WHO AM I TO JUDGE?

CHAPTER 53

"Find her immediately! If you can't return her by my side, I'll have your heads served in your family table!." Don Felipe angrily screamed at the guards in charge.

The guards went into panic mode, realizing that they had failed in securing the place. They tightened the security more. We on the other hand, placed Lady Yvonne at the dark part of the vent away from the public. With her eyes covered, mouth heavily taped, and her arms and feet properly secured. We left her there just in case.

Proceeding with the plan, we then went to Don Mattias Room. With the floor plan Meldy wrote, we successfully navigated  the whole place using the vents. But it wasn't  easy I'll tell you that much. It was covered with soot, dirt, dust and moist. It was also hot, making it difficult to move on.

"According here, this is the corner that will lead to Don Mattias's Room. What we are gonna do now is to again tie that man, just how we did it with Yvonne. We will make him as our hostage." I instructed them carefully.

We were about to enter his room, when we heard screams coming from the room where he was staying. I carefully removed the trapdoor to see what's going on but was soon surprised by the scene that I personally witnessed.

2 women naked tied up in an x shaped cross. Tied with leather belt, in both arms and feet. Standing there in front of them is Don Mattias, whipping them good with a whip. Both women were crying in pain, skins were torn, blood slowly trickling down their feet. It was horrible. I signaled them to go down the room. Then after we went down, Meldy ran towards him, giving Mattias the good old roundhouse kick in the face, without him noticing.

Wham

Don Mattias went down immediately, but he didn't lose consciousness. Meldy then attacked Don Mattias consecutively. Both her punch landing side to side, causing Don Mattias a lot of blood and bruises to accumulate in the face. I knew it was personal, she humiliated Meldy in front of his friends. I tried to stop her, but Hiroshi stopped me from doing so.

"Let her." Hiroshi said to me with a blank face.

"You are the rebels! Guaarr..d." Don Mattias tried to scream for distress. Meldy with no word left to say continued to assault Don Mattias. She then cried, with her hands both bloodied, covered her face with the bloody pair. Don Mattias on the other hand was still conscious, but was unable to resist and scream due to the beating that he got.

"What are we gonna do to him? He's in no condition." I asked Hiroshi.

"Something should be done to this kind of evil." Hiroshi replied.

With the knife in his side, he slashed Don Mattias's throat. Killing and putting him silently in his demise.

"He deserved that. He doesn't need mercy. Evil things must be sent back to where it came from."

Carefully from the back, I tried to assist Meldy from sitting in the floor. I tried to comfort her, trying to make her come back to her senses.

"Give me a minute." She said while wiping down the tears in her beautiful face.

I didn't bother to dispose Don Mattias's body, we just left him lying on the floor, bathing from his own blood. We also released the women from the cross, but they didn't make it. They were brutally tortured maybe for days that their body voluntarily surrendered to their end. I just prayed for their departure from this world. I knew that they didn't deserve the things that they've experienced.

"Let's go, before the guards come." Hiroshi suggested.

We escaped again using the vents. Crawling back to the dark with the point of moving forward. We were silently crawling, when suddenly a shot was heard not far from where we were. Holes formed from the vent. Lights from the room penetrated the dark tight space.

"Fuck! They're shooting the vents with gun. Fall back."

We were lucky enough to retreat and evade the barrage of bullets piercing through the thin metal base of the vent.

"Shoot every corner of the vents, I have a feeling that they are traveling through those tight spaces." The head guard commanded.

We were almost at the end and the barrage was still in progress, when I thought of leaving the vent.

"Quick, leave the vents! Open the trapdoors, let's go down."

The three of us didn't have the time to slowly descend from the trapdoor, we fell from the ceiling like an apple shaken from the tree.

Thud

Thud

"Ah Shit my back." Hiroshi grunts in pain.

I sprained my ankle from that fall. I focused from the pain, and immediately gazed my vision everywhere to see if a foe is around. Fortunately, there was no one in the room that we fell from. It was just a place filled with book and a fireplace. Meldy sprained her arms, and Hiroshi was injured in the back.

"Let's hide here for now. Let things heal. We cannot advance to the next play in this kind of state." I suggested.

"Better lock the door. The guards might find us here." Meldy suggested while pointing at the huge wooden door.

Hiroshi, with the strength left in him, locked the huge door.

"We are safe for now, Let's stay here for a while."

While groaning in pain, I can't help but notice the place that we were situated. It was filled with a lot of books and documents. In the middle was a big wooden table with a chair. With a big fireplace at the side. Despite the pain, I tried to see the things around me. I was just scanning some documents lying in the shelves, when a file caught my attention.

"Elibuende Gold Project."