Grey didn't even feel the pain. He had suffered far worse, and it all happened so fast that the delay had given him enough time to steel his body against what would inevitably come.
What he felt instead was a blank, white out sort of fury that didn't even make its way to his face.
He had done everything right. He had memorized the dialogue tree, tried to find out more information, pressed on Captain Terran's weaknesses, revealing himself as someone with the favor of the Goddess they supposedly trusted so much.
The only thing he hadn't done was the one thing he didn't want to do, the one thing that would probably have ended the exact same way considering how trigger happy Terran was.
And it had still ended like this.
Why?
Captain Terran didn't seem to notice Grey's expression. Or maybe he never looked in the first place.
The difference was irrelevant to him. What did the reaction of a Proving Class mean?
Not much at all.
