After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 233

233~ Interrogation~

"Fei, let's go look around the barrier."

"No, there's one more thing before that."

She still had to go back and check on that guy she'd crushed into a lump of minced meat.

Although he might not recover as quickly as she'd imagined, it didn't matter. As long as he could answer questions, that was enough. He didn't need any mobility.

Anyway, by the time she'd squeezed out all his value, this imposter should reach the end of his life, no matter what this imposter originally was.

Anything that threatened her and the little Princess had to be completely resolved! Even if it was an existence she completely couldn't understand, as long as the possibility existed, she'd think of every way to resolve it!

…

"Your Majesty! Your Highness Mo!"

The on-duty soldier guarding the temporary prison in the camp, upon seeing the Empress and little Princess, gave them a standard military salute, then led the way ahead.

As citizens and soldiers of Scarlet Phoenix Nation, as early as when the Empress had used those signature two ice greatswords to crush that imposter General, the news of "the Empress visiting the military camp" had spread. According to rumors, the Empress had come for the little Princess.

The facts were indeed so. The Empress had truly come for the little Princess, when the little Princess encountered danger.

"Fei, do you think he'll honestly confess everything?"

"What do you think?"

The little Princess shook her head.

"Most likely we'll still have to find ways to pry useful information from that guy's mouth."

Only those types who were extremely afraid of death, who wanted to live on shamefully even if their names would be cursed for eternity, would confess all information at the very beginning, right?

Let alone this one crushed by the Empress who could still be alive in a situation where he'd almost completely turned into a lump of minced meat. That was only possibly achievable with Divine Force.

Mm... Why did she have a sense of déjà vu that Divine Force had become commonplace?

However, none of this was the point. The point was they now had to extract information from that guy's mouth, squeeze out all value from that guy!

Since he could be crushed by the Empress, then presumably the Divine Force on his body was also absolutely diluted. How could proper Divine Force possibly be crushed by ordinary magic power?

"We're here, Your Majesty, Your Highness Mo. He's inside."

The soldier leading the way stopped at a temporarily constructed stone cage, pushed open the prison door, and made way for the two of them.

"Alright, you may leave first. I will personally interrogate him."

"Yes."

A group of dragons without a head was like scattered sand, scattering with one blow. But now it was different. After losing the General, there were still two present who could continue leading them: their Empress and Her Highness Mo.

Both were top-tier in both leadership ability and strength, absolute commanders.

So regarding the matter of the General being an imposter, aside from being shocked and disbelieving, the numerous soldiers didn't produce any panic.

After all, their Empress and Her Highness Mo were still here.

"You've recovered quite well."

The Empress looked at the imposter General who'd already recovered his head and torso, his lower body's minced meat still slowly wriggling, attempting to recover, and sneered mockingly.

"..."

Seeing the imposter had no intention of speaking, she simply pulled over a stool from the side, picked up the little Princess to sit before the imposter, planning to interrogate slowly. Bringing the little Princess over was also to listen to the little Princess's opinions.

"Speak. What is your purpose? Why did you impersonate my soldier and infiltrate the army? And why did you act against Glaze City? Confess honestly, and I'll leave you a complete corpse."

Her tone was filled with an unquestionable quality, as if she'd act the moment the imposter General dared say no.

After a long while, the imposter General finally spoke:

"Foolish. You have no idea who you're opposing."

"Foolish? How many years has it been since anyone dared say this to me? You have guts."

She was somewhat angry.

The little Princess cursing at her was fine. She was her own little Imperial Consort. Tolerance was appropriate. But aside from that...

Pfft!

Casually sticking some water on her finger, she flicked it toward the imposter's body. The water droplet instantly transformed into an ice sword, directly piercing into the imposter's not-yet-recovered body.

Knowing the other party couldn't possibly die directly from this small injury, she could interrogate freely.

Rather than letting the other party die so simply and easily, she hoped this imposter could suffer both mental and physical torment as the price for trash talk.

When she shot the ice sword into the imposter's body, she'd also specifically observed the little Princess's expression. The result was complete calm. It seemed she was used to seeing it.

However, that wasn't strange either. As the First Princess of Glaze Nation, she'd long known about the little Princess's childhood experiences. She'd personally killed her own enemies with her own hands, so she still had a certain capacity to withstand rather bloody scenes.

"You think this can extract any information from my mouth? How naive!"

Pfft!

As he spoke, several more ice swords were shot into his body. With numerous ice swords stuck in his body, blood continuously flowing on the ground, she began to wonder how exactly this imposter managed to flow this much blood without drying up.

"Tell me, do you think the blood in your body can be completely drained?"

"Heh... As long as Master hasn't retrieved the power from within my body, I am an undying existence!"

"Oh?"

This arrogant?

The Empress stood up, casually settled the little Princess properly on the stool, then walked before the imposter and casually pulled out an ice sword, aiming it at the imposter's head.

"Then do you think, if a sword stays stuck in your head, can you still recover your head?"

At least in her understanding, humans relied on their brains to think. If this sword scrambled his brain and then never got pulled out, would this guy lose his ability to think?

Said and done. Without waiting for this imposter General to make a sound, she directly stuck the ice sword into his head. With slight force, she directly scrambled the brain that had only recovered for one day. After scrambling, she casually stirred it a bit more, then used magic to freeze the entire head's interior, ensuring the ice sword wouldn't fall out.

After finishing, she cleaned the blood splattered on her body, finally picking up the little Princess to leave.

As for this imposter? Before he considered honestly providing information, he'd just stay like this for now. After a while, she'd pull out the sword to let him recover a bit. At that time, she'd properly ask that guy whether he had any plan to spit out all the information.

The feeling of having the inside of one's head scrambled and losing thinking ability, although she hadn't experienced it, she knew that one must be particularly liked by that guy. She believed that after a while, she could make that imposter spit out information.

As for the "Master" the imposter mentioned? She speculated that he absolutely needed to place power on other people as a "proxy" to act in this world because of receiving some restrictions.

Otherwise, as a deity, wanting anything could be casually settled with overwhelming power. Where would he need any proxy to act in his stead?