Chapter 19 – Abduction
18.
Today is a bit cloudy day. The sun was shining and the sky was blue, so it was a really unpleasant overcast day.
There was only one knight who met Sophia. After saying that he had come to pick him up, Sophia let out an awkward laugh at the sight of the driver silently pulling Sophia’s wheelchair.
I hate being with other people.
At first, Sofia hated her sword. She hated, despised, and loathed so terribly. The very existence of such a person felt like an insult to humanity.
Opening a black market, running a gambling hall to deplete people’s mind and body, experimenting on human bodies, running a slave market, enjoying watching people kill people in a gladiatorial arena – there wasn’t a single bit of something to like.
So when Carl first said, “I like a saint,” He didn’t even know he was genuinely disgusted. “Get out and die.” “It is unclean to speak with someone like you.” “I’m throwing up.” The knife clung tenaciously. “Oh, saintess, don’t you look in a bad mood today?” “Have you ever killed a person, too?” “You are afraid of snakes.”
Carl was a rude person. Sophia used to spit out swear words at Carl like that. I felt relieved about something. He didn’t have to pretend to be nice to Carl. He said that it was a righteous man’s duty to do good even to the wicked, but no one would look down on Sophia for saying a word or two of swearing to an evil villain like a knife.
She might have liked it a little. Sophia didn’t shy away from her knife.
“You look like garbage”
“Are you stupid?”
“You are stupid”
“Bad”
“Don’t do that”
“Not good”
“Are you okay?”
Sophia’s words grew milder. The more the person named Carl gets used to it. The more he realized that Carl really liked him, the less she wanted to say nasty things to him. He seemed to be laughing quite genuinely when he laughed in front of Carl. It was much better than the forced smiles that nobles who came to make offerings looked at them with lascivious eyes.
Come to think of it, there was also a time when Carl put the cheek of a nobleman who was trying to molest him instead. After Sofia turned 17 and her breasts and hips started to grow late, all sorts of flirting came flooding in. Carl cursed without hesitation every time, saying, “You fucking bastard.”
Sofia couldn’t properly say thank you to Carl because she was worried about other people’s eyes. Carl didn’t care about any of that. He was an honest man.
Although he appreciated it then, he wasn’t unusual. Because everyone did it. Maybe he took it for granted and he didn’t even know he passed it on. Sophia was a grateful person, but since she was loved by everyone, she was used to that kind of love.
Sophia’s body moves away from Carl’s house.
Since her arms and legs were cut off.
No one came to visit Sophia. She minus Lloyd and Carl. At least Lloyd never came back after her first day.
The farther away from Carl’s house, the more Sophia’s heart gets damper.
*
“I don’t think this is the direction of the imperial family—”
“Know.”
“Yes?”
Pushing Sophia, her wheelchair falls into her alley. Even on the terraced road, Sophia’s body shook every time she was dragged in a wheelchair. Sophia’s face went pale as she chewed on her knight’s words.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Did you do it with Carl Leben?”
“… You are rude.”
“Kick.”
Article?
Is this an article?
The shock did not disappear from Sophia’s face. All of the imperial knights Sophia remembered were people with a reputation for being polite and tidy in their words and actions. The knight dragged Sophia through the alleys. The road seemed familiar.
“Have an asshole, saintess, saintess. It’s not funny, that’s it.”
“Why are you talking like that… !”
“You don’t seem to understand the situation. Oops. Why don’t you cry? Wow! Save me, warrior!”
Sophia’s mouth fell shut. The knight’s voice felt cold. It was scary. She was terrified that her life was in the hands of this stranger. The noise of the clanking armor ate away at Sophia’s mind. What should I do, what should I do now?
Have to run away
But how?
“People were surprised by the saintess’ request to leave the room. No, where does a bitch with no arms or legs want to go! Find it now! As a result? In the hands of the villain of the century, Carl Leben! Boon!”
“Knives are not evil.”
“Ah, sorry. Have you already been brainwashed? Oh dear. Don’t worry. After receiving treatment at the imperial family, everything will get better.”
“This is not the direction of the imperial family.”
“Is it right? The imperial basement.”
“Yes? Why underground… “
“To punish the outrageous saintess?”
“I’m sorry. What the hell are you talking about?”
Through the slums with stark eyes, past the homeless people in dirty clothes, and the wheels of the wheelchair rolling with the back steps of a cat eating a corpse behind. Sophia had the idea to run, but she didn’t know how.
It’s crazy. The middle of the desert. Endless flood. A deep pit that cannot be climbed. A secret room from which you cannot escape.
Sophia’s elbows and her knees struggled. The knight was dragging her Sofia, even humming her, when he saw her street courtesan beckoning. “Oh. It’s not like a whore, but it’s pretty.” The knight paid her whore and touched her breasts and lower body. “Hey, is it big?” “Does the driver have a lot of money to buy me while dragging such a pretty girl around?” “Yeah, that has to preserve her virginity. It’s an expensive product. Of course, I don’t know if her virginity remains.”
It’s miserable. The knight, who had been dragging himself around her back alleys, stopped abruptly and began to embrace her courtesan. “I have a place to go, so drain the water in moderation.” “If that’s the case, can’t he use his mouth?” “Um, sure. Is that so?”
Sophia was startled by the sound behind her. Once the courtesan started sucking the knight’s things to get her money, Sophia couldn’t do anything while listening to the obscene sounds.
The homeless people nearby who found Sophia sneaked up on them. “Hey, knight?” “Don’t fucking talk.” The knight began to beat the prostitute and her. Sophia was disgusted. The gaze of the homeless is insidious. Someone chomped and licked their lips. A mumbling voice was heard. “How could such a pretty woman lose her limbs… A hand full of soup suddenly touched Sophia’s thigh.
“Kyaaak!”
“Hey fuck be quiet!”
Sophia struggled with her limbs as the fear overtook her whole body. Her elbows and knees moved according to Sophia’s will, and her wheelchair moved slightly as Sophia intended to distance herself from the homeless. Rumble, rumble, rumble. Because it was a slope, the wheelchair rolled down quickly.
Quadang. The wheelchair, which was rolling quickly, collided with a wall and fell sideways. Sophia got out of her wheelchair. Above, the homeless man is slowly approaching. Sophia smelled something strange. Mud. Standing water. Rotting smell.
Sophia was now crawling on the ground mixed with vomit, dog poop, and bugs.
Wow
I feel like I’m going to suffocate at this rate. How did this happen? Have to run away But how?
My limbs ached.
My hands and feet hurt so much. I felt pain in my wrists and it felt like there were thorns in my feet. It looks like her finger is broken. Her palms were rubbed. I think my calf is torn. Aren’t your nails pulled out? The bridge is being dismantled piece by piece.
The homeless are getting closer. Pants are bulging
They will rape me
Someone, someone help me
Knife.
Where is the knife
Ah.
Carl is at home.
“Ah-ah-evil!”
Her fingers snapped off. Her toes were crushed here and there. The calves were slashed with knives and slicing through the wriggling muscles, and the fingernails were pulled out and the skinned hands were marinated in salted water and fried in boiling oil.
It’s such a pain.
– I have no arms, no legs. I don’t know why it has to hurt.
“Whoa! Aagh! Aww! Please! Ahhh!”
Sophia’s face was covered with tears.
Again and again.
Hear her footsteps
“Oops.”
It was a voice I had never heard before.
“The product should not be damaged.”
One of the Imperial Knights. As Sophia sat idly by, she was one of the people talking in the hallway. “To hear that a limb was cut off, if a woman suffered something like that, she would be really sad. It doesn’t lose its charm. As expected, the charm of a woman is her smooth thighs and calves-“
“Saint Sophia. There are many people looking for you. This is not the time to be lying in the mud. No matter how—even if it looks like a pig.”
“Geuuuuu.”
“The limbs are cut off, but it is politically valuable. Do you know what an arranged marriage is? The empire must maintain good relations with other kingdoms. This is the time when the saintess’ sacrifice and determination are needed. Yes. To prevent a new war.”
“Aaaaa.”
“Therefore. Hey, wake up Saint Sophia.”
“Huh, huh.”
A knight in casual clothes puts Sofia back on the wheelchair.
“So, let’s go and decide who to live with. Saintess. When you hear rumors that you went to the house of a criminal like Carl Leben, the value of the product goes down. Even if her limbs are cut off, she should have a virgin. What are you going to do if you turn into a rag?”
“Eww. Ah.”
Sophia’s eyes are cloudy.
It’s sad.
It’s hopeless.
Want to die
She was an old friend of hers who had teased her a little while ago.
I missed Carl Leben.
*
“You should have arrived by now, right?”
Although she asked to be kidnapped.
I am also worried
I don’t want Sophia to get hurt just in case.
“It hurts, it hurts”
“Yeah. I’m saying it hurts.”
That point at which Sofia cried, anxiously searching for her knife.
Carl was sitting on the chair of the demon king’s daughter, reading a book and enjoying contemplation with his assistant.
