Chapter 19
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I thought about what I was going to do for a moment, calmly and carefully, as if I were studying a complex chessboard before making my decisive move. So I approached her indifferently, as if she were an inanimate object not worthy of the slightest attention, pulled the cold blade from her hand, and cut off her head with a quick, merciless, ruthless movement.
I paid no attention to the blood gushing from her severed head, flowing like a red waterfall and staining the ground violently. After all, I had seen my own body bleed countless times in this miserable life, and it no longer aroused any feelings of shock or disgust in me. It had become as familiar as the rising and setting of the sun.
"The night is beautiful and the day is even more beautiful. What a ridiculous paradox."
I muttered in a strange calm that hid a deep emotional void as I searched the lifeless body of the woman who had lost her luster, taking everything of value from her. A simple bracelet on her wrist, a faded silver ring adorning her cold finger, and a small cloth bag. I took the bracelet and the ring and put them in my pocket without a second thought, leaving the bag behind because it looked like a girl's bag.
I looked up at the sky studded with twinkling stars that lit up the pitch darkness and scratched my head in boredom:
" Now how am I going to get back? What a predicament."
There was no solution but to wait for help from a passerby or wait for daylight to find my way around this place, But the stench of blood would surely attract bloodthirsty monsters, and I didn't want to stay around until that happened and I became a hearty meal. After all, I didn't want to suffer the constant tearing of the monsters' filthy fangs with no chance of real death or rest. What a miserable situation!
" Hadi Badi Krumb Zabad Gali Bali Tali Malo Hali... Hahaha, it seems my spell will guide me away from here."
I laughed softly as I muttered a spell I had heard on TV in my previous world and moved in a completely random direction, leaving the choice to pure chance.
I walked a long way in the pitch darkness until I heard the refreshing sound of falling water. I pushed aside the dense trees to see a magnificent waterfall glistening in the pale moonlight.
" This is the Rowanka waterfall near the village. Maybe someone will come here in the morning, or maybe I'll stay here until the bloodthirsty monsters find me."
I decided to wait here until the slow morning brought with it a glimmer of hope.
"I wonder what would happen if a poisonous snake bit me while I was sleeping here? Would I die quickly and mercifully from the poison spreading through my heart, or would I suffer indescribable pain and never die in this cursed world that refuses to give me rest?"
I pondered these morbid thoughts as I leaned against a cold, rough rock to sleep. It wasn't the best bed, but it was better than nothing in this miserable place. I felt the cold water seeping into my body until I was suddenly overcome by sleepiness and fell asleep to the strangely soothing sound of water trickling.
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"Ruthvien."
I heard someone whisper my name in a familiar, anxious tone that pierced my deep sleep. I opened my eyes with great difficulty and weakness to see the guard Ferma standing in front of me with an expression I had never seen before, a mixture of fear and anger.
I said in a weak voice that was barely audible:
" Ferma... You are such a stubborn ghost, even after death you are still small and quick to anger."
The guard Ferma's ears moved slightly as if trying to comprehend my words, and her cheeks reddened a little. She advanced toward me with quick, angry steps, grabbed my collar with an iron grip, and lifted my body easily, as if it were a feather, with one hand, and threw me with tremendous force into the cold water beside me without saying a word.
"Damn you, Ferma, can't you take a joke, you little snob?" I shouted as I struggled to swim to the slippery bank. I didn't really care how I died, but drowning wasn't my first choice, especially after my previous miserable experience.
Years ago, I had tried to drown myself and failed miserably. It took them hours to discover me in the water, hanging between life and death, neither life nor death wanting me. It was pain in the ass in every sense of the word.
I reached the ground with difficulty and weakness to see the guard Ferma standing firmly, lifting a brown leather bag and examining it with great care.
I shouted at her hoarsely:
"Ferma, where did you get this bag..."
I stopped mid-sentence when I noticed her piercing, ice-cold gaze piercing through my body as if it were piercing my soul, and I immediately backed away in panic to jump back into the water, which suddenly seemed like my only safe haven, but my movements seemed much slower than those of the well-trained guard Ferma, who moved as fast as a snake. snake.
Fuuu!!
The guard Ferma grabbed my feet with incredible strength and lifted me high into the air, waving my body like a piece of laundry being washed by lifting it up and slamming it repeatedly onto the hard ground with brutal, merciless violence.
"Fer..."
Boom!
" What..."
Boom!
" Damn..."
Boom!
I tried my best to scream at her with all my might, but to no avail. My breath was coming in gasps as I hit the ground. My face hit the ground left and right with painful force as Ferma waved my body around like a merciless whip, leaving behind bruises and bleeding wounds.
The guard Ferma suddenly stopped beating me on the ground, pulled me up by my collar with a steel grip, and said angrily:
"Where did you get this bag, you piece of trash?"
I could feel her intense anger in her tone, and I mocked her in a broken voice that betrayed my pain:
"What? Is this your mother's bag, little girl?"
Boo!
"Damn you, Ferma, don't hit a handsome young man on his pretty face!"
I tried to free myself from her iron grip while she beat me on my pretty face, but I couldn't. The guard Ferma was a terrifying monster in the body of a small girl, extremely strong, with the strength of several men.
The guard Ferma said with anger that shook the trees:
" This bag belongs to my dear sister at the academy. I gave it to her before I left the academy with these hands of mine, which are now stained with dirty blood. How is she, you bastard?"
I was a little surprised by the unexpected and crazy events. A girl in a deserted forest next to a random village in a random city that I found yesterday is my guard's sister? What madness is this? Are we in a fantasy world? What is this nonsense, author? I know you have to make the plot a little complicated, but not this absurd!
"Answer me, you insolent boy!"
The guard Ferma shouted in a thunderous voice when I didn't respond to her because I was stunned by what I had heard and my mind was trying to comprehend this strange tangle of events.
I smiled maliciously as I formed a brilliant plan for her death in my mind:
"I killed her! Actually, I raped her first to break her spirit, then killed her slowly and with relish. What a tragic end for that poor girl... She trembled like a weak autumn leaf under my feet! No need to feel jealous, dear Ferma, I'll do the same to you soon, and in a much more painful way!"