“Are you sure about that, Martin?” The man called Noel asked back with a hint of hesitation in his voice.
He looked at the woman who was still hiding behind the brown haired man with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.
After all, the victim is her and she’s the only one who had the right to pursue the matter should she willed it.
Claret looked at these two men quietly, her brain was thinking about their identities and her memory of their past.
Martin and Noel.
She had actually met the two of them in her previous life, right at this very moment too.
But at that time she was too distraught because she was too scared and was unable to do anything but cry.
How weak and useless.
At this moment, Claret deeply despised her former self.
But she had no time to be so engrossed in her memory as she looked at the two people in front of her and bowed down.
“Thank you for your help, but there’s no need to pursue them.”
Because she had just come back, Claret just remembered that the Survival Game hadn’t started yet.
This meant that all of her action would be subject to the constraints of laws.
The laws exist to protect the weak and upholding the bottom line of humanity.
At the same time, it was also a restraint to those in power.
Though, Claret knew that some people did have methods to bypass the laws.
But she has no such thing.
Her action could be constituted as self defense, but it was undeniable that she strike with the intention to kill.
Should her power be greater or her angle was a bit different, the man whom she stabbed would have died.
At that time…
What followed her would be an endless torment of court, investigation, and so on.
While it was not impossible for her to maneuver in such situation, she didn’t want to cause trouble for herself.
Absolutely not!
The Survival Game will start soon and when it fully breaks out… the laws could no longer stop those mad people.
What she needed was time to make her preparation and to enter the game early in order to protect herself.
Otherwise, she would only suffer greatly like what had happened in her previous life.
So she could not sue these three people.
“Are you sure about that?” Noel frowned, his already cold face looked even more menacing now.
“They’re scums and…”
“Alright, Noel, there’s a limit to how much you can meddle in other people’s affairs,” Martin quickly interrupted Noel with helpless tone.
“Besides, it’s almost time to go back and Sister in law will be worried if she didn’t see you soon.”
“Shut up!” The cold faced Noel’s face now turned red and he glared at Martin.
But Martin still has the same smiling face as he pulled his friend away.
He turned to look at Claret with a meaningful look and said, “Even if you don’t plan to pursue them, remember to be careful, Young Lady.”
“I know, thank you very much, you two.” Claret bowed down, pretending that she couldn’t see the inquiry from Martin’s eyes.
Perhaps her performance had caught on his eyes, but she had no interest to get close to him.
She waited until they have walked a few more steps before turning to walk into the alleyway once again.
In the place that no one could see, her expression turned distorted.
“Why do I have to come back?”
Claret knew very well that her life was far from satisfactory with countless regrets and mistakes made along the way.
But that’s just how life is.
And she had long accepted the fact that she was weak and had made so many mistakes.
Who hadn’t made mistakes when they were young?
Besides…
“I have already killed all of those b*stards in my previous life, so why do I have to come back again?
Just to watch them jumping around in front of me and disgust me to no end?”
Claret scoffed.
The ruthlessness nurtured in the bone chilling survival game was seeping out within her eyes.
Even if she lived a relatively normal life among those people in the Survival Game, it could not change the fact that she used to live in the most rotten and chaotic area because of her so called family members.
Thanks to them selling her out in order to get a few bites of food, she suffered for a long time and had to develop various killing methods just to get out alive.
Once she’s out, the first thing she did was to kill each and every single one of them without exception.
And after her enemies have been eliminated, she started to ‘play’ the Survival Game to the fullest.
Using various schemes and methods in order to make her life comfortable and to compete for resources, she managed to live a relatively comfortable life for the next period of time.
So why?
Why does she have to come back?
Should she go back and slit those b*stards throat with knife directly?
No.
Claret suppressed the almost materialized killing intent as she took out a tissue from her bag and stopped beside the trash can in the alleyway.
While she wanted to use the most direct and simplest method…
But Claret knew very well that the rules and laws have always been at the very top, watching over every single one of them.
Those who were not strong enough had to use various tactics and schemes just to get ahead.
But who could be born strong?
Perhaps some people were privileged enough to be born at the starting line of the finish line for ordinary people, but if they were not careful enough, they would still be schemed against by those who coveted their places.
Just like her mother.
He married a scumbag who cheated on her and then killed her through medical malpractice, leaving her alone.
If it was not because she found out about this truth in her previous life, Claret would never know the true face of her scumbag father.
And because of this b*stard father, she had to cope up with the annoying stepmother for years and suffered under her treatment.
Claret crouched down and used the tissue to wrap up a large nail on the ground, her movements were very careful and she made sure that she would not touch it with her own hand.
The laws would not completely collapsed until much later.
So she had to make sure that her actions would not leave any evidences.
She carefully tucked the tissue into her sleeve.
Since she had just come back from the company, she’s currently wearing woman’s suit with long sleeve.
The suit itself looked relatively good, but the color had washed out from its continuous use over the years.
Claret lowered her eyes slightly.
Father, Stepmother, are you ready?
The demon who crawled back from the hell you pushed her into has come back.
And this time… she would use a different method to deal with them and made them suffer more than her previous life.
The content of this story is purely fictional and does not target any circle or group.
All descriptions are for the sake of the plot.
In reality, everyone is a good baby!