While Romanni's time had been slowed down by Melaine, Dario looked at Naomi and Melaine with a confused expression. He then turned to look at Romanni who somehow moved his head at a fast speed.
Because Romanni’s time had been slowed down, each of his moves appeared faster from the other’s point of view. From a normal perspective, it looked like he could move fast, but in fact, it was only Romanni’s perception of time and the time around her that had been turned fast so he could move at inhuman speed.
However, that also meant that he would feel pain a few times slower than a normal human. A pain that only lasted a second in the real world would feel like an eternity for Romanni.
Hence, Naomi asked Melaine to slow the time around Romanni, so he could suffer for a long time while his body could still feel pain.
“Lady Naomi, it’s ready. I had made him perceive time around 50 times faster. You can torture him anytime.” Said Melaine with a serious tone.
“I see, then let’s do it like this. First, because he dares to kidnap an innocent girl, let’s break his fingers one by one.”
Naomi looked at Romanni with a bored gaze as she used her Telekinesis to move Romanni's left pinky finger. It moved slowly at first, but it slowly bent in a weird way that usually a finger couldn’t do, and then…
Crack!
A bone-cracking sound was heard from Romanni’s finger, followed by an incomprehensible scream.
“Hii!” Dario yelped and curled at the corner of the room, plugging his ears with his fingers to keep the sound away from him.
The scream continued for three seconds, and then Romanni stopped moving. His body had no energy, his head was limping. More importantly, the look on Romanni’s eyes had turned lifeless. He gave up, with just one finger, and he fainted.
Naomi looked at Romanni as if he was a ridiculous man. No, he was ridiculous. Naomi just broke a finger, and yet Romanni didn’t even try to resent Naomi.
He was scared of her, he was trying to suck up to her, and begging for her mercy.
“Trash,” Naomi said slightly. “Melaine, wake him up.”
“Yes, Lady Naomi.”
Melaine then walked to Romanni, canceling her ability that slowed Romanni’s time, and slapped him on the cheek a few times.
“Hey, wake up!”
Had Romanni’s time not slowed down, he would last longer. A broken finger was not unusual for someone who worked in the underworld for so long. But, the pain that attacked him was not bearable, it was inhuman pain that was impossible to be achieved without Melaine’s ability.
After getting slapped a few times, Romanni finally regained his consciousness and looked around. The pain in his finger was still there, but it was not as painful as before.
He then looked at Melaine in front of him who looked at him with furrowed brows. He was afraid, he didn’t want to feel that pain again.
“A-aaahh!!!” He screamed, he began leaking from his crotch, wetting his pants and the floor below him.
“Yuck!” Melaine exclaimed. She then used her ability to retreat as fast as possible while holding her nose. She disappeared from her location and re-appeared beside Naomi.
“Lady Naomi! He’s so gross!”
“I can see that. To think there is someone as low as him.” Exclaimed Naomi as she covered her nose with her hand. “Melaine, one more time. Put him in a slowed-down world again.”
“N-no, no no no no no no no no!!!!!” Romanni was screaming like a broken record. He could only utter ‘no’ from his mouth.
He couldn’t care for anything else at this moment. He would prefer death instead of being tortured.
“P-please. Spare me!! Kill me!!” He wanted to die. As his last resort, he tried to bite his own tongue.
However, he was put under a slowed-down condition again. Right now, his time perception was slower than Naomi's, so his movement had slowed down to the point he looked like he was not moving.
Before he could bite his tongue, Naomi prevented it with her Telekinesis. Seeing that Romanni was stopped by Naomi, Melaine turned his time perception to the same speed as the first one.
“Now, let’s make him scream even more,” Naomi said with an evil grin on her face.
She actually didn’t care about the guy in front of her anymore, he was such trash that her anger was gone after seeing him begging for mercy.
However, he still needs to pay for his sin. Naomi never thought of herself as God, but she would at least punish Romanni because of his deeds.
“Let’s spin his arms and legs. Let’s see if he could still say something after that.”
Naomi processed to torture Romanni. She destroyed his bones one by one, from his toes to his arms.
Romanni wanted to scream, but he wasn’t allowed to. Naomi kept his mouth shut because he was noisy.
Dario who curled up at the corner of the room fainted midway. He couldn’t bear the sight of Romanni getting tortured, his body bent in a weird way, and blood dripping from his destroyed legs and arms that were now looked like a rag after being twisted with hands.
After a few minutes of torture that lasted for an eternity for Romanni, Naomi was finally satisfied and done with her torture. She wasn’t aiming for any vital part of Romanni’s body such as his organ, so he somehow was still alive.
Although he was still alive, his mind was destroyed. He couldn’t handle the pain, and the only thing that came out of his mouth after Naomi put him back to the ground was a groan.
“A-aaahhh”
He was like an idiot, he didn’t even look like a human after his legs and arms were destroyed by Naomi by twisting them.
Melaine also canceled her ability. She didn’t even bat an eye when she saw Romanni getting tortured because she was used to such a sight 80 years ago.
“Pathetic.” Muttered Melaine.
“Yeah, now we only have one thing left to do.” Said Naomi. She then looked at the sight of Dario that had lost his consciousness at the corner of the room. “We need to make sure he knows what happened.”
As Naomi said that, she used her Telekinesis to separate Romanni’s head from his body. She lifted it and put it near Dario’s leg, then stood up from the chair.
“We are done here. Let’s get back to Germany, Melaine.”
“Certainly, Lady Naomi.”
Dario who curled up at the corner of the room fainted midway. He couldn’t bear the sight of Romanni getting tortured, his body bent in a weird way, and blood dripping from his destroyed legs and arms that were now looked like a rag after being twisted with hands.
Is this
Re:zero
reference
umm no?
Re:zero spoiler:
Subaru: "Stop playing twister with Rem body!
Everyone: Who is Rem?"
@Shurturgal yes... that's the one!
Naomi isn't the one who brings judgment that is god, she is the one who punishes those who are to be judged by god.
Guide to hell
Ferrywoman?
Many good. Remember, next time. Ball point pens under nails and slow cooking hands with a clipper lighter. Also spikey penetration. Thats always a fan favourite 😂
Thank you for this chapter!
Thanks for the chapter
It might not be in the best taste, but in a world full of Espers, I would have taken the head home with me.
You really don’t want someone with the power to bring back the dead- be it due to an Esper ability, or maybe some advanced medical apparatus or knowledge brought about by the existence of Espers- to grab his head and bring him back. Especially since his ‘death’ could then be used as leverage by the Esper Organization to point at Naomi as an out-of-control murderer who abuses her position in Germany’s military (or tyrant I suppose).
Think of the preserved heads from Futurama.
She literally destroyed his body. And no, no Esper could bring back the dead.
@RaizarP Naomi probably could if it’s someone who’s been dead for a few minutes (like someone dies from a heart attack and she uses her telekinesis to fix it or smth idk)
@RaizarP I feel like that the esper association could probably pull something along the lines of using the brain to mimic his power. With how many espers are around and with how some powers are really versatile, combined with higher technology compared to now, meaning the world probably has a better understanding of how brains work, something similar could most likely happen. Now with you saying it I do not think it is gonna happen, but it is fun stuff to talk about.
@Maclord pulling someone back from death, in your context is a daily occurance that happens daily. Being pulled back from clinical death is already possible and in fact killing a person and 'resurrecting' them is sometimes the optimal method for a surgery. This case is biological death, or brain death, which is currently impossible to resurrect from.
@notatree To us, yes, but in this story? Perhaps not.
A biological(brain) death could theoretically be reversed in similar fashion to clinical death. The main problem would be the fact that we have essentially no control over the resurrecting factor: electricity. But what about in the world of Espers? Naomi herself states (and even demonstrates the results of) immense control over an Esper’s ability could outweigh/overcome an Esper of higher rank. So what if we had an Esper who could control lightning, even a minute amount? Rather, the weaker the better in this case, as too much power would simply fry the brain.
Say we have a D rank Esper with the ability to manipulate electricity/lightning. Given that they have great control over their power, and a fair bit of medical science (specifically in regards to the brain), this person would be able to (theoretically) reverse a brain death. Of course they would need to have access to the brain in the first place, and a fairly strong stomach as they’d likely have to have their hands directly on the brain to do this procedure with the best results…
However, all in all this IS feasible for a world of Espers. And don’t give me any flak about how lightning would be too difficult to control when we have someone who can manipulate time practically at will (aside from going into the past) and another who could pull the Earth into the sun if they really felt like it.
@MrTiemos Electricity does not help against rot or in general dead cells. Assuming telekinesis, you would both need to know a lot about how they work and have control precise enough to work on a cellular level yet fast enough to restore the brain before it dies again and enduring enough to keep it alive until it is regulated without their help. The author also mentioned in this comment chain there is no special resurrection esper, so that is impossible.
In addition, the examples you gave are exceptions rather than the norm. It is already mentioned in the story the vast majority of espers have much worse control than they do. There is a reason they are some of only few SSS-ranks recorded in history. It is already known that the control somewhat scales with power and mentioned in the story that the brains of high-ranking espers just work different.
Also why did you go for lightning specifically? Telekinesis, with some effort, could probably pull of the signals between the brain too and is more likely to work, considering it would be better at dealing with the earlier mentioned dead cells, as the main cause of biological death would be the lack of oxygen going towards the brains, meaning a telekinesist could probably pull it off far better.