When it was very late at night in the outskirts of Novis, Camille arrived at the warehouse where Dante was waiting with the unconscious police captain.
The handler brought along Detective June, as she believed the girl deserved to be there, a few mbers of the Alpha Team, and Paige, who would take care of the torture.
As Captain Slacks was stripped of his clothes and left in his underwear, he was tied to a tal chair in the center of the warehouse.
*Splash!* A mber of the Alpha Team dumped a bucket of cold water on the man, making him gasp loudly as he abruptly opened his eyes.
"What…!? Where am I!?" Slacks shouted.
"Silence!" Camille yelled back, showing her face to the man.
"You… The Winter bitch—ugh!" the man said, instantly getting punched in the face by the Alpha Team mber standing beside him.
"That's alright. He can call whatever he wants… It's not like he is going to be talking to anyone ever again after this," Camille said, her gaze cold and severe.
The captain widened his eyes slightly, realizing the situation he was in, and turned to look back at the handler.
"We've worked together in the past, right?" Camille asked.
"Well, you didn't work directly with , but you did with my father," she continued.
"You know what's crazy? I only just learned recently why my father suddenly changed his attitude…" Camille said, turning to look at Dante.
"What do you think? Is he corrupted?" the woman asked the warlock.
However, Dante had already analyzed the man's body, and he could confirm that Captain Slacks was NOT under Nihilor's mind control.
"I see…" Camille muttered, lowering her gaze with anger.
"He did all of this willingly," the handler continued.
As Paige and the Alpha Team mbers prepared the table with all the torture tools that the scientist needed, the captain got more agitated and raised his voice.
"Wait, wait. I have a family to take care of!" Slacks shouted, making Camille raise an eyebrow in disbelief.
"All of those missing people had families, too, but you didn't think twice about feeding them to a monster," the handler replied, her stone-cold voice slicing through the air.
The captain gritted his teeth. "You stupid bitch! I'm the captain of the police—Do you think you can get away with this!?" he shouted, receiving another punch in the face that knocked out a tooth.
"Let's start with an easy question… Where is Alice?" Camille asked.
"Heh, I don't know—ugh!" the captain got punched in the gut.
June and Dante were watching from the dark side of the warehouse, away from the man's gaze, and the warlock noticed the sad umbra flowing from the detective.
Paige began torturing the man for answers, starting with the nails in his hands. However, even after taking an entire hand's worth of nails, the captain didn't want to speak.
When the scientist asked for the captain's underwear to be removed, two cables were connected between his legs, making the man cry out horribly in pain.
After a little over forty-five minutes of torture, Captain Slacks decided to tell them how he got to that position.
Slacks worked closely with Camille's father during the Jade Dragons' era. Although they weren't friends, they didn't have a bad relationship.
That's how the captain ended up eting Sabelio, who went to him after leaving the Jade Dragons and asked him to join a cult.
At first, Slacks was skeptical and thought about denying Sabelio's invitation, thinking that the man had gone crazy.
However, as a police officer, he decided to check it out in case he needed to get involved, so he accepted Sabelio's invitation as a way to infiltrate the cult.
Captain Slacks was blindfolded and taken into the back of a car that drove him to an unknown cathedral, taking his blindfold off once he was inside.
When Slacks first t the demon Astaroth, he felt incredible fear that prevented him from uttering a word to the monster.
Astaroth promised that the people in their cult would live promising lives. Nobody would be able to take them down, as the demon proclaid himself one of the kings of hell.
The captain didn't know what to do. He knew that he was no match for the demon, even if he called for reinforcents.
Before he was taken back to the precinct, Astaroth showed his interest in the captain, saying that they needed a smart man working with them.
The demon could see the captain's umbra, so he knew that the man had the potential to beco a powerful ally to them—He was simply indecisive.
Nonetheless, when Astaroth showcased his powers and destroyed a building with one spell, Slacks understood that there was nothing that could match the demon's strength, so he decided to join them in order to stay safe.
As ti passed and the Jade Dragons were exterminated, the captain slowly beca an Astaroth fanatic, genuinely believing that he could reach greater heights if he worked for the demon.
When a group of the gang called Red River was suddenly eliminated the night Dante arrived in their world, the captain called Detective Alice and June to take care of it. Not because he wanted to find the culprits but because they were ssing with Astaroth's business.
June clenched her fists with anger, realizing she had been used as a pawn by one of the people she trusted the most.
"It's unfortunate… They were both good detectives," Slacks comnted, prompting June to co out of the shadows.
"June…!" the captain said, his eyes widened in disbelief.
"You… You piece of shit!" June shouted, punching the man hard in the face and splashing his blood on the tal chair.
*Ptoo* Slacks spat out more blood. "Is that a way to treat your ntor?" he asked.
"Shut the fuck up!" *Slam!* June scread in anger, closing her fists so tightly that her arms shivered, striking Slacks nurous tis in the face.
The rest of the people present in the warehouse didn't say a word, allowing the woman to vent her frustrations on the captain.
They had gotten his side of the story, but there was still vital information that they needed to extract from him, so Camille reminded the rookie detective to go easy, as they couldn't have the man die on them so quickly.
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