"Those flowers were indeed sent by the lord, I have just added a bit of 'scent' to them."
The butler relaxedly explained, "Dear guest, you have broken the rule of having meals on time, twice in a row. As a result, a punishment will be implemented."
Blaze quickly moved his hand to Kaiser's hilt and unsheathed it, he then turned to look at the butler.
"An excellent sword" the butler commented.
"However, a weapon's real strength depends on its wielder."
In the blink of an eye, he was standing in front of Blaze. He then, grabbed Blaze's semi-healed wrist and tightened his hold, and broke it again.
But, this time it felt way more painful than before. It felt like the bones of his hand had been shattered to pieces.
"AH...!" Blaze screamed in pain and couldn't feel his right hand anymore and lost his grip on Kaiser. It fell to the ground and the butler swiftly kicked it away.
"If the wielder is weak, then even the strongest weapon is just a piece of trash."
Blaze kicked towrds his thigh, the butler let go of his wrist and stepped to the side, to dodge it. Blaze made use of the opening and ran towards Kaiser. But, before he could reach it, the butler grabbed his head from behind and banged it into the wall.
"Ugh..." blood dripped down from his forehead and onto the floor and Blaze trembled. The butler used his other hand to twist one of Blaze's hand's behind his back. Blaze felt that he would lose consciousness from the pain, at any moment now. It was too much for his to bear without his stats and regeneration.
"I suggest you stop resisting, if you don't want the punishment to get even more painful." He whispered beside Blaze's ear.
{I can't even stand anymore because of the pain....how can I resist you?!} Blaze was thinking with his fuzzy consciousness.
At that moment, the door flung open. Frore looked at the bleeding and trembling Blaze leaning on the wall with one hand and the butler who held one of Blaze's hands behind his back and was subconsciously filled with rage.
He had a really deep murderous aura. "How. dare. you. lay. a. hand. on. him?" Frore asked in a low and cold voice.
"My lord, he is getting punished for violating the castle rules. "
Frore then spotted Kaiser near his feet, he instinctively used "weapon maker" and Kaiser's ability "flame thrower" together to attack the butler.
He dodged to the side but released Blaze in the process. Unable to stand straight due to the overwhelming pain, Blaze fell sideways and Frore caught him just in time.
Looking at Blaze's bleeding head on his shoulder, Frore suddenly remembered the incident when Blaze got stabbed for him and surely all of his memories returned to him at that instant. Of course, he still remembered how he had broken both of Blaze's wrist and then bit him afterwards.
It just made him feel both guilty and bitter. But, more importantly, he felt something was wrong about this situation.
"Blaze...why doesn't it heal?" Frore looked towards Blaze's injuries and asked.
Blaze was surprised and said with much difficulty, " so...you...finally remembered..."
"...yes, I did. I am sorry for hurting you."
"...I already said, it's fine. Besides, I know...it wasn't your fault. My...skills, inventory and stats..are locked..here. I am a normal person ..right now. Regeneration...isn't..working." Blaze said and closed his eyes. He lost consciousness.
Frore bent a little and picked up Blaze, with one hand on the back his shoulders and one under his knees.
"It's a pity that I couldn't taste his blood. You both can leave the castle right now, he has fulfilled the objective given to him. You two must have a lot of faith in each other, to have completed the task that nobody could until now, in only two days. Congratulations." He smiled, bowed and disappeared in the shadows. The dungeon gate appeared where he had been standing earlier.
Frore still wanted to kill him, but he couldn't sense the butler's presence in the entire castle. He couldn't go after him even if he wanted to, because he had to tend to Blaze's injuries.
Frore gently placed Blaze on the ground. He then took some recovery, healing potions from his inventory and supported blaze's head and fed it to him.