The Exploiter (A Sword Art Online Fanfic)

Chapter 8:Torture

The guards banged their armoured fists against my door,rudely waking me up from my sleep."Just because you have a personal cell doesn't mean you can sleep till noon!"

"I'm up,I'm up!"I drunkenly yelled before falling out of my bed.I looked at the head jailer who walked out from behind the armoured men.He smiled at my discomfort,before stepping forward and opening my cell door.He walked around me and sat on my bed.

He dusted his coat."Well,sleeping beauty,your trial is in five days,and today,you will be taken to the black room.I wish you the best."He looked at me in pity in his eyes,and he got up from the bed.

"I suggest that you do what they ask you to quickly and without resistance.It will be much less painful that way."He quickly left the room,swishing his cape as he left."Wait,wait!What do you mean by that?"I slammed my fists against the bars of my cell,trying to get his attention.He stopped for a moment,and then quickly left.

"Come on.This isn't making my anxiety any better."I muttered.I got up and paced around my cell as I felt the unease in my stomach grow.This was not going to end well.

Soon,the sun set and night fell.As the moonlight fell on my face,I lay in my bed,trying to fall to sleep.I tossed and turned,and in the end I passed into an uneasy sleep.

Just as I was getting deeper into sleep,a thundering noise woke me up and almost gave me a heart attack.

"What...".I didn't even have time to react as a huge man punched me in the face before he put a sack on my head.I quickly threw a jab at where the man's head was,and I felt my fist connect with his face.The man grunted and stumbled back,while I grabbed a bit of wire from my desk and quickly dashed towards the exit.I smiled,thinking that I was leaving prison early.

I ran even faster down the hall,but it was not to last.A woman stepped out of the shadows and punched me right in the face,sending me reeling.As I held my face in pain,the woman kneeled down and placed a cloth against my nose.I felt the pain melt away as my consciousness faded away.
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I woke up with a hood on my head.It smelled of blood,vomit and bile,and it almost made me gag.The sound of angry voices and blades being sharpened distracted me from the revolting smell,and I focused on the conversation to prevent myself from throwing up.

"He's a troublesome one.He broke Gerald's nose,and almost escaped."A female voice said,sounding a bit annoyed.

"Yes.I can barely talk.It wil be best if we break him quickly."That was probably gerald.He sounded more dignified than I had had pictured a brute to sound.

The sound of the blade sharpening stopped and a stool fell over."I seems like our guest has woken up.Both of you,shut up!"The sound of conversation abruptly stopped,and I head the sound of metal tipped boots getting closer.

"Welcome,Y/N,to the black room.I will tell you how this works,so listen up."The mysterious speaker started.

"How do you know my name?"I asked.

My question was answered with a explosion of pain in my face as I felt a couple of my teeth come loose.I cried out in pain,spitting blood all over the hood.

"That's not how this works,boy.We ask the questions,you answer them in the way we want.So,answer them,only when we ask you to."

"Now,where was I?Oh,yes,I was going to explain what happens here before I was rudely interrupted.Here,you will give us a wriiten confession of your crimes,and you will plead guilty.If you don't,well,each day here will get more and more painful."

"I will let gerald and you get acquainted with each other now.Farewell.Now come along everyone,lets leave gerald to it."

I felt the rest of the people in the room leave as gerald shuffled forward.

"Please,confess.If you agree to do it,then we will both be able to leave this dreadful place.I will just take a few moments,and you will be free.It is better to stay in prison than go through this."

I chuckled."No,I don't think I will."

Gerald sighed."Please forgive me."

He punched me with his knuckles angled toward me,right at my face.I cried out in pain as felt my nose break.But he didn't stop there.He punched me again,and again,and again.Soon,blood pooled in my mouth and spilled out into the hood,staining it red.I soon lost my voice in the pain.

"Confess."Gerald tried again.

"No."I cried out as I spit out a couple of my teeth.

"Very well."

Gerald continued his onslaught against me for what felt forever.He finally stopped at sunrise."I suggest you get some sleep to prepare for tomorrow."He finally left,closing what seemed like a iron door behind him.

I thought it couldn't get any worse that that.I was wrong about that.Oh,so very wrong.