298 Agony
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The little demon was surrounded. She had just acquired her bronze coin and wanted to go back to the orphanage for now, but on her way stood three men. They were similar to her. Since they have memory that they had no parents. Perhaps they were once part of the same orphanage she attends to... They were the same as her, and well, they still are. But instead of making money by their hard work, they had decided to take the easy way out of it and steal from the vulnerable.
Of course, thievery is a crime punished with prison in this fiefdom, criminals often are put inside dungeons and then made into criminal slaves, who have to work for nobles or commoners to pay for the debts they have. If the crime is too severe, however, they’re punished with death. Most of the time hanged in the middle of the streets, although such occurrence is very rare, it often happens a couple of times through the year when bandits or thieves are caught and recognized has having done many crimes by a large group of people.
But in the back alleys where people is not watching all the time, and where mostly commoners, afraid from getting involved in affairs that might negatively impact their lives don’t do anything to help others in the situation of the demon girl, nobody is going to save her. Thieves can pretty much do whatever they want, but even them know their limits. They’re talentless with magic but their physique is quite strong. Their targets are usually women, elderly, and children.
This little girl had been their target for a while. They know she had been working hard every day to earn her money. But they didn’t pity her, in fact, they envied her. She had an horrid face that made people scared, yet somehow she had worked so hard to fit in society that she had even gotten jobs to carry things and help others for a few pennies... they thought she didn’t deserved it, and constantly tried to rob her. She was swift, however, sometimes escaping in time or managing to see them from afar and taking other routes. But today she felt dizzy after being hit with a broom in the head, her Mana Sense abilities, innate to her race were dulled out, and she was incapable of sensing them in time.
Now they finally had her, and their growing frustration against this little and horrid-looking girl to them was boiling hot. They wanted to rob her of all the things she had, jealous and envious of everything she had that they didn’t had. They had the heart of greedy and wicked thieves, society had shaped them in such a way, but when they had the choice to become different, they never took it. Although society itself could be blamed, it was also their fault for having chosen such a path... Well, it wasn’t as if they even felt guilt. Their growing lack of empathy made them even rob little children.
“I-I don’t have anythwing...” She cried, her words could barely come out of he mouth. Her mouth wasn’t even made to speak human speech and she had been learning for years, but even now her voice came out weirdly due to the teeth getting in her way of the movement of her mouth.
“We saw you save some bag of leather inside your mouth....”
“You weird demons are disgusting like monsters... to think you got pouches inside your mouth to save things...”
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“Come on now, give us everything, you little monster!”
“I-I... I worked harsh for it...” She cried. “I-Itsh mine...”
The three young men looked at one another, their faces devoid of emotions. One of them quickly acted, kicking the girl face with his boots mercilessly...
“Augh!”
The girl cried in agony, rolling through the floor. Her face was bleeding, and one of her eyes was red shot while a few of her teeth were broken, falling off her mouth... She cried with pain, as she tried to crawl away from the trio, her tiny arms and legs quickly stood up, only to be thrown down once more by the legs of another of them. A strong kick in her back threw her down once more, mercilessly, without regards of her small and delicate body.
“Aaggh...! Sniff... Shtop! Pleash!”
The girl looked into the three men, as she didn’t found any humanity in their eyes. Their emotionless faces only looked despise, hatred, and jealously. They hated her even when she had done nothing against them, they despised her even when she never bothered anybody, and they wanted her to suffer, even though she had never made anybody suffer.
This was human nature.
“You little bitch, you think you can just say “no” to us when we are fucking assaulting you?”
“You really got cocky because you got that fucking witch as a friend...”
“Well, she’s not here to save your ass anymore. You’re alone... And we’ll enjoy it.”
The girl’s eyes continued to cry as she saw the monstrous nature of people once more. The nature she had been desperately trying to not see as something that every human had in common. She desperately asked for mercy, but they didn’t listen.
“Pleashe... Merchy...”
“Fuck off!”
Another kick hit her in the head, crushing her down into the floor, several more of her teeth broke, as she felt such agony she had never felt before. Another kick reached her tiny left hand, so strong that it cracked her hand, her fingers dislocated as blood began oozing out of the wounds made by her broken bones piercing her flesh.
“Aaaaaagghhh!”
Their mercilessly crushed her tiny body, hitting her strongly, as if she were a creature, a monster. They pushed her around like trash, until they found she didn’t reacted anymore. Almost dead, they grabbed her and opened her mouth, grabbing her long tongue and pushing her upwards, making her vomit everything she was carrying.
“Aghhh! Uugh... Sniff... Ahh... B-Big sis...”
The cries of agony of a little girl resonated through the alley, but nobody heard her.
Or perhaps... nobody wanted to save her.
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