No matter how much I imbued my inner strength, the strongest weapon in the world was now struggling at my ankles.

‘It’s long enough.’

The distance from my room to the kitchen was enough, so it would be possible to grab and swing it by hand.

I gripped the iron chain with both hands. The cold sensation made my palms tingle.

‘Alright. This should be enough.’

Could I do it? An uneasy feeling crept in, but soon I shook my head. It wasn’t a matter of whether I could or couldn’t; I simply had to do it.

“Hyup!”

I rushed towards Hyeongjung-hyeok. Along with a clinking sound, the iron chain coiled around his thick forearm. Hyeongjung-hyeok’s eyebrows twitched.

“Jjinpang, you.”

I spoke with a firm voice.

“Release that person.”

“If I don’t want to?”

I expected that. I glanced at the short spear that felt like I might suffocate at any moment, firmly gripped the iron chain, and said,

“I won’t yield either.”

“With those thin arms, what can you do?”

Hyeongjung-hyeok laughed mockingly. It was natural for him to laugh. The difference in physical strength between him and me was clear.

But to me, physical strength alone wasn’t the only weapon.

“It won’t be that easy. I engraved the Breaker Blade.”

The iron chain made a grinding sound. It was a millennium-old iron chain that would never break, so eventually, what would break wouldn’t be the iron chain but Hyeongjung-hyeok’s arm wrapped in the iron chain.

At my words, Hyeongjung-hyeok’s face stiffened. For a moment, he silently stared at his own arm entangled in the iron chain, and then he looked at me with a gaze full of anger.

“Is this man so important to you? To the extent that you would do this much for him?”

His voice carried a deep sense of betrayal. It was an absurd question for me, who had been forcibly brought here and tied up with an iron chain.

“What relationship did we have! It was nothing more than a kidnapper and a hostage, no more and no less.”

“Ha.”

At my response, Hyeongjung-hyeok’s expression momentarily distorted as if deeply hurt. However, that moment was very brief, and in an instant, he returned to his cold expression and said to me in a chilly tone,

“Whether you break my arm or not, do as you wish. I’ll twist your neck as I please too.”

“Kuk!”

It wasn’t a joke. Suddenly, strength entered his hand, which was squeezing the neck of the short spear. Feeling the short spear in my throat being turned upside down, I shouted anxiously,

“In the first place, he’s not a ‘young master’! He’s the older twin brother!”

Even saying this, Hyeongjung-hyeok didn’t release his grip on the neck of the short spear. Instead, he laughed at my desperate state.

“Just break my arm. I’ll do what I want.”

“Ugh.”

Now I really had no choice. Whether to break his arm before he harmed the short spear or helplessly watch over the short spear being strangled.

Since I couldn’t do that, I tried to pull the iron chain, but…

“…Really cruel.”

Even if I pulled him here, he didn’t seem to stop. Then, the helplessness of being unable to do anything surged over me.
“Since he can’t feel pain, he won’t be afraid either. That’s why he can be so composed.”

What if I hurt a man who doesn’t feel pain? What comes next? Can the short spear escape unharmed? In the end, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get out of the situation of dying and killing.

Thinking like that, my grip on the iron chain loosened involuntarily. However, I also knew that this wasn’t the situation where it should happen. Unable to do this or that, my insides burned. Soon, my vision seemed to get a little blurry, and tears poured out abruptly.

“Heuk.”

Crying in this situation was the worst. I, who was neither strong nor poisonous, felt resentful, and tears flowed involuntarily.

As I shed tears uncontrollably, the hand that was gripping the short spear’s throat weakened when I cried. Hyeongjung-hyeok’s dry gaze stared at me.

‘Why is he looking at me like that when he’s making nasty remarks?’

Is he provoking me or making fun of me? In my injustice, tears flowed even more.

As I shed tears so recklessly, a rough finger stroked my eyelids. At some point, Hyeongjung-hyeok, who had put down the short spear on the ground, approached me and stared at me as if piercing through me.

“Why? Can’t you do it?”

His gruff voice seemed to be mocking me. Feeling unfairly treated, more tears flowed.

“Why? Are you crying again for no reason?”

I pushed his hand away in irritation. The situation was serious, and yet, looking at his smiling face as if nothing had happened, my mind was overturned.

“Jjinpang.”

“Yeah, why?”

I answered irritably. And then, I stiffened.

In the face of a cheerful topic, what came out of Hyeongjung-hyeok’s mouth was nothing different from poison.

“If you promise to stay by my side, I’ll let that man go.”

The short spear still couldn’t stand up and was still coughing roughly. I looked in that direction with trembling eyes.

“I…”

“Jjinpang.”

Then, as if he didn’t like me turning my gaze away, Hyeongjung-hyeok grabbed my chin and turned it towards him.