Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 465 - 80 Interrogation and Forced Confession

The Blade Warrior’s prison was situated at the lowest point of the entire Emperor’s Alliance encampment, damp and dark.

After Henry presented the special identification and passphrase of the Blade Warriors, the group was allowed to enter the prison.

Under the dim lighting, Eleanor smelled the faint scent of blood and disinfectant in the air, causing her to involuntarily frown.

She suddenly realized a critical point: the interrogation of the Blade Warriors might not be so...

...humane.

Despite being mentally prepared, when she actually saw the knights in the prison, endless rage surged uncontrollably from deep within her chest.

These knights, many of whom she had seen at Weisbach Palace, were knights loyal and enthusiastic for the Duke of Bavaria, now completely devoid of their former vigor.

Their hair was dry and tangled, filthy, as they slumped against the wall sitting on rotting straw, their clothes tattered and torn, their skin covered with wounds of all sizes and dried scabs of blood.

"Are you using torture to extract confessions?" Eleanor burst out in anger.

"No." Henry quickly explained, "Synthetic Assassins might be cloaked in human skin, while underneath the skin is hard mechanical structure. Therefore, to confirm whether they are Synthetic Humans, invasive examinations are unavoidable..."

"If that’s the case, wouldn’t one or two puncture tests suffice to confirm it? How then do you explain the scars all over their bodies?" Nora asked coldly.

This young lady from a noble family had seen the most horrific wounds caused by war while acting as a doctor in the military hospital.

However, when these malicious and cruel bloodstains created for interrogation were transparently presented before her eyes, she felt an outrage that was hard to contain.

"Ah." Knowing her status, Henry looked helplessly at Aske for assistance (aren’t you going to manage your people?).

Aske seemed as though he didn’t notice his gaze, focusing solely on studying the rust on the iron bars of the cell.

"Well, actually, it’s like this." Under the almost murderous stares of his sister and her best friend, Henry hesitated for a long time before finally deciding to reveal the truth, "His Majesty suspects that someone in the military wants to assassinate him."

"Assassinate?" Eleanor’s anger showed no signs of abating, "Because of this, you suspect the knights of the Weisbach family?"

"Not only our family," said Henry with a grave voice, "All the duchies have sent a portion of the ’relatively unreliable’ knights into prison. How could we not do the same? Wouldn’t that openly invite suspicion from His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Do you have evidence?" Nora asked harshly, "Without evidence, on what grounds are they being tortured?"

"Because it’s not only Lord Henry of the Blade Warriors who makes the decisions," Aske suddenly spoke up from behind, "The Emperor wants a strict investigation of the military, so the dukes can only give ’answers’ to His Majesty. His Majesty does not trust the results given by the dukes and insists on the Blade Warriors conducting the interrogation - the Blade Warriors can only provide the ’answers’ that His Majesty desires."

Henry quickly nodded his agreement, indicating that what Squad Leader Aske said was exactly right.

What Aske said next, however, made Henry’s face turn pale and his hair stand on end:

"If the dukes don’t hand over a group of ’suspects,’ then His Majesty the Emperor will surely suspect the dukes. So the dukes have no choice but to sacrifice these knights to protect themselves; similarly, if the Blade Warriors do not employ the most direct methods of torture, His Majesty will question the loyalty of the Blade Warriors, hence the Blade Warriors too have no choice but to resort to extreme measures for self-preservation."

"In other words, from the moment the paranoid His Majesty decreed a ’thorough investigation,’ it was destined that a group of people would be wrongfully accused and even sacrificed." He concluded this seemingly in response to Henry’s almost pleading gaze of "please don’t say more."

"This..." Eleanor and Nora were completely at a loss for words. Reason told them that this was indeed the case, yet emotionally, they found it difficult to accept.

"Why should it be this way?" Eleanor bit her lip, troubled, "Just for such a reason..."

"As it’s because they are superiors," Aske replied.

"Squad Leader Aske, could you please stop?" Henry was nearly in tears. This prison isn’t exactly a safe place for discussions. Do we really need a political thought class here?

What if someone overheard and told the Blade Warriors? The royal guards could come looking for us any minute now!

"In short, Eleanor, your father and brother indeed made such choices because of similar concerns," Aske, seeing her distressed expression, comforted her, "Of course, there are ways to solve this."

"What ways?" both girls asked simultaneously.

"The premise for interrogation through torture is that reliable information can’t be obtained from the interrogated using normal methods," Aske stated. "But what if there are ’abnormal’ methods?"

"For example, mind reading?"

Nora: ..........

Ah, how could I have forgotten about this?

"Mind reading?" Henry paused, then gave a bitter smile. "It’s just the interrogation by these knights; why would the Blade Warriors bother the Dragon of Imagination..."

"They don’t need to bother the Dragon of Imagination," Aske also smiled, pointing at Nora, "because right here, we have a disciple of the Dragon of Imagination who can use mind reading ability to assist the Blade Warriors in the interrogation."

Nora: ????

Eleanor: ????

Wait, when did I... Before Nora could object, she heard Henry exclaim in astonishment:

"Has Miss Nora truly become a disciple under the Dragon of Imagination?"

"Of course, if you don’t believe me, you can ask that demigod," Aske said.

"I’m off to ask right now!" Henry immediately dashed away like the wind.

Nora: ..........

She read Aske’s intention from his mind, which was nothing more than using the reputation of the Dragon of Imagination to play a scheme, convincing the Blade Warriors to release these innocent knights.

And according to Aske’s understanding of the Dragon of Imagination, this demigod was looking to contact the Enchanting Demon Queen through The Azure Longsword and was inherently amiable, so there was a high probability that he wouldn’t object to lending his name for this purpose.

Ah, forget it. Laying connections for the team members had almost become a tradition for our team anyway. Like Mia and Rasul or Peggy and Agrippina, and so on.

As long as it could save these poor fellows... Nora looked towards the prisoners behind the bars and secretly activated her "Life" ability. A healing pale green radiance emerged from her hands and fell upon the knights inside.

Although without the focus of a healing gun, the healing effect might have been somewhat reduced, it at least could alleviate their pain.

The knights in the cell looked up, a glimmer of life returning to their numb eyes. However, in the shadows of the adjacent corridor, a Blade Warrior quickly materialized, warning her with displeasure:

"No use of extraordinary abilities is allowed here."

"I understand." Nora silently withdrew her hand.

This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺