Chapter 14

Ajax had actually embarrassed him in front of so many people yesterday; he couldn't let this bastard off the hook.

Charles couldn't help but tremble whenever he recalled the embarrassment he faced, an experience he had never faced before.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he grew. Charles squatted in front of Ajax again, motioning his subordinates to release him before they strangled him to death. Charles took out his Vox with a smile, opened the video recording feature, and pointed it towards Charles saying, "Come on you little bastard, look at the camera and smile."

"Cough cough cough..." Ajax was coughing dryly while panting heavily. He was completely suffocated while being beaten for more than thirty seconds just now. He looked Charles in the eyes when he recovered a little.

"Oh, right, right, right, right." Charles adjusted the angle of the camera to capture Ajax's tragic situation. "Come and beg me for mercy like the bitch you are. How about buying me some cakes for a few hundred eddies?"

He wants to capture the process of torturing and killing Ajax through pictures and put them on a certain website in the future.

The helpers around were all amused by Charles's actions. They have been with Charles for several years, dedicated to helping him do this kind of thing.

Tanaka cautiously glanced outside from time to time so that Charles could enjoy himself.

"Go fuck yourself!" Ajax smiled and spat blood in Charles's face, taking the opportunity to free one of his hands and slapped Charles's Vox into the wall beside him.

Charles seethed with anger as cleaned his face and picked up his Vox, whose screen was shattered. He raised his hand and punched Ajax on his temple twice. "You fucker, do you even know how many eddies I spent on that Vox? You just costed me tens of thousands of eddies...I'm going to enjoy killing you..."

Due to the punches not being fun enough, Charles took out an exquisite military-style knife from his back, and slowly cut Ajax's right cheek from the corner of his eye to the edge of his mouth with it.

Ajax held himself together, not giving Charles the satisfaction of hearing him scream due to the pain. His whole body bowed, and blood flowed from the wound nearly one centimeter deep, dripping down his cheek.

"Is that all you got?" Ajax asked with a smile on his face. He knew he would most likely die today, so why not antagonize the fucker before he bit the bullet.

Charles cleaned his blood-stained right hand, stood up, and took two steps back, not wanting to get more blood in him. After all, someone with Ajax's living conditions probably had many diseases, and he didn't want to get infected.

The helpers started to move immediately, as five or six men pounded Ajax with kicks and punches. It didn't matter where they hit; it would be over if they hit hard, and the sound of a bone breaking suddenly sounded in the room.

"Young Master Charles, why don't we just kill him? We're starting to make quite the ruckus and it would be a hassle if we're heard." Tanaka said with a tinge of worry as he glanced outside.

Ajax's home was indeed remote, but it wasn't far from the residential area. They couldn't be caught doing this kind of thing.

"Fuck it then, let's kill him." Charles looked at Ajax, who was unconscious at the moment, nodded in satisfaction, and glanced at the house. "Lock him inside and set the house on fire that way some evidence what happened today will be erased."

If it was someone else, he would, at most, give him a beating and a warning. However, he hated Ajax to the core, and the anger in him couldn't be quelled with just killing him.

Moreover, he had checked Ajax's details. He had no background, no relatives, no money, no reason to live. No one would care if such a man disappeared.

"Don't worry, Young Master Charles, I'll take care of it, no one will be able to connect you to this." Tanaka nodded quickly.

Even if Charles hadn't ordered him to, he would still burn this place down to the ground after they were done.

A minute later, everyone left the room. Tanaka took Ajax's key and locked Ajax inside with a small fire already burning inside.

"Are you sure you this won't raise any suspensions?" Charles held his broken Vox, brooding.

"Absolutely, young master Charles, there are a lot of flammable and explosive items in there. Everyone would just think he made a mistake and went up in smoke " Tanaka affirmed.

"Will it explode? If so, then we have to leave quickly." Charles took two steps back, as long as Ajax died, he would be relieved.

As for the consequences after his death, that's not what he should worry about; Tanaka would take care of the aftermath for him. It would probably be treated as an accident... probably...

In less than half a minute, Charles and others left the area, and the fire in the room was growing.

At this time, Ajax regained consciousness, his head was killing him and the entire right side of his face was covered with blood, with bloodshot eyes.

He felt the rising temperatures around him, as well as the "crackling" sound fire made whent burning debris. He knew that if he didn't do anything, he would die here in a few minutes.

Suppressing the aching pain coming from all over his body, Ajax struggled to get up, and staggered towards the door.

However, the door was locked from the outside and couldn't be opened from the inside no matter what. It was even more impossible to break open.

At this time, the fire had reached the roof, and was impossible to put out. The billowing smoke made it difficult for Ajax to breathe, making him cough endlessly.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Ajax lowered his head and walked towards the other end of the room.

When he reached the other side he searched for a couple of seconds and then slammed into the wall with all his strength. He heard a "click," and a section of the wall crumbled. Ajax managed to crawl out through the open space.

A dilapidated home had its benefits. When Ajax rented the garage, the location originally had a big hole on the wall.

To save some eddies, Ajax just blocked it with a piece of wood and wallpaper. He never expected that his actions to save some eddies would end up saving his life today.

Ajax didn't dare to stay and crawled forward with hands and feet.

He and to get away as far as possible since there were a lot of materials for making energy blocks in his room and those were dangerous items that could explode at any time in case of fire.

Sure enough, as soon as Ajax managed to crawl about ten meters away, there was a small "boom" sound from behind. It was followed by multiple other explosions and then one big "KABOOM" that sent out a shockwave so strong thag the entire roof was sent everywhere. Even his metal door that weight a good 200kg was sent barreling a good 10 meters away from its original spot.

After covering his head for a minute, Ajax slowly and painfully got up from the ground, wiped the blood that hadn't dried up on his face with his shirt, and stared blankly at his house.

The place that he had once called home was nothing more than a sea of rubble, fire, and smoke. Every single bit of Ajax's wealth had also been reduced to ashes.

He didn't have much clothing or any eddies lying around. However, there were many books and materials in it, as well as Ajax's records on the production of energy blocks, things that had taken him years of painstaking just to gather!

Now they are all destroyed by Charles. The pain he felt from watching all he had go up in flames far exceeded the pain of his body.

He got up early and stayed up late every day, working hard and by his lonesome, just trying to get enough eddies to live another day.

And Charles, a bastard born with a silver spoon and platter, with no woddies about food and clothing. HE TOOK THAT FROM HIM!

The world had always been full of injustice...

Maybe it's time for a change.

Ajax's eyes looked at the flames in front of him, the heat emanating from them no longer bothering him. The fire reflected in his hazel eyes and on that day Ajax swore that things would change.

'I will kill you with my bare hands and I'm going to enjoy it so much.'

The sound of the explosions and the light of the fire just now alarmed the nearby residential areas and soon, the sound of someone rushing this way could be heard. Ajax ignored his pain and hurriedly dragged himself aways from the scene and into the embrace of the night and it's shadows.