Leon covered Alexei"s mouth with a metal mask and then burned the wounds to stop the bleeding. Again, Alexei trembled, and he tried to scream, but no sound came. Leon thought that he would have more fun torturing Alexei like that, but he didn"t. As expected, he couldn"t bring himself to enjoy tormenting others.

After making sure that Alexei wouldn"t do anything, Leon untied Yuki. Although she was still awake, she didn"t move an inch even after noticing Leon"s arrival. She didn"t care about anything anymore. Leon had failed miserably, and Alexei had caused unbelievable trauma to Yuki"s mind.

"Sorry, I"m late," Leon said.

Again, Yuki didn"t react to Leon"s words. At that point int time, it wouldn"t be weird if Yuki decides to die by starving to death. So, Leon decided to give her a few alternatives.

"Shall I end your life for you?" Leon asked. "I already failed on my mission; I"m sure that another failure won"t change anything. In your current situation, you won"t be able to a.s.sume your father"s work, so perhaps you shouldn"t return to j.a.pan… if you are lucky, when you die, you will reunite with Makoto. The question is, would he like to see you die so soon?"

"Shut up… What do you know?" Yuki murmured.

"I don"t know anything; I"m just telling your options," Leon said. "You can die here by my hands, and I will make sure you won"t feel anything or keep living and enduring the pain while you try to do what your father wanted to do. Anyway, you don"t have to decide now. You can think about it while I solve a few problems."

Leon looked around and found several interesting things, magic weapons, a refrigerator, a closet, a desk, and a cellphone. He also found the gloves he lent to Makoto. Leon smiled because that would make things much easier. Leon picked the cellphone, one of his steel spears, and approached Alexei. At that point in time, most of the pain he felt disappeared thanks to the recovery, but Leon managed to break his will again by piercing Alexei"s cheek a little with his spear.

"Do you have someone working for you who can contact every single person involved in the operation to kidnap Yuki?" Leon asked.

Alexei nodded several times; he was so scared that he was even crying… despite that, Leon only felt shame, to think that such a pathetic person caused so many problems to him… it was humiliating.

"You will call that person and make them call every single person who was involved in the mission," Leon said. "Give the order for them to wait at the entrance of the building and only to enter when all of them arrive. If I notice that you are plotting something… I will make good use of those gloves and pierce my spear in your a.s.s."

Alexei nodded as if he could see Leon forgiving him if he cooperates. Imagining easily what he was thinking, Leon felt the urge to smash his head against the floor, but he held back his anger. Then Leon took off the steel mask.

"Please, please! I will become your ally, subordinate, or even your dog!" Alexei said. "But please spare my life!"

"That will depend… if you don"t entice my anger, I will consider that." Leon said.

Alexei pointed to a certain number registered on the cellphone, and Leon pushed the b.u.t.ton to called it. Alexei sighed to calm down in order not to make anyone suspicious. A woman answered and then started to talk in Russian, even though Leon couldn"t understand it, he noted by the tone of their voices that they had an ordinary conversation. That being said, Leon didn"t drop his guard.

When the call ended, Leon approached the window he broke to observe the movement of soldiers. Only a few of them started to approach the building, and they stopped in front of it, waiting for the others. By the look of things, they were unarmed, but considering that Makoto could make his weapon appear and disappear, caution was necessary. After half an hour, a group of fifty people entered the building. The majority were soldiers, but a few of them were just ordinary citizens. Among that group, Leon also saw Seiji and his underlings.

"I guess I have to spare him for the time being…"

Although the building had elevators, those weren"t big enough to carry so many people at the same time, but that only made things more convenient to Leon. The number of objects he could control using his own magic was limited, but he could multiply that by two using Telekinesis. Leon approached the elevator, and as soon as the door opened, he obtained full control over the bodies of six people. First of all, he took them out of the elevator and then broke their necks. After that, he attacked the head of the others with the b.u.t.t of his steel spears. Since it would be unpleasant to hide too many corpses in that room where Yuki was, he decided to hide them in another random room.

From that distance, Alexei"s underlings didn"t have any chance of resisting. So Leon killed them with such an ease that he couldn"t help but frown. The last group to arrive was Seiji, and his men and all of them trembled in fear when they saw Leon.

"Long time, no see baldie…" Leon smirked.

Leon killed his underlings, but he was having quite a hard time controlling Seiji"s body. He was stronger than he thought… still, he stopped struggling when he cut off his limbs. After making sure that he wouldn"t die of blood loss, he moved him toward the room where Alexei and Yuki were. Since Leon made his body fly low, the moment Yuki saw Seiji, she got up and kicked his face with all his might. After that, she ran toward the wall where the magic items were, and she picked a katana, and then Leon finally recognized Makoto"s katana.

"Hey… wait a minute." Leon said. "If you want to kill them, that"s fine, but not yet. They still have some use."