Ranni looked at the contract in her hands, then tore it to shreds without expression.
"He used me." Ranni's voice was icy, making Blaidd feel as though winter had arrived early.
"I told you we should've killed him." Blaidd wrinkled his nose, baring a mouthful of sharp fangs that gleamed coldly.
Ranni looked at the blueprints and research notes again. "Simply killing him would let him off too easily. Pull out his soul and seal it inside a puppet. Make him restore these blueprints and squeeze those ideas out of his head."
"Yes, yes, yes, that's even better. Make him wish he were dead!" Blaidd was very pleased with Ranni's idea. As expected of the Lunar Princess.
"What about those three from the Primeval Current School?" Blaidd asked.
Ranni thought for a moment. "Since they really didn't take part in the rebellion, just exile them. Separate the three of them and dump them somewhere deserted, where they'll never see daylight again."
Such was the Lunar Princess's mercy. She had given her word, after all: if they hadn't joined the rebellion, she would spare their lives. She had even arranged how they would spend the rest of those lives.
You could search the Lands Between with a torch and still struggle to find such a good deal.
"All right, I'll get on it right away." Blaidd understood what he needed to do.
First, exile Azur, Lusat, and Sellen in three different directions, sending them somewhere deserted.
If necessary, it would be best to lock them up as well, to keep them from stirring up trouble and making a mess everywhere.
As for what Ranni wanted to do with Zhao Si's research, Blaidd wasn't concerned.
After all, in Ranni's plan, suicide wasn't the end, but the beginning. Only after killing herself and