Chapter 76: Where Is Your Enemy?
"Tick-tock!" Inside the tent, listening to the sound of a stopwatch ticking beside her ear and watching the silver-haired girl seated across from her silently stare at her, Selvia, bound hand and foot and kneeling on the ground in humiliation, felt an unprecedented sense of defeat.
She wanted to ask why the other girl had not killed her.
But after meeting those emotionless, mechanical eyes—
Selvia, who knew that look of contempt for the weak all too well, immediately understood that asking such a meaningless question would achieve nothing but further humiliation.
With her pride utterly crushed by the terrifying power the other girl had displayed yesterday, she could only force up her exhausted neck.
She intended to await the death that might come at any moment in this barely stubborn posture.
Time quietly passed amid the eerie silence.
Just as Selvia was about to be unable to endure this alternative form of torture any longer and intended to provoke the other girl into killing her—
The tent flap was abruptly pulled open.
A handsome man with black hair and black eyes entered.
She was then astonished to discover that the silver-haired girl, who had rarely shown any emotional fluctuations since capturing her, reacted the instant she saw him.
A joy that could not be concealed appeared on the girl's mechanical face. Then, through her voice, Selvia learned the man's true identity:
"Good morning, Warrant Officer John!"
"Mm, good morning to you too, Laiya. You look quite energetic today. Not bad!"
Seeing that Laiya, who was socially anxious, had actually taken the rare initiative to greet him today, John was somewhat surprised and instinctively praised her.
He had been about to continue flattering her over her achievement to build a closer relationship with one