Trust

Chapter 2 (The Mansion)

Part 1 | The House

After approaching the house, I saw that there was a servant who maintained the exterior with meticulous care. Although the servant looked suspicious, I let my guard down since I thought that I was being protected, but that was a grave mistake.

As soon as I entered the house, I was shocked and confused because the interior of it is furnished with lots of lavish and fancy decoration. I thought that man was the reincarnation of evil, but apparently not. I kept questioning myself whether this is true or not. It felt as though that man had ulterior motive, expecting something from me.

I couldn't help but noticed that the tone of that man doesn't match up with the tone of the person that freed me from the dungeon. As I kept questioning it, there's more question that comes up. Filled with curiosity, I began jotting down those question that is lingering around my mind into a book.

While I searched for a book, I noticed that there was a scroll beside the book, and I tried to read it, but it's illegible. That left me even more clueless with more question than ever. "Then why can I understand the words that they spoke?" as I mumbled to myself, somebody knocked on my doors.

I opened the door, and unexpectedly got stabbed by a dagger from a person wearing a mask. While shaking from the pain, I tried to unmask him and I managed to uncover who the perpetrator and, he is the servant outside my house. After ruthlessly stabbing me, he immediately sprinted off. As I suffered with an immense pain from my chest, I struggled to breathe and I lost consciousness.

Part 2 | The Hospital

I woke up laying on a bed with no pain. Confused, I began inspecting my body whether there was evident of surgery, and there didn't seem to be any sign of surgery.

After that, someone knocked on my door. Anxious from that last ordeal, I started grabbing onto anything that would be lethal enough to kill people. I spotted a knife and grab it. As the door swung open, I prepared to kill them, it's as if I have changed for the worse because of that event.

The person entered the room and I ran into them and tried to plunge the knife into them. Luckily, they dodged the attacked and they fled the room. After the adrenaline-rush, I cooled my head down a bit and I realized that wasn't a killer, that was a doctor whose checking up on me.

After that, a muscular man with blond hair entered my room, and glared at me as if he were angered at me. "You, how dare you do that to the doctor, I guess you deserved your slave status" He mockingly said.

I tried to speak, but no words come out. "Oh, so it is true that when you reduced to the status of a slave, you won't have any authorities to speak without the permission of the master." He said with a mocking laugh.

Annoyed by his expression, I attempted to push him against a wall. Shockingly, he didn't budge even after I used my full strength. I realized that I was biting more than I can chew. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted me using his right arm. I tried to fight back by biting his forearm and because of my sudden attack, he started to grasp my neck tightly.

I could feel my strength draining from my body and then, out of nowhere, he released me from his grasp and I collapsed to the floor. I tried to question why he did that, and my question was immediately answered as soon as I looked up.

It's because the man who is my master, is leaning on the doorframe, observing the situation while smirking. The room suddenly got an intensed aura the moment he appeared. I also noticed that the other person was shaking in fear. As if he's homeless, he immediately prostated on the ground, begging for forgiveness.

That also answered the lingering question in my mind about who the person that forced me into being his slave. It confirmed to me that this person is of high status. As I was thinking about the possible candidate of who he is, he interrupted me by asking for my wellbeing. I frustratedly replied back by saying that I'm fine. And I realized that I can talked because he allowed me to. After realizing that, I tried to ask him a question, "Where-" but I suddenly got cut off by the man prostrating on the ground.

"Your Majesty, your humble citizen beg for your forgiveness, I didn't realized that this slave was your property." He said with a trembling voice filled with fear.

"It's fine, I forgot to give an announcement that I have a new slave." He replied with a majestic aura.

I clenched my fist, impatiently waiting to ask him the most important question that had been troubling me since the start. He noticed me, and smirked. "Come see me in my mansion, if you want to know why." He said with a smirk while leaving the room.

The other person switched into being nice out of fear that I would report to the Majesty. Taking advantage of the situation, I threatened him, and asked him to get me a certain item. The item that I'm seeking for would be useful in helping me
escape from this horrendous place.

Part 3 | The Enigmatic Figure

After the sunset, I began preparing to meet with his Majesty. With the helped of the blond man from before, I got the necessary item. Gleefully, I left the house and walked to his Majesty's mansion.

The path towards there is quite unplanned, since his Majesty didn't tell me the correct path. Due to that, I accidently strayed away from the original path. Without realizing that fact, I continued on my journey.

By a coincidence, I encountered another forest. Luckily, the forest were well lit. It's as if this forest was for a tourist attraction. After suffering from the last ordeal that got me stuck on this situation, I developed a trauma related to forest.

After contemplating for awhile, I started to enter the forest with a brave heart. While I walked along the litted path, I could feel an enigmatic figure following me. I could also sensed that the enigmatic figure were concealing itself inside the shadow.

Anxiously, I raised my guard and started to quickened my paces by walking with wider strides. After that harrowing ordeal, I eventually arrived at his Majesty's mansion. While I walked towards there, I could see the grandiose size of that mansion from afar. It is so large that I could see it towering over the hills.

- End Of Chapter 2 -