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I'm deviating a bit. It is simply impossible to avoid her blows.

Whether she's just distracting me with bad cold steel fighting technique...

I didn't have time to finish my own thought. The edge of the saber blade struck me loudly on the forehead.

— Ow!—I grimaced as I walked away.

— Does it hurt? I'm sorry, I couldn't reach you in any way, so I took an extra step!—Lizzie giggled.— Oh, what was that?!—

I raised my hand, motioning her to be silent - I myself heard the noise behind the barricade.

I put my hand on the floor of the sewer in order to feel the steps on the fluctuation of space.

— Go away.—I said to Lizzie soundlessly, with only my lips.

Lizzie shook her head.

The brick and other parts of the barricade flew in different directions when we did not expect it.

— An insectoid...I whispered, turning white with fear.

I've been through a lot, but what I'm really afraid of is the insectoids from our planet.

It was a giant dung beetle. When he saw me, he growled so loudly that it seemed to me that my eardrums began to threaten me with an early explosion and complete deafness.

I push Lizzie away, but before I can escape, the beetle's paw enters my thigh, piercing it through. From the sharp pain, I almost go blind, but immediately with my double-sided sickle I chop the paw that wounded me.

The beetle screams loudly in pain and throws me against the wall.

— Lizzie... Go away!— I manage to say, while consciousness is not so blurred yet.

Instead of blood, it's like novocaine was poured into my body...

I crawl back to the weapon and throw the saber that came to my hand. Even in this state, I hit the target, although my eyes begin to double...

— Lizzie... I told you to leave!I shout, seeing that Lizzie, stepping aside, pulled out a large spear.

—"No, I'm not going to leave you here! I'd rather do what I can!—

The spear hits the shoulder (damn, what nonsense is this? Where did the beetle's shoulders come from???) to the beetle, and it seems that this only angered him...

who was it?! Who was on the second beetle that burst in after?!

I didn't see it, because at that moment the beetle hit me even harder...

***

...A sharp, aching pain brings me to my senses. My arms and legs hurt so much that I can't find decent words to describe it.

Plus everything... I'm on the rack!!!

I heard someone turning a lever, and my legs and arms felt like they were in incredible pain.

I try to switch my thoughts to something else, but the pain just makes my brain boil.

— Dariusz, I didn't know he was watching us! I didn't wear anything, because I didn't even know where he could have hidden the wire and why it didn't stall?—Lizzie was sitting on the floor.

It's strange that she's not tied up...

— Lizzie?—I croaked. Tears flowed from my eyes.

— Yes, Dariusz, now she will try to deny it! Of course, she helped from the very beginning, otherwise why would she follow you everywhere!— Mariusz touches the wheel that pulls my rack.

It's only now that I suddenly realized that I can't feel my body!

— I don't like to be disappointed, Dariusz... but how much you disappointed me...—

I feel like my bones are stretched like rubber.

I shouldn't scream... He shouldn't...

the pain is electric shock.