Chapter 17 - Repaying debts
Flying through the air after the punch landed on him from the inhuman Octo, Henry fell a few feet away—right beside a female figure.
"That hurt... Are you okay?" getting up with difficulty. Henry quickly extended his hand to the female figure on the floor. However, she stood up without receiving his help and looked at him with enraged eyes.
"Oh fuck... that’s Marian. That bloody queen of the arena..."
He heard whispers around him, and the hand he had extended toward the woman slowly crawled back to his side as he instinctively took a step back. Judging from what they said, the woman didn’t seem to be a good person.
"You’ve got some nerve, jumping onto me like that. You wanna go, boy?"
The woman grabbed Henry by the head, just like Octo had grabbed Auran.
"I... Apologize, but... it was... not... intentional," Henry blurted out with difficulty as the woman’s hand tightened around his neck.
He wanted to resist, but when he tried to cast any spell, the object around his neck activated and blocked all the mana he was going to use.
"Shit, this can’t be the way I die... In some random place, strangled by an unknown woman, with no one even caring about my dead body..." Henry’s eyes darted around. The guards, who had been watching the commotion, still showed no sign of action. They only hovered around those working in the mines to make sure they did their job properly. It seemed they wouldn’t bother with anything else, even if it was a fight that could end in a prisoner’s death.