A swift, headstrong punch jabbed across Geus's jaw, forcing his eyes open and his bodily feelings back. He groaned his awareness back and swelled up all the pain. Any more of a hitting force and his jaw could've snapped out of place and rip from his body. Once his vision came back his suspicions were gone.

The way Rappa's body huffed and moved with his breathing showed how angry he was without any words. And the way he was perfectly healed like a battle never took place, all but confirmed how much damaged the place. The pain was worth all that he sent to the giant. On a one on one fight, at least he knew he could take out Rappa. Even if that fight was just an oddity that came out to his side.

Without the additional punch to his jaw, the rest of his body felt destroyed. Especially on his spine, felt as if it was curved out of place and broke every vertebra. With the adrenaline gone, Rappa's true strength really showed. If another fight between them broke out, it'd be a challenge to walk out with the girl afterward.

And Geus surveyed the room, the rest of the Expendables circled around the rectangular table. Food from a three-course meal line up to each person and fit their own preferences. From a fine steak and wine to the plague doctor to cheeseburgers and liquor to the drunk one. Geus's plate had a smoothy and the all too familiar syringe.

As much as Geus hated Chisaki and the rest of these freaks. He had at least the knowledge to know he wasn't going to kill him. And if the others at the table at their food without hesitation or fear, there was a good chance he could too. Besides, to keep Geus in tip-top shape and a safe mind he needed those meds planted in the food. That's when Geus reached for the syringe and eyed the men. Since he was shirtless and exposed the massive bruises, Geus stabbed it clean into the hole.

A soft gloved hand pressed its palm into Geus's shoulder and tapped down each individual finger. Another hand reached over Geus's other shoulder and placed down that crow mask. Geus had to hold back the attempt to just attack this guy. His gas still wasn't fast enough to land a shot before Chisaki could activate his own hands.

"You should really try the blended smoothy. Gives us a chance to see if your throat works. See if all this effort was for nothing or not." Chisaki spoke. His hands left Geus's tender body and loudly stepped around the table. He went to the end of the table with Rappa and the drunk guy. "Thank you, Rappa, for not killing him today. As much as I know you held back I appreciate it."

'Holding back'. Geus's eye tensed up at those words. 'The giant had no intentions of holding back.' Geus kept his fists clenched under the table. He saw it as disrespectful to see him as weaker than the mound of flesh. The puffs in his breath became thicker and inched closer to hitting the table.

"I wasn't holding back." Rappa finally said. "He came at me with his strength and used a cowardly way of fighting to escape death." Rappa turned his bare face at Geus. Unmasked and full of emotion. "When our fight resumes I will kill him."

Geus's upper lip rose along with the gas. Small trails of purple went up past his eye and up to his hair. He forced his mouth closed and reworked his gas's systems to release a smaller amount.

Chisaki looked genuinely surprised at the comment. His head nodding and angled to Geus. "At least we know now the surgery had some up turns to it."

Geus looked down at his body. The bandages were gone but there were no signs that they slashed open his entire body open. No scars, or weird indentations in his skin, not even exposed blood or veins. Another one of Chisaki's works of instantly healing him and Rappa.

"Another thing." Chisaki stopped and looked at the door behind him. A faceless guard entered the room, his body struggling to bring in the small girl his arms latched on to. Chisaki went back to Geus. "Eri seems to take a liking to you. And which produced better results than in the past. The better and more cooperative you are with me." He waved to the girl Geus just learned was Eri. "The more you get to spend with her."

"You're a sick fuck." Geus spat. He instantly became light headed afterward. His senses became weak and dazed, barely able to hold his own head up.

The guard continued to usher Eri over to the group. He pulled out Geus's chair and placed the small girl in it. Instinctively, Geus wrapped an arm around her body. Holding her tight and into his chest. This calmed her down a bit, she didn't struggle but her body was still tense and shivered.

"You can release him now," Chisaki ordered. As Geus's body returned to normal function, Chisaki said his next words very carefully. "He wouldn't dare to do anything to my daughter in risk."

Geus had to hold back his breathing while he reached for his mask and tapped it on. He looked down at Eri in his lap; her legs were crossed into one another and held his mask in her lap. Geus swore to himself as he saw the small green light near the inner mouthpiece wasn't there anymore. Chisaki must've known or the mask stopped giving out the signal.

Either way, help had no idea he was here. And the signal probably never reached out to the surface unless they were figuring out a way to save him. It wasn't too far of a stretch to assume Chisaki placed measures to ensure no outside contact could be made like a signal jammer.

"You don't want me to take her from here and yet you place her in my arms. Pretty dumb huh?"

Chisaki signaled to the door. "If you're so confident then leave with her. Unlike you, I don't care what I do to her. No matter how bad I hurt her, I can always fix her."

Geus grabbed the edge of the table. The flow of gas forced itself through the mask and down his arm. The extra amount of strength smashed through the table, forcing his fist closed. As much as Geus wanted to be on top, Chisaki would no matter what be on top. One step ahead at all times.

Geus pulled up his mask and poured the drink inside. It wasn't smooth and didn't go down his pipe correct. He wanted to cough so bad and upchuck it back into the table. And at the same time, it was the most delicious thing he's ever tasted. The blend of fruits tapped against his taste buds felt heavenly.

It wasn't confirmed to last, for all he knew this was the last time he'd ever enjoy flavor again. For the time he had, he had to thank Chisaki. For each strawberry placed inside, the bananas, kiwi, greek yogurt, it could be his last. He was the devil man with the temptations of God.

Now he saw what all these men saw in Chisaki. Their dedicated lives to a man the had the ability to kill them on spot. "I can do better," Geus whispered to himself. He looked down on the child in his lap. So scared as she clutched onto his old mask for dear life. "I gave up on you once Keena. It's not going to happen again." Geus grinned, with his heartbeat down the gas around his arm dispersed into the air. "I got somebody I know you'd want to protect." Geus looked up at the man across from him. "I got to get back to her."

"What was that, Sansei?" Nemoto's eyes drifted up to Geus, squinted and locked onto the boy. The casualness of his tone went right past Geus's mind. The clean-cut piece of steak in his mouth made Geus not even realize the activation of his quirk.

"I'm going to get out of here. I gotta tell her I know."

"And who is her my dear child?"

Geus realized he was under the possession of his quirk. He had no intention of lying anyways, but this just showed how untrustworthy they saw him. Geus met the seductive eyes of him.

"A friend, a friend I learned I must hold close to me."

He snickered at Geus's response and took another bite. "I guess I don't need you under my control. You don't see the point of lying anymore." He took a sip of the wine and pushed it forward past his plate. "Since your body is destroyed you'll spend the say with me. Who needs a therapist when I can force you to say what you truly feel."

"Or you can hang out with me!" The plastered man broke out in laughter. "I don't... Uh, know why." He hiccuped and tripped from his chair. "Why everyone's sooooo quiet."

The bottle in his hand slammed down onto the table with both his forearms. Some of the contents of the booze splashed out and covered a small radius od the table. "I'll get you drunk off your ass." His head swung back, the grease of his long hair swung with him and swished out more booze from it. "You uh, can't lie with this little guy." He lifted the bottle an inch from the table and jiggled it around. "Whatch'ya say?"

Geus was slightly disturbed looking at this guy. His eyes just bulged out of his head and never blunk. They way they were able to follow his eyesight no matter how he looked. "I'm seventeen."

"Pfffh," he laughed and chugged down another swig.

"Nobody's talking because they know their place." Tengai kept his eyes closed and down toward the table. Remarkably calm at the booze forced onto his robes and the distinct smell of the drunk guy. "This was a meeting to discuss the next step of Sansei's training."

"Alright, can all of you stop calling me Sansei?" Geus growled. "I know all of this is to break my spirits and force me to join your band of freaks. I'm not the strongest mind of my class, I gave up as I said to Chisaki before. You committed the worst thing you could've." He pointed at Chisaki while he stared down Tengai. "You've cleared me from the demons in my mind. I got no hesitation."

"Is your plan to now use this chance to attack at any opportunity?" Tangai asked without the thought of an answer. "Voices in your head or not you're still misguided. Your narrow mind still sees us as villains with a corrupted goal. You must open up and realize the facade you placed to fully understand our intentions. That's what we're trying to do to you."

"You'll soon realize Sansei why your aunt did what she did. For years you kept closed the ideology of the past. I could bring her here to you. Or I could bring you to her, but until you play along none of those are options."

"I won't attack the civilians in your war. Beat me, put me down, strip my humanity, I'll survive for them. But I won't kill for you."

"Enjoy the rest of the meal. I'll bring you to our side." Chisaki pushed off the table and went for the open door. "I'll give you gift after gift till you do."

A couple of hours went by after what Geus learned was dinner. The battle against Rappa took a larger toll on his body than he thought. Three days went by while he was unconscious. And the entire time Chisaki's goons continued to personally mutate his body to his quirk. Chisaki erased the scars but left behind the pain that was caused.

Now it was just him and Nemoto locked away in a room. It was a little different than the rest of the places he's been. Hardwood stained dark, and gray painted wall on drywall. Alongside the back of the room was a wall-sized bookshelf from all areas of the world, some book spines were in Japanese, English, German, French, and some others Geus didn't recognize. And in the middle was a diamond orientation of fluffed up leather brown chairs and a circle coffee table between them all.

"You recognize this layout slightly don't you?" Nemoto asked.

"Yeah, other than the chairs it looks like my grandfather's study."

"Years ago before your grandfather's passing, he spent quite a bit of time here. Delegations between him, Overhaul, and Yakuza leaders took place here. I thought it would be great to spend our time here to really open your mind."

Nemoto walked to the back of the diamond chairs. His body faced slightly off center of the chair across from him but gave him straight eyesight to the door. Geus took the seat to the right of him, not willing to have his back to the door. As calm as everyone was, he was still tense against them all.

"Eri have a great affinity to you. How do you feel when she screams and struggles to fight for your arms?"

Right at the start, the questions were in fifth gear. He wanted to make Geus explode and he came pretty close. If it wasn't for the mask, balls of gas would hit the chair across from Geus. "I'm going to kill anyone that has ever grabbed her wrists. Whoever caused her to cry will be melted from the inside out."

"Is that your truthful answer?"

"Aren't you the one that can force this on me? No point of lying."

He chuckled and went to clean his glasses. "I sure do. But I want to see if I can trust you. Everyone lies to protect themselves and to give themselves an edge against the other. You though." He placed his glasses back onto his face and leaned forward in his chair. His elbows against his thighs and his hands gripped into each other. "You feel you already have the advantage without it, don't you."

Geus leaned forward and removed the mask. His upper lip was above his teeth. His tongue dug at the k9s, hitting the flesh against the tip. "Your aim is to make me stronger because you think you can break me. All this strength and you are here alone, with zero ability to fight. So naturally somebody else is here, I just can't see them yet. And you probably know how I perceive battles." Geus looked at the wall behind him. He had no proof or real idea of this room, but somebody was behind him. A gut feeling was the only thing on his side. "I'm a small dog with a big bark." He looked back. "I don't need to be under your quirk to say this. I won't probably ever try to kill you, I'll hesitate and freak out before I do. After all. I'm just a kid from abusive parents."

"Do you feel my quirk possessing you, or do you not care?"

"I liked it when I had my voices." Geus got up from his chair and walked around the room. "Because whenever I got scared beyond what my body's ability to move..." He stopped and turned to Nemoto. "They were there to tell me to go or stop. Now with all memories intact I fully understand, and I fucking hate it." Geus was at the chair closest to the door now. "I don't have anybody telling me what to do. If I'm scared and I stop, that it."

"At least with my quirk I can just get the answer out of you. Get to the point."

Geus starting laughing. "I was there the whole time!" His fingers grabbed the back of his head and clawed them forward. "I don't have that voice to tell me to lie! I do what I do now to survive because I'm scared!"

"You fear the heroes more than you fear us," Nemoto mumbled, now realizing Geus's true ideology. "You didn't fight because you hated villains or our views. You fought because of you're afraid of what the hero society would do to you if you didn't."

"I never met a villain I couldn't beat, I was raised to want to kill them all. At least they will just get what they want from you and leave you alone after. Dead or alive, it's quick. Heroes, they get what they want from you, then they strip you and use you as they want." Geus grabbed the chair and chucked it against the wall. "I will rather be dead than fall into their grasps again." He stepped toward Nemoto. Without a mask guarding his face, he revealed his true emotion. The fear inside his eyes showed it all, his arm reaching into his coat was extra. "Play the hero get what you want, play the villain get to be the puppet!"

"Didn't know it would take that long to reveal you're true colors."

Geus swung around; his beak wide open and a jet of gas blasted out from it. Tengai was out front of Chisaki and Rappa. His quirk activated the barrier around them before Geus's attack landed.

"Don't shoot," Chisaki ordered.

Geus swung back around at the shaky hand that held a gun at his face. Geus's eyes filled with purple and the sudden urge of gas overturned his body. Gas quickly went around his body and covered most of the ground with it.

"He's not going to attack us." Chisaki placed his hand on Tengai's shoulder. "Believe it or not I broke you. That hesitation in your body, the fear against me isn't there anymore. We'll visit the surface and give your aunt a visit. Five minutes. I wasted a week on something that could've been done in five minutes."