"Have you had your fun? We got the info. Let’s go."
The mood changed in an instant.
Aria’s playful pout evaporated. Her reflection straightened. "Right," she said quietly, and without another word, she grabbed her crescent staff and followed Nyx out of the room.
The boy swallowed, and so did many teenagers watching the Moon Valkyrie’s POV. All humor was gone, replaced by incredible tension. For a moment, thanks to Aria’s masterful playfulness and ability to entertain kids, thanks to her being a big sister who even acted as a mother for some years due to Julia’s absence, the viewers forgot that Valhalla’s Sinners were doing something very strange!
Aria’s POV drifted after Nyx, past the pristine hall and into the corridor that led back to the others. The screams had stopped. And somehow, that made it worse.
The camera moved around the corner.
The many adults who elected to watch Aria’s POV instead, finding the others’ too much to bear, had their breath suddenly catch.
Blood. So much blood. It painted the marble floor in dark pools, smeared in streaks where boots had walked through it. Torn scraps of skin. And most unsettling of all...
Fingernails. Several of them. Pale, bloody, some with bits of flesh still attached.
The chat went dead silent.
Elise Dupre, once a proud business leader, hung limply in the demoness’s grip. Elise’s face was swollen, streaked with blood and tears, her breath ragged and shallow. Her hands... ruined. Wrapped in a hasty cloth to keep her conscious, but the damage was unmistakable.
Bastet stood nearby, wiping her hands with a white cloth. Her expression was blank, detached. She seemed to be a lot more concerned about cleaning herself of the filth staining her delicate skin than about the fact that she just brutally tortured another living being.
Kaiden stood ahead of them all.
His shoulders were rigid. Jaw clenched. His eyes, usually light, playful, teasing, were dark. Even through the screen, the boy could feel it:
He was barely keeping himself together. This man was about to explode.
How could he not? Kaiden already had a good idea of what he was about to see, making him enraged even before his eyes were presented with the sight.
They moved through Elise’s mansion, soon reaching the library. Elise whimpered, weakly raising a shaking hand. Her fingers, what remained of them, gripped a thick leather-bound book on the middle shelf.
*Click.*
The bookshelf shuddered and split down the center. A hidden panel slid open, revealing a metal elevator bathed in sterile white light.
No one spoke.
They stepped inside.
The elevator descended in silence. Aria’s POV drifted toward Kaiden. His reflection in the elevator’s metal wall looked like a man walking into his own execution.
The elevator doors parted.
A cold underground hall stretched ahead, illuminated by white hexagonal lights embedded in the ceiling. Sleek steel walls hugged them from all sides. There was no dust, no age. This wasn’t an old and abandoned safety bunker, only to be used in case of emergency. This was a well-kept and clearly actively used facility.
A large circular platform awaited at the center of the room with runes glowing beneath glass-like flooring.
A transporter.
They stepped onto it, Kaiden at the front, the women in a loose formation behind, Calypso dragging Elise like luggage.
A soft chime sounded.
Then, *whoosh.*
The world around them blurred. Walls became streaks of light as the platform shot forward, faster than any mundane vehicle. Beneath the earth. Far from the city above. Hidden where no satellites or mana-scanners could detect.
"What is this place...?" The boy muttered to himself. He didn’t blink.
None of the viewers did.
They arrived at the end of the tunnel.
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