Betty, Luke's daughter, was watching the fight, standing just outside her house.
She saw how Pablo mangled the muscular man's brain just by his hands and she also saw how her father, Luke, burnt Pablo's skin. She saw everything, everything including Pablo running towards her as well.
She had a feeling that Pablo wasn't running towards her just to say a nice hello, his intentions were bad and knowing this, she moved her legs to run inside her house again.
But she was slow and Pablo was already in front of her.
"Da-"
The girl couldn't shout as Pablo already locked her in a choke hold.
His arms were around Betty's neck and all Betty could do was to look at her father.
"Now, old man," Pablo spoke, tightening his grip on Betty's neck.
"Answer my questions or I will kill her, or better yet…" Pablo flashed a grin and gave a nastier threat than before.
"Rape her."
"What?!"
"Don't you dare do that."
Cupid and Luke both screamed after hearing Pablo's threat.
Pablo gave a glare at Cupid, floating on his right side.
"Don't look at me like that. You can't do that to her. I am writing everything you are doing. It will be bad for you if you do bad things. And I am sick of hearing 'rape' for the past couple of days. It's annoying."
Cupid ranted a speech and Pablo had already ignored her midway.
He diverted his attention to Luke.
"I am telling you, just answer my questions and she will live." Pablo said, making Betty groan in pain.
"Le-Let me go." Betty muttered and the next second, she opened her mouth wide.
Pablo's hand was near her mouth and she instantly bit it.
She dug her teeths on Pablo's right forearm and used all her strength.
Blood dripped from Pablo's hand but something was wrong.
"Nothing changed?" Betty felt no change. The grip around her neck remained the same in strength heck the hand didn't even flinch.
She stopped biting Pablo and turned her eyes upwards to look at Pablo.
She saw his face and her eyes widened.
"Don't be shocked, girl. I have been bitten many times to feel anything towards it."
There were no expressions of pain or discomfort on Pablo's face and all his focus was on Luke. He didn't even register Betty's bite.
"Look man, I will really kill her. You already saw the way I kill. Do you want your daughter to go through all that?"
Betty flinched recalling how Pablo killed the muscular man before.
She looked at Luke in fear.
"Don't be scared, Betty. I will save you." Luke said and threw a stern gaze at Pablo.
"I will answer your questions. But only on one condition."
"Oh. What makes you think you can impose a condition here? Do you not realize your position?" Pablo asked. He had Luke's daughter as hostage and Luke was demanding a condition? Absurd.
"You held my daughter hostage because you figured I love her, right?" Luke asked.
"Yes?" Pablo frowned. "Am I wrong?"
"No. I do love Betty but not more than my life."
"What are you trying to say exactly? Be specific." Pablo asked for a straight answer.
"What I am saying is, I will give you answers only if you accept one condition of mine. That's all."
"And what if I don't accept?"
"Then…" Luke stared at Pablo with determination. "You may kill her."
"What?" Cupid exclaimed.
Even Pablo was slightly taken aback. "So you are saying you will let your daughter die if I don't accept your condition?"
"That's right."
'This is messed up.' Pablo thought and spoke :
"Fine. What's your condition?"
Luke nodded. "My condition is that after I tell you everything I know about those five men, you won't tell anyone that it was me who told you that."
"That's it?"
"Yes."
"Fine. I won't tell anyone. Now tell me." Pablo was expecting some huge condition but that wasn't the case. Luke just wanted secrecy.
"Those five men," Luke said. "Were from the military."
"I am listening." Pablo was attentive.
"I am sure you know how everything goes here. Military and Kings stuff. No one cares about anyone. As you can see, we are making so much noise and yet no one came out of their houses to see what's going on. They simply don't give a fcuk."
Pablo looked around and indeed, no one came out of their huts to even check all the noise they made. A man died and no one batted an eye.
Luke told Pablo some more things but under the assumption that Pablo already knew about this world, but in reality, Pablo had no clue.
"Listen Luke, I am suffering from a memory loss so I forgot about how things work around here. Tell me in detail." Pablo lied.
"That's a pain. But fine. I'll give you a brief." Luke agreed and started speaking. He agreed rather easily but Pablo didn't mind that. He just listened to Luke.
"This slum area we are currently in is known as Desper and the Kingdom we live in is called Forza."
'By Kingdom he means Continent. Altor told me that.' Pablo remembered Altor's words and kept listening.
"Out of all ten Kingdoms, this Forza is the smallest. It only has two hundred cities. And we live in the slum area of Numb city. Do you remember now?" Luke asked as he revealed things about the slum area and the City.
Pablo gave a slow nod. "Yes. I think I am remembering things. But still, tell me more about this Military and Ego stuff."
Luke exhaled a mouthful of breath and gulped.
Then his voice became lower as he continued speaking.
"The military here or in any Kingdom is brutal. The Kings, Dukes, Counts, Aristocrats all fund the military and the military, in return, do the dirty things for them. Those five men who came to your house in the morning, they were wearing all black clothes, right? I saw their clothes lying in the corner of your hut."
"Yes." Pablo said. All five men were really wearing black clothes.
Luke came closer to Pablo but Pablo didn't flinch. He had Betty under his hold.
Luke stopped just in front of Pablo and now his voice turned in whispers.
"The whole military is divided into various divisions and all divisions do different work and wear different colored clothes.
And among them, there is a division that wears all black. The most notorious and heinous division of any military.
This division does the most gruesome and dirty work and they are the ones that get things done. The soldiers in this division have no heart and all of them revel in others' suffering. They kill people in a heartbeat and if a war occurs, they are the first ones to dive in and create bloodwaves.
Those five men you saw in the morning are the soldiers of this same Division and for you, it might be rape but for them, it was a daily occurrence."
'Sounds like the Dirlewanger Brigade I encountered on Earth.' Pablo recalled a brigade from the Earth and asked another question.
"What is the name of this Division?"
Luke looked left and right, front and back and after making sure no was there, he brought his mouth closer to Pablo's ear.
And in the lowest voice possible, he revealed :
"The Abyssal Butchers."