Volume 2 Chapter 51 (1/2)

CHAPTER 5 – PHALARIS’S BULL ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ (PART 1)

Indoors that is just like concrete pasted and deteriorated by time

Parts of the walls and ceilings are broken, in the corridor that is half destroyed, Junpei alking there While receiving the dah the holes in the walls, he let out a deep sigh

Before he was able to reach this building, he had picked up the letter that seems to come from an individual like Ossan, but……

ーーit was dyed with blood, so he couldn’t read most of the words

Iron uish, head crusher……within the words that can be barely be read, these torture device are lined up, but……anyways, it is not soood

Indoors that reeks of rustーーno, Junpei whispered while looking around inside

「A prison……huh」

Just as Junpei has said, inside the building is divided by corridors and steel bars

The nu over a hundred, there is quite the distance fro

KatsunKatsun, Junpei’s leather boots echoes throughout the corridors

Observing left and right, he found out thatone-third, the skeleton that seems to be the owner of the room have remained there

Glaring, Junpei stared at those corpses intently

It is coers be crushed or lost, and stains that seem to be dried blood have spread inside the room

「Torture……huh Well, that Ossan wouldn’t fall to such things though」

He thought of the blood-stained letter that he picked up earlier, and remembered the names of the torture devices

「……most probably, if so」

He reetting his aret cut open in the fight against Satori, he laughed wryly

「If it’s possible, those kinds of things……I really hope I can be excused from that」

Normally, there are two kinds of tortures

First is torture to make someone’s mouth open

It is unknown in the modern times of Earth, but at the least in the past, it is proven in history that criminals and prisoners of war are tortured

And the other oneーーpleasure torture

And speaking of the modern times of Earth, will it be a crime done by an individual who is extre of that while walking, he stopped there

It was because four ht side, he found a place that is splattered with fresh blood that even stained the corridor

Junpei cautiously advanced, and peeked into that prison cell

ーーahis back to the walls

The change of colors to black by oxidation can’t be seen, it was really clear red That onlywas just done from a moment earlier

The cause of bloodーーtheer to his elbow

「Oi, you……are you alright?」

When Junpei called out to hi his breath

「Yeah, I’ that I’m still alive」

「……who has done this to you?」

The th

「……you better leave here quickly」

「……?」

「You saw the ones inside the prison right?」

「Yeah」

Together with a sigh, the man continued

「Able to reach this floor……the ht?」

「……yeah」

「It’s not needed to be said, everyone, all of theht……they died of torture No one, no one was able to escape froht On top of that, this place serves as a safety area……as long as there are food and water, you aren’t going to die that easily」

After getting silent for a while, Junpei confirht There’s no presence of anyone

He looked at the blood and meat chunks, the rooer, and Junpei opened his mouth

「Helping to escape……is there anything that I can do? I’ risks……but it would be the best if there are no risks」

To those words, the man made a dumbfounded expression

「Normally……the moment that someone knohat kind of facility is this, they would want to get out of here as soon as possible though」

“Haha”, Junpei laughed with no strength

「The boss of this building……I don’t know if it’s a human or a monster, but I want its experience points and drop iteht be possible with soht have you as 」

“Anyways”, Junpei continued

「It’s not a hundred percent good will I also have a lot of self-interests」

「……I see, you can also think of it like that huh It’sthat, honestly, I’m a bit surprised」

“I don’t kno to treat the boy in front ofan expression like that

And, after thinking about so for a while, across the prison barsーーhe pointed the lever that is placed on the wall behind Junpei

「Can you pull that lever fordone here, nor done here Torture devices can be brought inside here」

「……」

「Tooth picker, flesh presser, pear of anguish, head crusher……well, coht tortureーーtorture that doesn’t affect lives, it is being done here」

Junpei almost collapsed in his place

Pear of anguish, it is a for its pyriforina or anus, or maybe to the mouth

Junpei had once experienced losing his ar in battlesーーthat is why, he was able to understand the horribleof the words the man had said

「And, when large-scale tortures will be done, I will be taken to a hospital roo that time, it would use that lever to open and close the entrance」

「I e-scale torture, you mean……?」

「Iron s like Phalaris’s bull……」

And there, Junpei asked the man

「Phalaris’s bull……?」

「Yeah, it looks like you don’t know Really……it’s a vexing equipment」

「Vexing?」

「In short, it’s a mold of a bull made of metal However, inside that, a person is just fit, to be put inside that」

「Inside the mold, a person……will?」

「Right Meaning, a person will be put inside the bull, and below it……well, the stomach part That would be put in flames」

「……just like stea?」

“Un”, the man nodded

「……right, it’s steah that you can pass if like nor」

「……?」

「Do you know the general cause of dying by getting burned? Most of the time , you will lose your consciousness because of the s to death Orin heated air That’s why, the pain……it’s less than what you can iine」

「……?」

「The bull has afor humans inside that mold And that mold is connected to the mouth of the bull……rather than heated air, you will be able to breathe in fresh cold air inside the scorching hell Being trapped inside thehot temperature to one’s stomach, what do you think would a person do?」

Junpei was appalled, got his breath taken away Confir that expression, the man continued

「Right Just as you’d guessed, scorched inside, unable to breathe in smoke, and also unable to breathe in heated air……you’ll be able to breathe in using the breathing opening There’s nothing as cruel as this right?」

Junpei got silent, and honestly said his impression

「……continuing living And as the result of that, meat is scorched, the ti burned is extended……you’re saying that it’s hard to even lose one’s consciousness right? It’s what you call……a living hell」

「And, the breathing opening tube that is connected to the bull’s mouth, it has the same shape with instruments like troet scorched, the human, inside the bull, they would screaht?」

「Yeah, probably」

「Meaning, that ould echo inside, you can hear it like a bull getting choked Ithat iscalled Phalaris’s bull」

「……really……what a nice hobby」

“On top of that”, the man smiled wryly

「The bull inside this floor is special you know The speed that it burns, and the speed of the regeneration inside the safety area, their speed are aletting burned」

「……really……what a nice hobby」

And, talking up to that, the man asked Junpei as if he had remembered

「……can you pull the lever now?」

Junpei shook his head sidewards together with a sigh

「Haa? Don’t you know that I already know that you’re a perverted bastard that likes getting tortured? Most probably, it’s a situation that if I pull the lever, soht? If that is so……unfortunately for you Too bad, I’ll escape fro speed」

「……?」

「There’s a lot of reasons, but……why, can you clearly tell『all of the guys that were caught……they died of torture』?」

“Ahh”, the iven up

「I thought that I had h……it’s true that I had said that wrongly」

「There’s also other reasons you know?『It’sthat, honestly, I’m a bit surprised……』, it’s also unnatural that you said that, with that, ed to conviction」

“In the first place……”, Junpei continued

「It’s a set up that an adventurer had experiencedanother just like this, but left behind unable to be saved right? For so to happen like that, ever since you met etting saved fro as it’s not someone abnorht?」

As if to ignore Junpei’s words, the man pleasantly smiled

「…………………is Phalaris’s bull right?」

「Ah? What did you say?」

「I said, the ht? Ahh, of course, I’ about your torture full course?」

「Haa?」

Suddenly, Gakon, the sound of the lever getting pulled from top to bottom