Broken

Part 3

Schuldich and Crawford entered the room, where Farfarello and Nagi were waiting.

"Finally." Nagi said, looking a bit irritated and very tired.

"Can't I have a little fun?" Schuldich smiled and sat down.

"Well," Crawford said. "The boy doesn't know, does he?"

"No, there are a lot of other funny things in there, but not the information we are looking for."

"And I couldn't find anything." Nagi said. "I broke through every single defence system they had. But I couldn't find any names, much less any codes or passwords."

Crawford sighed. "OK... well we were kind of prepared for this, we knew that he probably didn't have it."

"So, a good guess would be the redhead." Schuldich mumbled.

"The boy wasn't aware of who has the information?" Crawford asked looking over his glasses.

"He doesn't even know that Weiss has the codes." Schuldich informed.

"Hmm." Crawford mussed. "Well we knew that if their little organizer here didn't know, we could use him to get the leader to talk."

"Yeah, Aya is pretty hard to work with, very strong you know." Schuldich got all excited about his new challenge. "He is kind of locked in a shell - almost impossible to read anything from his mind, no information, no emotions... but I think we have a good chance with the boy as prisoner, this Omi seems to be Aya's week spot. He was clearly concerned about him, when we picked him up. I will enjoy breaking him as well."

"And I will enjoy breaking the boy." Farfarello said with an evil smile across his face.

"Oh yes, that's right, Schuldich - how long do you think it will take to break the brat?"

"He's already broken."

"No, I mean physically." Crawford said narrowing his eyes and smiling viciously.

Schuldich thought about it for a moment. "Well, he is quite strong too, and very stubborn. He is loyal, you know, he would rather die than tell us anything... when his friends saved him from his brother; I guess he could have hold on a couple of hours longer."

"About three hours?" Nagi asked.

"Maximum three I'd say. We wouldn't want him to loose consciousness before we get to the good part now would we?" Schuldich said with a malicious grin, and looked at Farfarello, who was smiling as well while licking his knife.

"Ok, three hours. Then I'd say we go to bed now and get some sleep, and tomorrow we start out with plan B." Crawford said, and fumbled with his tie.

"I'm looking forward to it." Farfarello snickered.

They got up and left the room to find their own. It was nearly 3 o'clock a.m.  Schwarz quickly fell asleep. The only one in the house who didn't get any sleep was Omi, he was too afraid.