Angel Monarch

Chapter 158: Torture Session

The place where she got teleported to could only be described with two words, white and clean. The small room looked like a hospital room, with a bed, small night table, a few machines that were constantly making beeping noises and a large window.

The whole place, every furniture, the tiles below Sera's feet, the walls of the building, all of it was plain white. Even the light above her was purely white, but also really bright and made a buzzing sound.

She wasn't even a little bit surprised. Before every testing session she was teleported into this room. Her eyes quickly looked towards the bed, where a hospital gown was already prepared for her.

Without any ceremony she started dressing down, taking of her leather jacket, shirt, bra, boots, pants socks, panties and even her watch. Then put on the hospital gown, which luckily covered every major part of her. It was a bit cold in the room, but she had no care to cover her chest more than the gown already did.

Strangely enough Harold was a sadistic psychopath who enjoyed watching other people's suffering, but at least he wasn't a pervert. In Sera's opinion he didn't even have sexual desires. He only pursued academic knowledge and liked to torture anything that could scream.

Slowly Sera walked to the large window and stared outside while she waited for Harold.

Looking outside she wasn't shocked to see the cave walls and roof. She already knew that this facility was fully underground, she even began to believe that the only way to access it was through Harold's teleportation.

But not too long ago, they actually found where it laid. The facility was located on a remote island below the Italian Peninsula. Still actually finding it on the large island wasn't an option, Harold definitely implemented defensive measures against that.

From her window she saw... a lot...

The area was a huge rectangle, by her judgement about three hundred meters towards one side and another hundred to the other.

The large facility was full of different machines, tubes containing dead or living specimens, there were also different separated rooms which where labeled with different names. From her vantage she couldn't quite make them out.

There were also many different pipes and cables all over the place. The whole setup was purely chaotic, similar to its owner.

The truly interesting and creepy part was the emptiness of the area. You would think that a nearly thirty thousand square meter facility would have hundreds of scientist working inside, but there wasn't a single soul down there. The only actual personnel in this whole place was Harold.

"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear." Said a male voice from behind her.

Sera glanced over her shoulder at Harold who was grinning from ear to ear, then she turned back and spoke while staring out the window.

"I don't think I said your name even once." She heard the sound of footsteps and soon Harold was standing right next to her. They both stayed silent for a while, then eventually he smiled down at her.

"Oh, but you thought of me little angel. That's more than enough for me since I'm living right inside that pretty head of yours." As Harold said it, he ran a finger through Sera's golden locks. With the teleportation her color changing earing got sent back to her soul, so both her hair and eye returned to its original golden state.

With a quick movement she batted his hand away and while pretending to be spiteful she said, "Then maybe I should increase the rent!" Harold just laughed and glanced outside for a bit.

His expression gradually turned more serious, then after a while he motioned for Sera to follow. Without any choice in the matter, she done as she was told.

They walked through similarly white corridors with not a soul in sight, only the two of them in this gigantic underground building. They went by many doors, all of them looked the same, with no labels or indications for their purpose.

After a few minutes they finally arrived at a door that looked exactly like the others. Harold opened it, then held it so Sera could move on in.

This was the place where he took her each session. There were multiple different machines, each measuring something important about her, there were also quite a few tests both physical and mental she had to complete to the best of her abilities. All of that was just the preparations for the finale... her death...

First she had to take of the gown and step inside a machine that measured everything on the outside. If since the past examination her finger's length changed even by a micrometer, the machine would show it.

Next up was a different kind of machine. It measured all of her bodily functions to the smallest of details. It showed everything from her heartbeat, breathing, blood movements, intestine movements and even her bodily filtration.

The third machine was probably the most uncomfortable. Sera laid inside of it, and the machine automatically put her on catheter, it also stabbed a needle into her left arm. After all that, it sent a small shock straight into her brain, which made Sera pee and shit herself. The machine also took tear and saliva samples as well.

After she got out of that machine, she was trembling a bit. The experience wasn't painful at all, compared to some of the others at least, but it was definitely the most horrible, after dying of course. At least after this one she could put her gown back on.

While she went through these machines Harold was already looking and comparing some of her results.

The next machine tested her nervous system, by sending waves of shocks through every single nerve in her body. It was really painful.

The fifth wasn't really a machine, but just a robot which she had to hit at specific points and with increasing speed. This test only ended when she couldn't hit the point fast enough.

The sixth one was a bit similar, but instead of attacking she had to dodge. The robot's speed and strength constantly increased, it would end when she was knocked out of the small drawn circle below her feet.

This was quite bad as well, but not even close to the next one. The machine looked nothing much, but it was maybe the worst after the bodily fluid taker. This one's whole purpose is to test her pain tolerance. Once started it will only turn off, when she is passed out from pain.

On shaky legs she slowly approached the machine and laid down inside of it. The capsule closed and the terrifying buzzing began sounding all over the machine. At first it was just a small prickling sensation all over her skin, but soon it increased.

After a minute it felt like hundred thousand needles being pushed inside every single one of her pores, still she didn't show any pain on the outside. Even when the pain increased so much that she felt like her skin was being pulled from her muscles slowly, she didn't scream.

This was the only power she had over Harold's tests. No matter how bad it gets, she won't beg for him to stop the machine. Slowly she closed her eyes, from which tears made their way down her cheek. Her head was red from the pain, but still she stayed silent.

When the pain was simply unbearable, she finally passed out without making any sound throughout her suffering. The machine quickly sent a small zap right into her frontal cortex, waking her a few seconds after passing out.

Her whole body was trembling and she could barely walk. Luckily the next tests were all very easy and simple. They tested her eyesight, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. They felt like heaven after the pain test.

For the last test, she had to answer actual questions on a paper. Some tested her basic knowledge, some her logic, some her strategy, some her memory, but the last few were always strange.

For example, 'Who is the most important person in your life?' she wrote Bran, since he helped her the most with the city's management.

Then another asked, 'Do you love anyone?' her answer was easy. She wrote down 'No you idiot I can't feel emotions because of you!'

Another strange one was, 'What would you name your daughter?' she wrote down 'Go Fuck Yourself' as an answer.

This was the only fun part of these tests, since no matter what she wrote Harold never seemed to care enough to punish her. As she was done with the final test, the worst part was about to begin.

Currently Sera sat on a comfortable chair, waiting for Harold to decide how she will die. Find adventures at ???

The tests, especially the last one, took so long that her revival has reset about an hour ago.

It took him a bit longer to compile all the data and compare it to the last session's. He was constantly muttering things to himself which Sera couldn't make out. Eventually he nodded and turned towards her with a small cruel smile.

Harold picked up a clipboard, which held all the different ways she had died. A few of them were suicides, then other times Harold killed her himself with brain aneurysm or just a simple physical hit, but the worst ones were when he got creative, or had some truly awful idea.

She was burned in a vat of acid, jumped into lava, he even done a blood eagle on her once when she talked shit about him, also he was curious how it looked.

It was a coin toss. If he feels more scientific he will choose something that's important to his research. Sadly most of the times he feels sadistic and chooses the most painful way for her to die.

Luckily for Sera, today was the first option.

"Hmm... Ah, yes! Let's do this one!" He said while pointing at something on his clipboard, then he stared at Sera, waiting for her to do something. After a few seconds of waiting he realized that Sera had no idea what he pointed at. Harold looked a bit embarrassed, which in Sera's opinion, looked strange on a sadistic psychopath.

"We will do the gamma ray test. Let's see how your body reacts to large amounts of radiation!" Slowly she stood up from the chair and they both walked to one of the corners were a coffin-like capsule laid on the floor. With a raised eyebrow Sera looked at Harold, who was just giggling to himself.

The machine probably didn't need to look like a coffin, but he had a strange sense of humor. Without any protest Sera went into the box, closing it onto herself.

Gradually the machine came alive and Sera felt her skin being pierced by tiny particles. It was a weird sensation, not painful at all... The painlessness didn't last long...

As more particles hit her skin, she started to feel warmer. It was like she had a high fever of sorts, then came the nausea. She tried to hold it back, but soon that was simply not possible Sera vomited all over herself, it was a combination of food she had eaten a while ago and blood.

It still wasn't really painful, but when her skin started to melt it become excruciating. It was like being on fire both on the outside and on the inside. This was also different from the pain test, instead of a gradual climb it was a sudden piercing pain.

She screamed on the top of her lung as her body slowly melted down. It took only a few minutes for her to die, but eventually the sound of screaming stopped within the coffin...

Another death...