[Holding those two little hands, cold and trembling with extreme fear, you slowly led the two tormented children out of that hellish wooden cage and returned to Suguru Geto's side.]
[Suguru Geto could finally see the full extent of the children's wretched condition up close.]
[His eyes, those of a Special Grade Sorcerer, narrowed slightly. After confirming the faint but unmistakable flow of cursed energy within Nanako and Mimiko, he conclusively established their identities as "Jujutsu Sorcerers."]
[At that moment, all the things that had felt wrong at the village entrance, the villagers' hate-filled references to "monsters," and this absurd village where murders kept occurring despite there being no high-level cursed spirit in residence... all those scattered clues instantly connected in Suguru Geto's mind into a sickening, cruel truth.]
[He looked at the whip marks, charred scabs from burns, and lacerations covering their skeletal bodies... those were things that should never have appeared on children so young, much less the inhuman abuse that these girls, born with power and meant to be his companions, had suffered after these ignorant "Non-Sorcerers" branded them monsters.]
[Suguru Geto's breathing grew somewhat heavy. Beneath his seemingly still-calm face, a terrifying storm was brewing.]
[His hands clenched into tight fists beneath his wide sleeves, and the veins at his temples throbbed faintly.]
[You keenly noticed Suguru Geto's state as he teetered on the brink of losing control. You knew all too well what this scene meant to him, but you would never let that worst possible ending repeat itself here.]
[You turned your head and glanced at the Village Chief with an utterly impassive, cold gaze, then spoke flatly.]
["You went to all this trouble to bring us here because you wanted us to 'deal with' these two children anyway. In that case, we'll take