Jellal POV:
Where am I?
I hear my inner voice and my heartbeat, but I don't know why?
I can't remember what happened either. I don't feel Erza's presence!
I don't feel anyone's presence!
Alive, but why am I inside the mind? The substrate is wet. As if from tar and ... blood ?!
Puffs of red, suffocating smoke everywhere.
Huh? What's in front of me?
It looks like a stone path, but I'm not sure where it leads.
Should I find out? ...
What the...
Familiar corridors and high stairs?
Cages ...
Chains ...
It can't be!
This place has been gone for a long time! This can not be true.
I CAN'T BE IN THE TOWER OF HEAVEN.
Calm down.
Jellal, these are just your illusions due to fear.
Nothing happens...
Nothing happens...
Nothing happens...
It's just a bad dream.
...
" GAAAAH! "
Heavy hoop around my neck ...
Icy water that feels like it's in my lungs.
It hurts me so much ... I don't want to anymore!
There is too much light here. The crystals are blinding, I can't tear myself away from it.
These luminous cracks on my skin!
I recognize it too well!
I'm suffocating. Something or someone is pulling me up by the chain ...
" Nice bath with Ethernano, right?"
" ...S-Sieg...Rain...!"
" If you could see your face now! Hah! You look like pathetic bitch."
" ... What do you want from me? Kill me ?!"
" Kill? Thhah! Ahh ... It would be too easy."
" ...Let me go!"
" You better shut the fuck up!"
" ...Why are you doing this? ... Why do you care about my pain?
" Oh ... Do you really want to know? My dear Jellal. This Tower is the playing field. My Personal Playground! "
" ...Y-You're D-Devil! "
" Devil you said, huh?! Who screwed up the whole life in just a few years?..."
"...Enough please."
" Who wasted time on idiotic beliefs that were just nonsense and delusions ?! "
"...Stop!"
" Who deceived friends? Who has disgraced the blood that spared a wretched life in return for damnation ?! "
He doesn't stop ... He keeps mentioning what I did wrong. I can't listen to this anymore! What is he talking about? What is it for? I don't know how to react? Anger? Cry? Nothing works for him. He is cruel.
Pulls on the chain.
Spitting and mocking me right in the face at the same time like I'm nothing. Zero.
Pushed against the wall on all sides. I have no strength, although I still want to fight for myself.
I have to believe ...
To believe that Siegrain also has a weak point.
His current game is underway.
My Future is at stake.
Whatever he tells me to ... I have to do it or I'll lose.
Siegrain wants to play with me, right? Then I will show him such a game that he won't want to torment me! Nothing on his part scares me. Let him do what he wants. When he senses that I'm showing no weakness to him ... He will break.
I will finally find out how it really was!
He was hiding everything by trying to intimidate me,played with emotions and reality without telling me the truth.
Siegrain is an expert at manipulating facts. He could just tell me that I wanted to humiliate Erza, he didn't know I was pretending I believed in this bluff too.
" Now what, Jellal?"
"... Fuck off."
" Hah! I thought so too. Characteristic as always. Fractious. Shameless...Arrogant...Obstinate. I'm surprised how Scarlet can fuck with you? Hahahahaha! How disgusting it is! "
" ... You'd probably want to take advantage of it, wouldn't you?"
"...YOU SLUTTY PIECE OF SHIT! "
" KHHHHH...AAAAAA !"
" How dare you mock me ?! "
"...Same thing ... How dare you lie to me."
" You taught me this."
" Let's play your game."
" Are you so smart?"
" ...Not otherwise."
" Heh. All right! We go."
...
He jerked me up the stairs like a dirty floor mop.
It was fun for him.
Treating me slavishly, chaining me like a dog on a leash.
Siegrain rules my thoughts like the Kingdom. He exalts himself on a pedestal, even though he himself is nothing.
Nothing but ... a nightmare.
As he goes up to the top floor, he orders me to take a torch. I agree to his orders.
I still don't give him any easy and obvious signals that I'm afraid.
I expect him to swallow this hook like a fish.
The clatter of his shoes echoes across the avenue, with a multitude of doors arranged in opposite directions. He pushes me against a stone wall for fun. Laughs madly as I slide to the ground.
" Get up!"
"... Satisfied?"
"Be silent! Choose your game level."
"...Hmph. Give me the hardest you have."
" O...Khm."
" What's it?"
" Are you sure ... this is what you want?"
" Silly question. It's probably obvious that I want to."
" Ouuuuuch..."
" What?"
" Ohhhh...Hmm..Hmmm.. I don't know if you'll like it! Well...No problem. I'll take you wherever you wanted!"
The farther Siegrain leads me, the darker it gets. The stench is starting to bother me. It smells like vomiting and alcohol.
What is this place?
The color of the door, strange, familiar to me.
" Here. Come in."
" What's going on ...?"
" Do you recognize it all?"
" ...T-That kitchen..."
" Yeah."
" ...T-That t-table..."
" Yes. That's your old fucking house! Hahahahahaha! "
"...T-Take ... me ... out of here."
" Certainly not! Face it. Suffer!"
"...N-No! ...P-Please...I can't do this...Siegrain! "
" Go ahead! Say hello to Daddy. I think he missed you."
"...N-No..."
" Hahahahaha! It will be fun!"
" You loser!"
To Be Continued...