"Orochimaru-sensei, what are your orders?"
After tossing a corpse onto the pile of bodies, Liuyun shook the filthy blood from his hands and walked over to him.
"Come take a look at this man. He seems to still be alive..."
Orochimaru lightly nudged a bandit at his feet and gestured for Liuyun to inspect him.
Liuyun came to the bandit's side and felt around where his heart was, then nodded to confirm Orochimaru's assessment.
"His heart is still beating, but he's lost too much blood. He probably won't live much longer..."
Orochimaru nodded with a hoarse chuckle, then kicked a long blade over to Liuyun.
"Pick up that blade and end his painful, sinful life."
"!!!"
Seeing Orochimaru's sinister smile, Liuyun could not help feeling a chill crawl down his spine.
He instinctively picked up the long blade. There was not much panic on his face, but his trembling hands clearly exposed what he truly felt.
"Hurry up. Stab him through the heart, and the mission will be over!"
Seeing that Liuyun still did not dare act, Orochimaru finally lost his smile and urged him coldly.
Nawaki had already finished dealing with the aftermath. He watched Liuyun in silence.
Only those who had gone through it knew how terrifying this moment was. Once that blade went in, they would no longer be the innocent boys they once were.
Even if they stood beneath the blazing sunlight in the future, there would inevitably be a place deep within their hearts that could never be illuminated.
No matter how cleanly hands that had killed were washed, one would always feel they were dirty.
The expression on Liuyun's face gradually turned ferocious. Under Orochimaru and Nawaki's watchful eyes, he viciously drove the long blade into the bandit's body.
The faintly beating heart was