“Have you ever experienced torture? Of course you have, you’re an assassin after all, so you must have undergone training for it as well.”
As I said this, I ran my hand along the body of the female assassin, who was bound by a magical force field.
Hmm… she’s well-trained.
Her chest is small due to her muscles, but her abdomen is firm, her waist tight, and her thighs are thick yet supple.
Her face is beautiful too, with sharp black hair, the look of a striking beauty.
She’d make excellent material for a homunculus… but maybe I’ll make her my pet instead.
“Do you think I will submit? I am an elite who has undergone countless torture training sessions at the training facility. Do what you will!”
She glared at me sharply, refusing in a strong tone. Nice! This is just like that, right? One of those “tch, just kill me already” situations? This is getting exciting!
“Oh wow! So brave! I think I might fall for you!”
As I said this, I began to cast a certain spell.
“You’ll undergo two types of torture: ‘painful’ and ‘not painful.’ Do you need an explanation?”
“I do not!”
“Alright! Then I’ll explain anyway! …First, let’s talk about pain. How do you think humans feel pain?”
“…”
“The answer is nerves. Pain-sensing nerves are spread throughout the body like blood vessels, and when they are damaged, a signal travels through the spinal cord to the brain, allowing the person to feel pain.”
So then…
“That’s when I thought, ‘What would happen if I artificially delivered pain signals directly to the brain?’ The body wouldn’t have a single injury, but the mind would suffer infinite agony, a pain that feels out of this world.”
“Hi…!”
“Let’s start with one minute! How about ten times the normal pain?”
I activated the spell.
“Aaaaaah…?!!?!?!!! Aaagh, aaaarghhhhh!!!!!!! Nooooo!!! Aaaaaaaghhhhhh!!!!!!!”
Oh, poor thing.
The female assassin writhed in agony, screaming like it was the end of the world, wetting herself, her eyes rolling back, and foaming at the mouth.
Her beautiful face, now a mess of tears and snot, and her sharp eyes were opened wide to their limits, even soiling herself.
It’s hard to do this to a beauty, but well, she is the enemy.
After stopping the pain after one minute, I looked at her.
“How was it? Tell me your thoughts.”
“Hah… hah… I’ll… kill you…!”
Oh, she still hasn’t broken.
Seems she was serious about that training.
But the next one will be even worse.
“Now let me explain the next torture: the ‘not painful’ one. Earlier, I gave you pain. But this time, it won’t be painful. It won’t smell bad, itch, or anything.”
“…What?”
“Humans have five senses: sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. These are all the senses humans can experience.”
“…”
“This time, I will take them all away.”
“W-What…?”
“By doing so, you’ll be imprisoned in a void where you feel nothing and can do nothing. To top it off, I’ll stretch your sense of time by a thousandfold. Let’s begin, starting with one minute.”
“N-No, stop…!”
Okay, neural shutdown.
The woman instantly stopped moving.
If she could feel the cosmos, maybe she could break free?
While she was trapped, I tidied her disheveled clothing, combed her hair, and straightened my appearance.
Then, the minute was up quickly.
So I woke her up.
“Ah… ahhh, ahhhhh!”
With a jolt, the female assassin woke as if she had come back to life, letting out a pathetic voice in her relief.
She glanced around frantically, breathing in, confirming that she was alive, and that her senses had returned.
“How was it? Did you have fun?”
“Please, no more! Stop it! I’ll do whatever you say!!!”
“Oh! That’s good! But you still seem a bit too high and mighty. Of course you’re going to obey me, trash. Let’s do another round of pain, this time at twenty times the normal level! And I’ll make the void last ten thousand times longer!”
“Nooooo!!!”
As I continued tormenting the beautiful assassin… in the end:
“Hehe, hehe, hehehehe… Woof, woof woof, woof… Marie is a dog, a dog that obeys everything Master says…”
She finally became a very obedient dog.
With the training complete, I patted Marie on the head.
“Good girl, Marie. Follow me.”
“Woof! Understood, Master!”
Well now…
Tormenting this beautiful assassin was pretty fun, but… I hadn’t been watching the others.
“Y-You there! Don’t move! Do you care what happens to them?!”
Oh, a black pig.
I looked and saw the black pig had captured Fran-chan and was holding a knife to her throat.
“I don’t care. I can fix her.”
As I said that, I started walking toward them.
“Y-You’re insane!!!”
The black pig, trying to escape after tossing Fran-chan aside, wasn’t going to get away.
“Go, dog!”
“Woof woof wooof!!”
The dog—Marie the assassin—immediately caught him.
“Y-You! You’re betraying me?!”
“Betraying…? Marie doesn’t understand complicated things, woof. But Master promised me there’d be no more ‘pain’ or ‘darkness’ if I obey, woof. I don’t want anything more than that, woof.”
And with Marie having caught the black pig, I placed a “collar” on him.
“This collar is a gift. Accept it with gratitude, black pig.”
“W-What is this?”
I nonchalantly placed a similar collar on the table and… snapped my fingers.
Then, the collar exploded!
Yes, it was a “collar bomb.”
As the black pig turned pale, I said:
“Now, bring me the deed to the mansion and all the shop deeds.”
And so…
I, Exus, the “Master” of the Aurora group, had the black pig senator hand over all the deeds to the shop and mansion with pleasure.
With that, I quickly gathered the land into one, constructing a large building.
The Aurora Supermarket, Proxia Republic Branch.
You know what comes next, right?
