Do you know what the biggest form of torture to a man on a death sentence is?"
Luna's chuckles echoed in the silent arena as she approached the man and spat out.
"It's the last meal that they are offered!" Seeing the puzzled look on his face Luna continued her words.
"You don't understand, do you? Let me tell you~
The last meal is usually for people to feel the last trace of satisfaction but that is what they only say on the surface.
As they eat the last meal of their life, they watch their life unfold in front of them.
All of their actions that led to their current state remind them that they could have enjoyed that meal as many times they could have wanted."
"But…."
Luna paused and looked at the man deep in his eyes and added,
"They chose to do that one thing they shouldn't have that led them to this place."
As Luna's words descended on his mind, the look of enjoyment started fading from his face, what replaced it was a look of frown.
"Ah! That's right! You should be feeling it right!
The tingling sensation in your nerves as if ants are gnawing at it from the inside."
Luna's eyes turned into a crescent moon shape as a gentle smile appeared on her face.
She looked like a demon to the man!
"Do you know why you started feeling pleasure instead of pain even when you numbed your veins with poison?"
The frail-looking man shook his head scared of what might happen to him now.
He could feel it whatever she said was happening right now.
"You see, I have been nurturing my sword in a poison.. the poison not only passes any type of low-level poison but it also replaces their sense of pain with a sense of pleasure."
It was an excuse that Luna created on the spot to make sure that no one became doubtful about what happened to the man.
It seemed to have worked as everyone looked like everything that happened made sense to them.
Even Arion did not find anything wrong with her words.
"But that's not all after the effects of the poison worse off the person who is affected by it feels the pain coming back of what they should have been feeling all this time.
And as the time passes the pain multiplies by several times."
Luna swayed around the man who was at the death's door as she explained. The revelation scared the man to the core.
He was not the only one everyone was scared of the girl right now. Even the heads of the noble families were sweating profusely in their seats.
"You are enjoying this aren't you?"
The man spat some words with venom. The pain had already started coming back to him.
A twisted smirk appeared at the corner of her lips as she looked at the man with satisfaction in her eyes.
"Well, Of course I am!"
She sneered with her tone dripping with malice.
"You dared to law your filthy eyes on what was not yours, you should have seen it long coming.
No one! I mean Not a single soul is worthy to look at me with those eyes beside my brother!"
Her words conveyed the deep obsession she had with her brother and for a second her voice seemed to be a mixture of man and a woman while her eyes glowed with white outline.
It was not wrong to say Keiran wholeheartedly agreed with her words. He was ready to Slash down anyone who dared to act against 'his' sister.
The man trembled as he looked at Luna with a pitiful expression.
"It was a moment of weakness.."
He said weekly, seeing that he could not say anything to refute her. He tried to garner her sympathy so that she would spare him.
"No, you just made wrong decisions."
Saying those words Luna backed away while sheathing her sword.
"I am not here to play. I am here to survive, so don't think your act would work on me."
"Ahhh!!!"
The man started twitching on the ground as the pain inside his body increased gradually.
Despair washed over him drowning him in the depths of his own helplessness.
The pain gradually increased causing his wounds to reopen. He started bleeding from his seven orifices.
His eyes turned bloodshot as he tried to bite his tongue to end his misery but the pain was so much that he could not even move his mouth without screaming.
The screams caused his vocal cords to shatter.
As he choked on the last strands of pleasure he was feeling. The pleasure was like a cruel reminder of the cruelty of the world.
But it was not that the world was cruel, it was the people living on it that made this world cruel.
"Argh!!!"
The agonizing hoarse screams of the man reverberated throughout the arena.
Some spectators watched with twisted satisfaction and glint of fascination while the other looked away from the stage but one thing was common they all feared the white haired witch now.
Soon the echoes of the man's screams died down as life left his body leaving a heavy and palpable sense of heaviness.
The crowd stayed quiet as they could still feel the cries echoing in their minds even though the man had died.
Luna looked at the horrified body that had turned red with blood marks all over it with indifference and walked away from the arena.
Only after she disappeared from the sight of the crowd did the audience dare to breathe again.
"Wow! Another speechless performance by our queen.
I wonder if all of her matches would make me unable to comment on them.
These people are making my job difficult."
The commentator tried to ease the tense atmosphere of the crowd but he was unsuccessful this time.
No one was feeling energetic after the scene they had to witness.