Don't Come Unless It Explodes!

"Y-you, how could you... how could you do something so cruel?!"

Domis clutched his chest with one hand and shakily pointed at Bell with the other, his face filled with grief and indignation.

It could be said that if one had to pick the Menethil Family member who hated Bell the most, it would undoubtedly be Domis. If he could beat Bell, Domis truly wanted to pin him to the ground and stomp on him right now.

"What's so strange about that? Isn't it perfectly normal?"

Bell spread his hands, looking utterly innocent, completely unaware of how "vicious" his actions were.

After all, as researchers in the Menethil Family's Core Research Laboratory, Domis and the others had all signed the strictest confidentiality contracts. The moment they entertained thoughts of leaking classified information, the magical contract's restraints would disrupt the flow of Magic Power within their bodies, causing intense pain. If they acted on those thoughts, the contract's backlash would cause their Magic Power to run wild and make them explode to death.

Such confidentiality contracts also restricted communication. In a sense, there was no fundamental difference between them and Bell cutting off Domis's Personal Terminal connection to Earth.

Probably?

Of course, Bell had not done this because he was worried that Domis would leak secrets to outsiders. Bell's experimental work was classified beyond top secret to begin with, naturally falling under the confidentiality contract's restrictions. There was no need to worry about Domis revealing the details of the experiment to anyone outside.

What Bell was actually worried about was Domis leaking secrets internally. Telling William and Elena about the experiment would not violate the contract. Rather, informing a child's parents about the dangerous things their child was doing was entirely reasonable, wasn't it?

As an outstanding researcher, Bell had never