After Admir found out that Mephisto had betrayed him; Mephisto and Rigurd tortured him for 3 days nonestoply.
Rigurd and Mephisto tortured him vigorously... Rigurd enjoyed it for 3 whole days, but Mephisto only did it for 1 day, because he can't stand to watch Admir being tortured. Turns out, he still has a soft spot for Admir.
"Ahh~! This feels great! Cutting your fingers one by one reminds me of how I cut my brother's limbs one by one HAHAHA!"
Rigurd furiously mentioned his older brother without an ounce of guilt.
"Ahh~ ha-ah~"
Admir tremblingly said this because he couldn't reply due to heavy injuries he took from the torture.
"Are you saying something Admir~?"
Rigurd responded Admir's suffering smugly.
"R...ow...Ro...a..n.."
Admir murmured Rowan's name while in tears... He regretted his decisions not to see Rowan before he left... he regreted the fact that he did not bid his goodbyes to the children with a warm hug.
"R..o..w..aan... yo..u.. must.. re.cei..v..ee. t..his.."
With a quivering voice, admir did his best to say his final words.
"Is that your final words Admir~?"
Rigurd yelled this with a smug looks on his face.
"Honestly, I did not expect you to survive this long~! Thanks to you, I can finally achieve my goal that I have been wanting to achieve since I was a teenager~!"
Rigurd mockingly shouted this words while smiling like a maniac.
"K..e..en.ta.."
Admir murmured at an indistinct voice.
"Huh?! What are you talking about you half-dead bastard?!"
Rigurd responded coldly while mocking Admir with a smug looks on his face.
The atmosphere seemed to shrink, the air thick with a sorrow Admir could no longer contain.
Sixteen years, a lifetime poured into their safety, their laughter echoing in the halls of his memory.
"Kenta...Rowan..." he choked out, each name a shard of broken glass in his throat. Tears, relentless and hot, carved paths through the grime on his face.
A strangled sob escaped his lips, a terrible, wounded sound that spoke of a love too fierce, a loss too vast. He crumpled, his body wracked with grief, a dam finally broken after years of holding back the flood.
"Forgive me,"
He rasped, the words barely audible over the storm within him.
"Forgive me, my dear children..."
He uttered with an indistinct voice. Admir's life is coming to an end..
"HAHAHAHA!"
Laughter bubbled up from Rigurd, so intense it brought tears to his eyes.
"I did not expect you to be so pathetic Admir. You have lost your honor by a mere orphanage? Huh?!"
Serious face turned into annoyed.
"Are you seriously f*cking with me? After I chased you for 63 years just to surpass and eliminate you; this is how you will die!?"
Angrily he said, so annoyed that his eyes turned white out of anger.
"Looks like that's your last word~"
Rigurd smiled twistedly, he's preparing to kill Admir with all his might.
"T-take... T..h-this R..r.owa-"
Before Admir could finish his last words, Rigurd cut his head off.
Luckily, he used up all his mana to send off an ominous aura, an aura that only gods emits.
But due to War God's blessing unto Armathean Clan; they have 65% of War God's aura which they can emit when they are in the verge of death.
"Take that you leech~"
Rigurd smiled triumphantly. Rigurd finally finshed off the guy that he hated more than anyone else.
'Finally! I killed the man that took everything from me!'
He maniacally shrilled these words, but his celebration was interrupted when he sensed the great ominous aura that Admir is letting off.
And turns out, it is the aura of the War God, but in an unknown form, it's War God's aura, but at the same time it is not; it's as if that it has similar aura of the War God's but is totally different.
"Wha- even when he's dead, he can still use this much aura?! What a scary guy."
Rigurd was astonished to see Admir still emits the aura he wants to achieve but cannot because it requires tremendous amount of concentration and magic.
However, Admir is letting it off as easy as breathing even when he is dead; making Rigurd more annoyed.
'This puny creature! How can he emit such tremendous amount of Aura even though he's already dead!?'
'No matter how hard I try, I cannot achieve such ominous aura!'
Jealousy can be seen on Rigurd's feature while he's looking down at Admir's dead body.
...
"I think it's time for you to stop it, Rigurd."
"It has been 3 long days since you've started torturing him, you haven't even fed yourself."
Mephisto worryingly said this to Rigurd.
"Oh? Are you worried about me or about your F-R-I-E-N-D here?"
Rigurd responded with smug looks on his face while looking at Mephisto's face, as if he wants to eat him.
"Whatever, just stop it and we have to go."
"I'll take care of the body"
-"Looks like you still have soft spot for Admir huh?"
"You missed the old days with this leech?"
Rigurd once again looked at Mephisto smugly.
-"Shut up Rigurd, and just go!"
Mephisto clenched his teeth and his eyes narrowed.
-"HAHAHA! And what can you do if I won't go?"
"Will you betray me like you did to Admir?"
Rigurd asked this question while smiling like a maniac.
Mephisto was taken back about what he said.
'Yeah... That's right... I am a traitor...'
'I've betrayed my one and only friend...'
'I was even forced to act menacingly because I had no choice! If only he did not kidnapped Nics....'
Mephisto clenched both of his fist and teeth while his eyes narrowed.
It was then revealed that Mephisto's daughter was kidnapped by Rigurd and threatened him if he won't help exterminating Admir.
[Flashbacks]
"Yo~ Mephisto.."
Rigurd sitting down in a couch while drinking wine and looking at Mephisto in a dark corner.
"Rigurd.! What are you doing here?!"
Mephisto prepared his wand and casted a spell and he's ready whenever Rigurd moves.
"Woah woah woah! Hold your horses Mephisto, I'm here for a negotation."
Rigurd puts both of his hands in the air while stopping Mephisto knowing that he cannot take Mephisto head on if he's alone.
"Negotation? What do you mean by that?"
"You know that I won't fall for your tricks right?"
Mephisto was confused on why Rigurd is opening this up.
"Hear me out..."
Rigurd stopped Mephisto's attack while sweats runs down on his face.
"I want you to help me exterminate your best friend, Admir the One-Man Army."
-"What!? Are you out of your mind?"
Mephisto was enraged hearing this stupidity coming out of Rigurd's mouth and attacked him with an S-Class Spell called "Fire Whistling Pillar".
'This damn idiot! I almost forgot that he's as strong as Admir!'
Rigurd blocked Mephisto's attack unscathed.
"Wha- how are you still standing?!"
Mephisto is in a state of confusion seeing Rigurd unscathed.
Turns out, Rigurd wore 50 A-Class Magic Barriers on his clothes just in case Mephisto attacked, and fortunately he survived Mephisto's attack and only has 1 magic barrier left.
'That was close, I almost died there, luckily I fend his attack off.'
"If you won't calm down here Mephisto, I will send a signal to Garen telling him to finish your daughter Nics up."
Rigurd threatened Mephisto just to gain the upper hand.
"Don't drag my daughter into this!"
...
Five years ago, flashbacks of Mephisto negotiating with Rigurd.
"Work under me till we defeat Admir, Mephisto."
Rigurd with a serious face.
"Work under you? What a load of crap"
The conversation continued until at one point, Rigurd mentioned Nics' name, and Mephisto was taken back.
"Alright... I'll work under you just don't harm my daughter."
...
-To be continued-