Days passed, Shu was gone, captured and being tortured, there wasn't a minute through that span of time that he wasn't tested on, his skin was pierced through, his blood was extracted after every test, to see if any changes had occurred.
Normally, despite his healing factor, this would have killed Shu, but after every test was done he was filled with drugs that busted his healing factor temporarily, allowing him to recover enough for him to stay alive till the next test.
At some point he almost became an empty vessel, all the torturing, testing and healing, had begun to affect him mentally.
After the tests were done, every night there were be a few servants who would begin to injure the boy with all kinds of weapons, to test his endurance and how his anatomy correlated with it.
Whilst his torturing continued, all Ayami did was train and occasionally kill a few wild creature who would enter the village with intent to cause damage.
Yuyen did nothing really, only help as best she could, she prepared food, helped Tristen's mother heal, and most of all, paid close attention to how Ayami trained.
" Six days and still, there is no one who knows where Shu is! "
Ayami, yelled, kicking a tree in anger, cutting it cleanly in two before walking toward the forest nearby
" I'll go hunt for some food, you stay with the family and scream if you need help "
Ayami ordered, glaring at Yuyen who simply nodded, watching the frustrated woman leave
" Alright.. "
Yuyen whispered as she took a stance, sloppy but, one could tell what it was for
" Was this how she did it? "
She asked herself before raising her right leg in the air, keeping it high up to then swing it horizontally, splitting three trees in half, not as good as Ayami's clean cut, but, comparable enough.
" How about with my hands "
She whispered, looking down at her palms before closing her hands into a fist, to then stretch them back open, her fingers now stiff and her hand straight, like a blade.
" And..now!! "
She yelled, quickly swinging her hand across a tree, burning through the tree's fiber with her speed, quickly stopping her hand the moment it exited out the other side of the tree, smiling whilst watching it fall.
Time went by and Yuyen continued to cut down trees, using different methods and ways she could bring them down with her oddly strong body, night soon came and Ayami returned, carrying around three animals twice her size, before dropping them.
Her attention was now completed on the great amount of trees that had been cut, and also Yuyen's heavy breathing, which indicated that she was the one who did it.
" Yuyen! "
Ayami yelled making the poor girl yelp in surprise as she then stood straight, no knowing what to do or how to answer whatever was coming her way
" How did you do this? "
Ayami questioned, walking over to her, staring right on her eyes, making the girl nervous
" Uh-Well um, Shu taught me how to release my Sanctuary energy to make myself stronger, and um, I copied you, so now I'm able to do stuff like this.. "
She replied, moving to a side so that Ayami could get a better look at the magnitude of trees this girl cut down
" You copied me? "
Ayami questioned, making Yuyen nod in response. The poor girl's nervousness was through the roofs as Ayami continued to ask her questions
" Then that makes you a prodigy, you start tomorrow, wake up at six, if you don't, then your training with me will end "
Ayami explained, before walking into the small house, leaving the animals behind, before coming out with the other two, fully dressed for the cold weather.
Yuyen smiled and took out a small notebook from her pocket and began to write on it, she then ran over to the other three, began to prepare the food with Ayami.
The morning came and Yuyen did as Ayami told her, waking up early at the morning to begin their training, it starting with a run around the village and forest.
Training began and at first Yuyen couldn't keep up, her stamina and endurance were no where close as vast as Ayami, but as for energy control, Yuyen could already be considered a starter.
Unlocking her level or control, ' enhance ' gaining the ability to boost the power of any of her body parts or her entire body by coating it with energy.
" How's your body feeling? "
The white haired man said ad he walked into the room Shu was being held in
" Fuck you "
Shu replied, glaring at the man as his body hanged from chains and tubes that were connected to his stomach.
" How are the proteins and drugs I'm giving you making your body feel? "
The man questioned, whilst looking at the tubes attached to the boy's body
" Feels great, just let one of these chains go so I can stretch a bit "
Shu whispered, looking at the man as he simply stared back at him, calmly and coldly staring deep into his eyes
" No "
The man replied, as he began to put on some gloves, looking around his library of tools, choosing a knife to start off
" I haven't yet tested anything coming from your face. Allow me the privilege of doing so "
The man added, before stabbing the blade into Shu's left eye, causing the boy to grunt whilst his eyesight became uneven.
His eye was just cleanly ripped out by the man, who proceeded to pull the eyeball away from the string that connected it to his brain.
" Looks like a normal eye "
The man whispered, staring at the eye closely before turning to look at Shu who grunted and began to breath with difficulty
" Well, have a great day, and don't worry about the time, the drugs should be coming in now "
He added as he placed the eye into a crystal bottle, walking away as odd liquids moved across the tubes attached to Shu's body, forcefully making their way into the boy's stomach.