
I'm Annabelle. I am a servant in the castle of Master Frederick, he is the second son of Elder Mircea, and the younger brother of Lord Elric.
Today, Master brought a boy with a shabby appearance and a thin body, his eyes telling him he had given up on this life.
"Hey you, give this boy some clothes and food, take him to the gardener and let him learn about his work there." The master gave me orders, I lowered my head and held the boy's thin hands together.
"Master." Master Frederick who was walking towards his room turned towards me, "Thank you very much." Master seemed confused by what I said, but he passed again without caring about what I said just now.
I took the boy to the servant's area, bathed him, changed his clothes, and prepared food for him.
He ate so greedily, as if he had not eaten for days, I did not stop him, because I also understood the feelings of this child.
"Nr ...." The boy called me.
"Hm?"
"The master ... What's he gonna do to me?"
I paused for a moment before finally answering his question. "Before that, we should call him Master."
"Master ...."
I smiled at the look in her eyes that re-emitted the desire to live.
"He'll tell you to work, give you food, give you a warm place and introduce you to good people."
His eyes twinkled at my answer, seeing my condition and the other servants in this castle made him even more convinced by my answer.
"Then ... How did you get to the Master's?"
The shadow of the past instantly flashed in my head after hearing his question.
"You want to hear my story?"
The boy nodded as he continued to chew the chicken meat without a second stopping. I closed my eyes to recall more clearly the events that had happened some hundred years ago.
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In the past, I was just a little girl stranded on the streets, either who my parents were, or how I got to the slums where I lived until I was ten.
I steal food in the city to survive, it is not uncommon for me to be beaten to death for being caught after stealing.
But I've never experienced torture like I did that day. I stole a piece of cloth from a merchant in the winter to warm my body. Unbeknownst to me that the cloth was a very valuable cloth, the merchant managed to capture me with the help of his aide.
I was also asked for compensation because they considered the cloth I touched to be trash, of course I have nothing to use as compensation, he said, the sick and weak bodies of my children will not make money if they sell me.
Eventually the merchant aides beat me all out as an outburst of their resentment, they even started to ignite my body with their cigars and douse my wounds with alcohol. I don't know how many times I screamed for mercy, but they didn't care and continued to torture me.
As I kept shouting, one of them stomped my mouth with his big shoes, I could no longer move my mouth or make a sound after that.
As if not satisfied, they again tortured me, buried my face with snow and poured cold water into the snow slowly, I had difficulty breathing, he said, even if I breathe, cold water mixed with snow will enter my head, making me feel a lot of pain.
I heard clearly they were laughing then, for some reason, it seemed like they thought that my suffering was lacking. With their big shoes, my fingers and toes were stepped on until I could no longer feel all my fingers.
"Hey, it seems like the boss is leaving already, we better deal with it."
That's how they dragged my body away and then threw my battered body just like that in a cold narrow alley.
I still remember the moment where the white snow I was lying in was slowly blushing with the blood flowing from my body, my legs and hands could no longer feel, a painful chill started to stab through my body.
While waiting for the death to pick me up, I cried for my life all this time.
'Am I going to die here? I live as a street rat and die as a street rat, I don't even have parents who will grieve over my death.'
Amidst the wait, I heard the sound of footsteps, accompanied by the sound of someone speaking a language I did not understand.
Suddenly I felt a warmth enveloping my body, the pain I felt disappeared, as I opened my eyes, a boy of nobility looked at me with a condescending look.
Even so, I did not feel any evil intentions from those fiery red eyes, I also knew that he was the one who had saved me. I owe him a lot of money, and after that I was killed again it doesn't matter.
"You ... Why are you sleeping here? At least find a warm place when dying."
It wasn't an insult, I could feel it, he asked because he didn't understand what I was doing. Why do I understand the language now?
"I don't have a warm place." That's my answer, he looked confused listening to it, the way he looked at me started to change.
"Why is your body so thin? You look like a ghoul when you smell like a man."
I don't know what he's talking about. "I don't have any food."
The confusion becomes more and more, "Huh? Does anyone have a home and no food? The queen just gave the house and food to anyone in our place."
Surely the Queen is a noble person, whether she is from which country, the King in our kingdom let a child like me die of hunger and cold, can I stay in the Queen's country?
"The condition of your body just now is so disgusting, are you really flawed or what? Humans are very difficult to understand."
"I was beaten and thrown into this place."
"Why?"
"I'm stealing."
"Caine ... I want to warm my body with it."
He was more confused, the face filled with questions that I always remember how many centuries passed.
"Uh ... You want to come with me?"
A short sentence that instantly regenerated the long-lost hope from my heart, without me noticing I nodded in agreement to him.
"Well, what's your name?"
"My name ...." I just remembered I don't have a name, "no."
He patted her on the forehead while swearing. "No home, no food, no name. Your parents have no intentions?!"
"I ... Nor have parents."
She ruffled her hair while muttering obscure sentences, moments later she rearranged her hair and looked at me.
"Your name is Annabelle, if you want to stay at my place you'll have to work your whole life."
I nodded without a second thought, instead of living in this country, I would rather stay with this person in a land led by a great Queen.
"Hm ... The Queen says to repay the good with kindness multiplied and to repay the bad with ugliness multiplied. You said you were beaten, right? Want to repay them?"
"Reply them? By what?"
"Of course torture them, or kill them."
"But ... I was wrong for stealing."
"They are also wrong for being weak creatures."
At that moment, something strange rose up in my heart after hearing his words, I felt so thirsty, I somehow felt that killing them all could satisfy this thirst.
"All right."
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"Hiiiiiik! You are! How can you still live?!" That person stepped on my face until I could not scream, I moved my hand, a deep red mist gripped the person's body and slammed it hard until his head was crushed.
"What the fuck?! You're a monster, aren't you?!" He was the one who ignited my body with a cigar, I flicked my fingers, red thorns were sticking out of his body, he collapsed instantly with a body covered in blood.
"YAHHH! GEEZ! GEEZ!" He was the one who buried my face with snow and doused it with water, I pointed my hand at his head and clenched my hand. A red-colored blob enveloped his head, he was seen thrashing before finally falling to the ground with his head remaining skull.
"Belg ... Aaa ... Aaaf ...." This guy who stepped on my finger until it crumbled, I could tell from his shoes, I twisted my wrist.his entire body was instantly twisted in an unnatural position.
"Fuck! Fucking monster!" He was the one who dragged my body and threw me into a narrow alley, I swept my hand. The person shouted as his body was dragged and thrown many times into the restaurant wall, I stopped when he no longer shouted.
Last.
"What do you want? The money? I have a lot! Or do you want to eat well? I buy you anything you want! Yea? Yea?" He was the merchant who told those people to torture me.
"I'll eat uncle."
"Eh!? How's it? KYAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!"
I strangled his neck and absorbed his life energy, he repeatedly asked for mercy while trying to take off my grip as his fat body shrank.
He finally stopped moving after his body had only skin and bones left, I threw his body and wiped the saliva in my mouth.
Everyone in the restaurant had already fled since then, now we were both surrounded by a horde of soldiers with rifles.
"MONSTERS! SURRENDER OR DIE HERE!"
The noble boy laughed, with a single hand sweep, all the soldiers were lying around with bodies that only bones remained.
He was staring at me. "Happy?" I nodded happily.
"Then we go to my castle."
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"I don't really remember after that, but suddenly I was in this castle and a servant was taking care of me."
The little boy in front of me gawked, crumbs of food splattered around his mouth.
"Silver kills the bad guys. It's delicious." His red eyes glowed dimly.
"Are you not?"
The boy shook his head. "Dad sold me to an evil uncle because my mother beat me up a lot and said that I was a useless child, after which the evil uncle took me away from home. I think it's impossible to find them, so I didn't tell Master."
"Master will definitely find them, do you want to go with me to tell Master?"
"Are they to be found?" His blood-red eyes sparkled hearing my words.
At times like this my bloodlust was always turbulent, I smiled, making my canine teeth stick out. "Of course."