Bell Cranel always dreamed of becoming a hero, but reality proved far crueler than his fantasies. Left humiliated and on the brink of death after a fateful encounter with a Minotaur and the adventurer Ais, something deep within him awakens-a power u...
With a final burst of movement, Bell sidestepped Zanis's strike and drove his dagger into his opponent's shoulder. Zanis staggered back, eyes wide with disbelief. His sword clattered to the ground.
Bell didn't spare him a second glance.
He turned to the remaining Familia members, his presence alone enough to send shivers down their spines. Some stood frozen. Others looked away, shame flickering in their expressions.
The spell was broken.
The fear that had bound them to Zanis was gone.
One of them, pale and trembling, raised a shaking hand. "Lili... she's locked up. In the back room."
Bell moved.
The locked door didn't stand a chance against Hestia's Knife. The blade cut through the iron bars with ease, the lock breaking apart with a metallic snap.
Inside, in the dim candlelight, Lili sat curled in a corner like a caged animal.
Her head lifted at the sound of the door opening. And when she saw him—when she saw Bell standing there, free and victorious, his expression calm yet determined—her eyes brimmed with tears.
"Bell... sama..."
She ran to him, burying herself against his chest, sobbing.
He didn't say anything. He didn't need to.
His hand rested gently on her back, a silent promise that she was safe now.
Behind them, the Soma Familia crumbled from within.
Some abandoned Zanis on the spot. Others stared at the man they once followed and realized, perhaps for the first time, that his rule was built on nothing but greed and fear.
By the time Bell and Lili walked out of that decrepit manor—side by side, free at last—Zanis's reign was over.
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Ding!
[Quest: 'Save Lili from the treacherous hands of the Soma Familia' has been completed]
[Reward: +5 Intelligence]
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