Chapter 1
Letitia
please, somebody...
Letitia
**I still have dreams about my previous life**
Letitia
**the black smoke filling every corner in the small, shabby room,**
Letitia
**and the sensation of my flesh burning and melting in the flames**
Letitia
**the memory is still vivid**
Letitia
**it looks so delicious**
Letitia
**I was reincarnated, only to be orphaned a year later when my parents died in the land of the devils to the north.**
Letitia
**and now I live here with my uncle's family, as one of their maids.**
Letitia
**I'm always hungry and cold**
Letitia
**no one would care if I died and was born yet again**
Letitia
**besides, in this life, if you even mention a past life,**
Letitia
**you'll be labeled a witch and burned at the stake...**
Letitia
**maybe that's the reason I keep dreaming about my previous life...**
Letitia
**because I don't want to be burned to death again in this life**
Someone: but letitia is the heiress of the mine!
Someone: she may be 12, but I am her guardian!
Someone: I've every right to use her inheritance to raise her as I see fit!
Someone: if we spend more money and send people to the land of devils again,
Someone: we might be able to find the deed to the mine that was lost in the accident ten years ago!
Someone: once we claim the property, we'll be incredibly rich!
Someone: that's not the issue, darling!
because of you, one of our daughters has to marry that monster!
Letitia
**what are they talking about?**
Someone: don't you know what kind of family the halsteads are?!
Someone: their babies are born hideous monsters because of that hereditary disease!
Someone: have you heard of the lord's servants, the "three old witches?
Someone: If they don't like a young lady, they offer her up as a sacrifice to the devils,
Someone: the belongings of all the ladies are stacked tall like a tower!
Letitia
**I thought the sisters had made up that story about the halsteads just to scare me**
Someone: but I must find the deed...!
Someone: you've searched for a decade since her parents' death for that piece of paper.
Someone: darling, do you really think it can be found after all this time? please just give up already!
One of the kitchen maids: what are you doing, get in there
Letitia
**He hasn't given up on my inheritance yet?**
Letitia
**is that why he didn't even attend my parents' funeral? because he was on his way to the land of devils looking for deed?**
Letitia
**I hate this...**
Someone: you should have never gone to that accursed place all by yourself...
Someone: you ended up indebted to that strange family and for what?!
Someone: would you rather I had been killed by the devils there instead?!
Someone: if that man hadn't saved me, I would have been!
Someone: you practically sold us to that monster familyyyyy!
Letitia
**wait, what does the halstead family have to do with my inheritance**
Someone: as I said, you should send letitia instead...
Someone: no! I can't!
Someone: we'll just burn the pledge and forget the whole thing!
Someone: are you crazy? give it to me! *scramble the paper*
Letitia
u-uncle, I brought your breakfast...
*the paper was thrown and landed in front of letitia*
Someone: letitia! give me that! now!
Someone: no, letitia! burn it
Letitia
**this is the holy paper used by the temple**
Someone: burning holy paper won't nullify the pledge! it'll only make things worse!
Letitia
*read the holy paper*
Letitia
**Alistair Frey owes his life to the Master of the Halsteads in the Land of Devils**
Letitia
**Thus in the name of the Divine God, Prey promises to pay his debt by offering another life**
Letitia
**The Master of the Halstead estates will take one of Frey's daughters into his family to satisfy this blood pledge**
Someone: if someone breaks a blood pledge, the temple will confiscate their property...
Someone: ... and condone them to the dungeon for life
Someone: please give up, darling...
Someone: only blood can redeem a pledge bound by blood
Someone: and you, letitia, are you related to me by blood
Letitia
want to send me to the north?
Letitia
**That's what they're Fighting About?**
Letitia
**because they won't have claim to my inheritance if I'm married to the halstead family?**
Someone: yes, you go there!
Someone: you'll make a good match with the monster! you're a witch!
Someone: a witch? what do you mean?
Someone: she's talked in her sleep every night since she was little!
Letitia
**do I speak in my sleep?**
Someone: that's true! and she always acts really strange!
*crash* *the food brought by letitia fell to the floor*
Letitia
Th-that's nonsense! there's no proof that I'm a witch!
Someone: they say all gingers are witches!
Someone: they'll find out when they interrogate you at the temple!
Someone: letitia, you know what they do with witches, don't you?
Letitia
y-you can't be serious, auntie
Letitia
**you are put under a spell and questioned at the temple**
Letitia
**If I'm taken there, they'll surely know That I can remember my past life!**
Someone: you're my niece, after all. I won't let them burn you to death
Someone: but if anyone else finds out about this, you'll be taken to the temple right away
Someone: I'm worried about your safety
Someone: we were talking about adopting you and marrying you into the halstead family
Someone: it really is the best way to protect you
Letitia
y-you can't do this to me. you're going to send me off to where my parents died?
Someone: would you rather I send word to the temple instead?
Someone: I'll get you ready to leave for the north tomorrow
Letitia
**I'm sure the devil has a face just like that**
letitia on the way there alone
Letitia
**it can't be that bad**
Author
You are pretty optimistic
Letitia
**of course it's near the land of devils, but people live there**
Letitia
**and the monster lord is human, after all**
Letitia
**he's not an actual devil**
Letitia
**it's far better than burning at the stake as a 'witch'**
Letitia
**it should be...**
Letitia
*get off the horse carriage and go to the coachman*
Coachman: I dunno... we've somehow... suddenly arrived in the north...
Coachman: a sandstorm is coming!
Another coachman: a sandstorm? where did it come from...?
Coachman: I-I see something over there!
Another coachman: *cough*
another coachman: what's that?
Coachman: wait, no! they're imps!
*they both leave letitia*
Letitia
w-wait! come back!
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