Can You Please Keep the Original Setting?

“You. Do you know how scarce water is here?”

Red Tail asked.

“I know.”

Having finished looking around, I looked at my body calmly. The hair tie and necklace I was wearing had fled somewhere.

Did they steal it because they saw how much it was worth? But my ring was still on my finger. Even in this place, the yellow diamonds were emitting a brilliant light.

“If you know, aren’t you being too shameless?”

“You even put me on this nice bed; aren’t I valuable enough to get some water?”

I tried to raise my chin and stared at her. With a bitter expression, Red Tail scratched her chin and pondered, then reluctantly poured water into a cup and brought it. As I drank the water without hesitation, she was disgusted.

“Do you even know what that is to just drink it? What if it’s poisoned? How can you be so stupid?”

“Red. Why are you having a private conversation? Putting aside the Leader’s orders not to hurt her…”

A robust man, who left the nice sofa across from me and crouched on the floor, stepped in. An untrimmed beard covered his face.

Wearing a prosthetic leg on his left leg, he was doing the bizarre behavior of cutting a small pile of firewood with a knife and throwing it one by one into the fireplace.

“It’s disgusting. I might vomit.”

I swallowed a bitter laugh at what a man named Dan said. They were an abnormally hostile group to the empire, so this reaction was natural.

“Anyway, take that bitch away. He said to bring her up immediately.”

“Alright.”

Red Tail tossed the cup I had been drinking out of the window and headed for the door.

“You better follow me. The way is a bit complicated.”

Then she moved her hand up and down as if she were calling for a pet. I grabbed my buzzing head and pulled myself up. Ah, I really have no strength…

Just as I put my feet under the bed, my eye level suddenly dropped. My legs gave in, and a groan escaped. A moderate amount of pain spread to the lower half of my body, which hit the floor heavily.

The shoes I hit with my feet rolled to the side.

“Isn’t that bitch a complete burden?”

“Why did the Leader ask to bring someone like her here? It’s not worth it to take her up there.”

“As expected, the original plan would have been better. She’s useless.”

A trio of men near the fireplace exchanged a disdainful conversation.

I swept my hair back while I was sitting on the floor. As I kept hearing those kinds of words since earlier, my anger was building up. But there was nothing I could say.

“Is the noble lady feeling unnecessarily well, or is she holding it in because she’s afraid to die by our hands?”

Red Tail approached me, dragging my shoes. Her gaze towards me wasn’t kind-hearted at all.

“Whatever it is, I don’t like you. Don’t you see us all as being inferior to you? Isn’t it a little annoying to hear something like that from people like us?

[Please answer as I tell you to.]

Exhausted, I began to move my mouth mechanically along with Celina’s words for now.

“Exactly. That’s all true.”

Those words were strangely uncomfortable. It made me feel like I, the writer, was being reproached. The next words I had to read appeared immediately.

“I was a burden there too, so it won’t be any different here. I’m used to hearing that every day.”

“…”

Red Tail narrowed her eyes.

[Ask Red Tail to help you. She will definitely listen to you now.]

I opened my mouth again.

“In any case, it seems I can’t get up on my own. Can you help me?”

“Tsk.”

With a sour expression, Red Tail pulled me up in a rather rough manner. Of course, I staggered at the force, but I was able to avoid falling over again by holding onto her right shoulder.

“What an annoying bitch.”

She roughly shook off the hand that touched her.

“Thank you.”

I put on my shoes, looked into the woman’s eyes, and thanked her clearly.

“I’m not going to help you anymore, so don’t fall again and follow me.”

Red Tail spat out grumpily and turned around. The restraints were bothering me, but I couldn’t do anything to release them, so I had no choice but to follow her like a newborn chick.

“I wish she will come back as a dead body.”

Dan said, just before the door behind me closed. I kept my mouth shut and walked uncomfortably. I didn’t want to lose my mind again.

The hallways were bright and prosperous with decorations everywhere, but a gloomy energy flowed like a candle dripping. Even if I lit up dozens of perfumed candles and floated a sphere of light with magic, it would be impossible to hide the distinctive smell of the underground.

Red Tail and mine footsteps echoed irregularly in the space. I felt more and more pain in my feet, which were being crushed by the stiletto heels that were just beautiful but had no concern about the health of the person wearing them.