"Settlement? Battlefield?"
Still holding Nakamura Tsuki, Chiba Sonako raised her gaze and cast a surprised look towards Aoto.
Aoto, as if having anticipated that Sonako would look at him this way, smiled faintly.
...
...
Time rewound to not long ago—
Seeing that the "Scarred Warrior" still refused to say anything, Aoto, without any hesitation, once again stabbed the wakizashi into the gap beneath his toenail.
This time, Aoto used a new stabbing technique.
Instead of thrusting the blade tip all at once,
he gently and slowly, with an exceptionally "soft" movement, inserted the wakizashi's tip bit by bit into the Scarred Warrior's toenail gap, significantly increasing his agony.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——!"
Sure enough—the "Scarred Warrior's" screams turned even more piercing, another toe becoming a bloody mess, and his body convulsed even more violently.
"Besides Nakamura Tsuki, have you also kidnapped Chiba Sonako? Where are the people you abducted being held?"
