Chapter 75: Faraway Paladin

Elise's POV

Where has my princess gone? She just suddenly disappeared.

I thought that I should bring her favourite flowers to her so as to cheer her up only to find she was nowhere to be found.

I need to look for her but where should I start?

 Caring for her is the last mission the duke gave me so I can't screw this up. I can't repay his kindness with such incompetence, especially after how he saved me from that hell.

I still remember it like it was yesterday. My life at the orphanage and my life at the church.

I was only five years old when a church representative first come to the orphanage.

I was so young so I didn't understand what was going to happen but that single visit had laid the foundation for the hell that awaited the orphans who were there.

Supposedly the orphanage's benefactors were slowly stopping the funding of the orphanage and the church had offered to take over the care of the children.

It took about two years before the orphanage completely integrated with the church. 

While in the orphanage I had come to make some friends, my best friend who felt like a real older sister was called Therese. She cared for and looked after me like her own sister. She was the oldest while I was the youngest but that didn't stop us from having a wonderful friendship.

I loved her company and her personality.  She was the type of woman I wanted to be when I grew up.

Being the youngest I sometimes faced some bullying and teasing from the other children.

I didn't look like any of the other children in the orphanage so I was quite the target of suspicion. 

While the children in the orphanage alienated me, Therese accepted me for who I was. 

She protected me from all the bullying. 

Eventually, the children started to be more accommodating, I suspect that that was all her doing. I got to make more friends because of her. She dispelled the fear and suspicion that plagued the orphanage.

When we were moved to the church Therese suddenly disappeared. The rest of the children were kept in one place. I started wondering where she had gone but each time we tried to inquire we were told she had gone to do the work of the gods.

Slowly the number of the children that we were living with started to decrease, each and every time we were given the same excuse that they had gone to do the work of the gods.

This continued until I was the only one left. 

It now came the time for me also to do the so-called work of the gods. On that day I was washed and prepared thoroughly. 

A voice in my head kept on saying this is it, I am going to be sold as a slave.

I had had my suspicions that the church may be selling off the children from the orphanage as slaves. This suspicion was asserted when I overheard some church officials talk about slaves.

Since that day I had worked on a plan to escape the church but unfortunately, the church security was too complicated for an eight-year-old to work around.

Now I am here about to be sold off as a slave, or that was what I thought but my fate was much more grimmer.

I was taken to a room with an apparatus that resembled a casket with a circular structure on one of its ends and a huge box-like thing on its left side.

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I was put into the casket thing and made to lie inside it. My memories of the events that happened immediately after that are all fuzzy. All I know is I got my berserk-type skill after that.

I hope that the horrors that awaited me after that procedure will not to happen to any other young child out there. It was quite a traumatizing experience.

I have had nightmares years after that experience. I just wonder how those who put me in that situation sleep at night. If they sleep soundly they can only be described as pure evil.

It all started by them putting all of what I assumed to be the remaining orphans into a duelling dorm or something similar to it. 

I was overjoyed to be reunited with them but I soon became sad once I realised that Therese was not with them.

What happened next is that we were commanded to kill each other. What did he just say? He wants children to kill each other? Does this person find sick amusement in seeing children kill each other? Looking up there was a multitude of people. They all were looking at us like we were items that they can browse through.

At first, the children stood there just dumbfounded, paralysed where they were standing daring not to make any movement. The words that came out of the man's mouth next had such a chaotic effect.

"If any of you has not taken a life in the next five minutes you will automatically die."

I don't know what truth those words held but the slaughter I saw afterwards was quite unsettling. Everyone rushed to pick up a weapon and started to kill the other. The majority of the children all rushed to kill me. Of course, I should have expected this.

I tried as much as I could to evade their attacks but my body moved just like how any other eight-year-old would. I received multiple wounds from their attacks. I thought that this was how was going to die when suddenly out of nowhere a rage aimed at the children started to cloud my judgement. I could barely perceive what was going on. 

When my sane mind returned I had already massacred all of the children around. What manner of monster had they made me.

The spectators seemed to be thrilled with the results. I was taken back to the room I had been provided with.

The next time was even a worse nightmare. I was pit against Therese in a duel. I was so happy that I met Therese before I perished but for them to tell me to duel her, My sister who I so loved. I was not going to give them what they want even if it was going to kill me.

Therese and I just stood there and looked at each other not planning to do anything to each other. Then they brought it. I don't know what it was but it made us lose all sense of reason and fight it out like beasts, by the time our senses came back the damage had already been done. Theresa was there bleeding profusely. She had gotten a fatal wound. While I also had wounds mine weren't as fatal.

With her last breath she told me not to worry all will eventually be well.

I couldn't help but break into tears. I had killed the sister I loved with my own two hands. 

The guilt and emotional pain I felt was too much to the point I felt like ripping out my heart would be the best way to silence the pain. 

Nightmares started to plague me every day after that.

The church had some sort of supernatural control over me. I couldn't dare go against them. I was forced to learn their doctrine and became their weapon. They taught about the gods who live in the sky with such advanced magic that we could barely comprehend. Their doctrine spread hate towards demon kind. 

The life I lived there was just filled with blood. All I did was kill for the church. I was manipulated by them for them for so long that I lost myself in their lies. They awarded me with the title paladin but that was just to show what I truly did for them was  kill.

It was not until the young duke to be came to the church and saved me from my misery. He insisted on getting me as one of his knights. For a while the church protested but I was eventually sent into his service. 

The duke gave new life to the living corpse that I had become. I thank him for fighting for my freedom and giving me a new home where I could start my life afresh. 

He has been so kind to me so I cannot let this incompetence stand. I will search for the princess till I find her even if have to give up my life I just owe the duke that much.

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