Even Hamil thought that his mental strength was worthy of praise.
“Uu… Hey, Beta. Are you still among the living?”
Hamil raised his body up, which was aching all over, and looked for Beta, who he struggled to bring back here yesterday.
Beta was nearby.
“Damn it. Damn it. That lassie…”
Sig… Sig…
She was trying to compose her breathing.
She had serious injuries on an arm and a hand, but she appeared to be all right in other places.
“Are you… alright?”
“Do I look alright to you?!”
Beta shouted loudly.
Her voice was loud enough to echo through the sewer.
Someone in Lower Solia said ‘Shut up!’ in response to her roar.
“Damn it, my arm, and…my hand are busted. It’s the end for me.”
To hide the desperate look on her face, Beta was lying down on her stomach, even if it meant rubbing her face on the sewer’s floor.
Because she couldn’t use her hand, it looked like it would be difficult for her to get up by herself.
“It is not the end. You just need to get them healed by going to the temple.”
“Those high and mighty people lending a helping hand to me, someone from Lower Solia? Ha! That’s not even funny.”
Hamil, who at least still had working arms, struggled to get near Beta and helped her to get up.
Her face was messed up with her tears and runny nose. It looked funny.
“Calm down.”
Although Beta’s face was making Hamil to have a hard time keeping himself from laughing, he managed. Hamil only showed a serious and sincere expression on his face, and he started talking to Beta in order to calm her down.
“…”
Beta and Hamil were looking face to face at each other for a while. She roughly wiped off her tears with her shoulder and then got up.
“Beta?”
“Now that it has come to this… I will have my revenge.”
Her legs were fine at least. Beta got up, and immediately, she started to go somewhere.
“Ug…” 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Upon hearing the word 'revenge,' Hamil tried to get up so he could stop Beta.
However, he was not able to.
The parts of his body, his legs, that were on the receiving end of that old butler’s beating were not quite recovered yet.
“Stop this, Beta!”
Since Hamil could barely walk at the moment, he couldn’t get to her. Instead, he tried to convince her to stop with his words.
However, Beta’s steps didn’t stop.
“It would be faster if you just ran the casino!”
Hamil’s voice was becoming more and more distant for Beta, but she still did not stop.
She continued on, turned a corner on the sewer’s corridors, and said,
“…I will use the garbage!”
She screamed those words out loud and clear. It was so Hamil on the other side, who was still trying to convince her to reconsider, could hear. Beta then continued walking.
“Hey! Hey!”
In Lower Solia, there was a saying,
‘If you are bitten, then bite back harder.’
Beta was insisting on practicing those words. Her eyes were exuding murderous intent.
“…”
Beta walked far to the point that she could no longer hear Hamil’s voice. Eventually, she stopped at a corner of the sewer.
In front of her, there was someone sleeping with a rag as the cover.
“…Get up!”
Tok
Beta kicked the person sleeping in the corner.
“… Nainiae.”