Black, shaggy hair slightly covers a fine, menacing face. Smart gray eyes, set handsomely within their sockets, watch meticulously the feet of his master he'd looked up for so long.
Scars stretching from the bottom of the right cheekbone, running towards the tip of the nose, and ending above his left eye leave a tormenting memory of redeemed honor.
This is the face of Kade Eustis, a true behemoth among the Numbers and former powerful adventurer from the outside world.
There's something odd about him, no calling it ominous should be more correct.
''How is Number 1? Is he closer?" Bahamut's clone asked and Kade aka Number 1, the strongest Number nodded.
''Wow! He did not betray my expectations. I bet he would be looking forward to the showdown between us but he will be surprised by what I've prepared for him. A surprise I'm sure he will appreciate because I have put all my heart into making it.'' Bahamut's clone smiled, his smile seemed genuine but Kade trembled.
An endless chill suddenly rose from the powerful Number's back.
It was as if his skull had been ripped open, and cold water poured directly into his body. An even more frightening cold air swept through his four limbs, almost causing his entire body to feel cold, and he kneeled there in a daze.
He was certain that this powerful guess had no chance of surviving, no after his Lord smiled like this.
Alex kept training unaware of the surprise awaiting him on the last floor and outside as well.
°°°
Drip—
In a basement somewhere full of humidity.
The droplets of water that built up on the surface of the wall dropped down onto the floor as if rain was leaking from the roof.
The only noise that rang out in the dark, gloomy basement was the sound of falling water creating a clock like sound.
Tic! Tic! Tok! Tik!
"Tch! the smell."
"No matter how many times I come here, this place doesn't fail to disgust me."
As the switch of the luminary (A/N: A Special luminescent stone if you forget.) was turned on, a man and woman were revealed.
The woman with gray, straight hair double braided to reveal a full, gloomy face. Glittering black eyes, set wickedly within their sockets blocked her nose and mouth with her hand, looked around the interior of the basement. The interior looked as if a mad scientist, determined to create the strongest organism, had conducted countless inhumane experiments.
Large, round tubes filled with clear water were lined up against the walls, and pipes that were installed like veins connected the tubes.
Would it have to be called a relief?
The tubes that appeared like they would normally contain aliens or chimeras made from horrifying experiments were completely empty.
"It looks like we'll have to clean the digestion facility."
"Ehh… I can't be bothered. Can't we just make the feed we caught do it for us?"
Digestion facility… Feed…
Words that gave off an ominous feeling were mixed in their conversation.
The man, hearing the woman's idea of ordering the feed to do it, shook his head in detest.
"Calm down. What if the feed makes a scene and one of the tubes ends up breaking? The day that happens, Sir Drexel will have our heads."
The man drew a line across his neck and shook his head.
After hearing his words, the woman pouted her mouth, which also had piercings, and shook his head.
"So what, he rarely shows himself."
"That's because we're small fry who just put the feed in the digestion facility."
"Goddammit, what do you mean by small fry? You're making the small fry feel unpleasant."
The woman smiled playfully and cackled out.
They were joking around by ridiculing each other as small fry, but their positions in the Chaos Organization were actually considerably high.
The only ones who were allowed to enter the 'digestion facility' in the first place were mid-rank melbers6 and above.
"Oh right. Now that I think of it, I get promoted to a high-ranking member next week. I should be below the Numbers.''
"Oh, really? Looks like we'll have to set up a celebration party."
"You're going to use this as the present, right?"
The woman fumbled around the lower half of the man's body with erotic hand movements as she laughed bewitchingly.
Laughing out loud, the man kissed the woman deeply.
"Well, let's think about the party later and finish what we're here for first."
"It's tiresome so let's finish this up quickly," the woman declared in an uninterested expression as she pointed with her chin.
"Wait here for a second. I'll bring the feed."
The man smiled and went up the stairs.
"Uub! Uuuub!! Uub!"
A few moments later, he dragged over a young man who was restrained in a naked state. Unlike the man with handsome looks, the young man wasn't good-looking.
His thick glasses made his already small eyes look smaller, and his skin full of acne was reminiscent of a toad.
Thick disgust was expressed on the woman's face as she looked at the restrained young man.
"Just looking at him is disgusting. Let's hurry up and shove him in there."
"Wait, let me take off his glasses."
After the handsome man took the glasses off of the youth, he dragged him to a tube filled with water.
"Hyup."
Splash!—
"Blurgh! Bluruh!"
The young man's body was thrown into the tube.
Every time he struggled, the water inside of the tube overfilled and splashed onto the ground.
"Begin."
After confirming that the young man was completely submerged in water, the woman opened the door to the control room that was in the corner of the basement and went inside.
Inside the control room full of massive mechanical devices stood an extremely skinny young man.
"…"
The young man was wearing a white gown like laboratory scientists wore and was looking down at the mechanical devices with shaking eyes.
The woman approached the young man, who looked like a coward, and frowned.
"What are you doing? I said to begin."
"W-Wait…"
"Hurry up and start, you bastard!"
Bam!—
The woman roughly kicked the young man.
"Kugh!"
Bang!—
He was sent flying back and crashed into the wall.
As the white gown he was wearing was slightly removed, the surface of his decapitated left arm could be seen.
"Do you need to get beaten up again for you to snap out of it, Allen?"
"I-I'm sorry!"
The young man named Allen shivered while his expression turned pale. Brown, straight hair hangs over a chiseled, anguished face. Dancing gray eyes, set a-symmetrically within their sockets, watch cheerfully over the basement they've barely related to for so long.
"There's no such thing as taking care of newcomers here, so do your work properly. Alright?"
"…Yes."
Allen answered with a shaking voice and stood in front of the mechanical devices once more.
His remaining right arm which was operating the device suddenly stopped.
"Sob… sob."
Tears ran down Allen's face.
"What are you doing?"
"I-I can't do it."
"What did you say?"
"I can't do it anymore! Such a horrifying thing…!"
"Sigh."
Allen's body was sent flying back again.
"Kugh! Kuk!"
"Would you look at this ridiculous fucking idiot?"
The face of the woman with gray hair was heavily distorted as she approached him like a snake walking toward its cornered prey slowly.
Slowly stepping on the surface of his decapitated left arm, she continued.
"I heard you lost this arm to Sir Drexel because you stood up to him."
"E-Eek!"
Allen's shoulders shook as his face paled from fear.
The woman stuck out her tongue and shot a frightening glance at him.
An endless chill suddenly rose from his back.
It was as if his skull had been ripped open, and cold water poured directly into his body. An even more frightening cold air swept through his four limbs, almost causing his entire body to feel cold, and he stood there in a daze for a moment before the gray-haired woman's voice rang out.
"If you don't want your other arm to become disabled as well, obediently follow my orders. Got it?"
"…I-I'll bear that in mind," Allen answered while shivering like a soaked chicken.
"Tch. Seriously, I can't even kill him because Sir Drexel sent him personally."
The woman spat on the ground and turned around.
"..."
Allen got up with his staggering body and stood in front of the device. He closed his eyes tightly after looking at the young man who could be seen on the screen.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry…"
Repeating his apologies that couldn't be heard, he used his right hand to operate the buttons.
And then—
Rumble!—
—bubbles started to boil up inside the tube.
The youth's struggle became rougher, and the stigma engraved on his left chest started to pour out the light. However, soon after, his body started to melt like it was dissolving in the water.
"Hehe. He's dissolving well~"
The woman with piercings took in the sight of the young man's melting body while smiling brightly.
The handsome man approached her and pulled in her hips.
"Should we get something to eat after this is over?"
"I think we should."
Even when a horrifying scene was taking place, their expressions were at peace. Once around five minutes passed, the young man's body finished dissolving.
The water inside the tube that had an entire human body melted wasn't red but shone with a gentle blue light, something in the depth was pulsating like a heartbeat.
Ba-dump! Ba-dump! Ba-dump!!!
The woman looked at the blue fluid inside the tube and smiled.
"Chaos shall reign supreme."
"Chaos shall reign supreme."
The sound of their creepy voices echoed out inside the basement, followed by laughter.
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