Warning: Chapter contains some torture
Neo sat silently in a shadowy corner of her apartment, watching the unconscious boy. She had tied him to a chair, intending to extract information as soon as he awoke. There was one problem she had encountered; how to ask him the questions that would give her the information she wanted.
Traditionally, she had been the one who convinced people to talk, while Roman had asked the questions. A wave of sadness passed over Neo as she remembered Roman's refusal to get his hands dirty. They had been good friends and had worked well together. She felt a sliver of satisfaction as she remembered how well they had beaten Red on the flying ship, up until the silly kid had opened her parasol, resulting in her flying away while Red had blown up the ship, killing Roman.
Caught up in her memories, Neo didn't immediately notice the kid awaken. Once she noticed however, she mentally reviewed her plan. She stood quietly and pulled out her scroll to type the first question she had for him.
"Your name?" She stepped forward and showed the screen to him. It's going to take a while to get through this, she thought.
"Russel Thrush, Hunter." He answered proudly, as if it was something amazing to be a Hunter.
That was quick, almost too quick… Neo pondered this, but guessed from his pride that he wasn't lying. She typed her next question, agonizingly slow. "Who do you work for?"
"Why should I tell you? That would be like betraying the whole kingdom, since you're probably gonna assassinate her."
Well that was easy, he gave away gender and importance all in one sentence. Presumably that Goodwitch again. Why would she be spying if she already knows there's an assassin? She probably knows it's me too. Unless it's someone else who doesn't know about me, but then who would it be? She couldn't think of anyone else, so she filed the information away to think over later.
She deleted her question, then typed a new one. "What were you doing in the Club?" By now, the boy had figured out that he shouldn't give information away and didn't say anything. Neo smiled sadistically. She had thought it would've been too easy, and she wouldn't get to have fun torturing him.
Pulling out the blade of her parasol, she stabbed through the center of his hand, right between the bones, causing him to scream in pain. It was quite a girly scream and Neo would have laughed if she could have.
"Okay! I'll tell you! I was told to get information for my boss. She wanted to know who the assassin worked for. That was all! You gotta believe me!" His whimpering was annoying Neo, and she pulled the blade out with a snarl on her face. He caught the hint and shut his mouth.
Hm, so Goodwitch wants to know who I work for. It can't be someone else now that I know what he was doing. Neo typed the next question; "What did you find out?"
"Not much," he admitted, "but I do know that my boss thought the person who caused this mess in Vale might be the assassin's employer or sponsor or something."
"Where is your boss?"
"I swore I wouldn't tell anyone." He stubbornly clenched his jaw, looking away.
Neo smiled at his refusal before placing her blade on his arm and cutting into his arm. She then placed the tip of the blade just below his eye, a grin on her lips. She tilted her head sideways, a silent question that carried a grim threat behind it. He closed his eyes and silently shook his head. Neo slowly dug her blade along his cheek, deep enough to meet bone. She continued along his head until she reached his ear. She began to precisely cut the outer ear off. She smiled as the boy began to squirm in his bonds.
"Alright! She's in the safe zone, where the remaining Hunters are stationed." he shouted, then paused. "Why did you get my ear instead of my eye?"
"You need eyes to read. Last question. How many Hunters are there?"
"About fifteen." He looked up at Neo with pleading eyes. "You'll let me go now right?"
Neo smiled before nodding. She cut through most of the ropes with her parasol blade, except for the one around his chest. When she went to cut that one, she stabbed him right through his heart, then dragged the blade diagonally down to the right, then up to his shoulder. The final cut went from the original stab through his heart straight down, creating a capital N in his flesh.
She picked up his corpse, then carried it through the streets to the central plaza, where the Hunters were camped out. She teleported to the doorstep, dropped the corpse and teleported out of the plaza. Once back in her safe house, she texted Junior. Got good info. Will give to you at Club. Sent message to enemies. He soon replied, Might want to fix problem soon, Hunters are getting nervous.
Neo grinned at the thought of making hunters nervous, then found a scrap of cloth to polish her blade with. As she sat down to clean her weapon, she thought of Roman. I'll get revenge for you Roman, even if I die trying.
A/N: I'm currently going back and fixing the chapters previous, that'll be done hopefully within the next week. I've already submitted the new and improved Chapter 2, and Chapter 4 will hopefully be done the week after improving Chapter 1.