Chapter 5670

Sylvia’s voice wavered. “But if he picks the candy?”

“Then he is crafty,” Jared answered. “He still cannot live.”

Sylvia pressed on, almost whispering. “If he takes both?”

Jared’s reply came colder than winter rain. “Greed, too, deserves no future. He cannot live.”

“And what if the child refuses to choose either one?” Sylvia asked again, her words soft yet edged with an urgency that seemed to echo beyond the stone walls.

Jared let out a slow breath, eyes narrowing as though he could already read the inevitable future. “Then the child carries rebellion in his very bones,” he said. “Someone like that can never be allowed to stay.”

Sylvia’s lips parted, but no sound emerged. A long, uncertain silence stretched between them, louder than any argument.