Ahhh!!
Amid shrieks so miserable they could make heaven and earth weep, Fox Face's features twisted out of shape from the pain.
Countless black chains slithered swiftly across Fox Face's body like venomous snakes, binding him tightly within them.
"It hurts, it hurts! I'm ruined, I'm ruined!"
Soul nails rained down from the sky, driving themselves into Fox Face's body.
Then came silver needles, each trailed by a long, thin thread like a tail.
Once Fox Face lay completely motionless, a humanoid puppet wrapped around him, fitting seamlessly shut.
Seal!!
Thick smoke suddenly exploded outward,
The smoke rapidly spread, shrouding everything around it.
The thick smoke was like an enormous curtain. Once the curtain was drawn,
Fox Face, the chains, the traces left by battle, and the corpses of the sword insects that should have been there had all vanished without a trace.
When Fox Face woke up, he found himself hanging in the air.
The dripping water deep within the cave had awakened him.
Fox Face slowly opened his eyes.
Where am I?
An old woman was below, tending a cauldron of boiling oil.
"Y-you... who are you?" Fox Face struggled as he asked.
The old woman said nothing, merely continued tending the cauldron.
No matter what Fox Face said, the old woman remained utterly silent.
For several days straight, she made Fox Face experience the agony of being sliced into a thousand pieces.
It was pure torture. She asked nothing at all.
After enduring such torture for days, Fox Face merely thought it was another test for him.
Back when he had been preparing to leave his master, tortures like this had been too numerous to count.
He had been inexplicably kidnapped midway through, locked in a dungeon where not a ray of sunlight could enter, and