With an iron grip, he dragged me towards the back of the bar without a word. By now I'd forgotten he was my master and began fighting my way out of his grip. What is he going to do to me? I hadn't even found my brother yet. "Ugh!" I was pushed into the machine house. I slowly raised my head and did a thorough check of the environment. This part of the bar was made for the purpose of constructing furnitures and other products for export or for internal use. But it's also a place reserved for punishments. Whenever the newbies misbehave or refuse to follow instructions, they're usually brought here to be scarred. So a person is scarred depending on the amount of time he resists his master. They've got different types of tools used to inflict pain on the victim but the most common was imprinting. With the use of a very hot iron, one can be scarred, usually on the upper left side of the back or the leg. I've been here once and I got one on my right leg. After that experience, I made sure my brother didn't go through such too. It was horrible, so being here was like reliving that night mare. " You brat! How dare you betray your master!" I stood up and attempted to face him but was hit at the back of my knee, making me fall hard on the concrete floor with my knees. I winced in pain, that was a hard fall. " I've taken care of you and your excuse of a brother for almost all your lives, fed you, gave you protection in my harem and this is how you repay me?!" The shelter, the clothing, the satisfaction...I treated you like my own and what did I get? You back bite me?!
" M-master, what are you saying. I-i didn't do it..."
" Shut it. You dare lie to me even after your atrocious acts. You have the guts to talk back don't you. Well, I'll make you regret ever doing this to me"
"Master!" He crouched to my level, and brought me to face him. " I. Will. Make. Sure. Your. Death. Is. A. Memorable one" I stared at him unable to reason anymore. " D-death?"
" Oh yes, death. A very painful one, it will last even in your next life. I'll scare your pretty face, you'll despise yourself, then I'll remove every part of your body. Your beautiful eyes, then your ears, I'll smash your nose. I'll disfigure your face. And I'll do it very slowly so you feel every moment of it. Then I'll cut your hand and your leg, then back to your other hand and then the other leg. Then I'll cut your head and feed your remains to the scavengers of the earth. Ingrate!. Get up!" He pulled me by the collar and brought me to my feet. " Master please! I promise I didn't betray you, i-i took the blame for it all. I don't know how he found out! I promise I would never ever think of betraying you! "
" Enough! It's impossible for one, even a demon lord to hear through a sealed area, so how could he had known our plan. How did he pass through the spell to get to us, hmmm?! It's either we didn't put up a spell, which we did or you opened your forsaken mouth and spurted our plans to him to save yourself!"
" No please master, I didn't do it. I would...."
"Why do you keep denying it. You already know it's useless cause I already know the truth. So don't dare lie to me again. It doesn't change your fate anyway" He pushed me into a cutter machine like trash. Now the fear really got to me, I literally felt my entire soul enveloped by fear. "Master please!" I said while shaking my head.
" You've destroyed everything. Absolutely everything is in ruins." He ducked his head. " All my life, it's this place sustaining me. It was the only thing my parents passed down to me before they died. Even our ancestors used this place and now, all because of you and your selfishness, you decided to stake everything for your own freedom. Go in there! Go look at the damage you've done!. All the people there are being slaughtered into pieces, all my stewards killed brutally and you expect me to let you live. Why? Just tell me why? Of what use are you to me now. Even your precious little brother must dead by now. So just accept death patiently cause it will come real slow. "
Now I stopped wailing and let everything he said sink into my head. My...my brother....Elias. No he.....he doesn't know what he's saying. Don't listen to this bastard Sadiki, he's crazy, he's mad, he doesn't know what he's saying. Yes! That must be it. But...what if he's right? No no, don't think like that.
*Laugh* I looked up to see him giving me that malicious smile. " So you know what it feels like to lose a love one now don't you. This is exactly how I feel right now and don't think I'm still keeping you alive because I want you to have a bit of time to reminisce before you die. No, that's not it. Your still alive because I want you to feel all the pain inside, all the regrets. I want you to die inside before you slowly perish outside."
I looked down at my hands and wished I was never born. All this would never have happened if I escaped birth. Why did I come here if I have no purpose on earth or was my purpose to live just to die for nothing, to die unfulfilled. Is that why I exist? If so then my existence makes no meaning. " That's it, die inside, kill yourself, I want to see that face before I destroy your body so that even if I die now, it would be a satisfied one, knowing that I killed the reason for my misery." He pulled the lever and it began cutting the woods before it. Now all I just craved for was death. It would be painful, it would be fearful but after I'm gone, i will feel nothing. Absolutely nothing. I sat there with my head down and hands embracing the other, I didn't want to see his face, not before I died.