Twenty years ago, the Imperial Palace of San Jose, the city of the Red Fort.

Abigail sat quietly in the house in the Red Keep City, where more than a dozen of her companions lived, all of whom were captured elf slave girls, and the soldiers who guarded them at all levels in the Red Keep City made it impossible for them to escape. The abominable slave catchers, after capturing them, forcibly poured them with an herb that smelled rather fishy, Abigail had never smelled that smell, and what was even more terrifying was the effect of these herbs. After drinking it, Abigail was completely unable to lift her strength, and her proud martial arts skills could not be used at all, and she even became inferior to an ordinary human woman.

The guards in the Red Keep are not completely at ease with themselves, they always wear a heavy pair of shackles on their hands, although they don't have to do any physical work by themselves, they are quite free to move, and even provide paper and pen for their own pastime, but Abigail knows that he is just a plaything in the Red Keep, and every night, there will always be some great nobles, who are brought here by the hateful Human Emperor, to choose an elf sister, and disappear into the night.

Only then will the shackles on their hands be temporarily lifted, but the following night, they will suffer even more.

I don't know if she was lucky or not, Abigail actually found out that she was pregnant one day, which was something that made her extremely frightened. Because as an elf, she knows how difficult it is to have a child with a human, and even the elves themselves have a hard time conceiving.

And I was pregnant.

Abigail began to imagine who the father of the child was. Perhaps because of his appearance, there were very few nobles who took Abigail at night, and it seemed that the human emperor would only bring people of status to Abigail. Unfortunately, the appearance of humans is similar to that of the elves, and Abigail can't think of who will be the human father of the baby in his womb.

However, the pregnant Abigail did not find that her identity had changed in any way, and in the Red Keep City, there were many foreign slave girls like him, and there were many pregnant women, but she was the only elf. Abigail, who gave birth to the child, was soon brought back to her people, and the child, who had been taken as a slave in the castle, disappeared among the thousands of slaves of the castle, along with dozens of children of the same fate, and Abigail never saw her child again.

Time flies, and one day, a group of San Jose soldiers poured into this small settlement in the Red Fort, and dozens of elves who were still alive were tied together, and no one explained anything to the slave girls, so they took them out of the Red Fort City and headed east. After more than ten days of travel, Abigail had lost his sense of direction and distance, a group of elven slaves were exhausted, and the soldiers escorted were also extremely short-tempered because of the arduous journey, and in just a few days, many elven slave girls were bullied, including Abigail, who had the most beautiful face. Some of the elven slaves in the company couldn't stand it anymore and plotted to escape.

Chestter and Phaeda looked closely at the parchment scroll, which seemed to be the diary of an elven slave girl named Abigail, on which she recorded every experience of her life in San Jose. At the end of the record, a group of elves were taken away from the Red Keep, and some of them wanted to escape. The written record came to an abrupt end, and all that remained was bloodstained paper.

"Can you imagine what happened to them?" Ferda asked Caster in a deep voice, and Castter put his arm around Phaeda, "Actually, the old man in the tavern has made it very clear that they tried to fight and then died en masse, which explains why the elf named Abigail stopped taking notes, and these should be the last words she wrote." ”

Felda didn't speak again, but looked at the words on the paper again from the beginning, silently rolled up the parchment, and solemnly put it in his arms, and then turned to the photo in Ixter's hand, "Caster, you say, she, this elf named Abigail, is really my mother?" Caster shook his head, "If, according to Grandpa Kuta, only one of those elves has given birth, and this child is you, then your mother is Abigail." However, twenty years have passed, and no one knows what the real truth is. ”

Feida crouched down, picked up the dust next to her, and gently reburied the bones, "Anyway, what happened here is also a relief for her, whether she is my mother or not. ”

Kerst and Rika, watching Feida move silently, did not step forward to comfort him.

After a long time, the small hill returned to its previous appearance, and the three of them walked down the hill, and Kerst suddenly thought of something, "Rika, how did you tell if the corpse had given birth to a child?"

Rika smiled, "Master Kerster, I said before that I was a sergeant major in the security team in Mosat City for a long time, and my mission at that time was to solve crimes, so of course I know this knowledge." ”

It dawned on Kerst that Ricka was still a detective.

On the way down the mountain, Ferda tells Khor and Rika the story of what happened.

In Feida's impression, he has lived in the Red Fort since he was a child. Unlike Lolita, Lolita's father was the Emperor of Benin, and as the illegitimate daughter of the Emperor, along with the other illegitimate children, they all had a grandmother to take care of their lives and lived independently in the same room. And children like Feida, they don't know who their parents are at all, the palace eunuchs give them a bite to eat, just waiting for them to grow up to be free slaves, these children who grew up in the palace know the rules of the palace better than outsiders.

In Feida's memory, she had to work for the palace since she was very young, and it was all dirty and smelly hard work, and after tiring and tiring every day, she was able to get a small piece of "rye bread" and a small bowl of cold water. And Feida, who has elven blood, has been bullied by other children since he was a child.

"Did you think about looking for your parents back then?" asked Rika.

Feida shook her head, "Looking for her mother, to be exact. Our children know that their father must be a certain San Jose nobleman, and successive emperors of San Jose like to bring trusted nobles to the Red Keep and reward them with 'deliciousness', and among these nobles, there are so many illegitimate children, and many of them may be the emperor's own, such as Lolita's children. ”

Chester suddenly asked suspiciously, "According to Abigail's notes, elves have difficulty conceiving, and the number of elves in the castle is not too large to count, why didn't you find clues at that time?"

Feida thought for a moment, "We were all little slaves who were disliked everywhere we went, and we had to rely on ourselves to find any clues, and no adult would answer your questions. Moreover, elves are different from humans, although it is difficult to conceive, but the process of elves conceiving a baby is quite short, so I think my mother didn't pay any attention to me when she gave birth to me, so I can't find out. ”

Kerst understood, and didn't continue to ask about the question, but thought of something else, "What do you think of that photo?"

"You mean that there are pictures of Fizio and Anna, and I think that when I have the opportunity in the future, I will go back to Nosirio and hand them over to Fizio in person. When he was younger, he was supposed to be Abigail's best friend, including Anna, and you can see how happy the three people in the photo are. I think it means a lot to the elf Abigail, who always carried this photo with her from the time she was captured by the slave squad until she died outside the remote town of San Jose. ”

"If you have the chance, you can ask Fizio, and I don't think he'll forget Abigail." But you say Anna, could it be because her friend Abigail was captured by the slave team that she hates humans so much?"

"I can't rule out this possibility, when I was in Nosilio, I talked to many elves, and they were very hostile to the slave catchers, and they didn't have a good impression of the entire human race. ”

"Anna has been sentenced to ten years of hard labor, and this matter may be answered later, so put the photos away, Feida. ”

While chatting, the three of them walked towards the town and came to the tavern, where one asked for a glass of tequila, and drank it freely. Feida was in a depressed mood, and perhaps only good wine could relieve her pain a little, and Kerst and Rika had to drink with her.

Just as everyone was drinking a little, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a middle-aged man dressed in aristocratic clothes walked into the tavern, and Rika glanced at the door, "Clerk?"

"What's wrong, Rika?" asked Kerst in a low voice. "It's the clerk of this Tokai town, I've seen him at the town hall before. ”

The clerk's eyes hurriedly swept from the tavern, and when he saw the three of Them, his eyes lit up, and he strode over and said hello, "Hello, three adventurers." ”

Koster stood up, "Hello, excuse me?"

The clerk hurriedly interrupted Kester, "Three adventurers, I am the clerk of the city hall of Donghai Town, my name is Marcellus, and our mayor Baron Dennis, I want to invite a few adventurers to the town hall to discuss important matters. ”

Kester was a little puzzled, "Talk to us?"

The clerk nodded abruptly, like pounding garlic, "Yes, yes, come with me, Lord Baron specially asked me to come to you." ”

Rika looked at Feida, who had already drunk a lot of wine, and looked at Kost in embarrassment, "Lord Koist, why don't you go first, I'll accompany Miss Feida here." Seeing that Feida was indeed not very conscious, Koster had to say, "Okay, you take good care of her, and I'll come when I go." As he spoke, he was pulled by the enthusiastic clerk and walked to the town hall not far away.

"You say, the baron has something important to ask us, can you tell us what the matter is first?" Kerst wanted to ask in advance, but the clerk didn't hide it, "The baron sees that you are adventurers, and wants to ask you if there is a way to kill the monsters outside our Donghai Town!"

"Monster?" Chester stopped walking, and suddenly stopped at the door of the town hall, and the clerk hurriedly "shh He dragged Kstra in.