Scenario:The Art of Mercy - Chapter 4: Resentment of the Wretched - Episode 3

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The Art of Mercy - Chapter 4: Resentment of the Wretched - Episode 3

Luhua returns home, and Renfa rushes out to greet him. Exhausted from the fight and his audience with the king, Luhua drifts off into sleep, where he relives dark memories from his past.



Renfa: Luhua!
Luhua returns to the army's headquarters in Zaha after his audience with the king.
Renfa rushes to see him, a look of worry on her otherwise gentle face.
Renfa: Did His Majesty summon you again?
Luhua: It was just the usual. There's nothing for you to worry about.
Renfa: Just the usual... Blaming you for everything...
Renfa: Even though you're fighting so hard for this country...
Luhua: Let him say what he wants. It doesn't change what I need to do.
Luhua stretches out on the bed and slowly closes his eyes, allowing himself to be enveloped in the calm darkness.
With the harsh battle and his audience with the king behind him, Luhua soon falls fast asleep.
Well-Dressed Man: You pathetic excuse for a monster! I can't believe you have the nerve to put even a scratch on our precious client's kid!
Luhua: (Ah, yes. I remember this...)
Luhua realizes that he is reliving a memory of his past.
Luhua was born into a poverty-stricken family in Sui.
Due to his extraordinary strength and large frame, he was forced to work as a laborer from a young age.
Well-Dressed Man: What's with the filthy look in your eyes? You're just dying for a good beating, aren't you? Tie him up!
Controlling his strength was difficult for Luhua, and getting on his boss's bad side would earn him a thrashing. His days were filled with nothing but agony and humiliation.
Luhua's parents never tried to protect their son. Instead, they blamed Luhua for being born an unnatural freak.
Without a single friend, Luhua's only solace was his sister, who was two years younger than him.
Luhua's Sister: Luhua! Did you get some ouchies again? Are you okay?
Luhua: (I didn't want to worry my sister. That's why I put up with everything and did my best not to hurt anyone.)
Luhua: (But those monsters beat me whenever they felt like it. They didn't even consider their servants people.)
Luhua worked ceaselessly to save up money for his sole purpose in living—his younger sister, who was his only friend and support.
But the more he saved, the more his parents took for their reckless spending.
This was the kind of life Luhua lived, until a certain incident when he was ten years old.
Luhua's Mother: Oh, we sold her off. They said they were looking for a girl.
Luhua's Father: We never had enough money to raise two kids at the same time anyway.
Desperate for money to waste, Luhua's parents had sold his sister to a slave dealer while Luhua was out one day.
Luhua: (That's why I made them tell me the name of the family that bought my sister.)
Luhua: (I was so angry at them for selling off my sister. I thought them inhumane.)
Luhua's parents begged him for mercy, but consumed by his rage, Luhua could not find it in himself to spare them.
Luhua: (Seeing them beg for their lives like that after torturing me for a decade was almost humorous.)
After killing his parents, Luhua stole into the house of the family that had bought his sister.
However, what he found at the house was a mangled body—what was left of the only person who ever showed him any affection.
The moment he laid his eyes on her body, he lost all consciousness and was filled with nothing but blazing, white fury.
Luhua: (I felt nothing but rage. I had only hatred—for the world, for myself, for everything.)
With his power, Luhua massacred all of the house's inhabitants that very night.
Dreaming in the present day, Luhua stares at the tragic scene burned into his memory long ago.
Luhua: (I was weak. Even with my strength, I couldn't stand up against an authority that proved stronger than me.)
Luhua: (You can't protect anything if you don't have power. You can't continue living in this world if you don't have power.)
Luhua: (That's why I'll do anything to gain power and authority. That is what I decided then.)
He watches his past self clutching his sister's lifeless body, wailing into the night.