Chapter 63: Coming for Answers but Finding more Questions Instead

[Loki's POV]

"Now, we wait."

In a room with just a scant amount of light just enough for a person to see a meter spherical radius of a normal human, a brother and sister is in wait, staring at a fairy chained in a crimsom glowing ropes.

The two are not normal, for, even in front of nothing but just a flickering torch, they can clearly see the face of the fairy, a face that indicates childishness and power at the same time, a very bizarre persona and quite attractive for both me and my sister and if only she have a more ample proportions here and there, then she might get laid by my sister immediately upon sight.

The room is filled with many torture materials, iron maiden, guillotine, butcher knives, acids, whips, dildos, vibrators...

Well, you can already guess what's the use of the last two items, all of those items are scattered around with blood that already clotted in the edges of the blades and spikes, while the acids are still mostly intact, naturally, no one can withstand being burned with acid alive so they gave up immediately, no matter who they are.

The room originally have a bloody smell but the maids made it so that the room will smell like lavander, and as you might expect, they don't want to touch the torture devices. As a safety measure after their rather sloppy clean up, I erased their memories to avoid this place being leaked to the public.

The two of us looked at Idun continuously with complicated expression, not knowing wether to be angry at her for allegedly betraying me or be angry on ourselves for not knowing her better and trusting her blindly for hundreds of years.

Being friends with her and to the Marchenwald family in general, the three of us are like forced to be friends and just became genuine ones because our personality is not like a bratty noble one, I mean if we can toss fireballs as big as my adult size, why would we need to be arrogant?

I mean who would dare to not know us, the members of two royal families in the first place?

Going back, our friendship dated back when we are very young and as we grew up, we saw each other's development, we saw my sister demanding a maid to have sex with her and the maid ends up being her first lover with heart shaped pupils, they saw me marrying an elf, Vanir that is 50+ older than me when I was 19 year old... Well, already an adult but still a teen, but don't worry about it too much.

And, even though Idun didn't really changed much and still annoying, we saw her instances, a very little amount of it that it can counted in my right fingers that she snapped and her childish persona was wiped out and opened a can of ass whopping to multiple opponents that actually managed to enrage her.

She was horrifying, just how you imagined her laughing like a child, just reverse that imagination and imagine her like a wolf roaring in the top of her lungs and killing people, that's how people who, if can be considered fortunate enough to see her wrathful visage saw a limited amount of time.

Such time was, for example the time when she fought her mother, for some reason that she kept a secret for us and for her subordinates, she is very angry even though she took it upon herself to end the seclusive nature of fairies by dreaming of establishing a nation.

In short, Of course, as a future Ruler, she have a terrifying amount of power, but then, still we didn't knew that we will ever see her in a very hostile manner that we have to tie her up and directly question her.

I cannot help but shook my head in confusion and irritation in this situation, damn, being left in the dark is what I hate the most. I want to know everything everyone around me is doing and I don't appreciate being betrayed, if only I don't have this tingling hunch that this betrayal is not simply a betrayal, I would have just fought her to death right here right now.

Just what in the world happened in the backstage of the War of the Rulers that even I, who prides himself as a master manipulator didn't know?

Sigh... How annoying this feeling of stupidness is.

Thirty minutes in total have just passed as I contemplated about this things and suddenly Idun's eyes abruptly opened, the whites of her green colored eyes are bloodshot looking at the two of us in a shifting haste as she gritted her teeth and a green colored aurora that have crimson colored stains by the ends of it washed throughout the room, she tried to remove her shackles but miserably failed.

"LOKI! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO LIBRA!? WHY IS HE WEAK!? WHY IS HIS LIFE FORCE IN THE VERGE OF BEING EXTINGUISHED!?"

I used some of my powers and put her once again in place, my sister removed her shackles, her eyes started to regain their original color and her gritted teeth started to smile nervously and some sweat lingered in her forehead and neck.

Of damn, its the same ol' Idun.

"Ey, why would you choose a reunion spot in one of your torture chambers?"

She smiled awkwardly, shuffling his head around the place looking at the torture devices up and down left and right.

I just gave a smile, pulling her chin and and making her face, face in front of mine.

"Well, this place is just enough for a future former friend turned mortal enemy, right?"

She looked at me and and looked at the ground, her eyes turning sharp once again in unrecognizable shift of emotions.

"Well, let's start the interrogation, shall we?"

My sister just watched us in her chair... A simple wooden chair without expression, it seems like she will leave all of this to me and I would be more than grateful of her gesture.

"Do as you like, though I am sure I won't answer most of your questions..."

I ignored Idun's rambling and proceeded with the interrogation, I didn't beat around the bush, after all, all of us knew what I am here for, so I bluntly asked.

"Why did you erased portions of my memories?"

"I have the right to remain silent, anything that comes out of my mouth can be used against me."

Idun, with a simple smile, said without even her facial expression budging. Veins started to pop out in the sides of my forehead, I gulped down my wrath and continued the questioning.

"Why did you used your right to remain silent? Do you have secrets that will be troublesome for me to know?"

She blinked twice, and once again, without batting an eye, answered.

"Yes, there are."

Holy shit.

I remained calm in the surface but already is raging inside, this person is actually using my lie detection ability as her own shield, hostility can be measured in an interrogation when the other party is lying, the problem is, she's not lying and is telling the truth and thus I cannot exactly tell that she's hostile because she didn't lied, but I cannot also say that she's in the green because she don't want to answer my question. So she remains in the gray.

"What happened in those memories you have erased?"

I just let out a sigh and let all of it slide, calming myself, I proceeded to the next question.

"Hmm... I guess I can answer that... Let's see..."

She put her index finger in her chin and looked at the ceiling, a second later, Idun put her index finger in the air and opening her lips, she said.

"Some of those memories are... How your wives died. This is to prevent you from killing anything alive in front of your eyes the moment you woke up... And some are... Erm..."

"Troublesome for me to know?"

"Yes, yes, atleast for now, you cannot know."

I raised my brows and her expression immediately turned grim and her face have an: "me and my big fucking mouth!" written all over it.

"For now...?"

"My right to remain silent, my right."

"Yeah, yeah, your right to remain silent, I know."

I looked at her and continued examining her and I can say that its annoying to question smart asses, she is certainly in the gray and she can keep it that way by knowing what to answer in all of the question I have hurled. Honestly, I cannot kill her even though she can be a great threat because also, in the reverse, she can become a great ally because surely, those six in the banquet hall back in Camelot are already stirring shit up in their territory.

However, to ensure things I have one last question for her.

"Idun, you're still my friend (ally) right?"

Idun gave a smile, a genuine one and said.

"Yes, I am."

I loosened my face and smiled, she's not lying, suddenly the door in my chamber room slammed opened and a Libra with hole punched through his chest, roped all around in a turtle shell bondage art can be seen.

Hey, why does he know how to do bondage arts, I didn't remembered teaching any of my children those S and M techniques. I ignored it for a while and made an order, in Filipino.

"Patayin mo at gamitin ang kanyang mukha." (Translation: Kill him and use his face.)

That language is from a country in Hiroshi's original world and I learned it in my little adventure in there as a code language for my wives, children and my spies. I am not sure if I will ever go back to that place, more importantly that fast food chain with delicious fried chicken... Oh I derailed from the topic.

"Okay...?"

Aragorn pretended to be confused, but he nodded silently while Idun is looking at me like an idiot. Well, she's the idiot one because I just said to someone to murder his child and use his face to be a double spy but didn't even knew about it.

Idun looked at Libra and asked.

"Hey, are you training your male children to be a horny fuck like you?"

I just shook my head.

"No, Aragorn is gay, that's why he became a splendid double spy with Virgo's face."

Idun made a sagely nod, not bothering about the double spy stuff while muttering: "So that's why he bondaged Libra."

After that, Idun grabbed Libra and bid farewell.

But before then, she spouted a simple message.

"You should start with Camelot."

My sister looked at me and also left, making me deal with my own problems, only living my son and I. He immediately pounced into me as tears flowed out of his eyes dribbling out of his cheeks.

"I MISS YOU FATHER!"

He bowled like a child with hiccups in between, I just patted his head an said: "I am back, sorry for using you as a double spy."

Such a warm seen unfolded in a place that was supposed to be cold and after an hour of crying, my son stood up and immediately said.

"Father, by the way. I... Have something to report, and I found it strange, it is about Idun's behavior."

Oh, this child lost his respect towards Idun huh, well cannot blame him, really, even I is starting to lose the sense of brotherhood between us, that much is normal.

His eyes glowed and a three dimensional projection appeared, it happened the moment Idun finished her mother and I was sealed.

Idun dashed out battered in bruised, blood all over her face to the place in which is Arachne is rampaging and is about to die because of her reckless abandon, she hugged her enduring the poison enroaching her body and dashing out of the battlefield.

She then put Arachne in her territory and sealed the territory off out of anyone's reach.

That's it, and its very strange, look if she really wants to seal Arachne, then why not just make her stay in our territory? Like how Pandora put me near Valentine instead of her Queendom so that her people will not suffer for the consequences. Why did she not do that and instead wants Arachne to be threat to her own life?

Its as if... She wants to risk her life so that I will come to her rescue at that time...

Damn, I came for answers, but instead got more questions.