The knight's destiny
Episode 26's
The wooden wheels spun through the slightly rocky streets, running open horse carriages without walls or roofs. A black-haired wolf beastman became a coachman in his human form, carrying and directing his horse's footsteps to where it was headed.
In the horse-drawn section of the cart, two adventurers were bound together with chains wrapped around their hands and feet. The two people were Luragorn and Lithia who had just woken up from her stupor.
Luragorn looked around and found rows of simple houses made of hollowed stone forming windows and doors. The ceilings were high but there was only ground above them. Lighting is only from medium-sized flint that is used as a general lamp on the side of the road.
At first there were only a few, but the longer the pair of eyes observed Luragorn and Lithia. An extremely unfriendly gaze filled with hatred as the collection of eyes looked at the cynics of these two adventurers.
All of them were none other than beastmen from various different subras. Men or women, children or adults, all were very unhappy with the arrival of Luragorn and Lithia.
“Not civilized!” one of the beastmen shouted while throwing stones at Luragorn and Lithia.
A small stone could have been avoided by Lithia, but soon the other beastmen threw towards the carriage with various small blunt objects.
“Princess! Humped!” sternly Luragorn protected Lithia with her large body.
The rain of protest was shouted at Luragorn and Lithia. In particular, these two adventurers did nothing wrong to the beastmen, but their existence as humans was enough of a reason to shout their hatred.
After the Lithia family was deposed, the occupying monarch was a nobleman from the Burana kingdom and established many new rules. One of them was a decrease in the degree for the beastman race that was considered to be no different from an animal.
The train finally stopped at a large two-story building that was also made of stone that had been hollowed out in such a way. Luragorn and Lithia are forced down and held captive by a rhinoceros beastman who is in [disengagement] mode.
A woman slowly came out of the building. Young women of Lithia age with a height of 170 cm and a slim body. Wearing a yellow tunic are also black trousers. His white skin seemed smooth without the slightest injury even though on his back was a long sword. The rabbit-shaped ears of the face look really cute, too bad the cynical look from the red almond eyes said otherwise.
“What are you Princess Fsosa?” ask Lithia suddenly.
“Do not talk before welcome!” the word that the rhinoceros beastman slapped Lithia suddenly made Luragorn angry.
Luragorn, whose legs and hands were tied, made a quick rotation in the air after jumping and then launched a hard kick into the face of the rhinoceros beastman. This rhinoceros beastman retreated which then made several other beastmen bend Luragorn to the ground in order not to move any further.
Luragorn's crackling jaws and shrunken brows stared at the rabbit beastman in front of them. The female beastman named Fsosa then approached Luragorn and looked at the back of her hand.
“Hooh .. so, you too huh?” asked Fsosa muttered and then turned to look at Lithia, “means you are a core royal family. The Luxorn family, right?”
“Princess Fsosa, do you know what this is? Are you the same?” asked Lithia who was just sitting in chains.
“Well shall I say, for I also–,” Fsosa pulled a little collar of her tunic until a symbol of the king's chess piece appeared on her left chest, “I was also a core royal family. Fsosas, Fsosas Clanscar. The representative of the entire beastman race and also the representative of the fertility goddess, the goddess Furmur.”
Lithia had no idea what Fsosa was talking about. Lithia simply fell silent then thought for a moment about their problem.
“God? Race representative? Meaning?” ask Lithia again with her serious eyes.
“Hmn ... It seems like you don't understand at all I mean,” said Fsosa holding Lithia's chin, “if you don't play around and give that bastard the throne, we don't need to live crawling like this.”
“Of course you don't know. You who only know the comforts of the kingdom will never know what it feels like to be hunted.”
*HUK!
A loud punch landed on Lithia's face to bleed from her troubled nose making Luragorn rise in black instantly.
“B*JING*N!”
*BHAM!
Luragorn's head was smashed to the ground by the rhinoceros beastman to silence this man's words.
Lithia was speechless. Although he spoke now, it would not cover up the anger from Fsosa. From the sentence shows how hard Fsosa and the beastman race struggle to survive, considering that after the Buron became king of the Midia kingdom replaced the Luxorn family, the beastman race was immediately labeled as a slave race.
“My jawab! Spoiled princess! Do you know what it's like to be hunted?!” fsosa's shout pulled Lithia's collar and looked into the red-haired woman's eyes.
The entire beastman race who heard this only fell silent while bowing their heads when they heard Fsosa say that to Lithia. Those razor-sharp eyes filled with anger shed tears as they looked at Lithia.
“My jawab! How does it feel to be an animal and be hunted?! How does it feel to be a slave and be tortured?! How does it feel to be isolated in your own land?! Answer me!” fsosa shouted with her glazed glare.
Lithia lowered her head not daring to look at Fsosa. It was not that he did not feel the pain, it was quite the opposite that he understood the pain of this rabbit beastman. Too bad whatever reason Lithia gave would not change the fact that the beastman race was a minority race that was treated like slaves or even animals.
“K ... k .. if I kill you .. the throne of Midfraz will be mine and we will all not have to run anymore. This is all because of you humans who set rules as if we were despicable creatures,” said Fsosa pulling the sword from its sheath.
“Stop all of you!” said a rabbit beastman who looked very old.
The old-looking male rabbit beastman stopped Fsosa's actions. His clothes are only a long tunic to the feet because his body which is only 140 cm tall also runs bent.
His narrowed eyes were covered in long thick white eyebrows, as well as his long white mustache and beard. His wrinkled face looked somewhat paled but still could move smoothly.
“Stop hurting him. Fsosa, let go of him.”
The sentence confused the entire beastman as well as Luragorn and Lithia. This old beastman then approached and looked at Lithia's worried-looking face.
“Yes, no more mistakes. You look so much like him. Rugborth,” said the old beastman.
“You know him?” ask Lithia sparingly.
“Know? Of course this old Izot knows your grandfather. We are close friends.”
