Chapter 27: Where am I?

Shadow slowly regained his consciousness, only to realise that he was tied up in the chair darkness all around the room. "Who are you? What do you want?" He didn't even have a glint of fear in his voice.

Followed by a chuckle, a menacing was heard. "You should realise that you are in no position to ask anything." The voice spoke followed by the clicking of heels on the floor as the person walked.

Shadow was blinded for a while as the light was flickered on. After a while of his eyes accommodating to light, he could see the same girl who he met in the party and beside her was the girl who had claimed to be her sister. 

His eyes turned into glare. "You know who you're messing with, right?" He said, his voice still devoid of fear.

"Shell, I am already irritated. Why don't we just start the fun? Show him his place." Ella said with a wrench on her one hand and knife on another.

"You won't dare to." The man said his face showing a little bit of nervousness now. But Ella was only amused by his reaction. 'This is gonna be fun.' She thought to herself as she went closer to Shadow. She kneeled down.

"Why don't we play a game? Here's a sensor," she said showing him a small white device with digits displayed on it, "the louder you scream, the easier your death.

She used the wrench to pull out his nails. Shadow tried to move but all in vain as he was tied with 3 different chains.

"Argh. Stop it bitch. It hurts."

Shadow cursed as his other nail was torn-out.

 "Come on. What fun is it then if it does not hurt?" She said again, tearing his other nail.

"Shellll," Ella whined as Shell gave her attention.

"He did not scream much." Ella pouted while Shell rolled her eyes at her childish behaviour. "We will transfer him to our torture room, then you can play as much as you want. Wait a little longer." Shell said as she injected sedative on Shadow, making him pass out.

*After a while...*

Shadow was now tied on a metal bar, his both hands raised up as the chain rolled down to his elbows. His feet were barely touching the ground. The wounded fingers were turning black as the coagulation had ended.

After a while he woke up, his mind started to regain the memories of the past events as he realised that it was not a dream. His face now was filled with horror and terror for his life.

As if on cue, Ella entered the room with a doll-like grin and a whip on her hands. Shell on the other hand still had the knife that Ella was holding previously.

"Why, why are you doing this? Who are you?" Shadow asked. "Aww, Shell. He still doesn't know who we are, isn't it a bit sad. But, in any case, let us introduce ourselves again.

I am Ella known as She-devil." As soon as those words made its way out of Ella's lips the look in the Shadow's face was a scene to see.

"Don't give such an amusing reaction so fast. Let me introduce Shell, known as Midnight Queen, the best one in the country." 

Ella said while showing Shell with both of her hands. And at this moment Shadow knew he had no chance to escape.

The two girls who were on the news most of the time for the torturous death of their victims were now standing in front of him with the most creepy and devilish grin on their faces. 

The heartbeat of Shadow was multiplied to double as Ella made her way towards him. It was not so long after the Whip and his body had made contact it resulted, a shrill scream to escape which echoed in the room.

His whole body was covered in bruises and wounds as his clothes were all shredded.

But the whip never stopped to make contact with his skin. And it was not just a normal whip but it had been decorated with nails and blades, Ella's favourite whip so far. 

As she let out her maniac laughs while torturing the man in front of her, her state resembled V somehow. Like how he enjoyed when he tortured his victim but trust me when I say Ella was more sadist than V. 

V would kill his victim after a few minutes of playing with them but Ella would always make sure to make them as good as dead.

"Hey, shall I bring some salt?" Shell asked as she was also waiting for her turn. 

"Why?" Ella asked with an innocent tone. "Because the wound and salt are the best combo." Shell said in a duh tone while Ella chuckled at her.

"My dear Midnight you have turned soft, haven't you? I was thinking of some chili powder." Ella said with a playful grin while the man shouted trying to beg for mercy.

"Why are you doing this to me?! Let me go. What do you get by all this?!" He shouted with all his energy. While Ella glared at him.

"Why are we doing this? Hmm.... maybe we love torturing people to death or maybe we are just trying to make you pay for what have you done? You get what you give." She said, placing her whip on the instrument table.

"You are his wife, aren't you? V is saying you to do this, isn't he? You are his wife are not you? We mafias have information circulated faster than you think. And the timing of your rise and his death is not a coincidence. There is no way of wearing a mask, take it off." 

Shadow chuckled as he knew even if they answered the microphone is transmitting all the information to his base. This was his chance to unfold their secret, even if it meant death.

Instead of answers, he only met with another pain but it was burning him. Chili powder was all over his body. The bodyguards held him while he was fiddling trying to get away. As the powder was not only on the skin but as deep as the wound. Tears of pain flew down his face as he screamed, cried with his soul.

"Ahh now that's what I call, a real music. And to tell you this V and I have no connection. As you already told he is dead and the day he died I was just bailed-out from the jail. So that is a pure coincidence." She said while sitting on a chair as her turn was over.

"Shell, I know my turn is over, but I have a request, please?" Ella showed her puppy eyes at Shell, as if she wasn't laughing at someone's pain, just a few seconds ago. 

Shell nodded as a sign for her to go on. "Just take his one eye out and cut his tongue off after that you can destroy the microphone." Ella said with a cocky tone and Shell just followed her command.

The knife that Shell held was a perfect match for it. She plunged the sharp knife deep on his eye socket and just like that she took his one eye out while he cried in more pain. Now not only his body but also his eyes were bleeding. "Argh! You shout too much." Shell complained while separating his tongue from his mouth.

"Pass me the sledgehammer." Shell ordered one of the guards who obliged to it. 

Now Shadow's articulation of grunting was accompanied by crackling noises of broken bones as Shell did her job with sledgehammer. As the crackling sound of bones added a melodious music in Ella's ear the scream of Shadow's pain made it even better. Even though it was sure that it was one of the worst day and torture of Shadow's life but Shell still was not satisfied because of the anger present inside her was so much that just a mere scream was not enough.

So she did it. She nailed him on the wall drilling nails up till the shoulders. But she was kind enough to inject pain killers just to not let him pass out because of the pain. After that she took out each tooth out of his mouth just like Ella did with his nails. He literally looked like a Zombie now but the girls were in no mood of showing mercy. 

"I am not satisfied Mrs. Miller, not after what he has done," Shell said, turning at Ella, Ella in response clasped her hands with excitement. 

"I know, just cut his fingertips off and we can peel his skin, how's that?" Ella said, raising her eyebrow while Shell gave a satisfying smile. 

She took the Cut clasp nail and sledgehammer again from the instrument table, climbed the step ladder and cut his fingertips one by one slowly and painfully. The effects of the pain killers were now wearing off. 

Ella and Shell no matter how much of a sadist they were, they did not want to peel the skin by themselves so they ordered their guards to do it. After a while they got bored and Ella ordered a coffin. "Why are you asking for a coffin? We can just dump him somewhere after we kill him." Shell asked her with a confused face.

"Who said we are going to kill him? And remember what Egyptians did back then when their king died?" Ella asked Shell with a curious look.

Shell was even more confused as to what Ella meant but chose to answer cause Ella's never wrong.

"Mummified them and made a pyramid for their coffin." Shell replied unsure why Ella wanted it. 

Ella chuckled at her lost face and pat Shell's head ruffling it. "See we are going to do the same just he won't have his pyramid and he will still be breathing." 

"You mean you want to suffocate him to death." Shell said, catching up to what Ella said. "Exactly." Ella replied while grinning at Shell.

*At the hospital*

Beep. Beep. Beep.

"Doctor! The patient at bed no. 182 is responding," the nurse yelled out trying to call the doctor as fat as she could. While the V opened his eyes for the first time in 4 years.

"Where am I?"