19 Into the River

Rin got angry, he never knew thugs were this unreasonable and this guy clearly didn't hold back. He shouted, "Hey, what are you d-!"

Clang!* the metal pipe hit his jaw so hard that it made a sound like a metal hitting another.

The one who hit Rin has a muscular body, though not burly, even his face was such. He yelled, "What are you all dazing for!? Our target is here! Quickly finish him! He is weak!"

The others though regained their senses and looked at Rin with desperate faces. They all shouted in synchronize and jump on Rin with their weapons at their hands.

They surrounded him and hit him with the hardest they could exert. Rin put up on a guard but that was completely useless in the face of these many men.

"Wait!!", the leader of the thugs shouted. When the thugs stopped, he continued, "Why are you desperate to kill him?! He said to torture him first or humiliate him!"

Almost all the thugs surrounding Rin gulped and nodded. Their minds were in chaos, they are doing this in their life for a very long time, they should know how to shame someone but they can't think of any, well, except for one.

"Let's make him impotent! That is the greatest shame a man could ever be!", everyone agreed and found their positions. Rin was beaten up to the point he could no longer move so two men open his legs and one positioned himself like a golf player.

"Wai- no!", Rin forced himself to shout but that did no effect at all. He only felt sharp pain, pain that made him stretched in weird positions. His tongue almost came apart when he accidentally bit it.

That may be the second most painful thing that happened to him and it repeated for any time until he became numb from pain.

"I think we tortured him enough!", the leader signaled and everyone continued to smash Rin with all they got until they got tired.

Ten of them are already sitting, catching their breath while the remaining continued even when they are exhausted. Something was pushing them to their limit.

The ten that were watching couldn't close their eyes and just watch Rin die but they've been doing this for almost three hours now and this kid couldn't just die. Fear-stricken them and made them shout, "Why is this kid so tough!? Haaaa! Why can't we kill him!?", tears flowed from his eyes and from there the others followed and cried and shouted with all they got.

Rin who was suffering all the time was dumbfounded. They are the ones who are torturing and beating him and then they are the ones who are crying. He wanted to kill them! Why are they the one that was mourning?! How could they be so shameless!

Killing intent filled Rin's mind. This time, he healed faster than before.

From far away, Elohim's eyes widened. His mouth gaped and he didn't know what to say.

"****", He sharply cursed before disappearing.

He appeared on the bridge near Rin and the thugs.

When the thugs noticed him, they all prostrated themselves. The leader spoke loudly, "Benevolent God! Don't worry, we are almost finished!"

Elihim smirked when he heard the leader say "almost finish". He thought, 'Yeah, almost but you could never finish it.'

Elihim him clapped once and told them, "Okay, enough of that.", he glances at Rin who he caught was glaring at him, 'Wow, that's [scary]. Hahaha!' "Tie him to heavy rock and dump him in the river!"

They were confused and one in the back shouted, "B-But the river is not that deep."

"Hmmm, okay.", Elihim pointed his finger and the man who just spoke slowly floated. The man knew he had mistaken and pissed his pants in fear. Elihim then pointed finger up and down pointing at the river at an incredible speed that their eyes couldn't follow his finger's movement and only saw that it pointed to the river now.

At the same time, the river suddenly exploded. "Great suggestion, now the river is deep thanks to you."

The thugs secretly cried and murmured, "… Another brother died…", except for some who controlled themselves.

"Didn't I order something or are you all deaf? Do it while the river water fill the hole I made.", Elihim glared.

Everyone panicked and abruptly stood up. There are many huge stones by the river so they quickly did their job was what they all thought but Rin surprisingly stood up.

The men were all surprised but they have fear in their heart that all this happening was completely ignored and just wanted to finish this quickly is what their eyes set on.

When they got near the bloodied Rin, he pulled a punch. This punch was extremely heavy that the one who received it fell on his back.

"Oh~", Elihim was entertained.

The thugs didn't know how could that possibly happen when they've been beating him for hours! They took their weapons and fought Rin with vigor.

Rin, who had zero experience of fighting lose the fight in a matter of seconds but he did put three men to sleep.

The leader wiped his sweat while trembling, "This kid….", then they tied him tightly on the rock by a rope that someone took from somewhere unknown.

They dragged the heavy stone into the river with Rin without hesitation.

'Is everything finish?', they turned their head towards Elihim who has a big smile on his face. Their hope suddenly increased when they thought that Elihim was satisfied with their work.

When the leader was about to ask if they could leave, "Wait, let's wait for him.", Elihim responded as if he can read the leader's mind.