She slightly opened her right hand, and a long sword appeared in her palm. She gripped it tightly, and with a 'ding' sound, the tip of the sword pointed at the Scarred Man. "I can spare your life, but you have to agree to one condition."
Upon hearing there was a chance of survival, the Scarred Man immediately stopped screaming and asked Illustrious, "What condition?"
"The condition is to play a game with me. The rules are that I will use my sword to cut off your ten fingers one by one. If you scream at any point, you lose; if you endure the whole process without screaming, you win." Illustrious cleared her throat and continued:
"If you win, I'll let you go, and I'll heal all your injuries. Furthermore, I will absolutely not resist; you can do whatever you want with me, whatever you want to do to me is fine."
"If you don't play this game, I'll kill you with one strike right now. So, how about it? Play, and there's a sliver of hope; don't play, and it's a dead end."
Hearing that he could have all his injuries healed and be able to do whatever he wanted with this top-tier beauty, the Scarred Man was ecstatic. "You stinking woman, you'll regret not killing me. Once I win, I'll definitely throw you on the bed and ravage you." "Fine! I'll play this game! Start!"
Seeing the aggressive look in the Scarred Man's eyes, Illustrious knew exactly what he was thinking. A toad actually wanted to eat swan meat—it was simply delusional.
A flash of sword light, and the Scarred Man's left thumb was severed. The intense pain almost made him scream, but fortunately, he was quick-witted and immediately covered his mouth with his hand, so he didn't make a sound.
"You must not cover your mouth with your hand; that violates the rules. If you dare to cover your mouth next time, I will kill you directly," Illustrious said coldly.
You didn't say I couldn't cover my mouth just now. The Scarred Man wanted to retort like this, but realized that if he said that, he would definitely be sent to paradise on the spot. "Mmph... nngh... ah! Fine! I promise I won't cover my mouth next time."
Another flash of sword light, and the Scarred Man's index finger was severed. The pain almost made him cry out, but he gritted his yellow teeth and endured it forcefully.
"Oh? You seem to have quite a lot of endurance. Well then, I wonder if you can endure what's coming next?" Illustrious said with a surprised look in her eyes.
"I won't lose! If you're going to do it, do it! Why are you stopping? Continue, keep cutting!" the Scarred Man shouted at Illustrious.
"A strange request. You wouldn't happen to be a masochist, would you? Since that's the case, I'll grant your wish."
"I'm not a masochist! This is called being unyielding!"
In the process that followed, Illustrious kept using her sword to cut off the Scarred Man's fingers one by one, wanting to make him scream, but the Scarred Man was very enduring. Until Illustrious finished cutting off the last finger, the Scarred Man had actually not made a single sound the entire time.
Watching the Scarred Man who had endured the whole process, Illustrious had to admire his powerful willpower. The ten fingers are connected to the heart; severing just one hurts like hell! To be able to persist through this was truly impressive! "I didn't expect you wouldn't make a sound. Do you have no sense of pain? No, that's not right! When I cut off your fingers, you looked like you were in a lot of pain! Tell me, how did you do it?"
Upon hearing Illustrious ask him how he did it, the Scarred Man laughed heartily and said, "Hahaha! I won, you lost! This is great, I persisted! You ask how I did it? I'm not afraid to tell you. Actually, every time you cut off a finger, I would imagine in my mind what the situation would be like after I won."
"The moment I thought about how after winning against you, I could pin you, this woman, under me and listen to you screaming 'no' with your mouth, I didn't feel any pain at all."
"Also, you woman are too wicked. It only takes three seconds to cut off a finger, but you insisted on pausing for two minutes before the next one, making me suffer through that time. It almost made me unable to endure it, but fortunately, I still held on in the end."
Hearing that the Scarred Man had managed to hold on only by imagining the poses she would strike in bed made Illustrious extremely angry; such a person truly deserved to die! "Congratulations, you've won this game!"
You won—these were the most beautiful words the Scarred Man had ever heard in his life; hahaha! He had succeeded! Now, as long as Illustrious healed all his wounds, he could make a full recovery, and then he could do whatever he wanted with her. He planned to play with Illustrious countless times first, and once he got bored, he would kill her with a single sword strike, thereby completing the task given by the Divine Miracle!
"Alright! Since I've already won, hurry up and heal all my wounds! Oh, and after you heal me, capture that blue-haired girl with the horns on her head next to you and bring her to me. Then, both of you wait in bed for me to dote on you. Do you hear me..." the Scarred Man ordered Illustrious.
With a squelch, the skyward blade pierced straight through the Scarred Man's heart. The Scarred Man, unable to finish his sentence, widened his eyes and used his last bit of strength before death to say: "You went back on your word! You clearly said you would let me go if I won the game, and that I could do whatever I wanted with you—how could you do this?"
Illustrious said expressionlessly: "I am a person who keeps their promises. If I have said something, I will absolutely fulfill it."
"Then what is going on right now? Shouldn't you be sticking to your principle of keeping your word? Why are you breaking your promise now?"
"I did not break any promise. Ganyu, did you hear me say I would let him go if he won the game?" Illustrious said to Ganyu.
"You did not say that," Ganyu said with a serious tone.
"Then did I say that if he won the game, he could do whatever he wanted with me?" Illustrious continued to ask Ganyu.
"You did not say that either," Ganyu replied.
"So you see, since I never said those things, why should I honor a promise to you?" Illustrious gave him a look of pity for the mentally challenged and said: "Old man! When you accuse me of not keeping my word, you need evidence. Don't slander me, or be careful, or I'll sue you for defamation. Understand?"
"You shameless...!" After saying this, the Scarred Man died instantly. After pulling out the skyward blade, the Scarred Man's body was soon covered in ice due to the corrosion of the Extreme Ice Power. With a pop, the icy body shattered into ice dregs, which turned into gas and disappeared into mid-air.
After dealing with the Scarred Man, Illustrious suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to ask who had sent them to assassinate her, but since the person was already dead, she let it go.
However, even without asking, she knew it must have been that bald young master. "Hmph! When I go back, that bald young master is a dead man. To think he dared to send people to kill me—he really has some nerve! If a tiger doesn't show its might, do they really think I'm a sick cat?"
"I'm back! You must be hungry, right? Look at what I have in my hands!" Xiangling suddenly popped out from a pile of grass, grinning happily when she saw Illustrious and Ganyu.
Looking at the slime Xiangling was holding in her hands, Illustrious asked curiously: "Why did you catch a Grass Slime?"
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