‘Ah……. I should have just left it alone.’
With her arms rolled up, Brody, who was leveling the ground with a hoelike farming tool, heaved a deep sigh inwardly at the piercing stares of the surrounding soldiers.
The soldiers who broke the military laws were all punished. Brody was called fifteenth, a total of fourteen, and it was said that there were even two captains among them.
The soldiers seemed to think that this ‘harsh’ punishment was due to this ‘female prisoner’, especially ‘Brody’.
The female prisoners who were summoned were luckily still alive. Attaching the word ‘fortunate’ to that was a bitter thing, but perhaps it was some comfort that they had been properly punished.
‘I guess I can’t just leave it alone…….’
Brody recalled the moment when she overheard the conversation between the general and the chief of staff.
She impulsively intervened because she was too shocked.
She thought the other women were safe, as no woman had been taken away since she entered the general’s quarters.
But to kill them all? Should she be thankful that they didn’t commit an unimaginable atrocity? Of course, dying without pain is better than dying painfully. But why must they die? Why is there no other choice?
The biggest victims of war are women, the elderly, and children, the weak.
They have no choice, and they fall like objects.
Especially women.
They are easily treated as objects, and their individuality is not recognized apart from their gender.
So there exists something like a sense of homogeneity among women.
A homogeneity that allows them to lend sanitary pads to each other, even among enemies who fight and beat each other.
‘I was really surprised. But because I lived in a civilized society, not a battlefield…….’
Brody, momentarily overtaken by terror and anger, shook her head vigorously to shake off her thoughts.
There isn’t much time. Sowing must start quickly.
Brody looked around and demonstrated to the women looking at her, then spoke.
“You must all be tired, but now is a critical time. If we succeed in this task, we can protect our lives ourselves. I will do my best, so please muster your strength for yourselves.”
Then the women asked with anxious faces.
“Can we really be guaranteed safety?”
The menacing energy of the soldiers surrounding the field, whether they were standing to protect or harboring ill intentions, was so sinister……. It was a natural reaction.
Brody answered calmly with a more confident attitude to reassure them, in a clear voice as if she wanted the soldiers to hear.
“Of course. His Highness the Grand Duke has promised. No one will be harmed while we do this work. However, if anyone tries to ruin this important task, they should not expect to live.”
It wasn’t easy for Brody herself to lay down this threat to the soldiers.
But even if it’s uncomfortable, what needs to be done must be done.
To ignite a bit more vigor in the bustling, she added her last words.
This time she leaned towards the group of women and spoke secretly yet sweetly.
“Once this task succeeds, the success itself will guarantee your safety. This is a precious skill that doesn’t exist in the North. This knowledge will be enough to protect yourselves until you settle.”
The women’s expressions began to change at Brody’s powerful words.
They didn’t know anything about this woman called Brody except that she was a prisoner.
Even though she had pleased the Grand Duke and could therefore keep her life safe, she had volunteered for this difficult position.
They couldn’t help but know that she was working hard for them.
Whether it was Brody’s attitude that was convincing, the women, nodding as if they understood, clenched the farming tools in their hands with newfound strength and dispersed by threes and fives.
Though they were clumsy at farming, as befitting maids who had served the lady closely, they were also distinctive and quick to learn the work, as befitting maids who had served the lady closely.
In the dark tent, women who could hardly move, shivering in fear, not knowing when they would be called or when they would die, began to show a hint of vitality.
Of course, everyone was so emaciated from lack of food that it was embarrassing even to describe it as vitality.
“Now, motivation is done.”
Brody quietly observed them working for a while.
Then she selected one of them who looked competent and trustworthy to be the manager.
The person chosen as the manager was a middleaged woman named ‘Cony.’
“Oh! You are…….”
After choosing, she realized that the woman was none other than the one who kindly explained things to Brody on her first day in this world.
Cony cried, apologizing for not being able to stop Brody from being taken away, and Brody comforted her, saying it was okay.
Thanks to the small connection with Cony, Brody was able to connect more naturally with the captive women.
Things were starting to take shape.
“Now, I just need to do well.”
Brody had the task of selecting the crops to grow and procuring them.
“I’ve already chosen the crops.”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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