*WARNING:- THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS DEPICTIONS OF TORTURE AND VIOLENCE.*
James was not able to move a muscle; he was able to only move his neck and head. At the sight of Johan holding the pliers, he was at first confused, but when Johan brought them closer to his fingers, he realised what he was about to do and screamed at him.
"W-WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!?? WHO EVEN ARE YOU!!"
"What? You don't even recognise me? Well... I am the guy in the suit that smacked both of you idiots out," replied Johan.
"IT WAS YOU!!? YOU FUCKING BASTARD, I WILL RIP YOU APART!! LET ME GO RIGHT NOW!"
Before he could say anything else, Johan cut something with his pliers.
James didn't realise it at the moment, but he then suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of his index finger, and then in the next moment he felt a burning sensation.
The pain was extreme; he screamed at the top of his lungs.
What Johan had cut was his nail alongside the part of the finger attached to it. He had cut it vertically in half; that split his nail in two equal halves. Johan didn't bother with stopping the blood oozing out, nor did he bother to stop his screaming.
One after another, one by one. Johan kept cutting his nails the same way, one by one, and in a few minutes Johan had cut all of the nails present on the fingers vertically. Then after James stopped screaming – no, he hadn't stopped screaming; he just lost his voice because of intense screaming.
He thought Johan was done now, but then Johan went near his left ear and said.
"Now it's time for the ten toes."
James was terrified; he was sure that there would be no more pain, no more suffering, but now Johan terrified him, for James every second was filled with only pain for him. For him each minute felt like an hour.
Johan didn't waste a single second and proceeded to do the same with his toes as well, but Johan made sure to not let him lose consciousness by giving him adrenaline shots with an EpiPen, and to prevent him from going numb due to blood loss, he had already attached a blood bag to his veins, but that blood was not of a human; the blood was of a big lamb.
When lamb or calf blood is transfused to humans, the human immune system identifies the foreign protein in the animal as a threat, which causes an acute allergic reaction and the rapid destruction of blood cells, causing intense pain.
The only reason why James was still alive was because he was a power user; power users have stronger immune systems and internal organs, just slightly stronger than ordinary. The most inhuman part of their bodies is their external body; a strong and trained body of a power user can even withstand getting hit by a truck moving at moderate speed.
The methods of torture used by Johan were modelled to give long-lasting pain to power users while keeping them alive longer. After a few more minutes of agony and pain, Johan was finished with him...well, that's what James thought.
"Did you know? Power users heal 3 times quicker than normal humans. I have already done this to your rival in the warehouse beside this one; you can rest for now. Your 'enemy' will now suffer the next stage. "Don't worry, I will be back to you too."
James didn't hear a single word he had said; he was crying from the pain. He wanted to die, just die. He thought about biting his own tongue and killing himself, but he couldn't.
The warehouse where Jason was held was opened by Johan.
"Oh damn... Your condition is even worse than your rival's," Johan said to him after seeing him.
"M-m-my brother will kill you and everyone in your family!" Jason spoke to him in a weak yet angry voice.
Johan came closer to him and sat on the ground in front of where Jason was tied to. He then grabbed and opened an envelope that contained the complete information of Jason.
"Your brother, huh? Hmm...let's see if I am right about who your older brother is...there it is. Yeah, I was right; your brother is the strongest wind power user, Noah Wills. I guess that kid is the third strongest in the world now," Johan said to him while looking at the files.
"That kid!? DID YOU CALL MY BROTHER A KID!? "Hah, he is going to humble you real quick when he notices that I am gone from the house!" Jason said to him confidently.
"Wow... I guess since I have been under the radar of the society, I have become like a ghost. You also didn't recognise me from my suit. I had hoped that especially YOU, who is from the Wills family, would have recognised me."
Johan said to him and then stood up.
"I will give you a hint. Five years ago only two people of the prestigious Wills family remained out of 25 members, out of which 2 were in the top ten."
After hearing this, Jason was surprised, as the news that was spread was that Noah was the only survivor; Jason's identity was kept hidden by his brother.
"W-WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS!? ONLY ME AND MY BROTHER KNOW ABOUT THIS!"
"WOW... I can't believe someone as dumb as you is the next head of the Wills family. There are actually three people who know about your true identity. The first is obviously you, the second one is your brother, and the third and the last one is the one who murdered your family. Can you connect the dots now?"
Jason then suddenly realised who Johan was.
"Y-YOU ARE THE VANQUISHER!! YOU—YOU BASTARD, WHY? WHY HAVE YOU COME BACK TO KILL US? YOU LET US GO ON THAT DAY BECAUSE YOU TOLD US THAT YOU WOULD LET US LIVE!!"
"That's where you are wrong. I told you that I will let you kids live as long as you don't commit any crime, but like a moth to a flame, you all couldn't resist crushing the bugs your family called ordinary humans. Did you forget what you did yesterday morning?"
"Huh? What did I do? I DID NOTHING WRON-. " Before Jason could finish, Johan plucked one of the nails he had split in half.
Jason screamed; he screamed louder than even James.
"The reason why I cut the nails vertically in half first was so I could pluck out twenty nails instead of ten." Johan said this to his face while grabbing his face.
He continued his pluckings. Jason's screaming reached to James as well; he was terrified of what was going to be done to him. Finally the screaming stopped, and after a while Johan came to James's warehouse and saw that Johan's hands and the pliers were covered with blood. The blood was dripping everywhere he went.
"You didn't rest? Oh, you should have because you need more energy to scream." Johan said this with a wide smile on his face, but this smile was not wholesome; it was terrifying.
Chapter 6
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