Survive.
A simple sentence, yet it transformed into a brand, deeply imprinted onto the depths of Yun You's soul, becoming something she could never forget her entire life.
Perhaps it was because massacring civilians... was not worth the Apprentices Death God's full attention. Until the very end, they failed to notice a little girl hiding in a hand-width wall gap for three whole days, not eating or drinking, and even her breathing almost ceased.
Later, the Apprentice Death Gods set ablaze the bodies of the people, burning away all evidence, putting everything on the Death Domain, blaming the nonexistent mutant creatures.
They swaggered away, off to enjoy the victory banquet their servants had long prepared for them, treating it as yet another glorious triumph.
No one could judge them; such events were far too frequent in the past, and they had never been punished for killing civilians.
