Book 2: Chapter 24
Dungeon of the inner court…
Nier walked at a relatively fast pace. She sneezed as she passed through the complicated passages with a fire torch in hand. She finally saw the empress dressed in black deep inside the prison. The empress was kneeling down and gently caressing a black hound’s head by her side. When the hound stood up, it was taller than a human. Its eyes didn’t look friendly like a pet-dog. To the contrary, its eyes were filled with aggression. It resembled a wolf more than a hound.
However, the wolf obediently knelt by the empress’s side, not even daring to wag its tail. It was afraid of the empress. Even a wild animal is afraid of the empress.
“Your majesty!”
“Oh, Nier, you’re here. Come over here and tell me if it was these people.”
The empress looked at Nier who knelt down on one knee before her. She stood up and rubbed her head. She then waved her hand, and the Valkyries on both sides responded by extended their hands which shone a light on the dying women who was kneeling before the empress. Their bodies were covered in blood and wounds. Their hands and legs were bent and contorted in odd ways. They must’ve been subjected to torture just before.
Nier nodded and said: “That’s right. Those are the women that touched his majesty in the brothel. That should be the boss-lady of the brothel, and this lady is…”
She reached her hand out, grabbed the lady by her black hair and lifted it up as if she were harvesting a carrot. The lady had already lost her tongue and teeth, so she could barely make a sound. She scanned everything around her lifelessly. If her mouth and nose weren’t still trembling, then nobody could’ve told that she was still alive.
“This one is the one his majesty chose.”