"Run"

I ran away with all my strength, faster than what the human eye could see.

"Faster....hurry!" I shouted all these thoughts to myself inside my head, attempting to achieve something beyond my limits, I ran and ran away from my pursuers. I ran with my clothes all torn while my body is filled with severe wounds.

"Hurry...I can't let them.. catch me." I ran... like a pathetic and powerless child.

"I became too conceited, constantly underestimating my enemies. When did I became like this? No, this is not the time for this, I need to get away, quickly!"

"Where do you think you're going, child?" One of the pursuers caught up to me, he stood in front of my way, attempting to stop my escape.

"Out of my way!!" I shouted at the person in front of me as frustration and anger overcame me. I drew out my sword and mutilated the person blocking my way.

[Black Empyrea: Severance] I hacked the person to pieces without mercy, but at that moment, I realized the mistake that I did.

"Caught ya" 60 supreme ranked martial artists emerged from the shadows and quickly encircled me. Due to my injuries, the moment I performed the Black Empyrea sword technique which uses up certain amount of stamina and causes a strain on my body which I normally wouldn't feel, my speed slowed down significantly, and my loss of focus at that moment gave my opponents the chance to catch up in an instant.

I overestimated these people's sense of camaraderie, they won't hesitate to send a comrade to death, just to achieve their goals.

"Since its come to this, then I have no choice but to use it... [Artificial style: 0th Iaido...] " My blood started to boil at around 260 fahrenheit and eventually, it started to create explosions.

"It hurts." It hurt so much that hot blood came out of my eyes instead of tears, even my mouth started to cough up large amounts of blood which would've killed a normal person in an instant.

"O-Oi, don't tell me it's that..."

"No way, is he planning on killing himself!?"

"Quickly! Attack him this instant, or else it'll be over for us!"

I aimed the sword's sharp side at my neck and wounded it, just enough for blood to flow out to my blade.

[Blood samsara]

I released the blood recoil at them through my attack. In an instant, all the martial artist around me got diced cleanly into pieces.

"Is it... finally over?" I lost my balance and fell down to the grounds, the pain from before intensified, but suddenly, I felt 3 presences coming my way.

"No way!" for someone like me who has a high pain tolerance, feeling this much pain tells that the Blood samsara is not a technique that even a supreme martial artist could freely use. I tried to move but the pain intensified, completely rendering me paralyzed. They finally arrived front of me who's currently writhing in pain.

"hahaha, I guess those 60 sacrifices were worth it, we really caught this monster. The knowledge of the ancient martial arts and Quantum weaponry are now at our hands, all we need to do is torture it out of him, hahahaha!" The person leading the trio said upon seeing my state.

"Indeed, sacrificing a lot of supreme fighters in exchange for Ancient arts and futuristic weaponry is the best deal one could have. Now then, lets get going, our little treasure here lost a lot of blood from earlier, you know what the Head says, 'Always help our comrades in need'."

Despair took over my mind, my head went blank, and all I could do was get taken away by the opponent quietly. After we travelled for god knows how long, we finally arrived at what seems to be a secluded laboratory in the middle of nowhere.

"Haahh, you really bit off a huge chunk from our organization, it's hard to imagine that a child like you who looks just like a 12 year old midget was able to pull that off. On top of that, you hold both the golden knowledge of the past and the future. Say, why don't you work for us? Leave that little Yggdrasil of yours behind and rise to the top with us?" One of the 3 captains of the organization asked me

"W-w-wor..." I stuttered as I tried to reply

"Hmm? what was that?" He asked me again as he leaned in closer to hear what I was saying. After he leaned close enough, Even though I am chained into a chair, I gathered up some remaining strength that I have and bit off a huge part of his neck, instantly killing him.

"You and your people are too worthless to receive my service." I said to the corpse whose eyes are still open.

"Theodore-sama!" The three people from earlier ran to the dead theodore to check up on him.

I spat out the huge torn chunk of flesh into the face of the person who came to check up on the dead person.

"HAHAHA! All of you should see the look on your faces right now!" I said to them while laughing at their situation even as my entire body is suffering from hellish pain.

"Emile..."

"Y-yes?"

"Bring here the equipment and 5 of those drugs. Make it quick..." Ordered the person whose face is filled with blood.

"U-Understood!" the lackey quickly dashed out of the room and came back while pushing in a table filled with equipment used for...torturing.

"You're overestimating yourselves if you think you can squeeze information and knowledge out of me." I said to them with a condescending look.

"We'll see about that." He took a knife from the table and stabbed it at my fists.

"urkhh!" in addition to the pain that I'm feeling from the recoil earlier, this knife stab really made me wince.

"Fuck, this is the worst... If only I controlled my emotions back then... damn! It fcking hurts!" I thought to myself as I tried to calm myself down.

"Hmm... as expected of a monstrosity, being able to handle inhumane pain... Well then, do you know what these things are?" He said to me as he showed me 4 bottles containing strange and unknown liquids.

"You don't know? well then, allow me to enlighten you. These things are what you call 'Pain amplifiers', I'm sure you already know what they do just from their names right? And also, we mixed in a medicine that will prevent you from going unconscious, so expect lots of fun, ok?" He said to me as his face became contorted due to his sinister grin.

At that moment, an intense wave of fear coursed through my entire body.

"HAHAHA! that's the look that I want to see! You're making this much more exciting for us! Now then, shall we start with the 5x it would be boring if we instantly use the 20x right?" The person took out a syringe and filled it with the amplifier. I tried to get out of the bindings, but my current strength won't even allow me to lift an arm, to top that off, the pain that I'm currently feeling intensifies more and more as seconds pass by.

"Rio, don't go too hard on him, if you break him, we might not get the information we need." said one of the people who just finished cleaning up the corpse.

"Of course, I just want to have fun with our little treasure here, hahahaha!"

He leaned in closer to me and injected the serum at my neck, at that moment, the fear finally jumped out of my mouth."

"S-StopAAAAHHHHHHH!!" the serum immediately showed its effects, the hellish pain that I was experiencing instantly skyrocketed.

"Hahahaha! that's right, scream! HOWL FOR US! HAHAHAHA!"

"GRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"

Intensive pain amplifications, fingernails peeled off, hair yanked out, back whipped using thorned whip, body full of slashes from barbed knives, open wounds poured with hot cooking oil, and many more. All of these were done to me in a single night which felt like eternity, my screams rang out, shattering every glass in the vicinity due to its loudness.

"If only I didn't have those emotions... I wouldn't be in this situation... this is.. not painful anymore, it's just... The hell of another hell."

"WHERE DID YOU HIDE THE FILES!? Tell us or we will prolong your suffering!" Asked Rio as he whipped my body.

"I-I told you didn't I? n-no matter w-what you d-do, you won't b-be able to s-squeeze it out o-of me."

"This child... How can he withstand all these torturing? This is just- this is unfathomable!"

"Did you make sure not to break him?"

"I know what I'm doing, this is my field of expertise! there's now way that a child like this can beat me!"

"Enough, Rio. If we can't get the information out of him... then we will just have to eliminate him, just like the head ordered us to."

"Tskk, give me more time!"

"Die... let..me..die..." I thought to myself as my emotions started to get sealed away.

In the end, the torture went on for a few more hours until Noele, along with hundreds of people, arrived and successfully rescued me. When Tanya and Noele saw the state that I was in, they became enraged to the point where they massacred every member of the organization. It took some time to locate the room where the head is currently hiding, after they located the head, they also did all kinds of torture on him, However, he did not last more than 4 minutes until he died.

I tried to forget that time where I became powerless, I ran away from it... I didn't want to forget the pain that I went through, I just wanted to forget the me who was powerless at that time. I didn't want my emotions to be sealed away, I don't want to remember that the cause of it was my own powerlessness. I convinced myself that it was all due to my extensive training, when the truth is, it was all born from my own patheticness.

"I'm such... a failure"

...

"I noticed that you're able to express some of your emotions now, have you..."

"You noticed it just now? Well, a lot has happened, I don't think I would be able to express this much by just relying on a magic that heals a person." I replied to Tanya as the three of us walked through the streets.

"Does that mean...you finally faced it properly?"

"Yeah... Thank you, for rescuing me back then."

"I told you didn't I? I will find you wherever you are, after all, it is my duty, as your subordinate... and as your friend."

"All these years of running away from something pathetic like that has finally come to an end, it wasn't easy, carrying all those heavy feelings inside, but now... I can throw those away and live this new life as I want... Now then, let's head to the training grounds faster."

"Yes!"