Last Patience (1)
Cayden left the next day, leading the army. It was to erase all of their reinforcements, who watched the Payne family’s back and had a reversal.
It didn’t really make sense to destroy them too… it was to move to subdue them to the subordinate family.
It was after Caden had already received the surrender of several families in a letter he received as he set out in the morning.
Twins, Daisy, and Judy saw him off in the morning.
With Caden’s fierce opposition, Judy had no choice but to remain. There was a high probability that war would not happen anyway, so don’t worry and rest.
All four women had their own thoughts.
And among them, twins were the most difficult.
They haven’t gotten an answer from Cayden yet.
The answer to the family was Kaden, who said he would come back and do it, but Asena knew he had already made a choice.
…I don’t know if that’s acceptance or rejection.
After Cayden left, he moved to Asena.
I had work to do.
She is escorted by guards and enters the dungeon.
Because it was Payne, who had a reputation for crime, the prison was well made.
There was no light, which dulled the prisoners’ sense of time, and torture tools were everywhere.
The screams of the prisoners echoed in trepidation as they couldn’t get out, and the damp, unpleasant air lingered.
Asena felt quite satisfied with the fact that Shalon Payne was locked up in a place like this.
An inner cruelty that was not seen well for Kayden was again revealed.
“…listen to me.”
She speaks to the guard who is escorting her with a torch.
“Yep.”
Overwhelmed by the atmosphere of Asena Pryster, the guard answered with certainty.
“…what happened here… should be kept silent. In particular, there should be nothing that goes into my brother’s ears.”
she exhales coldly.
The guards, who were usually respectful…but also fearful, gave these warnings to the guards, so the guards couldn’t have the courage to give them another answer.
Even he, who followed Cayden on the most intense battlefield, could not overcome Asena’s fear.
“I will keep that in mind.”
Satisfied with the guard’s answer, she continued down the cold stone steps.
It was dark enough to see the next road until the torch was flickering.
Nevertheless, Asena’s steps did not have any hesitation.
The sound of her footsteps echoed through the prison, and the torturer who was watching the prisoners with arms crossed in the dim prison suddenly woke up to Asena’s appearance.
“…Shalon Payne?”
Asena still asked in an icy voice, and the advisor crooked, leading Asena to Sharlon’s Jade.
Soldiers and advisers followed and began to light the torches hanging on the wall.
The dungeon gradually became brighter, and soon the other prisoners who were imprisoned in the light also wriggled.
However, a figure lying on the other side of the jade, where Asena’s steps stopped, did not move even when she appeared.
“……”
“…Shalon Payne.”
Only after Asena called her name did the prisoner tremble in response.
It may be night for Sharon, who must have lost the sense of time, but for Asena, it wasn’t.
The advisor quickly moved the chair behind Asena to colonel.
Asena sat noblely in her chair, waiting for Sharlon’s response.
“….price..ter..”
Shalon answered, lying on the floor, only turning her head gently.
A cracked voice and eyes reflecting the light of the torch. sagging body.
Asena opened her mouth.
“…I guess you can recognize me. Did I give you too much water?”
Even with those simple words, the advisor who was in charge of Shalon’s meal was restless.
“…under. Yes… hateful faces are recognizable everywhere.”
Shalon whispered.
At those words, Asena didn’t even snort.
“…I didn’t come here to talk to you. I’m just here to take a look at you. What kind of treatment should I give to you… I was only thinking about that.”
“…just kill me.”
Asena responds as if it was natural.
“I will. Did you ever think you could live? Did you forget Pryster’s sayings?…I touched my brother…I almost killed him…I thought I’d be able to survive…?”
Her voice gradually filled with anger, but it soon disappeared with Asena’s sigh.
“…I will kill you painfully. Just know that.”
Shalon Payne’s body twitched once more… and began to tremble slowly.
“…starving… losing… stabbing… all possible tortures I will taste and kill.”
Asena thought it was a fair punishment.
Shalon Payne was a man who almost took her own life.
If Kaden was dead… he would have died too. Not only that, there was a high probability that Kirsi was also dead.
Pryster had almost completely collapsed. This kind of punishment was aegyo.
Shalon’s body gradually crawled towards the cage. Her face, with her two sunken eyes, was revealed in the light.
“…..ruler…”
“…..”
“…Wrong…”
At the words of painfully killing… Shallon seemed to let go of the last remaining pride.
He realized that a peaceful death is a luxury.
Although her behavior changed in an instant, it felt awkward…and I could understand it at the same time.
No matter how hard you try to gain face, if the courage to hold onto it is broken, people change so easily.
“Please… kill me without pain… Asena-sama…”
As she spoke again as before, Shalon begged.
“…I… I was stupid… I was just greedy… I thought that Kaden-sama was no longer a Priest… .”
She pounded her weak head on the floor.
But Asena could only laugh out loud.
“….revenge…?”
“….ah..”
“Vengeance?”
Shalon’s head is stuck in the ground and it doesn’t move. His body seemed to stiffen with fear.
Asena continued.
“…you must have been the only one who survived the academy killing the eldest son of the Pryster family. Where is the mercy? You should have been grateful that you were alive, have a heart for revenge…?”
Asena was starting to regret not being able to kill Shalon at the academy at the time. If he had killed him then, he would not have felt the terrible pain.
The answer came back from Sharon’s stiff head. Her inner rough self seemed to have been stimulated again.
“…to say that you take my head is kind of mercy…”
On the day of the incident, Asena had handed Sharlon a letter with orders.
He handed her a letter telling her to send Shalon’s head, and told her to deliver it to the headmaster.
Asena said.
“You are alive now.”
“……”
At that simple answer, Sharon’s mouth was shut.
“If I really wanted your neck, I would have received your neck the same day.”
“……”
“Have you not thought about why I gave you a letter with an order to hang your head?”
Asena was then giving Sharlon a choice. either die or run away.
Of course, she was left speechless because it was a story that Shalon knew all too well.
“Don’t put any other reason… for your actions. Revenge is the same thing…”
“……”
“Even if you’re not a Pryster, you also knew that you shouldn’t touch it. If it was in the days of ignorant thieves….even if it’s possible because I don’t know my brother. You know that I have special consideration for you, so you obviously attacked him with intent.”
“……”
“So, even though my brother ran away, for a few days…”
Asena’s expression gradually distorted.
“…for a few days…it must have been after chasing after my brother. If you were alive, you would have known this would happen to you.”
Shalon crawled on the floor and stretched out her hand out of the grate.
He seemed to beg for Asena’s foot.
The advisor, who was watching the scene, did not let him go.
“this guy!”
Shalon, once a nobleman, is kicked in the torturer’s feet by the arm.
“…Ugh!”
Asena looked down at her noblely again.
“As much as I showed my teeth to my brother, it must have been just a matter of time before your family attacked me.”
“…no…no…”
“Because there is a big difference between having a mindset and acting. If you act like that, you have to pay the price for touching us.”
“No… I never meant to…”
“…I say no…your family certainly turned their backs on ours when the opportunity arises.”
Asena spit it out like that… and corrected her own words.
“…No, actually…the family doesn’t matter. For the mere fact that you attacked your brother, you must die. You and your whole family.”
Asena’s embracing monster appeared briefly.
She bent her back slightly.
Sharon felt a trembling fear even though death had already been decided.
“……The cost of trying to steal my treasure… is not small.”
Asena speaks quietly so that even the advisor cannot hear it.
Shalon realized that she had no more chances, and her fists clenched more and more.
Asena looks at him and asks.
“…you still look unhappy.”
“……”
“I understand that your position and mine are different. You must have had a reason. by the way….”
Asena gets up from her chair and looks down at Sharon, who is crawling on the floor.
“Originally, the weak are unfair.”
“…Uhhhh…”
Then he turned around.
Asena never saw Shalon again.
