After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

After being severely shaken by the wanted order, Heidi temporarily suppressed her outburst, but the accumulation of negative emotions did not stop.

Along the way, I would find a tree to vent from time to time to avoid being suffocated.

This is what they mean by taking a step back and getting angrier the more you think about it.

But fortunately, as she left the remote area and gradually approached the city, the highly harmful and insulting piece of paper did not appear again along the way.

This confirmed Heidi's guess.

Those country folk didn't know him, and they didn't even know anything about the royal family as their rulers, so the Duke's Alliance dared to launch a high-profile wanted warrant and even humiliate him.

Once they get close to the city, with the overall social class of the population rising, even if these bastards had ten guts, they would not dare to openly make fun of the princess.

These farmers are really...

Heidi shook her head with disdain, and her mood gradually improved.

All in all, the journey was smooth.

As the sky gradually darkened, the walls of Limok appeared before their eyes.

Unlike Tafia, a border fortress city and the front line against the demons, Limok, a central city, does not have such an exaggerated scale of defense and looks short and shabby.

It even lost in terms of prosperity, and the roads in and out of the city were deserted.

In addition to the differences in geographical location and city importance, it also has a lot to do with the abilities of the local nobles.

Earl Stevenson, the local lord, was a fairly typical fat-headed and incompetent nobleman. Compared with Sheen of Tafia, he was far inferior.

Of course, this is not what Heidi needs to consider now.

The royal family had no right to interfere in how the nobles managed their fiefdoms, which were considered their private property.

Not to mention that I need help from others this time, so I shouldn't criticize them.

Let’s go into the city first.

For safety reasons, she found a deserted place, gritted her teeth, endured the inhuman pain, and disfigured herself again before Heidi finally walked towards the city gate.

result--

"stop!"

The moment a guard saw Heidi, he almost immediately stopped her with a spear.

Exposed!?

Heidi's heart tightened, and she subconsciously wanted to take out the knife from her clothes.

Of course, the moment my hand touched the handle of the knife, I held back and waited to see what happened.

The guard came up and looked Heidi up and down with an extremely unfriendly look.

After noticing her dirty hair and the horrific wound on her face, the guard showed a look of disgust:

"Where did you come from, beggar? Get out of here! Don't dirty my eyes!"

The tone is extremely unfriendly.

Guards in this world are purely thugs for the nobility. Their military discipline and friendliness are basically proportional to the lord's enlightenment.

The reason why Tafia's guards did not cause trouble was because their lord was Sheen.

In fact, this situation may be a more common scenario now.

Of course, Heidi, who was born and raised as a top aristocrat, had no knowledge of this and was not mentally prepared.

But for the sake of the overall situation, he suppressed his anger at being humiliated, put on a pitiful look, and said:

"Master, I... my father's caravan was attacked by monsters, and I escaped alone. Now I'm penniless and can't go home. My uncle is in this city. Can you let me go in to find him? Otherwise... otherwise I'm really going to starve to death..."

In terms of acting alone, it is still impeccable, and he even cooperated very well and squeezed out tears.

However, the guard just sneered and asked:

"Go into the city, do you have money to pay the tax?"

"……Tax?"

Heidi blinked.

What tax do I have to pay if I don't bring any goods?

In order to answer her question, the guard pointed impatiently at the starting orders posted on the wall.

"The Lord has ordered that due to the large number of people coming and going, public security in the city has deteriorated. Therefore, starting last week, a public security subsidy tax will be collected from everyone entering the city, even beggars. No one will be exempted!"

What kind of bullshit logic is this?

Every noble wants their territory to be prosperous, but this guy is doing the opposite, relying on poll taxes to achieve sustainability and exhaust the resources.

No wonder the city has become deserted.

Heidi quickly turned out her pockets with tears in her eyes and said:

"But, sir, you see, I... I have no money at all..."

It turns out that expecting these guys to have sympathy is really ridiculous.

"Tsk——"

The guard's impatient expression instantly reached its peak.

"If you don't have money, get out of here! Don't waste my time!"

After saying that, he raised his foot wearing iron boots and kicked directly at Heidi.

Then--

“Ah ...

With a scream, he flew out and rolled on the ground holding his feet.

The result is natural.

This attack on Heidi is equivalent to attacking yourself.

But there is more than one person on the other side.

Seeing what happened to their companion, several fully armed soldiers rushed up almost immediately, surrounded Heidi, and even drew their weapons one by one.

Asked:

"What did you do to our people, you little bastard!?"

The moment the opponent was bounced away, Heidi realized that the situation was not good.

But it's too late to say anything now.

I can only cry and shake my head:

"No, nothing..."

"I don't believe your lies!"

A tall guard who looked like a captain did not hesitate. He raised the spear in his hand and hit Heidi with it horizontally.

This time, Heidi didn't dare to fight back.

He could only suppress his own protection like when he was self-harming, and let the opponent knock him to the ground.

Then, they let the other party rush over and form a circle, punching and kicking them continuously:

"A pauper wants to go to the city, bah! Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself!"

"You ugly bastard! The gentleman is respecting you by talking to you, and you actually dare to hit someone!?"

"I see you're still so arrogant!"

"If you ask me, this guy must be a spy from the demon clan! Otherwise, how could he have the ability to repel our people!"

"Yes! She must be a spy! Take her back, put her in jail, and interrogate her thoroughly!"

After saying that, several people rushed over, picked up Heidi, who had been kicked into a rag by the quilt, from the ground, and dragged her into the city gate in front of all the people.

Chapter 24 The Royal Family is Useless

Heidi's impression of her father is quite different from that of her brothers and sisters.

In the eyes of his brothers and sisters who shouldered the burden of the country and the family, their father was a strict father with extremely morbid and even unreasonable demands.

To Heidi and the younger children, however, the father figure was quite gentle.

Apart from aristocratic etiquette and the swordsmanship training required of the kingdom's nobles, there are almost no requirements.

In a sense, it can be regarded as truly happy education.

Among them, Heidi's impression of her father is even more complicated.

It originated from an experience of leaving the palace many years ago.

Heidi couldn't remember the exact year, she was not even 7 years old at the time.

Therefore, I don’t remember the specific details of this incident very clearly.

All we know is that it was an invasion by demons.

Although the scale was far smaller than the subsequent full-scale war, a city still fell in the invasion due to the incompetence of a certain noble.

Therefore, the royal family personally went to war in order to regain the lost territory.

This war had nothing to do with Heidi.

But she was extremely mischievous at the time, and with motives that she couldn't even remember now, she sneaked into the carriage of the Royal Knights transporting supplies alone.

When they were discovered, the father was not too angry. He even asked Heidi if she would like to "go and take a look together."

"willing".

This was Heidi's answer at the time.

The course of the war was not complicated, or rather, Heidi no longer remembered it clearly.

In short, after half a month of brutal fighting, the Royal Knights, which was still very powerful at the time, successfully regained the lost territory at a huge cost and liberated the people there.

At that time, Heidi was not very clear about the ins and outs of the matter.

But Heidi knew that when she followed her father into the city, the looks of the civilians lining the streets to welcome her were something she had never seen before.

There is a fundamental difference between him and those people in the royal capital who are respectful to him.

Then came the quarrels, the quarrels among the nobles.

The process is no longer traceable, but judging from the result, Heidi's father, under tremendous pressure, seized all the rights and interests of the seriously derelict noble.

In response to this, Heidi, who was still ignorant at the time, asked something.

She herself couldn't remember what exactly was asked, but her father's answer was deeply engraved in her mind.

"This is the so-called duty and honor of aristocracy, Heidi."

"The royal family... no, all nobles, their duty and honor are not innate. We are honored by fulfilling our duty, and we are given responsibility because of our honor. The two are interdependent and cannot be separated. Never forget this."

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"Well--"

Heidi woke up from her coma, feeling excruciating pain all over her body as if it was about to fall apart.

Being beaten and kicked by a bunch of strong men in armor was the natural outcome.

"These bastards, they didn't hold back... Tsk—"

In order to prevent these losers from twisting their feet when kicking her, Heidi suppressed her protection the whole time.

This sounds cheap, pathetic and ridiculous, but it's the truth.

As a result, this attack, which normally could not penetrate the defense, directly injured Heidi seriously, and she even lost consciousness for a while due to a concussion.

Like a dead dog, he was dragged and thrown into the prison.

What a shame.

Heidi was so humiliated that she almost vomited.

Moreover, while in a coma, Heidi vaguely recalled some things from the past, which made her mood fall into an inexplicable depression.