Chapter 1051: Chapter 1038: He’s still a child! Hmm, sentence him to the death penalty. Chapter 1051: Chapter 1038: He’s still a child! Hmm, sentence him to the death penalty. The whip, with its barbs, lashed onto the young man’s body and then effortlessly pierced into his flesh. As the whip was torn away, it cruelly snagged his flesh, ripping it open as blood spurted forth.

“Ah!”

The delinquent youngster let out a piercing scream as a strip of his flesh was whipped open, revealing a gory trace of white bone.

“Old fool, I am a formal member of the clan, and you dare treat me this way? Just you wait, I will repay the pain you’ve inflicted upon me a hundredfold!”

“Snap!” Hearing the threat, the old man’s face showed no emotion as he backhandedly whipped again, splattering vibrant blood and flesh in the air. And the delinquent emitted another full-throated scream.

“Put on your Star armor! Otherwise, your body will only be able to withstand ten of my lashes,” the old man said calmly, looking at the youth who now bore two bloody wounds, “I want to whip you a few more times!”

“Old geezer, just you wait, I’ll never let you off.” Struggling in agony, the youth activated his earring, which emitted a radiant light. Layers upon layers of Star armor materialized from it and clung to his body, shielding him.

But even after donning the Armored Star Armor, the delinquent didn’t cease his movements and instead commanded two Mini Floating Cannons to fly out from the earpiece of his Star armor.

Without the slightest delay, the cannons of the two Floating Cannons lit up, then two beams shot towards Butler Paris as if to perforate him.

Snap!

Seeing the audacity of the delinquent to attack him, Butler Paris slightly shook his head, and with a flick of his wrist, not only did he whip the beams into mere light fragments, but he also obliterated the two Floating Cannons into a pile of debris.

As the embodiment of the will of the Douglas family’s management, the butler naturally wasn’t a frail old man. Their combat strength ranked in the upper middle class of the entire family, undoubtedly out of reach for a delinquent youth consumed by frivolous pleasures and misdeeds.

“Ovis, impressive! In the sixty years that I have served as the butler of the Douglas family, you are the first formal member to dare attack me.”

“Old thing, you’re quite something too. Since I was born, you’re the first one to hurt me this badly,” the youth replied maliciously, feeling much reassured now clad in the protection of his Star armor.

Snap!

Hearing this, Butler Paris couldn’t be bothered to say more, simply raising his hand for another whip, and under this lash, the youth screamed again, even more harrowingly.

But this time, his cry wasn’t as strong as before. Bowing his head as he felt a searing new wound on his body, the delinquent youth realized in shock that his Star armor, which he thought would protect him, had been shredded under the whip. Pieces of the shattered Star armor fluttered in the air as they were torn from his body, landing on the ground with a crisp sound.

“You…” The armor, which he believed invincible, had failed to protect him, and the young delinquent panicked. Just as he was about to say something, another lash struck him, silencing his words and leaving him with no chance to even make a sound.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

The old man stood in front of the delinquent, expressionlessly whipping his hand back and forth, each lash landing in a new spot, fearing otherwise he might whip the young man to death in a short time.

Even so, each time the old man’s whip struck the young man, it tore through the Star armor on his body as if it were paper, shredding it. As the whip left the young man’s body, it tore away flesh and armor alike, sending fragments flying through the air like a flock of purplish-red butterflies, possessing a strange kind of beauty.

Under the relentless whipping, the delinquent’s voice grew softer with each cry. The onlookers, who had initially been peacefully protesting against the city government’s inaction, fell silent, watching the scene unfold, some of the women even turned their heads away, unable to watch.

Because at this moment, Ovis looked just too pitiful, his body a blur of blood and flesh, bones exposed everywhere, as if he were undergoing a slow and torturous execution.

It was when the delinquent’s Star armor had been completely destroyed, most of his flesh turned inside out, blood pooling beneath him…

A luxurious and dynamic-looking sedan streaked in at high speed, pulling up in front of the city government offices. Then a couple hurried out of the car, pushing through the crowd of onlookers and came to a stop in front of Butler Paris.

“Stop!”

As the couple pushed through the crowd and saw the pitiable state of Ovis, their faces were immediately etched with anger and grief, the man letting out an enraged shout.

Snap!

The man had barely shouted out his words when a whip, already dyed red with fresh blood and with bits of flesh clinging to the barbs, lashed across his face, sending his somewhat corpulent body sprawling to the ground.

“You insolent wretch, who do you think you’re talking to?” The Paris butler, with an expressionless face, looked down at the couple as he felled the man with a flick of his whip.

At this moment, the woman was also stunned by the butler’s actions. She supported her husband, who was covering the wound on his own face, her expression alternating between anger and surprise, with a hint of confusion as she stared at the old man.

“Who are you?”

“Butler,” Paris replied, stating his position, and then lifted his whip, ready to continue beating the wretched youth. He hadn’t had enough yet.

This beast in human skin, even if whipped to death on the spot, would not have to bear any responsibility, for the head of the family had already issued the command, stripping him of his official membership,
“Merely a butler, on what grounds do you strike my son, do you know my son is an official member of the clan? He is only governed by the family elders’ meeting and the head of the family. What gives you the right to hit him? You old fool.”

Upon hearing the old man’s status, the woman instantly regained her confidence. She stood up, went to her son’s side, looked at his wounds with a face full of heartache, and then pointed at the Paris butler, cursing loudly.

“An official member of the clan? One hour and twenty minutes ago, he was no longer that. Lord Genos has personally issued a command, depriving him of the Ovis clan surname, and completely expelling him from the family hierarchy. He’s no longer a member of the Douglas family.”

The old man calmly spoke, repeating Muria’s command, and his words struck like a bolt from the blue, instantly shocking the couple, causing their eyes to widen with horror, while the surrounding demonstrators were in an uproar, and the journalists beside them were thrilled, feeling their adrenaline surge.

“How can this be?” The man who had just gotten up to see his son’s miserable state now sat back down on the ground with a vacant look on his face.

“Paris, could there be a mistake? My son has more than 60% Star talent. How could the clan expel him just like that?”

“Just 60%, there are many in the clan with more talent than him, but none like your son who acts so atrociously. Your son is a cancer to the Douglas family. Trash like him should be cleared away sooner rather than later.”

Paris said in his flat voice, having already thoroughly investigated all that Ovis had done using the name of the Douglas family. His misdeeds were numerous.

Because of him alone, the Douglas family’s influence in this region had plummeted and their reputation had tumbled. If not now, when to deal with such a cancer?

“That’s enough, I was planning to announce this after the whipping was over, but since you ask, I’ll tell you now.”

“Butler, I beg you, could you please double-check the order? My son is so excellent…”

“There’s no need for confirmation. This is the command given by the head of the family in my presence; it’s not possible there’s a mistake.”

“It’s only the head of the family’s command, has it gone through the elders’ meeting? If it hasn’t passed the elders, the command can be rejected,” the man said, his face showing excitement as if he was a drowning man grasping at straws.

“You imbecile, look what you have raised—a good-for-nothing–your son has come to this end, and you bear an inescapable responsibility, and now you even think of keeping the surname?

Even if you go to the elders’ meeting, the command won’t change. Forget it, I’m too lazy to whip your son anymore. Moreover, you should think about how to deal with your son’s affairs.”

Paris beckoned to the government official standing to the side, and when he came trotting over, he patted him on the shoulder,
“Now that Ovis has lost our Douglas family’s protection, you know how to handle him, don’t you?”

“I know,” said the government official, who had witnessed this scene full of shocking twists, nodding and bowing.

“Good.”

The old man nodded in satisfaction, then, with his entourage, prepared to return to the Federal Capital.

“Paris, I beg you, Ovis is still just a child. He is young and ignorant, please give him another chance! He could still be of great use to the clan in the future.”

“Oh, a child, I recall he is thirteen this year, right? He is not too young. The Federal Law stipulates that the age to be subject to criminal punishment is ten years old; it is time he faced the consequences of his past actions.”

The old man looked at the kneeling couple, unmoved, boarded the spaceship, and left mercilessly. Without the family’s protection, Ovis, under federal law, would at least face life imprisonment, or, more likely, the death penalty.

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