Her body was getting cold. On the outside she was dead, but on the inside she was struggling to live. She was still holding her last hope.
Stab!
The knife was stabbed deep inside. Malantha's eyes widened in surprise while her watery eyes glanced weakly at Charlotte's personal maid, Rosey.
She stabbed her in the abdomen.
Rosey was a commoner who lived in slums. It was Malantha who saved Rosey. But Rosey didn't choose Malantha as her master. She was obsessed with power, just like Charlotte. That's why Rosey decided to follow Charlotte as her master.
It was understandable because, as someone who doesn't have any power, Malantha thought it would be best for her to follow Charlotte as someone who rules for power. Malantha doesn't know if Rosey is loyal to her master but she never goes to disobey Charlotte's command. Even if it's poisoning the princess of the royal family or to assassinate the noble family ladies.
"I am sorry, but I don't want to take a chance on you." Rosey stabbed Malantha again and again deeply.
Malantha closed her eyes in her own pool of blood and tears.
****
Malantha Béchalot is a half-breed noble. Before entering the Bécholot family, Malantha used to live with her mother. She was a courtesan. Before the marquee had found Malantha's living. Malantha's mother had already vanished from her life. Before Malantha's mother had disappeared she said something to Malantha.
"Do anything! You have to live, Eva! You have to live for this foolish mother"
At that time, Malantha didn't understand what her mother was saying. But as she got close to the Bécholot family, Malantha understood her mother's tearful yelping.
She was walking on a sword's edge, a wrong move, and she is dead. It was then Malantha was running for her life.
She did everything that she could survive in that family.
Even if it has to kill that warm-hearted person who always smiles at her. Even if no one loved her, she thought she could even endure the heaters.
'Everything is in vain.'
In the end, she faced her doom, which she was avoiding.
"Indeed, you humans are selfish shadows of demons." An electrifying voice echoed in Melantha's ears.
It was scary.
A dark figure holding Melantha's half dead soul. With tears of blood, its open bloody red eyes, the deadly long hair which gave a chill as the darkness engulfed Melantha's figure. It was smirking awfully.
"You all betray each other because of your own selfishness and only think about yourselves".
The clenched eyes shut before opening them back. Her gaze was drawn to the darkness which was engulfing Melantha deeply inside. Her eyes winced in distress while her soul was quivering like a petrified child.
"What are you?..." She spoke trembling faintly, as if it was about to give out.
"Kekeke, you ask what I am? I am someone who demolishes these beautiful souls. And I am also someone who can help you." The creepiness it gives while exciting to play was terrifying.
"Help you say?.... What will you do?" Melantha didn't want to be hopeless, she wanted to use every little chance she was given.
"Do you want a peek? Mm~ "
A sudden memory shows, everywhere was happiness. Everyone was enjoying their lives while someone achieved their positions, and someone enjoying their wealth. Some were living a happy life with their newly formed family. And some were married to each other with the blessings of everyone.
Everyone who was part of this, living their lives happily.
"Everyone is drowning in their happiness, don't you think?"
Melantha, who had taken her gaze away from the memory. She felt something which was boiling her. Even her face became fierce.
"Wasn't this beautiful girl with red hair your 'step-sister'? Look at her looking all happy in the dress of the bride. And isn't it the maid who stabbed you countless times? She looks happy with the wealth she is getting?"
Melantha was infuriated by those words. Her eyes grew red, not with tears. It was blood. Melantha was crying with bloody tears.
"How about it? Not a single person remembered you or your sufferings? Everyone is fine and happy kekeke "
"Stop!"
Melantha screamed abuse.
"Do you desire revenge? I will send you back to everything before it starts. How does that sound?"
"Why?...."
"I told you, I swallow souls and I wanted your beautiful soul, your dying either way. Don't you want to crush them and make them die without benevolence?"
"..."
"Mm~ there is no way your hesitating in front of an opportunity like this? Right, you just have to say a word. Melantha form a contract with me, Mm~ I will give you everything. In return you should just give me yours and those souls which you will kill in the near future. Just say a word"
"Yeah.... I want, I want to see them in the pain and sufferings I went through. I want to destroy everything that is precious to them. I want their blood along with painful tears. I deserve them all, so give me everything!"
Melantha's tone had changed before she realized it. If there had previously been a soft tone of persuasion, there was now a firm tone of determination.
"Kekeke, that's it!" The devil was smiling, horrified with the tip of excitement.
The deadly hair would glint in the firelight along with the bloody eyes. Death was playing in his eyes on the bloody path.
"Melantha, I will give you the blessings of the devils and demons. I hope all your desires come true and be granted with the bloody path you wanted"
With the blessings of the devil and demons, Melantha closed her eyes in the depth of darkness she wanted.
***
"Your saying that thing is a part of our family!"
"Just standing side by side, it felt disgusting".
"Are you kidding me? My sister, such a nonsense, that dirty, illegitimate child who doesn't know her own damm place".
Melantha remembered everything she went through. Those unpleasant words she heard, the humiliation she went through and the pain she endured under the marquis.
'Don't you think it's unfair?'
Those eyes would gaze down at the darkness she was getting herself into. The cold eyes would smirk darkly.
"Sure I will do as you say," Melantha said with deadly eyes while smiling. Truly, death was playing in her eyes because of the deadly path she would create in the near future.
"To those who destroyed me in hell, I shall give you the most dreadful and merciless revenge"
She turned into a witch with bloody eyes.