Chapter 8

Jar

"I saw your actions towards a slave... Your kind adherence with the innocent girl's corpse," she preceded. “Why would you do that to a stranger?”

“... Why not? She needed help. And it didn’t come when she needed it the most, she never should have suffered harassment from those vile knights.”

“How did you know?”

“I had those contusions before.”

"Oh, right… I’m sorry. You have no stigma of mistreating dark-skinned people, do you? I deemed that you can help me save my enslaved niece."

"Me? But what can I do?"

"You have the power to defeat Mraz. You do it and I'll stop his nefarious laws." Her arms fold in accordance with her grimace expression. "Several months ago, people in my town went missing and most of them are from dark-skinned families, including my niece. Enslaving people of that color was enforced in Plandreas and Lanbarc metropolises. That's when I knew why my niece was missing.

"Dark-skinned people commenced a riot but that