"Hmmm? Where am… I?"
As he regained his consciousness completely, that man can't maneuver neither his legs nor his hands. He was being tied up at so many places. He can only lie on his stomach.
His right and left legs, from the ankle, lower leg, upper leg was tied together. On top of that was small table made of teak wood was being put by flipping its rectangle thick top.
Both of his hand was tied by crossed them behind his back. It's tied at their intersection point. The inner right palm was being affixed to his left waist, and vice versa and tied around together with his waist. The ties there are the tightest and the most windings.
The movement that man can do was just a back-up.
"In, some hotel nearby."
The man tries to look the source of that voice with raising his head.
What in front of him was just a girl wearing black sweater and surgical mask answering his question. She's sits in sofa right in front of that man with intimidating looks that just displayed by her blue eyes.
"Who are you?"
"That's none for you to know."
"Ugh…I was…Mr. Dika! Where is Mr. Dika?"
The man keeps struggling to move.
"Just tell me everything and I'll kindly spare your life."
"Shit. Aaa..."
A nurse which stands behind him the entire time was grabbing his neck just right when he tries to scream.
"You can't do anything, she'll shut you up whenever you try to scream."
"…what…you want? Ekhhh…"
She calls her sword of light. So long that it barely reached that man right eye from a distance of 2 meters. The man closed his eyes due to the intense light which striking them.
"Who are you? And tell me everything about your accomplice."
"…I'm Jeremy. We are stealing black-box from people around this hospital."
"…"
The man stops his speech to peek at the girl that interrogate him. Just to witness an unsatisfied look from her.
"Then?"
"Chhh. There are 10 baiters and 15 executioners includes me."
The man peeks again, but the girl look still the same as it was before.
"3 medics were also involved in this, Yol-"
"I know it. Then?"
"Then what? That's all information about us."
The girl thrust the edge of her sword.
"Aarg…"
The man could only endure the pain from his sliced right eyelid soundlessly. The nurse prevents his jaw and his inner mouth from moving with her body strengthening grace. The nerve anesthetic it has was keep it anesthetized.
She shocked every time by the initial scream the man did. The second initial scream made the nurse looks feared by the scene she witnesses. But she calmed down as the sound vanished then tighten his upper and lower jaw to close.
The nurse tried something with her grace. She touches the body of her and infuse the body strengthening to it. The unwavering determination shows on her face while she stares closely the sliced wound on that man right eyelid.
A bright big smile just displayed on her. She rubs her eyes that nearly dropped any tear.
"So…his resolution works huh?"
While watching the scene of the nurse, the girl can't keep her lips from displaying any smile behind that surgical mask.
"Guh…haahhh...haahhh…what strange grace is that? I never knew a grace that could lock any movement."
"I never give you permission to talk any useless things. Don't waste my time or this sword would thrust through your head next time"
"But that's all I k-"
"Tell me about the inner group in that group of yours."
"How could you…"
The nurse just silent in confusion of what they talking about.
She moves her sword's edge to his left eyelid.
"O- Ok, I'll tell you. From that 15 executioners, 2 was impostor. The fact is, they are only ours tool to collects point. That 23 people were. The real executioner is only 6. To execute that 23 people when we found that they weren't useful anymore, or have any sight of our real being."
"Heehhhh~"
The nurse was still in her silent, but now she turned to the girl that said such anticlimax manner.
"He really saw through it huh?"
While her eyes still fixated on her, the nurse pursed her lips. 9 seconds passed and she suddenly widened her eyes.
"…So that's what he means back then…"
Now her eyes are filled with admiration toward the man she refers.
"Who are you all talking about?"
"That's not your business. Then?"
"…"
The man looks disappointed with the girl snapped answer this time.
"Name all of them!"
"…Me, Jeremy. The new executioner guy, Alvan. Yohana. Yolanda's brother, Andika. Yohana, and dr. Niko."
"Their grace?"
"I could materialize steel sword from my imagination. Alvan could do a body strengthening to make his as hard as metal. Yohana could make a solid barrier. Her brother could do teleport. Yolanda could control wind. And our boss, dr. Niko could control fire."
"…"
"Their rank is-"
"Nah, I don't need it."
"Huh? You are an S-Rank?!"
"That's none for you to know."
"Why are you so curt at me? Even though you have a nice erotic voice…"
"…"
"Hahaha, I bet you're blushed right now. No woman could deny my- Aa…"
The man experienced the same pain and the same treatment.
"I'm only interested in your information. Not for your trash talk and self-claimed confidence. That's why I cut that right eyelid of you without any hesitation. To think you don't realize it make me known 1 more fact from you. You. Are. Just. An idiot. Aren't you?"
"…da…mn…you…"
The man struggling hard to curse the girl that supposedly makes his neck vein formed clearly, but wasn't. What came out from the man was just a barely hearable voice.
"Damn, this is too good to see. Gumi would love this view from here."
"Gumi?"
The nurse asked the girl curiously as she let out an unfamiliar name.
"Ah, nothing. Just a girl that several folds more sadist than me."
The girl rearranged her manner from her impulsive excitement.
"Then, is there still anything you know that would benefits me? Don't make me ask specifically and don't make me use my sword anymore."
"…Soon, they plan to do something to this hospital."
"What's that?"
"I don't know the exact thing. I just happened to hear that when I passed through dr. Niko room."
The girl takes a break for a while.
"Is that enough…Ah, how about the share?"
"For baiters its 1000 for 10 people they bait, fake executioners get 3000 and the rest is for the 3 uppers. As for the true executioner we'll get 50 percent points of the fake executioner we finish of, and the rest is for dr. Niko."
"Is there any bonus that depend on the person's rank you stole?"
"Yes, for 10 C-rank its 2000 and B-Rank is 3000."
"For A-rank?"
"Are you crazy? Our 3 uppers were an A-rank itself. Who dare to stole from someone in that caliber?"
"So, you all still have some common sense huh."
The girl eyes widened as she discovers something in her mind.
"Huh? Wait, isn't each has the same amounts of points regardless the rank?"
"Huh? Isn't that obvious? They appreciated our effort on hunting the difficult target. Even though they'll get stolen by us in the end hahahaha."
"…"
The girl switched the legs she crossed.
"…rank…candle op…late?"
She murmured about something the boy who just left from here once said.
"…24th Des 2000…terrorism…betrayal…is that what he assumed?"
"What are you murmured ab-"
"Hey, is that boss of yours work on his own or he also have a boss?"
"Huh? Nope boss is boss."
The girl sighed disappointedly.
"Then, what if you're also a fake and there were any executioners that would execute you in the end?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, how if you were also deceived by your uppers?"
"That's impossible! That is…so this is what that quotes mean…"
"Quotes?"
"Yes, quotes. Relationship quotes I've often read on social media. It's says 'Don't cheat on someone, don't betray your beloved, karma is real'."
"What a suck quote."
The nurse responds heedlessly into the man impulsive conclusion. In other hand the girl narrowed her eyes while also scratching her chin that covered by the surgical mask. Then she murmuring something.
"if it's him…"
The girl smiled wickedly behind the surgical mask she wears.
"…Yes, that's something like that."
"…so…this is what it's like to be betrayed…"
"I feel sorry for you."
"What should I do?"
"How about run away?"
"How? They would chase me immediately."
"Then I'll give you a reason to escape."
"How?"
The girl takes out her smartphone and launch an app in it.
"Miss you have pen?"
"Yes, what for?"
"Please write 'after I awaken, I should leave this hospital immediately because this place is full of terrorist that looting black-box' in his arm with that pen. I'm ordering online taxi right now and ask him to carry you from here. Now, show me your black-box."
"Ha? What for? You want to stole mine?"
"Yes, exactly. You'll unharmed, not being used by them anymore because you've lost your grace, and if some law enforcement catches up this thief group, you'll only be designated as a victim."
"Wait let me think?"
"You can't think, you're just an idi- we don't have much time I mean. Isn't that a triple benefit for you? No, quadruple, because you might be rewarded some points by the law enforcement if this terrorism case has been finished. How?"
"Hey, you're very clever, aren't you?"
"Thanks. Now call it!"
"Ok. Al-Grace."
"Miss, could you?"
The nurse shocked by her sudden unexpected request.
"Eh, me? …Ok. Just touch it isn't it? And, Nahb."
The nurse feel nausea for it. But its only for 2 minutes. The girl has already taken all that man's points from the very start and leaving it remain 1000 so they could interrogate him with his full lore.
"…huh…only 2 minutes…so you also deceive…"
The man become unconscious again due to his zero-point condition.