Salt And Sugar Game

Opening his eyes he finds himself in a dark room. He tried to move his hands and legs but couldn't able to do so as he was tied to the chair he was sitting on. Without delay, he tried to use his magical energy to break through from binding, but for some reason, he wasn't able to use his magical energy.

"He..Hello.. Anyone here?" He said in his low trembling voice.

"You took a long time, didn't you? I was getting bored waiting when you woke up." He heard a heavy voice in front of him, but the inside of the room was not filled with any light he was not able to see anything.

Lighting the candle around, the man who abducted him went near him. Seeing a person with a white color smiling face mask and wearing an expensive black robe, he unconsciously tried to move back. At the moment chair he was sitting on was about to fall back, but the man in front of him stopped it from falling.

Seeing his speed and reaction with which he stooped the chair, the birthday boy could tell that the man in front of him was not any normal person. Not even many high-level magical energy users can do so.

Seeing the smiling mask which instead of looking like a happy face looked scarier. "W..who are you? W-hy did you lock me up here?" He said with his low trembling voice

Balancing his chair, he went back toward the table where he lit up the candle. As he lit up three more candles, the surrounding of the room was now visible. Birthday boy's eyes were continuously flowing from the person in the mask, when his hand reached toward the table, he saw there was a small knife.

Seeing the knife, he shouted with all his might but still his voice was low due to fear, "Wh-what are you planning to do with that knife?" He said with his shuttering voice.

His eye only saw a knife ignoring one bowl filled with green chilies and two white powders in different glass bottles which were also present on top of the table.

Ignoring his question, the masked man picked up the knife and moved toward him. He continued asking and the masked man continued ignoring his question.

"W..What are you doing? Stay away from me." He shouted as the masked man moved the knife closer to his body.

With a knife, he first tore his clothes covering both of his hands and legs. "Please, stay away from me. Do you know who my father is? If he finds out, then you are done for." While back in the restaurant he was angry at his father, but now he doesn't think twice before talking about him.

The masked man didn't give any reaction while he was trying to scare him off by talking about his father. He threw away his clothes after cutting them down, now his hands from his shoulders and legs from his knees were not covered with cloth.

Slowly masked man moved the knife closer to his hand. "What are you doing? Please move that knife away." He said and even though his hands were tied to the chair and hard to move, he still tried to move his hands back away from the knife.

The masked man grabbed his right hand. After that, no matter how hard the birthday boy tried he wasn't able to move his hand even a tiny bit. Slowly the sharp tip of the knife touched the middle part of his right hand.

The masked man put a little pressure on the knife, "Aaa…" the birthday boy shouted as the knife smoothly sliced the skin of his right hand. Red blood drops started to fall on the ground. "W-why r are you doing this to me?" He stuttered while holding up his pain.

The masked man had a five-centimeter cut on his right hand. Only one thought came to his mind that he was going to be killed while being tortured.

"Why are you doing this to me?" "Sniff!" "Please let me go.." "Sniff!" While crying he tried to convince the masked man to let him go. 

Ignoring him, he put the same cut on his left hand and the lower part of both legs.

After that, he finally said to him, "You know when I was eating in a restaurant today at noon, due to your loud voice I wasn't able to enjoy my food." He continued, "And later I found out that you did all that because the chef of the restaurant put sugar instead of salt in your fish curry."

"Yes..yes it was that chef's fault. If he had done his work properly, I would have shouted like that and ruined your day sir, so please let me go." With his low trembling voice he continued, "If you want, I can help you to punish that chef, it was all faults. So please let me go."

"Is that so? You will help me to punish that restaurant's chef. How?"

"You don't have to worry about that sir, just let me go and I ask my guard to catch that chef for you. Then you can do anything you want to him." As he was saying he also looked happy as he thought he now had a chance to get away from here.

"Hmmm.. But do you know what the funny part is?"

"What Sir?" With a smile on his face, he said.

"There was some leftover fish curry that didn't go to your table, and when I tested that it looked completely fine."

His happy face soon went blank. Looking at his face the masked man said, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you with a knife anymore, that was enough."

"Really! When can I go now?" A smile came to his face again.

"No, you still didn't get to know what salt can cause." The masked man with his heavy voice continued, "Let's play a game."

"What game?"

"You see those two glass bottles filled with white powder."

He looked at the table and then said, "Yes."

"One of them is filled with sugar powder while the other is filled with salt. I will feed you that green chili, after that you have to choose the glass filled with sugar. If you get it right, then I will give you sugar." He continued, "But if you get wrong, I will give you salt. I will let you go if you can get a bottle filled with sugar five times."

"That's it?"

"Yes."

"I'm ready, let's get it, we don't have to waste our time." He thought that he would be able to somehow manage the spicy pain of eating chilies, on top of that if he somehow managed to get sugar he would even be able to lower the pain. Seeing chance to get away from here with enduring small about of spicy pain, he happily agreed to play the game.

"Okay then." The masked man moved toward the table and took five green chilies out of the bowl. "Here you go eat all this one by one, also don't forget to chew it properly inside your mouth."