Chapter 40

His cold voice crept into his heart in panic, and he quickly raised his head. It was none other than Thomas Smith.
"Mabal that look of horror" Thomas smiled mockingly as he looked toward Phoenix.
"A disgusting creature like you is afraid of a human?"
"How did you do this to my brother!!"
Thomas lifted his hair back with his hand and looked at him coldly.
"What's wrong? It's not that hard, you want to share it?"
He held his hand close to the Phoenix while the other walked away in fear.
"I am not afraid of weak humans but you are different!! Who are you!?"
There was a shriek from Rex, as Phoenix jumped out of his seat while looking at Thomas's sly smile.
"I'm Thomas Smith, the one who killed your father with his failed contract," he said, then went into the basement and quietly closed the door behind him.
Phoenix went up the stairs and came out of the basement and he was thinking until he saw Carl in front of him looking tired, he had just come back from outside with his father..
Phoenix suddenly smiled cunningly.
"Well Thomas Smith, it's Eric who's torturing him, not me!"
He said it and then ran up to Carl excitedly and decided where to take him!
...............
Here is Eric on the other side, sitting across from his teacher at his house, lowering his head in embarrassment at Nicholas's cold scolding after he finished his lesson.
"Today's lesson is over, tomorrow you have two lessons in a row for escaping."
"What!! He punished me by depriving me of lessons, not by intensifying them for me!!"3
"I know how to punish my children," he said, bored, and left the room indifferently.
Then he noticed someone coming towards the window, and he opened it excitedly, so that Phoenix sat on the edges of it with enthusiasm as well..
Eric marvels at Phoenix's enthusiasm as he knows him cold!
"Young master Eric, do you remember your father's old mansion where you used to hang out with Carl? And that basement? He's waiting for you there to frolic."
Eric got excited, too, and clenched his fist into the Phoenix's fist.
Not long after, they were in the basement in which Carl suffered in his childhood, to meet with him the pain of his past and the pain of his present..
He was chained in the middle of the room and a very dim light in the place, and Phoenix had prepared a table with several tortures..2
Eric was surprised by this kit and went to check it out, he doesn't really use all of this normally..
He turned toward Phoenix in astonishment while Phoenix nodded in agreement.
"I prepared it for you to be more merry, didn"t you say you wanted to pluck your ears?" He smiled while Eric seemed strangely silent.
"I thought you were starting to make sense to Eric, but you that clumsy mouse didn't change," Carl said coldly, looking at Eric.
"Oh, the madman who leaves you after all that's going on because of you, and what's the latest? You know it, of course you don't need to mention it."
He said it bored and then punched Carl's head with hate..
Phoenix looked at them silently, put his hand on his cheek thinking how to convince Eric to use the tools?
Carl didn't make a sound, despite the punches and blows that came from Eric.. he's used to anyway..
"It doesn't please your ears, sir," said Phoenix, and Eric turned to him.
Phoenix looked at the tools without commenting and Eric looked at them..
Eric silently held the scalpel while Phoenix smiled contentedly.
Eric passed the scalpel over Carl's shoulder and down, enjoying the look of pain that Carl was trying so hard to hide...until he let out a shriek of pain that increased as Eric deepened his wound.
Eric moved away and began to pant as if he was in a race, looked at the blood dripping from his brother, then looked at the scalpel.
he looked back at his brother, He hears his moaning and panting and a bruise that appeared after hitting him.
He felt a strange feeling.
"Eric, you and your clumsy servant Phoenix will regret it," he said, in a tone that made Phoenix straighten up after shivering, He just remembered Thomas Smith's gaze and Rex's restrained posture.
"You can do nothing but remain tied up, and Sir Eric enjoys hearing your groans, and all else, I will protect Eric with my body, even if I have to stand before my brother and cut you and him to pieces."
Carlwas surprised by Phoenix's speech. Why does the world not see anything in his dictionary for brothers?
"Don't worry, Sir Eric, he can't do anything..." He stood and walked toward the tools, Then he picked up a needle and stretched it towards Eric, and the other picked it up without hesitation
He looked toward Phoenix's eyes, He seemed to hate Carl for some reason.
"Don't worry, I won't let you become a murderer, as soon as I feel it's going to...."
"He really is a killer," Carl said coldly and then looked at the Phoenix sharply.
"And do you think that a normal person would be able to hit and hurt like this unless he has already tried before? It is..."
He fell silent and the rest of his words turned to screams when Eric sticks a needle with force and anger, talking about the past and Matthew's death for Eric is a dark past that he deeply hates.
"I wish you had died then, Carl," Eric said suddenly coldly, removing the needle and sticking it back into Carl's thigh.
Carl doesn't know why he still wishes for Rex.
But at this moment he is wishing that Rex would come and save him as he did before..
Even if this is fake, He will at least save him from the hands of the rat, which have become tougher than the hands of the rattlesnake.
............
Thomas was sitting in front of Rex, who fell on him with fatigue, his wing was gone, his eyes were back to normal, the current had gone, and his shackles had been loosened by Thomas.
"Rex, are you okay?"
"I think so..."
Thomas pulled him away and looked at his features to be sure, rubbed Rex's wrists while the other watched him silently.
"Listen, Rex, in just one day I want to see your twins here, is that understandable?"
Rex nodded in agreement as he watched Thomas massage his wrists.
"Your power is back in control now, you can move freely."
Rex stood surprised and puzzled by Thomas' actions.3
"Go get me your twin, I want to reason with him..."
Rex nodded in agreement and then left silently.
Eric stood gasping with his head lowered, hair covering half of his face, His clothes were covered in blood, and both hands were holding something.
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t wasn't like this before, His heart was pounding hard, as if he had fought a long war.
He did not intend to stop, as Carl did not stop angering him with his words, but Phoenix told him that if he continued like this, it would lead to Carl's death.
"Go take a shower and I'll take care of the rest."
Eric did not object to Phoenix's statement, He negligently threw what was in his hand on the ground, then climbed up, coldness covering his face.
Phoenix grabbed Carl's face and smiled cunningly while the other looked at him with malice, because of him Eric got this far, He was encouraging him in twisted ways to keep going.
Phoenix picked him up and threw him in a spot, then called an ambulance to pick him up.
At that time, Thomas was nervously driving his car, calling Carlto no avail.
Carl is in the hospital, Phoenix has removed all traces, and Eric leaves the old mansion and walks coldly toward his mother's house.
He entered silently and calmly and without saying a word, he walked to his room and threw himself on his stomach while silently hugging his pillow..
His mother entered, she noticed his calm and indifference to those around him.
"My little Eric, are you okay?" She said, removing tufts of hair from his face to see clearly.
"Mom, I don't know," he said softly, without looking at her.
She was clearly worried as she stroked his hair.
"Tell me how you feel and think I might help you" and her concern grew when she saw a tear slip from his eye.
"Who bothered you, tell me and I'll beat him up for you, tell me, my little Eric?"
He wiped his tears and then sat very quietly.
"I'll be fine mom. Don't worry, how are you? It's been a while since we haven't sat down like before."
She smiled at him and patted his head.
"Shall we go out for a walk?"
"Yes mom, let's go out."
They went out of the house and she was trying to get away from him while he was getting quieter until she became worried about him..
............
It's been a few hours since Carlcame to the hospital, He opened his eyes to see the bags of blood attached to him..
Since when did Eric have such cruelty?
"Are you okay?"
Carl turned to see his father and smiled, feeling happy to be there.
"Who did this to you, Karl?"
Carl was silent for a while, not knowing whether the perpetrator's statement would help him or not.
"Tell me who did this to you? Is he one of Rex"s enemies?"
"No, dad..."
"if?"
"It's... Eric."
Thomas' eyes widened in disbelief, he had seen their fights before but to get to this point!
He got up and got out of the hospital in a hurry and walked towards their house while calling Erin..
"Hello Dad!" He said it happily, but Thomas didn't let him do anything.
"Where's Eric quickly!" He said it quickly.
"He went out with my mother"
"where!"
"Didn"t you know what that clumsy brother of yours did?"
"No, Dad, what's the matter?"
"Listen to me, if he comes home, tell me, don"t tell him that I asked about him."
Eren was surprised, but agreed, what misfortune did Eric put himself in? Why did his dad want him right now with this angry tone?
Thomas stopped suddenly when he caught sight of him in a park, parked his car and got off and sped up and surprised Eric with a punch to the face that knocked him to the ground.
Eric turned to him in astonishment while holding his face.
His mother came to him..
"You didn't hit him like that!! Then you left him and abandoned him, so what do you want from him now!!"
"None of your business!" He grabbed him by the arm and got him into the car while he turned to his mother and father nervously..
I followed them and got in the back and Thomas just ignored her, he got in his son and then got into the car and drove it hard..
"What's going on!? What are you going to do to my son!" I yelled at him again.
They reached a place far from people, he went down with his son and threw him on the ground and gathered his fist with his hand..
Damn, she knows him when he gets angry.
She went down trying to keep him away from her son while the other started hitting his son.
"Dad is enough!!!!"
Eric was surprised by his father's words and understood from them that he had found out what he had done.
"And are you waiting to kill him!" This was said by his mother.
"This clumsy son of yours almost killed his brother!!"
She gasped while only imagining Irene.
"But Irene is fine!!"
"I'm talking about Carl!! Your spoiled son has lost so much blood! He had his hair between him and death!"
"And you beat my son for that idiot!!"
"You understand what I'm saying! Your son almost killed him!"
"So be it! Just an insect!"
"This is how you raised him! Eric won't have you anymore!!"