Abyss

t h i r t e e n

Author's POV

Some back story, the Queens's world was blessed with pristine mountain ranges and valleys. So, the people who lived in the mountains grew tea leaves and sold them to the other villagers to make monneeeeyyy~. They were largely uneducated. 

There was a group of radical villagers who were causing havoc and terror on the rest. When Chae had joined in her position, she was made aware of this situation. Chae decided to go check out the situation the next day.

[bold – radical leader or other members of the group.]

"4 kgs!" the leader shouted to his subordinate.

"5.4 kgs!" Chae shouted back; the buff man was trying to scam the naïve villagers who were totally unaware that they were being cheated. This made him look up at Chae, "Who the hell are you?!"

"Someone who can't tolerate cheating!"

"What do you mean by cheating?! You're discrediting me."

"It's clearly 5 on the scale, but you just wrote 4." "If it isn't called cheating, what is it?!"

"Watch your mouth, kid." A man from behind spoke up.

"We have been doing business here for a long time without a problem, why do you have to but it?!" the man was going angrier by the second.

"It's absolutely wrong. How about this? Let's weigh the buckets again, I'll go someone else so they can witness it."

"We can take this matter to the Queen."

The two men look at each other with fear in their eyes. The leader had to think quick, so the leader toppled the bucket of tea leaves of the scale. All the tea leaves fell on the ground. "I'm not going to buy these freaking leaves anymore!" "Screw it all!"

A kid from the group of villagers standing there went to call the guards because it was getting heated.

That tipped off Chae she shoved the radical leader and they got into a physical fight.

"Ms. Chaeyoung, please calm down, they are dangerous people, please calm down." One of the women standing there shouted.

The radical leader punched Chae and she fell back on the floor and hit her head. The radical group started to kick Chae and hit the other villagers. They backed off and started to mock Chaeyoung.

"What is this sissy doing here anyways?" They all erupted into laughter.

This made Chae's blood rush to her head, her eyes turned red(metaphorically). She grabbed the leader's collar and punched him in the nose. "You asshole, its none of your business."

His subordinate pulled out a knife as the other members were tending to the leader bleeding nose. "are you trying to be a hero?" He said holding the knife up to Chae throat.

Chae started to inch back slowly.

"Step back! Hands where I can see them!" Jinyoung said holding up his weapon as the rest of the guards surround the group. The group member stepped back as Jinyoung stepped forward.

The radical group quickly fled the scenario. The villagers quickly rushed to pick up the tea leaves.

Jinyoung looked back at Chae, her lips were busted and bleeding with bruises on her face.

"Are you okay?" "I am okay." " Why don't you capture them?! They tried to cheat and attack the villagers."

"That's a separate matter. It's not your place to tackle them yourself, what if I hadn't been here to help you?!" Jinyoung said raising his voice.