Chapter 299 – I Let You Live Because I'm Generous
Lux watched. Silent. Studying.
Like a stockbroker watching the market crash just right.
Like a bored king watching rats in a maze.
"C'mon," he murmured, voice low and amused. "Entertain me more."
He didn't even blink as one tendril slammed through Kaelin's wing and pinned her down like a divine butterfly on display. She howled, pain and humiliation mixing beautifully.
Elio flailed, the only one left moving—one tendril missed his head by inches, another snared his boot but he kicked out of it, blood trailing.
He crawled. He sprinted. He leaped—
And somehow—
Just barely—
He made it out of the edge of the trap.
Panting. Bleeding. Crawling on the ground.
Lux raised a brow.
"…Huh," he mused. "Look at that. The golden boy wins."
He clapped slowly.
"Congratulations, Elio. You just won the world's most terrifying internship."
The other two?
