Ch 10: Unexpected end of Leo

Some minutes later, Leo found himself tied to a chair, his hands bound tightly behind him as blood was trickling from his wounds. Lucifer sat beside him, gripping Mina's hair, and the scene was illuminated by the dim light of a lantern.

With each moment, Lucifer gained a series of hatred points but for now, he ignored it.

Mina spat, her voice trembling with defiance as she clawed at Lucifer's hand, desperate to break free. "Why? Why are you doing this?" she shouted desperately.

 "You'll pay for this, you monster! One day you will gonna die dog death, hope even worse!"

Slap!

Lucifer gave another hard slap, not to the girl but to Leo's face, pointing his finger at him, "Because of this fucker…I only know how much I have endured… do you think I would be happy? Or shall I start dancing for the agony that I had endured?" Lucifer replied coldly, tightening his grip on the girl's hair even more.

"Ahhhh…" the girl screamed in pain, trying to fight back, but it was no use.

Leo just watched the scene unable to do anything as his exhaustion was washing over him and pain coursing through his body. He gritted his teeth, his face bruised and bloodied from Lucifer's relentless assault. The wounds on his body were hastily bandaged, a cruel gesture that seemed to prolong his suffering rather than alleviate it.

Lucifer leaned in closer, his voice dripping with malice. "What is the reason behind your betrayal? Reply truthfully, or you will have to endure another painful season," Lucifer taunted sarcastically, pointing the broken stick at Leo.

Leo remained silent, his mind racing with lots of thoughts. Every second felt like an eternity to him, while Lucifer's patience was getting out of his control, so with that, he moved the stick closer to Mina's neck, the sharp tip grazing her skin, ready to draw blood.

"Heee" Lucifer smiled evilly.

Seeing this, Leo's rage boiled over, almost vomited out of anger with hatred. His eyes blazed with fury as he roared. "MF Lucifer… DON'T TOUCH HER… DAMN YOU!"

The tension in the room was palpable, a thick fog of despair and dread hanging in the air as the three of them faced the abyss of their twisted fates.

"Please, do whatever you want to me, just let her go," Leo begged, his voice filled with desperation. "Money, a target, anything… I'll do anything you say. Just let her go."

"No… no…" Mina whimpered, biting and scratching at Lucifer, her fear turning to frantic desperation. But Lucifer barely flinched, his expression remaining cold and unyielding.

"I'll ask you one last time. Speak truthfully, or you'll regret it," Lucifer warned, pressing the stick's tip into Mina's neck just enough to draw blood. "Tell your boyfriend to cooperate, or you both won't get another chance."

"Say it, Leo…. you fcking useless MF prick…" Mina Yelled at Leo. Her body was shaking from the fear.

Bam!

Lucifer's boot connected with Leo's face, sending a wave of pain through him. "Speak!" Lucifer demanded, his voice a deadly whisper. "Do you think this is some kind of game? One more word of silence, and she'll suffer for it nastily. You don't want to see what happens next."

Leo was helpless. Regret flooded his mind as he wondered… Why he had ever made a deal with that black-dressed person? Why he had gotten into this mess? Why he had dared to cross paths with this devil? Each question was a knife to his heart, he couldn't answer any of these questions; only regret filled his heart.

"Okay..wait. I will tell you everything … everything I know" In the end, Leo finally decided to tell whatever he knew, hoping to mix truth with lies to satisfy the devil before him.

However, Leo didn't know that if he did, he had to bear another consequence.

"Someone.. Arrgggg…"

'Huh?' Leo felt something wrong with his body as he began to answer Lucifer, but he thought that it was because of Zerax's beating, nothing else. Well, he was wrong this time too.

"S.some.one.. G..Gave me... Money t.t.t.to..to kill... kill…Y,"

But before revealing the reason behind his actions. His face turned green, and after that, he started vomiting out a white-like substance. After making some movement, he died on the spot.

"…"

This situation even startled both onlookers, Lucifer and Mina.

"Kyyyyaaaa.. Le…Leo… wake up BITCH. What happened to you?..damn it.. Fuckkkk, no, no, no, If you die, who gonna be my dog? Who will seek revenge on this damn psycho?" the girl started to scream out of shock, shaking Leo's body in an attempt to wake him up.

However, her attempt was useless as Leo was already dead, making the girl crazily mad.

Driven mad by despair, she charged at Lucifer, blaming him for the tragic scene. She was so mad that she did not think about the consequences of her actions.

Lucifer remained still, his eyes cold and unyielding. From the beginning, he did not want to spare those who messed with him. He had been forced to do a lot of dirty work to survive, and this was not his first attempt to murder, which would make him shake out of his core.

Villains were not born… They were made by society and the world itself.

As for forgiving the one who messed with him? He did not have that kind of word in his dictionary.

In this world, where the law of the jungle resided, one misstep could lead you to the tiger's den, so every step needed to be calculated.

Seeing how Leo died, Lucifer pondered, thinking about the bigger picture and the other possibilities behind the scenes. He knew he had to eliminate all threats to secure his future.

'I need to make haste'

He also knew that the journey ahead was a lonely road, and this choice was his own. He did not care about anything other than himself.

The girl, named Mina, whose eyes were full of anger and madness, charged toward Lucifer without thinking. Would Lucifer spare? Fuck no… Equality matters. Even if he wanted to spare her, he couldn't after seeing how Leo died. He now guessed that the main culprit was not Leo, he was just a pawn. The main culprit was hidden in the shadow and that person must be powerful, as that person was playing this game like a hide and seek.

"Hmmm.." Lucifer did not want any hindrance to his journey, so, without mercy.

Puchiii

He pierced deeply and smoothly into the girl's neck, killing her instantly and trying to give her a smooth death.

Thud

With a thud, the girl's body fell to the ground, motionless.

Blood spread on the floor. Two dead bodies lay in the same room. If other people saw this tragic scene, their inner cores would have been shaken from the bottom of their hearts.

Lucifer glanced around, his expression hardening. The negative effect he felt from this event? His hand was shaking a little bit, but not much that might lose his composer. He knew that in this ruthless world, mercy was a luxury he couldn't afford.

Revenge was the path he chose, so forgiveness wouldn't gonna happen.

With each decision, no matter how brutal, he was going to take a step forward, ensuring his survival and achieving his goal, 'to become stronger'.

In this world, only the strong could survive here. As for the weak? These two people would be a testimony.