Chapter 24
Ron was looking at a human slave girl who was around ten years old.
She had long black hairs falling on a slender waist and a shapely body brimming with the appeal of beauty.
Even though the girl was still young and her body not developed yet.
But a beauty at such a young age made one believe that she would undoubtedly become a kingdom toppling beauty and a bewitching figure that can immediately grab full attention wherever she goes after she grows up.
But sadly as if the Heaven was jealous of her beauty and granted a punishment, she had two long extremely gruesome scars on her face that destroyed the beautiful fantasies of all the people in the crowd that surrounded her.
Her hands, legs and neck were chained and her sorrowful and pitiful eyes filled with tears that expressed her fear and sorrow made Ron tremble.
It is not that Ron recognised the girl or knew someone with a similar face, but the scars on the beautiful face reminded him of someone in his past life.
Ron at that time was a newbie in the field of mercenary back on planet earth.
He was an experienced assassin who train in assassination from a young age but there are some skills which he lacked that can only be gained after becoming a trained mercenary.
In one of the missions in his early stage of mercenary life in a war-torn region, he met a woman reporter with long scars on her face.
His mission along with some other mercenaries was to protect her and bring her to the safe zone.
It was a long journey and soon they both became close friends as he saved her life in many occasions.
Ron was an eccentric person and he had no true friends but her personality and character made her way through the closed wall of his heart.
Thus he accepted her as his closest friend from the bottom of his heart.
They even started sharing their past and then he learned that the scars were made by herself and not by someone else.
He learned the bitter truth of difficulties a woman had to suffer in the society if she had a beautiful face and no fame or power.
She disfigured her face to protect herself from the lustful eyes of many even in her own family who tried to rape her for her facial beauty.
Her past and the pain she had to suffer made Ron extremely sad.
He decided to be there for her always as she was his closest friend.
But sometimes fate and destiny play with us as if we are chess pieces on the chess board.
They were attacked by a small rebel army group and she was critically injured during the crossfire.
In order to save her, he carried her and retreated while the other mercenary members continued shooting while moving in a different direction.
He carried her on his back after giving some emergency treatment but still he needed to take her to a hospital but the nearest medical care of the United Nations was at least fifty kilometres away.
He walked and walked carrying her through the danger zone with no water or food.
Ron was too tired and gasping for breath but still did not give up.
As if she knew Ron's situation, tears were falling from her eyes and her hands were embracing his face with affection.
The pain in her body was getting unbearable as she looked at Ron and whispered in his ears.
"Ron, you have been the closest to me other than my parents. You are the only one who looked at me with no disgust in the eyes for this ugly scar face. I know you care a lot about me since you never left my side even in danger when you could have left to save yourself. I am so fortunate to meet you and these past days spending time with you were the happiest moment of my life."
Ron was having a terrible and dreadful feeling while hearing these words from her.
He could hear her sobbing and her sobs were choked unable to come out.
Suddenly, he felt a kiss on his cheeks.
"Thanks for everything..., I will missss... you myyy... dear bes... best.... friend..."
He then heard a sigh and there was no more movement again on his back.
His worse fear became true.
He slowly placed her body on the ground and checked her breath and pulse.
Ron's eyes became red rimmed as tears fell from his eyes.
He was breathing coarsely and then spoke in a cracking voice.
"I will miss you too my dear best friend. You shall be the one and only best friend I will have in my life until death."
Then he hugged and embraced her body while stroking her face containing scars.
He cried and his mournful wails were heart wrenching.
At the present..... Slave market....
He was looking at the suffering girl.
Tears brimmed in his eyes and streamed down his face.
A nearby bystander saw the unusual activity and was confused.
'Why is he so emotional for the slave girl? Does she belong to his family or is he an emotional vigilante who is against slavery?' the nearby bystander thought.
Ron did not mind what others thought about him. He doesn't care and he doesn't give a damn.
He moved closer and closer to the chained pitiful girl and reached before her.
The chained girl was standing with her head down while thinking about her grim and dire future.
Ron raised his palm to stroke her face.
The girl raised her head with fear and her body trembled uncontrollably. She was extremely afraid now since a man took interest in her.
She knows about the dreadful and cruel life a female slave suffers. She would be used as a sex toy again and again and would be treated cruelly like an animal.
'Am I going to suffer the same way in the hands of the man standing before me?' she grieved while taking a closer look at the person standing before her.
She was stunned... It is a kid who stroked her face.
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