Hainekou looked at me with distrust, but after a while she relented and started telling her story.
"I don't remember my parents, but I heard that my old tormentor killed them due to some disagreement with a payment. My first few memories were of him, he abused me physically constantly because I was his 'pet toy', and I only knew pain back then. I even remember how he once beat me to the brink of death more than once."
At this her voice started trembling, she tried to talk but words could not get out at all so I turned to father who had an impassive face as he produced a cup out of sheer demonic energy before filling it with water by the use of water magic. He passed the cup to me and I repassed it to Hainekou, who took it without even knowing what to do exactly. Yet she managed to drink it, and with it she calmed down somewhat, at least calm enough to continue her tale.
"After he beat me to the brink of death so many times he ended up going one strp further once and he resurrected me as a Pawn for his peerage after killing me, his words were that he still needed me to relieve the stress from his work. Apparently I was the perfect softness to not hurt his precious hands but still firm enough to make the right amount of sound effect. Even my scream were appreciated as he sometimes asked the other servants to beat me up while he sleeps just to have a better night of sleep." At this she could only start releasing her tears as if a damn had broken in her face.
Father was looking at this with a serious face, but considering how the metal bars from the cell that he was holding were bending over while it should be impossible to do it I can safely assume he is 'just a bit' pissed right now.
And it is a mutual feeling, I am doing my best to not go to her side and start saying that everything will be okay.
"What happened that made you snap and kill him?" I asked, this time in a much more gentle tone of voice.
"I-I heard from the other servants that he discovered that I had a sacred gear. I didn't know what that meant but when he took me to a room and started saying how blessed he was that now he would be getting a sacred gear for himself, I understood what he meant. He was going to remove my sacred gear and install it on himself, he was going to kill me again. I-I couldn't take it anymore.
I tried to escape him, but his hands, always oily and stinky, held me down. I then saw him raise his fist to hit me again and I just reacted. I don't know how but my sacred gear activated and he died before I could think of anything. Seeing this I could only think of getting away from there, I have heard from the others that I could get back to the were-beast area if I passed through here. As I am part were-beast I thought it would be my best chance, but I was captured anyway.
But please, even if you are going to kill me, please save the others! Please!" She said, sniffing all the while to the point that by the end of it I could barely hear her voice. Yet the message was clear as day for anyone who looked for it.
Father could no longer sit back as he advanced one step before asking.
"There are others?" It was quite unusual, my father speaking in a low tone like this.
"Yes, there were a few others just like me. They too were tormented by that monster, there were 5 too that were turned against their will after being killed and one who was captured not long ago and they probably can all die any moment now. That monster's family probably will want to hide any proof of what I just said, we were just toys anyway so who would care if we were to die, right? RIGHT?" She said, but I simply stepped forward and gave her a hug.
She did not know how to react, she probably never had anyone being gentle to her for as long as she remembers, but I will make sure to change that.
After the shock she started looking all around, trying to understand what was going on, but after some time her eyes started tearing up again and this time she did not stop until she passed out. Her body being too weak to hold itself together anymore.
Without even asking father I put her in my arms and started carrying her out of here.
She deserves better than to stay in this place a moment more.
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After taking Hainekou to a decent room I searched for someone that could take care of her while I went to look for my father.
In the end I found someone to ask in order to help Hainekou.
"Jeremiah, I need your help." I sad to the man passing by. He was dressed just like a noble with plenty orange and a face mask covering one of his eye. This was Jeremiah Gottwald, one of my father's knights and one of the few peerage members that usually stayed in the mansion since most were distributed across the territory of the family.
When I called him over, Jeremiah looked at me surprised, but quickly adjusted himself and said, "Young Lord, is there anything that you need from me?"
"Yes. I need you to watch over the girl inside as I need to find a doctor for her." I replied.
Considering his face, he probably did not approve of my decision most likely thinking it was below me to go do that when there are servants to do this sort of menial work, but he relented and did as I asked anyway.
After he agreed to look after her I went out to look for the family's doctor. Running across the mansion grounds I probably attracted lots of attention as I rarely ever run around like that, but I have no time to think about that right now.
Reaching a separate area from the mansion I entered without invitation and went straight to the doctor's room.
"Doctor, I need your help." I said as soon as I entered the room.