Captives

Becoming the Void itself and expelling the first person was like losing something that had been bugging you. An itch that could not be scratched literally inside of you. It was a relief in so many ways as the first Swordswoman I captured was expelled, and she coughed onto the floor, pulled out her sword, and tried to slash at me seconds later. 

Or she attempted to get up and try and slash at me.

Suddenly, Snow surrounded her, and she dropped. "What? Why am I numb all over? My body is twitching inside. What is happening to me?" the woman exclaimed. I thought that was odd, and my Mother smiled.

"That is my favorite snow," my mother said, much to my surprise. Did you know that snow is water? That water allows better movement of water. Guess what happens when you use both?" My mother happily chuckled, "I store the slightest charge of electricity in the frozen water, and it acts. Is that not fun?" My mother smiled, and I looked at her like an idiot.

I could not help it. That made no fucking logical sense. Where was the electricity being stored? Snow was not a good conductor of electricity. It did not act in the same way water did. That was not how things worked.

Yet here it was in front of me, and the woman looked up at her in fear. "Y- You are an A ranker."

"Yes," My mother said with a soft smile, "You have been captured little swordswomen."

"Oh, Fuck, What was that place? There was air, but it kept getting worse; it was dark, but I could do things in it. What was that place that I was in?" The woman asked.

"That was me," I replied, "How was it?"

"Horrible," She said bluntly, clearly traumatized from what happened on the other side. "There was nothing; the air was stuffy, and nothing made sense; I could both walk and float. It was as if the world was no more and death was all around."

"Interesting." 

"You're crazy; I never want to go to that place again."

"Mother, I will need to release my other captive if what she said is true. She is running out of air."

"You only captured two women? No men?" my mother chuckled. "Bring her out," she finished after chuckling.

So I pushed out the second woman, and the woman in nice plate mail shot out, and my mother smothered her in the snow in moments. The woman fell down, rolling onto her back. She glared at me with hate, "Y- You coward," She snapped.

"Princess?!" The swordswoman suddenly exclaimed, surprised.

"What?" I said, turning to her, and she closed her mouth.

"It seems that you might have captured someone of more value than you believe, Chelsea," my mother said, her smile huge. It seems that we have some interrogations to do. How about you use Doorknocker on them, which you are so proud of until they submit?"

I chuckled and looked down at the blonde, who continued looking at me with hate-filled eyes. "I have only once used my cock on someone to break them down and make them submit; now he follows his wife around like a little bitch doing what she says," I said, "which reminds me. I still have an experiment going on with him that I need to continue." I sighed, "I also need to pick up some people to experiment on."

"You know, if we have captives," my mother said slowly, and I winced, as I was the one who had implemented those policies and did not want to retract them. We could do some experiments."

I closed my eyes and thought about it. I did want to experiment the more I thought about it, and the humans would not show us the same restraint that we have to them. Look at how they are to their fellow humans, and you can see what they will do to us if they capture us. But I also did not want to become like them or like this world completely. Ethics were important, and I wanted to enact them among my people so they would not become monsters.

I glared down at the captive woman, and if she was the Crown Princess, then that meant that she was a high-value target. That also explained something, and I grinned, "Wait if we have the Princess here," I said, slowly turning to look at my mother, "That explains the lack of coordination that we saw in the human army. I basically kidnapped their commander from the middle of their ranks, then disappeared, slowing down their decision-making process. Then, they did not know where to stop. Which meant we could have pushed them further.

My eyes widened, and I laughed as I looked at my Mother. "Thank everything that none of you knew I had this Princess!" I exclaimed and laughed, and my mother realized what had happened as well. The blonde woman looked confused.

"What!?" She snapped, "You are clearly laughing at me."

"I would explain," I said slowly, "But what if you are somehow returned?" I said with a chuckle, "No, You are going to remain ignorant of what we are thinking." I told the woman slowly, "We should start with a lockdown of information," I said, turning to my mother, "This cannot leave the Elite army which we have captured. These two captives do not exist." I said bluntly, and I could see the blood draining on the captive's faces, and I turned to them.

"That-" I slapped the woman.

"I hate to say this, but I no longer care," I told her bluntly, "See, you are bad for me, Princess. People knowing I have you is Very, Very bad for me at this moment. So you are going to be treated like a prisoner of war, just in your PRIVATE ROOM," I said with a grin, "Till I know what to do with you."

With that, I looked at the second swordswoman, who was trying to hold a fierce gaze with a pale face, and I smiled wryly. "You know, you were the first to learn about this ability of mine. Too bad you know about the second one to learn about it," I said and turned to my mother. I will be back with what we need.

I left the room to do what needed to be done.

All I could think about was this new complication and what I would have to do with this Princess.

Maybe I could change her mind in a way.

Was I willing to forgo a large part of my war ethics to do it?

Was it bad that I was willing to?

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