"the women in this household wasn't weak nor below the feet of a man, don't you tell me that you want to give up our family and running under the feet of your man"
The greyish sky started pouring it's rain, in the hall, an old lady, presumed as the clan leader was sitting, preparing teas, various soft porridge as the final diner for the 4 years old child that they will present her against their 'princess'.
"it's not that...i...want. to choose my own, destiny.."
"We are surviving until now. Thanks to Her. Without men, without the demand to be a slave under them, bring them to us! Not the opposite! You'll always be the Iguro!"
The loud thunderstorm shocking her. The young lady just bowing her head. She couldn't watch her clan leader staring at her anymore. The smile was creepy, almost like a grin. Like Her.
The door hall was opened. Two of another young women come, informing her that everything was ready.
"We has prepared the child. Showering and giving her the best silk outfit that you sewed it"
"nice, now we can wait for Her."
The old lady looking back at her, with her firm voice.
"Stop talking about this. I would say it again, your disobedience is a disgrace. If you continue to do so, i,myself will ending your life. Get out".
Her whole body was shaking. She's never used to it. She couldn't even enter the hall. Standing far from the huge hall, the throne of the princess they worshipping, the loud crying of a child slowly disappear, replaced with the disgusting smell of fresh blood. She's gagging and throw up.
"Clean this mess!! What a pathetic woman" Her older cousin throwing a clean towel to her, urging her to clean up her mess.
A year later, she was still stuck at that house. She was afraid, no, rather coward.
"I...please give me time, I'll follow you" she was startled. The man looked cold. Colder than she ever saw.
"Please let me go. There's no way I'll put my foot in that house, either me or that house"
It was a silence. She knew she could run away and eloped with him but, her feet was chained! Her mother and siblings, despite their blind loyalties to their grandmother, still raised her well.
"that's it" the man walked away, without looking at her anymore. She want to scream, but her voice feel trapped. Looking at her love fading away just like that,
Along the darkest part of their home, the hallway went into the deepest room, no, cages. There's 6 cages , with three of them has it occupants, 2 men and a child.
'Another favorite' she thought.
She bringing another set of luxurious foods, to be fed to the boy, their rarely boy family member that finally born into this family after a decade. Her sister's child, that were chosen to be sacrifice later.
"eat this' her hand brushing off the boy's hair slowly, like any other members of the family, he has a very beauty straight black hair, soft and delicate.
The boy was growing up in front of her, the more she saw him, the more she care and stunned on his unique eyes. 'no wonder the princess favor him' she thought.
"The princess want to met him tonight, asked your sister to bring him and you should prepare him with the cloth i asked you to sew". The sudden voice from his grandmother startled her. She went outside the cage and bow.
"Don't do anything stupid"
Once her grandmother gone, she looking back at the 12years old kid, that has been denied sunlight. With his fair skin, beautiful hair and big eyes,he looked adorable like that. The kid eat the food slowly,.but she knew he wasn't fond of all the food but what other choice did she had?
She was a part of this bullshit. Next time she'll hear the sheer terror and cry from that child before it's turned silent, denying the life of the little child. And again, the next time, she'll just stood there doing nothing.
In front of the child's cage, two men, her brother in laws to be exact, was slowly turning insane. In that cage, the two who enter this household with a proud and clean looking slowly turned haggard. The gentlemen in them was bring stripped off, their dignity was thrown off the window of this huge mansion. Thinking back then she was almost trapping her lover here, she understand, he make a great decision.
Her heart was thumping, the princess lady decided to postpone the child's demise. Her action of splitting the mouth of that child scared her a lot. She was forced to witness it, as her grandmother forcing her to get used to the ritual. In reality, No, she couldn't.
The child was returned to the cage, the house doctor treated his wound, the child silently cry, he didn't even try to run. In that moment, their eyes were locked. There's a moment that she couldn't even bear to stare. She looked away.
As she entering her room, she feel that her hair bun had loosed. She pulling away her hairpin, watching herself in front of the mirror with her loose beautiful long and black hair. And that was the moment she decided to follow her desire for the first and only time.
He was struggling to keep his little feet warm. The coldness of his cage was even more suffocating tonight. His grave injury make him hard to say a word. It was only tears. He was finally getting his answer, and he want to survive.
A slow walk approaching his cell, immediately he went to the corner of the cage. One of the woman, come passing by his cell, want to give some meal, which enough to make a person survive to the other 2 captives in his opposite cell.
Once she gave them their meal, one of them lashing out.
"Just kill me!! Please i beg, please"
"I'm sorry it's not my decision to do so" she's walking away right after giving them food. He watches him carefully, her bun was loosed.
'Tung!' A sound of a little metal fall right in front of his cell after the woman walking past his cell. She wasn't flinched or looking at the source. Once she disappear, the boy and his pet snake coming in front if his cell. It was a metal hairpin.
A month later, the night of the tragedy.
"Where is the boy????!!!!" The whole household was panicking. Women running away from their room, the princess was on rampage, her half body was just a snake, slithering faster behind the pillars, killing everyone in front of her.
There's one who didn't flinched. In front of her, the grandmother staring at her with disgust.
"What the hell are you doing,???!!! You-" her word's didn't even finished before her head snapping from her body. She clossed her eyes. Tears rolling down from his face.
The princess licking the blood in her hand.
"I see, you are the one betraying"
"Enough." She feel her feet getting colder yet she didn't even flinched. The smell of blood slowly filling the room .
"a young lady with a resolve, yet it's not for me, what a shame."
"What a delusional being you are" she didn't know why she was so brave to confront the disgusting creature in front of her. It as if she was possessed.
"What are you saying?!" She was mad, very mad. Her servant was bravely questioning her.
Looking at the creature's eyes, she continues.
"You'll be dead. And your legacy of oppressing us will end. No one will remember you. Why should i continue worshipping you for something i couldn't even freely choose." She smile.
The claws was the last thing she saw, yet she didn't even regretting.
