Isabel briskly walked to Dekan's side, looking down at him from above.

She originally intended to lift Dekan's chin with the tip of her foot or stomp on his head fiercely, but for now, she restrained herself. Surprisingly, she was calm.

"Go and use your 60 times Heartache Attack to defeat the Ice Princess. I will punish you later, my slave."

If Dekan's body wasn't so weak, Isabel would have wanted to severely torture him right away. However, perhaps because Dekan had become her possession, Isabel hesitated to destroy his attractive body.

"Okay."

Dekan's voice seemed devoid of emotion. He stiffly climbed to his feet and walked step by step toward the Ice Princess.

"No..."

Watching Dekan approach her like a walking corpse, the expression on the Ice Princess's face became incredibly desperate again.

Her lips trembled as if she wanted to say something, but pain and panic prevented her from uttering anything.

Unconsciously, tears of guilt slid down her cheeks to the ground.

It seemed like Dekan didn't see anything. He appeared like he didn't recognize the Ice Princess and Croix. He approached them with a cold and emotionless demeanor, like an emotionless assassin.

"Young man, I'm sorry... it's all my fault..."

The Ice Princess's eyes were filled with sparkling tears and deep within her gaze was complete despair. Her face was as pale as paper, and her words sounded like a confession and a futile plea.

However, in the next second, it seemed like there was a touch of emotion in the Ice Princess's eyes and her eyelashes trembled slightly.

Whether it was an illusion or not, she noticed that Dekan's lips seemed to be trembling lightly.

Only at the direction where the Ice Princess was facing could one see that Dekan seemed to have exerted all his strength to barely grasp the last bit of control over his body, trying to convey a message through lip movements.

The Ice Princess observed Dekan's lips seriously. But soon, she discovered that the words he seemed to want to say were

"Please, kill me..."

"No! I can't do it!"

The Ice Princess finally burst into tears, melting away like ice and snow, crying aloud.

Even if she could really bring herself to do it, she was suppressing the [Destruction Demon Lord] and did not have any spare energy to attack Dekan.

If the day came when she had to kill Dekan, freeing him from enslavement, she would undoubtedly choose suicide afterward. She couldn't live with that guilt.

However, as long as she was alive, she wouldn't let the main culprit go! In an instant, the Ice Princess seemed to transform her grief into anger. She gritted her teeth, wiped away tears, and shouted at Isabel, "Isabel! No matter where you hide in the future, I will not let you go! I will chase you down until I free this young man from your bondage!"

"Heh, you can talk about that after surviving today!" Isabel responded with a mocking laugh.

Without equipment and magic cards, she might not be able to quickly break through Croix's defensive magic. But she knew that Dekan's pain reversal secret technique, the 60 times Heartache Attack, was unstoppable and indefensible. This move could directly lock onto the Ice Princess from a distance and crush her!

Isabel was not worried at all that Croix would hand over the [Pain Nullification] taken from her to the Ice Princess. Although the binding and unbinding of magic cards were quick, they had to be done outside of combat. With the Ice Princess in this high-stress combat state, she wouldnt be able to bind magic cards at all!

Isabel wanted to use her just-acquired servant to unleash the "Destruction Demon King" and kill both the Ice Princess and Croix to reclaim her cards!

Dekan strictly followed Isabel's instructions. He covered his chest, as if self-hypnotizing himself as he did when he first exhibited the 60-fold pain attack in the Demon Academy.

"Ice Princess, I hate you!"

"Ice Princess, why don't you listen to my advice!"

"Ice Princess, youve repaid kindness with enmity! You caused me to fall to this point! How can you atone for it!"

As the Ice Princess listened to Dekan's words, her eyes reddened again. She tried hard not to let tears escape. She knew that the will-less Dekan's words were just the hypnotic steps needed to perform the so-called "Heartache Attack." But every word dealt a mental blow to the Ice Princess.

She felt guilty, overwhelmingly so. In her eyes, it was her mistake that led the young man who had saved her in the most crucial moment to such a miserable fate!

But.

She couldn't let these things shake her mind. She had to maintain her mental state unwaveringly. Even if she had to grit her teeth and endure Dekan's 60-fold pain reversal attack, she absolutely couldn't faint from the pain. She had to grip the chain staff tightly and protect the people of Tristin City.

However, the Ice Princess thought that no matter what Dekan said, she would maintain her firm will.

"Ice Princess."

"You!"

"Do it...kill me..."

Dekan stood in front of the Ice Princess, his figure braving the cold wind like a lone hero. He seemed to have reclaimed a bit of will in extreme pain and struggle, making every effort to say these words.

The Ice Princess's face turned pale, and her brain buzzed. She saw that even though Dekan was enslaved, his noble soul still flickered with a dazzling light. At this moment, her eyes turned completely red. Tears blurred her vision and a suffocating feeling seemed to be dragging her into the endless abyss.

"Ah...ah..."

Her body stiffened. She was unable to move. She felt as if something in her chest was about to burst. It wasn't Dekan's 60-fold pain reversal attack that caused this. It was more heartbreaking than the 60-fold pain reversal attack she was expecting.

"Drip."

A tear unexpectedly slid from the corner of her eye and fell to the ground. Then, tears, like beads off a broken string, couldn't be stopped.

"Waaah...I can't...I can't do it..."

She finally broke down, crying, no longer resembling a composed strong individual but rather a fragile little girl.

"Hahaha! You deserve it!!"

Seeing this scene, Isabel couldn't help but burst into laughter. It was undoubtedly the most wonderful dialogue she had heard today, whether it was Dekan's futile struggles or the Ice Princess's crying. They made her feel like she was listening to celestial music.

However, her laughter was soon drowned out by another more unabashed laughter.

"Wahahaha."

Dekan couldn't help but cover his stomach and laughed. The crying of the Ice Princess and Isabel's laughter both abruptly stopped. Only Dekan's laughter remained. He jogged over to Croix, gave him a playful pat, then spread his arms and happily ran around Croix and the Ice Princess. It was as if he were celebrating the great success of a prank show.