PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

The sound of Gerard’s skull crashing into the wall in front of him reverberated within the room as Desmond gazed indifferently at the man he held tightly in his hands.

At this point, no one in the room knew how to react or what to do and they couldn’t help but watch as Desmond hit Gerard for no apparent reason.

POM! POM! SPLASH!

After a couple of hits, the unpleasant sound of blood being splattered snapped Silvia out of her daze, seeing her lieutenant hit an innocent one over and over again, Silvia couldn’t sit idly by and used her Esper ability to create an ice spike near Desmond’s chest to force him to retreat.

Feeling the icy edge in front of his chest Desmond stopped his violent outburst and took a couple of deep breaths, the truth was that he didn′t plan to act in such an irrational way at first, but something he saw inside the orphanage made him lose his temper for the second time this day.

Unfortunately for Silvia, although Desmond had calmed down a bit, her act of threatening him elicited another kind of reaction from Desmond that she certainly couldn’t predict.

“Lieutenant Astryd please release that man,” Silvia pleaded as she clung to control of her ice spike.

“Or what?”

.....

On the other hand, the sarcasm was almost palpable in Desmond’s response and before Silvia had a chance to say anything else, Desmond exploded with unprecedented force and speed, taking the ice spike with his right hand; moment followed Silvia felt her control over it break as Desmond threw the ice spike across the room.

In a way, Silvia was lucky that Desmond had calmed down enough by the time this incident occurred because according to Desmond’s nature, his reaction to someone threatening him would have been many times more violent.

Of course, part of the reason why Desmond held back with Silvia was mainly that he knew in advance that Silvia was friends with Claire which made him less aggressive than he normally is.

Completely unaware of the fact that Desmond had held back against her, Silvia tried once again to create an ice spike to defend herself against him, but to her surprise, she was unable to do anything when a third party got involved.

Silvia could hardly believe what was happening when she felt her body completely trapped by an external force, when she managed to gather enough strength to look at her side she saw her friend Claire making a gesture with her hands while a layer of telekinetic energy covered her hands.

What Silvia felt at that moment was a deep sense of sadness and betrayal, but when she looked into Claire’s eyes she came to an understanding of the current situation, in Claire’s eyes there was no cruelty or indifference but a cold and hard will like steel that would not be shaken by that tiny spark of guilt that shone deep in her eyes.

On the other hand, Desmond who felt that the situation was getting out of control mainly because of his fault took a step forward to stop Claire, and as soon as Silvia was released, Desmond extended his hand, handing Silvia the file on the criminal that he still had in his hands.

Silvia seemed to understand that it was not the right time to continue challenging Desmond at the same time that she understood that even if she continued to challenge him it was very likely that Desmond would simply bend her easily so she took the document that was given to her and read its contents.

While Silvia took care of the document that was given to her Desmond dragged Gerard who until now was still stunned by the sudden beating he had received without prior notice.

Without the ability to resist Gerard was put on his knees in front of Desmond in the center of the room, Morales who had not done anything while all this was going on had to get closer when he received a gesture from Desmond; and Morales became the person in charge of submitting Gerard.

Now seeing Silvia’s expression get darker by the second Desmond knew that the girl would stop being a problem at least for now, that way Desmond had the freedom to do what he had to do so that Gerard would tell him what he wanted to know.

“Gerard Mclain, you are a smart enough man to pick a place like this to hide ... crafty but not very lucky, now I’m not at all interested in hearing whatever you have to say except for one thing ... Where is the girl? ? ”

At the sudden mention of a girl everyone in the room seemed quite taken aback except for Gerard who tried to act as calm as possible, little did Gerard know that with Kyuru in his spirit form floating over Desmond’s shoulder he couldn’t hide his emotions.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Mr. Officer, I’m just a humble servant destined to take care of this orphanage, I don’t know anything about ... AAARRGH!”

Before Gerard finished lying so blatantly he was interrupted by Desmond who without any change in his expression stabbed him in the shoulder, the sensation of the flesh tearing apart was uncomfortable for Desmond even having his finger covered in metallic mana but he ignored this feeling as he twisted his finger buried in Gerard’s wound.

“Do not tempt my patience, Mr. Gerard, I only have patience when it comes to beautiful women, for men like you ... well”

As soon as the word “well” left Desmond’s lips a second cry of pain echoed through the room as Desmond had removed his finger from Gerard’s wound and stabbed him in the shoulder.

“Now I wish you were honest with me Mr. Gerard, where is the girl?”

“I won’t tell you shit”

Gerard’s defiant expression when he responded to Desmond did little to change the expression on Desmond’s face as he simply stabbed Gerard a couple more times, it should be noted that Desmond was not seriously injuring Gerard and was choosing very carefully where to attack and cause a greater amount of pain without causing too much real damage.

“Please Mr. Gerard you are a man who wields violence for pleasure and if I know something about those like you it is that they do not enjoy much when violence is exerted on them, on the other hand, I am a man who wields violence against those like your; you must understand that I don’t care if I have to stab you a hundred or a thousand times to get what I need so I suggest you speak soon ”

Cold, a chilling and sinister cold crawled up Gerard’s spine as he looked into Desmond’s blue eyes, Gerard was a man of cruelty and violence with few things he feared in this world but inside Desmond’s eyes he saw something worse than cruelty ... he saw the indifference, a complete lack of conscience, guilt or aggression towards himself and at that moment he knew that the person in front of him would not feel anything at all no matter how much brutality he applied on him.

At that moment when Gerard felt his soul shudder in the presence of Desmond as if he was trying to reinforce his thoughts, Desmond proceeded to stab Gerard without even giving him time to think of an answer.

“! AARRRG! okay, okay I’ll tell you what you want to know, the girl is in the external warehouse of the building... AAARRRG! I haven’t done anything to her, I swear, I didn’t even have the time AAAARGH! Please stop torturing me I already told you where the girl is please AAAARRGH! Why don’t you stop The girl is fine I swear ... I swear ... please just ... stop ”

With coldness and indifference that made even Kyuru and Claire uncomfortable, Desmond continued to stab Gerard with an almost mechanical rhythm as he answered the question that was asked and it was not until after the fourth stab that Desmond stopped; by then Gerard was barely babbling as tears streamed down his face.

And for a moment everyone looked nervously at Desmond fearing that he hadn’t finished or done something more drastic to the man who was now bleeding on his knees, but Desmond simply shook his hand to get rid of the blood and made his way out of the room.

Only Silvia received a word or two as Desmond left the room, but she certainly didn’t feel lucky or special at all, not when what came from Desmond’s lips was a threat.

“Never challenge me again Miss Trevstone, not even that beautiful face of yours will calm my anger next time.”

And with that note Desmond left the room leaving Claire, Silvia, and Morales to guard the now barely functional Gerard while he went to find a certain cheerful and enthusiastic looking young woman hoping that Gerard’s words were true and she was truly intact.