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She handed him a pair of glasses and he wore them, resting its rim on the bridge of his nose.

”Hmm... let me see.” He licked his fingers and pulled out the white paper within it, acting as though he had not already read it.

”Oh?”

”The Fable girl was evaluated to have SSS potential, the dead headmasters kid was evaluated to have SSS potential, even a fucking skeleton? How amusing.”

He shook his head.

”And yet, you were only evaluated as SS.” He said it in a lower tone, as though the very evaluation confused him.

A few seconds passed in tense silence.

”I cannot say I am surprised, considering your middling birth.” He handed the ghoul the paper, and she neatly organized it before tucking it into her breasts.

Cain felt a pang in his chest. His jaw clenched hard, but he kept his head bowed.

”As horrible as your performance was, I was going to let it slide. Your dear mother begged me for your sake after all...”

Cain felt relief flood him. ”Thank you for your kindness—”

Ares shrugged.

”They say when you have zero expectations, it is less easy to be dissapointed...”

”And yet, you still somehow managed to disappoint me...”

”?!”

”Nghh!”

A heavy pressure suddenly descended upon Cain, causing him to buckle, bowing to the point that he kissed the floor.

Ares’ eyes grew even colder than they had been. The undead in the abyss below grew unsettled, the sound of scratching bones became so loud, so maddening, that Cain’s composure crumbled.

The room was chaotic, a myriad of voices flooding his head.

It was as though he could hear the countless screams of the enslaved souls begging for mercy, for a chance at redemption, for a reprieve from their suffering...

It took everything in Cain to hold back his scream.

”Do you know what father received just yesterday?” Ares tapped his finger on his armrest.

The ghoul pulled out another letter from her breast. But this one was white and had a broken seal, the seal of house Fable.

She handed him the letter and he waved it in the air. ”Tell me brother. Do we strike you as the type of people to patronise a whore house?”

Cain was confused. He shook his head.

”Do you have such... proclivities?”

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Cain shook his head.

”Then tell me. Why did father receive a letter from that fable whore?”

”...”

The room drowned into silence. A calm before an unsettling storm.

”You tried to kill her didn’t you?”

Cain’s eyes widened.

”Brother! That is a lie, I did no such—!”

The world around Cain blurred, and when he came to, he was pinned to the wall by his brother, his cold hands tightly wrapped around his throat and digging into his neck.

Cain gurgled blood. His vision dimmed.

Ares’ stared at him with those vacant white eyes. ”You gave that little shit the leverage to insult our family, and now you dare speak in my presence?”

The more horrifying part of it was that even now, Cain could not sense any emotion from his brother, just a vast emptiness that unsettled him.

Ares’ grip tightened, and a snapping sound followed.

He laughed. ”Funny isn’t it?

”I would have understood if you failed to kill her. But how couldn’t you even cover up your tracks?”

”Fix your mess, dear brother.” Ares said in a mocking tone. ”Do not bring shame to Oder.”

In that very moment, feeling his lungs burn for oxygen, and his neck ache as though his head was about to be ripped off...

Cain only had one thought.

’Ark... Soo-jin. I will make you pay for this embarrassment. No matter the cost!’

And then everything went dark.

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