Chapter 38 : Thirst of revenge.
To waken him was a slap on the right cheek.
But what…
He wondered as he regained consciousness. He slowly opened his eyelids, focusing on a group of people in front of him: Edward, Leila, Ashley, Harley, Marianne, Cecile and Sayoko. Looking around, he realized he was in some sort of torture chamber, probably located in a dungeon. CC was tied to a table, not far from him, and was staring at him, worried and gagged. He was about to move but he realized he was chained to a wall.
"Why did you bring us here?" He asked.
In response, Edward punched him again, smashing his upper lip. CC squirmed on the table.
"You stole my girlfriend, bastard!" He accused him, furious.
"Stolen? Do you think it's your property? She chose me because she loves me. "
"You plagiarized it!"
"Her is immune to the geass, didn't her tell you?"
"You don't need geass to plagiarize people."
Cecile came forward, kicking him in the testicles, causing him a sharp pain. If it hadn't been for the chains it would have collapsed to the ground.
"This is for all the times you raped me."
She drew her gun and shot him in the foot.
"And this is for forcing me to kill Suzaku."
"A very poor revenge ..." Lelouch commented, trying not to show the pain he felt.
"Oh, but our revenge is just beginning ... The best is yet to come. All of us here have lost something or someone because of you. All of us here have been victims of your geass or your abuses. And you will pay dearly for what you have done to us." Promise Ashley.
"You can't kill me."
Harley hit him in the head with the baseball bat, making him scream in pain.
"But we can still make you suffer, little flower!"
"And we also have the right equipment." Sayoko intervened, pointing to another table where various instruments were placed.
Lelouch began to sweat cold; he was at the mercy of a pack of psychopaths determined to take revenge.
"You have the honor of starting first, Leila." Edward invited her.
The blonde approached the prisoner, staring at him impassively.
"Give me a kunai!" She ordered.
Sayoko gave her one, and she planted it in the young man's left hand, making him scream again.
"Does it hurt, true Lelouch? It's nothing to the pain I felt four years ago! "
"Now it's my turn!" Ashley exclaimed.
He drew a dagger and with it he tore Lelouch's sweater, then he threw it to the ground and left it bare-chested. At that point he thrust the knife into his side turning it several times. Lelouch gritted his teeth, suppressing a groan of pain. CC watched the horrified scene as his beloved's blood ran down his chest, staining his pants. Marianne swallowed. That scene should have made her feel satisfied, instead it made her uncomfortable, and not a little.
"So, Lelouch ... are you having fun?" Ashley asked, grinning sadistically.
He replied spitting a lump of blood and saliva in his face. Ashley, irritated, kicked him in the stomach, then inflicted a stab to his face, rubbing his cheek.
"You want to be tough, eh? Well…"
He took a lighter from his pocket and began to heat the blade of the dagger, then stuck it in Lelouch's right eye, which gave a heart-rending scream. CC burst into tears as Harley laughed heavily. The boy gave a desperate look to his mother, the only one who had not yet raged about him. Marianne looked away, seeing her son in that state unexpectedly made her sick. Edward, meanwhile, had approached the green, staring at her grimly.
"What is it, bitch? Does it pain you to see your beloved Lelouch tortured? "
He slapped her on the right cheek.
"I loved you madly ... And you betrayed me with that evil demon!"
He thrust his thumbs into her eyes, making them give a muffled sound.
"LEAVE IT!" Lelouch shouted angrily.
Sayoko drew another kunai and hurled it at him, piercing his left shoulder and making him scream again.
"You can't do anything for her, Lelouch ... How can you do nothing for yourself." Leila told him, smiling wickedly.
"Her have nothing to do with it! Leave her alone! "
"You are wrong. If she are on your side, she can do it. "
"Take it with me, not with her!"
In response, Ashley resumed stabbing him in the chest, while Harley hit him in the legs with the bat. Lelouch screamed in pain. Leila and Cecile approached CC, untied her and, with Edward's help, guided her towards a sort of two-winged sarcophagus, which once opened turned out to be bristling with spikes. The green was pushed inside and the doors closed again. Immediately the girl began to utter inhuman screams.
"BASTARDS!" Shouted Lelouch. With the force of despair he launched a headlong into Ashley's face and smashed the nasal septum and ruined it on the ground. Breaking the chains that held him prisoner (rusted by the passage of time) he punched Harley's face, and started to head for the sarcophagus but was knocked down by Sayoko.
"Are you okay, honey?" Harley asked, turning to her lover.
"My nose is broken, how can I feel good?" He replied nervously.
Lelouch was about to get up but Harley, furious, hit him again in the head, again and again.
"Bastard! How did you let yourself disfigure my man? "
"Leave it to me!" The boy ordered.
"As you want."
Ashley retrieved his dagger, then stuck it in Lelouch's healthy eye. The latter, now totally blind, let out a chilling scream.
Ok, this story lasted too long!
Marianne thought, as she secretly put her hand to her I-phone.
At the same time, Cornelia and Esdeath were observing the interactive map of the world.
"The situation has definitely improved." The Empress stated.
"Yeah ... And the credit is to your half-brother, Lelouch. An exceptional strategist. "The defense minister congratulated.
"Say Divine. Both as Zero and as Lelouch he has radically influenced world history. His political and strategic skills are irrefutable. With him at our side we have the victory in hand. "
Esdeath smiled as he heard that sentence.
"She must keep a lot of him."
Cornelia blushed and looked away.
"I'm just praising his talents." She justified himself, embarrassed.
Suddenly she received a message on Faceapp. Reading it, she turned her face white.
Jesus…
She thought, shocked.
"Your majesty, you are as pale as a dead ... What's up?" Esdeath asked her.
"Contact a security team ..."
"Such as?"
"Do it now!"
"Yes, your majesty!"
Meanwhile Lelouch had been surrounded by Ashley, Cecile, Leila, Edward, Sayoko and Harley, who were beaten to death. He was covered in bruises and could not even ward off the kicks that hit him because of his blindness. Not even CC could help him, being imprisoned in the sarcophagus. Marianne intervened to stop the dripping, which set itself in defense of the boy.
"Now stop it!"
"Hm? Now what's the matter with you? "Cecile asked her.
"He suffered enough ... Look how he is reduced!"
"So what? The Code will heal every wound. We can beat him to infinity. Indeed, I say we castrate him, so he will no longer be able to rape anyone! "
"I won't let you do it!"
"Now are you playing caring mommy? You hate him as much as we do!" Said Leila.
"I ... I can't hate him! He is my son, and always will be, whatever happens! "
"While we're at it, we'll torture you too, then!" Ashley said, furious.
He started to shoot her but she disarmed him and laid him on the ground, kicking him in the stomach.
"Are you kidding, Ashley? That is the president of the United Federation of Nations! If we touch it with a finger it makes us imprison!" Harley protested.
"Her role is purely formal, he has no effective power." He replied, getting up.
"We are here to take revenge on Lelouch, Marianne is not to blame!" Exclaimed Leila.
"But it is hindering us ..." Sayoko pointed out.
"Exactly, let's get it out of the way!" Propose Edward.
"Are you sure, Eddie?" Cecile asked doubtfully.
"If she defends an unclean being like Lelouch she must be at his level, if not worse. We also close her in the virgin! "
"I agree. Take it!" Ashley urged.
At that moment, however, the door of the room was thrown open and Cornelia and Esdeath broke into it, along with about twenty soldiers.
"It was time you arrived!" Marianne exclaimed.
The empress did not answer, kneeling next to her half-brother.
What did they do to you?
She wondered, horrified and saddened.
"Bring him to the infirmary, soon!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Two soldiers loaded him onto a specially-placed stretcher, loaded us with Lelouch and started off.
Esdeath instead opened the sarcophagus, finding himself in front of the tortured body of CC. She almost vomited.
"There is another one here!"
Even the green, like Lelouch, was loaded onto a stretcher and carried away.
"What about them?" Asked a third soldier, pointing to the torturers.
"Arrest them all except Marianne."
"One moment, I'm the prime minister!" Leila protested.
"You tortured a member of the imperial family, and your position does not put you above the law. Take them away! "
Immediately the 7, kept at gunpoint by the soldiers, left in single file from the room.