Chapter 20: Breaking Carl's down and News about the magical world
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Although Max wanted nothing more than to torture the guy that annoyed him in the past eight years, he could not let him die very quickly since Carl was the only connection between him and the magic world. And because of this reason, Max decided to stop his bleeding for the time being, or Carl would die in a few minutes. But Max was so careful about this matter. Although Carl said that he could not use wandless magic, that did not mean that Max would believe him and would not take precautions in case Carl lied to him. If someone like Max, who was only a beginner when it came to magic, managed to use wandless magic to move objects, someone like Carl might be able to do the same. But since wandless magic required nothing but concentration on the magic movement, Max decided to pin Carl to the chair using a nail, but he did that carefully to avoid killing him. The pain should be enough to stop him if he tried something funny.
After taking care of everything and tying Carl to the chair he was sitting on and making him unable to move a muscle, Max finally turned back to face him while smiling. Although Carl was insane and did not care much about his victim's pain, he grew up in a pure-blood family. That alone made him fragile when he faced a demon-like Max that inflicted him with enough pain to paralyze an adult. Max had done everything in minutes, making Carl unable to resist since the beginning. "Now, now, uncle. Let's start from the beginning. If you wanted to live longer, you need to answer everything I ask, or you are the one that will suffer."
Although Carl did not stop shouting and crying since Max cut his hand because he was not accustomed to such pain since no one dared to hurt someone like Carl, who got born in the Lestrange family, he did not plan to satisfy Max's request. Carl instead looked at Max's face with a distorted expression and opened his mouth. "You think you will get away with this? Just wait!!! When I am out of here, you can forget about your life. I will make you suffer as I did when you were just a child. I will destroy you, and I will enjoy it. Do you..."
But before he could continue his speech, Max used another nail to pin his other leg to the chair, making Carl scream harder and harder. Max did not get angry at all because of Carl's words, but he smiled instead. The more the prey resisted, the more he could enjoy his time. "Don't worry. We still have time. I am sure that you did not tell anyone where you went and removed your traces as well. So no one is going to find us anytime soon. And since you killed Rocco and I killed the others, that means that we have this large house to play in without anyone interrupting. So, I think I have enough time to make you talk. The earlier you answered my questions, the less pain you would suffer. Come on, uncle. Show me; how strong and how determined you are. I remember everything you did to me when I was a baby. So, let's see if you are as strong as me. Let's see if you go insane or I get tired first."
Max's smile while saying those words was enough to make Carl tremble in fear. At this moment, Max could not hold his killing intent, and it worked with the blood smell coming from Carl and the hall to frighten Carl more and more. He tried to resist Max, even after hearing this threat. But the more Carl resist, the more pain Carl would receive. Max turned into the devil in his eyes, and he could not help but cry in fear after only a few rounds of torture. His brother was a kind kitten compared to Max. At least, his brother did not kill him after all the things that he did to make everything hard for him. But Max did not care about the familial bond, and he tortured him again and again that he wished that he was dead.
"Please, stop!!! I will tell you everything you want..." Carl tried to beg Max to stop what he was doing, but Max used the device he prepared to crush Carl's remaining toes, making him scream again. One of the best things that Max found in this house among Rocco's things was this device. It was a torture device used in WWII to torture prisoners. It was called Thumbscrew, and it was very effective against the like of Carl. After hearing his words, Max smiled and did not stop but turned to Carl after crushing his remaining toes with a smile on his face. "Oh, my bad. I thought you wanted to resist more, and I was reckless enough to make this mistake. What were you saying?"
Although Carl knew the truth, what could he say? If he dared to open his mouth to curse or insult Max, more misfortunes would befall him, and he would suffer more and more.
Carl knew that if he told Max what he wanted, Max would kill him sooner or later, but he could not hold on any longer and decided to spell everything out. He wished that he would die so that he could get away from this devil. "I will tell you everything you want, but please don't hurt me anymore."
Carl was literally crying while saying those words. His voice was not the usual wicked and loud voice that he usually had, but it was hoarse. And Carl could not say those words straight, but Carl was stuttering the whole time. But all that did not matter to Max because he did not care about Carl's well-being. And since he achieved what he wanted and heard the words he wanted to hear, Max smiled at Carl without saying anything for a few moments at first. Max then started removing his gloves filled with blood and throw them into a bin to get rid of them. "Well, it is quite disappointing, I have to admit, you know. I expected more from you, uncle. You looked high and mighty the first day I saw you, but it seemed that no one could meet my expectation in this world. Huh, anyway, I will stop playing with you for now until I hear everything I want from you. If I found that you are lying to me, you can only blame yourself for making your remaining life hell. Do you understand?"
"I do. I swear I do!!!" Carl said those words while nodding his head furiously as he looked at Max with a trembling voice. In his head, he was blaming himself for everything that happened at this moment. If Carl were not an idiot, nothing would have happened to him. Why did he have to torture this boy when he was young? Carl was sure that his actions eight years ago were the reason his nephew turned to be someone insane, who loved to kill and torture others. And at this moment, he was one of those that were his nephew's victims. But after remembering that his brother would receive such treatment if Max found out the whole truth, his heart calmed down a little.
"Very well, let's start with our family. You said that our family is the Lestrange family, right? What is their situation in the magical world?" Max asked with some interest in his eyes as he looked at Carl. Although he did not care about that family and did not consider them his family anyway, that did not mean that he would ignore their wealth and position if they had any. And Max was sure that his father had those things since Corvus dared to kill his mother in the hospital and no one dared to stop him. Money and Power were the two things that he needed to do whatever he wanted. In his past life, he inherited everything that his father had, and although he did not go to the company that his father left for him, that did not mean that he did not know how to make money. But Max preferred to invest rather than manage the company. That was why he let his father's aid run the company for him while he sat down and enjoyed his life.
"The Lestrange family is one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families who have the purest blood in the magical world. Not only that, but the Lestrange family is among the wealthiest families in Britain. We are heavily involved in politics, and we are especially close to the Malfoy and Black families. We also have a branch family in France," Carl said everything to Max without hiding anything after seeing the look on Max's face. He knew that the moment he lied, he would receive more torture. Because of the situation, Carl did not realize that Max was not actually a wizard yet and did not have anything with him to check whether Carl was telling the truth or not. "At the moment, there are six people in the family. Your father, Corvus Lestrange, me, our mother, Matilda Lestrange, are three. Your half brothers, Rodolphus and Rabastan, and their mother, Abelia Lestrange, complete the six. But according to the law, you are still a member since Corvus did not disown you officially and did not send a word to the ministry. Since he planned to kill you anyway, and you would not find the truth about your family, he did not see a reason to go through all that trouble."
"Whoa!!! Slow down a bit. I have brothers??? Whoa, that man is good. He did not wait to get rid of me and married in the next moment to give me brothers. Not bad!!! More for me to kill..." Max gave a creepy laugh after hearing Carl's words because he could not imagine how much fun things would turn into after going into the magic world. But he was interested in finding how old are those two brothers of his. "How old are those two?"
"Rodolphus is five this year, and Rabastan is three," Carl said those words while shaking a little after hearing what Max intended to do to his brothers. Although that was something that he wanted, Max's laugh indicated that he would not let anyone from that family live. That tone alone made him tremble again, and he stuttered while replying to Max's question.
"Well, then. I can't do anything to the family at the moment, so let's change the topic. How can I open that bag of yours? Do you have any books about magic? If you don't, I will have to punish you a little," Max asked with a creepy smile on his face as he looked at Carl, whose body started trembling again after Max touched his skin with the knife.