Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 74

"I can't." Then, in a trembling voice that was surprising for a veteran knight who had seen the worst of people. "Captain Boras will make us his playthings."

Plaything... Hearing that word, I gritted my teeth, and my anger flared out inside me. I kicked him in the head again, taking my anger out on him because that must be what Boras is doing to Clare.

"Then tell me where Clare is."

Approaching back to me again, Skis drags another of my family's black knights, whom I knock out.

"Talk, or this one is next."

He bit his lips, seeing Skis throw the unconscious black knight in front of him, and he told him.

"Talk, we have more than just him as a bargaining chip."

Skis then stabs the black knight I knock out in the back, through his lungs. Pulling out his sword, Skis threatens.

"He'll bleed out if you don't tell us."

Showing him a health potion, Skis offered it to him if he would tell them. However...

"I refuse; we're all dead men."

Skis raises one of his eyebrows at his response, but for some reason, there was something more to it than being annoyed from getting his answer.

"I see then... Maybe this would convince you."

Skis went back to get another of my family's Black Knights and threw another unconscious body in front of him, on top of the Black Knight that was bleeding out, he took out something.

"Do you know what this is?"

A yellow potion vial and a blue potion vial were held in Skis' hand. I wondered what it was, and from seeing the leader of the group of my family's Black Knights' lack of reaction, he didn't know either.

Showing the yellow potion was, "This is a Stillshade venom, from a Stillshade toad, and this," then showing the blue potion vial, "this is a high-grade antidote potion, and let me show you what happens when you use both of them at the same time.

He poured a couple of drops of the yellow vial, the Stillshade venom, on the back of the black knight he just dragged back, then a quarter of the antidote potion.

A second later, after he poured the antidote potion on the black knight, his eyes shot open, and he screamed in pain.

Skis let him scream in agony, and we watched for a while before Skis decided it was enough and lopped his head off, ending his misery.

"I know your boss, Boras or something, likes to toy with people, and this is not as bad as what your boss is going to do to you. Tell us, and if you do that, we will make it quick and painless. After all, he'll be mad at you if Nyx doesn't show up."

He gulped, stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I could see he was giving thought to Skis's suggestion.

Honestly, looking at Skis right now, I guess this was his goal after all: to put him in a state of mind where he is in extreme stress and then offer him an option when he is not thinking straight.

An extremely painful death, versus an even more painful death, versus a painless one, if he tells us, are his options.

"Fff– fine."

With that, he told us where Clare was being held. As Skis promised, he killed him with one swift motion of his sword.

We made our way to their base, running there because our position had already been revealed and known; however, we didn't encounter anyone on the way.