Chapter 120 (2/2)

「Okay, the night is over soon. Whomever I call, come forward.」

「Please listen to what I say. I have the policy of not hurting anyone that doesn’t do anything impractical, okay?」

Heh heh heh, Minnalis laughed.

「Okay, ready? Orouley, Lidia, Adlon, Sivi, Bodhi, Jude, Monika…」

Those were, like a fire burning, the names that were cut into my heart like a knife.

They were the trash that made the kids addicted to drugs.

Those were the names that my mouth spewed forth almost like curses.

Because of Minnalis’ threatening, one of them came when called, and then another. Of course, I didn’t forget to check either.

After reading, there were 21 of them.

There were some of them I remembered here and there.

「Well, the ones remaining can do whatever they want. You can stay if you don’t cause trouble, or you can leave if you want. I only have issue with these people.」

「Wha?」「Why?」

Those who weren’t called looked around in confusion, but they had less concern with me than the other trash.

They could stay and watch or run away, either is fine.

「Okay, now you all, first, kneel down.」

There was no reason to understand my command.

Before they could even more, the girls and I did what we had planned.

「Eeeeekkkk!」「Wahaahhhh!」「Guwaaaahh O…owwww!!」

Minnalis, Shuria and I.

The three knives we threw hit them right at their feet.

「Ahah hah hah hah, they sure are weak against pain.」

It felt good.

Almost as good as the erasing of the sounds of those children’s screams.

「E, eeeeekkk!」「Ah, help meeee!」「Ahh. Aaahhhhh!!」

The group that I let go, half ran at the sight of seeing only a little blood drawn, while the other half just sat there blankly watching what was happening.

「Well, well, what a mess.」

「Oh well, they must have not paid for all the threatening they did all around the town. If not, they wouldn’t have been so surprised seeing this blood.」

Minnalis and Shuria said in a bored manner.

They were probably very angry for real, but that’s how they acted.

「Let’s stop all the chatter and decorate this place.」

「Yes, let’s do it.」

「Hurry, hurry!」

We tied up all these people’s feet and lined them up next to the hole, hanging them from a branch.

As we did this, we got our stage ready for its production.

「What are you planning to do to all of us?」

「Whoa, looks like you got your strength back. It must be due to age.」

That angry looking old maid had asked.

I should compliment her on her guts as her cold sweat was dripping down from being hanged upside down while her injured feet were tied together.

Also, since the ones around her were either crying or screaming, it wasn’t much of a place to have a conversation.

「I don’t know what grudge you have against us, but are you planning to have fun whipping us or something? The people you let free could call in the troops you know! Then you might be the one getting whipped.」

「Hey, hey, you may know that you have no ability to persuade me, but do you have to keep acting the part?」

Those who ran away were part of Grond.

Using a bribe they were able to get out of town, which made them accomplices to a huge tax evasion scheme.

There’s no troops they’re going to bring here, right?

「Well, whether those people we let go are even going to go and get someone to come back here is separate, right?」

「It’s impossible. They’re all chicken.」

「Yeah, if they had mettle like that, they wouldn’t have ended up here in the first place. They’re worse than even sewage!」

「We could have just killed them…but they really have nothing to do with us. The only people we deal with, are those that broke the rules.」

I shrugged a bit, and then looked back at them.

「And not only that, but whipping? No, no, there’s no way I’m doing something that boring with you all, right? Right?」

「!?」

I laughed as if they had nothing to worry about, and they all shut their mouths.

「It is true that we have a time limit though. We need time to kill Grond too. We don’t have time to deal with you any longer, but…」

I changed the tone of my voice to a whisper.

「That’s why we don’t have one ounce of letting you go from the revenge either.」

I took out a metal pike with a sharp end and a hollow middle.

This pike had the size of a very large pen, and had an unrefined, raspy surface.

「We’re going to stick this in your legs. It should take you an hour to die from blood loss, right? You’ll feel your body covered with your own blood, so you’ll die screaming in fear.」

Seeing their mouths bend the way they did made me know they were terrified.

「eeek! You’re…you’re crazy!」

Crazy. After starting out in this second world, I was told that over and over.

Well, if they call me crazy, so be it.

It won’t change what I want to do.

「I don’t want to be called a weirdo, I guess. If I get turned on by kids at this age, that’s pretty disgusting, right?」

「Ugh…not that crazy…」

「And also, I’ve been pretty nice, sweet to you all up to now, right?」

Well, too bad, if you were on this list that I had with me, that meant that you were on the list in the diary that Fegner kept in the burning school so there was nothing else I could do.

The first time in this world, I had no idea what these people were doing.

That’s why, if I knew there was a possibility they were hurting children, I might have been a bit kinder now.

Well, even if the employees were mixed in with this, I would have caused problems for them in other ways, and my heart wouldn’t have hurt so much.

「Until you all die, I’ll be laughing here watching you. You can apologize all you want. You can beg for your life. You can pray to God. You can repent. I’ll just be standing here, laughing, and listening.」

「So how are you being sweet to us then?」

One of them screamed, and I answered back.

「What are you saying? In the most final of the final second you have, you’ll be able to decide your words on your own. Seems like a pretty good compromise, right?」

「What…but that’s….gyaaaahhhh!!」

「Damn, this idiot is really loud huh?」

Shuria cut the boring conversation by stabbing the leg she held.

「Ah, guess this type of scream sounds much more beautiful.」

「Ah, hey, he was still trying to talk.」

「I couldn’t take it anymore, master! All this talking is making my head hurt! I like pain more than talking, but I guess this type of hurting is a bit different than the type I like.」

She sullenly said as she stabbed another leg.

「Egyaaah! Stop, aaahhhhhggg!」

「Well, Shuria, I guess you just can’t hold back.」

「Fugyaaah! Egg, no, stoppp! Aggh!」

「This one and that one, we have to get them all ready.」

「Oh, suddenly…it’s strange, right? …hee hee hee」

「Stoppp! Agahh! Don’t dooo thattt!」

Minnalis skipped around a little too happily while laughing, and stuck the sixth pike while grinding it into another leg.

「Doing all of this like this means I can’t be angry.」

「Hey, hey, have some fun with us, master! If you don’t, we’ll get all of these people done!」

「Yeah, you’re right. I should help too. But stop grinding those pikes into them, they’ll pass out from all the pain!」

「Gyaaaggguuu! Gah, gyaaahhhh!」

Minnalis was a bit more careful, and since there was no time, I joined in sticking the pikes in their legs.

「Oh, you have to be careful! The goblins that don’t feel a lot of pain still felt this when we tried it on them.」

「Eggh! Ow! Aaagh! Stop!!」

「hee hee hee, Minnalis, you’re clumsy with that thing again!」

「Gyaaaahhhh! Owwaaahhhh!」

「See? That’s four left. I put six in the rest so now I only have two?」

「Owaahahhh! Letmme goooo!!」

The air started to fill with the smell of blood.

And the echoing screams, screams, screams.

Joining together, deeper, heavier, in the mist of the forest’s darkness.

「You’re the last one?」

「Eeek? N, no closer! Don’t come any closer!」

I wasn’t crazy or anything, but the last guy was the one that I killed in the first world.

The guy who watched the kids die from far away.

「You, you, demon! What the hell did I do? I just did that girl a little bit!」

「Yeah, a girl that couldn’t resist because of the drug! You make me want to vomit!」

First, one pike.

「Gyaaahaaahhahaaah!」

Wince, wince, the face of the man struggling in pain as the pike dug into the meat of his leg.

The first time I let my anger get a hold of me and burned him up. I didn’t have time to put him though pain, and just took his life.

「Okay, time for number two! Hah hah hah!」

Ten, number two.

「Gugeeeeeh! Guuuh!」

「Well, looks like there is some vomit, but I could care less now!」

Number three.

「Heehgghheee! Gaahhh!」

「Too bad, there’s no way to make you feel what you made others feel.」

Number four.

「Higeeehhh! Gyaaahhahaahh!」

「I know, I remember. I won’t hold one thing back. Everything, everything, everything you all did, I’ll never forgive!」

Number five.

「No, no more! Gaaahhhh!」

Only one left in my hand.

That’s why I had a smile filled withlike compassion on my face.

「Hel…help…help MEEEE!」

「For what you did to those kids, I hope you burn in the very pits of hell!」

I laughed as I dropped into the abyss of sadism.

And then I stuck the last pike in his leg.

「Gyaagaagaahaaaahhhh!」

「Hah hah hah! Hah hah hah hah! Hah hah hah hah hah!」

His face was writhing in absolute pain.

The dirty blood and his tears were mixing and drenching the ground below him.

「Owww! Dammit! Why the hell are you doing this?! Who the hell do you think I am?! Lemme goooo!」「Agh! Owwwwwoowww!!」

「I’m sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry, forgive me! I’ll do anything! Egyaahhhh!」

「Nononononono, I don’t want to die! Help me someone! Egh! Ugh! I won’t do anything bad! No no no! I don’t want to die!」

Now all of them had been put in place, and it was quite a beautiful sight.

「Well, well, good job, Minnalis. You really hit them with that poison.」

「Thanks, master.」

The pikes were rubbed all over with Minnalis’ special poison. A poison that made the pain dull, and then brought the dull pain back to severity again over and over in waves.

Pain and fear.

With those two being tasted together, then they would die.

And all the blood that poured over them would empty out as would their lives just like the proverbial sand in an hourglass.

The shrieks of pain, and the howls of horror mixed in one echo.

「Yeah, this is good. Just a little time for them to feel exactly what those children must have felt.」

Screaming, crying, uttering fear, and shouts of not wanting to die.

「…just let them die without doing anything they ask.」

I would have forgiven them, but then that would mean I had a little bit of kindness for them.