Ariane had thought that she could avert her crisis by mixing lies with truth, but she would soon find out she was very, very wrong.

“Argh!” Stars flashed before her eyes from a single blow of Kim Jin-Woo’s fist, and her stomach turned inside out with a single kick. A pain that throbbed right through her insides, down to the bones, resonated through her body, and she screamed as mucus and tears rolled out of her orifices.

“P-Please…” She couldn’t even comprehend what she was begging for, but her head was only filled with fear at that moment.

Her physical pain was one thing to be afraid of, but something even more terrifying than that was the fact that the Undefeated Commander said nothing all throughout. He acted as if he were violence itself personified, and there was not an ounce of mercy in his blows.

Ariane couldn’t understand what he wanted, and thus, she found no escape from the pain. She desperately shook her head in fear and pain, but all she could muster was a plea for her life. “S-Save…”

The hellish experience carried on for a long time, until she couldn’t even figure out where she was being beaten. She was pushed past the point of passing out before the violence finally...