"T-this..."
Ruina saw the heads of Algar and Ferd, the two bodyguards that were under the command of Arthur Wolfson, the Student Council President of the Obelisk Academy.
Arthur Wolfson, on the other hand, was cut again by Freya — who cald down after so ti after she beheaded Algar — so that he wouldn't be able to move with his condition due to the Intrinsic Effect: Desolation, while Reinhardt of the Apollon family was groaning in pain and was lacking the strength to move, barely hanging to his life due to excessive bleeding of his tongue.
"If I were you, I wouldn't resist, so stop thinking of a way to escape, it's all painted in your pretty face."
Alie took out sothing from her Dinsional Inventory, and then toss it to Ruina, who was standing from a distance.
"Mana Nullifier?"
It's a handcuff that's used to restrain criminals, but with Azalea's authority as the "secret" owner of the Black Market known as Thorn of Rose, Russell had purchased them with her help for quite an amount.
Russell took out one, as well as Freya, then they put it on to Reinhardt and Arthur respectively.
"Aren't you going to put it on yourself?"
Alie retracted her gaze from Russell and Freya, then looked back to Ruina, who was staring at a gray in color handcuff on the floor that was emanating a blue aura with a little magic circle carved on it.
"W-where did you get them? It's standard military equipnt used against criminals! Y-you! Are the three of you undercover in the academy?!"
Ruina beca cautious, still not picking up the Mana Nullifier.
"That's a ludicrous thing for you to say."
Russell's cold voice interjected as he and his younger sister dragged Reinhardt and Arthur's weakening bodies and lined them up together, causing Alie to form a faint smile before she added...
"Ruina... last chance, are you going to put it on yourself, or we'll do it by force?"
Ruina contemplated what had transpired before she slowly picked up the Mana Nullifier and put it to her wrists.
Click-!
At that mont, the gray-colored handcuff that's made of a tal called E-Alloy or Enhanced Alloy that's discovered Post-Ergence had its blue aura intensified and Ruina felt like she beca a normal human that only existed Pre-Ergence.
"That's a wise decision."
Russell spoke as he slowly approached her after she walked near the kneeling Arthur Wolfson — who was in disbelief; and Reinhardt – who couldn't even speak, shot glares towards him.
...
"Ruina, tell the guards in any way, standing by the door outside not to disturb anything inside at the mont."
Russell ordered her, while Reinhardt and Arthur looked at her with eyes that were begging her to inform the guards.
The distance between the trio who were kneeling was about a ter apart; Arthur Wolfson was kneeling in the middle with his hands on his back that's on handcuffed; Reinhardt Apollon was on the left side, while Ruina was kneeling on the right side of the battered Student Council President.
Ruina looked at Russell with her disbelieving crimson eyes as she pricked up her brows despite her situation.
He took a asure that even though the inside of the VIP Room was under the Trait: Nihility, the two guards outside might still co in out of nowhere.
"I see... you think I'm crazy, right? These two clearly are eyeing you to report what's happening inside, but even though you scream from here, they won't hear you."
"Y-you motherf*cker!"
Arthur Wolfson, after an unknown period of ti, interjected.
Russell crouched down in front of Arthur upon hearing him.
Smack-! Smack-!
Russell slapped him on his right cheek, and his left cheek.
"Y-you-"
Smack-! Smack-!
He repeatedly slapped the battered face of Arthur, causing Ruina to have her crimson eyes to dilate; Alie, on the one hand, was grinning in the spectacle as if she wanted to do it, and on the other hand, Freya was just looking in front of her as though her world was sowhere else.
"I'm not talking to you, so shut your filthy mouth, or else you'll be the sa as that bastard on your left."
Arthur looked at Reinhardt and noticed that his mouth was bleeding, he then realized that Reinhardt's tongue was missing.
"...Y-you won't get away with this! Do you think you will be safe after this!? You bunch of first ye–!"
Bam-!
"When you are told to shut up, just do so S-I-R Arthur."
Alie – using the Staff of the Lost Shade (Growth) – had slapped him so hard, causing a few numbers of his white teeth to fly off.
Ruina – who was watching everything from the side – looked at Russell before she asked with curiosity.
"You... why are you trusting that I won't tell the guards outside if you let go there?"
"Hmm... I see, don't get wrong, I don't trust you, but... it's the only way you'll get to live.
"Apart from that..."
...
Russell crouched down in front of Ruina and whispered sothing to her ears that couldn't be heard by everyone inside.
Ruina's crimson eyes dilated and her lips trembled upon hearing the words of Russell. Alie and Freya, as well as Arthur and Reinhardt, beca curious about what he said because Ruina's expression turned into sothing they wouldn't expect in this situation.
After her trembling lips, it turned into a wide smile.
...
"Freya, can you gag Arthur's mouth first, he might scream the mont the door opens even slightly."
Russell asked his younger sister, in which she nodded in response Everyone in the VIP Room was tainted with blood, especially because of the blood that gushed out from the necks of Algar and Ferd when their heads were cut off.
After a few seconds, Ruina, with her hands on her back, stood up and approached the door; she then slightly opened it, causing her crimson eyes to peek outside through the small gap.
The two guards who were on standby reacted and saw her.
"Don't disturb us in any way possible unless it's an ergency."
The two guards — who couldn't clearly see what was happening inside due to party lights — nodded at her words.
Ruina walked back, and glanced at Arthur and Reinhardt with an excited expression, causing them to feel confused about the sudden change of Ruina.
"R-Ruina?? Why? Did you just betray us?!"
Arthur's blue eyes shot glares at her while he was gritting his teeth, with seething indignation.
...
"Mr. Student Council President, answer the questions that I will ask, so you will live."
Russell took a stool — from the corner of the VIP Room — that wasn't used due to the nurous couch, places it a ter away from Arthur, then sat on it.
"Hahahaha! Do you think you will get away with this if you let live?! I'm not an idiot!
"I don't know how the three of you possess such strengths, but you all are still weak-ass brats against high-rank players!"
Arthur said with a wide smile on his face, feeling elated as he thought that these people had made the greatest mistake of their lives by ssing with him.
"Of course, we're just an ant to them, but what about you? Sothing less than an ant because you are in that situation right now?"
Russell rebutted as he scoffed at Arthur's words.
Arthur subconsciously clenched his fists on his back, but before he could answer, Russell added...
"How many people have you enslaved? You see, I never forgive you for manipulating Bailey Clarkson to spread rumors about and Victoria.
"And spare the words, I know about your skills, and the Ela's Needle is the artifact you need to amplify your control-related skills, right?"
Arthur listened to Russell's words that were spoken, full of certainty, causing his blue eyes to widen in disbelief.
"Y-you have a Status Appraisal Skill?!"
He spoke in anger, but his words just left Russell's ear from the right to his ear on the left.
"Answer the question."
Russell insisted.
"Hahahaha! I don't know, I'm not counting, but probably... more than a thousand??"
Alie and Freya's eyes constricted upon hearing the laugh, and his answer.
"I see... thank you for your honesty. I can't believe it will co out of your own mouth, at least it saves us so ti here even for a few seconds."
Arthur, Reinhardt, and Ruina didn't understand Russell's words, except for Alie and Freya who planned this thing from the beginning.
"Alie, give that bastard a Low-Grade Health Potion first, he must be dying from bleeding."
Russell pointed to Reinhardt before he looked back at Arthur, but this ti... Russell's expression turned cold and very serious.
...
"Arthur Wolfson... No father, and no mother... Nephew of the Shadow Guild's Guild Master, enslaved people to be forced to work in any other way, but mostly in so mines...
"You wanted to manipulate people, created the Weaver Faction under the permission of the Guild Master of the Shadow Guild; you thought that you can weave the fates of people that would be under you...
"But the truth is that you are a very envious man when it ca to other people's achievent or specifically if the person or player successfully made a contract with a Constellation...
"Because... you were so excited that you accidentally made a contract with an Evil Constellation that turned you into that Constellation's puppet. It's also the reason why you are so envious of Victoria when you ca to know that she received an offer with a Constellation with a seemingly ancient na even though she's not even done in her second year.
"What a pitiful man... the Evil Constellation must have asked you to enslave a few people per month, but you beca drunk with power that you felt like having toys to control whenever you wanted; and if your toys were harm in any way, you'll beco hellbent of eliminating the suspect... just like ..."
Arthur's mouth didn't receive any strength to open upon hearing sothing he wanted to forget in his life; Ruina and Reinhardt looked at Arthur with wondering expressions because they didn't know about the underlying circumstances of Arthur Wolfson's contract.
"I'll kill you... I'll kill you!"
Arthur shouted angrily as his blue eyes seed to turn slightly red due to the burst of emotion; his veins also bulged on his forehead.
"I'll personally hunt your family! You f-"
Spurt-! Spurt-!
At that mont, Russell beheaded the Student Council President of the Obelisk Academy.
Arthur's blood gushed out from his headless body, it splatted across the VIP Room that was already painted with blood due to Algar and Ferd's dead bodies.
'That's why it's extrely hard to live in this kind of world; the enemies are threatening sothing very vulnerable.'
Russell didn't voice his thoughts verbally, rather, he looked at Ruina, and then nodded his head; as if Ruina had understood him, she stood up from kneeling and approached Reinhardt.
...
'A-Arthur's dead... W-why is this happening?
'N-no! This must be a dream! I need to wake up!'
Reinhardt – who sowhat recovered his Health Points as Alie forced a Low-Grade Health Potion in his mouth – had his thoughts turn into a ss as he's staring in fear at Arthur's headless body.
'P-please! Wake up! F*ck! T-this isn't real!
'R-right! These people are weak, this is not real!'
He tried to slap his cheeks, but he was reminded that he was under a Mana Nullifier.
"H-hey... R-Russell, right...? I-I'll do anything. P-please just spare . I won't talk badly or harm your family!
"W-what do you n-need? M-money? I-I'm a billionaire! I-I can give the three of you a great sum! J-just spare my life... I don't want to die."
As the eldest son of the Apollon family, a noble family that's based in the country, Cassiopeia or the Land of the Nobles, he's a wealthy man at the age of 18.
"Reinhardt..."
At that mont, he heard a voice behind him. It was the voice of a woman he was familiar with.
"R-Ruina...?"
"Reinhardt... I've been wanting to do this for a while because I was very curious about you... how you taste like."
Before Reinhardt could process the words that ca out of Ruina's mouth, his scream reverberated through the VIP Room.
"Arrggghhhh!!!!!"
He saw sothing... like an embodint of horror. Ruina's crimson eyes had their luster intensified.
She then revealed two, white fangs that were not the size of normal human teeth.
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