"Your Majesty!!"
At that moment, all her Blood Thralls flew into a rage.
"Release our lord at once!"
All her Chosen roared and rushed toward the Throne as fast as they could, intent on rescuing their master from that fiend's clutches.
But before they could reach him...
Lynn instantly pulled his Revolver from inside his clothes and pressed it against the Sin Lord, who was spinning wildly and screaming. That brought her to a stop, and he said with dead-fish eyes:
"Go on. Try coming any closer."
Click-
A round slid into the chamber.
The Blood Thralls immediately stopped, glaring at Lynn with eyes practically bursting from their sockets, wishing they could tear him limb from limb.
"Release our lord at once! We're warning you! This is the City of Sin. If you hurt our lord, you won't leave this place alive!"
Lynn said with dead-fish eyes:
"Is that so?"
Seeing this, the Sin Lord's face instantly flushed with immense fury and panic. Her voice trembled violently as she shouted at her Blood Thralls:
"All of you, stand down!! If you dare come closer, I'll kill every last one of you!!"
Silence fell all around.
All her Chosen stopped, trembling as they looked at their helpless master, and cried:
"Master!!"
But they dared not disobey the Sin Lord.
Hanging upside down, the Sin Lord bared her teeth at Lynn, furious and humiliated, and snapped:
"You bastard! If you've got the guts, put me down and fight me fair and square! Aren't you just relying on being a tiny bit stronger than me? If you've got the guts, don't use anything else. Let's compete on skill alone! Do you dare?!"
Lynn smiled faintly.
"Are you sure? You can't even beat me in strength, let alone skill."
Lynn reached out a hand