The villain's way of taming the protagonist

On the fourth day after the nobles stopped transporting resources, more and more people ran out of coal in their homes, and the villagers began to try to exchange the gifts from the nobles in exchange for food and coal.

But ordinary people don't need these, and the biggest nobles in Blackwater City are even more unlikely to take over. The merchants have spent their funds on hoarding daily necessities, and no one would spend money to buy such things at this time.

Sitana took five silver coins to register as a mercenary, and after a simple pass, she began to look for entrustments with rich rewards, but ideals were always ideals. Even if there was a commission, it would not be Xitana's turn to pick it up.

But the girl is still working hard. She tried her best to submit two commissions that can be completed in a short period of time without traveling a long distance, and she began to work independently in a true sense.

On the fourth day without sleep, by the fifth night, she completed the two commissions.

"Oh, Xi'er, don't try so hard. Be kind to yourself. I still have some roast meat at home. Let's eat some tonight. Let's have a good rest."

An aunt looked at Xitana who was still returning under the night, and couldn't help but went forward and touched her cold cheek: "It hurts me to see it, let alone Lord Hydera."

"Although you can't show it to Master Hydera, Xier, you really don't need to work so hard." The other villagers were also very worried, "We can still survive, and this little money can't change anything, don't worry , take your time."

"...I'm fine."

Xitana still tried to smile at everyone, but that smile had almost turned into a straight line, with only a slight upward movement at the corners of her mouth: "Don't worry."

"We don't worry, we don't care about you, who cares about you?"

"What nonsense, Lord Hydera must be worried about Seele right now!"

"Oh, that's right. If Master Hydera saw Seele's current appearance, he would definitely be very distressed."

Sitana's footsteps rushed home more and more hurriedly.

Like running away.

On the night of the fifth day, the girl still did not choose to fall asleep.

*

On the sixth day after the nobles stopped transporting resources, Sitana's house also ran out of coal.But the good news is that, as the only active mercenary in the small town of Blackwater City after the great cold wave, Sitana received a commission worth two gold coins, but the employer needed to investigate.

After the girl wiped her face with ice water, she stared at herself in the mirror.

The whole face seemed to be frozen, without any expression, the dark red eyes were almost dull, and even covered with bloodshot eyes due to not sleeping for a long time.

"Mom and Dad, I'm going out."

She grabbed the black bread on the dining table, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed vigorously, before even waiting for her parents to respond, she walked out the door and rushed to Heishui City as fast as she could.

At night, Sitana returned to the village, and was still warmly welcomed by the villagers.

"Xi'er, how are you doing today?"

Sitana, whose eyes were a little empty and who was not staring at her eyes, was in a daze for a moment. She turned her head and looked to her side. There, Hydera, whose face was blurred and only a smile was visible, stood, tilting her head slightly.

Yes, Hydera, he has already used unscrupulous means to appear in reality to influence Sitana even if she does not sleep.

Or... this is just an illusion that Xitana had after staying awake for three consecutive days?

"How should I explain it to my dear family and friends?" Hydera said in embarrassment, "Tell them that the entrustment was issued by a businessman who had a flash of inspiration and tried to give you help in a timely manner? In the end, it depends on Hyde You only have this chance for La's sake?"

"Tell them that the businessman entertained you with the best tea and the best food, but you almost threw the table off after hearing the word Hydera?"

"Tell them, in the end, because of your meaningless self-esteem, you rejected the two free gold coins, or even more gold coins that can help your family and friends?"

A few blue veins popped out on Xitana's forehead, which made her already cold, tired, stiff and gloomy face look even more terrifying; the bloodshot dark red pupils shrunk slightly, and the ferocity exuded , and spread to the surroundings almost without restraint.

She didn't speak, and she didn't yell hysterically, but the dangerous aura emanating from her made the villagers quiet down.

Let all those enthusiasm and care be frozen.

In this dead silence, Sitana moved forward expressionlessly, without any smile, and walked in the direction of her home.

"It's really not easy." Hydera who was following her was still chattering, "Sitana, you clearly know what to do is right, what to do is the simplest, and what to do is the way to make everyone Everyone is happy, why are you still so stubborn, what can you gain from this stubbornness?"

boom--

Xitana pushed open the door, and Yalana, who was cooking, poked her head out of the kitchen and smiled gently: "Let's eat late—"

Sitana didn't respond, she walked up to the second floor silently and walked into her room.

She sat on the bed blankly, staring at herself in the mirror who was hideous like a monster and ghost.

Hydera sat side by side with her, sighing as if she was injustice for her:

"Look at them, look at your uncles and aunts, your friends."

"You've worked so hard these past few days, you don't even want to sleep, and you work hard to make the village better. Although you know that you have no good way, you still work hard to this extent, don't you?"

"But do they see your hard work? Ah, they really do. After all, they are 'very tired', hahaha."

"But have they ever cared about what you got in exchange for your efforts? They don't care, they only care about whether your value in Hydera's eyes is higher."

"……To shut up."

Xitana murmured angrily: "Shut up...they are for me...they are for my own good."

"Yeah, isn't that the funniest thing? They're doing it for your own good... dear Sitana."

Hydera hooked Sitana's chin and stroked it gently.

"They love you so much, but why are you... in such pain?"

Downstairs, the door seemed to be pushed open again, the sound was very soft, as if he didn't want Xitana to find out.

But with Xitana's hearing ability, how could she not know what happened downstairs?

"... Jota? What's the matter?"

"Aunt Yalana, is Xier okay?"

"She...she is very tired. I tried to persuade her to rest the day before yesterday, but she didn't listen to me. "

"Xie'er...hasn't she come out yet? Is she lying to us so as not to worry us?"

The mother said sadly: "Maybe it's like this... Maybe she still feels guilty about Lord Hydera, so she never wants to contact him."

"Xie'er is really...why doesn't she want to tell us, Aunt Yalana, you and Uncle Oran can persuade her, persuade her to contact Lord Hydera, if you don't say anything, who knows Hyde What does Master La think?"

"I...but Xier seems to be..."

"Lana, Jota is right."

Father's steady and sad voice reached Sitana's ears through the floor.

"Xie'er's condition is already very bad. It's not just that she's tired, she's already doubting herself. At that time... when she dropped out of the academy, she also had the same expression when she saw us sad. That child even Want to die... We can't let that child continue to torture ourselves like this, absolutely not."

"All of us may not be able to help her, but Lord Hydera, who is willing to let Xier make such a sacrifice, is also willing to sacrifice for Xier, Lord Hydera, definitely can."

"In this world, only Lord Hydera can save Seele."

Dad, Mom, Jota...

You... why can't you help me?The only ones who can help me are you.

The rest of me are obviously only you.

It turns out that in your eyes... I left Hydera, is it so unbearable?

"Isn't that the truth?" Hydera said with a light smile as she sat beside Sitana, as if she knew what she was thinking.

The discussion downstairs gradually disappeared, and the sound of footsteps going upstairs gradually came, stopping in front of Xitana's tightly closed door.

After three or four seconds, there was a knock on the door, and his father Olan said softly, "Xie'er, Mom and Dad have something to tell you, can you let Mom and Dad come in?"

No response.

"... Xier? Xier?"

Outside the door, Oran's voice became increasingly anxious, but after he still didn't hear a response, he didn't care so much, and pushed the door open, only to find...the room was empty.

Only the windows were open, and the relentless, icy wind and snow drizzled on the floor.

*

In the dark night, Sitana wandered aimlessly outside the village.

Her empty eyes are like a corpse that has lost her soul. That dead nothingness is even more empty than her trekking in the heavy snow in Scarlet Shuang City.

Because at that moment, what she suffered was the torture of morality, the torture of belief, and the massacre of ideals.

But at this moment, all that Xitana has experienced accumulated over so many days, to her... is something even more cruel, so cruel that it cannot be added.

It is fundamental, self-destructive.

The self in Sitana's eyes, and the Sitana in the eyes of everyone in this world, are no longer the same existence.

In the eyes of the person she loves most, she is not the best hunter in that village, she is not some grumpy child, she is not a genius who may have a great future but ruins the future by herself.

In this village, in the eyes of all her loved ones, everything that Sitana Lancemallos has experienced before has... no value.

Because she has only one attribute left - Hydera's vassal.

What remains of Sitana is not the person she loves, nor the love of the person she loves for herself.In that endless love, they regarded her efforts as an atonement for Hydera, a begging for Hydera, and bound her sorrow, joy, anger, and numbness to Hydera.

She became the person born for Hydera, the parasite she despised the most—in the eyes of those she loved, that was it.

What's even more absurd and funny is that unconsciously...the fact has also become like this.

Just as the Hydra Phantom said to himself——

[Isn't this the truth? 】

Sitana Lancemalros, is dead.

The proud, self-confident Fool who dared to challenge any authority, the Beast, was killed by everything she loved.

Everything is meaningless.

Regardless of her value or her existence, from now on, in the eyes of everything she cherishes...she will only live for Hydera.

When Sitana's mind was already dead, a deep and hoarse voice suddenly came from the front.

"Has it gotten to this point?"

In the darkness, a figure as strong as a wild beast and so tall and daunting slowly emerged.

Sitana gave him a numb look, said nothing, and continued to walk forward.

"This is... Hydera's means and courage, it's amazing."

The man put his arms around his chest and said in a deep voice, "When your name came out of the Scarlet Frost Collar, we had already started to study you, Sitana Lancemalos."

"All the information from your birth to the present, 26 people, without sleep for seven days and seven nights, completed the absolute understanding of you."

"At the same time, we are also paying attention to all the movements of Hydera. From the moment we stepped into the Chishuang collar, we have not let go of any information."

"In the end, we came to an incredible conclusion."

Hitana, bound by an invisible force, heard this strong man, the "snow monster" taken in by the village, say:

"Hydera's high-profile actions from the very beginning until now are to gather public opinion as much as possible. These public opinions have no effect on him, but... they have an effect on you, Lance."

"Under his command, you, who are reckless, arrogant, and restless, will undoubtedly make countless mistakes under his connivance. Are these mistakes related to Hydera?"

"—Of course not, when Hydera's reputation is getting higher and higher, no matter what he does, almost no one will think that he is wrong, and all his actions are correct. And you who deviate from him, No matter what you think and what you do, you get nothing but mistakes and negations.”

"Snow Monster" walked towards Sitana step by step, looking down at her expressionlessly:

"Hydera spent more than a month, and everything he did was to turn the entire Scarlet Frost Territory into a cage that only imprisoned you."

"To achieve this, the series of events involved, the control of your mentality, the predictability of the current situation, and the insight into the entire Scarlet Frost Territory..."

The snow monster closed his eyes for a while, and then opened them again, the pupils of the eyes flashed with blazing frenzy:

"This is... Anser Hydera! What we need is a true regulator and... ruler who can perfectly establish a new country after overthrowing the empire!"

"...What do you want to say?" Sitana's voice was extremely empty, "Do you want to emphasize the greatness of Hydera to me? I probably know better than you and anyone in the world."

"No, I just let you understand the cause and effect before making the request."

Snow Monster said calmly: "Then, let me introduce myself. I am from [New World], which is the Revolutionary Army. You can continue to call me Snow Monster, or..."

"Wendigo."

"We are short of a farsighted person with outstanding knowledge, who has insights beyond the age of the empire, and even the entire human social system."

Although Wendigo has a strong figure, his tone of voice is very calm, without giving people a strong sense of oppression: "Destruction is not enough. And the new country built by the knowledge belonging to this era is also destined to repeat the same mistakes. "

"We need a genius, a genius who can conceive of a society that transcends the rotten structure of empire and ends this cycle of stupidity."