Chapter 43: Requitas, the Lawless Zone (3)
Chapter 43: Requitas, the Lawless Zone (3)
It wasn’t something particularly surprising.
After all, most beliefs are meant to be broken.
Trust, from the beginning, was always a rare commodity that seldom rewarded those who gave it.
If that weren’t the case, the word betrayal wouldn’t even exist, so it was only natural that the inevitable had come.
It wasn’t exactly a new occurrence, but a bitter taste lingered in the girl’s mouth.
Her green eyes scanned the lifeless body lying before her.
It was a woman’s corpse, one she was all too familiar with.
A childhood friend with whom she had spent her early years, the very person she had relied on during the most perilous moments, had just been killed by her own blade.