The man approached closer before easily lifting Rudra up by his neck while choking him. "Strange insect. You seem to be afraid of me, but more than that, you seem relieved. You seem to be hiding something, huh? What is it? Tell ME!!" Rudra felt the pressure on his neck increase as he slowly began to choke, but he refused to answer that man.
Looking at the boy in his hands, whose face was turning increasingly blue, the man felt a strange sense of joy. He liked the small toys like this the most. The ones that did not break easily. He enjoyed playing with them and breaking them down thoroughly. Despite having a lack of time, he felt that indulging a little in this kind of sport was acceptable. He was the highest-ranked one here; no one would dare to blame him anyway.
"Do you know, mortal, there is something called a tendon found in the human body. There are over thirty tendons in your hand alone. Snap just one, and your fingers become nothing but limp, useless flesh. Pull them all, and you lose everything that makes you human—your touch, your grip, your future." While saying so, the man slowly extended his hand, where his nails elongated into sharp knives as he cut open the back of Rudra's hand.
"Also, did I mention that the pain is enough to make a man beg for death before he even bleeds out?" With a wet, sickening snap, he yanked the white strip of flesh out of his hands.
Rudra felt an unimaginable pain go through his arm, then throughout his body as he screamed until his voice was hoarse while his arm spasmed uncontrollably.
A sick sensation of happiness filled the man when he saw the crying and bleeding boy in his arms. "Well, vermin, are you ready to talk yet?"
Looking at the smiling face of the person in front of him, Rudra felt an uncontrollable rage come over him as he mustered all the strength in his body to shout something he heard his mother say in her anger, "FU*K YOUR MOTHER!!!"
"Good, good, I like the toys that don't break so easily. Do you know that was just one tendon, there are still 3,999 left?" With that, the man began his torture, pulling out each and every tendon in his right arm until there was nothing left and proceeded to do the same in his left leg. By the time he was done with both limbs, there was barely any life left inside Rudra and the boy fell into a semiconscious state.
The man admired his handiwork before throwing the boy to the side like discarded trash against the wall. He slowly walked over to him and used his powers to jolt the boy awake. "I know you can hear me boy, let me tell you something, you did good, very good. Very few have made it this far without breaking." He paused for a moment before the grin on his face widened before he moved closer to whisper in the boy's ear. "That little girl you were desperately trying to protect, I sensed her long ago. I just wanted to see how far you will go to protect her. Next, I'll let you see me doing the same thing to her as I did to you, and you will not be able to do Anything. About. It."
After finishing his words the man started walking away from him towards the building. But he was stopped in his tracks as he peered down to see Rudra somehow crawled his way towards him and was holding his legs with his good arm. He paused for a second before smiling and stepping on the arm that was holding his leg with the other one, with bone-crushing noises ringing out. Satisfied with now loose grip on his leg, he started walking forward again, only to be stopped in his tracks once more.
This time, the boy was crawling with his body and using his mouth to bite his leg. "You never learn, do you?" The man used his free leg to kick Rudra's head. But the boy did not budge, so he kept kicking, again and again, until there was no movement from him anymore. Satisfied with his work, he picked the little guy up from his head and brought him to his level only to see him still wide awake with his eyes open.
His eyes were bloody red, with tears of blood running down his eyes and blood flowing down everywhere from the top of his head. He glared at the man with such ferocity that his eyes seemed to shine even brighter with unknown power, making the man flinch in fear just for a fraction of a second. After the flinching, the man felt nothing but unbearable humiliation. The very thing he considered nothing but an ant managed to scare him even if it was just for a second.
"Good, VERRRRY GOOD!! SINCE YOU HAVE SO MUCH LIFE LEFT IN YOU BOY, LET ME SEND YOU TO MEET YOUR MAKERR FIRRRST BOY. THAT LITTLE GIRL WILL SOON FOLLOW YOU, AFTER I PUT HERRR THRROUGH EVEN MORE UNIMAGINABLE TORRRTURE" After finishing his piece, the man raised his other arm and brought it down with force towards his neck, intending to sever the neck from his little boy altogether.
Rudra closed his eyes, feeling nothing but endless regret that he had broken his promise to his mother and had not been able to save his sister.. 'I am really sorry Maa, I was not strong enough to protect her. I am really sorry.'
Rudra kept his eyes closed and waited for the pain to come. But even after a few seconds, there was no pain. Instead, he felt a warm embrace enveloping his whole body, and all the injuries on his body stopped hurting.
He opened his eyes to see himself in the hands of a woman, who was looking at him with a very gentle look. "You did very well, little one. Leave the rest to me."