This feeling was new, a different kind of emotion. Asher had never felt rage strong enough to hit a human like this, breaking his nose with a kick as well.
When the Enor village was caught by the tree and turned into its puppet. Asher had felt hopeless, that was his first time feeling such intense emotions.
When he saw Kit also turned into a puppet of the tree despair hit him.
But when William–His grandpa died, something broke in him as well. Luckily at that time, he was not alone in taking any wrong step.
Liber''s group had guided him. Taught him and most importantly listened to him as well.
To Asher that was more than enough help to make him feel grateful toward them.
Seeing the man with grayish hair lying on the ground being stomped by Asher''s foot to not move. Asher still felt enraged.
Asher had killed many creatures of beyond. He had stabbed them, cut them, shot them and even burned them. This gives him the confidence to hit a human without hesitation. Of course, he still can''t kill a living human, that''s against his morals.
"Are you the one who had been doing these kidnappings in the slums.?
The man hesitated for a moment, Asher pressed his boots on his leg even harder. *creak* If Asher pressed any harder he was confident he could break his legs as well.
"Y-yes, I- I did."
The man''s voice was shaken from the pain, his breathing heavy because of the broken nose.
"Where are the others?"
"I-I only kidnapped that girl."
I glanced behind to see the girl, her hands were weak, and her face was dry with an unnatural look. As if she had been left starving many times.
Noticing my glance she shook her head, her eyes still watery.
"Liar"
*Pa!*
Another kick soon hit the face.
*Psst-* *cough* blood trickles down his mouth along with another broken tooth.
"If you don''t answer correctly... I am not sure you would have enough teeth to spare."
My voice was cold and heavy. I even surprised myself I could be this cold and cruel.
"My next question was a small girl here with a mole in her face, Lila to be exact."
"I huff- don''t remember... I had sent a batch of children along with some adults to somewhere else."
He tried to look at the woman only to fail and add in a rough voice.
"That woman''s leg made her unable to move easily, so ...... she ended up staying here."
"What were you going to inject her with and what were you talking about healing her limbs."
"The injection was *huff-* a normal drug to keep her alive." He gulps choking on his mouthful of blood.
He spat it out staining his clothes and continued after I once again tried to crush his legs.
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"The original potion I had given her was supposed to heal her legs but I ended up getting the... wrong one. Which did nothing."
''Was it a failed product''
Asher was checking his memories of the slums he had visited, many people were quite dazed in the middle of the day. Just silently looking at the sky. He has avoided those since they looked drunk but turned out they were just high.
"Where did you send the others."
"This city has.. man-made underground tunnels.. connecting many places. Gangs artificially made them."
He continued with another breath, his broken nose making it very hard to talk.
"Some people will come to collect the people and lead them through tunnels. They either blindfold me and lead the way or take the people by themselves."
"Do you know where they all are?"
"I have a general idea from my last time.. *huff* it should be near the station factory."
"Oh one more thing"
The man looked at Asher expectedly as if waiting for his misery to finally be finished.
I grabbed the man by the collar dragging him through the floor.
His eyes widened in shock as he was dragged trying to resist but failing in front of the strength of an awakened.
*Thud!*
I held his head by the hair and smacked his head on the wall, his eyes rolled back and he instantly lost consciousness.
Seeing his figure lying on the floor blood dripping
from his head, I sighed. He was not dead I made sure of it. Making his bleeding slow with Kairosflow as well for safety.
Seeing the figure of the man lying on the ground. Who had tortured her for days in his twisted experiment, the woman felt dazed. Her black hair stuck to her face as she parted them to get a better look.
She felt disgusted almost puking again but managed to hold it inside. She couldn''t allow such things. For this man to be alive. He had cut off her leg. The day she tried to run away was the day she lost her voice too.
Asher figure slowly walked toward her. He glanced at her condition and tried to put some blankets on her taking them out from his bracelet.
Her eyes widened with shock as the blanket suddenly came out of nowhere but she held it tightly. Her body was still shaking. Her body was weak and she was broken. And the man who did this was still alive.
She hated that.
"Let''s see how we can get you out of here."
I said to her trying to sound calm. Not to worsen her condition. The bandage on her cut-off leg was done very poorly.
Even I was better at doing first aid than this. If such a wound is left alone without proper treatment, forget about her leg she will surely die.
I walked toward the drawer to take the syringe and saw a gun there as well taking them both in my bracelet– Then I saw it.
The woman had crawled toward the man, her body lying on the floor as well. The room was small– very small actually. It would not take much time to go from one corner to another.
But what was she going to do? I felt dazed as I continued to watch this unfold like an idiot. Her trembling hand held a broken yet sharp wooden piece.
The one that got thrown toward her when the chair broke.
Before I could say anything, she raised the broken chair leg like a dagger. Her hand shaking fear flickering through her eyes. Then she did it.
*Stab!*
The pointed part hit the man''s neck going through it at once.
My eyes widened in shock, my mouth left agape.
I–I didn''t stop her. My body refused to move. My heart was beating wildly as she continued to stab him again and again.
*Stab!*
*Stab!*
Why couldn''t I stop her? She was killing him. That''s a wrong thing I thought. But the question still lingered in me.
Why? I had the power to stop her instantly. Was I looking for something I didn''t know yet.
"I-I was angry"
She finally said her first word to me. Looking at me with sorrow.
"I was angry ....at you" She was biting her lips, as her voice trembled.
"Why did you not kill him? *sniff* he- he made me- us" Her words trailing off between her muffled cry. "suffer so much."
"You- You should have killed him. B-but you didn’t."
She looked at me her tears strolling down.
"So I did."
I wanted to refute, that killing a human was wrong. That we.. Shouldn’t? This thought soon turned into a question that I would never be able to answer in my life.
I bit my lips till blood came out. Why was I hesitating so much? Because I knew she was right.
I closed my eyes for a moment then opened them again. Only to see her the bloody wooden dagger now pointed toward her.
Her hands were shaking her eyes were closed, as she moved them toward her.
"Hn!"
She opened her eyes, the pain she thought never came instead the man with silver eyes held the bloody wooden dagger inches away from her.
"I was unable to stop you that time. But now I can do it without hesitation."
He told her confidently. As if his insecurity was gone he had reached some kind of deep conclusion within himself.
Taking out the gun from inside the bracelet he fired it outside.
*Bang!*
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She fell asleep.
I looked at her wrapped in a blanket sleeping calmly still twitching in pain once in a while as she tried to move her limbs around.
I had fired the gun outside to make any official come here. I was not confident enough to leave her alone after her last actions.
As I tried to look around the room.
*Swish!*
My eyes widened as suddenly a warm feeling wrapped around me.
"Don''t move."
An orange-colored blade was beside my neck.