Kaiba does not listen. He has no reason to listen, not when he knows his brother's out there, in need of help, and Seto is dutybound to help him!
So he does reach out to take hold of the bars, to shake them, tear at them, test them for weaknesses, anything at all!
...His hands don't burn. The bars aren't the object of punishment. Instead, there's a searing agony that spreads from his neck, down his spine. It seizes him like a vice, tightens his muscles so painfully he swears that he might never be free of the constrictive force.
Since the current is coming from within, rather than the bars, Kaiba is quick to collapse backwards, dazed and letting out hissing groans of pain that have no vocal inflection.
Maybe it would have behooved him to listen after all.
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So he does reach out to take hold of the bars, to shake them, tear at them, test them for weaknesses, anything at all!
...His hands don't burn. The bars aren't the object of punishment. Instead, there's a searing agony that spreads from his neck, down his spine. It seizes him like a vice, tightens his muscles so painfully he swears that he might never be free of the constrictive force.
Since the current is coming from within, rather than the bars, Kaiba is quick to collapse backwards, dazed and letting out hissing groans of pain that have no vocal inflection.
Maybe it would have behooved him to listen after all.