User blog comment:SolarMist/I'M SORRY/@comment-24500372-20141009100600

-the sound of chains reverberate throughout the room-

-clang-

"I-I can't...go on anymore..." Chiyo says weakly. She couldn't stand or even lift a basket anymore. All she wanted to do was cry into someone's arms, but showing weakness would kill her. If she were to even give up for a moment, her death would be imminent.

"Hey, Shrine Maiden! Get up!"

The voice of the person who Chiyo despised the most called out from the back. It was Dora, the slave trader.

"You DO know what happens to slaves who can't put up an effort, right?" Dora says in a mocking voice. "You don't want to suffer the fate Dullahan sisters do you? They were thrown into the den of bloodthirsty hyen-"

"Stop, please..." Chiyo murmurs. She couldn't bear to hear what happened to her friends.

"Then get back to work. Wouldn't wanna end up in the incinerator would ya?"

Dora then walks away, blatantly boasting about her collection of newly acquired Golden apples.

Watching the figure walk away, Chiyo thinks to herself and cries. "Master would come back for me right? For Sasuke and Munenori and the others....right?"

Unfortunately, that day would never come.