What Do You Want?

Karina returned to her bedroom and threw everything into disarray, causing the servants attending her to tremble in fear. Just as she managed to catch her breath, a messenger from Lawrence arrived with an order to parade the offending servant through the streets. Furthermore, he urged her to chop off the servant's hands and send them over, as Valentina had requested this as proof. Karina was a little taken aback. When Valentina had originally suggested that parading the guilty party around was too light a punishment and advocated for the severing of their hands, Karina had laughed it off as a simple jest, having no intention of taking it seriously or actually delivering any hands to Valentina. She never thought Valentina was truly ruthless enough to do such a thing. Deeply inhaling, Karina gritted her teeth and commanded, "Chop off the hands of that wretch and deliver them to her. Let her see it with her own eyes!" After the servant had been paraded through the streets and the hands we