Anna's house was enormous, and the tasks you must do here were easy. She first wanted me to do the easy laundry with the large washing stones on her property. I did it in no time; she looked impressed with my speed. I, on the other hand, questioned her choices. The clothes were barely dirty. In my head, her clothes were still usable and had almost no smell, so that was weird. The second task she asked of me was to sweep the main hall and the backyard, which proved easy. I used low-level wind magic to do it and finished with almost no effort; they all looked impressed again.

"I would have never thought to use wind magic in such a manner before, " a guard said as he looked at my work. "She is the huntress; after all, she grew up in a different environment," Anna said, but what did she mean by a different environment? Do you mean to tell me they hadn't thought about something as simple as using wind to sweep away leaves? How primitive were they? Anyhow, I shouldn't judge them. It was lunchtime, earlier than I had expected. Anna pulled me to the side and guided me to the dining room, where her husband awaited us.

"Sit down, Akane. Let's have lunch together." He was a kind man if I do say so myself. When I sat down, some ladies in weird black-and-white suits placed a plate before me. The ladies then set a lot of mysterious containers on the table. They took a while, filling up the whole table with those things. "Come on, ladies, open them up and let Akane smell the delicious lunch we will feast on," Said Anna while holding a small cup with a long stick going down to a broad base. When the ladies did, an aroma flooded my nose. It smelled like delicious hot food.

I couldn't hold back, so I immediately dug into the first thing I had at reach: a chicken-looking bird. I ate and ate; everything tasted so good! I devoured some strange grains in a large bowl, followed by fantastic ribs and a giant piece of meat! Anna and her husband looked at me the whole time; they looked worried about how much I was eating. "Wasn't this all for me?" I asked, now feeling somewhat guilty. "Oh, it's nothing; it's just that I didn't expect you to finish it all so fast. You need to learn some manners, though." As she said this, she cleaned my mouth with some white cloth from her pockets.

"Manners? But grandma said I had the manners of a lady." "You kind of don't, Akane. I think Grandma didn't want to hurt your feelings, but I got to tell you the truth. You eat more like an animal than a person." Ouch, that hurt. I looked down as I felt ashamed at her words. "You'll be our royal guard, so we must fix that. Don't worry dear, I will train... Teach you well." I felt at ease with her words.
The rest of the day went by with more chores until it was time to sleep. When it came to that, Lady Anna took me downstairs.

When we got down there, she guided me to my room, and I got to bed.
The following day, I woke up to a painful burning sensation in my chest. "Ahhhh! It hurts! What's going on!" I heard a laugh coming from above, and when I looked up, I saw Anna laughing at me. The sharp pain then continued as a strange purple light emanated from my chest. When I looked at it, I now had a peculiar mark drawn on it. It gleamed bright, and it made me feel pain. "You're now my slave, Akane, or should I say Huntress?" Her slave? I wasn't anyone's slave; I was free and had a will of my own. What did she mean? "Here, let me show you."

Anna then slapped me and called me stupid. It angered me, so I tried to hit her back but couldn't. As soon as my punch was about to touch her, it felt like I lost all my strength as the pain sharpened. "Ahh AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" The mark on my chest began to irradiate purple light and smoke again; what did this mean? I tried to punch her again, but the same thing happened. Anna took pleasure in hitting me multiple times after. She had a long, thin rope that she used against me. It hurt, it hurt really bad. "AHHHH!! NAAHAHHGG! DAAAHH!!"

Anna kept hitting me non-stop. I was running, desperate, and when I tried to run away, she ordered me to stand still. My body wanted to move, but I could not. "Where do you think you're going? You're my property now, understood? You will always do as I say. You will always kill whoever I say and always act as I order you." "And if I don't?" She lifted me up by the chin and smirked. "Well, then, you will suffer from the curse of slavery on you." "Anna! Why would you do this to me? Weren't you a friend?" "How stupid can a dumb mountain girl be? Did you really think I was your friend at all? How stupid are you?" She called me stupid? Why? She was so friendly and didn't have a malicious aura when I saw her for the first time.

Anderson showed up as Anna was hitting me again. I asked for his help, but he simply looked away. Was her husband in it, too? But he was so kind, such a gentleman. Surely, he must have thought this was wrong! "Anna, don't put more whip marks on her, or we won't be able to sell her a sex slave at all." "Who said I was going to sell her to sex work? This one right here has too much power to be wasted. We would make more money if we took her to the coliseums." They eventually left me alone in that dark room as they had their conversation. I crawled into a ball on my bed and began to cry.

"Mama, Papa, you were right; humans are evil and untrustworthy." Tears of anguish covered my face as I desperately tried to remove the mark on me. I tried with magic, and then I tried removing it with a knife, but the mark always came back as soon as my healing factor recovered me. I felt dumb; I felt betrayed. I was also getting hungry, but when I screamed, nobody showed up. It felt like the whole day I spent down there. When nighttime eventually came, a guard descended the stairs and came to me with a dirty bowl of water and a messy bowl of rice.

As if trying to taunt me, he dropped my food to the ground and picked it up before me. "Here you go, beast girl," He said as he dropped my meal on the floor again. I was starving, so I had to eat it from the floor. "Ah, there you go, just like the animal you really are." Hatred boiled inside me as I took his words at face value. But I was hungry, so I had to keep eating. When I asked him to give me the water, he grabbed the bowl of water and threw it all over me. "You don't deserve such good faith, you monster; you killed my friend when we were kids. I will make sure your stay here is miserable! I will make sure of it!"

Weeks went by, and the same guard kept up his wrong antics toward me. He slowly escalated the humiliations. The last time I asked for water, he peed all over the bowl and then handed it to me. He had also gotten creative when it came to my food. He always dropped it, but now he did so on the dirt, so my food was dusty and muddy. Anna didn't take things any better; whenever she showed up, she hung me by my wrists and proceeded to strike me for hours, saying stuff like. "Stop resisting! You're mine already! Why do you keep resisting the mind control!? Give up already bitch! You're my property now!"