'Lead the way.'
Well, we walked for about three minutes until we reached my father's office. Peter knocked on the door and said, 'Sir, Nirgal is here.' Five seconds later, I heard a cold male voice say, 'Come in.'
When I heard it, I felt terrified. I remembered Nerghal; he made me feel terrified of his father. I remembered when he looked at him in a disgusting way, disappointed when he discovered his talent. When he saw Nerghal, he ignored him and asked the servants to take him back to his room. When he failed to do something, such as an exercise or the tasks assigned to him by the family tutor, he would scold him angrily and lock him in his room for weeks, not allowing him to go out, only allowing him to do his homework and exercises. When he sees his father laughing and playing with his brothers, he feels jealous and guilty for not being as talented as them, and his mother's neglect makes him feel even worse. If he does something foolish, such as challenging his older sister, and she defeats him with one finger, she says to him: 'Who would have thought you were such a talentless failure? What a disgusting brother you are. Get out of my sight, next time I'll kill you.' Then she left.
Nirgal remained on the ground, shocked, feeling like a failure like never before. 'Am I really a failure...' Then he got up and ran to his room to cry silently.
Then he did something terrible; he molested his servant's 12-year-old daughter. Her mother was there because she couldn't leave her child alone at home. Before he could rape her, the guards caught him. When he told his father that he had tried to rape a girl, his father became angry and ordered him to be flogged, then tied him to the training ground for the whole day. Only then did something inside him begin to change, an uncomfortable sensitivity. Gradually, this feeling grew until it became Nirgal's greatest source of terror, more than disappointment.
'Mr Nirgal, are you all right?'
Ha, I felt a hand shake my shoulder. Then I looked innocently at Adam, who smiled at me in a smug way, as if he were waking up a stray dog. Then he spoke: 'Sir, you've been silent for 48 seconds, you're shaking. I called you more than once and you didn't answer. Are you okay? Your father wants you; I've kept him waiting too long.'
Ha. Yes, what was that? Calm down, you're fine, let's go see him. His father, after all, what could happen? He's not going to kill me... I said in a choked voice: 'Yes, I'm fine, let's go in.' Adam didn't care much, he turned and headed for the door and opened it: 'Come in, Mr. Nirgal, come in, your father is waiting for you.'
I walked towards the door, my legs trembling; I tried to hide my fear, but it was difficult. When I entered, I saw a man standing there, 180 cm tall; he had blue hair and golden eyes, giving you a feeling of awe and reverence. He was wearing armour with strange decorations, as if it were alive... His name was Oliver, the head of the Griffmont family knights. And a man was sitting at a desk with black hair and purple eyes like Nerghal's; this was Nerghal's father: Lucian Griffmont. He looked at Nerghal with a cold gaze. Nerghal felt very afraid, as if he were naked.
'Nerghal, do you know why I summoned you here?'
What? How should I answer him? Should I give him a joke to lighten the ominous atmosphere? Let's be sensible, I don't want to be flogged. I replied neutrally, 'I don't know, Adam didn't tell me anything.' I tried to be neutral.
'Nergal, I'm calling you in to find out your ambitions or your future in this neighbourhood. Tell me what you want.'
Ha. What's this? Since when does he ask typical parental questions? Huh. Is he really Lucian?
'Nergal, you didn't answer my question.'
'Yes, it's just a sudden question and I don't have an answer yet.'
Lucian smiled at me and said, 'I wanted to know your fate before killing you so that I could find out the truth after your death, but you are a failure with no purpose.'
Silence filled the room except for the sound of my body trembling from the horror of what I had heard. After a few seconds, I asked him in a hesitant, almost inaudible voice, 'W...w...why did you want to kill me? I'm your son.' I swallowed my saliva after I finished. He said to me, 'Because you are my son, I asked you about your ambition or your destiny so that I could fulfil it for you after your death. It seems that you want to know why I didn't kill you.'
I froze for a few seconds and shook my head: 'Yes.'
He said to himself, 'I want to at least know why you want to kill me, you madman.' Lucian said, 'Well, consider this your last wish. The priest predicted that you would make a deal with the devil after entering the academy, bring shame to the Greymont family, and kill your sister Anna and many students. So, Neirgal, I have granted your wish: you can die now.'
When he finished speaking, I knew he had sentenced me to death. I tried to run, but I fell to the ground; my legs wouldn't work. Damn, damn, damn. Suddenly, an enormous pressure crushed my bones, and I couldn't do anything; I couldn't move my hands or feet. I heard a voice say, 'Pathetic.'
Then I felt my neck being cut. I lost feeling in my body and time froze. I heard Oliver talking to Lucian: he told him not to leave the devil alone, so he could detain him and extract information from him... I heard him say that he would think it was collusion with a high-ranking devil...
Then my vision went black. {Activate Retreat Skill} A blue screen appeared in front of me that said...
Then...
'Mr. Nerghal, are you okay?' I heard a voice. 'Mr. Nerghal, are you okay?'
Ha, I felt a hand shaking my shoulder, and it became stronger as time passed. 'Mr. Nerghal...'
Then I opened my eyes. I looked at Adam smiling at me in a smug way, as if he were looking at a zombie. Then I cried out loud: 'A... monster!'
I turned and ran, then fell and got up and ran, then fell again, but I know if I don't run away, I'll... I can't think about it... I'd rather run and scream 'monster.'
The servants came out, all of them looking at me. Adam °_° looked at me in surprise: what happened to him? He saw Nirgal running and falling and running again and screaming, 'Monster, I don't want to die.'
Then Adam hears a voice saying, 'Bring him here.' Adam comes to his senses and moves quickly, grabbing Nirgal and heading for Lucian's office.
When Adam grabs him, Nirgal can't move because of the pressure Adam is putting on him, and when he sees that Adam is approaching the office door, he starts screaming even louder than before. His voice was breaking.
"The monster is anyone who calls the policeman. Monster, monster, you idiot, help me!"
He shouted with all his might, opened the door, threw me inside, and closed the door. Then my cries faded away outside the room; the servants could no longer hear my voice.
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I'm bad at English. Sorry for the spelling mistakes.