120 Revengeance
The next morning, after Ori roughly cut Cat's hair, the other sleeping beauty finally awakens... Bats calls the brother-sister duo into his lab/bedroom/man cave/hoarder den, and leads them to the bleary-eyed Fujino, who was having a panic attack against the restraints Bats had been forced to employ.
"W-what! W-where am I!?"
"Fuji, we're safe." Cat says as she steps beside him, gripping his fingerless hand.
"Fuji...?" Ori thinks to himself, blinking at Bats who had similar thoughts.
"C-Catarina... W-what...?"
"Ori rescued us, we're free." she smiles, and he returns it, revealing his missing teeth.
"So, we have a lot to talk about." Ori interjects, "Starting with how you know my sister..."
"B-bro!" Cat grouses.
"What?"
"He just woke up!"
"No, Cat... It's fine. I think we have a lot to discuss..." Fujino looks towards Ori, "Is that alright?"
Ori nods, "Yeah. Bats, take Cat and get her some new clothes, this is gonna be private."
"What? Why!? You're not planning on hurting him, are you?" she angrily asks, attempting to push Ori but pausing when the resistance she encounters mirrors a brick wall.
"Go with Bats, 'Fuji' will still be here when you get back." dead or alive.
She stays standing where she is however, arms crossed, "Promise you won't hurt him."
He maintains the staring contest for a couple minutes, before sighing, "Fine, I promise not to hurt him. Happy?"
She nods, "Good. Come on uncle Bats." she says, grabbing the Ripperdoc's arm and leaving.
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Now alone, Ori sits on the table adjacent to the one on which Fujino was lying. "Now, tell me everything about what happened."
"Catarina didn't tell you?"
"First, don't call her that." Ori grouses, "Second, no one will ask her until she's ready. Besides, you will tell me what happened, everything. I may have promised not to hurt you, but that doesn't extend to other people."
"A very dishonourable mindset, Ori-san..." Fujino mutters.
"Like someone who was in the Tyger Claws can tell me shit about honour. You fucks touched my sister, you chipped her! Treated her like a goddamn animal!"
Fujino thins his lips, slowly nodding, "The actions of my former friends disgust me as much as you. I left for a reason, and I wished to gain redemption by rescuing your sister."
"Tell me this 'reason' then, I'll let you know if it was deserving."
...
The Japanese man sighs, fists clenching, "I was like the rest of the scum in that group, I thought nothing of the suffering I brought others, thinking myself better than them... I killed, I tortured, I did things I am not proud of..." he bites his lip hard enough to draw blood, "Then reality struck. I am an orphan, never met my parents and never wanted to. But I did eventually learn from a DNA test that I had family, a cousin-"
"Lemme guess, the Tygers killed her?" Ori drawls.
Fujino shakes his head, "No. I killed her... Just another victim, my friends and I kidnapped the girl, we planned to-... Use her, then sell her for parts... I only discovered her identity a week later, and it was too late. Her body had been incinerated, and one of my colleagues had installed her arm..." he choked.
Ori just sneers at him, "Hypocritical piece of shit. You didn't care when you hurt other people, but when one of the innocents turns out to be a relation you break down like a whiny bitch. You're lucky, if I had my way I'd toss you off the roof like the cunt you are."
"I know my faults, Ori-san. It took me time to recognise them, I tried to rectify them once I did. I had a choice to continue my life as knowing scum, or make a change and likely perish. Do not forget, I am the reason you managed to rescue your sister at all."
"Ha! You wanna claim responsibility for that? The broken, crippled, piece of crap that was halfway from being tortured to death? Maybe we shoulda let you bleed out in your cell, deflate that big-ass head of yours."
"Yes, well, I'm thankful you chose otherwise." Fujino grumbles back.
"If I had a choice now, you'd have stayed there." Ori states, "I've given you enough time to think about your answer, so I'll ask again. What's your relationship with my sister?"
...
"I do not know. I comforted her as I attempted to free her, you can consider us friends, I suppose?" the man says, but the way his expression twitched as he thought about it set Ori on edge.
"No. Not with the way she held your hand earlier. Don't bullshit me." he scowls.
"We became close, there is no disputing that. But we only had each other in that prison, I will not deny the affection I feel for her." Fujino quickly says, locking eyes with Ori.
Ori stands, walking to the table the former Tyger Claw was lying on, "Did you touch her...?"
"... We did not reach that point in our relation-" he starts after a pause, but Ori interrupts his explanation.
"NOT what I asked! Did you touch her!? With the rest of those rapist cunts in that place!?" Ori shouts, gripping the metal table hard enough to leave finger-shaped indentations.
"I-..." Fujino scowls to himself, "I was forced to engage in some acts to keep my cover..." he finally admits. Much to his dismay, Ori's patience had reached its limits.
*CRASH!*
Ori brings his fist down on the man's stomach, hard enough to collapse the table. "FOR YOUR COVER, HUH!? THE SAME COVER THAT THE TYGERS SAW THROUGH!? You're just like the rest of them! Filthy fucking slaving rapists!"
"I did what I had to-OOUUFFF!!" Fujino exclaims as Ori brings his foot down on his elbow, easily breaking it.
"Then I'll do what I have to to protect my sister!" Ori picks the man up and throws him into the wall, as if he weighed nothing. As Fujino hits the ground, Ori grabs a scalpal from Bats tools and marches over.
