Betrayal

- Second Life -

Year 1452

The world is a meaningful life story. God has blessed us by giving us life. He has bestowed all that is good and beautiful. But the story I'd like to tell you is a bit sad. All I can do is survive in this life of pain and torture. Survive is my only weapon.

I knew I was a legend when I heard the roar of people screaming my name, but instead I found myself thrown with stones and curses. As I was about to be chained and dragged to the guillotine. I could see my demise coming. I knew God had not been kind to me in this or my previous lives.

I'm just a fool; I did everything for the people, and they found me guilty because I killed the king and princess without their permission.

This world is corrupt, and people are nothing more than demons. People are just blind after saving these European scums, instead of these foolish nobles who used their power to make slaves and kill innocent people.

"I swear on the royal family and my life that I will wield my sword to bring happiness to all, I used to have an ideal, but I guess it was too much." I was thinking to myself.

My tongue was severed during the torture summoned by the king's brother, and if I were alive, I swear I would have slit the throat just like I beheaded the king who murdered my parents in this life and denied me permission to give them a proper funeral while my parents were chained in the stands and eaten by flesh-eating vultures.

It's now my turn, and I'm here to face my own demise. People were cursing, spitting on me, and yelling for me to die.

The hoarse voices of those who were constantly addressing me brought me back to reality, where my consciousness had vanished. Despite my weakness, I managed to lift my face.

It took some time for my eyes to adjust.I saw faces in front of me, faces of hatred and resentment. I sighed and turned my head to see the figure of an executioner wearing a black hood.

I, who was accused of treason to the kingdom for murdering the royal idiots the king, queen, and his no good Princess, am now being insulted on top of a gallows. As I approached the executioner, there was silence, and out came the Duke, the king's brother. He stood up and spoke "It wouldn't be much fun if you died quickly. Suffer as long as you can"

As people laughed, I realized these good for nothing people were nothing more than scum. Just as the history teacher said in history class. These cretins are only interested in carnage. I cursed the god who reincarnated me in this history, and now I'm glad I'm dying. I just grinned at the Duke and muttered something. He gave me a disgusted look.

People gathered around the execution area kept saying what they wanted with happy faces.

I delivered this kingdom from its enemies. But now I'm in this predicament.

The sins they inflict on me and my companions are all fictitious...

However, no one is interested in that fact any longer.

People are only interested in witnessing my demise.

Torture has left me unable to move the fingers on both hands, and it has undoubtedly damaged my nerves.I couldn't move at all from the waist down.

While some laughed, others struck me with a righteous justice face. Why are they staring at me like that?

I have fought for the lives of everyone present. Anger, despair, and sadness all collided, and my heart was shattered.

"haha. I really like your appearance "Unexpectedly, I heard a woman's voice. I clenched my teeth and focused my attention on the voice.

A beautiful woman in a dress appeared on the execution platform. Long hair, a thin neck, small nose, and slightly large eyes.It has an incredible beauty that everyone involuntarily admires when seeing it.

This is the slave I rescued and who will soon become my wife. I shielded and fed her. With my blood, I elevated her to the status of a noblewoman. I knew she was scum, but I always believed her, never suspecting she would betray me for the position of queen. I grew angry and stared at my fiancee, who was standing next to the newly crowned king in front of me. "Damn bitch.....!" I tried to raise my voice, but because my tongue had been removed, I was unable to speak. I knew my fiance would be the catalyst for my companions and me being led down a path of death.

Within that beautiful exterior, there is already the soul of a hidden and arrogant monster.

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you, Arthur, but where there's money, there's life, and the king has it all; the Duke and I planned this all, and we wanted you dead." It's now all about entertainment.

The Duke smirked.

He treated me as a friend and mentored me. But he is the scum who betrayed his companions for power, and he shrugged as he looked at me.

"Arthur, I'm delighted for you. At the end, you're going to put on a good show for everyone "He spat at me and stared at me with cold eyes.

People who witnessed the exchange were ecstatic.

The applause that made the ground tremble People began to speak up little by little.

Kill him, kill him, kill him!

They began to call death repeatedly as the location became linked.People's stones thrashed my head and face several times.The noise of the nose bones resonated. My fiance says it with a beautiful smile on her face.

"You're just a puppet, my lovely fiance. Now that the king has died, the only thing standing in your way is you. A fool with the power to overthrow a nation, whose support cannot be compared to the incomparable masses of the royal family...so, if you don't want to be king, I can only bury you "Oh, I want to puke. I despise myself for believing in this damn witch, as well as my folly. All of them are demons. The only way to defeat evil was to become more evil. By being used and duped. When I realized this, I let out a strange laugh. Oh, my heart is breaking all over again. I smiled as I lay there, hearing a call.

"Fuu...haha... hahahahahaha!" When I laughed, my throat ached, and the saliva mixed with the blood. But I couldn't stop laughing.

"Ha. He appears to have already gone insane. Even as a toy, the so-called knight will no longer serve "stated the fiancee

But I kept laughing because I knew death was close by, and in front of me was the grim reaper wearing a hood. A swarm of his subordinates stood in front of it. When I heard its call, I knew it wasn't just coming for me, but also to surprise me. As the reaper spoke, I stood there laughing.

"Can't you just laugh? What a moron "My fiance was appalled. Her fingertips tickled my jaw as she maintained a cold gaze. I can't do anything because I've been deprived of my liberty.

As the reaper turned to face the king and my fiance, I couldn't stop laughing.

"Oh, you seem to have gone insane. That is not an option. It wouldn't be enjoyable "yelled the Duke

Duke's eyes lose their glimmer of interest.

"I'm getting bored, so I'm leaving. As scheduled, we will leave it exposed while being with the vultures. Remember, don't kill him. I want him to die slowly"

The soldiers who had received the orders nodded.

"Okay, my love. Farewell "stated the fiancee

Suddenly, a spark appeared, and the ground began to shake. It was a natural disaster. People were fleeing and falling to their deaths as the ground cracked. In an attempt to flee, the king pushed the fiancee who was moving slowly and ran to safety, but the roof collapsed, killing him. I, who was chained, smiled as I stood there.

My fiance had nowhere to go and tried to beg for mercy and free me, but it was impossible because they were chaining me with the finest chains found in Europe. As she tried, I laughed. She spat at me as she looked at me. I licked my spat, smiled at her, and spat into her eye, blinding her and causing her to fall off the plank. I stood there, chained and weakened, watching the kingdom burn.

Then it got dark, and then it was morning.

I was chained and my legs and fingers were paralyzed. The death who stood nearby sat until my soul was taken.

The birds and insects that had gathered due to the stench of blood ate my meat.

"Ahhhhhh... guahhh..."

I shook my head and screamed. Even if my heart breaks from pain, I can't get rid of it in this state. They devour my arms and spread across my stomach.... Even so, I can't die so easily because the reaper is staring at me.

"What are you looking at, please take my soul!" I yelled.

"But at what cost?" said the reaper.

I was numb because I couldn't speak anymore, so the reaper bowed and asked, "Would you like to live one more death?"

I looked at the reaper and saw myself before the reaper who was a woman with white eyes without a pupil. She wore a hood and looked beautiful but she was pale in sight.

I nod as I want to live more and earn a life as I wanted, cause the reaper had punished me due to my last life.

Like the last time, she blew, and I awoke in another world with a puff of smoke. I was a newborn. The woman did not dress in the manner of the Renaissance or my time. The woman was dressed in a kimono, and as I turned around, there were more women talking in Japanese. In an instant, I realized I had been reincarnated as a Japanese. I thought I was finally living a Japanese life, but looking at their clothing, I realized I was in a Japanese era before the Meiji era.

But after a month, I was taken outside and, to my surprise, I was in the Japanese era. The Japan I knew was different; the sky had two moons, and the Japanese they spoke was somehow different. I was reborn in my life as Shinsuke after finding myself in a world of different people and now on a mission to make my life right.