Don't Be Kind Rashly (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 84

The boy was often beaten and frequently shoved underwater until he couldn’t even breathe.

Knights who bore the title of Imperial Knights acted utterly despicable when no one was watching.

The boy, much younger than them, had been thrown into the water countless times, pulled out only after nearly drowning. Whenever he coughed helplessly, fists and kicks would fly at him again. The sense of dread—that something even worse might happen someday—had already swallowed him whole.

“Look at this brat opening his eyes.”

He had been raised in the utmost nobility, only to be cast down to the very bottom in an instant. He was beaten for talking back, for not answering, for simply being there—or for not being there. Once, after a beating, he was even thrown into a nearby lake.

After that, he became so terrified of water that he couldn’t even wash properly whenever near it. Then they’d beat him again for smelling bad from not washing, and force him underwater once more until he couldn’t even lift his head.

It was agony. He couldn’t breathe; he was scared—so terribly scared. The crushing weight on his body, the suffocating water swallowing him, the painful struggle to breathe—all of it hurt and terrified him.

He needed help, but he knew no one would come. Probably, this was how it would end.

‘What’s the point of living?’

The boy had started forgetting whether he was fourteen or fifteen, but he knew well enough that whatever life remained would be nothing but pain and humiliation.

He wanted to escape this hell. He desperately wanted out and thrashed with all his might, yet it was impossible for him—he couldn’t even utter a plea for help due to the magical prohibition.

Help me.

The barrier is a lie.

I am of the imperial bloodline of Perseita.

The moment those words formed on his tongue, it instantly curled inward and tightly blocked his throat.

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