Pain sent Kino collapsing to the ground, where he thrashed and struggled endlessly. Oshima moved away from his companion and looked at Seele with a fawning expression. "Is this enough?"
"It is!"
"I just love pained expressions!"
Seele smiled with delight as she admired Kino's agonized struggles on the ground.
"My lady... I can leave now, right?"
Oshima tossed away the bloody eyeball in his hand. His face held both ingratiation and terror. All he wanted was to get as far away from Seele as possible. This would be his nightmare for the rest of his life.
"You can!"
"Thank you! Thank you for sparing my life, my lady."
Hearing Seele agree, Oshima's face lit up with joy. He hurriedly bowed in thanks... then, trembling with fear, prepared to leave.
"Let Seele see you off! Don't thank me too much, or Seele will get embarrassed."
A crimson blade flashed, and Oshima's head was severed. It rolled across the ground, still wearing an expression that seemed to ask... "Why?"
"You can leave! But you're leaving... the world of the living. Hahahahaha!!"
Only then did Seele retract her scythe and speak leisurely.
She then turned to Kino, who was still rolling around and struggling on the ground. Seele stepped on the head beside her and crushed it, splattering blood everywhere, but she did not care.
"Oh my, it broke just like that! You're no fun at all, are you?"
Looking at Kino, who had already broken down—no longer afraid of her and merely numb—Seele found herself a little bored. She had no interest in continuing, so her blood-red claws seized the man on the ground and crushed him alive.
At that point, all five kidnappers had died before Seele.
Looking at the mess covering the ground, Seele shook her head... then flicked