Chapter 36: The first mission
Night fell, and darkness swallowed everything.
Under the command of Ray Kang, a unit composed of ten pairs and three individuals set out.
They rode goats, either in pairs or alone.
Only three of them were walking on foot, their necks bound by collars and ropes—each held by a member of the unit.
"Captain, who are they?" Kogan asked, his eyes fixed on the pitiful figures.
"They're cursed people," the captain replied. "To lessen the curse, we either kill them or enslave them. You already know which we chose."
Kogan recalled his former life, where all people ever talked about were curses and blessings—a topic that had always unsettled him.
Why is the most powerful person the only one who can tell who's cursed?
And why are the cursed always the poorest and the weakest?
"How were they cursed?" Kogan asked, frowning.
"That woman—her partner died. That man betrayed his partner and raped another woman, and the woman beside him is his partner," Ray Kang explained.