"I want your word."  Prince Aiguo shouted for everyone to hear.  

"This King's word is this King's bond, that this King and this King's people will not raise a hand against you.  This King and this King's people will let you go as long as you tell me everything about the Red Maidens."  Takeshi said.  

"I have your word!"  Prince Aiguo said as he looked at everyone's faces to see if they would raise a hand against him.  Seeing everyone stand in their place, he told them what they wanted to hear.  "Lady Akira came to me some months ago.  Five months to be exact.  She said she no longer wants to be the puppet for King Nao and her family.  She had aligned herself with the Red Maidens to free her and help her kill someone.  In return, she would belong to them.  Her goal was to kill Lady Lihua."  

"How did they get into Phantom Mirage?"  Takeshi asked.  

"They have been secretly infiltrating the royal city for the past four months.  One of the Red Maidens had gotten close to a Phantom Mirage Committee Member and he told her about the many portals the Phantom Mirage would open.  Using this information, they gathered as spectators during the first day of the unveiling of the portals.  They were able to find another opening to the Phantom Mirage near the opening site and they all traveled here."  

"Is this all of them?"  Takeshi asked.  

"That I know of."  Prince Aiguo said.   "These are the only Red Maidens that I met up with."  

"And what do you get out of it?"  Thorin asked.  "With partnering up with Lady Akira and the Red Maidens?"  

"If I helped them create discord between Lady Lihua and Hell King as well as helping them kill her, they would help me win the throne. But I promise you, I had no intentions of helping them kill Lady Lihua!  I wanted her for myself!"  Prince Aiguo confessed.  

"Oh, we could tell you wanted her for yourself."  Dai said angrily.  

"Are you leaving anything else out?"  Takeshi asks.  

"No.  I told you everything I know."  

Takeshi turned towards Chiyo and said.  "He's all yours."  

Prince Aiguo's eyes widen in fear.  Takeshi had not let up the qi pressure on him.  The pressure was too great for him to move, let alone defend himself.  

"I had your word!"  Prince Aiguo said.  

"Yes, you did.  This King said this King and this King's people will not raise a hand against you. And that this King and this King's people will let you go...but this King did not promise you that the citizens of Bido Kingdom won't."  Takeshi tells him.  "For they are not my people." 

Prince Aiguo screamed in frustration, his heart screaming out in the injustice.  Takeshi releases his qi pressure off of Prince Aiguo as Chiyo takes out her sword.  As soon as Takeshi relased his qi pressure, Chiyo pushed her qi into her feet and activated her swiftness movement. Chiyo unleashed five qi strikes immediately as Prince Aiguo still knelt.  All five qi strikes hit him back to back.  His body falling backwards as the last qi strike hits him.  

Several of his dantians were shattered.  He couldn't even control his qi to block any attacks.  Two of the qi strikes were aimed at his arms, hitting them and shattering his bones, making them useless.  As he fell backwards, he watched helplessly as Chiyo aimed her qi infused sword straight down his pelvis area.  The sword pierced through his groin, cutting his penis on the way as it pinned him to the ground.  He cried out loudly in pain and agony as he struggled to sit up.  

Chiyo kicked his shoulder with her feet, forcing him back down. She leans all of her body weight on to his shoulders with her feet, pinning him down as she stared hatefully at him.  

"Now you shall know how it feels to have someone tie you up and violate you."  Chiyo said as she pulled out the whip her father gave her.  "I'll make you scream in pleasure.  I promise."  

"N-no.  Please don't!"  Prince Aiguo pleaded.  "Stop." 

"Do you remember those were the exact same words you said to me?  And I, in turn said the very same words you just said."  Chiyo said darkly as she fell into her memories.  "Tell me what you said next."  

Prince Aiguo shook his head no.  Chiyo hit him in the face.  Her qi infused fist making contact with his cheek.  

"Say it!"  Chiyo yelled as she hit him again and again.  "Say it like you did that night!  Say it like you mean it!" 

"I---I'll make-- I'll make you feel s---so goo--so good that you'll remember it f--for the re--rest of-- of yo--your life."  Prince Aiguo cried out.   

"That's right, baby."  Chiyo said as she bent down to look him in the eyes as she smiled at him full of hate.  She petted his cheeks with her hand as she said back his own words, back at him. "I'll make you feel so good that you'll remember it for the rest of your life."

Prince Aiguo couldn't do anything as he stared at her with fear in his eyes.  He knew he wouldn't live past that day.  He gambled with the Red Maidens and lost.  The sins he committed were now coming back to bite him and all he could do now is pay for them.  Tears start to fall down his eyes as he realized his truth.  

"And since the rest of your life will soon come to an end.  I'll make sure you'll remember it to the end."  Chiyo said as she stood up.  

"Help me?"  Chiyo asked her family.  "I want him tied and bent over that log we passed by last night." 

"No, please. I beg you.  You do--don't have to d--do this!  I was wr--wrong.  I'm s--sorry!" Prince Aiguo cried out as Takao and Dai dragged in pass the edge of the forest and did what Chiyo asked.  "Please for--forgive m-me!  Just k--kill m--me, do--don't do this to m-m-me!  S--stop!"  

"Chiyo."  Lihua called out softly as everyone else watched the gruesome scene about to play out. "Once you do this, you can't undo it.  You don't need to take it this far."  

"I'm no longer the Chiyo you once knew."  She told Lihua.  "That Chiyo died that night.  A darker one was born.  I need to do this to lay my demons to rest."  

"It might create new demons."  Lihua said as she came to stand in front of Chiyo, as she searched Chiyo's eyes for any signs of second thoughts.  

"Better the demon I created, then the demons that haunt me in my dreams.  This demon will eat the other demons and destroy them." Chiyo said as she stared back at Lihua with resolve.  

"Okay."  Lihua sighed as she touched Chiyo's face.  "Okay."  

Dai and Takao had come out of the forest after tying Prince Aiguo face down and bent over on to the fallen log. 

"No one disturbs me." Chiyo coldly said.  "Everyone can rest...I will be taking my time with this." 

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Everyone listened for hours as Prince Aiguo cried out in pain and cried for help.  He pleaded over and over for mercy that no one gave to him.  Everyone had found themselves waiting and listening to the torture scene in front of them. Their hearts went out to Chiyo and they thought Prince Aiguo deserved everything that was happening to him, but a little part of them wished it would stop.  They just wished that this would take away any pain Chiyo was feeling and put Prince Aiguo out of his misery.  

What she did to him, no one knows.  For when he finally stopped screaming and pleading it took a long while for Chiyo to come back to the group.  Her face drained of color, however not a speck of blood was on her hands or clothes.  She didn't say anything to anyone as she walked back calmly towards the group.  She only stared at Lihua as she walked towards Lihua.  

Lihua opened her arms to receive Chiyo's unfeeling body into hers.  The moment Lihua's arms wrapped itself around Chiyo, she stayed still.  As if she was lost in her own world.  Not really looking at anything in particular.  And not seeing anyone in front of her.  

"He's dead.  I killed the demons." Chiyo confessed. 

Lihua didn't know what to say to her to comfort her.  She couldn't promise her that everything was going to be okay.  She didn't know if Chiyo would ever be okay ever again. 

"I feel nothing." Chiyo whispers.