Chapter 80

Rusty warehouse filled with many machines, strings of rusty chains hung from the ceiling of the warehouse and from one such chain hung a black haired man in his early 20's.

The man had many scars in his body and there were many wounds in his abdomen and legs mostly blue in colour due to blood clot from taking a beating. His face had also been subject to some beating causing his cheek to be swollen and blood flowing from his mouth and two to three broken teeth on the floor mixed with blood said volumes about the brutality the man was subjected to.

The man who subjected this young handsome man to this torture was seen taking rest. His shemagh remained on his face and with his green cold eyes he was reading some book written in Pashto. Though the young man knew how to talk in Pashto he was not that good in reading Pashto and considering his swollen face he could not even see well much less read.

He had been taking a beating for a total of 2 days. Every time he would fail to open his mouth, the man with green eyes would leave the room and come back after a few hours and this time the questions he would ask would be entirely different from the questions he had asked before. It was instinctive but Sean knew that someone was talking and that someone had betrayed the group. The question was who.

'In terms of security clearance the lieutenant would have more clearance than me but the lieutenant of our team was a newbie and had just come to Afghanistan. Even if he had more clearance than us he wouldn't know much. He is also not privy to the routes taken by us. In other words one of my team members were talking' thought Sean and this realisation was painful for him. They had spent days and nights patrolling and fighting this never ending war together only to find that someone had betrayed the group. This made Sean both sad and develop a rage inside of him. If he did find out the guy who betrayed them the question in his mind was 'What could he do?'.

Just as he was pondering over this issue the green eyes man closed his book and got up from his seat. "You have been testing our patience Sean Walker. If you are thinking that by keeping your mouth shut you are protecting your brothers, you are wrong. Your brothers have already betrayed you. You no longer have any brother amongst your team members. You are protecting no one. So why don't you save yourself the pain you are facing and give us the answers to our questions. How much do you make from the salary you earn by risking your life. If you speak you could earn a lot more money and go back to your hometown rich". The green eyed man spoke in brown English and Pashto that at some point it started to sound funny.

As if Sean didn't read the serious atmosphere inside the room or as if forgetting that he was with a taliban interrogator who has already beaten every part of his body he start to laugh which sounded like he was wheezing. Blood and spit sprayed from his mouth and his teeth was blood red in colour.

The green eyes man had a change in his expression and asked "What the hell are you laughing at" this time in Pashto.

"Nothing, it's just that your English sounds so bad that I started to laugh. Don't get offended. I am someone who doesn't know to read the mood in a room. I had once started to tell jokes on a funeral home and got kicked out by the family of the deceased" said Sean laughing even more.

The green eyed taliban froze for a second not knowing what to do. "You are laughing in this situation eh!. Well let's see how are you going to laugh now" said the man and clapped his hand to let the guard standing outside in and whispered to him in pashto.

Within seconds Sean was brought down from the chain and tied to a chair. The guard placed a sack over his face and the green eyed man poured cold water over his face trying to suffocate him. "Why don't you laugh now you son of a bitch! " screamed the green eyed man in pashto.

The suffocation from waterboarding made Sean to wheeze and shake trying to break away from his cuffs but couldn't escape from it. His chest rose up and down as his lungs was deprived of oxygen. Just as Sean felt he would he would die the scene shattered from intense shaking of his body from an outside source.

Meanwhile within an inn Sean who was sleeping on the couch while his body was shaking left and right woke up with a start and found a figure holding his hand and shaking him. Being in half sleep mode made Sean think it was an enemy and without much thought he grabbed the figure by their wrist and twisted them and grabbed their neck and pushed them strongly to the sofa and choked the figure.

This was an instinctive reaction and Sean quickly woke up from his half sleep mode and found the figure to be Cornelia who was looking at him in confusion and a bit of fear from having her neck choked.

Sean quickly moved back and profusely apologised to her saying that he was having a nightmare and it was an instinctive reaction. Cornelia quickly adjusted her mood and didn't seem to mind much and quickly walked away.

'This dream!! yet again I keep going back to my time in Afghanistan. At first I thought it might be a trauma but it seems like it's not as simple as that. In my fight back in the restaurant with the death squad assassins the thing which I kept hidden at the back of my mind resurfaced. Is it related to that. Now that I think about it that voice which I always call my inner instinct was something which was born from the darkest time of my life. The time when I was tortured by taliban for nearly 6 straight days'.

(This event happened when Sean and Cornelia had been travelling with the Merchant Carnival and were passing by a city fir a stop. As for why this was only mentioned now. It's because we are still in the flashback and right now it was evening and at the same time Emily Walker was with her friend in her dorm room trying to wait for her room mate to leave and at the same time Kleever was being tortured by Lux in the name of a game).

Meanwhile at Arcadia Academy

Emily waited with her bag hidden underneath her bed waiting for her friend to leave and it didn't take long before her brown haired room mate get up from the bed and leave cheerfully while saying that she had an appointment to meet up with her friends. With that she skipped at every step and cheerfully left earning a sigh from Emily. She felt like she would miss her best friend/roommate but knew that she couldn't stay here any longer and picked her bag and peeked out of her room.

Seeing the corridor with people doing their own stuff Emily kept her head down and scurried away from the dorm and out of the Academy and back into the busy streets before sighing in relief.

Meanwhile within the Paradise: within the torture room

Kleever's body was riddled with holes from the enchanted drills and blood had already clotted and stopped flowing. His body was dyed in his own blood and his hair was disheveled. The once handsome man who garnered many attention from the women was now looking pale, filled with holes on his face to the point that his cheek muscles were visible.

He had been trying to break open the chain which had him tied but soon found much to his despair that these were Qi blocking chains specially used for prisoners. In other words to escape from this chain one would have to use the strength of their body.

Closing his eyes for the 4th time while gritting his teeth Kleever broke his right hand ring finger while whispering and consoling that there was only one finger left to break before he could slip out of the chain. With a resolve on his face Kleever broke his little finger without much hesitation and slipped his hand out of the chain.

"Finally!!" shouting to himself Kleever pulled the now one sided chain and started walking towards the place where there was a key hanging on the wall. With a grin Kleever took out the key and tried to insert in the keyhole only to find that the key did not fit in the hole. Kleever's face froze in shock and tried to bang on the door and shout while also trying to open the handle to the door.

At that time a buzz was heard and Kleever felt a zap and string jolt in his hand and found his body already flying. With a froze expression his body hit the other side of the wall as a searing pain was felt by Kleever in his arm which was charred and broken while he also felt a crack in his spine and his ribs. With a huge scream and cry Kleever rolled on the floor writhing in pain to which Lux who was in his room lying down on his back watched in enjoyment.

Yes, a memory crystal also had a video function which could record their videos using which Lux was having a live feed as he enjoyed his dick being licked by two women. "Ah this is life, this is pleasure and this is ecstasy" shouted Lux with a smile on his face as his body jerked and his semen sprayed on the two woman who had a terrified expression just by looking at his creepy smile and shivered while hearing the painful screams of Kleever from the screen.

'THIS PSYCHOPATH!! ' shouted both in their mind while trying their best to show that they felt honoured from having his semen sprayed all over their face as if it was a holy water.