(MC POV)
Rina stepped forward and pulled the gag off the old man before stepping to the Matriarch's side, taking her place as her mouthpiece to address the man.
"You are the one that speaks of the Divine Primordial Dragon, yes?"
Oh come on now, I completely made this person up, there's no way he would know about it. Let's just say that he isn't the one that spoke to me and that this was all a mistake so--
"H… How… How did you know?" The old man croaked.
What? How? Why? I… Huh?
There's absolutely no way this can be true right?
"How we know is of no consequence, what her most gracious Majesty wishes to know is what you know about this particular information?"
The old man gritted his teeth, "I got nothin' to say to you damned women!"
"Wrong answer."
Rina moved forward and pinched his pinky finger in between her thumb and index finger.
With a loud 'snap', the old man's finger was broken mercilessly.
I would have felt bad for the guy but I'm still trying to get over the fact that a random person I just made up actually exists and knew about a topic I was looking for the answer to.
I am completely sure that there is someone out there messing with me right now.
The old man screamed out in pain while clutching at his broken finger, neither women in the room batting an eye about torturing an elder like that.
In fact…
"Husband, is the tea to your liking? Do you want more sugar? Are you cold? I can have some cakes prepared, does husband want some? Is the chair not comfortable enough? If husband wants it, you can sit on my lap you know? No, maybe husband will let me sit on your lap? Ahhh~~ How sinful of me to suggest that!"
Yep, this woman has zero interest in the old man being tortured in front of her and devoted all of her attention on me instead.
Rina looked down at the old man with cold eyes, "Now, how and what do you know about these dragons?"
"Gah! Damn bitch!"
The maid girl barely reacted at the insult he threw at her before reaching forward to break his other pinky finger.
Luna continued to ignore the screams of pain in front of us, her hand caressing the scarf that she had made for me yesterday that I still wore around my neck.
"Ahhh… Husband looks absolutely wonderful in this colour. I should have the royal tailor make a new set for husband. We'll have a matching set, just like a couple! Ahhhh~~ Just imagining it already looks perfect! We should do it later!"
Rina stepped back to her original spot again, "Do you wish to try until all your fingers and toes are broken? I'll have to get creative once I break all of them you know?"
The old man gritted his teeth, "Why do you... Even want to know?"
"You seem to be quite mistaken, man," She spat at him. "You are not in a position to question us."
"Then you'll have to pry the answer from my cold, dead--"
Rina moved forward and broke his right ring finger.
I'm wondering why this guy is so insistent on keeping this secret, is the knowledge of those Dragons such a big deal? Why is he so adamant about not telling us what he knows?
Are Divine Primordial Dragons much more important than I thought they were?
While I was wondering that, Rina continued her interrogation, asking him to spill what he knew about the dragons again.
The old man gritted his teeth before catching my eye.
"Why don't you just ask your damned boy toy there abou--"
Luna disappeared from in front of me and reappeared in front of the old man, her fingers piercing into his eye sockets and digging the globes out of them.
He barely had time to scream before she severed the nerves connecting to the two eyeballs, letting them roll onto the floor.
She turned away from the screaming man, and regarded the maid in front of her.
"Rina."
"Yes!"
"Why has this piece of trash not told us what we want to know yet?"
Rina bowed her head, "My apologies, your Majesty! I will make sure he talks as soon as possible!"
Luna went back to her seat, wiping her hands with a piece of cloth she had pulled out from her storage ring.
The Matriarch turned back to me and gave me a smile, "Did the bad man scare you, husband? Do not worry, I am here to protect you. No one will slander you or hurt a strand of your most perfect hair when I'm around. You are just so, so, so perfect. Anyone who dares to sully your perfection will suffer the consequences. I will protect your perfection, husband! Ahh~~ Just looking at you is enough, such bliss~"
Right… I already know her love is intense but come on, my disciples love me too but they wouldn't go so far as to torture someone who insults me you know?
I don't mean to brag but it's all because of my moral teaching methods of course.
It's best that this woman never meets my disciples. Then again, such a meeting should be almost impossible in the first place right?
While I was preoccupied with my thoughts, Rina seemed to have finished torturing him when he started to beg for mercy.
"I'll talk… I'll talk… Please…"
"We're waiting, trash," Rina spat at him.
"I'm… I'm not from this Plane…" He croaked, pulling out the ring that he had kept in a secret pocket on his tunic. "I… I am…"
"You're from the Cloud Plane correct?" Rina interrupted, irritation clear in her voice. "We already figured as much, just get to the point."
"I'm… A Chronicler… The Divine Primordial Dragon was… An entity that I studied on… My life's work is… All inside here…"
Rina plucked the ring from his trembling hands and inspected it, the ring glowing for a moment before a very familiar book was dropped on the table in front of me.
I looked at the cover and yeap, that's the book I read before alright.
Seems like things have finally gone full circle here.
I guess in the other timeline, they had found this old man too and got the book from him. But because I had told them about his possible existence beforehand, it hastened the time he would be found instead.
And what were the odds that I actually unintentionally helped them find the guy who would eventually provide them with this book eh?
If I didn't know better, I might have thought that this guy simply started existing because I had thought about him. It's way too much of a coincidence for this to happen don't you think?
Oh well, my head hurts just thinking about it so I'll just ignore the details for now. Besides, it's not that I really care about all these inane stuff anyway.
Now I just need to convince them to let me read it, hopefully it would give me more information about the entity that killed me in my previous life.
