Chapter 166: Lucy Love Conviction(b) (1/2)

”You know that person very well,” Elliot said with a mysterious smile on his face.

”It can't be my parents because they died when I was still a child, so that means it must be one of my siblings,” Lucy said her thoughts out loud, a thoughtful look appearing on her face. Her brother wasn't a kind soul, and he was too arrogant, prideful, and strong to interact with anyone below a lord of magic. So that leaves only her sister in the equation. Her sister was kind and strong and also the person who single-handedly raised her.

”Is it my elder sister?” She said after pondering for some moments.

Elliot gave her a nod, silently agreeing with her words.

”What's your relation with her?”

”Should we be talking about that?”

”Oh right!” Lucy pointed at Oliver and Arthur before saying, ”Can you please do me a favor and let them go?”

”Sure,” Elliot nodded, then suddenly placed his index finger on her temple, saying the following words right after, ”but you must pay a hefty price for it.”

How could Oliver and Arthur remain silent even now and let a young lady sacrifice herself for them?!

”Don't agree to it! Who knows what he might ask you to do!”

”We don't want you to shoulder our troubles.”

Pressed against time and wanting to save her friends, Lucy didn't even consider that he might for her first time or something even worse and immediately gave her consent. ”They had been protecting us from the moment we came to this place. If there's a way, then I am willing to do everything to save them.”

Elliot snapped his fingers, and the rings binding Oliver and Arthur changed into waves of energy on the spot.

Although they were now no longer at his mercy and had also regained their freedom, there was not a single sign of joy in their eyes. Lucy ran to them and checked on them, and after making sure that they were fine, she breathed a sigh of relief. They exchanged a few words, and Elliot let them talk to each other. The both of them thanked their lucky stars and looked at Lucy with eyes flushed in gratefulness but also guilt.

”Sorry,” Arthur said.

”Because of us, you landed yourself in trouble,” Oliver said, guilt tainting the edges of his heroic voice.

”I did so willingly,” Lucy said these words so that they would stop feeling guilty. ”And personally, I don't think he is a bad guy. Different for sure, almost indifferent to life, but not bad.”

Through the few exchanges she had with Elliot, Lucy determined that he wasn't one to care about lives, but he was one to care about ties. If he was a bad person, there's no way he would have saved her. But he did!

Then, she walked back to Elliot, who was using the ink of promise to write something on three magic contracts at the same time.

Standing next to him, she looked straight at him and asked, ”What's the price that I need to pay?”

Elliot didn't give her a response, not until he finished writing what he wanted to on the magic contracts.

”That's something you ask before making a deal,” Elliot said jokingly, almost tauntingly.

Lucy wasn't put off by his behavior and kept on looking at him.