Chapter: Chapter fourteenEdricWas I a little too harsh on her?Muzan’s reaction to me said everything I needed to know. He was my butler and did everything I told him to do, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t be angry at me when I did something he didn’t like.And he was…pissed.He didn’t serve me breakfast in the morning, and when I came to the kitchen to ask, he simply showed me the pot.Also, he had been away from the house for a while.He didn’t run away or anything.Where would he run to? Here was his home.When he came back, he looked like he wanted to slap me all shades of silly. If he could, he actually would have.“It’s called tough love, Muzan,” I echoed after him as he brushed past me on his way into the house.“It’s not tough love if she actually dies,” he shot back almost immediately, “or worse still…if she suffers an injury we can’t treat. How would that make you feel?”“What? After she suffers from the consequences of her own actions?” I countered. “She fell into that hole, Muzan. I didn’t push
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Chapter: Chapter thirteenDianaAs soon as he dropped me, Muzan rushed to my aid.I dropped to the floor despite Edric placing me on my feet, exhausted from the crying, begging, and in pain from the injury to my ribs.“Well, at least, you won’t be able to run for a while,” he chuckled as he lifted me bridal style and carried me…not to my room.“You can’t be so sure,” I managed to joke, even after everything that I had been through. I looked over at Edric, I don’t know why.Maybe to hate him even more. To keep his face in my head, so that anytime I needed to get angry, I would remember him as the man who left me in a hole to rot.When we entered what looked like a hall, he placed me on a slim bed and went out of the room.There, I have never been more relieved.So relieved, in fact, that I passed out cold.I didn’t wait for him to come back to administer treatment or give me any further information. I just went to sleep.My throat was raw, and my wounds, though aching, were starting to enter that state where th
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Chapter: Chapter twelveDianaI didn’t want to scream.That would alert him. If he came to find me about to run away, he would do some really bad things to me. I hadn’t known him for more than three days, but at the same time, he did seem worse than my father.He hadn’t hit me yet, but I knew for a fact that I was running out of grace.Honestly, I didn’t want to take a hit from him.Hence, through the grueling pain, I just sat still, shivering, crying, and turning.There were insects in the damn hole, and the place smelled of damp earth and rotting meat.I would soon be the rotting meat here.I don’t know how long I was there before I finally succumbed to fatigue.His voice woke me up, and opening my eyes, the light from the sun hit me hard.“How did you enjoy your bed?” he jibed.I hated him.“I’m sorry,” I said, instead of the mouthful of insults I could have hurled at him. Because in reality, I actually wanted to get out of this dark, creepy hole, where only one ray of sun hit, depending on the time of th
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Chapter: Chapter elevenDianaMuzan watched me as I went through the art pieces with a blank gaze like there was something else on his mind.I kept looking at them and trying to put myself in the mind of this painter. A lot of them were about nature and animals in their natural habitat.It kind of reminded me about myself again, and how genuinely trapped I was.I realized that this painter was just like me. He yearned to be free.Yet, he was hated, just like Muzan said.Again, just like me.All I wanted was freedom. I was hated for yearning to have autonomy in my life…about my life.And the both of us were cast out.500 hundred years apart and the story was still the same.I felt like I needed to fulfill these paintings.Like I needed to be free.“What are you thinking about?” Muzan asked me after a long silence that stretched between us.“Nothing,” I said instinctively. After the pressure died down, I pressed. “I should be asking you the question. What are you thinking about?”“A lot,” he hummed.He was so
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Chapter: Chapter tenDianaI left the room with a mixture of anger and something else.The something else was from the time he came close to me. I felt something that I couldn’t explain.Oddly enough, I wanted to feel it again. It was a rush. Fear? Sweet fear? The feeling of hanging over a cliff, knowing that if you fall, there’s water to break it…or playing with a dangerous animal that is familiar to you, knowing that somehow, it can never harm you.It was nice.But I was still angry.He said I had somewhere to be.Yes. Free! That’s where I needed to be!I opened the nearest door and snuck inside, hoping Muzan wouldn’t see me and load me with some more of those jobs he does that just…never end.I entered the hall and planned to cry, but I couldn’t.It was really dusty, so I knew that if Muzan saw me here, he’d wonder why I wasn’t cleaning.And if he was a werewolf, he’d sniff me out with mid-level difficulty.So, why not just clean, I guess?I went back to the kitchen to retrieve a rag and came back to b
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Chapter: Chapter nineEdricShe laughed.It wasn’t because what I said was funny. It was because she was doomed. Hence, the laughter of doom.“What was it?” she shook her head, her breath becoming even more aggravated. I could feel an explosion coming.“I helped your father prevent decades worth of famine. That’s not something you can particularly quantify, no?”She shook her head. “I’m doomed.”“Yes.”We stared at each other for a while, none of us knowing what to say to the other. I haven’t been with other people enough to know what to say to start small talk.‘What’s your name?’ Bane offered.‘Diana,’ I told him.‘Oh.’We knew her name.“You’ll get used to it,” I told her. “life here. It’s not the worst.”“I don’t want to get used to it,” her voice was silent, but the words were unmistakable.“What?” I asked.“I don’t want to get used to it,” she clarified.“Well, I don’t care,” I grunted. “You’re here now. Do something…I dunno…mop grass or scrub trees. But you’re here.”“I’m tired of all the work.”Ha.
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