"Who, what's hiding inside?"

An Imperial soldier shouted loudly, and the saber in his hand slashed out.

The grass was split open, and a family of three was hidden inside.

Her ragged mother shrank in the cold wind, and the cold light of the knife couldn't help but make her shiver. But her two wizened arms bravely met the blade and made a defiant movement.

The soldier reached for her neck, slit her collar, and picked it down.

The woman's sallow skin was exposed to the wind, and the temperature in February was still extremely low, and it could not hold back the deep folds, like the bark of an old tree.

The soldier looked away in disgust and raised his long knife again. But perhaps because of his nausea, he moved a little slower.

The mother had time to beg for mercy: "My lord, please spare us orphans and widows, for neither of my children is yet an adult." ”

The soldier sneered: "It's obvious that you are killing yourself, but you still dare to beg for mercy." If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have bothered to look at you. Phew, it just stains my eyes. Damn it! ”

Two words will sentence the life of a woman, a mother who is lonely with a child in her arms, starving for three whole days and defenseless.

And she was charged with intending to attack a heavily armed Imperial soldier.

The woman could only wail helplessly: "No, I don't, my lord." ”

"Dare to quibble, then I ask you why you are ambushed in the grass?"

"My lord, this is my home."

Family? By the way, this is still Ionia, and the ruins under my feet are the home of the woman in front of me.

So what! The soldier felt teased and sneered.

"Okay, then let me ask you, since it's your home, why did I come here?"

"Because, because you Empire say it is your duty to help Ionia rebuild after the war. You, my lord, you have to come to our house today to tidy up the house. ”

"Then let me ask you again, have I sorted it out?"

"You ......"

The messy ruins in front of her made the woman choke.

"What's wrong, you're not satisfied?"

The soldier frightened the woman off with a fierce and mocking look, grabbed the broken door that had been under her, and stuck it in the middle of a pile of rubble.

Pushed, squeaked open.

"Haha." The soldier smirked, "You should be satisfied now, but what about my pay?" ”

Faced with that fierce and greedy look, the helpless mother desperately hid back, sobbing: "There is nothing left at home, if you want, take this door away." No, you can take everything with you. ”

"As you wish." The soldier bowed to the woman, "The war is over, and in this land, you Ionians are the masters." Thank you for your gift. ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, and suddenly desperately pushed away the child in her arms: "You guys go quickly, go quickly." ”

The mother's cruelty caused the two children to fall to the ground heavily, and the little girl on the left cried loudly.

The soldier kicked the woman away and mocked: "Don't worry, I'm not greedy at all, it's you who imagine us Imperial people to be too ugly." ”

He grabbed the other child's thin arm, grabbed his chin and twisted his face. A dirty face, but the eyes are big and bright, and the tears that burst out of the eyes because of fear are washing away the two white skins.

This is also a girl, and she is also very small, but fortunately, she has passed the age that can only be described as cute.

This is a young girl, hunger makes her body look unusually slender, but she can't hide the fragrance of youth.

The soldier sniffed in the air intoxicatedly: "Come with me, you are lucky, the intelligence department has just looted a bunch of delicacies, I will ask for some for you." ”

"I'll also give you a lot, like beautiful and warm clothes." The soldier took the girl in his arms and toyed with her tattered collar, "This is for you, this person is also worthy of being your mother, is she human?" ”

This sentence made the woman who was holding the soldier's legs and begging stunned, and kowtowed desperately: "My lord, we are all lowly poor people. You're right, we don't deserve to be human beings, please let us go, let her go. ”

The soldier looked at the girl playfully, grabbed her hand and grasped the hilt of the sword, and slowly pressed down: "This untouchable is humiliating you, in the name of the Imperial soldier, I give you the power to make a judgment on her life." ”

The cold sword was once again aimed at the mother on the ground, and this time, its owner had no intention of giving up.

"Thank you for your kindness."

The girl, whose face was expressionless because of fear, suddenly bent down and bowed deeply. When he retreated, the long sword was also taken out.

She looked up with a faint smile on her face.

The soldier smiled and looked at her, encouraging him with his eyes.

It was a cavalryman's light sword, but it still had to be held by the maiden with both hands, for she knew that it was the weight of three human lives.

The soldier squinted: "Maybe you shouldn't do this, you must not have seen how sad it would be when a sword slashes at a person, and that person does not die immediately." They would let out a wail for a night until the blood in their bodies was cold and clogged in their throats. Do you know what it feels like for a soul to be trapped in a body that is slowly dying? ”

He shrugged his shoulders exaggeratedly, and the sonorous sound of the iron armor on his body was an invisible warning, and a mockery.

The girl's arms swayed, she could no longer bear the weight, and her delicate body swayed.

"So, you'd better ask me to do it."

The soldier looked at her sympathetically, then smug and hasty.

He gently pressed the girl's shoulder and said, "You should know that in the face of this long and endless winter, countless ants will lose their lives and dignity little by little in the torment. Rather than that, it is a gift to be able to die without pain. You should be lucky for them, my method of killing can be used as a teaching material even in the Imperial Army. ”

The soldier's hand slowly descended, feeling the tremor of the girl's body, and little by little approached the long sword that belonged to him. And then there's the power to kill and kill.

The girl's eyes flashed with the last decision.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the grass in the distance.

"Who, who is hiding inside? If you don't want to die, you'd better come out for me. ”

The soldier instantly recaptured his longsword and assumed a fighting stance.

Because the sound was too deliberate, and he couldn't feel the scent of ants there. There was a man, a man who could kill just as much as himself.

"What's it out there?" The voice in the grass was extremely cold.

The soldier didn't even hear the other party's taunt, and said with a chest: "Outside is a brave Imperial soldier and his tough armor, and in his hand is a sword that kills, and the method of killing can be used as a teaching material in the Imperial Army." ”

This deliberate attitude of pride desperately wants to prove something to the other party, perhaps to prove his own strength.

The people inside were quick to agree.

"yes, you're great, then."