Chapter 15: Hope

Chapter 15: Hope

Agnia’s pleading eyes could not pierce the madness consuming Max. With every passing second, the grip around her neck tightened until her vision began to blur and darken at the edges. In a way, she had already accepted her death, though not without curses, regret, and bitterness clawing through her chest. Most of all, she knew that now, she would never be able to fulfill her late father’s wishes.

Consumed by rage at the image of his mother, Max was ready to tighten his grip and snap Agnia’s neck, but in that same moment, system screens burst into existence around him in a circle, flashing red and black like warning lights in the dark.

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