In the dim, damp cell, Yan Luo's bewitching face looked all the more captivating in the yellow firelight.
"Harunobu, she still refuses to talk?" Yan Luo asked, resting her chin on her hand in mild frustration.
"Yes," Takeda Harunobu answered cautiously. Even he could not bear to look directly at the torture, yet Yan Luo carried on laughing and chatting as though it were nothing. It made the gulf between them even clearer to him. A monster was a monster. However much she resembled a human, however beautiful her face, she was not human.
"Then, once this woman can't take any more, put that female yokai exterminator who was with her in her place." Yan Luo smiled with pursed lips, indescribably alluring and indescribably chilling.
"Yes." Takeda nodded. He had been thinking the same thing. If this girl still refused to speak, her companion would become the sacrifice who suffered in her stead.
Hypocritical humans. They despise monsters for their cold cruelty, yet never hesitate to commit the same cruel acts themselves... Yan Luo smiled mockingly and idly examined her crimson nails...
"Is someone outside the door...?" Something suddenly stirred in Yan Luo's mind. She sensed what seemed to be movement outside the cell.
"There shouldn't be. I ordered everyone who had no business here to leave," Takeda Harunobu said, personally returning to the passage to check. In the pitch-black corridor, there was no sound but the occasional faint groan of pain from the dying prisoners, and no one else was there. As an ordinary human, Takeda naturally could not see through the invisible barrier. Even if Yan Luo had inspected the place herself, she would not have found any trace of Inuyasha and Han, who had been there earlier.
"Very well. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive," Yan Luo said with