"Let's talk about Doctor Foster again." Pride took his arms off the table and placed them in front of himself before saying, "You said he was the Doctor who killed you, but why have I heard nothing but praise for him from everyone else?"
"Because that was just a facade he put on!" Henry said. "He was a shameless coward, a damn thief!"
"Oh? That doesn't sound like how someone would describe a person who tortured them." Pride sneered. "If things truly happened as they did in the Dream, where he captured and tortured you for no reason, shouldn't you be calling him a cruel executioner or an evil butcher?"
Henry opened his mouth. Schiller could tell that, in his agitation, he had blurted out what he truly thought. But this was clearly a mistake made under pressure. Pride's earlier deductions had pushed his mental defenses to the brink of collapse.
"You think he was weak, but a weak person wouldn't have the nerve to pull out someone's teeth amid their screams, much less cut out their tongue. You call him a thief, but I don't think a few teeth and one tongue were worth the enormous risk of kidnapping you."
"He kidnapped me because he wanted ransom from my father! He pulled out my teeth so my father would believe I was in his hands. He cut out my tongue so my father would know he was torturing me and force him to make a decision faster..."
"I see." Pride spoke unhurriedly. "He wanted money, so he kidnapped you while you were sick and extorted ransom from your family."
"But judging by the final outcome, it seems your family never paid the ransom. Apparently, they didn't care about you at all. Even after your teeth were pulled and your