War of the Concubines

War of the concubines 2

"They all retired to their rooms, princess, as you said, food and anesthetic mixtures were added to the bathroom."

Madame squirmed as if in hesitation. He seemed to be torn between saying it or not.

"You're wondering why I'm giving them the gene purifier in the first place, right?"

Madame was shaking her head in the affirmative, feeling sorry for these girls inside. They had come to this palace to stay as concubines, out of their own choice. And again, most of them would die without knowing why, except by their own choices.

"At first we put them to the test and give the gene purifier to the successful ones. At most, three to five people out of twenty survive. In that case, we're training someone who has to die for two years anyway."

As the princess's emotionless voice entered Madame's ears, she was unable to offer her idea of ​​denial. This is because training increases their chances of survival. That's why it is given to those who are selected after the training. The most important thing is that the gene purifier is very valuable (!). How can those who have the pure gene eliminated in education go to the 'fragrant house'? Moreover, because of this, there will be so many deaths, it will not be possible for new girls to go to the smelly house. How then can unmarried soldiers be disciplined?

After all these years, madame knows that the only one who can stop the judgment and decision of the princess is the empress. If the Empress didn't interfere, it meant that she was giving him some kind of silent approval.

In this case, he had no right to interfere.

"I understand princess"

"Tell me the results in the morning," said the princess, before letting her out of the room.

He wondered how many survived.

***

Leila held her breath to keep from drowning in the cold water, but her struggles pushed her deeper rather than to the surface. Finally out of breath, he opened his mouth and swallowed the water. What she didn't expect was the air she needed when she pulled it into the water.

Her eyes wandered to the curtain between her fingers and her purple tail, she was like a mermaid in those movies (!)

No, but the tail was narrower and longer than a mermaid, and adorned with long strainers similar to betta fish.

His hair was white with a hint of blue between them.

He wagged his tail to follow her when he saw the girl like him sneering at him and starting to swim.

Although he was navigating rapidly through the water, he could not pass her. He just continued to watch.

He saw the girl attack a mermaid similar to hers, but with a larger and smaller strainer.

"No.... No...Stop!"

Shouting didn't help. Because the creature resembling himself that he was following, wrapped it around the mermaid, took its mouth to his throat and smashed it.

It's a hug on the outside like a lovers' reunion, but blood is proof that it's all an illusion.

As the other mermaids fled in fear, the creature opened its bloody mouth and let out a pleasant melody. The escaped mermaids approached him with fearless eyes, as if they had forgotten about the brutality.

A pleasant voice echoed in Leila's ear as she tried to make sense of what she had seen.

"You are not a mermaid, you are not as weak as these fish. A predator can never be one with its prey"

The creature then smashed any mermaids that approached it in turn.

No mermaid attempted to escape like before. They all stood in their places silently, like ears of wheat waiting to be harvested.

The image Leila watched with nausea changed rapidly. An egg cracked between cold stones in a dark cave. The petite type of your own appearance has appeared.

It grew slowly, feeding on the fish around it.

Its first prey was a shark-like creature, a sea creature. Then, over time, whales and humans… It continued like this until they came across mermaids.

It lived with creatures like itself. But for some reason, when she hit puberty, she was ostracized by the mermaids. He was considered savage.

Leila understood why from the footage she watched.

While the mermaids fed on plants and some small fish, she refused plants. They would get angry quickly and their attacks would be stronger than mermaids. There was such a thing in mythology in his own world. Siren and mermaid distinction.

When so many hazy memories came into his mind, he finally understood.

She was not a mermaid. If we give an example with the Real World, such as sparrow and hawk. Even if the hawk cub lived among sparrows, it would not turn into a sparrow. The difference between sirens and mermaids was just as obvious.

When Leila opened her eyes again, she awoke drenched in sweat. There was a strange energy in his body. The previous tiredness and sluggishness disappeared, replaced by an energetic feeling. The sweat on his body was like mucous fluid. Moreover, there were many flaked fish scales in his bed. He doesn't know if it's related to the dream he had. Leila bathed in warm water in the wooden tub in her room, which she did not know when it had been changed. After getting rid of the sticky mucus, there was only one dress in the closet. She wore the blue dress that was hanging.

Despite her wet hair in front of the mirror, the new detail she noticed shocked her. ears(!)

He now had humanoid ears, although somewhat pointed, not as tall as an elf. His eyes were a crystallized lilac dark. Moreover, her nails no longer looked like claws, but more like normal nails.

He doesn't know if the situation is getting better or worse, but the new situation makes him feel better rather than sick. Moreover, the feeling of thirst has decreased considerably. No matter how much water he drank, his thirst did not go away yesterday.

When the doorbell rang, he followed the cat-eared girl. He wondered why they were collecting without even having breakfast. In fact, he doesn't have the slightest nervousness because he's going in to fail the test from the start. So he followed her with a relaxed air. He would soon be freed from this palace.

Madame looked down from the balcony at the negligible crowd gathered below. The sadness in his eyes was obvious. Just yesterday, there were a hundred people in total in this area, now there are only twenty people left. He updated the number again when Leila walked in, with twenty-one surviving among a hundred.

He looked at the few people gathered in the courtyard.

'Congratulations, you girls passed the first test, the second test will be after three months of training. The palace servants responsible for you will take you to your new accommodation. '

Leila opened her eyes wide!

How? He hadn't done anything. How did it pass before he even took the test? Was this possible? So what was the test? Trying not to escape? If so, he would hate himself for sleeping and resting yesterday.The only person she could ask a question had already disappeared from the balcony, and the rest of them split into groups of three and followed the servants.Leila was taken to a more luxurious room than her previous room. The two girls brought with him took a room in the hallway. Before the maid left, she said the lesson would start in the evening.

****

'The princess looked at the paper she had written, smiling contentedly at the new number. 'That's great now means we have twenty-one potential candidates instead of three or five. Train them well, madame. '

Madame nodded in agreement.

'Of course Princess'

The princess stopped the woman who was about to leave.

'Wait, I want to bring a new regulation to education. In this way, we will be able to get a better result by dying at birth than being a disposable concubine. Give them a fighting lesson too'

He laughed at Madame's shocked expression.

'Why are they so skinny because we make them comfortable enough to be skinny. They need to be stronger. That's why they should give attack defense lessons, mana usage lessons, and learn how to make medicine so that at least they don't die by poisoning when they go.

Madame knew the truth the princess was pointing to. In concubine elections held every five years, concubines are sent to the princes. That's why every prince has more than one concubine. Therefore, it is possible that the newly arrived concubine will die at the hands of the old concubines. Especially the new ones will go as concubines without rank. The former concubines will have already formed their own people in the princely palace. So, after so much training and effort, newbies can die as fast as a fish that has fallen into the sea.