Idiot
"I'd originally wanted one more Demon's Beyonder characteristic, but my intuition tells me that letting you off for now might be more interesting."
Seeing that the Apostle of Desire over there was already showing fear and thoughts of fleeing, Xu Yue smiled brilliantly.
"You? Are you the assassin's accomplice too? Are you trying to save him?"
At that moment, the secretary who had followed the Duke and met Xu Yue was inwardly startled. He immediately turned the tables and pinned a massive accusation on Xu Yue.
Xu Yue merely glanced at him indifferently, then murmured to himself.
"A Demon carried out an assassination but failed to kill the target, while a loyal guard suddenly died. That seems perfectly normal."
Almost in tandem with Xu Yue's murmur, the desire manipulation that had originally sought to distort Xu Yue was amplified and redirected onto the secretary.
The sliver of worry and fear in his heart caused by Xu Yue's intervention erupted in an instant.
Pfft—
He spat out a mouthful of blood, then stared in disbelief at his chest, whose heart had already stopped beating.
All he could do was make choking sounds as he collapsed.
Seeing an opponent who had tangled with him for so long—who had been difficult to deal with even though he had not gone all out—die so inexplicably to his own attack, the Demon was frightened out of his wits.
What pathway and what Sequence was that ability from?!
Fortunately, he remembered that Xu Yue had said he would let him go. Amid his terror, he took advantage of the room's seal being lifted by the secretary's death, smashed through the window, and fled in the opposite direction.
Since the Wind Consort had to protect Duke Negan, he could only watch helplessly as the other party