Sinex was seated at the other side of the table, her arms and legs still bondaged by chains; Merlin and Ha Joon sat together, their eyes fixed on the figure.

Merlin had already summoned her broom, prepared for anything, she knew better than to let her guard down wh speaking to a criminal.

'Before I arrived, I already learned a new skill to help me with this conversation, a Lie detector. This should fast the process, I'll simply ask direct questions so I can get my direct answer.'

Ha Joon thought to himself.

Placing his hand on the table, he began, "Sinex, I have a few questions I'd like you to answer honestly."

"Is that really the first thing you want to say after seeing me, handsome?" She suddly spoke.

'Handsome?' Ha Joon was tak aback.

"Handsome?" Merlin looked at Ha Joon, her eyes clearly judging him.

"D..don't look at me like that! I know I'm a degerate and all, but come one, ev I won't go as far as going down bad on someone who wanted to kill me," Ha Joon tried to defd himself.

"That didn't stop you with Mordred." Merlin resorted.

"That's differt and you know it!"

"Did you really release me from my cell to make me watch you two have a lover's quarrel?" Sinex butted in.

Ha Joon turned to her.

"Don't play slick with me, okay? Just answer the questions and maybe, I might just release you from here."

"That's what I was waiting for, that look on your face, the ruthlessness... ever since I expericed it, I've never be able to get it out of my head~~♡." Sinex pureed, her mouth op and cheeks red as she panted heavily.

Ha Joon and Merlin were both froz.

"Ahh what the hell did you do to this girl? You horny dog!!" Merlin wrapped her hand a Ha Joon's neck, tugging him back and forth,"Of all the criminals we've faced, why did we have to get stuck with this one?"

"Th I want you to look at me with those very eyes you looked at me with wh you murdered my partners, those cold sinister eyes. Ah~ make me yours...I'll be devoted to you, just you, all you, all of me for you, i don't care how you treat me, I don't care how you insult me, or belittle me, I don't care about any of that...just look at me with those eyes love~ i want it, I want you ~♡".

Sinex's eyes glisted with a deranged light, her lips curling into a twisted smile as her breathing quicked.

The chains rattled as she leaned forward, a shiver running down her spine, as though the mere memory of Ha Joon's gaze was ough to electrify her.

Looking at her, in that momt, something within Ha Joon unlocked, something he didn't think he had to begin with.

He knew she was telling the truth, there wasn't a hint of a lie in any of the words she spouted out.

Ha Joon stared at Sinex, the air growing heavier.

Part of him recoiled at the idea of indulging her twisted desires, but another part, a part he didn't fully understand, felt drawn to the power it offered.

"Fine," he whispered to himself, feeling the shift inside him. "If this is what you want..."

"Ha Joon?" Merlin noticed as Ha Joon stood up from where he was seated calmly, the look on his face... she has never se it on him before.

"I've tried to be reasonable..."

Ha Joon stood right in front of Sinex, his cold gaze looking down at her.

"But you really want to be a pain in the ass, don't you? So here's how it's going to be-"

Ha Joon grabbed her by the throat and pulled her closer, looking directly into her eyes.

Sinex was too surprised to ev say a word, the sight in front of her hadn't yet be processed by her brain.

"If you really want me to treat you like the trash you are, th I will, but don't come back complaining, what? Cat caught your tongue?" Ha Joon said with a cold voice.

Sinex's smile wided, "T.. that's it, the true you, isn't it? Ev as you're choking me you have no remorse...ahhh~ I...I LOVE YOU~~♡".

Ha Joon, still gazing at Sinex with little to no emotion on his face, uttered internally -

'This girl... this girl truly sees right through me'.