Chapter Ninety-Three: Ionan: Interrogation (Part II)
In the past, Najiuri was quite tolerant of humans, even if they were tolerant of other races without a boundary.
He thinks that his fellow citizens are only being deceived by wrong ideas, and what he has to do is to correct them.
But today he had to.
"Speak, Klobak, or her braids will hang on your clothes."
The Klobak man looked at the girl with sharp eyes, and worry came to his eyes. "You won't," he hissed.
"Oh, I will, I sure will. One by one, I kept coming until I got the answers to all my questions. The key is how many dead bodies are needed to make you understand that the answer is less important than life. One? Three? Fifteen? Hundred? โ
The Klobak shook like chaff.
"How can you be so cruelโ"
"It's my job. I don't like that. Do you think I like killing more than asking questions? You, who are you, make my work necessary. Do you know? I am reluctant to kill any human beings, but you, especially your stubborn minds, leave me no choice.
In fact, I don't even know how you can be so cruel! This poor little girl shouldn't have her head wiped off at all, all because you were too slow to answer. โ
The Klobak swallowed hard. "I ...... I will never ...... Betrayal ......"
"Well, maybe I should admire a principled person," Nakuri sighed. "Principles are more important than anything else, especially if the person who is going to die is not you."
He looked at the girl. Her eyes were so big, but strangely there was no fear in them. He had never seen anyone so calm. It feels unsettling.
Najuri felt that he should leave her behind and bring her back to the Trajectory Fleet for interrogation, or wait for Cardinal Kai Cain to arrive, believing that Kai Cain must have a way to deal with the current situation.
He hesitated.
It occurred to Nagiuri that giving in now would be tantamount to weakness, and would encourage the determination of others.
But it's still ......
Nagiuri felt a hint of pity, and the girl's bravery touched him.
It was difficult for him to accept that a human girl died for the stubbornness of an alien race, and that a human girl was seduced by the Paladin Order, and he decided to give the other party a chance.
"Know that your friend's lack of cooperation can be compensated for by yourself," he said directly to the girl. "I can give you a chance. You speak. The first name. Let this fool see that bloodshed can be avoided, and I'll show mercy. โ
She stared at him, silent.
"Hurry up, tell me what the Gate of the Ano is. I don't give such opportunities often. โ
"Sana can't tell you anything!" Klobak said suddenly, almost sobbing.
"I, I'm sure she can tell," Nakuri stared into the girl's eyes. "I'm sure she's going to die. Sana? Is that your name? Sana, it's simple. One word. A name. As our starting point. The first name. โ
The girl did not respond in any way.
Najuri senses that his anger is about to flare up again, and he gives her a chance, but now she makes him look like an idiot. Unprecedented.
"Hurry up...... Say! โ
The girl still didn't have any response.
"Ahhh!!h Najuri was furious, and he grabbed the bare pistol and put it against the girl's forehead.
Sana looked at him calmly, as if she were looking at the horizon.
Najuri suddenly laughed, and he remembered what he had seen and heard when he was fighting the syndicate of human smuggling - the criminal syndicate that deserved to die attacked the women's college tour group in the core star field of the empire, trying to abduct the innocent girls to the autonomous planets in the fringe star regions and sell them to the local tycoons on the black market......
The Trajectory Fleet was patrolling the vicinity at the time, and he and Cain were immediately ordered to pursue it. After a thrilling infiltration battle, they managed to infiltrate the Syndicate's main ship.
But when they succeeded in rescuing the victims, they realized that they had arrived too late...... Nagiuri swears he's willing to give his life to stop this from happening.
All the soldiers of the Demaxian Empire were outraged by what had happened, and Cain ordered the Syndicate members to be tortured to death.
They then traveled to the syndicate's destination planet, announcing the revocation of the planet's autonomy and the fleet's immediate takeover.
Then there was a rebellion on the Autonomous Planet, but Cain immediately ordered the Shattered Scissors to shell the ground, crushing the rebellion with Iron Will...... They were warned by the Empire afterwards, but Najuri and Kaiin didn't care.
It's a matter of principle!
The group is just as principled as he is. He looked at Sana and thought that he might be able to play the role of making that self angry.
"Alright, Sona. Since you are not willing to answer the question, I will give you a unique gift. โ
Luckily Cain wasn't here, otherwise he would have been adamantly opposed to his proposal, even though it was just a threat.
Najiuri pressed the switch of his armor, and as the sound of "armor lifting" sounded on the interactive panel, the moment nodes that meshed with each other failed, and the armor was lifted!
"Dangchang." With a thud, the black armor plates smashed against the weathered granite floor with a crisp sound.
The crunch was like a hammer smashing into the hearts of all the prisoners, and they looked up at Nakuri in horror.
Najuri has a fairly athletic figure, but that's not the point.
He tried his best to pretend to be brutal and lustful, and approached Sana step by step.
The Klobak stared at Najiuri with a vicious curse in their throats, their massive bodies clattering at the chains.
Najiuri slowly walked in front of Suanna, a "lewd" smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he hooked Suanna's smooth chin with his right hand: "You are so beautiful~ beauty." โ
Sana's expression was still quite calm, except for a hint of disgust in her eyes, and Najuri suspected that she had seen through herself.
But the psychological defenses of the Klobak people were close to crumbling: "No! No...... You devil...... Leave her alone...... She's so young...... Please! โ
"Okay, then tell me what the Gate of the Oto is."
The Klobak man's eyes flickered wildly, and he pursed his lips: "No...... I can't...... I ......"
Najuri lost patience, and he connected to the team communication: "The female team members are resting on the spot, and all the male team members are coming to me. โ
"No !!" The Klobak howled in tears, "I'll tell you now...... ...... now Stop it! โ
"The Gate of the Arcan, it is a mysterious relic that few people know about, the Gate of the Arcanon leads to the ocean of the Ano, it is a sea of pure Arcanon, boundless, no one knows how big it is. The Arcane Sea is enough to sustain the entire galaxy for a hundred years......"
"Where is it?" Nagiuri asked.
"I don't know, I don't know...... All I know is that any supernova remnants could be the location of the Oano's Gate...... That's all I know......"
Najiuri was stunned for a moment, and a huge desire immediately rose in his heart, and he calmed down randomly.
He leaned his face closer to the face of the Klobak: "Are you kidding me?" How could there be such an absurd thing as the Sea of Noble Ability? โ
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The interrogation continued, and Ludwig's eavesdropping device inside the cave relayed the conversation verbatim to everyone's tactical eyepieces.