Okay I feel a little bad for him now. He's still a horrible person for facilitating all of this mess but there's a bit of pity in there.
Perhaps because he's been slowly getting the death penalty as this fight progresses.

Burk's most challenging fight so far it seems, though not for the reason Burk was hoping for...

The idea that Vonesperda has her own esper tier list is funny to me.

This has somehow turned into a hostage situation

I like how the background sweets are much more detailed than the actual background npcs (And it is making me hungry >:[ )

You know if your meatshield dies it becomes less a shield and more just a pile of meat. Rotting meat infact before you yourself start becoming burks punching bag Voney

Guess we gotta break the other half now.

ok that Morty is not a Mage, but what are the chances that when Burk kills him he will become a Ghoul?

Prediction: Burk will start going easy on him now. Maybe a tactical retreat, even.

Gotta say, she's showing Burk a few employment red flags right now.

Only HALF?! Burk is holding back for Morty's sake, what a chad.

Loving Vonesperda's dialogue boxes.

If his ribs actually broke the guy's actually pretty tough to still be standing and coherent.

I like the different levels of esper. Wonder if the levels correlate to the level of trauma they experienced.

Was going to ask who it was poking behind a rock but its just panxakes

Surprisingly dumb for someone behind the whole scheme.
Even if Morty doesn't betray her to avoid more pain, his body will just die soon at this rate.

Dunno about Burk, but right about now I would start to feel a bit uncomfortable about beating up Morty. He's a jerk for sure, but as Burk said: Beating him up isn't exactly satisfying, even if he is being used as a meat suit for a villain who deserves getting decked in the schnoz. Morty deserves being put through consequences for what he's done, but getting beaten to death in this particular manner feels like a pretty bad punishment for his crimes.

Such the case with abusive relationships. Someone always end up getting hurt.

This is a toxic relationship if I've ever seen one.

Maybe our diplomat can stop on by and convince the poor meat-shield I mean puppet that she's not worth this.

I also break ribs of my pets habitually, surprised not many people seem to do that.

Evyle implied that if Morty dies Vonney will no longer be able to benefit from Evyle's spirit contracts. So uh...

Maybe be a bit gentlier with your meat-shield, Vonney? Just a thought?