Reeza’s breaths came in ragged coughs, eae a battle against the pain c through her body. The fierce determination that once bzed in her eyes now flickered like a dying ember, subdued by the agony of her wounds.

  “Fine!” Casimir spat, his garment hanging loosely off his shoulders as he pressed his broad foot against her face. “Si’s e to this, I’ll reveal the truth: right from the start, I never had any iion of setting you, your pitiful mother, or the sves free.”

  Reeza’s eyes shot open in shock, and Casimir licked his lips in amusement, relishing her devastated expression like an age-old wine. But this was just the beginning; he inteo e every ounce of her despair until he was mindlessly drunk.

  “It was quite admirable,” Casimir began, his tone dripping with dession, “the way you tirelessly amassed gold to free your mother, all while turning a blio the suffering of tless others in need. But have you ever paused to ponder where your hard-earned gold was being funneled?” He grinned like a mischievous child, reveling in her mounting apprehension.

  “…It was being used to finance covert operations,” he eborated, a twisted grin spreading across his face, “operations dedicated to the abdu and e of more of your beloved people. you picture it? The sheer terror as their homes are pilged a abze; fathers, brothers, and sons being butchered in front of their families; children being torn from the arms of their wailing mothers.”

  Reeza’s eyes quivered violently, betraying the iy of her sanity.

  “And the stru site door?” Casimir added gleefully, “It’s a brothel to put all your people to work. Oh, a’s not fet about your darling mother. She’s a petite and attractive woman, much like yourself. With such alluring looks, it would have been a shame to let her rot away in a prison cell. So, I’ve been using her as a bargaining chip to attravestors,” he admitted with a ugh.

  “YOU BASTARD!” Reeza squirmed in e, desperately attempting to free her arms painfully pinned behind her back.

  She yearned for an opportunity. Just a split sed—that was all the time she o sieeth into him and tear him apart. But she couldn’t move a muscle. Frustration bubbled up within her until it overflowed, and, finally, she began wailing, her sorrowful cries pierg the heart of the other Florian girl in the room.

  “Yes! Yes! That’s it!” Casimir shook iement, his cheeks flushed, his bulge returning. “Seeing that fa a strong and rebellious woman like yourself! It…It’s simply exquisite! All that waiting was well worth it!”

  Casimir k down, his hands repg Ranger’s with a predatrace. His wet tongue hovered mere inches from Reeza’s ear as he whispered, “Once I’ve had my fill of you,” his breath was hot against her skin, sending shivers down her spine, “I’ll present you to those noble pigs, so you join your whore of a mother.”

  While the man prolonged her torment, a lone hen appeared outside the dwelling and bowed respectfully. Ranger sloroached him, a frown creasing his forehead as his subordinate repyed urgent news in a low whisper.

  “I’ll be stepping out for a moment,” Ranger informed Casimir calmly. “There’s a pressing matter I o address.”

  Casimir ignored him, too caught up in his desires to care. Ranger clicked his tongue discreetly before taking his leave.

  “If you willingly offer yourself to me,” Casimir whispered, his rge nose nuzzling into Reeza’s hair as he took a deep sniff, “I might sider granting you a position as one of my personal attendants. All you have to do is obey. What do you say?”

  Reeza stopped squirming, presumably a signal of her surrender. Holy, Casimir was a tad disappoihat she didn’t put up more of a fight, but he cautiously released her tiny hands and turned her over onto her back.

  When he spied the defiant gleam ieary eyes, his blood started ing again, and a wide grin stretched his thick lips. Casimir couldn’t resist the urge as he gently cupped her flushed and tear-stained face, his rge thumb trag the small curve of her unpainted lips.

  Then Reeza bared her teeth.

  P!

  With a sharp intake of breath, she closed her small mouth around that filthy finger with all her might. Casimir let out a shrill cry, his face t in agony before morphing into a mask e.

  With a firm grip on the side of her face, he lifted her off the ground and viciously smmed her onto the small table, sending splintered wood flying in all dires.

  Reeza gasped as pain shot through her body like fireworks, f her teeth to release their grip. Before she could catch her breath, Casimir charged in like a mindless Minotaur and a brutal kick to the stomach sent her hurtling across the room.

  The terrified attendant cowered in fear as Casimir ripped off his garment and strode menagly towards Reeza, his throbbing member cealed by an ing belly.

  With a dominating presence, he positioned himself on top her, remi of an orc straddling a helpless Horned Rabbit. With rough hands, he hungrily tore away her attire, exposing a length of cloth tightly wound around her modest chest, and a small pair of panties hid her femininity from his voracious gaze.

  Reeza cried out in horror, writhing desperately beh the horny swine.

  “I’ll show you the fate that awaits sves who dare to defy me,” Casimir decred with a perverse grin, g his stubby fingers into tight fists.

  PSSHH!

  ***

  PINGG!

  A golden spun multiple times in the air, catg the faint glow of the mana crystals before nding in the palm of a hooded figure garbed in bck. A smile spread across his lips as he examihe intricate inscriptions on the shial.

  “Took you long enough,” he murmured as two unfamiliar faces ehe chamber. “I was getting sick of waiting.”

  DING!

  [Vesper | Lvl 37 | Assassin]

  Daisuke’s features tightened, his brow furrowing as memories of the man fshed through his mind—the merciless beating and verbal abuse, and the humiliation of being spat on and robbed of his purse.

  “So you knew your friends were being ground into dust and you didn’t think to rush to their aid?” Daisuke accused bitterly.

  Petu remained silent, her breath held in anticipation as she lingered cautiously in the background. Her eyes darted up and down, anxiously following the fluid motion of the flipping through the air. With each rotation, her apprehension mounted until the hooded figure snatched it at eye level, making her heart skip a beat.

  “Friends?” he chuckled, standing up from the edge of a fountain and squaring his shoulders. “Shinobi are lone wolves first and rades sed,” he scoffed. “The mission always takes prece, so your rades often end up sacrificed for that cause. Why bother making friends who will just bee pawns in the mission?”

  “Then, at some point, won’t it be your turn to be used as a sacrificial pawn?”

  Vesper sneered, clearly displeased by the notion. “No one’s quiough to catch me off guard me down.”

  Daisuke shrugged casually. “Well, if that’s what helps you sleep at night,” he murmured, as Vesper secured the in a pouch at his hip. “By the way, I really appreciate you holding onto my purse until I could retrieve it,” he remarked with a dark grin. “Almost thought none of you sorry bastards had a shred of sce.”

  “And I thought you would’ve fled town after the thrashing you took,” Vesper returned mogly. “Yet here yenerously delivering more like an idiot. You’re as stupid as they e.”

  As they traded barbed remarks, both warriors inched closer, tension crag in the air between them.

  “Enough chit-chat,” Daisuke scoffed in a chilling tone behind his mask. “Let’s just go to the part where I kill you.”

  Vesper spat to the side, an obvious indication of what he thought of his adversary’s threat. “At least try to make this eaining.”

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