288 – Let’s uproot and burn those who are trying to assassinate us. (1)
And three days later, in order to carry out His Majesty’s orders, I went to a corner of the palace that even high-ranking officials would find difficult to enter. I entered the inspection department embedded in .
Inside, there were men walking around like zombies who seemed to have exchanged their bodies for enormous power.
The suffering voices of corrupt nobles and criminals being tortured by ‘inspection’ were leaking out.
“Oh, I really didn’t do it! Halter! Halter, that’s what that bastard is like!”
“f*ck, I did nothing wrong! So, please take that damn iron away!”
“I will blow everything you tell me to blow. “Please just spare my life.”
It is a truly horrifying sound in a different sense than people dying in wars by the thousands or tens of thousands.
Hearing these screams, I immediately understand why some nobles get scared just by hearing about the inspection department.
Although the people who are caught by the inspection department and tortured like that are those who have committed serious crimes such as embezzlement of more than 1,000 gold of public funds, embezzlement of military supplies, and incitement of civil war, and there are no cases where innocent people are caught.
This is a place where none of the people who went in on suspicion came out unharmed… What a scary place it is.
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I was guided by an agent from the Inspection Department and met the Director of the Inspection Department.
“Are you Captain Peter Yeager? This is Tobias von Sieber, head of the Inspection Department, an agency directly under the imperial family. As of today, I have received an imperial order to fully cooperate only in the ‘Attempted Assassination of Captain Peter Yeager’ incident. “If you wish to investigate a case, you can mobilize special agents from the Inspection Department and have access to funds, tools and documents.”
Although it was limited to this case, I was quite surprised when I heard that His Majesty’s royal decree gave me full authority to investigate the case and sentence me, so I thought there would be no more surprises.
I was once again surprised to hear from the head of the inspection department that the amount of autonomy I could exercise was limited to this case.
With this level of autonomy, if I feel a little bad and implicate even people who have not done anything wrong in this matter and make them targets of inspection… I can put enormous political pressure on them.
If you go out even more viciously and even implicate them in treason, what will happen to one or two people?
It is a level of power that will not cause any side effects even if you set the desired range and bury it as you please.
Of course, His Majesty is not a foolish person, so if you waste the trust you gave me, my life may be in danger later, so I have no intention of doing such a thing.
“Thank you, Director Seaver.”
Director Sieber heard me and waved his hand.
“Although the commander is not affiliated with the imperial administration, since he is a captain with four stars, his status and protocols are the same as those of the ministers of each department. I am a vice minister-level official, so please speak low. Also, in this case only, won’t our inspection department work under your command?”
Usually, in cases like this, we would have to go through the process of arguing, saying, ‘No matter what, we can’t speak informally to you,’ but now we don’t have time to play with words like that.
I have a noble mission in front of me right now: to mobilize the Assassin’s Guild to kill the militarist bastards who tried to assassinate me.
“I appreciate your favor, Director Seaver. “What is the situation now?”
He said with a deep sigh.
“I found out that it was a group of assassins hired by a group of retired generals and nobles, and that they seemed to have hired people who were slightly below the first level. However, even after being tortured for nearly three days, they do not reveal who hired them or what guild they belong to, saying that it is the guild’s law to be loyal to their employer.”
“For an assassin who is a cancerous part of society, his loyalty and loyalty are truly remarkable.”
“If they don’t disclose information, the case will fall into the labyrinth. So, I am trying to increase the intensity of the torture as much as possible. What do you think?”
In dramas and movies, if torture doesn’t work, there is a tendency to use stronger torture, but that’s half right and half wrong.
Because, those assassins are human beings whose lives are already dead once they are caught here.
If you die without revealing the secret in a situation where it is certain that you will die, your family and brothers will all be protected by the guild, but if you reveal the secret, not only the criminals involved but also your entire family will die.
That’s why I endure with the determination to save my family, who will die anyway.
“Isn’t there a time when people belonging to a guild don’t give out information even when they are tortured? So it might be better to try another method.”
“What method are you talking about?”
“When humans fall into water, they grasp at straws. So, out of all the people over there, the one who blows all the money is lying and saying that he will spare the life of only one. First, give those damn bastards proper clothes and food for the next two days, and don’t torture them. Then tell him that if he blows up all the information he knows, he will be spared.”
I once heard that the most mentally difficult time for a person who is determined and endures torture is when the guards and high-ranking officials who treated him tyrannically treat him kindly.
If I were to continue to be tortured and was in pain, I would somehow hold on with my mental strength.
If the torture suddenly disappears and you become comfortable and able to live, you would hate to struggle with that terrible pain and suffering again rather than die.
They say that if that happens, you’ll feel like blowing it all off and being comfortable…
Anyway, I hope the prisoners will open their mouths.
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Two days later, the torture room of the Inspection Department.
A water wheel used to hang a prisoner on a water wheel and spin the prisoner’s entire body, including the head, in water. A steel tube studded with needles designed to inflict pain just enough not to cause death. Blood is stained as fingernails and toenails are pulled out. Pliers stained red.
When I saw this room filled with all kinds of torture devices, I almost felt nauseous for a moment, no matter how many enemies I had killed.
“It smells dirty. If I don’t want to die in a place like this, I have to live a good life.”
The head of the inspection department responded appropriately, and immediately the door opened and the prisoners were thrown into the room.
Even though they were people who had been tortured many times, instead of showing any signs of fear, they looked at me with an expression of bravado and spoke.
“Even though our brothers were beaten by you, we remain loyal to each other even if it means death. “You son of a b*tch!”
“Torture, I’ve been through that sh*t so many times that I’m not scared at all!”
“You dirty Peter Yeager bastard, if I die here, I will rip your head off as a ghost!”
The head of the inspection department and the torturer looked disgusted at the sight of these children and began preparing to mechanically torture them.
In the process, those idiots kept mocking the torturer and the head of the inspection department, and through it all, I could clearly see that they were extremely scared.
The weaker the animal, the harder it barks, and the truly frightened person begs for help or makes all kinds of bravado and says, ‘I’m not scared.’ It expresses ‘I am not afraid.’
The reason it does such a thing is that it is shaking so much that it cannot bear it unless it screams out its fear as loudly as possible and barks to chase it away.
On the other hand, when the prisoners come out screaming like that, the person being tortured may feel that there is no use in torturing them, and may feel a sense of futility as to why they should do something that will not produce results.
People who have tortured many people in the inspection department probably do not know this simple principle.
Also, those who scream until the end like this often have a really heavy mouth even if they are very scared.
On the other hand, being scared can also mean saying that you will do anything to survive if there is any hope of survival.
First, I told the manager and torturers who were preparing for torture to stop preparing.
“Honestly, I don’t have any grudges against you guys who caused this incident. “What I’m interested in is finding out who your backers are and what guild you belong to.”
When I, the victim of the incident, said this, the assassins looked very embarrassed.
“I am now a four-star captain, but in the past, like you, there were many times when I had to follow someone else’s instructions. So, of course I understand your position. So, as someone with the authority to investigate this case, I want to stop the torture and treat you respectfully, since you are also victims in a way.”
The assassins looked interested as they realized that I was the answer to their question about the fact that they had been given clean clothes and proper food for the past few days.
In fact, I have no intention of understanding the scum that tried to kill my family and me.
Just to get one more piece of information and catch and kill all of the people who ordered the damn assassination as quickly as possible.
“But if you continue to be uncooperative, we have no choice but to continue the torture. However, if you help me with my investigation, I will ensure that at least one person gets out of the inspection department alive and unharmed. “I swear on the honor of Marquis Peter Jaeger.”
For your information, I am a man who is ready to break the oath I made to my enemies at any time, and the inspection department is a place where silence is the rule anyway.
In other words, even if I break the oath I made in my name and kill those people, word will not leak out or I will not be held responsible.
On the other hand, do the assassins here now have regrets about life now that they have enjoyed a comfortable life for a while after being tortured?
One of them looked at me and asked.
“Is that true?”