Chapter 410: The Spider and Viper (7)
The boy mumbled to himself.
“Offer my life……?”
“That’s right, Luke. That is the ultimate sacrifice a person can offer another.”
If Daisy had coiled around her brother and bit into his throat, then I was slowly enveloping Luke in web. To an extent, it was Luke himself who flew into the web. I wasn’t going to step forward to hurt him myself.
“You should have learned about it from Jeremi, but there is something called a slave seal.”
Luke flinched the moment he heard Jeremi’s name. For an instant, bewilderment, anger, and regret brushed across his face. It was really for only a moment.
Luke couldn’t control his emotions well, but he wasn’t so immature as to leave those emotions unchecked. He was repeating a pendulum movement right at the midpoint between maturity and immaturity. The curve Luke was drawing could be considered one of the most beautiful things in the world.
In other words, Luke was a boy.
“When a slave seal is engraved, the recipient becomes almost perfectly dependent on the other party. Even suicide becomes impossible unless ordered to do so by their master.”