Education

It was as though someone had opened a door that should never have been opened.

Letting the darkness and nightmares behind it erupt forth.

The moment Huai Shi raised his eyes, countless miserable shrieks and roars seemed to explode beside everyone's ears, savagely tearing at their souls and consciousness, crushing all defenses before cruelly pouring in molten iron and glacial rivers.

The agony of burning surged forth from nowhere, followed by the terrifying suffocation of being frozen in the deep sea.

The moment the gentle smile vanished from his face, the entire world seemed to fall into its deepest nightmare. Once he cast aside the gentleness and consideration he had shown when taking the children on their spring outing, what remained was the malice he reserved for enemies.

Just as Anna had wished, Huai Shi finally became serious.

But what was the price?

What was the price?

At that instant, invisible phantoms whispered mockingly in her ear: the price was falling into hell...

"So this is the Sword of Calamity..."

The girl involuntarily bent at the waist like a lynx gathering strength. With a mere lift of her hand, the dagger on the ground leaped into her fingers on its own.

A growingly fervent delight welled up in her upturned eyes!

Faced with such an enemy, her body moved!

Before it could begin to tremble—

Then she heard a soft recitation by her ear.

"I know your deeds, your labor, your perseverance, and your hatred of evil. You have tested those false apostles and exposed their masks..."

As though standing atop an altar, gazing down upon the faithful, reciting precepts from the holy scriptures.

One must tend the lambs.

One must let them know the good and evil, right and wrong of this world.

But before that, pain came first!