Chapter 20 I Don’t Want to Face Against Them!!
「W-why are you here….」
Silk asks while shaking her voice.
Primo who receives it laughs with a distorted face happily. A disgusting fat body and bald head. His face full of beard, only his eyes that look sparkling and it gives a person that looks at it an indescribable discomfort.
「Why? If my precious slave sneaks away night after night, of course I’ll be worried and then come to pick you. Right, Edwige?」
「Kihihihi, yeah, that’s right….」
He said so and talked to his escort, a woman who was standing next to him.
The thin woman with disheveled long hair laughs in a way that can’t be said normal. Because she’s thin, it’s as if her eyes are bigger and popping out, and Silk that looks at that eyes makes her body tremble unconsciously.
「Oh, Silk… what do you have there?」
「Ah, t-this is….」
Primo said so and pointed to the white dress that Silk held preciously.
Looking at him that approaches while showing a sadistic smile, Silk hugs her dress strongly. Escaping is not allowed because she’s a slave.
「I’m curious. Show it to me.」
Primo stood in front of her and ordered coldly.
If it was Silk up to now, she would have passed it without any objection. But, today she was able to take the first step for her dream, and the dress is also a gift from an important co-actor. She won’t give it easily.
Silk resists at Primo for the first time today.
「T-this is… I’ve been wearing it some time ago… and I haven’t wash it. It’s not clean enough to give it.」
Primo who being resisted for the first time moves his eyebrows. However, this way is interesting. It is much more fun to oppress those who have rebelliousness than to oppress those who have given up everything.
「I don’t mind it. Come on, show it to me.」
「But…….」
Silk resists further.
It certainly is more interesting, but it is not desirable to fall into a stalemate as it is.
「Edwige.」
「Kihihi.」
「Ah……!?」
Therefore, Primo ordered his escort, Edwige. Unlike Primo and Silk, she who get used to fighting scene succeeded at snatched the dress from Silk that resisting.
Primo narrows his eyes when he received the dress from her.
「What… white dress, huh?」
For him who is a noble, that dress is not a big deal.
Certainly, the quality and appearance are reasonably good… but it’s a shabby dress for Primo, who is accustomed to nobles dresses that always being shown off in high society.
「But, this is… kuku, what a bad product! Such a shabby dress is not suitable for my slave to wear!」
「Ah……!?」
Primo laughed and threw the dress on the ground.
Looking at that, Silk screams unconsciously. The white dress gets dirty on the soil.
Looking at her like that, Primo laughs sadistically, lifts his legs… and steps on her dress.
「Hmph, hmph! What, don’t worry, Silk. I’ll buy you a better dress. A wonderful high-class item that can’t be compared to this poor quality product.」
「――――――!?」
He stepped over and over again.
The white dress that was pretty, it now gets dirty and worn out by dirt and Primo’s shoes. The first dress Alistar gave. It was supposed to be her lifetime treasure, but it has been changed into a miserable figure.
It is not unreasonably expensive. Certainly, with Primo’s assets, she may be able to easily buy more dresses. But, that is not the case.
It was more valuable for Silk than the finest dresses worn by royalty.
That important thing is being trampled in front of her. Still, even though Silk seems to shed tears, she doesn’t raise her voice. That is, because she is a slave. Because a slave is not allowed to go against the master.
「(I……!)」
Even if something important that she received from Alistar is being trampled, She doesn’t have the courage to go against it. However, that is a matter of course. If she goes against it here, it’s possible for Silk to be killed.
But still, she embraces an undeniable feeling that she hates herself.
「Now, is there nothing you hide…… hmm? What is that in your hand?」
「Ah……!」
Primo was immersed in the mood to make the dress tattered, but then noticed that Silk had something white in her hand. She hides it in a hurry, but it’s too late because it was already seen.
「Silk, it’s too late. Show me that too.」
He says so and reaches out.
As a slave who can’t oppose the master, she obediently hands over the white thing…the letter――
「Y-you can’t. Only this, absolutely…!」
「Wha…!?」
――Or it should be like that, but here Silk resists for the first time. She brushes away Primo’s hand and hugs it preciously.
Because it is a fan letter from her first audience at her first step to her dream. Hand it over is the same as hand over her dream. Only that is something that she can’t do.
「Just give it to me!!」
「I don’t want to…!」
Primo shouts loudly to Silk’s resistance, but she’s by no means giving in. She holds it on her chest preciously and curls up.
Looking at that, Primo feels angry enough that his blood vessels in his head might explode.
「You……! For a slave like you… are you trying to go against me!!」
「Uh! Guh… Ahh!?」
Therefore, Primo strongly kicks Silk’s body.
Silk screams. However, she never let go of the letter.
「Just! Give it! To me! Already!」
「Uhh! ……!! Gaha…!?」
He steps again and again on her. Stepped by the dirty sole, her clothes is getting dirty.
Because she was stepped by a heavy fat body, her slim backbone is screaming. Bone squeaks and dull pain accumulates. Even though she’s suffering from filthy violence, Silk still keeps her body curl up and protects her letter.
「Haa, haa…!! Kuh… this woman…!!」
Primo’s unshaven face is plenty of greasy sweat, his goggling big eyes become bloodshot.
Certainly, it’s worth oppressing those who resist, but if they completely resist it, it becomes irritating. He doesn’t want to admit his inconvenience, this man has an immature mental.
However, due to his heavy fat body, he can’t even hurt Silk anymore.
「Edwige!! Give her a good beating!」
Therefore, Primo leaving it to others. He orders Edwige, his guard, to hurt Silk.
「Kihihihi!」
「Ah……!?」
It’s better if it Primo who doesn’t train at all, but Edwige is a woman who gets used to battle scene to the point entrusted as a noble guard. Silk can’t defend her attacks.
Edwige approaches with a quick movement like a snake, she grabs Silk’s thin neck and lifts it.
「Guh… Kaha…!!」
Edwige’s arms are very thin. However, she lifts Silk’s body with a powerful force that hard to imagine coming from her appearance.
「Aahhh… your face, I don’t like it. It makes me want to crush that sweet face. That white dress too, it doesn’t look good on you, isn’t it? Really, it’s irritating.」
「Ah…… geho…!」
She looks closely at Silk with glaring eyes. It’s a very terrifying sight, but Silk doesn’t have time to feel fear from it because of the pain of being strangled.
「I can’t kill her, right, client-san?」
「Of course! Because I have grudges to her parents… make her suffer rather than kill her…!」
Primo gets angry while sweating a lot with a bright red face.
Confirmed so by him, Edwige sighed disappointedly.
Silk distorts her face due to the smell.
「Well, there you have it, I can’t kill you even if I want to…. But, it’s okay to hurt you, right? For example….」
Using the other hand that’s not grabbing Silk’s neck, she tries to scratch Silk’s face with her nail.
「Make this face messed up…!」
「――――――!」
Silk’s body is trembling.
Face is an actor’s life. It would be difficult to get into a theater troupe if you face is injured. No, anyone hates it to leave a lifetime scar on the face. And Edwige trying to do that intentionally, you can know her interior with that.
「Kuhaha…! Yeah, that’s okay. As long as you don’t kill her, I don’t care whatever you do. Don’t think bad, Silk. Because this too is your parents’ fault.」
Primo, who can’t do anything by himself, but misunderstood Edwige’s power as his own, laughs at Silk with a sadistic smile.
In the first place, it is not that her parents are bad or the cause of it… but, the facts have been rewritten inside him for his convenience.
「Kihihihihihi! I’ll make your face and dress into shreds!」
「Uh…… guh…!」
Edwige laughs in front of Silk and strengthens the grip on her neck.
Was it a mistake for having a dream?
Inside her muddy consciousness, Silk thought so.
Wasn’t dream something good for everyone to have? Was it wrong for the likes of me… a slave dreaming to be an actress playing in a grand theater?
She wants to deny it strongly. But she can’t deny it. Tears well up in her light purple eyes and flow through the cheeks. With her parents being killed, no one standing beside her now.
Here, nobody knows that she’s quietly being driven out from the stairs to her dream… or it should be like that.
「―――No, it’s not a mistake.」
「Gyaaa!?」
She heard a screaming voice and a gentle voice. That gentle voice is a voice that she knows well….
At the same time that voice was heard, she was released from the strangling and was about to collapse on the ground.
When she was about to hit the hard ground, there was a man who caught her.
「Cough, cough! ……A, listar…?」
Because the supply of oxygen was stopped, she desperately moved her absent-minded head and opened her eyes. What reflected in her blurred vision, is Alistair who smiles slightly.
To his hero-like appearance, Silk shed warm tears, different from the tears of despair some time ago.
「Yeah, I’ve come to save the future great actress.」
To Silk who sees him with a passionate gaze, Alistar responds it with a gentle smile.
「(I don’t want tooooooo!! I don’t want to face against such disgusting woman and wicked noble you knoooow!!)」
『We’ve come this far, just accept your fate!!』
No one knows his inner thoughts.
