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22. Twisted Justice
Overview
Augustus kidnaps the Hermes-affiliated doctor who sexually violated Alexis during treatment and drags him to a dungeon. Dropping his mask, Augustus interrogates and condemns the doctor, then uses overwhelming mental power to compel the man to mutilate himself. The scene reveals Augustus’s ruthlessness and fierce protection of Alexis, escalating moral stakes.
Summary
Hours before the main timeline, Augustus leaves a sleeping Alexis and stalks an unsuspecting doctor among the library stacks. Whispering a teleportation command, Augustus drags the man to his dungeon, shackles him, and confronts him about exposing Alexis’s breasts under the guise of treatment.
At first, the doctor relaxes, mistaking Augustus for Kharon. When Augustus reveals himself, the man panics and belittles Alexis as an “Olympian mutt,” admitting he wanted to see her chest. Augustus, disgusted and thinking of Helen’s vulnerability as well, rejects the man’s pleas and invokes the doctor’s dishonor.
Declaring Alexis “mine to protect,” Augustus invades the man’s mind. He shatters the doctor’s mental defenses, physically rupturing his eyes, then bellows a telepathic command to tear himself apart. Chained, the doctor obeys, ripping his own flesh as punishment.
Augustus watches without intervening, satisfied that his version of justice has been served. The act underscores Augustus’s uncompromising, brutal protection of Alexis and his willingness to exact retribution outside any formal law.
Who Appears
- AugustusKidnaps and punishes the Hermes doctor, revealing ruthless telepathic power and fierce protection of Alexis.
- Hermes-affiliated doctorAdmits to violating Alexis during treatment; chained, interrogated, and telepathically compelled to self-mutilate.
- Alexis HertAsleeep and unaware; the victim Augustus avenges, central to his motivations this chapter.