"AAARRRGGG!! I-It hurts!! It huuuuuuurts!" Kim Yeong-Hun screamed desperately.

[Enough!] Kim Jae-Hyun's urgent voice rang out from the crystal orb.

Kang-Woo lifted his foot from Yeong-Hun's ankle.

"Sniff… Sniff." Yeong-Hun, who had likely never felt pain like that before, cried while hugging his ankle, which had been twisted in a weird direction.

Oh Kang-Woo calmly spoke toward the crystal orb, "Twenty minutes. If I don’t see you in twenty minutes, I'll crush his other ankle."

His voice contained no hint of mercy or compassion. Rather, Kang-Woo's tone suggested that he was enjoying the situation, and that made Jae-Hyun even angrier.

Jae-Hyun said murderously, [I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are trying to get a ransom from me, I can tell you it’s too late for that. I will look for you, I will find you... and I will kill you.]

Kang-Woo smirked at those words and replied, "Good luck."

Crack.

The crystal orb shattered, and its pieces fell onto the ground.

"Right... Now, then," Kang-Woo said.

He turned toward Yeong-Hun, who was trembling. Yeong-Hun looked up at Kang-Woo with a pale face. He was so terrified that he couldn’t even feel the sharp pain in his ank...