102 Waking Up, Unexpected, Explaining and Torture Section.
In a bedroom, on top of a large bed with red sheets, a teenager is lying on top of it with his eyes closed. Beside his bed, a young woman was staring at him. She was Shizuku, the one responsible for taking care of Oemitsu.
All of a sudden, Oemitsu opened his eyes and stared at the red ceiling. After seeing him moving, Shizuku approached him slowly until she entered his field of view.
"Good evening. You've been sleeping for 4 days."
She said when he looked at her.
'4 days?... I have rested for so long but why is my body still so sore?'
Oemitsu inquired himself. There was no inch around him that wasn't sore. From the tip of the toes of his feet to his brain, a pulsating pain echoes.
"What about Machi, is she Ok?"
When he asked that, he managed to see and feel a certain fluctuation of Shizuku's emotions. It was extremely subtle, but he managed to catch it.
"Something bad happened..."
When Shizuku said that, Oemitsu's expression, previously calm, turned serious in an instant.
"Take me to her."
He immediately told her before he ignored the hellish pain and got out of the bed. When he looked at the mirror, he saw that most of his body was wrapped around bandages. His chest, legs, arms and even back had bandages.
"Understood."
She said before she led the way.
Every movement Oemitsu made, felt like extremely sharp knives were constantly perforating all of the tissues of his body. However, if this pain was compared with the love he has for Machi or with his determination to protect and care for his family... this was nothing.
'Shizuku...'
He could feel the huge amount of concern that she had for him, , however, she couldn't disobey him. He could see that she reluctantly agreed to take him to Machi.
...
...
...
After walking down the hallways while following Shizuku, he arrived in Machi's bedroom. Since she usually slept with him, to appease to his lust every night, she stopped sleeping on her bedroom. So when Oemitsu saw that she was in there, he knew that something really bad had happened.
When he pushed the door, the first thing he saw was Machi herself. She was sleeping on the bed facing up. She was dressed in beautiful clothes, probably the ones that she herself sewed. However, the moment he saw her, instead of being infatuated by her beauty for the thousandth time, he gritted his teeth hard.
For some reason, the way she slept felt as if she couldn't wake up. Just seeing that made he feel anger, hatred and even loathe for himself.
'How could I let her be hurt to such extent?!'
He inquired before he took a deep breath to calm down. Shizuku, seeing his distress, wanted to tell him that she would be fine... however, even she herself didn't knew exactly what happened to Machi.
"What does she have?"
Oemitsu asked in a calm voice while he approached Machi's bed.
"We believe that Machi contracted Sleep Disease. Our assumptions is that it is from her regrets... she thinks that she failed you, so she forced her mind to stay asleep. Her mind would rather die than face you again."
Shizuku explained while Oemitsu slowly caressed Machi's face.
Shizuku's explanation shocked him.
'She would rather die than meet me again...'
Then, Oemitsu leaned and lovingly kissed Machi's lips.
"You idiot. You haven't failed and will never fail me. It doesn't matter what you do... I will always love you."
He softly said.
(Ahem! She is still alive.)
Nyat suddenly interrupted his lovey dovey time.
(While Sleep Disease currently had no cure, there are multiple ways to wake someone up. Even more if it is someone as stubborn as her.)
'Such as?'
(You can give her a Sacred Gear and forcefully awaken it. If you want to wake her up with a Sacred Gear, you need one of at least Longinous level. By forcefully awakening it, she will be forced to come out of her beauty sleep. Another option is using a Telepathic ability to enter her mind and force her to come out. You can also force her out of her Snow White state by using spells. However, I don't recommend doing that, forcefully waking her up with spells can have consequences.)
She explained.
After a few seconds of thoughts, Oemitsu finally inquired.
'If I find her a Longinous and wake her up by force will she suffer?'
(She won't. It is relatively safe, you can also enter her mind, but for that you need someone who has such abilities. An individual like the Martian Manhunter could possibly do that. Well he is a hero so there is no way that he is going to help you out of his own will, but that has never stopped you...)
Oemitsu sighed.
"This is my fault... I made a mistake and Machi paid the price for me..."
When he was going to grit his teeth, Vergo entered the room while he was feeling bad about himself.
"Are you really going to stand there feeling sorry about yourself or are you going to continue with your ambitions? Machi sacrificed herself just so that you could continue with your world domination..."
Since Vergo had been with Oemitsu for longer than any other person, he knew how to deal with him.
Hearing Vergo's statement, Oemirsu smiled.
"Fufufufu. You are right. Ths is not time to feel sorry about myself.
What about the battlefield? Did you deal with the coalition?"
Seeing their leader returning to his usual scheming self, Vergo smiled.
"I managed to destroy the army of Zhcted and afterwards, I routed the army of Sachstein. The army of Muozinel escaped almost uninjured."
After a quick briefing, Oemitsu nodded.
"Good. That means that everything is going accord to the plan."
After hearing him, Vergo leaned on the door before crossing his arms.
"Now, why did you let one of the commanders of the enemy army escape?"
He inquired. However, Oemitsu feigned innocence.
"I didn't. She retreated from the battle, but she is still on the spider's web. Zhcted has lost most of it's means of resistance and Muozinel will now start looking at Zhcted with hungry eyes. The coalition is completely destroyed."
After that, Vergo fixed his glasses with a serious face.
"You have a lot to explain to me... how did you lose your eye? Why are you rulling a country? Why have you added that weird woman to your peerage? And why are your wings different from any normal Devil?"
Oemitsu sighed after he heard Vergo's volley of questions.
"This is going to take a while to explain everything. I will tell you everything in due time. Right now we have no time... what did you do with the women I captured?"
Frowning a little, Vergo answered.
"I threw them in the dungeons. Why?"
Just for Oemitsu to smile and clap his hands.
"Good! Let's go meet our prisoners shall we?"
...
...
...
Meanwhile, a woman is bound in a dungeon. Her clothes can barely cover her body. While her body is completely bound to the walls. However, even if she is in a situation where almost every other woman would panic and weep, she is relaxed.
Almost as if she isn't in a bad situation.
This woman is Sasha, once the strongest Vanadis now she is a defeated prisoner that has close to no dignity left.
In front of her, a woman dressed in business suit is looking at her with pure disgust and hatred. The intensity of the woman's glare was something that would make almost any other person cower in fear but to her, she was almost like an angry kitten.
This furious woman is obviously Pakunoda, whose hatred only increased when she found out that Machi was in a coma-like state.
"I don't care if I have to suffer for this. I will make the remaining of your life a living hell, I will make you beg for mercy."
Hearing Pakunoda's words, Sasha simply laughed.
"Do you worst, I am a proud Vanadis. I would rather die than beg for mercy."
Pakunoda, contrary to her maddened gaze, smiled before she pulled out a gas mask and placed it on her face. Then, she slowly took out a small vial and her smile widened.
"This is a special product made by a friend of mine, Ponzu. I had to pay a lot to get this and to keep her silenced. When this gas enters through you mouth and nose, it will slowly turn your organs into stone, making you feel an unberable pain. I have the antidote in case you would want it."
Then, it was Sasha's turn to smile.
"Are you really expecting me to beg for the antidote? I would rather die."
Pakunoda, however, shook her head.
"Even if you don't beg for it, i will give you the antidote. You see, this antidote is quite efficient, in 2 hours your damaged organs will go back to normal, as if nothing happened. Of course, it also puts you through a lot of pain."
Pakunoda then pulled out 6 vials. 3 of them were gas and the other 3 were antidote.
She would cycle through them, Gasing her then healing her, over and over again.
"I have 9 of each, I wonder how long will you last?"
