"Nothing much. I just wanted to have a little more fun with this cute little girl—"
As Scar spoke, he pressed down harder with his foot.
"AAAAAAH!!"
The Doctor finally could not hold back her screams.
"You bastard! Take your foot off her! Can't you see how much she's hurting?!"
Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly crouched down and tried to pull Scar's boot away.
The Doctor painfully opened her eyes and looked at the stranger who had suddenly appeared beside her.
"Run... Hurry, run..."
But in the next instant, scarlet liquid splattered across her vision.
The girl's eyes widened as she stared at the scene before her.
Scar moved his foot away. At the same time, a long blade pierced the middle-aged man's throat, its silver edge driving deeper and deeper until it completely passed through his neck.
The culprit behind it all held the middle-aged man by the hair, lifting his entire body up with a look of disgust.
Then he leaned closer and said,
"Listen carefully. If I were you, I wouldn't be stuck in a godforsaken place like this and still fucking sticking my nose into other people's business."
As Scar spoke, he continuously twisted the long blade lodged in the man's neck from side to side until he completely severed his head.
"What rotten luck. Running into this kind of idiot today."
After saying that, he casually tossed the middle-aged man's head beside the Doctor's hand.
"All right, now no one's here to get in the way. Little girl, let's continue."
The Doctor stood frozen, staring at the head rolling near her hand as something inside her churned madly.
"No... No..."
..
"Zuo Jian? Have you finished negotiating? Did you figure out what's going on?"
[There's no need to negotiate, Laurentina.]
"Huh?"
"What