《Battlefield Restart (Old Version)》Chapter 21: Interrogation (Deleted Draft)
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"You lie-" I knock her out before she could finish her sentence and loosen the wires around her body. I think about what to do with her for a moment after that. Even if I want to take revenge and kill her, there's no way for me to escape the investigation that would come after. The killing intent in my eyes rescinds reluctantly as I think of a new plan of action.
Hmm, can I still control the Parasitic Poison after its entered another persons body? There's a good experimental subjects here just begging me to poison her, so I didn't hesitate to insert the viral cell into her body through touch, the parasitic poison seemed happy to be of use as it waited for my telepathic instructions.
Success. Well, even if she did die by poisoning, there should be no evidence that indicates to my involvement. All I would have to do is move her corpse somewhere else and say that it must have been an assassin, noble disputes should be able to act as evidence. After making sure that the parasitic poison was keeping an eye on her muscle movements, I lay her on the floor and start to tidy the mess she made.
I took the arrows out of the walls and deactivated the rest of the traps in my room, there's no need for them anymore because they wouldn't be able to help me anyway, since her secret bodyguard that has been following her lead was using the wind attribute Echolocation Eye to check what was happening in the room.
I sensed the Mana that was infused into the air and planned ahead to kill him. Since unlike the Young Mistress, I had no reason to spare him for being an accomplice to my attempted murder, the killing intent in my heart finally had a place to vent. I hear footsteps getting closer to my rooms location, until it stopped straight outside my door, the man outside the door hesitated after seeing my room was locked but release Mana outside his body into a Reinforcement Art.
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In the moment the person outside my door used the Reinforcement Art I realised something important, why didn't the person use Reinforcement Art to break the door when he first arrived? Then it hit me, using large amounts of Mana at once would alert others of his presence, which is why the Young Mistress used poison in order to deal with me instead of a Spell.
The people of Sphera were innately sensitive to Mana, some could even read another's actions just by sensing the Mana in another persons body, or even locate people a mile away without their eyes. After these facts entered my mind I held my silenced pistol towards the door and shot a bullet towards where I senses the enemies head, the bullet was so fast that the man didn't have time before it pierced his skull.
I didn't even have to see his face to know that he died in confusion, unable to understand how he died, but I didn't let down my guard because I knew that there could be more hanging around her. After half an hour of waiting, there was no attacks or movements, so I quickly rushed to open the door. After unlocking and opening the door I saw the corpse of a burly man in black.
Leaving him here would cause suspicion of others to arouse towards me, so I try to think of a way to hide the mans corpse, there wasn't even the slightest ripple in my heart after killing someone in cold blood. This wasn't due to a reason like I was following the justice in my heart, nor was it because I thought of the burly mans death as some sort of karma, it's just that killing people doesn't really affect me anymore after all that killing in my previous life.
An idea pops into my head and I use Devouring Shadow, the magic I used to store my weapons, to clean up his corpse by storing it into my pocket dimension. I'll just have to dispose of the corpse later, the blood splattered around the hall was stored as well, but the one thing I couldn't store was the damage caused by my guns bullet.
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I use Corrupting Light on the damaged wall to take out the bullet, then I manipulated all the fragmented pieces around it to patch it back together, so that it would be harder to notice the damage from the outside. After doing that I go back into my room and lock the door. When I see the the Young Mistress unconscious on the floor, my head aches in pain, since I was well aware of how she would react after getting up. I bring a chair to the centre of my room and tie her with wires, then I flicked her head until she had woke.
"Wake up." I ordered coldly whilst telling the parasitic poison inside her to cause her pain as well. She looked like she was going to scream in pain after she woke up, so I ordered the parasitic poison to weaken her vocals, making it so she only had the strength to talk.
"You monster." The Young Mis- No, maybe I should say the reincarnated individual that's now named Sapphire Swordwick, curses violent anger.
"Just answer the questions I'm going to ask you, don't talk nonsense, or I'll start torturing you by cutting off one of your fingers. First question: When did you poison me?" I ask blandly as I pulled out a knife from my shadow. A surprised expression was etched onto her face as she saw my original magic.
"Storage Magic? Wait, don't you want to ask why I poisoned you?" She replied in response, earning her a slap, her eyes glow in anger at my actions. She tried to use her Reinforcement Art to escape, but I stopped her by placing my sharp knife next to her throat. A cold light shines in my eyes as I look at the psychopath that almost took my life.
"Release me! I am a daughter of a Duke, your parents are my servants, yet you still have the courage to slap my face?!" She didn't give up and said something completely retarded. My lips curve into a smile as I heard this joke.
"You tried killing me, do you even understand what 'killing' someone means? Do you want to experience what it's like to be dead?" I rhetorically ask. Her expression stiffens as she looks at my devilish expression, she probably thought that the fool I acted as before would listen to her threats timidly, it seems that she only now realised that nothing I said was a lie.
"I'll ask my first question again, how did you poison me?" I ignored her questions and looked into her eyes with gaze that could cut iron. Fear seems to have spread into her heart as she looked around for someone, but I didn't lose patience, since their a long night ahead of us we can use to talk. I reach out my hand towards my shadow and pull out the corpse of her bodyguard. Her eyes widened in shock and her eyes filled with despair, so I took advantage of her weakened heart in order to get the information I need.
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