«Stupid girl, where do you think are you going?! I don't want to go to the next world, certainly not with you!»

«But…»

Kyon approached the sarcophagus and began to study the patterns in the beam of his flashlight. He was looking for the slightest hint of a trap. He walked around, crawled, looked up. The only thing he didn't do was climbing above. Then he touched it with his fingers... He infused Synergy, but it couldn't tackle the hard rock. He made a little tube and blew some saliva into the crevice of the coffin. If there were any elemental barriers inside, his Synergy would reveal them. But the brief search showed there were no traps.

Juno was s.h.i.+vering with cold again. She looked like a plucked chicken, hugging herself with her arms.

«Master, just open it. Any elemental trap would have dissipated for hundreds of years.» – She took out the stick they both knew so well. – «Try this.»

Deep in his thoughts, Kyon looked at the stick that had nearly killed him before. He nodded to himself and slowly walked away to the stairs.

«I order you to carefully remove the lid with the stick!»

«ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!» – The dumbstruck girl cried turning pale. However, she had to obey her formation. With tears streaming down her face, she poked the stick at the lid. It budged an inch... When she moved the lid about halfway, Kyon ordered the girl to stop.

Juno fiercely shot a stream of hatred with her eyes at the target that was standing just a bit away. Tracks of tears ran from the corners of her eyes. All her life flashed before her... She did not want to die!

«You are the most terrible person in the world! There is no one worse than you! The devil will envy you!» – She wanted to give the jerk a load of nasty words but she was afraid of the inevitable punishment. – «How can you do this to a girl?! Masters don't do that! You have no right to call me your student anymore! What if I died?!» - The girl squealed in a thin voice.

«Then there would be one bad person less in the world.» – The guy grinned, approaching the half-open sarcophagus.

Juno clenched her fists, growling softly with rage like a wolf cub. She wanted to kill that smug b.a.s.t.a.r.d so much!

Kyon discovered a dried skeleton inside. On its sides, there was a whole bunch of cloudy green stones with formations. His eyes shone with delight. He found ancient heritage! People of antiquity loved to leave all sorts of goodies! Their sense of self-importance and narcissism could be seen even after death as if they were saying: «Look how great and powerful I was in my lifetime!»

The guy held out his hand to the first nephrite he saw. Then he stopped, took the stick from the hands of the aggressive-minded fox and touched the sphere with it, releasing Synergy. He could see no traps. He knew there was a chance that some of the information could be destroyed along with Synergy so he studied the stones carefully.

He nodded to himself, wished himself good luck and just in case prayed. Then he took the first nephrite in his hand. A relieved sigh escaped his lips: he was alive.

«Master...» – Juno muttered, her teeth chattering from cold. She could hardly restrain her anger. – «You must share the legacy with the Stones, especially with me. My family had discovered the location of the tomb, and I, as a representative of a n.o.ble family, showed you how to get here!»

«First come, first served.» – The guy said shortly, carefully studying the information in the nephrite.

«What do you mean by served?! You just opened the entrance, and we did the dirty job! It was my family who had found the tomb! Ninety percent of the heritage should belong to us! But I'm a generous person, so I will give you twenty... No, twenty-five percent!»

«If it weren't for me, you would keep dancing around the tomb for another thousand years. You'd never get inside. So, at least nine-tenths of everything here is mine. But I'm a truly generous soul. I won't let you suffer any agony or grief over your lost wealth. I will not tell anyone about it, and your family can go on banging their heads at the gates of the castle as long as they like.»

«How dare you?!» – Juno wanted to tear the guy into small pieces. He was stealing from her family a real treasure! Thousands of years of toil and everything went to some d.a.m.ned egoist, who opened the door by sheer chance! It was unfair!

The girl was shaking with anger. In a fit of rage, she ran to the coffin and, with her little hands, grabbed the first sphere she could reach.

«It's mine!»

Kyon quickly grabbed the young lady's hand and squeezed it firmly with his fingers, preventing the petty thief from s.n.a.t.c.hing the sphere.

«How dare you steal from your master?» – The slave girl was asking for a long-awaited punishment. The guy had already figured out what it would be, but he suddenly noticed something unusual in the girl's behavior.

Juno fell on her knees and screamed with inhuman horror and panic in her voice:

«А-а-а-аа-аа-аh! It hur-ur-uur-ur-urts-s-ss-s!» – She broke free from his grip and flopped to the floor, whining from h.e.l.lish pain, twisting and turning, trembling with her whole body, crying through agony for help.

The guy was near her at once. He pulled her clasped hand. The sight was terrifying: a little sphere of nephrite radiating bright light was biting into the girl's palm. It looked just like some carnivorous scarab from the movies about the tomb raid. It had crawled into her wrist and was gnawing a path into her body. Once it got to her vital organs, she was dead.

Without any hesitation, Kyon grabbed the bunchy glowing patch of skin and pressed it with his hand with all his might, trying to squeeze it out.

With an unpleasant sound of torn flesh, accompanied by a heartbreaking girl's scream, the little sphere popped out from under her skin and, like a magnet, flew into the guy's hand, biting into his flesh.

It got more aggressive. Now it wasn't gnawing its way on the surface but deep inside, tearing muscle tissue and joints with ten times more speed.

Everything went dark from unbearable pain.

Juno opened her tear-stained eyes and stared at the guy. {Did he just save me?}

Kyon raised his pain threshold a hundred times and was about to take his sword out of the ring to cut open his arm when he realized it was too late...

{I never imagined I'd die so foolishly.} - He didn't want to die but all he could do was to rely on his regenerative abilities.

The little ball gnawed through his chest to the heart with unwavering zeal.

The guy's face took on an ashen shade of gray. He looked steadily at the girl, who was staring at him with pity and horror, and whispered:

«Juno ... Do not hurt slaves, you dummy... They are people, too.»

The next moment, the bright sphere penetrated his heart, reached the key of light and began to destroy it. Laurel's essence was struck with an unbearable hurricane of pain, his whole body twisted. He lost control of his limbs, they went into spasms and cramps. It seemed like a violent explosion had gone off in his head. For some reason, the increase in the pain threshold did not work.

It felt like liquid magma was pressure-grouted into his channel of light and flowing straight into his soul.

The pain was so unbearable that the guy forced himself into a coma, leaving it to Synergy to save his dying organism. Let the chips fall where they may... Juno might have helped him but it was no use counting on her.

Kyon did not have time to think about why he'd saved her. On the other hand, if she'd died, he couldn't have left the mansion alive.

Meanwhile, Juno began to lament:

«No! Do not die, moron! You can't die so easily! Please! You have not purified my keys yet... Master, please! I don't want you to die like that!» – She shook the young man, moaning with unbearable pain in her hand. Droplets of her tears soaked his black s.h.i.+rt.

What should she do now? Pain and cold made it difficult to think. First of all, she took out and applied some ointment to her hand. At the same time, she took a painkiller, which she had wisely taken from the hospital. The pain was almost completely gone, her head cleared.

{Why did he save me? Why? Is sc.u.m like him capable of n.o.ble deeds?} - The girl could not find the answer, and yet she could help thinking about his last words. {It's ridiculous... They are not people, and you are not a hero!}

After a while, Juno gently touched her forehead. The mark did not disappear, therefore, the guy was still alive. She pressed her ear to his warm chest and could hear a rare, weak heartbeat and hoa.r.s.e, intermittent breathing. It's crazy... Why didn't that ball kill him? Anyway, he'd surprised her before and once told her all about his regeneration.

The question was what to do next?

If her annoying master dies, then she will finally be free from the chains of slavery. She will breathe deeply and return to fulfilling her dream. Hasn't she's been wanting it so much since she got the d.a.m.n mark?

On the other hand, if he survives, she will have a chance to get the legendary purification, which only G.o.ddess Danna can grant. Oh well, and this b.a.s.t.a.r.d which is still hard to believe. If everything goes according to her original plan, she will become a super genius in the near future. She'll get rid of the mark and cruelly avenge him. The mighty wings of her growing talent will allow her to rise incredibly high... Elsa will finally turn into an obedient servant, and all the Stones, including grandfather and mother, will greet her first. It's breathtaking. That's why she should endure this monster next to her. Or maybe, he isn't worth it?

Juno took out the only pill she had. She'd specifically asked the doctor for it in case she got a serious injury. She was turning it with her fingers, wondering if she should give it to the servant or not. The pill was not simple, it contained many healing powers. The servant will almost certainly recover with its help. He's unlikely to survive without it. Without medical care, the guy was a hundred percent dead. Now his fate was in her hands.

Juno sighed deeply, releasing a cloud of vapor from her mouth. The chill paralyzed her. She wanted to scurry to the warm bathroom and then to bed. She wanted to let the jerk die there... He deserved the most brutal execution. She would happily strangle him right then but... Purification... Super talent... And... He did save her...

The last thought was decisive in favor of his salvation. But she could not admit this to herself. Instead, she thought: {I do not intend to spend my life with impure channels. I want to rise high above everyone else!}

Juno decidedly put the pill in his mouth.

She s.h.i.+vered once again and decided to go back upstairs, bring something warm and water, but she realized that while she went all the way there and back, the servant would definitely freeze to death.

Reluctantly, the girl took off her jacket and covered the guy. Then she took the flashlight and hurried outside.

When she came downstairs, Juno was dumbfounded. There was no azure light... No way out, either... As if it had never been there.

«No... It cannot be... Where is it?» – The girl touched the wall in the place where there the exit should be, pushed it but to no avail.

The young lady shone the flashlight on the wall in an attempt to find a lever or at least something useful. There was nothing.

«No! Noo-oo-o!» – She drummed her fists on the wall in a fit of despair. It occurred to her that it was because of her greed. The trap got activated, and the servant was dying. She was to blame. But she did not want to admit it.

Juno took out the sound transmitter, her hands trembling. Then she remembered the cage of orders forbade her to use the device. For a moment, she regretted giving the pill to the master. But she knew that even if he died, no one would open the door for her.

{I am destined to perish here because of my greed?} - She concluded helplessly. But like a ray of hope, a silly, probably even naive in this situation thought flashed in her mind: if the servant could get inside he would find the way outside! He was her last hope.

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