This is the just and solemn judgement of a noble in accordance to the
Empire Fundamental Law as well as the Taboo Index! Also, obstruction of
the authority to judge is a serious crime! Move another step from where
you are and you'll be branded a criminal who broke the law!"
"Who..."
the heck cares about that!
Get away from Teiza and Ronie!
Eugeo tried to shout thus. He tried to do so while lunging at Raios.
However.
His feet suddenly stopped by themselves as though they were nailed to the
floor. The excess momentum made him fall onto his knees. He flustered as
he tried to get up, but his legs paid him no heed.
Those words from Raios, "criminal who broke the law", continued echoing
endlessly in his mind. Who cares about the law, I have to help Teiza and
Ronie even if I become a criminal. Eugeo indeed thought that, but he could
hear a voice that didn't belong to him coming from somewhere.
The Axiom Church was absolute. The Taboo Index was absolute. Going
against it was forbidden. Forbidden whoever it was.
"Gu... h...!!"
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He gritted his teeth and raised his right foot in defiance of that voice. Those
familiar leather boots—even the feet inside of them were heavy as though
they've turned to lumps of lead. Taking fleeting glances at Eugeo in that
state, Raios jeered in a whisper.
"That's right, just look from over there like a good little boy."
"U... ugh..."
He managed to tread onto the floorboards with his unheeding right foot
after all his efforts, but he couldn't lift himself up any further. Even while he
tried, Raios's and Humbert's filthy hands were reaching out towards Tizel
and Ronie.
"——Senpai."
Hearing that feeble voice, Eugeo merely shifted his sight.
Upon doing so, Teiza, who was being pressed down by Raios, turned only
her head to the side and looked straight at Eugeo. Those cheeks, that were
always red like apples, were a deep blue, perhaps due to the overwhelming
fear but the gleam of a strong determination had returned to her eyes.
"Senpai, don't move. There's no need to worry about me... this is, a
punishment I, should be taking."
Those broken, quivering words were firmly asserted by Teiza and she
returned back to looking straight up after a single nod. After glaring at
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Raios for an instant, she closed her eyes tightly. Beside her, Ronie was
pressing her face into Teiza's shoulder, but there was no screams coming
out of her anymore.
Facing the girls' determination, Raios drew his body back as if he was a
little surprised—
Before a toxic smile showed itself on his face and he whispered.
"You got quite a tenacity for the young daughter of a sixth class noble
family, don't you. Looks like we can really enjoy seeing how much they can
hold out, huh, Humbert."
"Then shall we have a competition to see which cries out first, Raios-dono?"
The faces of those two, from which lines that didn't contain a shred of the
pride of nobles came out, were so full of arousal and lust that they
practically gleamed.
It was a somewhat familiar expression. While trying his best to get his
unmoving foot forward, Eugeo thought with his partially numb mind. That
was, right, the face on those goblins he saw in that northern cave two years
ago. They were exactly like those residents of the land of darkness that he
and Kirito chopped up with machetes.