26. Death

Now everyone hates him.

"I knew you could escape, why didn't you escape?" Xavion asked, intriguely.

Xavion knew Claude was not a fool, he knew that Claude could escape if he had the intention. Xavion still remembers that Claude had a unique ability to switch places with his puppet.

"Do you want to die?" asked Xavion once again.

"Claude, I ask you once again do you want to die?" asked Xavion once again.

"Being slandered to the point that I have a bad name and that I killed my mother on purpose, I think I deserve it," replied Claude in despair.

"I deliberately killed mother," said Claude.

Xavion was silent, he thought Claude would defend himself but it turned out he was telling the truth, Claude also said that he killed his mother with intention. Xavion didn't say anything else and decided to leave.

"So you killed Amber?!" asked the other prisoners just knowing, Amber was someone they knew, they knew Amber was the wife of Duke Arthur and the blonde boy in front of him was the youngest Claude who had been thrown away.

"Why did you kill him kid? "He is a good person, we were in the same cell," they said angrily.

"He only pretends to be good, he's bad, if he wasn't bad, how could he have been in prison when he was a teenager!" Claude replied irritably. It doesn't make sense if Amber goes to prison for no reason,

"How do you know?! Slanderers," replied another prisoner, not accepting it.

'Because I wrote the story.' Claude could only sigh in his heart.

'When he was a teenager, Claude's mother sabotaged the boat used by the previous King and Queen until they both drowned, but unfortunately, she was released because the evidence was not strong enough, there were no witnesses, in fact, the sabotage was carried out very cleanly, even though Claude's mother was the last person who was with them last time. ' Claude tapped his chin with his index finger. He feels that if the plot has not been changed, it is possible that an incident like that could become a big plot twist later.m

"Eh?" Claude remembers, it looks like he will try to clear his name through this case.

"What happened to you?" asked the prisoners, seeing Claude looking confused.

'That is true! "I can still survive and won't be hated by people if I can prove all this. The King and Queen at that time were King Liam's father and mother."

"I can still clear my name. Oh my gosh, why should I despair," said Claude to himself.

He also changed his plan, he would tell this to the King and he would open his mother's case again, at least so that people's perspective would change and they wouldn't hate Claude's character anymore.

"I will reveal this," said Claude.

Not long after, Claude became even more cornered when he remembered something.

"What's wrong with you?" asked the others, increasingly surprised.

Claude didn't answer because he was still struggling with his thoughts. 'I forgot that the sabotage was so cleanly planned.'

When Claude was about to move to a sitting position, suddenly someone there was nudged by Claude, he accidentally nudged a quiet man who was clear that Claude had to realize he was there.

"What are you doing?! How dare you touch me!" said the man there.

"What? "So you nudged our boss, don't pretend you're the Duke's son and do whatever you want, you have to remember you're just an abandoned child," they said angrily. They also hit Claude without further ado.

Gulp!

Claude swallowed his own saliva while holding his stomach which had been hit.

"A real prison," muttered Claude, cornered. These were his last words before he was beaten.

****

Claude couldn't get up, his body was so battered he couldn't move an inch. Even though it was only a trivial matter, Claude was beaten until he was about to die. He felt like the bones in his body must be broken. He fell asleep for a long time because of the pain he felt in his body. He became a spectacle for the people there.

"Hey is it okay for this kid to be like this? "He hasn't woken up yet," asked another person worried, while the one who beat Claude didn't care about that.

But unfortunately, over time they began to feel that Claude was very tempting, his body was relatively smaller than young men in general.

"Rich people's kids always look like this, look at his legs, he's very smooth, his lips are like a silicone doll, his skin color even contrasts with our skin color, he's really like paper," said one of the people there. He touched Claude's lips and opened his mouth.

"Her teeth are neat, her nose is sharp, aren't her blue eyes very beautiful?" he asked. He started to unbutton Claude's shirt.

"Her lips, she's so pretty."

"This is mine," said the man once again.

"This is ours," answered the other while grinning with satisfaction.

****

"What jus happened to me?" After waking up from a long sleep, Claude felt his body was freezing and found himself already naked. Claude eyes widened upon realizing something.

"Ah." Claude's hands were tied by another prisoner's clothes so he couldn't move freely and his body was utterly wasted.

"Urgh!"

"No, it's impossible, this is not happening!" Claude was horrified as he felt a wet sensation on his behind.

After that night, Claude's eyes were blank as if there was no soul, his body was akin to an empty husk.

Claude felt like he was as good as dead after being ravished by those inmates while he was unconscious. He couldn't move even for an inch since his behind was torn apart and bleeding profusely.

As the angle of the sunlight in his prison drew near to the wall, he could he a familiar footsteechoingoed through the hallway.

'This footstep… It must be Xavion's.' Claude muttered inwardly.

Clank!