**Princess Gema's POV:**
**Gema:** What? Nicko, you’re the one who told me that running is not a solution.
**Nicko:** I’m not running, my lady. I’m just giving Greece what they demand: to retrieve the man who defeated King Agamemnon. Mycenae holds him for me…
**Gema:** Nicko! Don’t go…
I scream his name, desperately trying to stop him as he leaves the palace, planning to surrender himself to King Agamemnon.
**Nicko:** I promise, my lady, I will come back…
As Nicko disappears from my sight, I struggle to free myself from Mycenae, pleading him to let me go.
**Gema:** Please, Mycenae, he won’t survive alone.
**Mycenae:** But, Princess, he said he has a plan…
**Gema:** I don’t believe him.
**Mycenae:** All we can do is have faith in him and wait for his return.
As Mycenae and I argue about Nicko's plan to confront King Agamemnon, my father enters, shock evident on his face.
**Gema:** Father? What happened?
He looks down, unable to speak. I gently grasp his face, forcing him to meet my gaze.
**Gema:** Please, Father, tell me what happened to Nicko.
Overwhelmed by my please, he finally responds.
**King Zircon:** Nicko has left the city, along with King Agamemnon.
He looks away, unable to bear the weight of my reaction. Just as tears begin to well up in my eyes, Mycenae places a comforting hand on my back.
**Mycenae:** He’s a brave man, Princess…
**Nicko's POV:**
**King Agamemnon:** Hello, slave. Are you enjoying your ride back to my base?
He yelled while dragging me, tied up and pulled behind his chariot.
**King Agamemnon:** Wait until we reach the base. There, I will start the torture.
As we arrived on the shore where the Greek camp is located...
He tied me to a pillar and began to beat me with his clenched fists.
**Nicko:** Hmm...
I smiled, knowing he is ignorant of what I am capable of.
**King Agamemnon:** What are you smiling at, slave?
**Nicko:** You call this torture?
He continued to assault me, convinced that he was actually hurting me. King Agamemnon's so-called torture lasted until...
**Achilles:** Enough, Agamemnon!
**King Agamemnon:** Don’t interfere, Achilles. This slave must learn that it is unwise to incite the king's wrath...
**Achilles:** Don’t you understand, Agamemnon?
**King Agamemnon:** What?
**King Odysseus:** That he is invulnerable.
King Agamemnon looked at his bloodied fists, confused. He then stared at me and said:
**King Agamemnon:** No blood?
**King Odysseus:** Noble man? Tell me, what is your name?
**Nicko:** Nicko, Your Majesty.
**Achilles:** And what is your true name?
