Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 303 – Isha (3)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Slavers created an educational center to train slaves who were to be sold to the nobility. The slave tamers taught them the etiquette for speaking, for eating, among many other things.

Of course, they did not do so gently. It took a human as fierce as a beast to tame a Kurkan, and physical correction was very common.

“Kurkans enjoy this,” said a tamer, tapping a whip against the palm of his hand. “Dont worry. Youll learn quickly.”

The tamer could not have been more pleased with their progress. The Kurkan children huddled in the corner and shivered.

Slowly, Isha stepped forward and sank down onto his knees. The whip lashed at his back, and blood gushed from the torn skin.

Though he gritted his teeth to keep silent, a moan finally escaped him, but the punishment did not end even when he began to cringe under the lash. It only ended when the tamer had administered the proscribed number of lashes, no more, no less.

After the last one, the tamer kicked him over, and Isha looked up at him with an expressionless face, his golden eyes glowing fiercely. The tamer clicked his tongue.

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“Youll have to behave better if you dont want more of the same tomorrow,” he said, and turned away, slamming the iron door shut behind him. The other Kurkan children quickly gathered around Isha.

“Are you all right?”

“Hes crazy…”

But they scattered as the iron door swung open again to admit a different tamer.

“Line up!”

Isha limped to the end of the line as the tamer handed out small loaves of bread and bottles of water. To ravenous Kurkan children, it looked like food enough only for birds, but meals were always irregular. If they were given too much food, there was a chance that they would rebel.

The trainer paused in front of Isha, who was silently enduring the agony of his flayed back.

“Youre going to starve,” he said. It seemed the tamer who had whipped him had left orders that he should not be fed, to break his will. It had a logic. But Ishas face remained unchanged and the tamer scowled. “Damn you, if it wasnt for your price, I would break your neck.”

He turned to look at the other children.