Chapter 7: The Dark Room (Part 1)

Inside a completely dark room.

There was someone passed out on the floor, wearing shabby clothes, stitched together with other pieces of cloth in many places.

This was a person with disheveled black hair and a plain face. From the looks of it, it's obvious that he's Nait.

After a while in this dark room, Nait's eyes started to move.

Nait opened his eyes with an expression of panic on his face. He looked around with drops of sweat on his face and breathed heavily.

'What?! Where am I? I don't know. I can't see, have I lost my sight?' Nait thought.

'No, calm down Nait, don't panic, remember what happened to you to end up like this.'

'I remember David and I went to Midnight City. Then when we got there, we parted and I went to the family mansion to meet my new family.'

Sadness appeared on Nait's face and he continued to think: 'But why?! Why did I get such luck? So always, even in my former life, in which I never had a particle of happiness.'

'Work and overtime, friends who make your life difficult, especially a girlfriend, when I think of her cheating on me, my blood boils. It was better to abandon them. Where was my mind at that time?'

'My father died when I was 15 years old, which made it difficult for my mother to take care of me and provide me with an education. Until she ended up getting sick.'

'It was a good thing that I was old enough to work at that time. But her treatment cost a lot of money. Unfortunately I didn't succeed, I died before I got half the money. I wonder what happened to her. Did she mourn my death?'

“Ugh….”

'Damn Carlos, it really was a painful blow, I'll remember that. Also David, I thought you were a good friend, I didn't know you cheated on me behind my back.'

'I'm a vengeful person, I'll make sure to pay back everything that happened to me double, if I get the chance.' An expression of anger appeared after thinking of Carlos and David.

'But first, before you think of revenge. Think about how you can get out of the situation you are in. It's good that I'm not blind, I can see my legs after my eyes get used to the place.'

'I'm trying to move my hands and feet but I can't, it seems I'm tied up. There is something in my mouth that prevents me from speaking.'

Nait thought, with a worried face, 'Did that bastard Carlos imprison me underground or in an enclosed space? Is this how my life will end, in this place, of hunger?'

Suddenly, he heard the door opening. A light appeared from it that made Nait's eyes blink.

Nait thought, 'It's good, at least someone gives me food. But wait, what's the point if I'm going to stay here.'

While Nait was thinking, that person walked into the dark room with a lamp in his hand, and closed the wooden door behind him.

He didn't go to Nait immediately and started moving around the room. Apparently he is looking for something.

After a while searching inside the room. That person stopped. It looked like he had found what he was looking for. was a chair.

He picked it up and brought it in front of Nait.

He put the lamp close to Nait's face and sat down on the chair.

He leaned back to approach Nait's face and spoke, "Hey, looks like you're awake. Good, it'll be fun."

It was that man, black hair with black eyes.

Not a muscular man, just a normal physique. He was wearing leather clothes with a small breastplate across his chest. As well as a shoulder shield in one of his shoulders only.

When he said those words he had a lame smile on his face.

After seeing that person, Nait thought, 'What's wrong with it?! What is this smile? Didn't he come to serve food?'

That man said, "My name is Roderick, what's your name?"

"Um...umm.."

"Uh, sorry I forgot to take it off...hehehe."

Then Roderick removed the piece of cloth that had been wrapped around Nait's mouth.

When he removed a piece of cloth from Nait, Nait moved his mouth, which was numb after placing a wrapped piece of cloth over his mouth for a while.

"Who are you? Where am I? Did Carlos put me here?..." Nait asked immediately.

Roderick's expression turned cold when he heard Nait's many questions.

He stood up from his chair, looking at Nait. After that he raised his leg and sent it toward Nait's stomach one by one.

At that moment, all that could be heard was in that room. It is Roderick's angry words and the sound of Nait's reaction to the blow.

"you…"

"Uggh..."

"..you…"

"Ouh..."

"....what is this…"

"Uuughh..."

"...so many questions..."

"Ugh..."

"...didn't I tell you..."

"Ughhh..."

“...to tell me your name.”

"....."

It went on for a while until Roderick stopped hitting Nait after his stamina had run out and went to a chair and sat down to rest.

As for Nait, his back was bent so that it looked like a shrimp. He couldn't hold his stomach to relieve the pain because his hands were tied. The bending, clenching his teeth was his solution.

Because of the continuous beating, his face became somewhat sweaty and pale. His eyes became hazy and the edges of his eyes were red from the tears he shed.

The ground next to his mouth was a pool of blood ending in a line towards his mouth. Whoever vomits blood from severe beatings or from biting his lip.

At that moment, Nait thought 'Crazy, really crazy..ugh...Look at him he's smiling. What The hell...uggh... are you telling me this guy came to me. Just to torment me...uugh...what a scoundrel Carlos you are.'

After a while Roderick looked at Nait, leaning back in a chair and said, "Well, that was fun hearing you scream. Now let's get back to the main topic. What's your name?"

"Don't you know….you weren't told," said Nait, his face in pain.

Roderick baffled, "No, I haven't been told."

Nait was shocked by the word and then anger appeared on his face and said, "Damn you, you sure know, but you're acting on me for torturing me. Go ahead do it."

Nait said, making up his mind that he would rather die by the fault of this person than live now.

When Roderick heard him, his face darkened, "You..."

The moment Roderick spoke his first word, he rose from the chair. He walked and raised his leg as high as he could and sent it like a sword waving toward Nait's face precisely toward his nose.

This kick made Nait spin several times to reach the wall of the room.

Moments later, Nait started screaming as he turned left and right.

"UUUGH...GUHHH...UGHHH..."

"...that's what you deserve when you don't listen to what others have to say." Roderick said.

After a while Nait screamed, the door to the room opened.

When he heard it, Roderick turned to see who it was.

Who opened the door was a fat person in brown merchant clothes, holding a lamp in his hand.

He entered the room, closed the door, and said as he walked, "Roderick, don't play too much. Do you want to expose us? I could hear him screaming from upstairs. Lucky for us, there's no one in the store."

Upon hearing Zendayer's words, Roderick replied, "I'm sorry, Sir Zendayer, but this brat, he doesn't want to tell me his name and his behavior makes me angry."

Hearing Roderick's answer, Zendayer said, "So, let's see... who's that." When he finished speaking he turned towards Nait who had stopped turning. But he still cries in pain.

Zendayer lowered himself and placed the flashlight next to Nait's face. And he began to look at his face, "Oh, look at his face, what have you done to him, Roderick?"

Nait's nose was bleeding from the inside, and there was a cut on his nose from a Roderick hit with his forefoot from the outside.

He looked carefully at Nait's face, "I feel like I've seen you before… Ah, well, Young Master Nait of the Field family. That kind of explains your behavior, and so did Leader Carlos." After he finished speaking, he got up and turned back to Roderick.

"I don't want him to die here, so ask someone to treat his wounds. And also some food. We'll take care of him until he reaches his destination."

Roderick nodded, "As you wish, sir."

"good." Then Zendayer walked out of the room.

After Zendayer came out of the dark room. Nait was hurting, thinking, 'This motherfucker really doesn't know.'

'Who was that fat man? Get to know me by looking at me. From his investigative look I'm sure he didn't know I was here...Argh...'

'Damn, I don't understand what's going on anymore. What do you mean get to my destination?! Where the hell am I?, in a store?!'

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Author note:
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– No new chapter will be released before the official website.

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