The Crystal Swordsman Side-Stories

Imprisonment Extended

Suddenly, the locks all unclicked and the double doors swung open with a creak. Dae stepped in first and two others followed behind him. They approached K's cage and Dae just stared with his fists clenched.

"Open it." He ordered.

The two Salamander soldiers scrambled to open the cage gates which Dae just walked immediately thru. K still hung his head.

"Look at me." Dae ordered.

K didn't move an inch.

"Look at me!" Dae reeled back and kicked him in the face with his plated shin.

K recoiled from the hit but again, stayed stiff.

"You wouldn't be so tough if Sinon were in your place." Dae knew just what to say.

K slowly brought his head up until his piercing red gaze found Dae's face. The glow subtly grew, a minor detail to some but a significant one in terms of his power. K was losing his cool.

"Ah, good. You're listening." Dae enjoyed his position of power.

He back handed K across the face with his metal plated gauntlet. He knelt in front of him and moved K's hair out of his face, gripping it in a tight knot.

"Give me the Usurper." Dae ordered.

K glared and spat in his face. Dae recoiled and wiped it before standing up and driving his metal knee into K's nose. He did so with his other knee and alternated a few times.

"Stop! Stop! Just leave us alone!" Asuna's PTSD was kicking in and she wasn't handling this setting well.

K immediately turned to look at us after the beatdown.

"Shut up, Asuna." K negated from his fogged mind.

The sudden malice towards us caused a shift in the room.

"Turning on each other already? How entertaining." Dae took pride in the little event he had created.

"Remember who you're fighting against, K." Kirito didn't like his tone.

"You shut up too. All of you shut up. This man is a master manipulator." K glared at us for a moment, then back to Dae. 

"Looks who's been paying attention." The red haired man said before hooking K across the jaw.

K's head turned and he spat onto the floor.

"You make a good punching bag. I'll have to make a note of that." Dae opened and closed his fist while rubbing his plated knuckles.

"Dae. Where's the Usurper?" Eugene entered in the open doorway of the prison.

"Dumbass still has it." Dae dusted off his hands.

"This will only get more difficult if you resist." Eugene scorned.

"You idiots don't seem to realize that even if I wanted to give up the Usurper willingly, I can't access my inventory." K explained in a condescending way.

Eugene stormed right up to K within the cage.

"Will you relinquish it?" He looked down at him.

"It'd be a waste of everyone's time trying to convince you." K peeked up at Eugene, eyes still flaring red.

Eugene just back handed K and turned away.

"Do what you must." He barked before leaving and having the prison doors shut behind him.

"You hear that? I get to have my fun!" Dae exclaimed to K before approaching us while rubbing his hands together.

"Tell me, K. Which do you like best? I know you're attracted to all of them." Dae said as he ran a finger along each of our stomachs while he walked past us all.