Because he had never intended to bother with her in the first place.
He had even felt a little relieved and pleased to see that Blue Star's humans had someone who was this close to transcending ordinary humanity.
But he had never expected this girl to be such a reckless idiot.
She knew how strong he was, yet she still dared to chase him down and yank the tiger's tail!
"Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners?!"
Smack-
He lashed her with the vine whip without the slightest mercy.
Messiah stared at him in shock, trembling. That lash had almost instantly wiped her mind blank, because she had never, ever imagined he would dare do such a thing.
When she recovered, all she could do was keep making humiliated noises.
"I'd already run a whole kilometer away, and you still chased me in a helicopter! What, you think you can beat me?! Are you out of your mind?!"
Smack-
Another lash.
[Ding! Messiah's humiliation +10, anger toward you +21]
"And you actually dare to get angry with me? Do you know how much karmic merit it took me to come across a sapphire as big as a goose egg?! You just smashed it without a second thought! That was a whole house's worth of money!"
Smack, smack, smack-
Three lashes in succession.
Lynn showed no sign of having vented his anger.
He kept whipping her for over ten minutes.
Only then did Lynn stop.
By then, Messiah was flushed scarlet with humiliation and anger, tears streaming down drop by drop under the lashes. But that was absolutely not a sign of mental weakness; it was simply this female body's disgraceful failure to hold up.
Because however strong she was, as a normal human, how could she possibly