"Eh?"

"A woman refused to pay her taxes… so I brought her here for your superior judgment," Len smiled at his princess. He had been her servant for a while, at least a month and they seemed to be as close as they were a decade before. But if only she remembered…

"Why would I be concerned with some poor woman?" the blonde-haired princess rolled her eyes. Len just smiled at her.

"I don't know, maybe you can make her clean the horse cage."

"Good idea! Bring her in."

Without hesitating, the two guards who were stationed outside the throne room door brought in a struggling woman, before dumping her at the servant's feet. She seemed to be a young adult, somewhere between twenty and twenty-five and appeared to be one of the village maidens of the village they had destroyed. Her brown hair was cut short, just past her ears at at her side was a sword in its hilt. Len drew his own sword and pointed it at the broken woman before him.

"Do you know what the punishment is for disobeying the princess?" the servant asked, smirking. "For not contributing enough?"

"Death," the maiden spat out bitterly. "The penalty is death."

"And yet you decided to go against our policies anyway… it's almost as if you want to die…"

"I have nothing to live for! That bitch has taken it away from me!" the brunette practically screamed. Rin gasped, and Len brought his sword down along the woman's arm. The cut began to bleed, running down the woman's arm as she trembled. And yet Len seemed completely unfazed by the fact that he had done such a thing.

"Don't kill her," the princess cut in, an evil grin appearing on her features. "She wants us to kill her… but I think that a few years in the jail cell being tortured would be a lot more fun. Don't you agree, nii-san?"

"Definitely."

"TAKE HER TO THE DUNGEONS!"

And the guards obliged before the princess had even finished the phrase.