Chapter 13


"Wh-What?!" Mint cried out.

"No!" Kira shouted.

He laughed crazily. "10,008 and 66, you two will be the first to receive your marks. Then we'll have your friends join you."

"No! I won't let you!" The inkling screamed. TarTar immediately lunged for her and yanked on her collar chain, making her gag and fall on the floor, coughing.

"Now listen here you insignificant waste of space. I have been ever so kind to you and your repugnant friends as to only enslave you. So if you'd rather serve me as an emotionless corpse, you'd best reconsider what you say to me. Got it?"

"Y-Yes..." She yelped as he dropped her, and took a gasp for air. Mint getting close as they could to Kira before they were hoisted into cages, forced to sit on their hands and knees as they were wheeled into the lab.

"M-Marks?" Mint stuttered. "Is this going to hurt?"

"Oh most certainly. We're carving your number into your arms and then we spray rubbing alcohol on it to prevent infection." He explained.

Mint whimpered and curled up into a ball, pressing their back far away from the doors and Kira snarling.

"You won't get away with this."

He smiled evilly holding her chin. "Oh but I already have~!"

He opened the cage doors and gestured to the tables. "Get on! Now!"

Both whimpered and grimaced as their exposed skin touched the cold metal table and were strapped down. Several syringes of sanitized ink lying around, both making them nervously sweat and shake.

"I'll break you easily Frail." He joked. "But the heroine herself, will require a little more work."

Kira's lips curled into a snarl as she thrashed against the restraints. "Just stop already! You've already won! What more do you want?!"

"I've never truly won until I have broken my enemies. Start carving!"

Mint's tentacles curled up in fear as they thrashed. "I-I don't want to die!"

"You have nothing to worry about. He's more concerned about me than he is about you." Kira groaned. As soon as she said that Kira's arm was sliced open and she let out an ear piercing scream. "FUCK!" She clenched her teeth as fresh tears started forming in her eyes. The carving was a long process for Kira, slowly cutting the numbers into her arm. To prevent infection, they poured rubbing alcohol on her cut up arm, making her howl in pain.

Mint yelped and looked away, only to be greeted by the same excruciating pain and yowled in pain as they bit their tongue, holding back their cries.

An hour passed and they sighed a breath of relief. Their respectable numbers carved into their arms and their arms throbbing from the excruciating pain they just endured.

"Looking nice." TarTar chuckled. He grabbed Kira by her good arm and she struggled. "Take Frail to their cell. I've got unfinished business with her."

Mint struggled against the guards as they cried Kira's name out, watching her fade from their line of sight as they were heaved into their cell. Alarm raising in the others as they noticed Kira didn't return.

"Where's Kira?!" Akari anxiously wondered.

"TarTar has her..." Mint muttered, shuddering. "He's going to try and break her."

Chili snarled. "Let me out so I can tear out his limbs one by one! I'll do it!"

"No! You try hurting him and he'll kill Kira on the spot! We have to play this smart!" The octoling warned him.

He crossed his arms and huffed, furious at his current situation. "So my girlfriend could possibly be dead and you want me to play smart?! What kind of drugs did he stick in ya, huh?!"

"Did you say-?"

"I know what I said, shut up!" He snapped. "I need a way out so I can get to her!"

Akari looked up. "We're next for our numbers. Maybe we can use this time to survey our surroundings and get to Kira somehow."


TarTar grinned as he tied Kira up, having her arms above her head and her wings drooping low, her darkened eyes following his every move as she hovered over the ground just barely out of her reach. The room she was in smelled like bleach and seeing her shudder made the commander grin.

"You've always been a pain in the back. And now that you've surrendered to me, I'll be getting my ultimate revenge~"

Kira growled lowly. "You're sick, ya know? What is it that you want from me that you had to take such an interest in me for?"

He smiled evilly and grabbed her chin, "You see, my dear, there is a portal; a void beyond inkling-even human knowledge that only your powers can help me open up. All it requires is that little incantation Misery knew."

"Good luck getting it, because you killed her." She remarked, resulting in a slap to the face.

He narrowed his eyes. "Keep that up and I'll kill you." He grabbed a book and opened it's pages. "Ah~ Here it is~!" He threw the book in front of her and Kira's eyes widened upon seeing the incantation in the pages, etched in fine ink and she could feel it's horrible presence linger like a horrible odor.

"Start memorizing that incantation, because you'll soon be hooked up to a device where you'll be bound by chains to make sure you don't turn this against me."

"N-No..." Kira muttered. "I won't do it..."

TarTar slowly turned to her. "What was that?"

"I said no!" She yelled, kicking him back. He yelped and crashed into some pipes that burned his arms and back.

He snarled and turned on the electric collar, making her scream in pain and cry as she felt her vision growing fuzzy and her eyes growing heavy. Her mind becoming incapable of forming coherent thoughts, but before she blacked out, he turned off the device and she heaved. Tears pouring from her eyes and choked sobs escaping her throat.

"You will never tell me no. Is that clear?"

Kira felt these words shakily escape her lips. "Y-yes s-sir..."

He grinned malevolently and let her fall to the ground, her pained yelp was music to his ears as he locked her in the empty, quiet room with only the echoes of her cries to keep her company. Burns appearing around her neck from the collar and her body slowly becoming numb. She felt herself holding onto the book as she started taking in the knowledge the deadly incantation had to offer.


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