Chapter 17

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The stunned Sebastian couldn’t believe what was happening.

“Tyler? It’s you?! How could it be you? Why are you doing this?”

The dagger went in clean and came out bloodstained.

Tyler shook all over as he held the bloodstained dagger. He answered grimly, “Because… I want to live!”

Sebastian felt like he was dead inside.

Prior to this, Sebastian had already foreseen that in the face of death, traitors would definitely emerge from among the Zoffs’ direct lineage. However, he had never imagined that the first one to raise a dagger against him would actually be Tyler!

After all, after Jack’s death, Tyler had—to some extent—been the person closest to him!

As he stared at Tyler’s sinister countenance, Sebastian instantly realized something.

The reason why Tyler had been so eager to please him before this was that he was purely coveting the position of the next head of the clan!

But things were different now..

With Heller around, Sebastian would undoubtedly meet with his demise. As such, Tyler had immediately betrayed him!

“Mr. Nicholson! Greetings, Mr. Nicholson!” Tyler knelt in front of Heller and said ingratiatingly, “Sebastian should have died a long time ago! I’ve already found him an eyesore for a very long time! Since you want him to suffer a thousand cuts, I, Tyler, am willing to set an example for the rest!

“Additionally, I know a lot of Sebastian’s secrets! For example, he had colluded with Lucy and joined forces with her to take your life tonight!”

He had betrayed his master in pursuit of personal glory!

In order to survive, Tyler had chosen, without any hesitation, to kick Sebastian while he was down!

On top of that, most of the Zoff direct descendants had originally been hesitant. But now that Tyler had come forward to be the first to stab Sebastian, the pressure on the rest of them became a lot lighter.

With someone setting precedence, more and more would definitely do the same!

The Zoff direct descendants walked up to Sebastian in a line and raised their daggers.

Unable to resist, Sebastian could only lie in a pool of blood and watch helplessly as he suffered a thousand cuts.

There were stab wounds all over his body and there wasn’t even a single part of him that was unscathed.

In this instant, he finally deeply experienced the pain of slow torture.

But even so, he didn’t die!

Heller didn’t want him to die so easily. Every time Sebastian was close to breathing his last, Heller would use the Thirteen Needles of Death to forcibly bring him back.

His limbs were severed; his nose was shaved off, and even one of his ears had been cut off.

He only had one ear left!

The slow torture of a thousand cuts made Sebastian wish he were dead!

Most importantly, the one attacking him wasn’t Heller but the Zoffs. The people whom he, Sebastian Zoff, had trusted the most, were personally executing the slow torture on him!

The feeling pained Sebastian greatly.

“Kill me!”

Sebastian looked at Heller and said weakly, “Kill me, Heller! Please, kill me!”

An indifferent Heller asked, “Do you know how many letters there are in the words ‘cruel’ and ‘brutal’?”

After he spoke, Heller raised his sword and slashed right at Sebastian’s left arm.

“Five years ago, the Zoffs colluded with Lucy Xander and wiped out the Nicholsons!”

“This is for my family!”

Slash!

The second slash was aimed at Sebastian’s right leg.

“Five years ago, you took advantage of my absence and did everything you could to make life difficult for my wife and daughter.”

“This is for the two of them!”

Slash!

The third slash was aimed at Sebastian’s left leg.

“That innocent old man took care of my wife and daughter on my behalf for five years, but you killed him with your own two hands!”

“This is for that admirable old man!”

The sword landed on Sebastian again and again.

There were a total of eleven letters in the words ‘cruel’ and ‘brutal’. As such, Heller personally dealt Sebastian eleven slashes and turned him into a rectangular stump!

Sebastian had first been cut a thousand times by the Zoffs and then, right on the heels of it, Heller had personally cut him up into five large pieces!

A thousand cuts!

Drawn and quartered! This was Heller’s punishment for Sebastian!

Blood flowed endlessly.

Sebastian didn’t even have the strength to speak anymore. He could only glare hatefully at Heller with the edges of his eyes almost splitting apart!

“Honestly speaking, Sebastian, you should feel fortunate,” Heller said coldly, “Look, your son’s head is right there. You at least still have your eyes, but your son has lost even his eyes.”

Then, Heller instructed, “Men!”

“Hang Sebastian up!”

“Spread the word—everyone from the major clans in L.A. is to come over and watch how Sebastian Zoff dies!”

“It’s been five years! Now’s the time!”

“I want all of L.A. to see how Sebastian, the man who caused the annihilation of the Nicholsons back then, suffers a slow and excruciating death!”

“Yes, sir!”

In no time, Sebastian was tied up and hung on the villa’s roof.

Although he was covered in wounds, Heller had forcibly sealed off his fatal wounds.

He didn’t die!

He wasn’t allowed to die so easily. He wasn’t allowed to die!

Drip! Drip! Drip!

Blood trickled down Sebastian and slowly dripped onto the ground, but there was nothing he could do. He could only quietly await death to befall him!

Heller’s purpose in hanging him up for public display was to utterly humiliate him. He wanted him to be utterly despised by everyone, and have a good taste of the most painful and agonizing torture in the world before he was allowed to die!

Blood flowed endlessly in the villa.

Nathan came over, saluted, and said solemnly, “Mr. Nicholson, the Zoffs have been annihilated. In addition, all my men have been dispatched. No one who’s even remotely related to the Zoffs in L.A. will be spared!

“Also, We’ve sent people to retrieve Sebastian Zoff’s call records and all his sources of income! Investigations revealed that he’d had frequent phone conversations with Lucy Xander prior to this. Lucy has transferred large sums of money to Sebastian more than once. In fact, just tonight, she transferred eight million dollars to him!”

Eight million dollars?

It seemed that Tyler was speaking the truth. She was buying Heller’s life with said eight million dollars!

“Additionally…”, Nathan’s voice shook as he said, “My men checked Sebastian and Lucy’s chat logs and picked out a lot of important information. Please… review them and decide your next course of action.”

Heller took the cell phone from him and glanced at it. Most of the messages were voice messages. He immediately played them.

The next moment, Lucy’s voice rang out.

“What’s wrong with you, Sebastian?! I just received news today that Heller is still alive! A woman saved him! On top of that, she’s even pregnant with his child!”

“I don’t care how you do it, but I want that woman and the child in her belly gone!”

“We must finish them all off!”

“There’s no need to be so angry, Ms. Xander. I’ve already sent my men there. They’ll definitely kill both of them!”

“…”

“Sebastian! That woman is still alive! She even gave birth to a little bitch for Heller!”

“Get rid of the two of them!”

“…”

“Heh, that wretched girl is sick. Her high fever is not going away. If Ms. Xander is so inclined, how about taking action yourself?”

“Very well! Sebastian, I’ve locked Ruby and that wretched little girl in their house. Get someone to set the house on fire!”

“I want the two of them burned to ashes!”

That day, flames engulfed the dilapidated rental house. Ruby knelt in the house with Nelly, who had fallen comatose because of her fever, in her arms. She banged the door and cried out hysterically, “Open the door! Please, open the door!”

“Lucy, you can kill me, but please spare my daughter!”

“She’s just a child! She isn’t even four years old yet!”

“You can kill me, but please take my daughter to the hospital! Please!”

Later, the waste collector old man came. He rescued Ruby and sent Nelly to the hospital.

“That wretched little girl is so lucky! To think even something like that didn’t kill her!”

“But that’s alright. Starting today, Sebastian, let’s join forces and cut off all of Ruby’s means of livelihood!”

“Didn’t she like collecting trash?”

“Very well!”

“From now on, I want her unable to hold any job. Let her feed that wretched little girl by collecting trash! I want her and that wretched little girl to have a taste of all the pain, hardships, and torture in the world!”

“Let the two of them live like dogs! Let them live a life worse than death!”

At this point, a video taken by Lucy appeared in the chat logs.

In the video, Lucy’s voice kept ringing out. “Look, that wretched little girl is about to die! She’s obviously dying, but she actually wants to say goodbye to her parents!”

“What’s laughable, though, is that she doesn’t even know what her father looks like!”

That day, because Nelly’s fever refused to go away, Ruby had to go around trying to raise money so that she could take Nelly to a doctor.

Toward the end, even though Nelly was about to die, she continued to hold a picture that she had drawn.

It was a drawing of what Nelly imagined her father—in other words, Heller—to be, except the figure didn’t have a face.

Nelly, who was on the brink of death, clutched the drawing of her father tightly and held it at the corner of her mouth as she whispered, “Mommy… Goodbye… Daddy… Goodbye…”

Heller clutched the cell phone tightly. His killing intent that had only just calmed down a little started to bubble and boil again!

Crack!

Heller broke the cell phone into pieces as he looked at the unconscious Nelly in his arms. With a savage look in his eyes, he said, “Lucy!”

“Lucy!!”

“I will definitely kill you with my own hands!”