Chapter 89: The Witch Cries 4

Two of his teeth are missing. His right was close. His cheeks were swelling. His forehead is grazed. His eyebrows were stained with blood. His ears are bleeding. His torso is drenched in drool and blood. His shoulders are tattered and his arms were pulled up and wrapped by thin wires that coiled tightly on his forearms. The thin wires dig deep into his flesh.

The man wasn’t able to speak. His body was so injured and he could barely speak. There was someone standing in front of the man. He wore a jester mask and a hooded tattered cloak. The man was holding an ice pick. He saw that ice pick and wondered what torture the man will do to him now.

“I will ask again. Do you know anything about the blue haired witch?”

“I do not know.” said the man weakly, “I told you I do not know already.”

“Let me ask you...again.”

The man with the ice pick seemed displeased. He held the pick near his eyes. This made him feel uncomfortable and even the beating wasn’t enough to make him shiver like this. What was the man trying to do with such thing? Is he going to stab him?

“Do you know of the blue witch?” the man asked again, “Or would you answer differently?”

“I do not know. I have told you all I know. And all I know is that I do not know where the blue witch is. I am just a simple courier for God’s sake. Please let me go!”

“Ah, lying to me again. I saw you get out four noble houses. Each time you would spend two hours inside the houses. That’s a lot of time to spend considering you are just a mere courier. Do you know what I think? You are not a simple courier. The badge, the weapons you have, it all has the symbol of sun’s crown. And your physique and the way you almost took my head when we were fighting put you as a mid-tier knight.”

“I have no idea what are you talking about. I am a just simple goddamn courier. I am knight once but now I am just a courier.”

“Is what you want me to believe, but I can tell you are lying.”

I am not. Can your brain not understand what I am saying?”

“Oh, I do. In fact, speaking of brains, would you like to hear what I am going to do with this ice pick?”

“Stab me?” he scowled, “Even if you kill me that won’t change anything. I know nothing!”

“Stab you, of course not, why would I stab you, when you are just a mere courier? Just think of what I will be doing as an operation. You see, have you heard of a lobotomy?”

“A what?”

“A lobotomy...specifically what I am about to perform is that.”

The man pointed his palm in front of the man, then he gathered Mana on his hand and slowly it turned into bracer that then wrapped tightly on the man’s forehead and jaw. The man tried to move but the way it wrapped around him unable to make him do so.

Then the man summoned a hammer that seemed to compliment the ice pick.

“When doing an ice pick lobotomy...”

“Wait for a second, w, what are you doing?”

“First, you point the pick above the eyeball of the patient.”

“Wait, wait, I really don’t know anything!”

“Then, with the hammer, you lobbed it in slowly.”

“Wai-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, it hurts!”

The man was impassive.

“With the ice pick piercing above the eyeball of the patient, you slowly use the hammer...tap it gently, then slowly drive it in.”

“I SWEAR I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

The man did not react. As if he couldn’t hear the words of the man. He continued talking.

“Tap, and tap, and make sure that the ice pick gently arrives on the frontal lobe of the brain. After all, lobotomies are for people who seemed to be unable to use their brain properly. And any mistake would result in severe bleeding.”

‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT HURTS PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.”

“Now, now, until you tell me the truth, this procedure will continue. Maybe your mind has remembered anything? Did I finally cure your liar’s tongue?”

“I KNOW NOTHING, DAMN IT.” The man pleaded with tears in his other eyes, “I KNOW NOTHING AND I AM JUST A SIMPLE COURIER.”

“Ah, you are still lying. Do not worry my friend. Once I cut the useless fiber tracts on the frontal lobe of your brain, I am sure that you will soon not tell a lie.”

The man then used the hammer and taps the ice pick deeper above his eyeballs. He could only scream in pain as the ungentle procedure continues.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

“Now, now, just let me move the instrument back and forth. Do not move so carelessly or I might stab it deeper accidentally!”

The man’s stolid voice echoed in his ears. He could only convulse as the painful feeling of the instrument moving back and forth above his eyeball continues. He wasn’t able to think straight. All he could think of was the only thing that he could think off.

“I REALLY KNOW NOTHING PLEASE STOP—AS GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

“You are quite stubborn aren’t you? Ah, this must be because you are a member of the sun’s crown. Your faith empowers you to resist. I admire you.”

The man almost wanted to curse him for saying that. He already was telling the truth yet the man doesn’t believe him. He was in pain, and right now lying was something he could not do. The eerie feeling of the ice pick moving back and forth makes him shiver. He wanted to die now but he could feel the man with the mocking jester mask was healing his wounds as he moves the instrument on the frontal lobe of his brain.

“Ah, if this continues I will surely make a mistake...”

The man warned. But he truly knows nothing about what the man wanted.

Thus he can only scream.

...

The man fainted. Arden saw that the man didn’t wake up despite what he’s doing so he pulled the ice pick out of the above them man’s eyeballs and converted it back to Mana. He already targeted four couriers and the one he just did a lobotomy was still the same. He knew nothing or won’t ever tell about the secrets. Most of the couriers had resisted like the man before him. And even though he beat them up and outright tried to make them vomit information. They never really do.

He tried a Trans-orbital lobotomy yet the man resisted. He felt rather annoyed how things went. But without anything to do, he can only continue his search for information. There is still a lot of sun’s crown courier around the area and thus he just needs to target the right ones. Arden has become rather obsessed with finding the witch and bringing the Witch to justice.

His head was filled with a single minded determination to find the witch. And in order to achieve that, he is using all of his focus, commitment and will to do so.