At Cedric’s words, the woman struggled violently and made a sound of pain and kept groaning.
With her tongue burned out, she could no longer speak properly.
“Rukia, how much information have you already obtained? I think that’s just the last question.”
“Oh, yes… That’s right.”
Rukia, who hesitated to answer, replied at Cedric’s cold question.
“I was just wondering if there’s any need for further interrogation later…” Cedric said as he glanced at the woman lying on the floor.
“As long as we have already reached that point, there’s no meaning in any additional questioning. Besides, we’ve got almost all the important clues, so I don’t think further interrogation is really necessary.”
The curse that spread from the tip of the woman’s tongue now engulfed her throat as well as her whole mouth.
Looking down at her still, Cedric muttered indifferently.
“After the interrogation, I told you to cut her tongue, but I can’t believe she’ll make my wish come true like this.”
His face was full of ridicule.
The woman tried to harm the most precious person to him with that tongue,
so it was appropriate to burn that tongue.
However, if I did, the information we needed couldn’t be extracted from her, and by burning the tongue of an old skinny woman could be criticized by the people as too cruel of a punishment, so I refrained from it.
“Even if there is no further interrogation, I believe you will proceed with the investigation well. Right?
“Yes, you can rest assured Your Majesty.” Rukia answered the question with confidence.
“Yes. The reputation the Magic Research Department has built up to this point can’t have been achieved solely through interrogation.”
“Of course.”
Upon hearing Rukia’s answer, Cedric took out a pocket watch and checked the time.
‘There’s not much time left until my promise with Ciel.’
Closing the watch’s lid, he casually passed by the woman trembling like a person with a seizure with her mouth burning in black.
“I think I should get going.”
“Ah yes. I will take care of the rest.” Rukia answered.
“Okay. See you next time.”
Rukia spoke to Cedric, who left the interrogation room, and Cedric nodded and walked out of the room.
Unlike when he headed to the interrogation room, his steps going to Ciel were very light.
In fact, he entered the interrogation room worried about whether the group who bought Ciel’s biological mother knew any information related to Caliberne.
After letting Rukia out for a while before the formal interrogation and canceling the voice transmission magic inside the interrogation room, Cedric asked Ciel’s birth mother, who drank the confession pill, if she knew anything about ‘The Empire’s Only Sword of Victory’.
The woman answered ‘No’.
First, it seemed that they didn’t know or was not sure about the relationship between Ciel and Caliberne behind this incident.
‘I wish it could last a few more years without knowing anything.’