"And the last one" [Ash]
"Umm! Ghh! Tchh!" [Guard]
"Speak properly will you! Oh wait, you can't, forgive me" [Ash]
Stripping the guard of their weapons and armour, as well gagging their mouths and blindfolding them, and lastly restraining them with my magic by binding them as well as casting various status ailments (mainly weakness, paralysis and petrification) and debuff (especially strength and magical debuff), all in order to interrogate the holy palace's prince. Saint Louis, Linda and I will be keeping an eye on these guards while Seraph and Alaric will be conducting the interrogation. Well, not like we are in a separate room or anything, this abandoned building is just one big hall, so we can see how the interrogation going on.
"Release me you lesser worm! Don't you know who I am!" [Holy palace's prince]
"Geez, I have said it before and I'll most likely said in the near future as well, but do nobles and royals really have sudden vocabulary loss syndrome when they're angry? I'm sure I have heard those line multiple times" [Ash]
And I sound like a broken tape myself. Guess I also have this syndrome when it comes to complaining about nobles
"Untie me! You better do it now or I will kill you" [Prince]
"And how exactly will you do that?" [Alaric]
"You think those in the holy palace won't notice my absence? They will surely realize come to the rescue" [Prince]
"And when they realize, you are already in the stomach of a gluttonous orc" [Alaric]
"!" [Prince]
That's a good line. Better take note of it, for future reference
"Now then, depending on your corporation, those fate might be avoided, so would you agree on it?" [Seraph]
"Why should I? Listen, I am the prince of the holy palace, and I won't repeat myself, release me and all should be forgiven" [Prince]
"Looks like we have to do this the hard way" [Alaric]
"What! What do you mean!" [Prince]
Taking his knife, Alaric makes a fine cut on the prince's right middle finger, and a droplet of blood can be seen. It's only a little cut, but I'm sure that scream is nothing but over exaggeration
"Hmph, if this is enough to make you scream, then how about this?" [Alaric]
Infusing his mana into the prince's blood vessel, I notice something, and soon, all of us begin to appreciate it as well. The prince's finger, it slowly becomes necrosed, from the nail all the way to the base. The skin colour changes to like that of a blue at first, denoting deoxygenation of the tissue around that area before changing colour to that of a corpse, brownish black. This time, the scream of that prince is a genuine one. That must hurt, and some evil idea inside of me thought, hey Ash, why don't you use pain exaggeration to him, for which I will shall he not corporate with us.
"Ghh! Tchhh!" [Guard]
"Hmm, Hmm" [Guard]
(Guess they're demanding us to release the prince...) [Linda]
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After the prince finally stop screaming, Seraph once again ask the same question to him. I guess Seraph here play the good cop while Alaric play the role of the bad cop
"Why should I. All you lesser worm should just die! When we get ahold of those ten heroes, we will wage war and I swear to god I'll find and kill all of you!" [Seraph]
Ahh... Why am I not surprised. Not surprised but it still makes my blood boil, thinking how a selfish individual like him wanted to use my siblings as a tool for war
"You, I swear by the name of Goddess that I..." [Prince]
"Swear what?" [Saint Louis]
"Who's that!" [Prince]
Saint Louis snap. I can see he is holding back his anger evidence by his reddish cheek. That's scary, someone who is usually calm and nice suddenly turn all angry. Still, I'm impressed, not only because of his aura that make all of us flinched, but he actually manage to change his voice without using any magic (I guess he does that since he doesn't want the prince or the guards knowing he is here with us). Still, where did he learn that?
"I swear.. I swear that..." [Prince]
The prince becoming more and more restless. As Saint Louis approach the blindfolded prince, his usually comforting aura becomes that of the menacing. It kinda different from that of Diana, King Estel and Queen Rinz. Their aura when they're angry is that of a true royal, an authority aura that one couldn't help but respect, while here, it is more of a war veteran... No, there's more to it, something indicating of his dark past, that's the impression that I got
"Tell me, have you starve before?" [Saint Louis]
"Huh?" [Prince]
"Have you starve before?" [Saint Louis]
"Gulp... No! Only lesser worm would starve, not me" [Prince]
Saint Louis asks the same question, in a more menacing tone. Even Linda can't help but to gulp along with the prince
"Lesser worm... Have you ever starve so much that you take nearby grass and eat it raw. You know it will not bring nothing but harm but yet, you have no choice but to do so, to ease the pain of hunger?" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Alaric]
"Have you killed someone that you considered sub human, and wake up the next morning, feeling nothing but regret that you cry and cry and cry until there's no tear, but you keep on crying until you puke all over your clothes!?" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Seraph]
"Have you ever witnessed a mother, crying and begging for their child to be safe. Crying as she see in front of her eyes, the child that she raise with love being burnt put into a barrel and burn alive. Screaming mother mother until the sound was there no more" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Ash]
"Have you ever smell, the charred corpses of those innocence, stinging your nose. That smell keeps on sticking on your clothes, and you can't wash it away. So you're forced to smell it over and over and over again, and that keeps on reminding you about all those lives that want nothing but peace, being lost in war!" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Linda]
"Have you ever need to take a job, that you know is wrong, but you have to, as to fill the stomach of your siblings. Feeding them the meat you brought while you're in guilt, but have to in order for them to survive, only to see them being slaughtered while running away from all those sword and spell that barrage one house?" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Guard]
"Have you, have you ever considered what other feels like! Only thinking about your own ideal, while not caring about sacrifices of other. Have you! Have you ever go to the war! Have you ever lose someone because of war! Have you ever considered the smile loses because a wife loses her husband and son! Have you ever read or learn anything about war!" [Saint Louis]
"..." [Prince]
All of that... That's his own experience. I believe there's more to it, but I am to afraid to ask him, plus, now is not the right time
"I'll ask you once again, will you corporate with us" [Seraph]