That night, Elena held another little banquet to enjoy this occasion but as they were having too many parties after coming to this city, this time the party was very simple. After the party was over and everyone was taking a rest, Elena called out to Datoka to have a little chat.

She explained to Dakota about the price of their unique product and how she missed an opportunity to gain a bit more profit. She also told her about a few other minor mistakes that she had made in this negotiation. It was very helpful to Dakota and for her future growth.

After that Elena noticed that Dakota was a bit down. So he started to cheer her up with some praises she was worthy of. In this negotiation she had done a decent job. Obviously she had the potential and opportunities to improve but for the time being she did a fine work.

After getting a lot of praise and some headpats from Elena, she also went to rest. Elena was not in the mood to sleep for the time being so she decided to take a walk in the desert outside of the city.

...

Elena was quite angry earlier in the day and she was not very happy about that outburst of hers. She was actually not disappointed about getting angry but was disappointed with the way she expressed it. She should have just taken needed steps without reacting too much on the outside.

It was not like Elena was not capable of that. She had always been someone who would get angry quite frequently. But at the same time she never lashed out immediately in her anger. There might be some misunderstanding or there might be some other circumstances in play. So if the matter was not too outrageous, she would normally make sure that the person she was planning to punish was worthy of that punishment and then she would make her move.

But derogatory words like "Slut", "Whore" etc. were something Elena was unable to stand for. She was fine if a woman had many sexual relationships and she was called out for it. But if someone was trying to insult a person with these kinds of words Elena would always felt an uncontrollable amount of rage.

She smiled a bit sadly while remembering the reason why this was the case. There was a good friend of her who had once taken her own life after getting called by these types of words. Obviously that was not the only reason why she took such a drastic action and the situation was more complex. But Elena had always blamed herself for not stopping her in time. So hearing those words would make her angry most of the time.

While sitting on a sand dune and looking at the clear star filled night sky of the desert, Elena started it reminiscence about a good friend she had lost during her little journey to save a world.

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There lived a girl in a small village beside a mountain. She lived with her father and mother in a small hut. Her life was tough but she was happy living in a peaceful village without much trouble. But her peaceful life changed a group of bandits attacked her village and destroyed it. She was captured by the bandits and was used as their plaything and sexual outlet.

Later she was saved by a beautiful golden haired girl. That girl came here to hunt these bandits and in the process saved her. Normally any other adventurer would just hand her over to the guards and be done with it and in some cases some of them might even ask her to pay them for saving her with her body. But this girl was different and she asked her what she wanted to do.

This girl had forgotten about her name and most of her memories in the cruel torture that the bandits gave her. And she had also developed a fear for men during this time. Understanding all that the beautiful golden haired girl who introduced herself as Elena decided to give the girl a new name and took her to travel with Elena.

Elena named the girl Ume which was also the Japanese name for plum blossom which was associated with hope and patience. Elena gave the girl enough time to get her own self back and used various kinds of mental magic to fix her trauma.

But Elena was unable to stay with the girl for a long time as at that time she was getting hunted by the dark order which was an organisation which was supporting the great disaster and was trying to bring an end to this world.

So staying with Elena was very dangerous and in this area Elena did not know anyone whom she could trust to keep Ume safe. So she did all she could do to get Ume back to shape as fast as possible. She spent two whole months with her while hiding from the Dark Order and in the meantime they became very close to each other.

But another problem showed up. It turned out that Ume was pregnant with a child. This was truly a troublesome situation as Ume would not be able to run around anymore with a baby inside her. She told Elena that she was willing to abort the child but Elena could never allow her to do that while knowing that it was not something she wanted.

So Elena made a small house in a hidden part of a forest and allowed her to live there. She would drop her at least once every week to check in on her. In her journey Elena was able to find a powerful medicine with many effects one of which was to allow a lady to give birth very quickly.

Even though this medicine was very useful even for Elena as it was also a very good healing medicine, she gave it to Ume and stayed beside her when she gave birth to a cute little baby boy.

After becoming a mother of a boy, Ume was able to get rid of her anxiety quite a bit and her mental problems improved. Now she became capable of interacting with others and not only Elena.

Getting reassured, Elena took her to a city and brought her a house there. Then she left to stop and exterminate the Dark Order as it was planning to attack and destroy a whole city as a sacrifice. She told Ume that she would return in a month's time and went out.

But it turned out that the rumours about destroying a city was just an excuse to bring Elena here and it was a plan created by the Dark Order and one of the powerful subordinates of the Destroyer to kill Elena here. So to do that, they used a powerful item to trap Elena inside a special dimension and attacked her in full force inside it. It was a disaster for Elena.

But Elena was able to emerge victorious after slaughtering more than millions of people inside the special dimension and killing the subordinate of the destroyer whose level was 650.

But it had already been 2 months and Elena was a bit late in her homecoming.

But after returning what she saw, nothing. Ume was not there and also her baby. Both of them had disappeared. Elena immediately started investing and found out a shocking truth.

Now what did she find out that has scarred her for so long ?

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