༺ Lizzy Poliana Claudia (10)༻
Rattle-!!
As the dungeon guards entered the dimly lit dungeon beneath the Imperial Palace and illuminated it with torchlight, they approached two separate cells and forcibly pulled out the traitors.
Maintaining hygiene in the dungeon was a basic concern for the guards, as there was nothing more absurd than criminals dying to disease before their execution.
Yet, the appearance of Lizzy and Cesar, emerging from their cells, was far from hygienic.
They were both so disheveled and wretched that they would leave even beggars on the street at a loss for words.
“Brother......”
Upon seeing Cesar, Lizzy called out to him with a quivering voice.
It had been so long since they last saw each other that she couldn’t contain the rush of emotions, and tears welled up in her eyes.
During her long imprisonment, where her sense of time had become utterly warped, she had learned to accept the irrationality of their reality.
But now, as she observed the people attempting to drag them to the execution site, all the emotions that had been suppressed by her acceptance began to surge back to the surface.
Rattle-!!
“Ack......!”
However, when the guard noticed Lizzy standing motionless, overwhelmed by her emotions, he harshly slapped her cold, gaunt face.
The guard was unaware of the details of the investigation into the evidence collected from the Claudia family mansion.
To them, Lizzy was a traitor who had incited a war and was responsible for sending guards to their deaths.
In a battlefield teeming with Auror Knights and Mages, what could mere guards armed with spears and swords hope to achieve? And what were the odds of their survival?
“Lizzy...... Ugh!”
As the anger of the guard who had slapped Lizzy reverberated throughout the dungeon, the other guards joined in, thrusting their fists into Cesar’s solar plexus, grinding their teeth in frustration.
Even the most senior guard, who should have intervened to stop such mistreatment by his subordinates, simply closed the prison door and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket.
After all, since they were condemned criminals slated for execution that day, turning a blind eye to the violence inflicted upon them, as long as it didn’t result in their deaths, was a minor transgression.
Compared to the prospect of dying miserably on the battlefield, their impending beheadings seemed like a relatively merciful fate.
“Cough......! Ah...... ! Ahhhhh!”
It was the violence of adult men who were consumed by their anger.
How could a woman’s body, which was also weakened by the imprisonment, endure it?
Even though she wanted to beg for them to stop, Lizzy couldn’t help but instinctively curl up and tremble when she saw the hatred in their eyes.
Lizzy, was so sick of their merciless punches and kicks that it made her think that she would die before even reaching the execution site and crawled miserably to the corner.
However, they grabbed her red hair and dragged her towards them again. There was no mercy in their ruthlessness.
Thud-!!
Their punches and kicks that had been assaulting Lizzy and Cesar only stopped when the most senior guard threw the tobacco he had been smoking to the floor.
“Keu, keuhuh......!”
Her pale skin was covered in dust as well as blue bruises. Moreover, the corner of one of her swollen eyes could not open properly.
On top of it, she coughed bright red blood and what made it worse was the cold air that brushed her entire body intensifying the hot pain all over her body that was caused by the beating.
Sympathy almost bloomed inside the senior guard’s heart when he saw the state that Lizzy was currently in. But it quickly faded as he remembered his son, who was an adult now and would soon be taken to the battlefield.
Whether he would be a father crying on the battlefield while holding the body of his dead son.
Or, his son would become a crying child holding on to his dead father’s body.
“Let’s go. It’s time.”
The chains that bound the two traitors’ bodies rattled, leading them both to the execution site.
* * * * *
A multitude of people had gathered at the execution site above the dungeon of the Imperial Palace.
The Emperor and the Empress.
The Princes and the Princesses.
As well as, the heads of great noble families, including Alfred and Brutein.
In a world created by the hands of something said to be omnipotent, how could something called evil exist?
Or maybe, it had the will to eliminate evil but did not have the ability to do so?
......If that was the case, it meant that God was not omnipotent.
Or maybe, it had the ability to eliminate evil but did not have the will?
......If that was the case, it meant that God was evil.
Or maybe, it had neither the ability nor the will to eliminate evil?
......If that was the case, why should it be called omnipotent?
Therefore, Cesar neither believed in God nor resented it.
“Ferzen.”
“......”
“When the time comes for you to die... I hope all of your karma will become a mirror that reflects who you truly are.”
Children and wives,
Dying a miserable and lonely death, neglected by family and retainers, would be the most fitting end for him.
“I hope that everything you have accomplished... will be completely taken away from you.”
In fact, it might not take long for it to happen.
He had fulfilled his sinister desire by having his family name trampled on, torn apart, and ruined.
After they were gone, he would undoubtedly seek out the second Claudia family.
However, since there was always someone who pursued the truth.
There would be a day when justice would be served.
“I won’t forget you... Even at the end of the Reincarnation cycle.”
“......”
After silently listening to Cesar’s final words, Ferzen raised his head and gazed at the rope connected to the guillotine’s blade.
“If there was someone who told me that the days I lived weren’t bad... When my life comes to an end.”
Didn’t that mean he had lived a happy life?
Yuriel.
Euphemia.
Jeremiah.
Princess Elizabeth.
Since he was confident that there would be plenty of people standing by his side on his deathbed, Ferzen quietly gripped the sword he held, not showing any reaction to Cesar’s bitter curse.
He then looked down at Lizzy, who was kneeling in the middle of the area while looking at him. Then, without hesitation, he swung the sword.
Snap-!!
When the strong rope was cut, the sharp blue blade hanging 2 meters above Cesar fell to the floor in an instant......
Kwang-!!
Thud-!!
With a heavy noise, Cesar Poliana Claudia’s head was neatly cut off.
“......”
Faced with a large amount of blood splattering on his face and clothes in the process, Ferzen slowly lowered his hand that had been wielding the sword.
Before he knew it, he discovered that he had become desensitized to these evil deeds.
TL Note: Ahhhhh, data BG3 epilogue was just.....Muah....Cheff kiss!
I will have to replay it just so I can get those new Minthara dialogues, and the Shadowheart epilogue.
And Swtor just got a new story update as well, so I’ll be playing that with my hot sith warrior!!!
Fuck, I’m such a simp for the sith warrior, I mean it’s so cooollll!
Got my ass reading a bunch of star wars fanfics this weekend hehehehhee.
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