standing guard inside the building jumped up in amazement.
And, just as quickly, my throat ran away.
After stepping on and crushing the four corpses, Serena moved toward the second floor. The smell of blood followed him from the first floor.
The carpet on the stairs drowned out the sound of footsteps. Of course, it didn’t mean much to Serena, who was confident that she wouldn’t make a single brushing sound even if she wanted to wear armor and sprint at full speed.
Serena was about to climb the last staircase, but stopped for a moment when she saw the structure on the second floor.
It was originally used as a family house, but it was a building that was urgently arranged for Kartina, but it had several rooms, probably because it chose a pretty good house to treat nobles.
The bitch who will die is bothering her anyway. Serena clicked her tongue and closed her eyes and began to read the flow of things around her. First room, none. Second room, same. Third room, same. Fourth room… …
“Were you there?”
Serena opened her eyes. Its gaze was fixed on the fourth farthest room on the stairs.
There was no more hesitation in his actions. Serena approached the door and, just as she had entered the building, tore the door open and entered the room.
A familiar voice came from the bed.
“I was waiting.”
It was Kartina.
To be precise, it was something that descended on Kartina’s body.
Kartina calmly opened her mouth while combing her crimson hair, which had no intention of returning to orange, with a small comb. It was an atmosphere that didn’t care about Serena’s bloody gaze.
“He must have come to kill me.”
“Yes.”
“It’s vague, but I read your mind. The way you looked at me was unusual. I thought that if it was your personality, you would definitely come to kill me.”
There was no answer coming back.
Instead of answering, Serena grabbed Kartina’s neck. Kartina did not resist. Maybe it should be seen that I couldn’t resist.
Because Kartina, who had lost all her strength, was no different from an ordinary person.
It was obvious what the outcome would be if he tried to rebel against Serena, who couldn’t even touch a fingertip even if he attacked in perfect condition.
That was the reason why he didn’t run away on purpose.
Not only did she wonder how far she would be able to go if she ran away, now she was just a delicate woman, and she would have been caught up soon anyway.
Whether he ran desperately and died somewhere on the outskirts, or stayed still and died here, the result was no different.
Rather than sit like this and wait for the end, I wanted to gather my strength again by killing people in this city, but it was clear that it would only serve to give that woman a justification, so I gave up.
Because Cartina was a person who was miserably victimized by Serena Elizabeth’s one-sided and maniacal love, not a monster who was subjugated by causing an incident.
That was the reason why he did not dare to awaken his original personality sleeping deep in his soul.
Because the memories were mixed, something that descended into Kartina’s body was able to accept Kartina’s personality as if it were her own.
And because of that, I also came to know how weak and weak the owner of this body was.
This could be called minimal consideration.
The minimum consideration given by a being who originally had to strictly fulfill the contract, who had feelings similar to the owner of the memory as human memories were mixed.
It was not difficult to predict the reaction the weak human would show when he accepted the memories left in his head.
All of his men are taken as sacrifices, the city is completely destroyed, and now he has to give up his own life. Of course you can’t stay sane.
So, it would be better for you to go through the final moments yourself. The memories were mixed and the fear of Serena surged, but Kartina held it back.
Serena grabbed Kartina by the neck and dragged her out of the room. My bare feet, not even wearing socks, dragged on the floor.
The feel of a fine carpet passed through the tips of her toes. Serena had no hands. It was as if he was dragging a pack rather than a human being.
If you go on like this, you will die anyway. Kartina thought. Whatever she said here, it was only a matter of speeding up the time of her death a little.
So, before I die, it would be okay to say something to get on that woman’s nerves.
“Really, do you think that love can be reciprocated?”
Something inside Kartina squeezed out the last words while sparsely supplying oxygen to her clogged throat.
And I closed my eyes.
It was partly because he had an intuition of his own end coming soon, and partly because he did not have the confidence to bear the look in Serena’s eyes when he heard those words.
However, that was enough.
ㅡTuduk.
Serena tightened her hands and twisted her wrists, and Kartina’s neck snapped at a terrible angle with the sound of bones breaking.
The limbs that had been quietly attached to the body drooped downwards. That was the end.
A woman named Kartina, who was a benevolent lord to some and a great boss to others, crossed the river of no return forever.
The expression of Serena, who actually killed Kartina, was cold. It was because he felt unbearable anger at the last words Kartina said.
The hand that grabbed Kartina’s neck, which had turned into a corpse, was squeezed even tighter. As his throat was compressed, the things in it stirred as if they were regurgitating up and down.
Serena thought for a moment how much better it would be if the body was hacked up like this. Then, he forced his teeth to calm down and gritted his teeth.
Yes, it’s just a fleeting impulse, so you have to be patient. I’ve been wanting to cut this motherfuckin’ bitch up in pieces, but then my plan goes awry.
The reason Serena killed Kartina was simple.
With those petty eyes she looked at her lord, with those petty ears she heard her lord’s voice, with that petty nose she smelled her lord’s scent, with that petty mouth she spoke to her lord, with that petty mouth Because I touched her lord with my hand and defiled it.
It was just that, a very simple and obvious reason.
On that day, a short note was added to the report.
Kartina, one of the only survivors, went berserk due to exposure to the sacrificial ritual for a long time and slaughtered the guards.
