Story of Evil

chapter 5

Knock knock. Kallen enters to see many glass shards surrounding Sakura's feet, "My lady, what happened?! Are you hurt?"

Sakura turned back and saw Kallen's worried look, stood away from the glass shards and answered, "Of course I'm fine! Who do you think I'm?!"

Sakura's harsh tone caught Kallen off guard and she bowed, "I'm sorry, my lady. I was just worried about your well-being. I'll clean this right away."

Kallen went to pick up the glass shards until she was interrupted by Sakura, "Actually... There's something I need you to do."

Kallen stopped her actions and placed her full attention on Sakura. Trying not to look at her eyes, Sakura said, "Kill everyone in the Zipangu."

Kallen's eyes widened but quickly regained her composure and asked, "May I ask why?"

"How dare you? This must be done! I want you to kill everyone. You hear me? Everyone. Make sure everyone in that land is done for. Especially Otto."

Kallen nodded and left the room and prepared herself. "I'm sorry, Dudu. I must obey her orders. I'm so sorry..."

The silver-haired woman went to the Zipangu and brought barrels of alcohol, a lighter and a knife. Kallen's plan was to set the entire land of fire and those not in the vicinity of the fire, she will kill herself.

Kallen proceeded to pour alcohol along the outskirts of the land and once she was done, she held the lighter. Her hands were shaking and she tried to regain her control. "I must do this. This is what her highness wants. What Sakura wants... What happened to you, Saku-chan?"

She heavily sighed and finally lit the alcohol on fire. Powerful flames can be seen all around the land of fire as well as blood-hurdling screams. "What have I done... I've just killed many innocent people. Dudu and her father... Shit, what have I done."

With a heavy heart, Kallen went on and walked around to see any blonde-haired citizens. She managed to find several and slit their throats with her knife. "I'm sorry..." Kallen muttered under her breath every time she slayed an innocent person.

Suddenly, Kallen felt a familiar presence behind her and tried to run incase they see her. Unfortunately, they grab Kallen's shoulder and forces her to look at them. It was Otto. "Otto..."

"Hello, my darling. Judging from your bloody appearance and the smell of burning corpses that her highness Sakura really went through with this."

Kallen's hands started furiously shaking as she asked, "What do you mean her highness went through with this?"

Otto's eyes widened in surprise as he laughed, "Oh? So you just killed all these innocent people without knowing the reason? Haha, foolish. You've always been foolish when it came to her highness Sakura, Kallen. Why can't you do the same for me? If only you would've accepted my love, this wouldn't have happened."

Kallen placed her knife against Otto's throat, "Why... What did you do to push her highness to this point?!""

Otto reached out his hand and touched Kallen's hair, "Well... I'm speaking the truth though, you rejecting my love is the blame. If only you accepted my love, I would've gave Sakura the ultimatum. I asked her to choose giving you to me or start a massive revolution."

Kallen's expression softened and she pondered, "Sakura chose to protect me instead of her country...?"

As if reading Kallen's mind, Otto said, "Indeed, darling. It looks like she tried to choose both but she failed. Killing me and the citizens of the Zipangu will not change anything. A revolution will still occur and in fact, it will fuel everyone's urge to kill Queen Sakura."

"Shit." Kallen cursed under her breath as she quickly slit Otto's throat, leaving him to bleed to death.

Not sparing Otto a final look, Kallen ran off back to the kingdom, still slaughtering any blonde hairs she sees. Until, she sees yet again, a familiar face hiding behind a tree. "Kallen-chan..."

"Dudu! You're okay!" Kallen exclaimed.

Durandal went and hugged Kallen despite her being bloody. After the hug, Durandal's expression turned melancholic, "I heard what you and that man were talking about... I'm sorry for the situation you're in. But, here you go. Kill me too."

Durandal stood there in front of Kallen, Kallen shouted, "Why... Why?! Why are you still helping me even though I burnt your father alive?! You should resent me. You should hate me! But why... Why are you still smiling so kindly to me?!"

Durandal gave Kallen a reassuring smile, "It's okay. I understand why you're doing this. It's that impatient lady, right? The one you bought all those brioches for right? Fine, before you kill me I want you to promise me this."

Kallen sadly nodded and listened to Durandal's request, "Protect her at all costs. The red nation has seen what you've done. They are furious. They are ready to seek revenge on the Shinano ruler. So please, hurry up and kill me. You must get back as soon as possible to protect her."

Kallen gave Durandal one final hug. "Thank you so much, Dudu... You're the m-most selfless person I've ever met. I'm for-forever in your debt..." Kallen said as she slit the back of Durandal's throat, in hopes to make her death quick.

Kallen bowed to Durandal's lifeless body and sprinted all the way back to Sakura.