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n.o.body will come no matter how much you scream, as this room"s soundproofing is perfect.
Those words said by the major seemed to be correct.
I purposely healed his throat just so I could keep hearing his screams.
Despite the fact that this man was screaming over and over again, n.o.body came.
I killed his subordinates too because they would get in the way.
"Major Carl, this is what you call torture and interrogation. Understand now?" (Kearuga)
I kick up Carl, who couldn"t hold back his tears, from the ground.
It doesn"t look like he wants to resist anymore, and he has been pleading for his life since a while ago.
Just two hours of playing with him made him turn out like this.
Although these physical methods of gathering information take time, they"re quite fun.
"Now that you"ve experienced it, I"m sure you can make use of it next time. Well, that"s if you do have a next time though." (Kearuga)
I grab Carl"s hair and hold him up.
Then, I look at him and concentrate my mana.
I"m not going to cast【Recovery Heal】 since he already told me the information I needed in the interrogation.
Instead, I"m going to use this man as a puppet, since just getting information is boring. That"s why I"m using magic.
… With drugs and brainwas.h.i.+ng magic, I"ll make him think that whatever I say is the truth.
"Listen up, major Carl. The hero of【Healing】 ended up escaping in the middle of the interrogation because you were careless for a moment. However, that was after you had gained the necessary information. That information was…" (Kearuga)
Information can work as medicine and it can work as poison too.
In this case, the information that I"m going to make him believe is an extraordinarily powerful poison.
Brainwas.h.i.+ng someone too much will make them emotionless, which causes discomfort for the people around them.
However, if it"s only to the extent of making them believe lies, no one would notice anything strange.
When this man wakes up next, he will probably be full of joy and report the "important information" he gained.
It"s fine like that.
I"ve finished now, so I just have to return.
Everybody will get worried if I"m too late.
Actually, no, there"s someone I have to deal with first. Besides, there"s something else I want to do too.
I finally returned to Camlaba late at night.
Some bothersome things happened while I was escaping, so I returned later than I thought I would.
We should depart early tomorrow, or else a large army will descend on Camlaba.
I head towards the informant in this town.
Selling information about me is fine since that"s just what informants do. I know that and still a.s.sociate with them.
If I didn"t like having information about me sold, I wouldn"t use informants.
However, it"s not good to trap customers and sell them out. Selling anything more than information is a breach of contract.
That"s why I need to give him judgement.
On top of that, I remember him saying something funny when I was captured by the army.
『The hero of【Healing】"s【Recovery Heal】is powerful, but it is useless in a situation where you can"t use your voice. Hahaha, I didn"t think I could capture a hero so easily. I guess you really are just a strong brat.』
That irritated me.
I"m the type that holds onto grudges.
I"ll show him what "just a strong brat" can do.
My rule is to do back whatever is done to me.
I enter the shop with my face hidden.
Although the man at the reception tried to call out to me, he fell asleep without saying a single word.
It"s because I threw a needle smeared with sleeping medicine at him.
I head towards the informant in the back.
"I thought I told him to not let any more customers through. Sorry, but the shop is closed for today. Please come again tomorrow." (Informant)
The man tidying up the room said that bluntly without looking towards me.
"I"m not a customer. I came here to give back what I owe you." (Kearuga)
The informant timidly turned around and immediately threw a knife at me.
As I hit the knife away, he threw a needle at me while my attention was on the knife.
It"s similar to the needle I used against the receptionist earlier. I"m used to using these, which is why I always have my guard up.
Informants are hated by people a lot of the time, and some rowdy people just come to get information out of them.
So, they can"t keep going without some self-defence power. It was within my expectations that this man could fight.
As I close the distance between us, he pressed a switch. The floor suddenly opened and turned into a pitfall, but I"m not so stupid to fall for something like this.
I jumped forwards before it opened completely, grabbed his head with one hand and struck it onto the wall.
Blood trickled down the back of the informant"s head.
"Hey, informant. It"s a breach of contract for an informant to sell anything other than information. I was playing by your rules, so you can"t just do that." (Kearuga)
【Recovery Heal】is enough to get the information out of people.
However, since I saw him as an equal business partner, I played by his rules and paid the money.
Despite that, this man trampled over my sincerity.
"Hii, hii, sorry. I am reflecting on it. Forgive me, my eyes were lost in money." (Informant)
While apologising, the informant tried to kick at my stomach with his boot knife.
What a stubborn guy.
However, it"s easy to predict the actions of rotten guys like him.
I dodged his kick, snapped off his boot knife and stabbed his thigh with it.
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa." (Informant)
He screamed.
The knife seemed to have paralysis poison on it, as his body started convulsing.
Rather than an informant, this guy is more of an a.s.sa.s.sin.
"Is this what someone who"s asking for forgiveness would do?" (Kearuga)
"It, it was just a sudden impulse. I"ll give you it, I"ll give you any information, I still have special information that you don"t know about." (Informant)
"Start talking." (Kearuga)
The informant spat out things he knew one by one.
Among them, there certainly was information that I wanted.
The most helpful one of those was the fact that the Grantsbach Empire is going to start a war in two month"s time.
In addition, the Grantsbach Empire is receiving support from two other countries.
On top of that, he told me their excuse for starting the war.
The crimes that the Dioral king caused…
And the fact that the Dioral Kingdom joined hands with the demon king, becoming the demon king"s subordinates.
So it"s not that they knew we were with the demon king, but it was just an accusation made from circ.u.mstantial evidence?
If they made other countries join them by using this pretext, I can make a counterattack.
I did hear of this information from Carl, but the credibility increases if more people say the same thing.
"I, I told you, everything you want to know." (Informant)
"You haven"t told me anything about the hero of the【Gun】that I came for." (Kearuga)
"I don"t know anything new about him. However, I did hear that he is raising new soldiers in the Grantsbach Empire"s secret intelligence force. Some of them were young, male prost.i.tutes that he bought on the black market." (Informant)
New soldiers in the secret intelligence force, huh.
… I wonder if he"s making boys become his lovers and his tools with his brainwas.h.i.+ng.
That sounds like something he would do.
"I"m kind. Normally, you would"ve been given an eternal pain of h.e.l.l, but I won"t do that." (Kearuga)
"Will you forgive me?" (Informant)
"Yeah, I"ll kill you without any torture. Good thing you had the information I wanted…【Deterioration Heal】" (Kearuga)
I reduced his penalty because he had the information I wanted.
Because of my【Deterioration Heal】, his essential arteries blocked up.
With just that, the flow of his blood stopped, making him turn pale and die.
Before he died though, I read his memories to take more information from him, as I was sure that he had more.
"… As expected of an informant. He was hiding the most valuable piece of information." (Kearuga)
It"s admirable that he still had more information remaining to make business even in that situation.
If only he hadn"t sold me out, we might"ve become good partners.
Well then, I"ll return to the inn once I take care of one more thing.
Every single piece of information about the town was in the informant"s memories.
In those memories, I found information about a workshop that can be used for blacksmithing.
Even I need the proper equipment in order to process the【G.o.d"s Tear】that Guren produced.
Dealing with strong metals is difficult, much less magic metals.
The shopkeeper made an unpleasant face when I came in late at night, but he smiled when I told him I would pay three times the normal price, and said I could use it until morning.
I took advantage of those words.
"I"m making this weapon for Setsuna. I need to make it as best as I can." (Kearuga)
Setsuna is my obedient pet.
She"s a really cute one that does her best for me.
I want to make something that she would gratefully accept.
So, I"ll do my best to deal with this G.o.d metal.
The sun had risen by the time I finished making the weapon.
It took longer than I thought it would.
As expected of a metal used for the【Divine Arms】, processing it was arduous. It would be impossible to process if you don"t have as much mana as I do. Being a G.o.d metal wasn"t just for show.
However, I can proudly say that I made something that"s appropriate for the time it took.
Setsuna greeted me when I returned to the inn.
"Welcome back. Kearugsama." (Setsuna)
"Did you get up early to wait for me?" (Kearuga)
"Nn. It"s Setsuna"s job to welcome Kearugsama." (Setsuna)
She really is cute.
"Thanks. This is a present from me." (Kearuga)
I gave her steel claws that radiated blue.
Setsuna uses ice claws to fight, so I made weapons that wouldn"t have to make her change her fighting style.
"Is this, Setsuna"s?" (Setsuna)
"Yeah. I made these weapons for you, Setsuna." (Kearuga)
Of course, I couldn"t make them as great as the【Divine Arms】, but they are noticeably superior to all other weapons.
They"re light, st.u.r.dy, sharp and mana conductive.
I made them focus on utility instead of giving them any unnecessary tricks.
"Setsuna"s happy. She will treasure these." (Setsuna)
Setsuna preciously stroked the steel claws she got from me and immediately equipped them.
They suit her.
I"m sure she"ll work even harder from now on.
"Kearugsama, Setsuna wants to repay you right now. Let her service you." (Setsuna)
"Yeah, please… I got worked up from seeing blood, so let me knock my excitement into you." (Kearuga)
"Nn. Setsuna will accept everything." (Setsuna)
Setsuna took off her claws, threw her clothes away and exposed her beautiful body.
Not only her power, Setsuna"s body grew too.
Without even bothering to take off my clothes, I pushed her down and made love with her.