I'LL DO ANYTHING...!!
PLEASE...!!
PLEASE, SPARE ME!
PLEASE...! I BEG YOU SPARE ME!
IF YOU TELL ME TO BARK, I'LL BARK,
IF YOU TELL ME TO CRAWL, I'LL CRAWL.
SO PLEASE... DON'T KILL ME.
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH YOU...?
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE THAT BADLY?
YES...! IF YOU SPARE MY LIFE, I'LL TRULY DO ANYTHING!
EVEN IF I ORDERED YOU TO KILL YOUR OWN BROTHER AGAIN?
YES, THIS MAN ALWAYS ASKS ME FOR THE SAME THING.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOUR MAJESTY WANTS... I'LL DO IT.
AT SOME POINT, I BEGAN TO FIND COMFORT IN-
HIS UNCHANGING DEMANDS.
AND NOW, I'LL PROBABLY APOLOGIZE AGAIN, AS IF IT'S BECOME A HABIT.
I'M SORRY.
I'M SORRY.
FOR DOING THIS TO YOU.
BUT I WANT TO ESCAPE.
ENOUGH.
WHAT AN INTERESTING WOMAN.
VERY WELL. I'LL LET YOU LIVE, JUST AS YOU WISH.
HOWEVER, ONLY BY MY SIDE.
THIS IS MOND PALACE, WHERE YOU WILL RESIDE FROM NOW ON.
IT IS FAR TOO GRAND FOR SOMEONE IN YOUR POSITION.
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR PROMISE?
OF COURSE, YOUR MAJESTY.
I WILL NOT TAKE A SINGLE STEP OUTSIDE THIS PALACE.
HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?
A GIFT FROM THE KING.
AFTER OUR KING OF XENOMES COMPLETED THE CONQUEST OF HENBURG,
THEY SAY HE BROUGHT A WOMAN BACK WITH HIM.
I HEARD SHE HASN’T BEEN EATING WELL LATELY.
MY KING, YOU’RE FINALLY HERE...!
I MISSED YOU SO MUCH.
AH... YOU MEAN THE WOMAN WHO NEVER TAKES A SINGLE STEP OUTSIDE MOND PALACE?
DON'T JUST SEND GIFTS, PLEASE COME SEE ME MORE OFTEN.
THIS PALACE FEELS FAR TOO VAST.
MOND PALACE?
ISN'T THAT WHERE ONLY THOSE WHO HELD THE LATE KING'S FAVOR WERE ALLOWED TO STAY?
THE KING MUST HOLD HER IN EXTRAORDINARY FAVOR.
ONE ESCORT KNIGHT AFTER ANOTHER GETS SEDUCED BY HER AND DISAPPEARS, YET...
...HE SIMPLY SENDS HER A NEW GUARD!
THAT MAN IS YOUR NEWLY ASSIGNED ESCORT KNIGHT.
SEDUCING THE GUARDS WAS QUITE AN AMUSING GAME OF YOURS, BUT...
...HE WON’T BE SO EASY.
BESIDES, THEY SAY THE NEWLY ASSIGNED GUARD IS...
HE IS THE DRAGON-SLAYING HERO OF XENOMES.
GOODNESS... JUST WHO ON EARTH IS THAT WOMAN?
HOW LONG WILL HIS MAJESTY'S INTEREST LAST, I WONDER?
WELCOME, YOUR MAJESTY.
WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE SO LATE AT NIGHT...?
AH, HERE IT IS AGAIN.
HE'S GROWN TIRED OF ME ONCE MORE.
WHAT DID I DO WRONG THIS TIME?
JUST WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO...
WHAT...
SHOULD I DO...?
THINK...
I HAVE TO THINK...
WHAT SHOULD I DO THIS TIME?
HE IS THE HERO OF XENOMES WHO SLAYED A DRAGON.
IF ONLY USING HIM CAN FREE ME FROM THIS BLESSING...
I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES...!
The woman, begging for her life out of fear of death, says she will do anything to be spared, even agreeing to kill her own sibling. The man before her spares her and only allows her to live by his side, placing her in Mond Palace. While in the palace she becomes the subject of gossip as the woman the king brought back from his conquest of Henburg, she learns that her newly assigned escort knight is the dragon-slayer hero, and fearing being discarded by him, she decides to use him for her salvation.
