The master noticed her gloominess and understood she couldn't tolerate blood.
" So if I put a criminal in front of you, you can kill him?" The master asked.
Aurora was baffled. She never killed someone. How would she answer that?
" What if that criminal manipulate you saying that he was innocent, someone was trying to leave him in danger. Will you believe him and let him go? Cause as far I know you have the record of misjudging people." He said strictly.
Aurora lowered her head. She knew what the master was talking about.
" Boys go back to your rooms. You have done good." The master shouted. The boys bowed and left that place.
" Aurora, you are here not to sympathies animals, you are here for training. Before defending someone try to learn attacking. With that you can both protect and end the evil. You have failed todays test. I'm greatly disappointed." saying that the master went out.
Aurora stood up there lowering her head. After sometime she went near the dog and removed its lash. She patted and hugged the dog. The dog felt comfortable too. She gave it a slice of bread she kept for herself from the breakfast. The dog must be really hungry as he ate that quickly. Aurora smiled.
" I'm glad that I have saved you doggy. Be safe around here okay?" saying that she went out too. The dog kept looking at her way probably thanking her for saving its life and giving food.
It was the night. Aurora was really scared what the boys were going to do to her. She locked the door and went to bed. But again in the mid night the boys broke into her room. This time all of them come to kill her.
Aurora hurriedly woke up from bed. She was really scared.
A boy smirkingly came to her and slapped her hardly. She closed her eyes in pain.
Another one came and grabbed her hair, also slapped her.
Another one came and choked her. They all together pushed her to the wall. She teared up in pain.
" You bitch! You fucking weakling! You dared to talk back to us! You even fooled us yesterday pretending to be dead! You are really cunning huh?" The one choking her shouted.
Aurora couldn't reply as she was almost out of breath.
" Who will save you today? Today we won't just choke you, we will slice your skin to death!" Another one said and slapped her. She was thrashing in their old trying to get away from them.
They laughed seeing her protest.
" You pathetic miserable weakling shit! You think you will be a heir? You even gave a speech today! You have some nerves to think you will beat us in this huh?" saying that the boy let her go and hold a knife on her throat.
"I'll slice down your throat today you piece of shit!" he shouted.
" Why are you doing this to me? What wrong have I done? Why do you think I'm a threat if I'm that much weak?" Aurora said with struggle.
All of them laughed at her. The boy holding knife put pressure on her throat with the knife and blood oozed out. She closed her eyes in pain.
" You have the audacity to think you are a threat to us? Well you are just because you are the actual blood of Emperor while we are just some proxies." He said.
Another boy came and touched her blood.
" The only threat is this blood got it bitch? You have nothing that will scare us. We don't even count you as our competition." He said chuckling.
" Enough of talking. Let's end this shit here." The boy holding the knife said. They were about to beat Aurora to death when the dog Aurora saved in the day started barking at them.
" Fucking dog! What is he doing here?" A boy shouted.
" The master will come this was for his barking. We have to go out before that."
They tried to scare away the dog but the dog kept barking at them continuously. Aurora felt really glad at that moment.
" We have to do. Master can come at any time. We will handle her later. Let's go." saying that Everyone went out. The dog came towards Aurora. Aurora sat down and hugged him.
" Thanks doggy. Thank you for saving me today. I'm really glad. You are the first one here to protect me like this." She said while crying. The dog sat beside her. Aurora also sat there in that position. She was sure she wouldn't be able to sleep in that place anymore.
Next few days were seemingly heaven for Aurora as the dog always stayed with her and those boys couldn't do anything about it. Aurora was getting better in training. She was doing well compared to before. Boys were more furious about it. They decided to remove the dog first. They were looking for chances. Aurora was still scared. She barely ate something thinking they would mix something with her food, she couldn't even sleep thinking they would attack her, she was concerned for the dog too. She knew they are heinous enough to kill that dog brutally just to take revenge on her. She just prayed everything stayed that way but somewhere her gut feelings were telling her otherwise.
They were done with their sessions for the day when the master asked them to gather in the hall. They were waiting for him. The master came and everyone bowed.
He nodded in acknowledgement.
" You will have a test the day after tomorrow. You will fight with each other. I will fix one target among you and others will attack. If the target is able to defend then I'll ask him or her to attack back. We will start from bare hands, then rod, then sword and lastly guns. Am I clear?"
" Yes master!"
" Take it as a semi finale of your final destination." He said looking intently.
" Tomorrow you will have rest and you can study your lessons but there is no session as I'll be out for some work. Moreover your body should get some rest before the big day."
It got the boys interest. If the master wasn't around the dog wouldn't be a problem. The guards wouldn't stop them from doing anything. They looked at each other and smirked.
All of them were thinking the same thing. Aurora was scared too. She knew something bad was going to happen. But the intensity of it was still unknown. She gulped in fear.