Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 236

His sister’s face faded into the crowd.

Her terrified eyes desperately searching for him as the guards dragged her in the opposite direction.

Han stretched out his small hands, trying to reach her, but other arms held him firmly in place.

"Hedda! HEDDA!" he screamed, his childish voice breaking with the effort. Tears streamed down his face, hot against his cold skin.

"Han!" His sister’s voice echoed one last time before disappearing behind a carriage door. "I’ll find you! I promise!"

The promise was never fulfilled.

The following years merged into an endless sequence of exhaustive training to transform him into a perfect tool. Physical pain became so constant that Han learned to mentally separate himself from it, observing it as if it were happening to someone else.

"Remember the rules," the instructor repeated, his face always in shadows as Han lay exhausted on the training floor. The cold stone pressed against his cheek, the only comfort in a world of calculated cruelty.

"You know perfectly well that you are forbidden from seeing her directly, but..."

"If I contribute to my nation, Yino will ensure my sister has a good life," Han completed mechanically, the words engraved in his mind after countless repetitions.

"The Queen you got is your last resort," the instructor continued, his voice monotonous but laden with threat. "The only situation in which you will use it is one where a high-priority target is within your reach. Otherwise, it’s better that you die without ever using it rather than showing it to the enemy."

The instructor then leaned in, his hot breath against Han’s bruised face. "Remember that if we find out you’ve committed that offense, she will pay the consequences."

The image of Hedda, now blurred after years of separation, was the only thing that kept Han functioning. The only thing that gave him purpose amid so much suffering. Her memory was both his strength and his weakness, the reason he endured, and the chain that bound him to his masters’ will.

"Do you understand?"

"Yes, master. I understand."

The memory vanished like mist under the sun when a new wave of pain shot up from his knee and through Han’s body. He focused on ignoring it as always...

But reality returned brutally: the underground chamber, the abyssal monster, debris everywhere. And Ren, that strange mushroom boy, trying to protect him with his own body.

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The spear struck first.

It penetrated cleanly into the segment where the new core pulsed, the tip piercing layers of alien tissue until reaching its target.

Ren reached Han an instant later, just in time thanks to the beast twisting in pain just as the tentacles were about to make contact. _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}

"Hide in the tunnel!" Ren shouted, positioning his body between Han and the beast, using his own flesh as a shield. His mushrooms pulsed frantically, casting erratic shadows across his determined face.

The beast writhed a few meters away, its energy distribution reconfiguring after losing another core.

Han tried to stand to escape as requested, but a sharp pain in his leg stopped him. He looked down and saw the tear in his pants, blood soaking the fabric, his leg clearly fractured from the previous impact.

Even if he ignored the pain…

He couldn’t move fast like this. He couldn’t escape before the monster attacked again.

If he used the Carrion Queen, he could save himself... But that would mean eliminating Ren with his own hands. Sacrificing an innocent to save himself, a final betrayal of whatever humanity remained within him.