122 SS1: Test Subject 1 (1/2)

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Note: This takes place after the assault on Kazuno Tech's headquarters and before the assault on the Dokuro clan

Warning: a little graphic?

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Kiyota Anri was a woman with very strong will. She lost her job at the illustrious Ringo Corporation because of who her parents were and the feud they had with Muimina Budou. She was determined to file a suit for unlawful termination but that was when she was taken by the Dokuro clan's people.

For the first time in her life she learned how unfair it had really been. The laws only protected those who it could see and she was transformed into a girl that worked for these Yakuza. She was further thrown into despair and helplessness after finding out that the Dokuro group took an interest in her because of Muimina Budou.

If the world had been unfair in the first place, then why should she remain fair? This was why she accepted her fate and just decided to work for the Dokuro clan. At least they wanted to have her work for them and they were easy enough to control.

As an intelligent and educated person, she quickly rose up the ranks and held the respect of the simpletons who made up the Dokuro clan. The only ones she feared were the main lieutenants and Dokuro Domon himself. This was why she looked forward to taking over Kazuno Tech when she first received the order to do it.

There was no one capable of running it aside from her so she thought that this was her way to get back on the work she originally intended to do. She showed much enthusiasm and even made intricate plans to make sure that their attack would go smoothly.

Everything had been going well and it seemed like everything had been under control. The people from Kazuno Tech may have been very stubborn but they were slowly showing signs of breaking. This was made clear by looking at the ones who were supposed to be in charge the moment Mahiru was shown to be in their custody.

To make things a little more interesting, one of her subordinates even brought back a child that seemed to have been conned into coming. The clueless child was surprised when he saw the situation and so were the people from Kazuno Tech who saw the new hostage. They seemed to have been more concerned about the stranger rather than one of their employees' children.

It wasn't until Anri was sprawled on the floor with only one limb working did she understand why those people gave such looks when they saw the frail-looking boy. This was someone who held much significance to the company!

She was taken to one of the rooms in the security office by two men who appeared to be leading figures of the security team. They actually followed the orders of such a kid and even showed him more respect than they did to Matsuri.

”Lady, I will give you one piece of advice as a person that was once in your position. Do not try to reject anything the Boss tries to ask. I have regretfully gone against the young master before and after that, I don't ever want to think about doing it again” Ousame warned.

”Boss?” Anri was confused. When did she ever meet their boss?

”You wanted to meet the person behind Kazuno Technologies right? You just did” Mame chimed in. He looked at Anri quite pitifully because he could tell that she didn't take Ousame's warning to heart.

Anri was shocked. How could she not be? The mysterious boss was a frail looking boy that looked to have been in elementary school? She almost forgot all of the pain she was in as her mind tried to process just how can such a kid create this company from scratch. Who in the world was this kid?

It wasn't until the frail looking boy entered the room did she stop thinking about what was happening. Everything had been so unbelievable that she thought that she had been dreaming.

”Now then, have you decided to change your previous rejection to answer my questions or shall I use you to improve my craft in making people feel endless pain?” The boy grinned mischievously at her.

Anri had previously rejected answering any of his questions. She was confident in her tolerance for pain as proven by her current predicament. She didn't writhe in pain nor did she cry. This was proof of just how much she had to bear while working for the Dokuro clan.

”Do your worst. Let's see how long until you get tired of it” Anri scoffed and looked the boy right in the eye.

”Ah yes, I remember when Ousame here was in your position” Kazuya turned to Ousame who shuddered after Kazuya started reminiscing about the time they first met. ”But first…”

Anri braced herself as Kazuya slowly placed his hand over her broken limbs. She knew the basics and it would be to attack the places that are easy to inflict pain on. What surprised her however was that what she felt was not pain but relief.

”Wha—” witnessing her own injuries starting to heal, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

”Shh!” Kazuya quickly silenced her and pulled the bent limbs towards their rightful place which caused another bone chilling scream of pain. Anri had not been prepared and Kazuya counted on it.

Anri panted as she shivered on the couch she was placed on. Neither Mame nor Ousame made any moves to hold her down nor restrict her movements. They were merely standing there observing and made sure that she wouldn't be able to pass through the door behind them.

True enough, her willpower was strong and Kazuya noticed this. Anri was already thinking about how to escape and it looked like she was looking at him in an interesting way. The only thing stopping her was the confident smile plastered on Kazuya's face as if saying 'come and take me hostage if you can'.

”What d-did you do?!” She tried moving her limbs and although she was still feeling some lingering pain, her limbs were responding as they were supposed to.

”I healed you” the boy answered as if it was a matter of fact. ”You'd be too distracted because of the pain on other parts of your body for me to make an accurate judgement of the pain levels you're going to be experiencing” without warning, a tremendous amount of pressure pressed down on Anri.

”!!” She fell on her back as Kazuya pulled her to the floor. The two men who remained in the room looked at her pitifully as they tried to turn to head for the door.

”You two will stay. I need both of you to keep that door closed so that grandpa Jirou or anyone else doesn't disturb what's going to happen to this woman” Kazuya ordered.

””Y-yes”” both responded as they moved to block the door.

”Now then...” He turned back to Anri who seemed to have been paralyzed on the floor. ”Compared to two years ago, I've actually studied the bodies of humans quite extensively. I'm going to be using you to see if my theories are correct, so I would like to thank you in advance for being a brave girl and hope you don't break too early”

Kazuya pulled a few short pieces of iron and pierced her palms through using them to hold her in place. The pressure he had been using to hold her down used mana and he wanted to save both his energy and concentration so he could focus on doing many things.

”AHHHH—” Kazuya placed an iron bar in her screaming mouth to shut her up. He tied it with a rag he found lying around the room to keep it in place.

”Hmm… Looks like that isn't as painful as it looks” Kazuya's judgement made the three look at him in surprise. Just how did it not look painful enough to him!?

Kazuya placed his arm slowly on Anri's wrists. This caused her to be afraid that he was going to cut off her hand but instead of feeling pain, the feeling in her hands disappeared.