Zhi Rui got up, and looked at ahead of them with a content smile
Hilda struggled a little to get up, she looked the same direction as Zhi Rui.
The guard's torso was strewn on the floor, his legs wehre around a meter behind it.
Looking back at Zhi Rui's smile, Hilda felt her chest tighten she couldn't understand why she smiling at such a thing.
Zhi Rui observed the corpse. 'The big hurdle is gone, the first step was taken, I can finally relax and take it slow.'
Zhi Rui turned to look at Hilda and at Izaya who was unconscious on the ground. she already checked on Zhun Xuying who was inside the carriage.
'I managed to gather capital now. but to keep it up and grow I'll need these four.
Zhi Rui cleaned the sweat on her forehead.
"Hilda loot the body and take Izaya to the carriage."
Hilda's face soured, but the expectation of a level three loot, her distaste disappeared
Zhi Rui walked to the carriage, now almost completely destroyed.
"How do we mend the holes Young miss?" Zun Xuying spoke, her face clearly one of relief.
Looking plainly at the carriage Zhi Rui shook her head. "We don't."
"But young miss, we'll need to pass the gates, if the people see, whoever is the owner of these slaves will get the news of it."
Zhi Rui smiled at Zhun Xuying "Exactly."
"Eh?"
At the sounds of footsteps approaching Zhi Rui did not explain further. "Xuying take the reigns."
Zhun Xuying forgot about the questions as she stared at the state Izaya was on, as Hilda carried him it seemed he wasn runover by a group of horses.
"Let's go".
"Y-yes young lady" Zhun Xuying climbed the carriage as everybody entered inside
they went away leaving the corpses to the debris.
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They were on the gates to enter the city, the guards approached Zhi Rui's carriage.
Zhun Xuying felt her palms on the reign sweat as her heart rate raised, Zhun Xuying held the reigns so tight her knuckles were white.
As the guard got closer, she puffed her chest forward and held her chin high.
the guard looked at the arrogant woman not saying a word. But before he could say something, another soldier patted his shoulder.
He found it strange, as his college motioned with his chin. he looked at the carriage again.
As broken as it was, the symbol of the General's Cheng family's crest was still visible.
"I'm sorry to bother miss,please go ahead."
Zhun Xuying snorted and entered the city.
Passing through the gates Zhun Xuying saw several people looking inside the carriage.
Zhun Xuying kept forward without looking to the sides. After officially entering the city she finally breathed deeply in relief.
Now relaxed she stopped to think about how the soldiers did not say anything. She thought about the open carriage and the crest of the Cheng family.
She got up abruptly .'So this is whats all about, the miss will use the General name to get rid of retaliation. 'Who would dare to question or demand anything from the general of the empire?!'
'Thinking more about it isn't it obvious? thought, does young lady do no know that she might get rid of troubles this way, but she just created another with her father? after all a General stealing slvaes is bad reputation.' she started thinking more deeply about it.
Zhi Rui and Hilda was inside the carriage they put some slaves above themselvs to enter unseen.
In the middle of the sweat and body odor Zhi Rui felt her body getting weak. She looked at her wounds, all healed. Closing her eyes she saw her core from red, it was turning pink, almost white.
Her conscience started to fade the smell, the feeling of touch all started fading. Her eyes did not opened anymore.
Hilda who was together inside looked around as the slaves started emitting a light red glow.
She distanced herself from them," Zhun Xuying something is happening here. go faster!"
Zhun Xuying did not question it' she whipped the elk horses away in the brothel direction!!
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Zhi Rui felt an enormous headache, she held her forehead. She felt a wet mattress beneath her and heard and soft breathing beside her ear. she felt chains on her legs and arms.
With all her strength she started to squirm from side to side
" I WON'T BE CHAINED AGAIN!" she jumped up in fury.
jumped?, she looked to the side, Zhun Xuying was sitting on a wooden chair staring at her with a frightened face.
Zhi Rui felt the wet clothes on herself, she closed her eyes and inhaled for five seconds exhaling right after, her eyelashes fluttered as she looked around herself.
The light was dim but she could still see they were in a brothel room she was on top of the bed. she looked out of the windows 'all dark'
She took one more breath and looked a the bed bellow. 'No chains'
her past still haunted her. even in this new body, she could feel the chain's friction on her skin.
She felt her muscle fatigue. exhaustly she lied down again. "Report"
Zhun Xuying saw the woman lie down and cleared her throat.
"Young miss, on the way back, the slaves started to produce a light red color on their body. After we reached the brothel, Hilda examined, it's certain, every mortal slave formed a core with a faint red color to them. we don't know why or how this happened."
Zhi Rui felt her heartbeat on her throat, she remembered the last thing she saw before losing her conscience. Immediately she closed her eyes
her core was a little pinkier then before but was still weak nonetheless.
'Must've been the blood I used to brand the slaves..'
She frowned "Xuying how long was that? and how is the actual situation?"
"Three hours ago, currently Izaya is the only one who woke up and is in another bedroom with his daughter. Hilda in the private saloon is observing the slaves.
"..."
Zhi Rui looked at the ceiling her eyes dazed.
'They know, at least they know it has relations with me, seeing how I used my blood to brand these slaves.'
Zhi Rui passed her finger through her hair and started scratching gently
'The information at their hands has too much power over me.'
Her hand moved roughly
'I can't slowly gain their trust anymore'
Her heart pumped strongly, her breathing got faster. her nail was almost cutting through her scalp
'Half the plans will have to change because of this.'
Zhi Rui stopped moving. and looked at Zhun Xuying
'Either I forcefully bound them to me now, or I kill them.'