She Was Sent by God

But one thing that bothers her is that the lord of Reneka is close to the royalists.

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She doesn’t know what would happen if she revealed her identity. 

 

Agnes unconsciously touched the back of her left hand, which she had hidden in bandages.

 

* * *

 

However, from that evening, Jamie’s fever rose, and their plan to depart to Reneka Castle was delayed.

 

“Oh, Mom.
Mom…….”

 

“Jamie, sweetheart.
Mom is here.”

 

The child was sick and kept looking for his mother.
Dora stayed by his side all night without a wink of sleep.

 

Jamie’s condition didn’t improve and they had to stay at the inn for a few more days.

 

“I’ll be right back.”

 

Luyosh left the inn early in the morning to get some medicine, but he did not come back even after the sun went down.

 

“Ney.
I’m sorry, but can you look after Jamie for a few hours? I’m worried about Luyosh being too late.

 

“Of course.
I’ll be here, so go ahead.”

 

“Please take care of me, Jamie.”

 

Dora thanked her and went to find her husband.

 

Fortunately, Jamie opened his eyes not long after.

 

“What about my mother?”

 

“She went out to find your father, she’ll be back soon.
Wait patiently until Dora returns.”

 

Fortunately, the child did not show much anxiety.
Instead, he turned to the other side.

 

“But what’s wrong with your tone? You sound like an old man.”

 

“That’s because I have a high status.”

 

“How high is it? Hmm.
Just as much as a princess?”

 

“…yes, as much as a princess.”

 

Agnes paused, then lightly patted Jamie’s stomach.

 

“Wow, that’s amazing.
Do you know the king? Have you met him?”

 

“I know.
Of course.”

 

“Well, why don’t you tell the king and ask him to return our land?”

 

Jamie raised his body halfway from the bed and he said eagerly.

 

“Land? Did he take your land?”

 

“Ugh.
Some uncles came and just demolished the house and shouted to get out.
Mom just cried and dad said we have to get out of our town….”

 

Suddenly, water drops formed on the corner of the child’s eyes.

 

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“I really, really, don’t want to go to Sutmar.
I want to go back to my house.
I want to see my friends too.”

 

“Yes,”

 

Jamie said, crying.
Agnes gently wiped the wet child’s eyes, then said.

 

“I don’t know what happened, but I’ll send you home without fail and recover the lost land.”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yes, I promise.
For your information, I have never lied to anyone since I was born.”

 

Jamie smiled broadly and rubbed his face against Agnes’ hand.

 

* * *

 

While putting the child to sleep, Agnes involuntarily fell asleep.

 

When she woke up, the day was already bright.
She instinctively looked around her.

 

Dora didn’t come back.
Luyosh too.

 

Agnes’ face hardened.

 

The couple were never people who would leave their young son far behind.
In other words, there is a reason why they can’t come back.

 

“Mom….”

 

Jamie muttered unconsciously while tossing and turning.

 

Agnes comforted the child by patting her, but the seeds of her anxiety had already sprouted and were wriggling.

 

While the child was asleep, she asked the innkeeper the whereabouts of the husband and wife, but she also shook her head.

 

“I do not know.
I only saw them go out, and I don’t know what happened after that.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

Besides the innkeeper, she asked all the guests who came in and out of the inn, but it was the same.

 

She was able to survive for a day because of his fever. 

 

However, Jamie’s anxiety reached its peak when he did not see his parents for two days. 

 

“Mom, where is she? Where’s my dad? When is my dad coming?”

 

“They will be right back.”

 

However, after three days, these words were no longer effective.
In the end, Agnes grabbed Jamie’s hand and left the inn.

 

“Are we going to Mom and Dad?”

 

“Yes.
So, never let go of my hand.
Understand?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Agnes asked the passers-by for directions, and walked towards the castle of Reneka.

 

Luyosh said he was going to get some medicine, so he must have gone to the castle where the doctors lived.

 

Fortunately, when the sun was halfway down, Reneka Castle was visible in the distance.

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At the same time, an indelible scent of death was coming in.

 

“Why did they put people in a cart like that?”

 

“…….”

 

“Are they all sleeping like that?”

 

There were countless carts carrying dead bodies.

 

It was just roughly piled up and moved, as if it were dealing with the dead bodies of animals.

 

Agnes lost her words and looked at the sight.

 

“Dad!”

 

It was then.
A girl, who had just been about ten or sixteen, jumped out of the cart.

 

“Oh, that’s my dad! Please let me get off.
Daddy! Daddy! Ugh.”

 

“Are you crazy? How could you touch a plague-stricken body?”

 

The knight who was driving the cart burst into anger.

 

The people around him whispered, and everyone stepped back one step at a time.

 

“Dad, Dad…….”

 

The girl hugged her father’s corpse and wept.

 

But when one of the knights saw it, he strode up to the girl and drew his sword.

 

“Sleep, well… “

 

“Ugh!”

 

That’s all the girl said to the world.
She fell vainly on her father’s corpse.

 

Agnes, unconsciously, put strength into Jamie’s hand.

 

The knight wiped the blood on his sword and said to the people gathered around him.

 

“If you come into direct contact with a person or their corpse with a plague in the future, we will take immediate action.”

 

The knight left his post.

 

Without any objection or protest, the people walked back on their way as if nothing had happened.

 

“What are you….”

 

But Agnes could not move at all.

 

The shock was so great that she couldn’t move even a single step.

 

“What’s the matter?”

 

She stood like a statue.

 

People were surprised at the girl’s sudden death, but soon accepted it.

 

They seemed accustomed to this sudden and unjust death, perhaps because the laws of the world had changed without Agnes’ knowledge.

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She just touched his father’s body.

 

The moment she realized that, a shock came as if she had been hit with a stone at the back of her head.

 

Agnes knew for the first-time what life meant to a commoner.

 

It was common for commoners to eat black bread simply because they had no money to eat white bread.

 

They cannot fight back or say any objection even if their life is on the line.

 

“I’m sorry,”

 

Agnes staggered closer to the dead girl and closed her eyes.

 

That was all she could say.

 

“…… Let’s go now.”

 

Agnes took the child’s hand more firmly and began to walk.

 

And she looked around her properly for the first time.

 

“Give me a penny, please.
My brother has not eaten anything for three days.”

 

“Please help me, my lord, help me!”

 

Their moans and pain, which she had never heard before, pierced her ears like nails.

 

A little girl was begging for food on the street.

 

A man who lost his leg was limp and tried to grab the ankle of a passing traveler.

 

“Oh… “

 

A sigh came out of nowhere.

 

She went about talking confidently that she would be king, but she never thought deeply about what it means.

 

What does it mean to be a king?

 

“Yeah! Mom and Dad, where are you? Are you in there?”

 

Jamie kept waving Agnes’ arms.
When they reached the gate, she saw this long procession with no ends in sight.

 

At the same time, a cart loaded with dead bodies came out.

 

Agnes unintentionally looked at the cart passing by and then froze.

 

She tried to cover the child’s eyes, but Jamie was faster.

 

“Uh, uh, Mom…….”

 

“Wait, Jamie!”

 

“Mom! mom!”

 

At the top of the pile, Dora’s cold body looked bare because they did not cover her face.

 

The child shook Agnes’ hand, crawled up to the cart, and grabbed his mother’s body.

 

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“Why are you there, Mom, Mom?”

 

“Let’s get out of here right now.

 

A soldier saw it and came running in awe.

 

“Mom.
Mom, please open your eyes.
I’ll listen to you now.
wake up.
dad! Where’s daddy Mom, uh, mom.
Let go!”

 

As the soldier tries to separate the child, Jamie clings to her mother’s arms.

 

Agnes looked at Dora’s unfocused eyes.

 

Please take care of Jamie.

 

Dora’s stomach was stained red.

 

She seems to have had a similar experience to the girl she just saw.

 

Agnes reached out her trembling hand and brought it to Dora’s pale cheek.

 

It was so cold that it felt like ice.

 

“You’re crazy,”

 

As the commotion grew longer, several knights approached.

 

One of them drew a sword and spoke.

 

“You have been warned that touching a plague-ridden body will kill you.”

 

“Dora was not ill.
There were no signs of the contagious disease.”

 

“You don’t know that.
If I had kept her alive, she would have had it.”

 

At the knight’s words, Agnes took her eyes off Dora and looked straight at him.

 

“Is this your master’s doing?”

 

“What?”

 

“Did the lord of Reneka order you to kill all those who were infected with the plague, and to kill those who came in contact with those who had plague?”

 

“…… This is an order from the palace.”

 

The knight answered as he felt Agnes’ tone and atmosphere were unusual.

 

“Yes, of course.”

 

She laughed.
She couldn’t help but laugh.

 

“Mother, oh, mother,”

 

The knight managed to separate Jamie.
The knight behind him drew his sword.

 

People were holding their breath and looking at them.

 

“Put the sword in and let go of the child.”

 

“Who are you?” asked the Knight.

 

Agnes took off her cloak.
She slowly loosened the bandages which had been tightly wrapped on her left hand.