'My head hurts... I feel woozy. Cough. where am i? " Ajax asked while waking from the pain of the transmigration he had just experienced.
He felt something tug on his body, pulling him as he slowly opened his eyes.
In his vision he saw red, a red sky and a red ground with some creature's body littered across the ground as corpses parts.
A pair of hands were dragging him away, a piece of metal pierced through his stomach as he slided through the dirt.
'Where. Am I?' He thought, asking these questions but no voice came out of his mouth.
He couldn't feel his tongue, he couldn't speak as well. It felt like a horrid nightmare but it was anything but a dream.
His ears were flooded with a bleep sound, almost as if he had just been hit by a EMP or flashbang like one in the games. His eyes slowly opened up as he take in the scene before his eyes.
"A... Btlfld(Battlefield?)" He mutters silently, a ununderstandable voice exiting his mouth as he saw people running forward towards the place he was being dragged out from. "Waer ar thos?(What are those?)"
The scene looked like sci-fi movie running across his mind, the scene immediately shifted as some sort of armored insects broke through the ground like a fountain and flooded towards Ajax like a Swarm.
He saw the passerbys looking back at him, a futuristic armor made of black non shiny metal clinging to their clothes as they lunged at the insects to protect him even at the cost of their lives.
They were screaming, roaring, fighting just to save him, their eyes showing a unyielding determination as they flocked forward like flies and decimated insects left and right none stop until the swarm was left to pieces and bits of insect corpses around the battlefield as garbage.
Within seconds the battle, forget self-sacrifice there wasn't even a dent on the people who arrived. However as they returned, each and everyone of them was shivering which confused Ajax.
"Wy a y skng? ( why are you shaking?)" He asked, unaware of that fact that he had no tongue which meant all he was saying was just indescribable broken words.
They all got on their knees, their hands clasped together as if they were asking for mercy or forgiveness. Yet their voices fell on empty ears since the stretched beep in Ajax's ears have only began lessening a little.
The situation continues for five minutes and the people kept begging. In their eyes was fear that was visible in plain sight and their words were barely understable for Ajax right now.
" ######.Spare. ###"
"Young ######, I #### # family. Have mercy! "
"We won't ### this ###### again"
Their voices kept coming, their words slowly becoming clearer as the high pitched noise in Ajax's ears finally vanished.
He looked at them, falling deep in thought, 'Why are they begging for mercy? they just saved me didn't they?' He thought.
Raising his hand, he put it on shoulder of the man who was closest to him. But just as he wanted to speak, the blood in mouth flooded back, suffocating him.
Cough cough
He chocked on his own blood, the lack of air causing him to slowly drift to unconsciousness before a thwack on his back brought him back to life.
"Somebody get the medic! Help young master Felix! "
The medic arrived instantly on command and began his treatment. It felt like a thousand ants entering and crawling across Ajax's body but it also felt like his pain was reducing by the second.
The wounds on his body began recovering at high speed or maybe it would be better to say they were being stitched by super small threads at high speed.
The medic closed almost all the wounds within just three minutes except the one in the stomach which still had a metal shard ingraved in it.
The captain watched the process nervously, repeatedly whispering "I am gonna die!" to himself silently.
...
'This gotta be one of worst greetings for a isekai protagonist. At least let me arrive in peace!'
Ajax gritted his teeth. He watched as the shard was slowly pulled from his stomach, cutting his skin and Intestines on its way out.
The moron medic and soldiers clearly forgot to bring a pain killer or anesthesia on their way and now Ajax could only endure while not even having a tongue to bite on.
'I am gonna skin these bastards alive! Heed my words you pieces of trash!'
Meanwhile the soldiers saw their young master looking at them with eyes that appeared to be screaming rage and ruthlessness. They couldn't even fathom what awaites them, since they failed so badly in their job.
Most of them wanted to run away but where could they run? This was the only city on this artificial planet and the other colonies were so far away they had no chance to getting there before Felix's people.
"We are doomed." A soldiers says before he turns to his comrades, "I hate you piece of sh**s."
"Same here. You swine, come gimme a hug."
"Me too! "
"Don't forget me you maggots!", the captain joined the hopeless soldiers as well, he was already preparing to get executed at the time of their return.
...
" Cough cough "
The medic coughed to gather everyone's attention.
The soldiers and the bodyguards turned at once, their gazes falling upon Ajax who was sitting on the ground with his left knee raised to form a triangle with the other leg.
They saw him spit blood, a Disgruntled expression on his face striking fear in their hearts.
One by one they came closer, together pushing their captain forward to take a brunt of the punishment, not a single one of them daring to come closer except a child who was not even fitting in with the rest.
"Is he gonna punish? " The child asked innocently as her third eye on her forehead blinked while she bit on her nail like a nervous little child.
But the captain had no words to calm down the kid, nor did he had the time to do so. While shivering in fear he stepped forward, taking on a bowing position before putting his head on the floor.
"F-forgive us young master! I am the one responsible for this, just please spare the others! "
Ajax saw this display of self-sacrifice... He wasn't impressed to say the least but he also wasn't cruel enough to kill someone to cool down his anger a dime.
'If I kill him. Who the heck would tell me the things I need to know? Who the heck even am I?"
The captain expected a cold-bloodee beheading to follow but after a few seconds, he raises his head to find Ajax just drifting in overthinking thoughts.
'What should I do? Should I kill them- no that would mean I would die as well. Should I kill myself then? The hell am I even thinking anymore!! My head hurts!'
Unable to speak, unable to decide, Ajax clutched his head the best as he can. He saw something in the captain's pockets and reached out to it in instant.
The soldiers thought their captain's time had come and began speaking their prayers in silence. However the sound of tapping that followed shocked them.
Ajax was using a sort of phone, a phone whose features he had no idea of and the language in which it was coded in was clearly not English at all.
Yet despite such problems, eventually he managed to type a message after the muscle memories and basic knowledge the guy whose body he took over slowly began resurfacing in Ajax's head.
He showed the message to the captain, receiving a baffled stare in return.
[Explain everything. Everything From my name and background to why I am here atleast five times] is what he wrote but the the captain had no idea what to make of it.
"Everything my Lord? Even the past? "
Tap tap tap
[Everything.*𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎* ]
"A-As you wish! It all began when I was born twenty seven ye-" The captain began telling his own life story before getting hit on the head by Ajax, "What is it my Lord?"
tap tap tap
[Tell me my life story you idiot! I feel like I lost even more of memory because of your stupidity spreading like a virus.]
Ajax could no longer believe that these people were soldiers. To him they looked more like mercenaries or maybe hired rouges.
To think the captain would start talking about his own life story was a unexpected development. A development which he had to stop because every second wasted was a increase in danger.
He looked at the soldiers discussing among themselves, he could see a plan forming in their eyes as they began making a plan of sorts which Ajax saw through in a instant.
'I have seen far better poker faces than these idiots. I am sure none of them got more than atleast 3 brain cells. ' he said mentally to himself, internally disappointed about his expectations.
The pain of being operated on like a living specimen in a science lab have surely made him a little more ruthless, a change he needed for sure to endure the stupidity of the people in front of hum.