"Y-you insolent… O-overgrown-khha-meathead…" Felicia gasped for air as she tried and utterly failed to move even a single of Alexander's fingers off her neck. "Z-Zack, you useless sack of shit, do something!!"
"O-oh? right!" Zack stopped kicking unconscious Bob, turned around and charged up a fireball right at Alexander.
Alexander looked at Zack who stood at the farther end of the pit, then at Felicia and smiled before straightening out his arm so that Felicia was a few more inches away from his own body.
Felicia's eyes went wide open when she saw Alexander's smile and the fire reflecting in his eyes. Don't tell me… "ZACK, DON'T YOU DARE—!!"
*KAPOW!*
Zack fired off his fireball at Alexander, who just held Felicia as his personal living shield.
"Tch," annoyed, Alexander side-stepped the fireball just before it had the chance to make him a roast beastkin.
"UUWAAAAH!!!" the other prisoners of the pit that huddled on the other end of the pit screamed in horror and jumped in all directions, seeking shelter from the flying fiery doom in the liquid shit.
"Can't have you served on a plate just yet," Alexander said to Felicia and proceeded to swiftly beat the ever-living shit out of Zack with one hand while holding Felicia in the other.
"U-ugh," Michael finally gathered the strength to try and get up despite the stabbing pain in his chain and difficulty breathing only to see Zack's naked back descend right on top of him. "A-AAAGH—"
"Now, where were we?" Alexander turned his attention to Felicia.
"aaa… Ä̷͕́Ă̴̲A̴̪̕Á̸̟Ä̷̞A̶͗ͅA̶̳͂… Á̵̠̹͂́A̴̺͌̕À̶̭̈́̋—GHUURKLHK!??"
Before Felicia could charge up her shout, Alexander shoved two fingers deep into her mouth and pressed on the back of her tongue until she started gagging, and a few moments later…
"BLEEERGHH, Cough, cough, cough, cunt! Bleh! Shit!" Felicia cursed, coughed, and spit after Alexander forced her to vomit to cancel her trademark [Piercing Wail] skill.
Alexander then slammed the coughing furball against the wall and said, "Try that again and I'll rip out your vocal cords! Now confess! How did you end up with the power to control those demons?"
"For fucks… I have no idea what you're talking about!" Felicia stated as loudly and as clearly as she could under the circumstances that her neck was in. "And some Champion you are! Your theatrics just killed two more people."
Alexander looked behind where Zack's fireball had landed and indeed there were two corpses—one slumped against the blackened wall, still burning, another floating in the cesspool. Meanwhile at least two more people appeared to have noticeable burn injuries on their limbs.
"Oh, you mean the people that got drunk, high and had sex to the music of death during the games?" Alexander asked Felicia. "Tell someone who cares. If you can still find such person in this city. Now, start talking or you will find yourself cooked for their meal."
"Ha! If I do have the information you need, then you can't kill me. But if I did give you the supposed answers you seek, you'd have no reason to keep me alive," Felicia managed a combative smile. "So, here's what we're going to do: you get me the hell out of this hellhole and back to the Guild. Then I'll tell you anything and everything you want: the demons, the former champions, and all the fun ways they had sex with each other."
*SNAP*
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Felica cried in agony after Alexander grabbed her right leg and swiftly twisted it at an angle and force it was not designed for, destroying the hinge joint in one move.
"Many more joints to go through," Alexander said, his words drowned in Felicia's cries. "You will be useful to me alive as a bargaining chip, so I encourage you to speak up before I start removing your fingers one by one and using them as treats for your pets once they wake up."
"HHhnn… Rrrr, youuu," Felicia growled through grit teeth, her face wet from sweat and tears.
"Alright," Alexander grabbed Felicia's pinkie.
"WAIT, WAIT, WAIT!!!!" Felicia cried.
"The Abomination?" Alexander asked again while slowly bending Felicia's pinkie out of its joint.
"IT'S MERILLIA'S!!"
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