Chapter 51
The reason was that it required ‘sincere effort.’
Whether some poorly cleaned part looked a certain way, claiming it resembled the emblem of the Beakin rebels was, in Delonas’s view, clearly a stretch.
Moreover,
“Thinking about it, it was suspicious from the start. His Holiness the Pope has divine power, so those bastards couldn’t harm him, but why did this thing survive when the other priests and paladins died?”
Among the priests dragging her away, some said she should have, of course, thrown herself in their place and died.
The fact that she hadn’t showed a lack of repentance, they said.
It was unclear what she was even supposed to repent for.
No, such a thing didn’t exist in the first place.
Everything they said was a stretch. But she couldn’t argue that it was.
The conclusion had already been decided.
That she had brought Beakin remnants to harm the temple.
And the interrogator in the interrogation room seemed to think the same.
“Ugh……!”
Restrained by the paladins and stood in the center of the interrogation room, a leather belt-like object was fastened around Delonas’s neck.
The interrogator held the end of that belt.
In his other hand, he held something like a metal pointer. When the interrogator pulled the end of the belt, the structure choked her neck and pulled her forward.
“……!”
Being simply dragged might have been better, but her arms were bound behind her to a chair.
Then, paladins forced her legs apart and hooked her ankles onto loops made from ropes hanging from the ceiling.
“This is…!”
What are they trying to do now…!
Before she could even grit her teeth, the interrogator yanked hard on her leash.
“Ghk!”
For an instant, her breath caught in her throat and the strength drained from her body.
The interrogator, who had let go of the end of the leash as if throwing it, firmly grabbed her legs and spread them apart.
“!”
Just as she began to tremble at the sensation of being touched…
—Jjang—!
The violent movement caused the rope hooked around her ankles to pull taut, and a ringing sound echoed.
A bell sound…?
—Jjallang!
Even with a small movement, the sharp ringing of a small bell inside the interrogation room could be heard.
“I will now begin the interrogation. Since you won’t confess your sins with your mouth, I suppose your body must confess them instead.”
His cold metal pointer touched the inside of her spread thighs.
“!”
Her body trembled from the cold, and the reaction came immediately.
—Chang!
It was the sound of a metal bell ringing in the room.
She flinched.
“It is prayer time. The louder your body confesses your sins, the more all the priests will hear it.”
What does that mean…
Delonas’s gaze swept over the paladins who had brought her here, and even to the priests who had entered to observe the interrogation.
“Finally, the interrogation begins.”
At a glance, they looked like devout priests who had come to witness the interrogation of an impious sinner who had defied God’s will.
But the priests, whose robes bulged in front as they entered while staring between her legs, weren’t even hiding their desires.
Judging by how they had already entered in a physically aroused state, it was clear this preposterous, humiliating interrogation method was known throughout the entire temple.
Delonas’s face turned deathly pale.
“Then let’s start with the important question. When did you plan to contact the Beakin remnants?”
It was a question with no possible answer from the start.
Delonas shook her head.
“I had… no such plan.”
At her words, the sound of priests clicking their tongues could be heard.
The interrogator frowned.
“Then what were the symbols you carved on the ritual vessels?”
That was also a question with no answer.
No, in fact, no question that she could possibly answer would be asked in this place.
She shook her head.
“You all know! I didn’t do anything!”
“How dare you raise your voice in the interrogation room!”
The interrogator yanked hard on the end of the belt around her neck.
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