CHAPTER 044: Queen Eriela’s Fury Part III

WARNING: This chapter includes detailed and graphic depictions of violence, such as physical harm, bloodshed, and injury, including scenes of torture with descriptions of both physical and psychological suffering.

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Queen Eriela's hands were itching to make Princess Jasmine agonize and feel how exasperated she was at this moment. Whipping the second Princess might be the only way to alleviate this exasperating feeling.

"Y-yes, Mother?" Princess Liezel was startled when her name was called. She did not hear what Queen Eriela commanded which made her nerve-wreck.

Normally, whenever the second Princess was reprimanded, Princess Liezel would either be at her quarters where she would not be able to watch the torment her older sister was going through. Or she was in leisure with the daughters of the aristocrats sipping her expensive tea and nibbling on snacks.

It was rare that she could witness this brutality of their mother toward her sister.

The third Princess was never involved in her mother's anger spree. No matter what she did, she was not scolded regarding those.

Today marked the first instance where Queen Eriela had raised her voice to her daughter, which left the young princess feeling afraid. She worried that her mother's anger might escalate to physical punishment, and she wanted to avoid any form of retribution.

She did not want to be like Princess Jasmine! It was not good for her skin! Or her body! She could not take the damage.

"Bring me my whip," Queen Eriela said again in an indignant tone, Princess Jasmine silently clenched her teeth and inhaled sharply.

She was hiding her face under her hair; she was prepared for the cruelest punishment. Yet, her expression slightly wavered upon hearing her mother.

It had been so long since the last time she was whipped because of a mistake she did not make but her fault either way.

Those were the times when she was always whipped with just them being alone. Having her sister in this room and witnessing what she had to go through… was a lot more humiliating.

"Mother?" Princess Liezel was as bewildered as her elder sister.

'A whip?'

Her mother was thinking of whipping her as the second Princess.

'Whips are for slaves… Why does Big Sister have to be whipped? I don't understand. She has been slapped mercilessly already, isn't that enough?'

Princess Liezel was used to seeing her mother being verbally and physically abusive to Princess Jasmine.

Yet, a whip was meant for slaves or the lowest-status person there was. Even Princess Liezel never whipped anyone who had a status above slaves.

"Hurry! Princess Jasmine has to remember what kind of grave mistake she made," Queen Eriela exclaimed.

Although the third Princess was against what her mother intended to do, she was too terrified to intervene.

"Yes, Mother!" Princess Liezel lifted her skirt and sprinted to the wardrobe of Queen Eriela. It was filled with beautiful dresses and dazzling ornamentals.

On the far-end corner of the walk-in closet, there was a large golden box. This was the only container where Queen Eriela stored the equipment that she used to discipline the slaves.

It was meant for slaves! Not for her big sister!

Princess Liezel trembled as her hand held the whip, there were various whips.

She chose what she thought would bring the least damage. The whip was made of leather, it would leave scars despite there being a layer of clothes protecting the skin. It was gonna be so painful.

"LIEZEL!" Princess Liezel flinched out hearing her mother shouting her name.

She walked out of the wardrobe and quickly handed the whip to Queen Eriela.

She glanced at her sister and Princess Jasmine moved to her own accord to face her back to their mother.

She turned swiftly as if this were not the first time this happened.

As soon as the slash hit Princess Jasmine's back, Princess Liezel looked away and pretended not to hear the loud sound of each gash that her sister would take. She covered her mouth and chose to stay in the very corner of the window not making any noises to get noticed by their mother.

"You! Are! Worth! Less! Child! Imbecile! You made me look like a fool in front of Eulasha's daughter! You are disgracing me!"

Princess Liezel could not keep count of how many hits Princess Jasmine had.

She almost had to cover her ears just not to hear Princess Jasmine crying and begging for forgiveness. She could not afford to look and see what her sister's state might be. It must be so unbearable… That her sister finally cried and screamed in agony. The same princess who would never blink even when she was slapped by their mother.

Princess Liezel could not help as she waited for this hellish time to be over to blame it all on Princess Yanarym.

The resentment welled up inside her.

The third Princess was so delighted when she killed that pest, she was so sure that that wretch had died. She killed the first Princess for the miserable chores would just be over.

Because Princess Liezel could not accept it, for almost a decade that pain in the neck had been monopolizing her big sister's time and kept her sister constantly working and being punished just because she would not die.

Princess Liezel hated it so much.

Each time she had to visit that abandoned castle, she could always remember how disappointed her mother would become with them and the entire time Princess Jasmine would suffer the consequences.

This time, she was witnessing Princess Jasmine being whipped as if she was a lowly slave when she is the second Princess in this kingdom!

"I will kill her. I will kill her," Princess Liezel mumbled to her breath as the screaming in the chamber room continued.

She gritted her teeth as she visualized Princess Yanarym getting whipped twice as her sister was undertaking. She would definitely get rid of that pest.

"This is her fault. Everything is her fault."

'Why can't that annoying pest just die!?'

"I will make her crawl in the mud and let her die in a very slow and painful manner," Princess Liezel said to herself. "I will make her wish she just died today."