Chapter 53 Half-Masked Girl
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A half-masked girl clothed in black crop top and shorts. Her blonde hair flows down her mid-back as scar run down on her left side from her ribs and disappear below her shorts.
Her red lips curled in disgust as her gloved hands formed a fist and her black boots clicked on the hard floor as she walks further towards the chained woman. The chained woman looks around the room and saw a table laid out on the left corner. Various types of torturing device laid on it watching her.
"I don't like wasting my time on some shameful liar. So, let's get to business, Yeah?" She asked, her dark tone practised.
"Here's the rules. I got to hit you if you refused to answer my question and I hoped you'll do so. It ain't fun if you give up too soon, aye?" The blonde walked to the table; her fingers were hovering above a few weapons as she bit her lip in excitement.
"I can't wait to decorate you-Aah! My favourite!" She pulls out the blade and turns towards the chained woman.
"Tell me. What do you know about Keith, and how are you involved with him?" She asked, sliding the tip of the blade on the chained woman's throat.
"Ah, my bad," She removes the blade from the woman's throat. Her mouth formed a malice smile seeing the woman's gulps.
"I don't know what you're talking about," The chained girl rasped out.
"Yes! That's my girl! You never forgot who you are, don't you?" The blonde's tone turns bitter.
The chained girl heart thumped as she cursed mentally as she was growing aggravated by the blonde's presence. She falls into the men's trap. Her mind had been forming a plan on how she would track them down and annihilate them for betraying her. The mere presence of the blonde doesn't scare her. She had been holding herself back from showing her real emotions.
"You better let me go before I break this damn chain myself and cut your head-Agh!" Her words were cut short when the blonde landed a hard blow on her stomach. It knocked her breath for a second.
She breathed slowly before lifting her head up and was shocked, seeing the hate in the girl's eyes. Her face was very closed, she could see the snarled on the blonde's lips. The blonde grabbed her jaw with force as she breathed heavily.
"Who are you?" The chained girl asked.
"Someone you shouldn't have had tried to mess with in the first place," The blonde spitefully answered as she let go of the girl's face.
Her tight face slowly returns back to normal.
"Oh, Come on, Emi. This isn't fun. You already forget me that soon?" She twirled the blade on her hand as she sent the chained girl a sinister smile.
"Let's get this straight, blonde. I don't know who you are and you don't know me. So, just let me go, yeah?" The chained girl negotiated.
"Plus, why would you do something like this? You seem like a sweet girl. Let me go, and I'll find you a better job, deal?" She added.
"Aaagh!"
The chained girl words make the blonde screams in rage. She threw the blade on the floor before lunging towards the chained girl and started throwing punches and kicks.
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" She beats the chained girl who groaned at the pain she felt on her body.
Her hands struggle to slip away from the chain only to end up bruising and cutting her skin. She bit her lip when her head tilted to the side after receiving a blow from the blonde's kicks. Her lungs struggle to breathe without igniting the pain on one of her possibly broken ribs.
The blonde finally stopped after she ran out of breath. Unsatisfied, she walks towards the table, pulling out the electric shock device. She walks towards the chained girl, pinning the device on her stomach.
"Ready?" She asked with a crazed smile on her face.
Then, she turned the device on causing the chained girl's body to tremble as she gritted her teeth in agony. The blonde stopped a few seconds before she repeated her torture a few more times. The chained girl was out of breath as sweat dripped down her body. She struggled to keep her feet on the ground as the chain is digging into her bruised skin with her body slumping.
"Liar," The blonde slapped her once, twice before picking the baseball bat on the table.
"Fucking liar," She hit the chained girl's leg and sigh, hearing the small scream escaping her victim's mouth.
She throws the baseball bat on the floor before picking up her blade.
"Your name-" She cut the skin of her right arms.
"Your family-" She slices the blade on her thigh, satisfied seeing blood gushed out from the cut.
"Your money-" She cut the skin on her shoulder.
"Lies. All lies," She said before sticking the blade onto one of the chained girl's thigh.
The girl's screamed in agony at the pain she's experiencing. She knows. She knows the blonde is a natural torturer. She knows, and she remembers where she comes from. Who the blonde is, where the blonde come from, her parent and her status. She knows who made her become like this. The childhood friend she sympathized, she lied to, and she left behind.
Flashback
The brown hair Seven-year-old girl is playing on the playground with her friends, Lola and Mina when she saw a lonely girl sitting on the bench along with a rabbit doll on her left arm.
She approached the girl who looks like she had the same age as her.
"Your rabbit doll is cute," She said.
"Thanks," The blonde little girl said shyly.
"Wanna play with us?" The brown hair girl pulled out her hand for the blonde to take.
The blonde look at the hand for a long time before her hand reach up to take it. They play together happily that day and become close friend immediately.
"I'm Emi," The brown hair girl said when it was time to go back home.
"I'm Selena," The blonde smiles.
They often come to the park to play together, eat and chat together. They had so much fun. They even attend fun events for kids together. They share what they have. They were like sisters.
Selena had told Emi that she comes from a poor family. Her parent is pleased when they know she had a friend. Before, they had been scolding her for not even having one friend to play for.
So, Emi lied about her name, her family, her status and her money. Saying, she too comes from a poor family. Until one day, her family had to move out of town because of her parent's work. Selena saw her inside the expensive car when she was going back home from the park wandering why Emi didn't come as usual.
Emi waved goodbye, but Selena only watched her disappear along with the car with a blank look on her face. Her rabbit doll had fallen out of her arm. She goes home and saw her parent's in the living room, waiting for her. Her rabbit doll is nowhere to comfort her from her parent's presence.
End of flashback
"Selena," Vale rasped out.
"Valentina fucking Rodriguez," Selena slapped Vale's cheeks hard.
Her cheek felt numbs, and her lips were bleeding. Her eyes bloody shot. She was sweating from the heat, and her clothes ripped.
"You fucking liar!" Selena grabbed Vale's jaw hard before she pushed her head back harshly.
"You ruined my life," She stated as removes her mask.
"I'm sorry-" Selena cut her off.
"No, you don't! You shouldn't have approached me that day. Maybe, then I would still have my family," Her tone was bitter.
"I'm sorry-"
"Stop saying sorry if you don't mean it, you fucking liar!" Selena grabbed Vale's hair and pulled it hard, satisfied seeing Vale's pained expression.
"Thanks to you, my parent's disowned me and sold me to a fucking criminal like parent's," She laughed at the fact as she pushed Vale's head away.
"Thanks to them, I got to explore something I liked. Unlike you, they didn't lie about who they are and look where I am now," Selena stepped into Vale's face.
"Here, torturing the liar who ruined my life," She gave a mocking laugh as she moved away.
"Look, I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean to lie to you. I don't want you to stay away and hate me just because I'm rich. I just want you to be comfortable with me. I'm really sorry for everything," Vale explained.
"Shut up!"
Vale screamed as Selena pulled out the blade on her thigh and stabbed the bloody razor onto her other leg.
Selena pulled the knife back and put it on Vale's throat, looking at her with hatred while Vale screamed at the pain on both of her legs.
"Now, now. Don't cry yet. We're not done here. Tell me, what do you know about Keith, and how are you involved with him?"
The tip of the sharp object digs onto her skin as she breathes slowly. Hoping someone would come and save her. It's been too long. She didn't want to die-no, she can't die yet.
"Why would you ask me something I didn't know myself?" She asked, leaning her head as far away as possible from the blade on her neck.
"Your lie doesn't work anymore, Emi. Tell me, or I'll kill you now, and I'll burst Keith's brains out for real this time so our gang can take over his. Oh, don't tell me you didn't know he's a gang leader of a gang?"
Vale's closed her eyes, not wanting Selena to read her expression. So, Selena is the one who had tried to kill Keith once. The thought of it enraged her, and she wanted to strangle the woman in front of her. Remembering that she is the one beaten up to a pulp, her rage risen up more.
"You should know by now. I don't think twice about killing someone. So, you better open your mouth if you want to live," Selene push the blade unexpectedly on Vale's stomach.
Black dotes appeared when Selena pull out the blade and hold it up as the blood on it trickles to the ground.
Vale locked her mouth shut as she gives Selena a mysterious smile.
"It looks like you still don't know who I really am,"
Her eyes turn dark for a second, causing Selena to step back as shiver run down her spine.
Gathering up her courage, she raised the blade high before lunging it down towards Vale.
