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Green didn't make any move.

"A silent silence, are you angry?"

Xuster could see that Green's face had visibly darkened, but he didn't become more arrogant. Instead, he put his feet down from the steps and smiled at Green with a pleasing face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just joking earlier. Please, Your Majesty, don't take offense."

"..."

However, his words didn't elicit any response from Green.

"I'm truly sorry, I was just joking earlier, really just joking. Please, Your Majesty, don't be angry, okay?"

"..."

The response was still silence.

The unexpected reaction from Green gradually made Xuster, who was originally calm, feel impatient.

He suddenly wiped the smile off his face, conjured a chair, and sat on it with his feet once again placed on the steps above.

"It's actually very simple to borrow money from me, certainly not under the rude conditions I mentioned earlier. In fact--- all you both need to do is kneel down like dogs and lick my shoes clean."

After saying these words, Xuster's face revealed a hint of excitement mixed with a touch of madness, arrogance, and a smirk that seemed asking to be punched.

However, what Xuster didn't expect was that Green remained silent as ever.

This froze the smirk on Xuster's face and in that instant, his brain started working rapidly. But no matter how he tried to think it through, he couldn't understand why Green would still remain silent.

---No, the other party must just be bluffing. I've long seen through these tricks!

Xuster's face grew darker, but just as he was about to continue speaking, Green suddenly sighed and stared at him with an indescribable expression.

In an instant, Xuster's brain stopped working. Those eyes seemed to possess some kind of magic, causing a shiver deep inside Xuster's heart.

And at that moment, Green finally spoke.

"You've cast a negative spell on yourself, causing anyone who meets your gaze to feel intense disgust towards you from the bottom of their heart. Combined with the sudden change in your words earlier, you were deliberately trying to provoke me."

"....?"

"When I stayed silent in the beginning, you were perplexed as to why my behavior deviated from your expectations. In your imagination, I would have attacked you out of anger, but I didn't. So you, in order to elicit a response, said falsely pleasing words, attempting to make my behavior fall under your control. However, you failed once again, and yet you couldn't accept it and intensified your tone. But in the end, you still failed."

"....!"

"My silence unsettled your inner self, so you took out a chair to sit on, and once again placed your feet on the steps. On one hand, you wanted to use this clumsy action to calm your panicked heart, and on the other hand, it served as a transition for your forthcoming words."

"What nonsense are you talking about...?!"

Seeing Xuster's reaction, Green sneered disdainfully.

"You gave up pretending to be pleasing and instead tried to provoke me through a change in your words. However, you failed to notice that from the moment you brought out the chair, your unnatural body movements and stiff speech made you no different from a clown. In other words, you have already lost--"

"---Shut up!"

Xuster suddenly shouted ferociously, and a burst of raging magic erupted from within him, forming numerous small magic circles floating around his body, enveloping him within.

"You're angry."

A faint smile appeared on Green's lips.

Green's interpretation of Xuster's behavior left everyone dumbfounded. They were not amazed by Green's ability to interpret, but rather by Green's calm and resolute mentality in the face of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Even Mio seemed to have discovered a new world. It was her first time seeing Green like this.

However, in the face of an enraged Xuster, Green did nothing but calmly gaze at him, his lips curving into a faint smile, an ordinary smile.However, the more this happened, the more Rexter could feel the strong mockery.

Rexter wanted to rush up and tear Green apart, but he knew that if he really did that, he would lose completely on the mental level, just as Green had said. His strong inner pride did not allow such a thing to happen.

The magic circle around his body gradually faded under Rexter's suppression and eventually disappeared completely. At the same time, he took a deep breath and his expression returned to a calm smile.

Still the arrogant jerk, the jerk who deserves a beating, no change at all.

"You think I'm angry, but I'm not actually. You tried to make me panic again through your silence, but you didn't expect my actions to be beyond your expectations. So, your silence now is not an intentional act to see through me, but because you can't think of any other way to respond except silence."

"..."

Green remained silent, and Rexter took out a table, a tall glass, and a bottle of red wine. He then sat elegantly and naturally on a wooden chair, starting to savor the high-quality wine.

"Your brain is quickly spinning, you're thinking of countermeasures, thinking about how to survive my hands. Your choice of words just now was a gamble, you bet that I wouldn't attack you because of my mental defeat, and you also know that the only way for me to defeat you is mentally."

"..."

Rexter continued to enjoy the wine gracefully, his expression extremely relaxed.

"You didn't expect me to be so calm, completely beyond your expectations. Therefore, it won't be long before you start feeling the impending crisis and become extremely anxious, causing your brain to overload and collapse mentally."

"..."

Rexter had completely relaxed by now. He even sighed and shook his head, as if lamenting the loss of a formidable and respectable opponent.

Everyone was on edge for Green, the Sin Users who could be called sinners. In addition to their many misdeeds, they also possessed formidable strength that was difficult to capture.

At this point, everyone held their breath for Green, not believing that he would have a good outcome in the end after insulting a Sin User. There would always be consequences for such actions.

Green's silent silence was no longer meant to confuse and panic Rexter like before. Instead, it became a tool for Rexter to regain confidence and a proof that Rexter already had the upper hand.

However, as time passed, Green's actions completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

Suddenly, a chilling aura, so cold that it froze the entire body like being frozen by super-magic level ice elements, appeared abruptly. One couldn't even blink under its influence.

Everyone present, including Mio, felt a sense of impending death under this aura.

It was the true aura of death.

The bodies that were originally free to move and control now seemed to be devoid of consciousness. But upon closer inspection, one could still sense their own existence and realize that they were still alive.

But along with it came a bone-chilling coldness.

The heart seemed to be toyed with by a devil, going from hot to cold, beating rapidly, causing an abnormal excitement. Yet while the blood boiled, it also brought a chilling sensation like falling into an icy cave.

Suddenly, a strong feeling of suffocation accompanied by the scent of death rushed over.

—No, breathing was still fine, very smooth, but the feeling of suffocation was real. It turned out that "breathing" had long surrendered under this terrifying aura.

Even though there was no existence of any ice element, the body became colder and colder. It was then that someone noticed that their entire body was already covered in cold sweat, soaking their clothes, turning their bodies into elements of cold.

Rexter resisted the strong feeling of suffocation, greedily gasping for air. The previously calm smile had long disappeared from his handsome face, leaving behind a messy expression of fear.

He struggled, looking towards the source of this aura outbreak—Green.

No, it wasn't Green. This aura wasn't emitted by Green at all!

Rexter suddenly focused his gaze on the black longsword in Green's hand.The pitch-black blade is engraved with several skull heads. However, whether it's an illusion or something else, Shuiste found that there seemed to be a strange light shining in the eyes of those skull heads, and their mouths were opening and closing as if expressing some kind of message.

"Great master, thank you for your forgiveness. I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer!"

The demonic sword, Balibelle, is unsheathed again.

Green slowly raised Balibelle and pointed the tip of the sword at Shuiste.

In that instant, Shuiste's brain stopped thinking, as if time in the world had stopped flowing.

He couldn't help but think about the incident of merging himself into the Seven Deadly Sin Users. To prove his strength, to prove that he was not inferior to those nobles in any way, he infiltrated the joint conference of the nations, killed tens of kings present, and escaped unscathed in the end.

Because of this, he believed that he was invincible, that he would not lose in any aspect. He was still one of the youngest Sin Users, and this arrogance made him think that he was superior to anyone else.

Whether it was in terms of magic achievements, academic research, or martial arts exploration, he believed that he was much superior to anyone else. Those who couldn't measure up to him should become his slaves, his targets, and become mere objects for him to play with.

Even though he appeared flustered in front of Green just now, he quickly regained control of the situation. He believed that he had won against Green and elevated himself once again.

However, the appearance of Balibelle completely shattered his arrogance.

At that moment, Green suddenly sneered, not even leaving behind any fragments of his arrogance.

"Did you really think I was seriously interpreting your actions just now? Don't fool yourself. I just thought it might be more interesting to do it this way, so I said some words that I myself couldn't understand but seemed to have some understanding. In reality, you were already a dead man as soon as you insulted Mio verbally."