"You! What did you do to me? You despicable bastard! You evil heretic! What sorcery did you use?!"
Lin Ye stood in the center of the execution platform, meeting Yu Xiaogang's blazing gaze with the same breezy smile.
"Just a little trinket called a Truth-Telling Pill. It helps you speak from the heart. No need to thank me."
Watching Yu Xiaogang's predicament and remembering that he had been force-fed the same damned pill, Flender felt a chill shoot from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Lin Ye turned his gaze to Flender. "Dean Flender, I have a question for you, too."
Looking at his panic-stricken expression, Lin Ye drawled, "I heard that when your academy ventured deep into Sun Moon to hunt for Soul Rings, Yu Xiaogang was poisoned by the Pink Lady?"
At those words, Flender immediately remembered what had happened that day. He tried to clamp his mouth shut, but under the pill's influence, he had no control over his tongue.
"Y-yes, Xiao Gang was poisoned, and then..." He stopped halfway, desperately trying to shut his mouth.
Lin Ye pressed him. "And then? You saw Yu Xiaogang delirious from the Pink Lady's poison, so you took the opportunity to lend him a little 'help'?"
Flender's mental defenses crumbled completely under the Truth-Telling Pill. Ignoring the shocked looks from Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong beside him, he blurted out, "Y-yes! When it took effect, he lunged at me like a madman. I tried to pull away..."
An exceedingly lecherous gleam flashed through Flender's eyes, and his voice dropped. "B-but..."
Yu Xiaogang instantly realized that the sensations he had vaguely felt that day had not been an illusion. Trembling, he pointed at Flender. "You... you animal! I treated you like a brother, and you... you