TLDR: Sato was tortured, gang-raped, and had received an unexplainable amount of trauma.
The day Gray received a call during his meeting about Sato's kidnapping, the Major General dropped everything and immediately flew off to Country Y. On the way, he was briefed by Madel who had regained consciousness after a while. Even in that state, she continued to do her debrief and in her heart, she was disappointed in herself. If she had realised something was wrong sooner, Sato would not have been in danger.
"Family head, family matriarch," Facing the two heads of the Tobion family, Madel kneeled down on one knee as she apologised, "I would like to resign from my post as one of the Four Horsemen."
The decision made by Madel was expected by Alex and Melanie. This time, it was indeed a result of her lapse in judgement. With her mistake, the life of Sato Takahashi, one of the most important person in the Tobion family circle, was endangered. Alex walked forward and told her to stand up.
"There is no need for you to resign. This time, the enemy had truly infiltrated deeply into our territory. Since I had let such a situation happen, it was really my mistake." Alex took the blame. Even though he did not like the idea of Gray having a boyfriend, the fact that he allowed for Yroth to enter Country Y without a problem, was embarrassing on his part. After all, Country Y was truly under the Tobion family's control. It wasn't an understatement to say that the Prime minister of Country Y was truly a pawn on his chess set.
"Tell Gray that the Horsemen, Conquest will be under his command for this rescue. Use any resource that is required to save Sato Takahashi. Failure is not an option."
"Understood," Madel turned around to leave, passing on the message to Gray.
Alex turned around to leave with a grim expression. The loving husband notices that his wife was also shaken by the kidnapping.
"What if something were to happen to Sato? You don't know how devastating this news would be to your son." Melanie held a strong front in the public, but when she was alone with her husband, her most vulnerable side was revealed.
"Nothing will happen to Sato. We will have to believe in Gray's ability as a leader. He will find his lover and seek revenge for him. All we can do is carve a starting path for him." Alex pulled his wife into his embrace, "Now, we wait."
After receiving the news about his father giving him full authorisation to the Conquest team, Gray promptly dropped a call on the leader. The Conquest leader was Jun Kobe. The leader who came from Country J was trained and raised as a child assassin. Attaining an amazing kill record ever since he was young, he was given chase and was wanted by many countries around the world, before accepting refuge in the Tobion family. Normally, Jun Kobe would not be activated as he was technically not allowed to step foot in a majority of the highly developed countries, this time, Sato was actually kidnapped and confined in Country Y. The mission location could not have been any better.
When Gray arrived in the military camp that was under the jurisdiction of Jun Kobe, the man was already in the midst of scanning through surveillance cameras around the entire country. Jun's recognisance skills was undoubtably number one in the Four Horsemen. Unfortunately, he had encountered a huge hurdle.
"There seems to be a mole in the country's surveillance team. The country's video records for the entire hour after the kidnapping had started, was wiped off cleanly. They did not even leave me a opening to retrieve the data." Jun Kobe briefed the young master of the Tobion family.
Till this day of being alive, Jun rarely felt intimidated by anyone. However, when he spoke to Gray for the first time today, there was an inexplicable feeling of pressure. He was briefed on how the person that was kidnapped was his young master's lover. Never in his life did he realise how powerful love was. The ability to transform Gray into a devil, was astounding. Gray hearing that the investigation on Sato's location would require more time, caused the general to feel panic. This panic was something he had never felt before as all the times before, the man was still somehow able to control the outcome of the narrative. This time, there was nothing he could do, but await good news from his subordinates.
"Start to track the vehicles that were parked or situated around the railway station from a day back. If there isn't any relevant leads, backtrack even further." Gray instructed.
"I have already instructed my team to begin on the investigation." Jun was already on the same page as his young master.
On the first day, the Conquest team had narrowed the vehicles down to 10 potential suspects. On the second day, the team had managed to track down all of their locations and had dropped Yroth's potential hideouts to three places. The reason for that was because Yroth had sent out cars to different parts of Country Y. This confusion tactic was extremely successful as this meant that if Gray wanted to rescue Sato, there would be a need to have three teams move out at once.
Gray still remember the call he received from Yroth. The laughter he heard from his speaker further fuelled his frustration and anger.
"Oh you should hear the screams from your boyfriend, Gray. It was simply exquisite." Yroth taunted the Major General. He did not receive a response back from Gray, but the drug cartel leader knew that his words must have hit a nerve on his arch enemy. "How is your investigation on my location? You know that the longer you take to make a decision, the more your little sweetheart will be tortured under my hand. Tik tok, tik tok…"
The decision that Yroth was talking about was actually a negotiation made under Yroth's terms. The thing he wanted in exchange for Sato's life was for Gray to kill himself.