But when one of the knights saw it, he strode up to the girl and drew his sword.
“Sleep, well… “
“Ugh!”
That’s all the girl said to the world. She fell vainly on her father’s corpse.
Agnes, unconsciously, put strength into Jamie’s hand.
The knight wiped the blood on his sword and said to the people gathered around him.
“If you come into direct contact with a person or their corpse with a plague in the future, we will take immediate action.”
The knight left his post.
Without any objection or protest, the people walked back on their way as if nothing had happened.
“What are you….”
But Agnes could not move at all.
The shock was so great that she couldn’t move even a single step.
“What’s the matter?”
She stood like a statue.
People were surprised at the girl’s sudden death, but soon accepted it.
They seemed accustomed to this sudden and unjust death, perhaps because the laws of the world had changed without Agnes’ knowledge.
She just touched his father’s body.
The moment she realized that, a shock came as if she had been hit with a stone at the back of her head.
Agnes knew for the first-time what life meant to a commoner.
It was common for commoners to eat black bread simply because they had no money to eat white bread.
They cannot fight back or say any objection even if their life is on the line.
“I’m sorry,”
Agnes staggered closer to the dead girl and closed her eyes.
That was all she could say.
“…… Let’s go now.”
Agnes took the child’s hand more firmly and began to walk.
And she looked around her properly for the first time.
“Give me a penny, please. My brother has not eaten anything for three days.”
“Please help me, my lord, help me!”
Their moans and pain, which she had never heard before, pierced her ears like nails.
A little girl was begging for food on the street.
A man who lost his leg was limp and tried to grab the ankle of a passing traveler.
“Oh… “
A sigh came out of nowhere.
She went about talking confidently that she would be king, but she never thought deeply about what it means.
What does it mean to be a king?
“Yeah! Mom and Dad, where are you? Are you in there?”
Jamie kept waving Agnes’ arms. When they reached the gate, she saw this long procession with no ends in sight.
At the same time, a cart loaded with dead bodies came out.
Agnes unintentionally looked at the cart passing by and then froze.
She tried to cover the child’s eyes, but Jamie was faster.
“Uh, uh, Mom…….”
“Wait, Jamie!”
“Mom! mom!”
At the top of the pile, Dora’s cold body looked bare because they did not cover her face.
The child shook Agnes’ hand, crawled up to the cart, and grabbed his mother’s body.
“Why are you there, Mom, Mom?”
“Let’s get out of here right now.
A soldier saw it and came running in awe.
“Mom. Mom, please open your eyes. I’ll listen to you now. wake up. dad! Where’s daddy Mom, uh, mom. Let go!”
As the soldier tries to separate the child, Jamie clings to her mother’s arms.
Agnes looked at Dora’s unfocused eyes.
Please take care of Jamie.
Dora’s stomach was stained red.
She seems to have had a similar experience to the girl she just saw.
Agnes reached out her trembling hand and brought it to Dora’s pale cheek.
It was so cold that it felt like ice.
“You’re crazy,”
As the commotion grew longer, several knights approached.
One of them drew a sword and spoke.
“You have been warned that touching a plague-ridden body will kill you.”
“Dora was not ill. There were no signs of the contagious disease.”
“You don’t know that. If I had kept her alive, she would have had it.”
At the knight’s words, Agnes took her eyes off Dora and looked straight at him.
“Is this your master’s doing?”
“What?”
“Did the lord of Reneka order you to kill all those who were infected with the plague, and to kill those who came in contact with those who had plague?”
“…… This is an order from the palace.”
The knight answered as he felt Agnes’ tone and atmosphere were unusual.
“Yes, of course.”
She laughed. She couldn’t help but laugh.
“Mother, oh, mother,”
The knight managed to separate Jamie. The knight behind him drew his sword.
People were holding their breath and looking at them.
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“Put the sword in and let go of the child.”
“Who are you?” asked the Knight.
Agnes took off her cloak. She slowly loosened the bandages which had been tightly wrapped on her left hand.