"One more time." Squall was frustrated. "Where is your base?"
The prisoner was quiet.
"Silent treatment, huh?" said Seifer, who had appeared to the door.
"It's no good. I think I'll go to sleep."
"Hey, what do you say if I interrogated him?"
"I don't..."
"Please! I'm still new in SEED. I need to learn stuff like this."
"Well, alright. Good night."
"Good night."
Squall closed the door and went back upstairs. Seifer turned around to face the bandit who was handcuffed onto a steel chair.
"Hello. I'm Seifer. Now I'm going to ask you few questions and I wish that you answer them." Seifer smiled too friendly. The bandit decided to stay quiet.
"Where is your base?" he asked but didn't get an answer. "Ok, I'll ask that later. My friend killed the train's driver and escaped. Why?"
No answer.
"Have you got a leader? If you do, what is his name?"
Just like Seifer had expected, the bandit didn't want to speak.
"Okay.
We'll play a little game. I'll ask you questions, you answer them.
Simple?" Seifer looked him straight to the eyes. "Here are the rules.
If your answer is wrong,
I can punch you on the first round. On the
second round I can beat you as much as I want. And on the final round,"
Seifer pulled out his Gunblade, "if all the answers are wrong, I will
execute you. And remember, if you don't say anything, that means the
answer is wrong."
The bandit remained silent, but you could sense that he was nervous.
Zell was lying on a sofa in the mansion's living room in front of the fireplace. He was reading the newest Combat King which was quite interesting. There were a lot of new moves he didn't know.
"I'm bored," said Quistis, who came to the room.
"The other's aren't much fun," Zell said. "Raijin and Seifer are pretty down because of Fujin."
"I wonder, why did she do it?"
"I don't know. But I think that when we locate the bandits' base, we'll get an answer to that."
"Me too."
Zell finished reading the magazine and he layed it on the table.
"Let's have a game of Triple Triad."
They
both had very good cards and they played with Balamb rules. Zell was
just about to win but Quistis managed to turn the situation around with
her Ifrit card.
Fortunately, Zell still had his own card, where his face was printed. A draw.
"I love this game," Zell said.
"Hey, what is that noice?" Quistis asked.
The strange noice was like someone would've shouted. It came from the basement.
"That prisoner is there..." Zell said.
"...with Seifer!" Quistis continued.
Seifer's Gunblade was lying on the floor, next to a bloody iron pipe. The bandit's nose was bleeding and there was a big, open wound on his forehead. Seifer kept on beating him and repeating the same question.
"Where the hell is your base?"
"Seifer Almasy! Stop it immediately!" Quistis shouted angrily.
"He has already told stuff! And he will talk more!" Seifer said without stopping the beating. He kicked the man to chest which caused him to fall down. He was helpless against the furious SEED.
"Please, stop!" the bandit begged. "We have our base in Dollet. I can give you the direct location... just stop beating me..."
The beaten man gave the address. Quistis had to use Cure on him many times before he stopped bleeding. She had never seen anything like what Seifer had done just now and she let Seifer hear about that.
"You damn idiot! The SEEDs are meant to bring peace everywhere, not to torture helpless people! What were you thinking!"
"Quistis, I..."
"Shut up! I don't want to hear explanations. You always wanted to be a SEED and now you are one. And what do you do first? Violate the rules!"
Seifer banged his fist hard on the wall. It hurted but he didn't complain.
"Fujin and I... we have been friends for ages. And she does something like this... You must understand that I'm angry."
"That's no excuse for this," Quistis said. "I will tell Headmaster Cid about you when this mission is over."
"I am a fucking moron," Seifer said. Now he understood how stupid he had been. He couldn't have hated himself more.
