Chapter 62: Punishment
After a moment, Henry was carried into the private room, tightly bound by several strong men, with a cloth strip covering his mouth, making him struggle to make “mm-mm-mm” sounds.
Elrose glanced at him gently: “Loosen his mouth. I want to hear what he has to say.”
“Yes,” Bacht replied, and then tore the cloth strip off Henry’s mouth.
Henry immediately pleaded loudly, “Miss Elrose, I was wrong, I was wrong! I shouldn’t have messed with you. Please let me go this once.”
“Let you go? That won’t do.” Elrose sneered coldly: “I already let you off once at the cake shop, but you violated the promise made then. This time, I absolutely can’t let you off so easily.”
“You…” Seeing that pleading was futile, Henry quickly turned to the other side of the room and cried out desperately, “Leader, Boss, Brother Bardel, I’m your little brother! You can’t just leave me out to dry!”
Bardel’s expression suddenly changed.
C’mon, don’t drag me into this!
Do you want me to die with you?
This bastard!
With that thought, Bardel put on a grim face: “Bastard, you’re grown up! You’ve made your bed, now lie in it. Don’t drag me into everything. I’m not your father.”
“But Boss…”
“If you shout my name again, I’ll knock out all your teeth.” Bardel slammed the table and cursed loudly: “When you do something wrong, stop thinking about escaping, acting like a little kid! You’re a man, so act like one. Own up to your mistakes, got it?”
Henry understood that Bardel was determined not to help him, so he quickly turned his gaze to his few companions he usually got along with, hoping they would plead for him.
But unfortunately, those companions all averted their eyes in unison, pretending not to see Henry’s plea.
He had messed with someone who was likely to become the sister-in-law of their Storm Adventure Team.
Who the hell would dare to speak up for him? They might not want to hang out in Karashok anymore.
Despair immediately painted Henry’s face as he realized that at this moment, no one in this room could help him.
All he could do was endure the wrath of the young girl in front of him.
“What do you want?” Henry looked at Elrose, trembling.
“What do you think?” Elrose said lightly: “We don’t know each other, yet you’ve harassed and insulted me repeatedly. If you were in my shoes, how would you handle this?”
“I… I don’t know.”
“Really? What a pity. Then I will have to resolve this in my own way.”
With that, Elrose slowly drew the short knife she had borrowed from Bacht earlier.
Henry’s face turned pale: “W-what do you want to do?”
Elrose waved the knife lightly in front of Henry, coldly saying: “When a person makes a mistake, they must be punished. If a hand needs to be severed, it should be severed; if a foot needs to be cut off, it should be cut off. For a brute like you, who satisfies his desires all day long and harms girls everywhere, tell me, what should be cut off?!”
Henry’s body went cold, and he instinctively tightened his legs.
Elrose smiled coldly, and then, amidst Henry’s terrified screams, the knife fell.
At that moment, everyone in the Storm Adventure Team felt a wild tremor in their hearts. It was too cruel to watch their brother, whom they lived with day in and day out, become a eunuch.
How could they do this?
Could they still call themselves “brothers”?
So they clenched their fists and, in unison, closed their eyes.
【Dear brother’s little brother, may you be blessed in heaven.】
However.
What everyone imagined did not happen.
There were no screams, no blood, no severed cucumbers, and no broken eggs.
Only yellow hair slowly fell.
Everyone’s eyes widened.
In just a moment, the Blond Kid had been shaved into a bald head by Elrose.
Elrose looked at the shiny bald head in front of her and nodded in satisfaction: “Not bad, much more pleasing to the eye.”
Henry was stunned for a moment and slowly turned his head to look at the mirror beside him.
In the mirror was a bald man.
“No!!!”
“My hair!!!”
“My 24K pure handsome, irresistible hairstyle!!!”
“No!!!”
The enormous scream echoed throughout the room, and Henry felt as if his heart was shattering.
But beside him, Elrose was already laughing uncontrollably: “Oh, don’t be so sad. Baldness is a hairstyle of strength.”
“How can you do something so cruel?! Do you know how important this hairstyle is to me?” Henry gritted his teeth.
“How would I know?” Elrose replied cheerfully: “I just felt that your blonde hair was unpleasant, so I shaved it all off for you.”
“You… rotten woman, you really dare to say it! Do you know that for a handsome man, the head can be cut, the blood can flow, but the hairstyle must never be messed up?”
“Oh? Really? Then should we cut off your head next?” As she spoke, Elrose waved the short knife in her hand again, narrowing her eyes and asking, “The top or the bottom? Which head would you like to cut off first?”
“Uh, that…” Henry immediately shrank back again.
“Shut up, Henry.” At that moment, Bacht suddenly interjected: “You should be grateful for Miss Elrose’s mercy. Hair can grow back one day. This light punishment—what do you have to complain about? If I were you, I would have already started kowtowing in thanks, grateful for Miss Elrose’s kindness.”
“I…” Henry remained hesitant. He was a man in his twenties, and before all his brothers, to kowtow and apologize to a girl, how would he show his face after that?
“Henry, kneel and apologize.” A heavy voice came, and Henry followed the sound to see Bardel looking at him with a serious expression, his Battle Qi surrounding him.
“Yes!” Henry dared not hesitate any longer and repeatedly kowtowed apologetically, “Miss Elrose, I’m sorry, it was all my fault before. I’m a brute, I’m a thug, I have a loose mouth, I didn’t keep my promise, I deserve to die, but this time I really know I was wrong. I promise I won’t dare again.”
“Hmph, that’s more like it.” Elrose glanced at Henry lightly and said indifferently, “Blond Kid, oh no, Baldy, there is gold under a man’s knee. Today you have lost far more than just your hair, but this is all self-inflicted. You can’t blame others.”
“I will let you off this time, but if you come to harass me again or let me see you doing anything lewd, I will definitely come back for you with interest, you got that?!”
With that, Elrose swung the short knife again, severing the ropes binding Henry, then walked over to Bacht and handed him the knife: “Here, your knife. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” Bacht smiled as he accepted the knife, saying, “Miss Elrose is truly kind. I thought you would at least cut off a piece of Henry’s flesh to vent your anger.”
“Really?” Elrose smiled helplessly, “I originally thought so too.”
Elrose quietly returned to her seat, somewhat lost in thought as she looked at her hands.
In truth, she had really intended to turn that Blond Kid into a eunuch, but when it came time to swing the knife, she froze.
An unfamiliar feeling surged up, as if there was a faint yet powerful will within her opposing her actions.
It was as if she were telling herself that the Blond Kid didn’t deserve such a fate, that she shouldn’t do this, that she only needed to give him a lesson.
Then, impulsively, she had shaved off the Blond Kid’s hair, turning him into Baldy.
What was happening?!
It felt as if something else had mixed into her soul.
