Atonement For Your Sins

Gilbert's P.O.V.

Her bright red eyes gazed at me and she opened her small little mouth, "Ah, I found you! hehe!" She giggled happily like how a girl her age would. This scene only made my fear further intensify, this girl isn't as simple as she looks. In just another second her mood flickered and she said solemnly, "Ha... so weak, I thought it would be more fun, but I guess I will just play with you for now..." I do not understand why, but my emotions were completely out of my control.

Hearing this sentence made me infuriated, my common sense was cut off completely. All my pride and anger from my most inner space erupted. I knew that she was dangerous and yet I swung my weapon on her without taking precautions. She chuckled at my attempt to chop her head off, she simply raised her pinky finger to blocked my strike.

Impossible... anti-magic weapon also cuts through mana shielding thus I should be able to cut through any defence easily, unless... The girl saw the changed in my expression and her face light up in joy, "Don't worry your weapon is working perfectly fine... it's just that my physical state is just too amazing. HAHAHA, besides it seems that my chaos nature seems to have an effect on your bottled up emotions, this is interesting and fun!!! Following Dan was definitely the right choice!"

Time passes slowly here, the longer I stay with this mad woman the more agitated I become. The world around me seems to only revolve around this damn person. Those red glaring eyes seem as though they could see through every single fibre of my being. My treasured weapon couldn't even make a single scratch on this little girl... hey... hey... hopefully my anti-magic armour would work right? Right? Despair was running rampant in my mind, I wanted to get away as quickly as possible. This isn't someone that should appear in this minor kingdom. Why am I so unlucky? I refuse to die here, especially not in such a humiliating way.

In the midst of this desperation, I drained all the mana in my body and activated [Martial Arts Emergency Escape]. This particular martial art has saved me many times, I had hope for the best that this could save me again. *Boom* The ground behind me exploded and I flew across the sky in the direction of the nearest city. Did I lose her? I looked back after I landed safely on the ground.

*Phew* I sigh a breath of relieved as no one was behind me. Just then a gentle voice came from in front of me, "It's meaningless to continue, why don't you give up? You are destined to die here. Even your god has abandoned you, so give up." My legs soften once I realized that my efforts were futile, no I refuse to die here. I CANNOT ACCEPT THIS!!!

"hehe, you seem to have full confidence on your defensive equipment, but I wonder what your expressions will be if I break each and every single pillar of your confidence..." She gave off a sadistic smile. "So don't break so easily alright? We have a long day ahead after all..." She was so full of confidence that it pisses me off, what right does she have to do this to me. She's just like those evil magicians, I won't let her have her way. [Martial Arts Self-Implosion] with this martial arts activated, my body started expanding rapidly, threating to blow up anytime soon.

"How am I going to have fun if you die so easily? [Force Seal]" she stopped my intended self-destruct attempt with ease. Damn it, in this state I can't use any martial arts... I tried to run from my spot but I realised that I was not moving, I was crawling on the ground the next moment and I can't feel my legs. What's going on? When I looked at my lower body, I finally noticed that my legs... were completely gone... bright red blood spurted out of my legless body creating a small red pool, and I finally felt the pain from that wound.

"Ahh!!! You BASTARD!!!" I screamed uncontrollably at the girl. My armour was useless... ah ah ah... She swung the gigantic halberd at me utterly ignoring my screams. My arms, my eyes, my ears, my throat... That's right ha ha ha, without my eyes and ears she can't torment me any longer. Am I going to die now? Finally, I can escape from her ahahaha, at least my death is not that painful.

"How many times do I have to repeat myself? WE HAVE A LONG DAY AHEAD." The girl's voice sounded in my head again. Why can I hear her? Where is this? "What's going on?" I can speak? Around me was nothing but empty space it gave me a strange sense of calmness, this space felt connected to me, except with the chaotic silver-haired girl floating about, the girl that tore me into pieces.

"So, this is what it looks like in a dead man's head." She spoke in a carefree tone seemingly bored.

"Dead? I am still alive! Since this is my head, that means I am all powerful here, aren't I? AHAHAHA" I had truly lost myself to madness from the previous wounds I had received from this girl. Such a pretty girl, I will let her experience a thousand times worse than what she did.

"That would be the case if I did not hijack your mind earlier, the more chaotic a person's mind is the easier for me to do such thing." She chuckled at my earlier suffering, making me go berserk. I growled and threw myself towards. However, I found myself unable to move from my current spot.

"Geez you are not really smart, are you? I said that I hijack your mind, didn't I? Besides that, I found some really interesting things here." This time the gaze she gave, gave me an ominous feeling. Just what is she planning?

"You see, I looked into your memories and I say... they are rather... enjoyable... hehe. So this is the justice you preach by murdering mages... Interesting HAHAHA. These are amazing!!" She laughed loudly and with a snap of her fingers, the surroundings changed into a torture chamber.

"Isn't this the one you captured the mother of a known peacekeeping mage and lured him into your chamber? Well, I guess people of the same feather flock together just like the temple of Justice. Interesting, you knew that mage was a mage of justice and yet you tortured him to death after tormenting and killing his family members." She earnestly explained and reminded me of my past deeds.

"No... No... that was me in the past I haven't done such deeds from then onwards..." I shivered from her uncovering my own past.

"Oh Gilbert you may believe in redemption but not everyone does. Do you think that just by doing good for a few years you would be able to atone for your sins? Even if you become the world's saviour, the sins you had committed will always exist, plaguing you FOREVER." Again she smiled even more sinisterly putting the emphasis on the last word.

"You... what are you planning?" My anger was replaced by fear and despair. I saw familiar figures that I had wrongly killed in the past. My body was bound to the exact same table that I had used on them.

"You see, I found several flaws in your torturing techniques, so I am giving you the chance to improve yourself, fun isn't it? This way you can find improvements to your torturing skills and bring them to a whole new level. That's only if you manage to survive..." After saying this the girl excitedly moved aside allowing the familiar figures to reveal their faces to me. They were excited by the scene of me bounded to the torture table. Beside me was all the torturing instruments that I had used on my victims.

They looked so realistic... memories from my past showed up again revealing the vile deeds I had committed. Each and every single victim that I had falsely accused and ruined stood by the side of the table, dark flames of hatred burn strongly in their eyes. They were smiling at this pathetic sight of me.

They were excited, excited about the sweet taste of revenge. "No no no, this can't be real. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry please stop, stop now! DON'T COME CLOSER."

One of them ignored my scream and place a ball gag into my mouth. "Ah, so noisy! Isn't this what you said when I begged for mercy? Remember me? I am Jonas, captain of the 14th justice magician corps. Did you stop when I cried and begged you to? You rape my daughter and my wife burnt them alive. Then you proceed to inflict horrendous deeds on me... I have always wanted to let you have a taste of what I did." Jonas clapped his hands once and 3 of my family members popped out.

My son, my daughter and my wife... they were supposed to be dead, this had to be all a dream. Yet this feels so real. What that little silver-haired girl said was right... there is a long long day ahead... Why did I have to take on this job?