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Thalia instructed.
"..."
Kallen pursed her lips and nodded, then opened the lid of the box.
Inside were a pair of small swimming trunks, a mask for disguise, and a piece of cardboard with the words "Lord Tata, I was wrong" written on it.
Karen took out everything in the box and rummaged around, but couldn't find the other piece of waterproof fabric she imagined.
"This, is this a swimsuit?"
Kallen picked up the pair of swimming trunks and seemed to gradually understand something. She raised her head and looked at Thalia in a daze, her pupils trembling.
"Yes, I didn't say whether it was a men's swimsuit or a women's swimsuit. I see that you like men so much, so I prepared a men's swimsuit for you."
Thalia spread her left hand as a matter of course.
"No, absolutely not! You are playing a word game!"
Kallen ran over and grabbed Thalia's forearm and shouted excitedly.
"Get away, don't touch me."
Thalia just threw her away and let her fall to the ground. She lowered her head and looked at her with cold eyes like looking at garbage.
"If you continue to bargain, I will take away your mask. And if I really want to embarrass you, I can make this piece of cardboard smaller so that you can hardly block the things you want to block."
A strange feeling lingered in Karen's heart, and a coldness surged from her back, and spread throughout her body in an instant.
Those golden eyes like gods stared at her, making her unable to move.
Even breathing becomes difficult.
It was the terrifying magic power and eyes that made her tremble all over.
"No, I was wrong!"
Karen had completely cried. She was threatened by Tata that day, and the fear was greater than the humiliation.
"Please let me go! I will never dare to provoke you again, I will disappear from your life!"
Kallen pushed herself up on the ground and wanted to come over and hug Thalia's legs, but she didn't dare to touch Thalia again, so she could only cry and beg for mercy with tears in her eyes.
"..."
As if she couldn't hear her words, Thalia picked up the mask, broke off a small piece from it, threw it away and threw it on the ground——
As punishment for talking back.
It is also telling Karen that her begging for mercy will not change the intensity of the punishment at all.
"Do you want it?"
Thalia tentatively handed the broken mask to Kallen like a bone.
"..."
Karen bit her lip tightly, tears continuously sliding down her face.
She couldn't imagine how she would feel if she only put on such a pair of swimming trunks, held a notice board, and stood in front of the public.
The reputation she had managed to accumulate and her status as a queen would not allow her to do such a thing.
But the fear that surpassed death made her instinctively dare not delay any longer. Until she ran away that day, her mind seemed to be filled with the figure and voice of that gray-haired and golden-eyed figure!
"Karen, I'm gentle enough for you. This mask even comes with a wig. As long as you put it on, I guarantee that no one will recognize who you are. God knows that you know and I know."
Seeing Karen's hesitation, Thalia's hands began to move along the gap in the mask again, and the crisp cracking sound gradually sounded,
"But if you break a few more pieces, there's no guarantee that anyone will be able to recognize you..."
Karen felt a suffocating despair.
"want!"
Kallen finally seemed to have made up her mind, and seemed to have recognized the reality. She was afraid of a worse situation happening, and tried her best to cover up her emotional breakdown, trying to grab the mask.
Every time a piece of it broke, she felt as if a piece of her self-esteem had been stripped off!
But Thalia quickly took the mask away, leaving Kallen to miss.
"..."
Thalia put her hand to her ear and said nothing.
Like waiting to hear Karen's words.
"Thank you, Lord Tata..."
Karen bit her lip and whimpered.
"Well, Sister Kallen, wouldn't it be better if we did this earlier?"
Thalia asked her with a happy curve on her lips.
"Tata, uh..."
Lanci was a little worried that Talia was going too far.
From his point of view, he actually didn't care much about what Kallen did, and he wasn't even very impressed.
"!"
Kallen looked at Lan Qi as if she had found a savior, and her hazy eyes with a bit of confusion and charm seemed to tell Lan Qi that as long as he helped her persuade Tata more, she would do anything for him.
This honest man who she once looked down upon is now like her last life-saving straw!
Even though he had ridiculed and humiliated him, tortured him in public during the platinum-level card maker exam, and reported him, he still gave himself a fair score regardless of his past grudges. He was a gentleman like Loren, and he would never embarrass her!
But this look.
Thalia captured it in an instant.
The mask in her hand was shattered immediately.
Kallen was so frightened that she didn't dare to look at Lan Qi anymore.
The disgust in Thalia's eyes became even stronger, making Kallen tremble with fear, but Thalia quickly hid it.
She held Lan Qi's hand and took a step towards Kallen. She accidentally stepped on the mask and broke it even more, making a clear sound.
In the reflection of Kallen's wide-open pupils, the pure white mask was completely torn apart.
"As long as you wear this mask, no one will be able to find out who you are. This punishment is actually very mild. And instead of sincerely thanking me, you are trying to bargain with me. Don't you have any regrets in your heart?"
Thalia asked, looking at Kallen.
Her eyes were full of pity, as if she was considering how to really punish Kallen.
"I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong! Lord Tata!"
Kallen shook her head desperately, not daring to hesitate this time, feeling almost suffocated. Now she only regretted looking at Lan Qi just now, and did not dare to provoke this gray-haired witch again.
"Stop crying. Pick it up and I'll help you put it together."
Thalia leaned down gently, tapped Kallen's chin with her index finger, and spoke in a gentler tone.
"!"
Kallen blew her nose for a moment, her eyes widened, not daring to let any more tears fall.
She crawled on the ground and rushed to grab the fragments, then handed them to Thalia reverently, as if she had found a true dependency.
"If you obey, you will be rewarded; if you are disobedient, you will be punished. Do you understand?"
Thalia repaired the mask with one hand using the tools in the card-making workshop in a few moments, then turned back and handed it to Kallen.
The originally white and flawless mask was now as full of cracks as spliced porcelain.
"Understood, Lord Tata."
Kallen nodded frequently, suppressed her crying and answered.
"Okay, I'll give you a minute to change and then come out."
After Talia finished speaking, she led Lanqi and left the VIP card-making room.
She looked at Lan Qi with a look of comfort.
"..."
Lan Qi stood outside the door not knowing what to say.
He was now somewhat convinced that there was no need for fusion, that the Great Love Poet was just a bitch pretending to be a sadist, and that Thalia was the real queen.
strong enough.
Less than a minute.
The door lock rang a few times. It seemed that Karen was holding the notice board with one hand and tried several times with the other hand tremblingly before opening the lock.
Giving in to Thalia's request, Kallen walked out of the card-making room with a deep sense of awkwardness, as if every step she took was walking on the edge of a knife.
She was wearing swimming trunks, hugging the cardboard tightly, squeezing her chest with the cardboard, but despite this, her sides and back were still uncovered.
"Go and stand in front of the Card Creators Association until five o'clock in the afternoon."
Thalia looked at the time and said to Kallen.
"..."
Kallen nodded to avoid letting Thalia see her tears, and ran away holding the cardboard.
It didn't take long.
Thalia was not in a hurry and took Lan Qi downstairs to the floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the third floor of the association.
Looking down, I saw that a crowd of onlookers had slowly gathered in the vast square below the Parrieux Card Makers Association.
Kallen stood there, holding a cardboard sign that read "Lord Tata, I was wrong." The mask concealed her facial expression, but could not hide the trembling and stiff movements of her body.
Some were confused, some were curious, and some were talking in murmurs, wondering why the young woman was putting on such a bizarre display.
Kallen felt extremely tormented and cool. Every glance towards her was like a sharp knife piercing her heart. She stood there like an exhibit, being scrutinized by countless pairs of eyes. Full of confusion and fear, but also anger - anger at Thalia, and anger at herself for giving in to such unreasonable demands...
Her tears flowed secretly behind the mask, and her sense of dignity and self-worth were almost fragmented at this moment.
"What kind of perversion is this..."