Lahat ng Kabanata ng No Escape From Fate : Kabanata 181 - Kabanata 190

Emotion nearly choked me. I tore my eyes away from him and turned in shock to the crowd behind me. I was searching for something… and I found it.Several rows back stood the woman I had seen. Silent horror was frozen on her face. Below her, three little boys were clinging to her, hiding their faces in their mother’s arms and quietly sobbing.My soul was being torn apart by what I felt. I was in shock, in outrage, in pure fury.“Release him! He is innocent!” I declared loudly, glaring at this grotesque spectacle of a crowd.“Naziza… you shouldn’t make hasty judgments…” Gerald began, but a surge of anger flooded me and I snapped.“I SAID HE IS INNOCENT!” My voice boomed like thunder from a clear sky—so powerful I barely recognized it myself.The square went so silent it felt as though the world itself had stopped. Everyone stared at me in shock, and even Gerald went pale.“Do as Naziza says,” the king ordered hoarsely, his voice trembling—and the man was released at once.The next two g

And again I saw it—the black clump. Only this time I saw it inside Figaro again. I watched as Laverna’s power tore into that mass, drawing it out and devouring it. The spiders and worms writhed like a panicked swarm of cockroaches, and some of them were swallowed by the witch’s magic as well.Laverna finished and spat out another black lump, but I kept staring at my little beast, watching the filth still left inside him. There was much less now. And then I felt the old woman grab my hand and sharply pull me toward her, staring into my eyes.“You…” she whispered, her green eyes like deep pools—and now I could see she was sober. “She gave you her power…”“What’s happening to me?” I asked, and the witch pushed me toward a mirror. I saw my eyes glowing faintly, and while they still saw more than usual, I looked at Laverna herself. I managed to glimpse something like a vessel, covered in filth and black chains. But that vessel was cracked, like dried mud—and through those cracks… bright li

“You should have mentioned these laws earlier!” I snapped. “I did not agree to marry some random man out of nowhere! I’m not about to let some guy claim marital rights over me!”“Naziza, sweetheart… it doesn’t mean this husband has to be in your bed,” the old man said slyly. “Since you’ve been declared my heir while I’m still alive, you will be the one actually ruling the kingdom. A husband is only there to pacify the dissenters. That way they won’t be able to dispute your legitimacy. If you don’t want him, he won’t even be allowed to come near you. You could keep favorites—or even a whole harem if you wished! It would all depend solely on your will.”He was disturbingly persuasive.“You mean… a sham marriage?” I asked more calmly.Gerald bloomed into a grin. The crafty old fox.“Of course, my dear! Who needs feelings when you can rule an entire kingdom? They’re insisting on a husband because they all want to try for the role themselves. They think that by becoming your husband they’l

“You cursed Kays’s family, turning them into a clay monolith that even I couldn’t undo! You made Kays a monster for years, and you killed Bahira outright!” I threw the truth in her face, watching as the old hag’s eyes flared green with rage and her teeth ground together.“He told you that?” Laverna growled, not blinking.“Yes—and I saw it in my dreams! I saw a young man and a beautiful girl with a silver braid standing by a well, and a surge of power swallowing them. I saw Karadeylis’s family suffering, melting into one lifeless mass of clay! I heard their screams!”With every word, the witch’s gaze grew darker and heavier. Magic pulsed around her hands with fury.“And you believed it?” she sneered bitterly. “I loved them!” the old woman cried out, a tear sliding down her wrinkled face. “I always loved them—as the closest people in my life! I did not curse them! That bastard Kays cursed them in those caves!”I stared at her, frozen in absolute shock and horror.“And I didn’t kill or c

The girl was an experienced hired killer, with many filthy and horrific jobs on her record. The worst part was that some of those jobs involved entire families. She spared no one… not even the innocent.She had recently wormed her way into the king’s inner circle and had been leaking many of the secrets that the old idiot drunkenly shared with his whores. When she learned that I was being prepared to take the throne, she was supposed to kill the king at the first convenient opportunity, before he could pass power to me.I tried not to let the suffering of the innocent pass through me and shifted my attention to the other girls, whom the guards had already surrounded. And for the first time, I saw gray people. They carried no burden of murder, torture, or major crimes, but there was rot inside them. They had betrayed friends and family more than once for their own benefit, stepping over others without a second thought to gain money and status. They sold their bodies and often stole fro