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"Wuu... wuuu..."
Bell, who had been tightly bound and dragged over by the Apollo Familia, kept making unwilling muffled cries through the cloth stuffed in his mouth as he struggled.
"Stay still!"
The two Apollo Familia members escorting the tightly bound Bell shouted angrily. One of them even kicked Bell directly, sending him crashing to the ground.
A closer look revealed that Bell was far from uninjured. There were bruises on various parts of his body.
Clearly, Bell had tried to resist, only to be met with violence.
The Apollo Familia had likely planned to kidnap Bell from the start. The moment they learned that Noah and Bell had split up, they immediately arranged for people to seize him when he was planning to enter the Dungeon that morning.
And it went without saying that with Bell having received Hestia's blessing for less than a month, and still only being Lv. 1, there was no way he could have been a match for the Apollo Familia's adventurers.
True anger finally appeared on Hestia's pretty face.
"Apollo!"
"My apologies, Hestia. Your child may be weak and timid, but he unexpectedly has some backbone. In order to capture him, we had no choice but to treat him a little roughly." Apollo maintained his sun-like radiant smile and shrugged.
"It was all for the sake of obtaining such a lovely child. You should understand. Keeping such a lovely child all to yourself simply won't do, Hestia."
"You..." Hestia immediately understood what Apollo meant.
"You intend to use Bell to threaten us?"
"It cannot be helped. It truly cannot