I laughed. “Well, I can neither deny nor confirm. Anyway, he gave dicine and when I ca to my senses, I was like this.”
“Are you saying he has developed a drug to treat the mind of the dium?”
“I don’t know. How would I know? It’s not like he likes enough to tell anything. I am just research subject to him. Maybe I am just special?” I smiled again. The blindfold slipped down and I could see a little of my surroundings. I also saw Antares studying with amusent. His red eyes were even more red than before but his appearance was different. He seed to have used transformation magic before. It was… unappealing to my senses.
“Special…,” he muttered. He didn’t seem to have believed . Perhaps it was strange to him that I, who had been fed the poison that he made, had survived against all odds.
He studied as though he was thinking of different experints to inflict upon by personage. I shuddered to think what he had in mind. Perhaps he didn’t know how to draw blood and study the components like Kaichen. That would be a blessing.
“That’s amazing. I’m sure the addiction wasn’t pleasant, but I didn’t expect you to have such a sane mind like this.”
“Exactly what part of looks normal to you?” I was trying to stall for ti. My hands were shaking so badly behind the chair that it even shook the chair where I was tied to. My headache was killing . The pain in my eyes was worse. I had forgotten how it felt because I had been taking my dicine for so long that it had worked wonders. It was harder now to bear it.
“Do you have nightmares?” asked Antares.
“Everyday.”
“What about sleep?”
“Ah, I can’t even rember when was the last ti I slept well.”
“How about your hand?”
“Can’t you see for yourself?”
“Do you have hallucinations or hear things?”
“I don’t know what a ‘hallucination’ is.”
“Do you feel the intense desire to do sothing?”
“I often binge eat.” Of course, it was all lies. Kaichen had always told that whenever I opened my mouth, only lies appeared. I wonder if that was true. I didn’t know what the truth was anymore.
Antares probably wanted to check the symptoms to gauge the progress of his poison on my mind. I knew for a fact that he was behind the epidemic in Acrab. Bastard! But why would he kidnap ?
“Well, it’s highly likely that the poison has mutated under the influence of the forbidden magic. But it’s amazing. I didn’t expect anyone to survive in the forbidden magic. What did you see and experience in it?”
“I don’t rember.”
“Seems like a lie.”
Suddenly everyone is a judge! You believed the lies that I told you till now! I frowned and groaned. “I really don’t rember. I was curious to find out myself but no matter what I do, my mory is fuzzy.”
“As with other prohibited magic, the dium of ti magic is bound to beco ruined. You don’t have an idea how valuable an experintal subject you are, do you? To the extent that even Kaichen did things he doesn’t like to seek your cooperation for his research. It would have been a great help if you could rember what exactly happened in the ti magic. You really don’t rember anything?”
Whether I’m a valuable experint subject or not, I have no intention of cooperating with anyone like Antares. I beca the subject of Kaichen’s research because he saved from the terrible ti magic. If I wasn’t grateful, I wouldn’t have agreed to becoming a test subject at all. Cooperating with Antares? I would rather just drop dead.
“Yes… I can’t really rember anything.”
“It’s a sha. But don’t worry, I have so drugs that can dig up your mories,” he said. “I will make you rember everything.”
“No, I am fine as I am.”
Antares approached with a dicine from his shabby desk. This bastard was a black magician! Obviously, he would have thought of sothing like this! The bright-red liquid in the vial he brought with him didn’t look too good. The drug that shattered the mind to unearth forgotten mories didn’t sound very safe.
I made a mistake and I will die for it. It was too late now. I struggled but Antares was strong. He opened the vial and grabbed my mouth and poured it down my throat. I could feel his fingers prying my lips open. I felt disgusted. How dare he put his dirty finger on my mouth?
It looked like liquid but it didn’t go down my throat smoothly. It felt slimy and jelly-like. I tried to spit it out but Antares forced my mouth shut and I swallowed. Tears sprang in my eyes. It tasted terrible! I was disgusted. I retched.
“Ugh! Uck!” I wanted to throw up but the stuff was already gone. My heart, which had pounded so hard, began to race overti as though it was going to explode. I felt like I was going to have a seizure or a heart attack.
I gasped for breath. My body heated up. My heart palpitations beca worse. The headache was so bad that it felt like my head would explode. My eyes throbbed. I groaned in pain as my body twisted. The ropes cut into my skin as I struggled. I was still tied to the chair. I grabbed the armrest of the chair to calm myself but this was too overwhelming. It hurt so much. It felt like my vital organs had twisted themselves and turned upside down inside my body. I couldn’t breathe properly. It was ridiculous that the pain would be so bad.
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