Chapter 134
Chapter XII. Revelation
Psyche, secretly eavesdropping on the two men’s conversation while lying in bed, slightly furrowed her brow. Terche wouldn’t be sneaking in at night to pounce on her anymore. When she needed to increase the number of s****l encounters even by one more time, perhaps she shouldn’t have mentioned it.
A slight regret washed over her, but what was done was done. She closed her eyes, trying to empty her complicated mind. But was it because of the ominous feeling weighing down on her shoulders today, as if something was about to happen? She couldn’t easily fall asleep.
That’s how it was. After lying there for a long time with her eyes closed, just as her consciousness was finally about to sink completely. Knock, knock, someone was at the door. As Psyche raised her upper body, a large figure walked into the room. She froze momentarily before turning on the light.
“……”
The large figure was Rezus. He stood by the bed, looking down at her with an unreadable, expressionless face. She just looked up at him with a rigid face.
So something had finally happened after all. Why did ominous premonitions never miss their mark? As she barely managed to swallow through her throat tight with tension, his lips parted.
“I may be less than human myself.”
His voice was strangely subdued.
“But your brother is definitely a level above me.”
No sooner had those words ended than a large screen appeared before her eyes.
She stared at the screen with anxiously trembling eyes. Someone walked steadily into a dark space.
A man with deep blue hair and eyes, white skin, and a face as beautiful as if the god of wind had manifested. Her brother, Zephyros Rosebel.
「Hello, kids.」
In what looked like a gloomy cell surrounded by pitch-black walls, Zephyros waved one hand gently while smiling harmlessly. Even though she had only seen that scene, Psyche began to feel nauseated.
「This video was, um… a bit difficult to film. It’s the first time I’ve put so much effort into something.」
At those words, she felt her heart sink. She could tell without having to see the rest. This was… a torture video. Probably torture of a different caliber than anything so far.
「It was a bit of a shame to compress eight days of footage into one hour. Well, looking at the result, I’m fairly satisfied. Enjoy watching.」
She had to watch the video, which was over an hour long, from beginning to end without missing a single scene. In that video, Ruon was treated worse than livestock.
The first day of torture, the boy was suspended upside down from the ceiling, alternately subjected to water torture and electric torture. Throughout the torture, Zephyros urged Ruon to reveal the secrets in a gentle voice. When Ruon couldn’t endure and was about to faint, Tenon used his recovery ability to wake him up.
The second day of torture was similar to the first day.
By the third day of torture, Ruon could no longer maintain his sanity. When he started nodding off and babbling nonsense even during water torture, sleep deprivation torture began in earnest. Zephyros affectionately threatened him to reveal the secrets, waking him every 10 minutes.
On the fourth and fifth days of torture, the threats disguised as persuasion to reveal secrets and sleep deprivation continued.
On the sixth day of torture, Zephyros handed Ruon warm food and water, coaxing the boy that everything would become comfortable if he revealed the secrets. When Ruon refused, he mocked him by splashing the food and water in his face, and prevented him from sleeping.
On the seventh day of torture, Ruon’s abnormal behavior began—frantically scratching his entire body, wetting himself, and laughing as if insane.
On the eighth day of torture, as Ruon was on all fours lapping up water and food from the floor like a dog, Zephyros brought him thin soup and clean water. At Zephyros’s promise that he could eat and sleep as he wished if he revealed the secrets, Ruon finally…
「Stop, please…. I’ll tell you the secrets…, stop, please, I beg you…」
With a completely vacant expression, he divulged Arje’s secrets.
「Now you feel like talking?」
「Yes, yes. I’ll talk, I’ll tell you everything I know…」
「Good thinking, Ruon. You’ve finally become a bit obedient. Hmm…, would you like to start by telling me your brother’s main ability?」
「…Tracking, Copyreal.」
Psyche, who had to watch all those scenes, was just as vacant.
「Aha. Thank you, Ruon. His weakness?」
「…Foresight.」
「Foresight is his weakness. Interesting. Hmm, what about Terche?」
「…I’m sorry. I don’t know.」
Zephyros smirked. 「Oh? You said you’d tell me everything you know, so why are you lying, Ruon.」
「I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I really don’t know, I’m sorry…」
「Hmm, well. If that’s the case. Shall we wrap up for today?」
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