Episode 13
“Cough!”
“They think this is fun because he’s young.”
They started kicking Halleed, who was huddled against the wall and sitting on the ground. Thump, thwack, whack! Loud sounds rang out in succession.
“Cough, gasp!”
Halleed curled up his body and endured their kicks. In the midst of it all, Halleed’s eyes were fixed on the torn recommendation letter held in the hand of one of the gang members. I need to get that. Only then… somehow…
“This bastard is stubborn.”
“Just a young bastard.”
“His face is half and half, should we sell him as a slave?”
“Nah. There’s someone in charge these days who goes around capturing slave traders.”
“Tsk.”
After knocking down Halleed one more time, they quickly tried to leave the alley when they heard him make a painful noise. However, Halleed clenched the wall and stood up, facing them from behind.
“The letter, give it back.”
His round, blue eyes glimmered thinly. The gang members sneered.
“Is it really that important?”
“Give it to me!”
“I can’t do that.”
They were naturally born scoundrels. They were humans who were born to steal and exploit others’ possessions. They were too familiar with seeing someone desperate, and they didn’t want to show kindness to people like that. One of the gang members had already torn the torn recommendation letter into pieces.
“No, please…”
Halleed limped away. It seemed like he had stepped on his ankle wrong. The gang members scattered the torn recommendation letter on the ground and giggled. Halleed knelt down and began gathering the scraps of paper. His hands trembled. Without this, without this, I will never be able to…
Halleed started sobbing faintly. The gang members watched the young boy desperately trying to gather the scraps of paper and smirked. Then, as if they were bored, they spat on the ground and disappeared into the alley.
Halleed tried to move his hands to arrange the dirty scraps of paper, but it was impossible.
“Ugh, gasp…”
His vision blurred. Losing money was fine. It was a lot of money, but it wasn’t that important to Halleed. The problem was that the path to return to the noble family was gone.
Thump, plop, tears dropped onto the sandy ground. Ah, ah. He began to cry as if screaming in pain.
There were quite a few people wandering outside the alley. Even if someone shouted in the dark alley, no one looked inside.
Afterwards, Halleed was kicked out of the inn. The clothes he wore became increasingly dirty. It was no different from the appearance of a beggar on the street.
Despite his efforts to find a job as a servant for a noble family when he looked somewhat decent, no one wanted to hire him without a recommendation letter.
Halleed’s patience was wearing thin. He had no money, and he had no place to stay or wash up anymore. No matter how hard he tried to tidy himself up, there was no way to prevent his appearance from becoming more and more haggard.
Often, when Halleed couldn’t bear his longing and something bubbled up in his stomach, he secretly went to Nox’s mansion and hid near the iron grating close to the garden. And he caught glimpses of Nox coming out to the garden.
Nothing had changed. The pitch-black eyebrows, the sparkling green eyes, the gentle gesture towards young servants, nothing had changed at all. Unlike himself, who had become so different.
“Master…”
Every time he saw that sight, it felt like something was scratching away at him from within. It felt like his insides were being squeezed with a wrench. He wanted to grab onto the iron grating and scream. Master, I’m here. Halleed, the one you took notice of, is standing here like this.
When he felt that he couldn’t bear such a pitiful appearance anymore… suddenly, thoughts like that would emerge, and he would run away to the alleyways of the town as if escaping. He didn’t want to show such a sight to him anymore.
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