Insight

After about two hours of deafening silence, Leus felt better.

His breathing became normal again and he regained a bit of his missing Life Force and a big chunk of the missing Mana.

He stood up and used Water to clean himself; His clothes had blood and other ... (unpleasant substances) on them.

He looked at the still-sleeping twin and decided that it was enough waiting.

Leus approached the sleeping twin, kneeled down, and cast Mana Augmentation on him.

Instantly, The Twin was revitalized, His Mana & Stamina were refilled again, and Leus poured water on his face to wake him up.

Both Scar and Bones were watching Leus in silence, they both, unlike Leus, had a rough idea about what happened already, and the reason they were silent was because they were thinking about how to deal with it.

The twin woke up confused and frantically looked around him.

The first thing he saw was Leus standing in front of him and Scar sitting a bit behind Leus with Bones.

He looked around him but didn't see whom he was looking for, so he locked his eyes with Scar and asked in a weak voice

"Kenton?"

Scar just shook his head.

The twin understood and looked down at the floor saddened.

Scar gave him a couple of minutes to come to terms with it then got up and came closer to him.

Leus stepped aside giving Scar space.

Scar asked

"What happened, Kyle?"

Kyle looked at his leg and his arm and tried moving them, Surprisingly, for him at least, he didn't feel any pain.

He was confused about it but then he looked at Leus and understood, but suddenly, he broke down in tears.

Everyone in the room thought he was crying because of his brother's death but the words he said after that confused them

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry"

Scar and Bones looked at each other for a second but none of them had anything to say so Scar calmed him down and asked him again

"Sorry for what? What happened?"

"I couldn't keep it, I'm sorry, I couldn't keep the secret"

Bones came forward and spoke in a serious tone

"Right now, we all might be in grave danger.

How about you calm down and tell us what happened?"

He gestured to Leus to create some water and Leus did it, Kyle washed his face and calmed down a bit then started talking

"Me and Kenton were in the house eating, it was around dusk, but it wasn't totally dark yet.

As always, we kept the door open because we were leaving soon, but suddenly, six guys entered the house, and they had The Butcher's leader with them.

We tried resisting but they were more and way stronger than us, That's why this room is in a mess. Then they took us inside"

Kyle tightly clenched his fist and continued

"They started asking me who the purple-haired kid was, how he and the Protector trained all day non-stop, and why we collected all the buckets.

We refused to answer, so they began torturing me.

The Butcher's leader started skinning my leg and one of the guys broke my shoulder and punched my face.

During their torture, I lost consciousness multiple times, but they woke me up every time with a long cut on my body."

Kyle shivered remembering all the torture, Scar put his hand on his shoulder and calmed him down, allowing him to continue

"That's when they realized that torturing me was pointless and that I wouldn't answer, so they started torturing Kenton in front of me, saying that they'd only stop after I answered.

In the beginning, I refused to answer, so they began cutting his limbs one by one.

I realized that it was just a matter of time before he died, So I closed my eyes and waited in the hope that his pain would end soon"

Kyle's breath quickened and he was about to have another breakdown but Scar comforted him again

"That's when I heard him screeching, I opened my eyes and ...."

Kyle took a long pause then continued

"I saw them cutting and ripping out his eyes .. That's when I couldn't handle it and told them everything.

I'm sorry, I'm really sorry I betrayed you Scar ... I couldn't bear it any longer"

Kyle started sobbing again

"You didn't betray me, Kyle, It's alright"

Scar was trying to comfort Kyle while Bones was thinking to himself

'These twins are abnormal'

'Oh, Were abnormal'

'He's actually more upset that he told them than he's upset because he got tortured and his brother murdered ...'

Kyle continued through his tears

"Scar, you must leave.

After they got everything from me their leader stabbed me, but while my consciousness was fading I heard them.

One of them was asking if he should finish me, But the leader told him that it didn't matter since they were going to kill the rest of us and that it was better to leave me bleeding to death in agony as a punishment for the time they wasted on me."

Upon hearing that, Bones and Scar looked at each other and were simultaneously thinking about the same thing

'What should we do now?'

But they couldn't think for long, Something was slowly building up and weighing on them

It was a feeling they hadn't experienced before, Like the air itself became heavy, And a wave of dread was surging up in their hearts.

To Scar and Bones, it was a strong feeling of dread and fear, Like something really bad was about to happen.

But to Kyle, It was a pure impending feeling of doom, Like his entire existence was about to be eradicated.

Kyle's breath quickened, His body felt heavy and he couldn't get up from the floor.

He looked up to Scar and Bones to confirm that everyone was feeling the same thing and the expressions on their faces confirmed it, it wasn't only him.

Simultaneously, All three of them turned around to look at Leus.