Trampled and Broken (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 52

His notorious reputation had grown largely due to the temple’s own missteps.

It was because a priest returning from assignment had casually spoken out.

〈That place was hell.〉

〈I froze at the horrific scene unfolding before my eyes and couldn’t take even a single step forward. Yet Duke Kalati walked nonchalantly over the corpses of the beasts he’d slaughtered.〉

〔回all the image: a towering man drenched in dark crimson blood, only his golden eyes gleaming ominously! I still get chills. Duke Kalati wasn’t human—he was more like a beast.〉

Upon closer listening, one could discern that Aslan had actually saved the lives of the kingdom’s soldiers and priests, who had been of little help themselves.

Yet the socialites of high society, who loved exaggeration, were quick to tear him down instead of praising his bravery and sacrifice.

Nobles added their own words to the priest’s account.

‘Even so, as a nobleman, he should maintain some dignity—how could he slaughter without any sense of decorum?’ This became the core of their criticism.

〈Why do we have military doctrines and tactics? It’s certainly not to ignore them and just sweep everything aside recklessly.〉

Those who had never even seen a monster in their lives were the ones most freely piling on remarks.

Precisely because they had no understanding of the difference between theory and actual combat, they could speak so easily.

Those people outside the carriage were probably the same.

Hestia swallowed a sigh.

She herself felt so upset just sitting inside the carriage; she worried whether Aslan and his officers and knights, hearing those words while riding outside, might be hurt.

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