There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 316

Chapter 316: Chapter 308. Atonement

There was a reason why the executive lounge number [03] was used exclusively by the Guildmaster. Attached to the room was a smaller, secret room with a hidden door. And inside that secret room was an elevator that connected the room with the Guildmaster’s office right above.

It seemed that, without anyone knowing, Radia had been receiving a secret guest in his office; a man who was now standing in front of them.

"What the fuck is he doing here?!"

The first time Bassena said it, it was with a mix of surprise and irritation. The second one Bassena said it, it was with hatred and disdain.

Mizar turned his head toward his younger twin, not only to put the headphones back over their guide’s ear, but also because something about that expression felt familiar to them.

"Calm down," Radia sighed.

"You told me to calm down when you bring someone from Celestia into the same room with Zein?" the amber eyes glared toward the Guildmaster.

"What do you expect when I say ’insider’?" Radia shook his head exasperatedly. Well, at least Bassena held back enough from rousing his magic energy. "And we had just done talking about how it’s not a collective doing."

Bassena clenched his fist hard to control his emotion, but it was hard to do so when he had been keeping in his rage without any outlet. Radia had been preventing him from seeing the perpetrators since he didn’t want Bassena to ’accidentally’ kill them out of fury.

So he couldn’t help but point his pent-up emotions toward the man who was known to be Celestia’s head figure in the Althrea branch.

And it probably didn’t help that Askan Bellum had an expression as if he was a sinner.

Ever since the man stepped into the room, he had been looking down. The wide and sturdy back was slumped, and his fists clenched. Above all, he looked like someone who hadn’t been sleeping for days, or even ate anything.

It was enough to invoke pity, but the Serpent Lord obviously had no such mercy.

At this point, Mizar had moved to sit beside his twin, because he felt like he would need to put a barrier over Ren, lest the young guide might get pressured by the the Saint-class mana. He looked at Alcor, and from the way the younger twin returned his gaze, it seemed like they reached the same conclusion;

There was something more than ’abduction’ happening before. Something horribly wrong.

"He’s not the culprit, but he’s here for atonement," Radia explained to the enraged esper.

"Hah! Are you sure about that?" Bassena sneered, definitely not ready to accept anything but a guilty verdict.

But Askan didn’t even look at Bassena. His gaze, which slowly lifted, was only looking at Zein, the person he originally came to see. And then, to all of their surprise, the man who hadn’t said anything even in front of Bassena’s barraging words, lowered himself to the floor.

"I’m sorry," the esper said, kneeling with his head bowed low. "For letting such a thing happen...I’m sorry..."

"Sorry?" Bassena gave out a low, eerie laugh that prompted Alcor to hold his young guide tighter in caution. "Did you say sorry?"

The irritation was now turning unto fury, as Bassena walked toward the kneeling esper--no, toward the space between Askan and Zein, shielding the guide. Radia, frowning a little bit, gave a low warning from the side. "Bas--"

"Do you have any idea what they had done to him?!" the air inside the spacious office shook slightly from Bassena’s trembling voice. "Do you?!"

The twins could see Askan’s knuckles turn white from how hard he gripped his knees. They had no idea what exactly transpired during the abduction, but from Bassena’s reaction...they had an idea somewhat.

After all, they had the same reaction two years ago, when they rescued Xue Ren from the back alley.

They turned their gaze toward Zein, who had been keeping his silence all this time, wordlessly leaning against the back of the couch as he stared at the kneeling esper. There was a coldness inside the blue eyes that they hadn’t seen before.

But still, just like Radia, Zein also called out to the Saint-class esper to stop the man. "Bas,"

Only, the esper didn’t seem to be able to hear any reasoning. "You’re here to atone?! You should have made sure you lot never show yourself in front of him if you truly feel guilty!"