-Two hours prior to Zadias rescue-

-Juliannes POV-

“Zadia should be back by now….Where is she?” Julianne mutters as she paces back and forth. She had been waiting at the door for 20 minutes. She had her sword attached to her belt, she wanted to train Zadia for a couple hours before sending her off to bed.

“Elda!” Julianne calls towards the second floor.

“Yes mistress?” Elda responded hurrying into Juliannes line of sight.

“Did Zadia mention anything about coming home late?” Julianne turns facing the doorway.

“No mistress.” Elda replies with a worried expression.

[Did something happen to her? Who would do such a thing? Why?]

Julianne started to panic, but as she thought about it more, her anger grew.

[I’ll rip them apart whoever they are! I’ll tear them to shreds!]

Her panic turned into anger, as she grips her sword tighter.

“Mistress?” Elda calls out in concern.

“I’m heading out.” Julianne replies as she rushes out sending the doors flying open. She disappears in a blink of an eye.

[I should check to see if anyone at adventurers’ guild has seen her. I’m sure that she went there]

She hasten her pace, as she surges through the crowds of people, creating powerful gusts of wind knocking down bystanders. She had finally arrive at the guild, leaving destruction in her path. She flung the doors open which causes them to shatter, drawing the attention of every single adventurer inside the guild.

“Who here has seen a girl with the same color hair as mine!?” Julianne demanded with menacing eyes.

“Hey lady calm dow-“An armored man spoke out, but before he could finish Julianne had slammed his face through the floor, decimating both man and floor.

“I’ll ask again, who here has seen a girl with the same hair color as mine?!” Julianne shouted out in anger.

“Julianne? The Crimson Reaper? Hahah! It is you!” A voice emerge from behind her. It came from a man with scars covering his face, and a burly build. Whispers started to be heard from the adventurers around them.

“You mean that monster that has killed in the thousands?” A man wearing leather whispers

“Pfft, how can she be that monster, she has a kid. That old man must be going crazy.” Another whispers back

“Yea, I heard the reaper was a man. There’s no way a women would be able to do that, the reapers feats were outstanding.” Another man in iron joins in.

“Vilkas?” Julianne ignoring the adventurers turns to face him, as does everyone else in the room. The men quiet down to listen in.

“Hah, so that was your daughter? I had a feeling she reminded me of someone.” Vilkas comes out from behind the bar with a grin.

“Where is she?” Julianne grabs his shirt as she interrogates him, looking ready to pummel him.

“W-wait, I heard she was heading through the north gates for a goblin subjugation quest.” Vilkas replies with sweat dripping down.

“You sure?” Juliannes glare intensifies.

“Y-yea, the information I get is the most reliable!” Vilkas boasts

“If she’s not there, I’ll be back to make you suffer for wasting my time.” Julianne lets go of his shirt as she disappears outside of the guild. Then even more whispers appeared from behind.

“Do you think that old man is scared of women?” Man with leather armour asks

“Probably, he’s even scared of little girls. I saw this small girl bossing him around earlier.” A man in iron responds.

“Wait, so maybe he’s actually just a wimp?” The man in leather guesses.

“Hey, you bastards!! Shut up! Do you want me to see if I’m a wimp or not? Then lets’ duke it out here!” Vilkas shouts, everyone gets up off their feet and charges at him. Missed punches led to betrayals which led to men randomly beating on one another.

Meanwhile Julianne had just left the North Gate and was already scavenging the area. She had run into numerous monsters and bandits, but have easily destroyed them along with the bandit hideouts and the monsters lairs.

[Where is she? Did that Vilkas lie to me? I will kill him if he did.] Julianne than notices smoke coming from afar.

[Could she be there?] Julianne clinging onto that thought rushes over, and zips into the nearby trees. She notices three people. One was by Zadia, while the other two were talking by some bushes, they seem to be planning something but Julianne didn’t care or was interesting in listening in. She wanted one thing to kill them all. She headed to where the skinny man and fat man were.

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“So lets’ just sell them both, we’ll make more money.” Skinny man grins

“…” Fat man stays quiet, a second later his head falls off.

“W-what i-is this!?” Skinny man draws his daggers in panic, just before he’s cleaved in two from behind. Julianne was still using the dulled sword she had when she waited to spar with Zadia, yet she cut through them like butter.

“Disgusting filth.” Julianne mutters as she crushes their heads underneath her feet.  She starts to drag them towards the camp. As she approaches she notices Zadia waking up she let’s go of the corpses and rushes to hide herself.

[I’m all bloody, I have to wipe this off!!] Julianne tries to scrap off the pieces of brain off her shoe. As she does she listens in on the girl talking to Zadia.

“Wow, you’re really pretty you know that.” The girl says

[Hah, of course, she is my daughter after all.] Julianne thought, almost forgetting why she’s there. She then realizes she can’t get rid of the stains on shoes entirely.

[Why now! I will kill that girl for this!] Julianne furiously wiped her shoes, than she hears more.

“Do you realize that we plan on selling you?” the girl says with a smile, Julianne starts to snap.

[That little slut…I’ll grind her bones…I’ll make her eat her own fingers…] as Julianne anger grew, she sees the girl nervously looking around, having noticed the bodies of her former comrades.

“W-wh-who?” the girl pulls out Zadias blade shaking.

[You filth, touching my daughters sword!!] Julianne jumps down in front of her.

“How dare you touch my precious daughter” Julianne says in a cold voice

[I should release Zadia then handle her. I won’t be able to have any fun if she watches.]

“D-da-da-daughter?” The girl stutters

[Filth.]

“Mom… Prina was the one that tried to save me.” Zadia interjected

[What’s this? Did that slut lie to Zadia? I can still convinc-]

“She was a slave forced to follow those guys!” Zadia says with a serious look

[This filth brainwashed her!? I will make her suffer!]

“Y-ye-yea, what she says is true!!” Prina stated

[You maggot… if you are going to keep that lie, I have no choice but to educate you thoroughly.]

“Hmm…fine then, you should serve as Zadias personal slave, if you live longer than my daughter, I will personally end you.” Julianne replies coldly

[I’ll will turn you into a perfect slave filth, if that’s what you wanted filth… I will correct your ways from the inside out, till you bleed out your true colors, and I will replace it with my own design]

“Come let’s go home, Zadia, Prina.” Julianne walks taking big steps.

-Zadias POV-

As they passed through the North Gate, Zadia had seen that Prina looked like she was bothered by something.

“Umm… Zadia…” Prina whispers quietly

“Yea?”

“Why did you help me out back there?” Prina asks with a confused face

“Uhh…well, because you looked like you needed it?” Zadia shrugs her shoulders

“Not much of a reason… you know I wouldn’t have done the same right?” Prina mentions thinking about it.

“Well, I don’t know you well enough yet.”

“Well, you know that I would sell you for gold if I had the chance.” Prina retorts

“You won’t anymore. That’s for sure.” Zadia stated confidently

“How do you know that?” Prina glances towards her

“My mom would kill you in the most horrible way if you did.” Zadia points towards Julianne who was walking in front of them. They had distance themselves from her so they could talk quietly.

“Oh…yea.” Prina answers depressingly

They arrive back at the mansion with a depressed Prina. Julianne had told Zadia to go to bed as she was going to teach Prina how to be a proper slave. As Zadia enter her room she leaped into her bed.  Her eyes became heavy she slowly succumbs to sleep, when she opens her eyes she comes to the same white space with the same white floor.

“Earth?” Zadia calls out

“Hello Zadia, my favorite partner, we have… a little problem.” Earth replies with a small smile.