Naoya collected all four pinky fingers and put them in a basin filled with cold water; then he sat in front of them all with the chair backrest against his chest and looked at them. "You all didn't reply to my question." It was then he noticed that he still hadn't untied their mouth gag. "Oh, how clumsy of me?"
With that said, he used telekinesis to untie the gag from their mouths; because of the pain and fear that clouded them, they didn't even notice the supernatural thing that just happened; instead, they just wept harder and started begging Naoya.
"Please don't kill me," said Ito; due to fear, he had already wet the chair he was sitting in. The case was no different from others, as they also had a pool of their own under their respective seats.
"Please let us go!" The girl said.
Naoya rested his chin on top of the chair's backrest and simply watched them. His expression remained unreadable. If anything, the calmness on his face frightened them more than anger would have.
"Kill you?" he repeated. "When did I say I was going to kill you?"
None of them answered.
"That's interesting." His gaze slowly moved from one student to the next. "Because the first thing all of you all thought to avoid pain is begging, but the irony here is, do you guys let the person you are hurting go, or would you laugh at him?"
"Please..." The second boy started shaking from his seat as he pleaded to me; it seemed they were losing more blood than he imagined.
Naoya leaned back slightly and folded his arms.
"I asked a question earlier. Why did you enjoy it?" His voice wasn't loud, yet it carried through the room with unsettling clarity. "You all had comfortable lives. Good homes. Good opportunities. In fact, three out of four of you come from an upper class; only the girl is from a middle-class family. Yet every morning you choose to make someone else's life miserable. So tell me why this is enjoyable. I cut all four of your fingers, and I didn't feel anything close to pleasure. I just felt nauseous thinking that I am going further away from humanity."
The four did not say anything to Naoya's question; instead, they just looked down and started weeping harder.
The smell of blood already started penetrating; combine that with the smell of ammonia from urine, and the run was pungent for everyone.
"There are 1,000 other people like us across Japan doing what we are doing; why are you only harming us?" The third boy exploded like he couldn't handle the injustice.
"Simple because you guys catch my eye; I am a hypocrite, you see. If I find something that is morally ill, I will prevent it, but that doesn't make me a kind person, as a kind person will go out of his way to help others. I didn't do that, nor do I plan to. If I have knowledge of someone who is in difficulty, I will help them; that's it."
Naoya knows with how the blood was leaking, it won't be long before they start losing their consciousness, and so he also needs to hurry with all the things he intended to say to Bullies.
Naoya pointed to the girl. "You girl, your father does three jobs to keep you well-fed. Among the four, you are supposed to know what it means to be ordinary. You don't have looks, Money or even persuasion power. You are ordinary in every sense of the word. I still don't know why you are cruel to someone of your own creed."
"Not that I am the one to lecture. Anyway, the reason why I cut your finger is for you four to listen carefully, so listen like your future depends on it. If you or your gang ever harm another student, it will not be the pinky finger that will be cut next time; it will be your head. I believe in the notion of giving second chances, but if they don't reform, then only God can change them, and I will set that appointment early. DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND?"
They all nodded in unison, seeing that Naoya activated the RCT and stopped the bleeding. While he could reattach the finger, he didn't. Where they look at that missing finger, they need to remember what happened in this room.
All four devil spawn exclaimed in surprise as they felt that the wound was closing and pain was reducing.
That missing finger will be like a permanent mark, just like the one they give to Junpei.
"Are you a god?" The girl murmurs, noticing the supernatural side of the world for the first time.
"No, I am the demon that escaped death."
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