The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Xitana Lancemalos, Anser's follower, the future Blue Sky Wolf King, a willful person who has never really grown up, a girl who has never really experienced pain, on the first day after the Great Cold Wave ended -

Witnessed hell firsthand.

ps:

The two chapters total 1.1 words. I overestimated myself. I finished it when I was writing it a little faster. I really need to send it (vomiting soul)

The beauty of the previous chapter and the first part of this chapter, and the strong conflict with the devastating ending, are what I have been looking forward to for a long time when I was conceiving. This is just the beginning, and I will continue tomorrow!

Chapter 64: Great Despair, Part 1

Death, death, death, death.

It was a death that was visible to the naked eye, desperate, and almost made Hitana collapse.

"Why……"

The trembling girl stepped over the thick snow. The coldness on her skin and muscles was not even painful compared to the despair spreading from her soul.

She looked at both ends of the road and the scattered frozen corpses, silently telling the great terror and despair of the past three days.

"Why, why don't you stay at home...why did you run out."

Hitana walked forward in a daze. The sculptures, their skin covered with frost and their expressions frozen, looked like works of art given to the world by the God of Death, perfect creations carved by the Lord of Despair himself.

Look, the last moment of expectation, fear, desire for life, search for hope and salvation, the expression of deep belief that one can be saved, and the contrast with the final result...what an irony.

The eyeballs, which had cracked like glass and were covered with ice crystals, reflected the mansion that was revered as a holy place by the people of the Red Frost Territory, and the only person in this dead and silent world.

Hitana could no longer endure such terror. From childhood to adulthood, she had never been afraid even when she was in danger of death. But at this moment, she felt not anger, but... terror.

She was afraid, but she didn't know why she was afraid. However, her silent intuition and the dead silence of her soul made Xitana feel something in a trance... something that made her teeth tremble.

She didn't know what it was, but for Hitana, who trusted her intuition so much, this feeling was enough to scare her.

"No...it shouldn't be like this...Anser, Anser!"

Driven by this fear, Xitana screamed like crazy and turned to run into the mansion: "Why did so many people die! What is going on!"

But during these three days, the young man who made her peaceful and happy did not appear. Instead, the one who appeared at the door was her elder sister, with whom she had hardly any social interaction in the past few days.

Marina was wearing a thick black dress and her soft snow-white hair was particularly eye-catching. The black feather hair accessories pinned above her ears added an indescribable mystery and nobility to this girl who was a village girl not long ago.

She walked out of the mansion expressionlessly, passing by the ice sculptures, as if there was no mention of these poor people who died in hope and despair in her eyes.

Marina walked calmly onto the street and stood side by side with her sister, with Sitana facing the mansion while she looked left and right at the street.

“It’s much less than expected.”

Her mumbling made Xitana feel like she was falling into an icy cave.

"That's a good thing. You can report it to Mr. Anser."

After simply looking at the frozen corpses around the mansion, Marina turned and walked into the mansion as calmly as if she had counted the fallen leaves in the morning.

"Marina!!!"

Xitana roared and grabbed her sister by the collar: "What did you just say! Do you know what you are talking about! "

Marina, whose body was slightly pulled off the ground, looked down at the angry wolf cub indifferently. The alienation and arrogance in her eyes made Hitana even more angry and heartbroken.

Her sister...when did she become like this?

When did she regard the lives of these ordinary people as nothing? When seeing such a tragic scene, not only was she not moved at all, but she even said something worse than an animal, such as "This is a good thing"?

Sitana stared at Marina, and with her undisguised rage, she tried to make her lost sister show a look of pain and guilt.

But she saw nothing.

Yes, Shitana didn't see anything in Marina's eyes. This once weak sister, who could do nothing about her whenever she got angry, just responded to her anger indifferently.

"Ma——"

"Shitana."

Marina suddenly spoke, interrupting Sitana.

"Are you angry?"

Xitana was stunned for a second, then she yelled loudly: "How can I not be angry when I see you like this!"

"No, you're just covering it up."

Marina didn't care at all that her body was being pulled further off the ground. She said indifferently in a voice as cold as the dead silence:

"You are hiding your panic and fear. You are always like this, using a brutal and ferocious attitude to make everyone think that you are fearless and never confused."

"Pathetic." She sneered.

"What are you...what are you talking about! What the hell are you crazy about, Marina!"

Sitana's voice involuntarily became higher and higher, even a little hoarse. She grabbed Marina's collar tightly, roared at first, and then used a tone that was equivalent to begging, as if she was going to fall on Marina, and said weakly and fragilely:

"Don't say that, sister... they... they are all dead. They should have survived, but so many people... died."

"So, why are you so scared?" Marina asked, "Does their death have anything to do with you?"

"I--"

The dark girl did not give Xitana time to respond, and continued to judge her coldly: "You think nothing, of course you think nothing, but why, your extremely sensitive intuition tells you that you seem to have messed up something again?"

"..."

The hand that Sitana was holding on to Marina's collar continued to exert force, and at the same time it began to tremble more and more. Her lips moved, but she couldn't speak.

And Marina did not show any mercy to her sister.

"Xitana, why do you think Mr. Anser used his own funds to help those poor people? Why did he squander his own resources from beginning to end after taking over the affairs of the Red Frost Territory?"

Anger also arose in her heart. The anger at the other party's lack of fighting spirit and resentment at the other party's ignorance made Marina pull the corners of her mouth and reveal an extremely sarcastic smile.

"Even you can think of forcing the nobles to pay for all the coal purchases, so why didn't Mr. Anser force them to use their own resources to transform the Red Frost Territory?"

Shitana's body trembled violently, and the chill and fear that almost swallowed her completely began to spread throughout her body.

"Xitana, you are so stupid. You are so stupid that you think that everything will become a reality as long as it is negotiated, and all work will be perfectly accomplished as long as the documents are signed."

Marina, who has already awakened, begins to wield the butcher knife towards her sister.

"Let me tell you why - because this city, this territory, has nothing to do with Mr. Anser. It never belonged to Mr. Anser, but to those nobles whom you and I both hate."

"Do you know how many nobles there are here? Do you know how many years these nobles have been here? Do you know how complicated the network of their mutual exchange of interests or mutual hostility is?"

"Do you know how many processes Mr. Anser has to go through for an order to be issued, how many links need to respond, and how many people are affected?"

"In this long and complicated process, even if Mr. Anser is very willing, he can't master all of this complicated network. It is impossible for Mr. Anser, who only brought his maid and Savile butler, to make all the links, all the details, and everything run perfectly according to his wishes."

"Do you know this?"

Xitana's eyes were filled with confusion. She looked at the strange sister in front of her and said tremblingly, "What are you talking about... Marina, what are you talking about!"

"...You see, Sitana, even though I have explained it so clearly, you still can't see it clearly."

Marina ignored Sitana's fragility, which was no different from begging for mercy: "Why are you so stupid and yet you have to be so willful and self-righteous and want to change everything?"

"Well, let me tell you the answer."

"Mr. Anser is paying the price." She calmly stared at Xitana's eyes that were on the verge of collapse. "Only by paying the price will the nobles be obedient. If he just issued an order without spending any resources or energy, and threw everything on the nobles to deal with, and let them pay all the prices——"

"Then no matter how much the nobles fear him, these guys who have developed in the Red Frost Territory for dozens or hundreds of years have hundreds of ways to prevent Mr. Anser from getting what he wants."

Marina's expression and words became more indifferent and cruel: "Now, do you know why Mr. Anser took the initiative to spend his own money to provide coal for the poor?"

"Because at such a huge price, no one dares to make small moves. No one dares to take away half a copper coin from Mr. Anser. All they can do is to be honest and purchase and distribute the coal according to Mr. Anser's plan and arrangement."

This is what Anser had predicted for Sitana that day.

The best is to attack their plans, the next best is to attack their alliances, and the next best is to attack their troops.

But Hitana finally chose the most brutal and reckless "soldier".

"But you, Sitana." "No... it's not like that, it can't be like this..."

"You are so self-righteous and arrogant that you think you can do what Mr. Anser can't do." "No, no..."

"Letting the nobles take over all the expenses means that their network can be activated as they please - because Mr. Anser has not paid the price, there is nothing that they are absolutely afraid of." "...Not me."

"Cutting corners, being careless and negligent, deliberately ignoring... they will pay the price, because that is what Mr. Anser meant, but the size of the price is entirely up to them." "Not me..."

"Are they afraid? They are afraid, but this fear cannot overwhelm their greed and stinginess." "..."

"Yes, Mr. Anser can decide their life and death, but so what? Can Mr. Anser control everything in the entire Red Frost Territory alone? Don't they think so?"

“Even if Mr. Anser pursues accountability, they can use countless reasons and excuses to shift the blame onto countless insignificant people in this huge network.”

"This is the law of survival for the nobles."

"Yes, many poor people, at least those in Red Frost City, can definitely survive this severe cold wave if they follow Mr. Anser's plan."

"But you, Sitana."

This long trial finally came to an end.

The sisters seemed to have parted ways, one as the presiding judge and the other as the sinner, standing in the dead silence with the howling cold wind and despair everywhere.

Marina, who had been released by Xitana, pronounced the sentence on the criminal without any mercy or hesitation:

"You killed them, Sitana."

"You killed everyone."

"not me!!!"

Sitana screamed madly and collapsed, and pushed Marina to the ground and into the thick snow. "It's not me... It's not me! It was obviously those nobles. According to what you said, it was those nobles who killed them! It's not me!"

"But they could have survived. Everyone could have survived." Marina closed her eyes and whispered, "Originally, everyone could have survived."

The uncontrollable sadness and pain in those words reached Hitana's ears.

"..."

Shitana released her hands from Marina's collar and looked at her hands, which were shaking wildly and almost unconscious.

"It's not like that... It's not like that..."

The girl's eyes had lost focus and she was on the verge of collapse. She hugged herself tightly and kept muttering as if she was deceiving herself: "No, this is not right..."

"Are you still going to deceive yourself, Sitana?"

Marina opened her eyes again, with a look of sarcasm on her face: "Let me tell you, this is reality. Moreover, it is not just Scarlet Frost City. If Mr. Anser really paid the price to save the poor people of the entire Scarlet Frost Territory, then countless people would indeed be saved, but——"

"But guess," she whispered.

"Besides Red Frost City, there are so many cities, so many villages, and so many people."

"How many hells have been created because of you?"

"Ah...ah..."

A meaningless wail emanated from Hitana's throat, and she...suddenly felt someone was looking at her.

Who is it? Is it Anser? No, Anser would not look at her like that. Who is it?

Then, she slowly raised her head and saw herself in the eyes of those ice corpses.

All the frozen corpses, all the fragile, dead eyes that had turned into ice crystals, all reflected her figure.

In the silent begging -

I want to live

"what!!!"

The extremely shrill scream shattered the glass of Anser's mansion, and also made Marina, who was pinned to the ground, groan, with blood flowing from both sides of her ears.

The wolf, who had completely collapsed and gone mad, howled crazily: "Don't look at me! Don't look at me... Don't come over! It's not me... It's not me!"

She punched the air frantically, and the horrific sound of the air breaking was enough to prove that each punch was hysterical and full of strength.

The wolf rolled and crawled to its feet, screaming at the top of its lungs, and indiscriminately attacked the nothingness, attacking everything around it, until it felt exhausted from such violent and hysterical exertion, and then it stopped completely, trembling, and looked at its hands.