The first person was done. Now Yana needed to wait for the second person. While Mr M was on his way here, Yana took her time to instil more fear into Mr K. Each thing Marie managed to dig up about Mr K was recounted into the slightest detail by Yana.
The more he shivered, the more Yana took pleasure in his fearful expression that contorted uglier every second and the more she emphasised each of his wrongdoings as if they were unforgivable sins that not even the devil could pardon, the quicker his eyes shook.
Mr K's breathing got more haggard, his hands fumbled around and his mind was about to burst. No feelings but despair and frustrations lingered. Mr K still couldn't believe that he was bested by a naïve and wet-behind-her ears girl.
Yet each time he heard her opening her mouth a stream of lava flooded through his body. The pain around his neck was still vibrantly leaving a bitter sensation behind and Mr K finally realised. He shouldn't have messed with her.
No, he shouldn't even have lived such a crooked and disgusting life! He should've just kept clean instead of wallowing it his family background and using his current status to abuse those he deemed lower than himself and engage in dark matters he knew were dangerous. Now all of it came biting back on him.
Mr K regretted it. The once arrogant and self-serving man was beating submissive. When he couldn't stand it anymore, Mr K wailed, completely disregarding his dignity, "I'm sorry… I regret everything, so, please…. Please just-"
Yana stopped and looked at Mr K with amusement, "Then serve your time in prison."
"Yes, yes, I will," Mr K sobbed. He was a failure, a disgrace, a-
Suddenly his eyes widened and some horrible anxious thoughts crept into his mind. He was safe, right? In prison, no one could harm him, right? As long as he didn't rat out his boss, he wouldn't be silenced, right? Maybe he could also live a comfortable life-
No, at this rate, he really might die if his boss found out-
"Y-You have to guarantee my safety!" Mr K had to turn to Yana.
If Mr K confessed, his boss wouldn't let him off but if he didn't, Yana ensured he was tortured to hell! Both were awful!
"Guarantee your safety?" ah, Yana understood. Mr K was fearing for his life, although Yana would like to take the companies down with the managers, it wasn't so easy.
"Yes! You must have someone backing you up, right? Or else you wouldn't dare to do this! Yes! Yes!" Mr K turned livid now. There couldn't be any other way, why didn't he think of this sooner?
This stupid girl couldn't have done everything alone!
Mr K wanted to move but even doing so the slightest bit, made the iron rope cut into his skin. Due to this Mr K was able to calm down again.
Yana didn't want to do something as bothersome as guaranteeing Mr K's safety, making sure he was unharmed. Mr K was clearly a scum, so why bother protecting him?
"And if I don't?" Yana's unexpected words stunned Mr K before he flew into a rage and threw all caution aside, "If you don't then I won't-"
"Won't what?" Yana cut him off and her eyes flashed as she approached him. Mr K gulped.
"Mr K, I think you're forgetting your situation. You have no other choice but to comply. I'm already helping you by just putting you in prison. You're right, someone's backing me."
Yana tapped Mr K's cheeks in a condescending manner, "But all I can tell you is that if you offend me, what your CEO Mr Mik will do to you, will only be gentle foreplay, understood?"
FLUSH. All of Mr K's strength left him, all of his hope got instantly crushed and completely replaced by desperation. No way. No way. In the end… he was going to suffer either way.
"Mr K, don't forget, you'll be only charged trying to kidnap me and setting the orphanage on fire and not your other oh-so-good deeds which means you can leave the prison soon enough and run away."
Even though Yana said that she was sure that Mik and the other CEOs wouldn't let the managers off so easily. Not if it was as ambiguous as to what the managers confessed.
BOOM
The internet would be swarmed with various rumours that were half true and half lies. How much effect it had and how much it could destroy everyone involved was left to the public.
Yana wouldn't bother with more than that or else it was easily traced back to her.
"You're not in your right mind," Mr K started to mumbled, "They'd definitely get to me and-"
"So?" This simple question broke Mr K completely.
So? What would they have to do with her? Mr K understood completely. He was finished. Done.
There was no escape and no recovery. Mr K has been in the business and dark side of things for a long while. He knew what those in power could do and how far they were willing to go.
Vicious. Wicked. Yet he could only see Yana as this. If what Yana could do was even worse than the underworld then-
Yana watched as life faded out of Mr K's eyes. He has shattered to tiny bits hard to glue together again.
Although Yana didn't like to kill people to hurt them, as long as it wasn't done through her own hands and benefited her, then she didn't care.
Right now, this was the best way to deal with them all and restore her reputation as well as have her slowly fade out of the picture. The fact that she was caught by the media and entered the public's eyes was incredibly, incredibly bad.
She needed to disappear from the picture as soon as possible and once the whole ordeal was over, Yana trusted that Marie would take care of everything online.
Yana has been quite gentle with Mr K but the latter already started to mumble nonsense.
DING DONG
A light sound brought a change of atmosphere. Yana stood up from the bed.
"Guess, Mr M finally makes an appearance."
Cheerfully humming Yana left the bedroom but, in reality, she wasn't so happy about having to torture another person.
Once Yana arrived at the door she twirled the thin cloth in her hand before she opened the door and hid behind it.
Mr M's confused voice rang through, "K, where are you? Do you open the door and hid or what? What's this I- Kuagh," from behind Yana strangled Mr M while she closed the door with her feet.
Then with all of her force, she slammed Mr M against the wall and used her body weight to exert pressure on him.
The gurgling sounds and struggle of Mr M left Yana's eyes cold instead with a light crisp tone she said, "Mr M, don't fret so much. If you comply this can be over quite soon. So, let's be civilised."
Civilised my ass! Mr M cursed as he knew immediately whose voice this was but before he could do anything he was kicked to the ground and dragged by the clothes still strangling him into another room.
Nothing but ominous silence was left behind.