The Scarlet Hawk and The Black Knights (Mina)✔️

35: The Crescent Shadow

Previously...

"My father was a wonderful man. He cared for the people deeply, they're all his family, and he loved them no matter what. Until one day, he fell in love with a beautiful woman who charmed him with her extraordinary beauty in just one glance." she chuckled while smiling thinly. "They fell in love with each other, and she became his queen. She gave birth to her first ever child, a daughter, the princess of Gariya." Ji An explained, earning Mi Na's curiosity even more. "They were living the perfect live, but things don't always go as planned. The queen instead managed to fall in love with another man, a wretched Medium from The Horn."

Mi Na widened her eyes and raised her eyebrows, starting to think what's already in her head. This couldn't be true, no. It couldn't be. It's too painful to be true.

"The queen fell in love with the Medium and so they left Gariya to settle in a new home hidden in a village." Ji An continued. "And my, their happiness grew even more when the queen gave birth to another daughter, the child of the Medium. They still loved each other, and then she gave birth to another daughter, and then finally her youngest daughter. All three daughters were beautiful just like her, but the more daughters she birthed, the more she had forgotten about her first ever child she had with the king of Gariya, her firstborn. The forgotten daughter." she chuckled bitterly. "Since then, her abandoned daughter lived alone with her father the king, and she then grew to hate her mother and her three bastard daughters."

Mi Na and Ji Won widened their eyes in shock and immediately looked at the older girl in unison. Even the others were totally baffled and taken by surprise from the revelation made clearly by the queen. So now she had known why all this time the resentment and intolerance by Ji An towards the three sisters were very vivid. She had always hated them because they were in fact...sharing the same blood.

"You see, Mi Na and Ji Won, I never truly hated you for nothing at all, really." Ji An breathed out, clicking her tongue lazily. "It's because the fact that our mother left me, her first daughter, for a filthy Medium who happened to be your father, so that she could have you." the queen growled. "No mother would ever leave their own child for another. Only animals would." she hummed calmly. "Well, enjoy your precious time here in this safe haven. It depends on who lasts first." she chuckled deviously and was about to walk back to her place before she heard Mi Na's voice. She turned to face the girl with amused eyes.

"You know, Ji An..." Mi Na huffed, wiping the blood off her mouth while looking at her feet. "All I ever wanted was to be accepted fully into this kingdom, I've always wished for you to accept me as your sister. But now," she smiled bitterly before looking up at the surprised Ji An, her eyes now shining red as she glared at the queen menacingly, "I wish for something else." she smirked.

She balled her fists, and her eyes grew even redder second by second. Everyone could feel her rage clearly.

"I wish for you to die."

-

A small kingdom
Somewhere in the Living Realm

Ruins. Flames. Blood. Peril. Destruction. Dead bodies everywhere. The place was a total chaos, swords plunged into heads and chests, even countless severed limbs and bodied with decapitated heads. Literally everywhere you could go, you would always find nothing but death here. Even those who survived the genocidal massacre died shortly after their seemingly hopeful remaining breaths from succumbing to their imminent wounds.