Chapter 154: Interrogating the Prisoners
While Jonas had said that they'd give their prisoners a few minutes before they woke them up, Elmo was a little surprised when they'd only waited about a minute after finishing deciding what to do with them when Jonas told Elin to heal them.
He'd bound them, though Elmo couldn't exactly say with what or where he'd gotten the bindings from, just that he could tell that their captives wouldn't be able to fry and get away. Then as soon as Jonas stepped away from them, turned to Elin.
"Heal them. Who knows how long it'd take for them to wake up if we just let them wake up on their own," he said. "This will help us interrogate them faster."
Elin nodded and walked over to the men, kneeling down next to them. "Minor Heal," Elin said, touching each of them.
At first nothing seemed to happen. They stayed like they were, unconscious, other than the minor bleeding they had from Elmo's spell stopping. Then Elmo heard them let out a soft groan. He was confident they were coming to, though he still couldn't figure out what Jonas was intending to do.
The man who had spoken to Elmo seemed to be the first to realize that he had been bound while he was out. "Hey! What gives!?" he cried, clearly startled.
Jonas merely grabbed the front of his tunic or shirt, Elmo couldn't figure out what exactly it was, and pulled the man to his feet. "You're going to answer our questions now if you hope to see the dawn again," Jonas said flatly.
"You gonna put my eyes out if I don't?" the man sneered.
Jonas merely smiled as if they were having a casual conversation under normal circumstance. "Oh, that would be too easy for you," he replied cheerfully. "No, what'll happen is you'll die knowing that everyone you've ever cared about will be joining you soon. What you did will ensure that their deaths will be swift and clean while you'll be able to meet them wherever people go when they die. That will happen if you don't tell us what we want to know."
The man paled for a moment before he glared at Jonas. "The king would never allow that. He's too soft."
Jonas chuckled as if he found the man's response funny. "Maybe, but who's to say the king needs to know?" Jonas asked and the man paled again. "After all, you and your friends set all this up without the king knowing, right? So, it wouldn't be too hard to... exterminate a few pieces of vermin from the streets, right? It'll be written off as unfortunate 'accidents' or other criminal activity."