"No! Don't!"
"No! Kill me if you dare!"
Terror filled Noelle's face as she screamed and struggled desperately.
Joining the Knights of Favonius was her dream, and even nine failures had done nothing to change that longing.
Acting Grand Master Jean was also the person she respected and admired most.
She could accept death, but leaking the Knights' intelligence, becoming an Abyss spy within their ranks, and hurting Jean and her fellow knights would hurt her far more than being killed.
Yet the more frightened she became and the harder she struggled, the more pleasure the Abyss Lector and the Abyss Mage took in it.
"Hahaha!"
The Abyss Lector laughed. "There are many things in this world more terrifying than death. Since you're afraid, that means you really do have a chance to kill the Acting Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius."
"Insignificant insect, pay the price for your recklessness!"
Holding Noelle by the head with one hand, the Abyss Lector slowly reached toward her face with the other, which was wreathed in surging abyssal aura.
"No! Don't!"
As that palm grew larger in her vision, its thick, sinister aura closing in, Noelle's face filled with terror!
At that moment, tears of regret spilled down her cheeks.
"I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so reckless..."
"I really don't want to betray the Knights. I really don't want to hurt everyone."
"Anyone, please... come save me..."
Despair, fear, and regret flooded Noelle's heart. Her body trembled as great drops of tears rolled down her face.
She wasn't afraid of death, but she truly didn't want to hurt the people she loved.
"Hahaha. An insect's final wail?"
The Abyss Lector sneered contemptuously. "Wail all you want. No one will come to save you!"
With that, the large hand wrapped in