Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

"It's true, sir Knight! The evil Queen once tried to feed me with an apple that was laced with poison. It would put me to sleep for an eternity! Imagine the horror!"

The White Canzer then stretched her arm and showed her blemish-free snowy white skin to the Huntsman. "I wouldn't be able to bask in the sunlight. I wouldn't be able to hear the birds sing with music. And most of all, the world and the royal kingdom would be deprived of my beauty. It is a sin worthy of treason."

The Huntsman, still regaining a little bit of logical reasoning in his mind, asked why.

"Does the Queen have a worthy reason for doing so? Have you committed a crime?"

Of course, the White Canzer vehemently shook her head.

"No, sir knight. I am an honorable princess brought up with the highest of standards. You will not see a speck of blemish on my record."

"Then why would she do that?"

"That is what I'm telling you, oh honorable one. Please help me bring justice to this cruelty. The evil Queen, my stepmother, has been jealous of my beauty since forever. She covets what she doesn't have. To make herself the fairest one out of all in the land, she dared to commit a sin—a sin of trying to kill the most beautiful maiden in the world.

Three times, she tried to kill me. The first time was during the celebration of my day of birth. That wicked Queen gave me a silky laced bodice as a gift. I, not knowing of her evil schemes, accepted it with graciousness. She even offered to tie it up for me, which I let her do. Little did I know that it was a mistake.

She tied the bodice so tight that I was unable to breathe and passed out almost immediately. It was only when a dear friend of mine saw my state that they untied the bodice and saved me from death.

When I tried to tell everyone about her attempt at murder, they dismissed me as nothing but a liar. Even my friends were skeptical because they did not see the queen when I was passed out.

The second time she tried to kill me was when she poisoned a comb and stroked my hair with it. I would have died if it weren't for my friend picking out the comb and tossing it away from me.

For the third time, that wicked Queen disguised herself as an old lady whose husband was a farmer. She sold me an apple, which she said was her prized possession. I was skeptical at first because of my previous traumas, but she deceived me by biting into the apple and making it seem as if it wasn't poisoned. It turned out that only my side of the apple was laced with death.

I was only able to survive due to a friend of mine removing the lodged apple from my throat.

I never knew why she would go to such lengths to kill me until I confronted her myself. She confessed that she envied my looks and wished that she was the only true beauty in our kingdom.

It is unfortunate that this beauty is mine, and mine alone. Or else I would have given it to her so that we can finally squash this quarrel.

Please do not be an accomplice to her schemes and let me escape this cruel fate, sir Knight. She only wants to kill me for vain reasons. Surely that is against your code of honor!"

The Huntsman listened to the White Canzer's story and slowly, his face morphed into one of anger. He couldn't believe that the Queen passed off her dirty deeds to him and washed her hands of the whole affair.

He wouldn't have even known the 'truth' if he had listened to the Queen's warning that he should kill her at first sight and never listen to her words. Discover stories with empire

Of course, that was what he thought, not what was objectively true.

"Not even a dragon's hoard will make the shame of killing an innocent being go away."

The White Canzer, hearing his words, flashed an imperceptible smile on her face. Her lies worked once again.

"Maybe killing the Queen will be enough to return the humiliation she gave you," the White Canzer said, flashing her beautiful red eyes at him.

"No, it is in my code of honor to never backstab a client whose mission I've accepted. It is my mistake. I should have never accepted it in the first place. The best I could do for you, princess, is to let you escape with your life."

"But what about the Queen? Trust me when I say that she will exact revenge on you once she realizes that you have failed your mission," said the White Canzer, feigning concern.

The Huntsman then walked towards a bush in the distance. Just beside its roots was a dead boar whose head had been pierced with an arrow.

It turned out that his first shot, the one that 'missed' the White Canzer when they first met, actually struck the original boar he was hunting instead!

"I will offer this boar's heart to the Queen and lie that it is yours."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The White Canzer gasped exaggeratingly. "You will do that for me, sir Knight?"

"It is the least I can do, considering I will be unable to escort you into safety."

The Huntsman skillfully used the tip of his arrow to dissect the boar and let it bleed out into the ground. It didn't take a minute for him to present a bloody, chitinous heart that would serve as a perfect replacement for the White Canzer's heart.

He then took out a bejeweled box and secured it on his knapsack.

"I will never forget your kindness. Thank you, sir knight!" the White Canzer said as she picked up the hems of her dress and ran away further into the woods.

"Thank you for being so stupid," uttered the White Canzer to herself.

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