"Save him? No, Liam… you wouldn't?" Mr. N almost panicked before—
A light flashed before Kan's eyes. Unable to react, his mouth was seized by an inhumane, coarse, jittery hand.
Scared for his life, he was rag-dolled and slammed into the wall. In agony, he tried to let out a petrifying scream. His voice cracked.
But nothing was heard.
Liam gripped the man's face with enough force to crush steel."Allow me to save you."
A slow, delayed cackle escaped Liam as he held the man by his face.
Karmel Kan was hit by the most atrocious, mind-altering pain he had ever felt.
Like the rough tongue of an animal eating your skin, slowly piercing and itching into your flesh, the vibrating hand pressed against his face.
Tears flooded his eyes.
Not realizing that his jaw and skull had been decimated, uncontrollable urine and snot began to excrete from his body.
Liam's reverberating, dark voice through the mask rattled the man to his core. These were words he would never forget.
Because they were his last.
"This man… is lost."
Slowly, Liam looked toward Mr. N.
"This man is no soldier."
Liam's gut punch landed with such force that his hand entered Kan's abdomen, piercing and rupturing his stomach.
Destroying his spinal cord, Liam opened his hand midway to ensure he didn't pull the man's intestines out. In an effort to avoid making a mess, he quickly removed his hand.
Siegfreed walked to the door, yawning, as a giant owl revealed itself on his shoulder, its beak riddled with blood and bits of human flesh.
At the door, Siegfreed switched on the lights."Is that the last intruder? I killed a few myself."
Mr. N's face twisted. Ignoring Siegfreed, he stared at the corpse of Karmel Kan.
"I had it under control. The Vantablack… the Scopolamine, DMT, Carbon Monoxide, and low-range infrasound frequencies to disorient him, 7 hertz to confuse his senses. Everything."
Siegfreed fell to the ground at the door, coughing."What the fuck?"
Mr. N, annoyed, waved his hand at the sensor, clearing the room of the remaining gas.
Liam removed his mask, his voice dropping back to a whisper."I know. But we cleared our room and the perimeter. I came to check on you. Isn't that my job as an Elite Guard?"
Mr. N let out a sharp exhale, halfway between irritation and relief."Yeah… I guess. I appreciate it."
Liam smiled."I appreciate the mask, by the way. I can extend my voice and actually speak with it."
Mr. N casually brushed him off, smiling."Yeah, no problem, pouring honey on you all Presidency battle my goat. You the one who gon win me this shit afterall.."
Mr. N then walked over to the coughing Siegfreed and splashed him with some strange liquid. His symptoms immediately disappeared."Be careful next time when you choose to help me. I fight with a lot of chemicals and drugs."
Siegfreed, embarrassed, tried not to laugh awkwardly.
Mr. N sighed.
His eyes drifted to Karmel Kan's broken body, and a thought pressed into his mind.
Liam's raw strength might rival my Rank One Elite Guard.
I wanted Kan alive, paralyzed for questioning, but that's not possible anymore.
He's a donut now…