Chapter 327: Interrogation (Part 3)
Mako decided to play along for now so that Natasha would let her guard down and believe that he was gullible enough to believe her lie.
"You did all that just to get revenge? It was you who started it! You kidnapped my friends and set up the duel between me and Mikhail, so how was it my fault when you were the ones looking for a fight?" Mako asked.
"We didn't have a choice, you idiot! HE said that he would allow us to go to military school and live our own lives if we defeated you and sent you back to Emerald City," Natasha replied spitefully.
"Who is this HE?" Mako asked as he wanted to confirm some things.
"You know quite well who I am talking about! El Diablo, he gave us your and your friend's picture, the day we were set to leave for the recruitment test and gave us the deal of a lifetime," Natasha shouted.
Mako now understood and had the complete picture in his head. He didn't know how but somehow El Diablo was able to find out his identity, most likely after he had raided and destroyed his slave warehouses.
However, it must have been too late for him to act after he had learned that information as Mako had already left for the recruitment test, making it impossible for him to reach Mako unless he sent some of his weakest yet promising members like Mikhail after him in return for freedom.
This was the same thing that Mikhail had said to him during their duel, so Mako believed this to be true, but he still was skeptical about Natasha's current motives.
From the encounters that Mako had with her, she had always made the impression of a person who was manipulative and only cared about themselves so it made it quite hard for Mako to believe that she was doing this purely out of love for Mikhail because he was eliminated from the test and sent back to El Diablo.
Since she had already lied about how she had lured him into her trap, Mako believed that there was still a hidden agenda that she wasn't revealing, and with time running out, Mako only had one choice left if he wanted to get some real information.
Using what little amount of power, the mutant gene still had, Mako approached Natasha again and placed his hand on her arm wound again.
Natasha immediately tried to pull her arm back, not wanting Mako to start another round of torturing her.
"Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you again. I left some poison in your body so that you would recover more slowly, I am just going to remove it," Mako said with a hint of emotion in his voice.
Natasha looked at Mako with a skeptical look but even though she was feeling much better, she could definitely feel her body was still a bit heavy and it was taking forever for the healing pill she had consumed to start working again.
She couldn't go to the clinic or anywhere else to get the rest of the poison out of her body as there were bound to be questions thrown at her that she couldn't afford to answer as sheNôv(el)B\\jnn
wanted this whole thing to be kept under the wraps.
Having no other choice, she reluctantly extended her arm toward Mako and this time he gently grabbed her arm as he began removing the last of the poison.
It was true that Mako had left some poison in her system so that he would still have leverage over her in case she decided to lash out again and he was remaining true to his word as very quickly green liquid began oozing out from her wound, showing that the poison was leaving her body.
He then began speaking to her as if he was laying out some terms for peace between them and after he made Natasha believe that he had bought her lie and that he didn't want any bad blood between them, he completely fooled her into letting her own guard down and then he acted as if he was leaving and warning her that she might faint but in truth it was those sedative pills doing their job.
Now that Natasha was completely fooled and thought that she had fainted by herself, Mako had a window of exactly 6 hours and he was going to utilize it to get some actual answers.
The time for his mutant gene had expired and Mako's eyes quickly stopped glowing and returned to their normal color. With that, Mako felt a wave of weakness go through his entire body but it wasn't as bad as he had thought and he simply had to sit down for a bit to catch his
breath.
During this time, Mako pulled out his student card and began sending an encrypted message to his friends.
Even though they had just today created the cipher, Mako believed it wouldn't take too long for his friends to decipher the message.
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{Half an hour later}
A bucket of water was splashed on Haruto's face which finally woke him up. He breathed heavily as he quickly scanned his surroundings and realized that he was somewhere different
from the training room.
Haruto blinked rapidly, trying to clear the water from his eyes as he struggled to sit up. The room around him was dimly lit, but still somewhat familiar.
His heart still pounding in his chest, with adrenaline coursing through his veins as he remembered what had happened before he passed out.
He was given the ultimatum to choose to either save Natasha or walk away and fearing for what Natasha might do to him if he was to walk out on her, he had chosen to attack; however, before he could even land a single blow everything had turned dark.
As his vision cleared, Haruto noticed how cold the room was; he could see his breath in front
of him as he exhaled, but this cold wasn't from an air conditioning unit but rather from an Ice ability user who was staring at Haruto with anger filled eyes behind the cloak of darkness inside the room and it wasn't only her.
Just as Haruto muttered to himself," Where am I?" with his voice barely audible, several figures stepped forward from the darkness and into the light and they were all faces Haruto
recognized.
Haruto gulped down as he made eye contact with Erin whose facial expression was fuming with anger, but Mako stopped her placing a hand on her shoulder and calming her down.
He then approached Haruto and said," It's okay, you're safe Haruto. Now... tell us everything."