Chapter 400 - 398: Merciless

Eunji had no other choice but to resort to the method that she knew.

"Look into my eyes. Tell me everything!"

As Toby succumbed to her hypnosis, he had no other choice but to confess in full detail everything that he knew.

"Our faction have been working under Su Ying for so many years. He's the secret founder of Black Lily. And so, we owe everything that we have to him. We vowed to be loyal to him and the members of his family. We will help him to become the most influential person in the underworld by any means."

Just then, Toby started laughing like a mad man.

"He's coming. He's going to make a comeback and no one can stop him. Even the International Prison couldn't contain him! The people who would try to stop him will meet the same fate as the others. Death!"

Eunji smirked upon hearing everything.

"Then, why do you need J in all of this? Because of your group, he's now missing!"

"It's very simple. He's Master Su Ying's grandson. He's next in line to lead us. If anything happens to Master, then, he's going to be our next leader. And we're sure that he's going to help us in our fight to protect Master."

"Ha! I won't be so sure of that, Toby. You don't know Jin Jie. I know him better than anyone does."

"I won't be so sure about that. After all, no orange trees bears apples." He refuted.

What Toby said sent Eunji into a deeper thought.

Well, he's right. However, she trusted J, too.

Just then, Toby snapped from the hypnosis and his gaze turned furious.

"Hmm. Thank you for sharing this information. Because of that I won't kill her. However, I might chopped her hands, plucked her eyes out and cut her tongue. She's starting to annoy me honestly."

"No! Touch any part of her body, even a single strand of her hair and I'll make sure to kill you the moment I get out from here!" Toby's bottom line was his sister. After all, she's the only family member he had left after their parents died.

However, Eunji ignored his sentiments because she didn't care. He should have thought about this before he agreed abducting Nathan in the first place.

"Oh! Are you trying to threaten me? You don't even know who I am. As long as I am wearing this mask, I can hide myself from everyone. So goodluck! I'm really looking forward on the day that you would come and get me."

Just then, Toby's gaze sharpened as he observed her behavior.

"Let me guess. Are you someone related to Nathaniel Bai? Are you doing this to me because I have him?"

Eunji only smiled at him before she turned around.

"What's the use of a guessing game when you'll never get the chance to know the truth anyways."

She said meaningfully and she immediately nodded on her people.

However, Toby laughed at her because he knew that he guessed it right. "I'm right. What are you then? His mistress? Damn! I really envy him for having so many women flocking towards him. He even seduced my sister. That's why it's just right to kill him before he could ruin someone else's future."

Eunji's ears perked up as she heard the word seduced. Yes, Nathan was very handsome but she knew he was not seducing anyone.

"You don't know a thing about him and to correct you, I'm not his mistress. I'll never be his mistress! Idiots like you won't be able to understand that. Hmm. Maybe if you go to heaven and started looking down on us. But I'm sure just like me, you're also destined to h*ll. So, I don't think you'll be able to find out either."

Since she had extracted enough information from him, he had become off use now. It's better to kill him now or she'd be having a headache later on.

As he realized the meaning of her words, Toby started sweating heavily. It didn't help that he was in an inverse position.

He started feeling like his head was about to explode as blood started gathering down in his brain due to gravity.

Toby struggled to free himself. However, hid attempts were futile because the chains binding him was so durable that it would not easily snap or break.

Toby watched Eunji's retreating back. He didn't realize that the guards started lowering him down. That's when he realized that below him was not actually water. Inside that container was actually acid.

Before he could comprehend of what was happening, his entire face head was already submerged on the acid causing him to scream because of the pain.

"Arg!" He screamed for his life. Unfortunately, no one could hear him because his screams was being covered up by the noise of the crowd on the grandstand as they cheered on their favorite bets on the arena.

The rest of the games would be purely one on one physical combat on stage. Whoever would win would rank up. There's no limit on how many times they could rank up as long as they could defeat the opponent.

Eunji didn't actually left the room. She was only hiding behind the door as to destruct herself.

Hearing Toby's scream before his death was really disturbing.

"Mistress, he is dead." One of her agent reported.

"Okay. Keep the body. Someone will claim it after the weekend ends."

"Okay Mistress!"

Eunji left the place with no regrets in her heart. They had pushed her to show the worst side of her. It's their fault that she had become merciless of them.

Just then she made her way into the arena to join the fun.

Now that Toby's dead, at least Nathan would be safe from potential danger. She could at least enjoy the rest of the games, right?

She was walking on the hallway when she bumped into a man. More like the man bumped into her.

"Watch where you're going will you?" Eunji told him in an unapologetic tone. After all, it's not her who bumped into him.

And she's unfamiliar with the man. She could not recall seeing him in the members' database of every mercenary faction present.

"I'm sorry Miss. Did I injure you?" He sounded polite yet she had no trust on him. He even smiled at her as he tried to portray that he's harmless.

Sometimes, someone who looked harmless could be a serial killer. And her intuition was right because after all, this man was Hades.

"No, you didn't. However, you can try harder young man." She confidently said as she turned her back on him an continued walking. She failed to see the changes on his face when she ignored him.

Just then, she asked Alora just to make sure. "Alora, who was he?"

"Hades."

"Oh! Interesting. So I was right to not trust his harmless appearance then." Eunji mumbled as she continued walking down the hallway.

"Miss! Wait!" Eunji heard him calling behind her as he was trying to catch up with her.

"What do you want?" She sounded annoyed.

"I'm Ethan."

'Nice try. Are you trying to wordplay me now?' It was such a coincidence that he's using a name almost similar to Nathan.

However, it's his real name though. He was named Hades because of how he would brutally killed his victims.

"I don't care who you are. Just stay away kid." Eunji really meant it.

However, he didn't listen to her and continue pestering her. He was also thick skinned that he was not offended when Eunji called him a kid.

"It's fine. I did have this baby face. That's why I'm already used to someone calling me as a kid." He tried to be as passive as possible.

Lie. It was the reason why he started killing. After all, no kid would do such act, right?

"Do I sound like I'm interested hearing your story?"

Her indifference really caught Hades off-guard. He only wanted to make friends after all.

Well kid, you're befriending the wrong person to be honest.

Seeing that he was still standing there, Eunji decided to leave him behind. Just then, she started calling Nathan through Alora.

"Love?"

"Love?"

"You can rest easy now. No one's going to bother you for the next few days." She informed him immediately in a whispery tone.

"How? Did you do something dangerous again?"

"No. I just killed Toby to solve the problem." She casually said causing him to be speechless.

"What?!"

"Don't be surprised. He has already courted his own death when he made deals with Francais. You know me, I won't just stand back. He knew many things that it's better to kill him now than later.." Eunji was very clear about keeping him safe.

The information she got from him was only a bonus.

"And oh! I have already met Hades. He's handsome honestly. He bumped into me and he seemed to be interested on me." She paused to listen to his reaction.

And she smirked when she could hear his possessive tone on the other line.

"What the hell? Kim Eunji, I dare you to look at another man like that again and I'll make sure you'll regret doing so one day!"

"Haha! I have no choice. I'm very single and free. I'm also a human being with a human heart. I would feel lonely, too. It's not my fault that I'm alone anyways."

Nathan, you better hurry and come back to her side or she'd date any handsome man she'd find.

Just then, Eunji laughed hard after hearing silence from Nathan's side.

"I'm on my way. Just stay put. I'll forgive you now because you're alone. But once I'm back, no more looking, okay?"

"Sure! Hurry up or I might get you replaced."

Eunji listened attentively as Nathan shuffled to free himself.

"Yes, Ma'am! Damn it!"

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