Chapter 203

Thud, thud, thud.

Queen Erinhunt's heart pounded fast. The hostility that had been aimed at Diana and Julia was now pouring down on her instead.

Things have gone wrong.

Badly wrong, at that.

Something had felt off from the moment the sun went dark, and now rats had come pouring out, and she herself had become the one accused of assassinating the king.

Shouting that it wasn't her would get her nowhere here.

There was no way to convince a crowd this completely out of its mind that she wasn't the witch.

They'd grown even more terrified at the calamity breaking out at the very site of a witch's execution, and that fear had made them more vicious as a defense.

Out of control.

A red warning light went off in her head.

"I've ruined this."

Queen Erinhunt's eyes turned a deep, furious red.

"Put the sword down!"

Knights leveled…