The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 65: Ch 65: An Unfortunate Girl

When Hikari Amanogawa awakened her inherent special ability, she had already almost crossed the line of death. But her just awakened immortality brought her back to life. Then she found herself lying inside her room in their family house and everything around her was burning.

The people who attacked and killed her family came prepared. Her father, who was also the strongest person in the family was betrayed by his close friend surnamed Shinomiya and was given a very potent poison with his drink. So, he was severely weakened with that poison.

Using that chance, the dog surnamed Shinomiya threatened him by holding Hikari, her sister and her mother hostage and her father was forced to give all his properties to that dog. But even then that dog did not fulfill his promise by letting the mother and daughters go.

He had the audacity to rape Hikari's mother in front of her husband and he wanted to do the same with the children too who were less than 10 years old, at that time. He was truly a disgusting beast.

But before he could do that his subordinates reported that some of the allies of the Amanogawa family had started to move so he was forced to stop his enjoyment. He then hurriedly put a knife through everyone's chest and sent the dead bodies to their own rooms.

Then he burned down the whole house to erase all evidence.

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Even after coming back to life Hikari was unable to do anything and just stayed in her room while seeing everything burning down around her and her own happy world was coming to an end.

She only came back to her senses when the fire started to burn her too and she felt the pain. Immediately she ran out of the room and started to search for her family members. But it was too late and all of them were already dead and almost completely burned.

Her heart broke seeing that scene and the only thing left inside her was despair. But in her empty heart, another feeling bloomed at that moment. It was hatred, pure unstoppable hatred. She vowed to take revenge on the people who killed her fear family and ended her sweet life.

But the upcoming days were not easy for a child like Hikari. Even though she had an amazing inherent special ability, this ability did not give her any strength so her life was as hard as a normal orphan living in the streets would be.

She struggled for five whole years to settle down. In those years she had to fight many times even for a scrap of food and she became good at fighting because of that and her inherent talents. The other beggars became scared for her and stopped bothering her.

The reason why the beggars stopped bothering her was mainly because they were scared of the way she fought.

After becoming sure that she was truly an immortal and would never die, she became very reckless with her body. So whenever she fought someone she always tried to risk her life to injure the opponent. That was something that no one other than an immortal like her could use.

That was something very scary for a normal person and the other people living on the streets started to avoid her.

Even when living felt like a punishment and life was extremely hard, Hikari never gave up on her revenge. She had grown stronger quite a bit but still she was nothing in front of a colossal family like the Shinomiyas, who had used the base of the Amanogawa family to grow even bigger.

So she was not able to do anything except for regularly keeping an eye on this family to find some kind of chance to attack them.

This day was the same as all the other days. Hikari got her hands on some food scraps after fighting many competitors. But suddenly something different happened on this day.

Just as Hikari was looking around for more food scraps she bumped into a man. This man was an arrogant person from a large family, so he was disgusted and angry that a filthy street urchin dirtied his clothes. Immediately this person kicked her in the guts and made her crawl on the ground.

Hikari was not in a mood to play with that type of man so she directly attacked him. But unfortunately that man was a powerful person and he also had a relationship with criminal gang leaders. In that process, the news about her incredible self healing capabilities became widespread.

That was a very bad thing and just as Hikari had expected, some strong people suddenly attacked her in full force and captured her. These men came prepared and bound her with some kind of powerful item and she was unable to even move her body anymore.

This was a very bad situation for Hikari. After getting caught by these people, her most optimistic future would be if she was seen as a research item due to her inherent special ability and in the worst case scenario these people might even use her as a tool to practice torture.

But anyways she would lose all her chances to take revenge if she got caught by them. Hikari really wanted to at least kill that dog Kousuke Shinomiya who was the traitor who betrayed her father, raped her mother and killed all her family.

But now it felt like this wish of her would just stay as a dream for eternity.

Currently, Hikari was stored inside a carriage and it was taking her away somewhere. As she was getting further and further away from the city of Kentau, her already fallen heart was getting submerged in sadness more and more.

But suddenly a bright flash of light lit up her entire darkness. But this light was not a comfortable light of any kind and instead it was a dangerous light that came into existence when a very handsome man slashed his sword.

Hikari saw everything with her blurry eyes. She saw how a single red haired handsome man knocked out and captured all the people who attacked her very easily as if he was not dealing with grown up men and instead he was dealing with weak little children.

Then she saw the handsome man coming to her and giving her a reassuring smile and telling her something like - "Don't worry, you're safe now. Can you tell me your name ?" but she was too tired to reply to him.

Just seeing the reassuring smile was enough for her to break out of the tense situation and she immediately lost consciousness afterwards.

After waking up Hikari found herself on a high quality bed. She looked around the room and saw that the architecture of this place was very different from what she was familiar with.

Just as she was thinking about the situation she found herself in, the door to her room opened and the handsome man who saved her entered the room.

Seeing her awake this man gave her a happy smile and came beside her bed to sit down on a stool. Seeing this Hikari remembered about the manners from her bygone days and she also tried to sit up on the bed. The red haired boy stopped her from doing it and helped her to lie down once again.

Then he started to pat Hikari's hair gently and it calmed her down quite a bit. She was still in a shocked and excited state from all the sudden things happening with her. But now she was feeling very light.

This red haired boy was very considerate of her and was making small talk with her. Then he started to ask her small questions about the people who captured her while telling her more about himself.

It turned out that this boy's name was Rein and he was not from this nation. He was a great adventurer who had visited many places before and had also challenged many dungeons. Hearing his stories was very fun and Hikari was having the best time of her life after the death of her family.

While having a conversation with Rein, she told him everything. Not only about the people who tried to capture her but also about her past.

This was extremely dangerous as if Rein was a bad person he might sell this information to the Shinomiya family for money and she would definitely be captured again.

But Hikari felt like she could believe in Rein. She wanted to believe in Rein. After living in solitude for so long, she wanted to rely on someone. She wanted to put her trust in someone.

And Hikari decided to believe Rein to be the person who was destined for her.

She did not make this decision with a feeble mind. She was determined to not believe in anything anymore in this world if it turned out that her last ray of light also betrayed her. With that determination in mind, Hikari decided to believe in someone wholeheartedly for the last time.

What answered her was a warm hug and gentle caress of her hair. Hearing the calming heartbeat of the person hugging her and feeling his warmth, Hikari once again drifted into dreamland while feeling happy for the first time in the last five years.