Chapter 456: Into the Underground Facility
"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.