Chapter 199 - 198: Fingers-IV
Shun and Shin was left confused by his words. They had also seen his craziness but they didn’t know what Haruhi Akasaka had done for his expression to be disgusted.
"What happened?" asked Shin as they took sat in front of the Old Master.
The Old Master, crosses his arm, lifting his chin, he signaled Kei to bring a wooden case in front of them. From the look, the case was made beautifully with a carve of maple leaves, the wide of the rectangular box was wider than a palm. Seeing the wooden case, Shun felt he had seen it before and spoke, "Isn’t this the same wooden case Akasaka’s Son brought?"
"You’re right." confirmed The Old Master. By the time, Emine, Shiyo, and Soma stood outside the railing of the door their eyes were also fixed at the Old Master. "He claimed it is a gift for our first time meeting. Open it." he instructed Kei and the man opened the case.
Instantly, the people in the room drew their brows at what was placed inside the wooden case. Because how tight the box was secured, there was no drip of blood that they could see but now that it was opened, there was a mixture of bright red liquid filling the box with severed fingers covering to the brim of the substance. From the look of the blood that was still bright, the fingers had just been severed and packed.
"How many fingers?" asked Emine, his face scrunched with disgust like any others.
"Seventy seven." Kei informed, he shut the box tight and placed the misfortunate box to the subordinate beside him and ordered, "Buried it." the subordinate had a green face when he was told to bury the severed fingers, he took the box hesitantly and make a quick run.
"You counted the fingers?" Shiyo asked, "You’re crazy. Did you touch it?"
"No. Haruhi-sama was the one who informed us. He also stated seven is a good number thus he chose to severe seventy seven fingers."