Shiki looked at the broken katana and scoffed, but immediately after, anger surged within her.
She truly hadn't expected to encounter human trafficking, and what's more, these villagers were the very people she had saved.
I should have let Kujou Masahito slaughter all of you back then!
"Hmph, who cares where it came from, as long as it's useful!" Kobayashi Kumata snorted coldly, then pointed the tip of the katana at the girl and slowly walked towards her.
"I advise you to surrender, or else such a beautiful face being scratched would be a great loss."
"Oh? Are your eyes just for show?"
Shiki laughed in extreme anger. A flash of lightning, and the blade of the katana in Kobayashi Kumata's hand instantly broke into four pieces, leaving only the hilt in his hand.
"What…"
Before he could finish speaking, Kobayashi Kumata felt a tremendous force from in front of him, followed by intense pain in his limbs.
"Ah ah ah!"
Kobayashi Kumata was first kicked out by Shiki, and then the four blade pieces, driven by a magnetic field, impaled his limbs, nailing him to the wall.
"The girl you bought? Where is she?"
"The, the basement!"
Kobayashi Kumata's face was pale, his features contorted by the intense pain. He didn't understand why, in just a moment of distraction, he had been pinned to the wall.
Who knew this girl could use elemental power? He didn't even see a Vision!
Shiki extended her magnetic field upon hearing this and indeed found a space underground. At the same time, she located the stairs leading to the basement based on the structure.
She forcibly tore open the locked wooden door, and at the end of the corridor was an iron grate door. Through the dim light, Shiki saw a girl curled up in the corner.
Creak...
The iron grate door twisted outwards, forming a circle in the middle.
Lightning glowed in her hand, and the golden light illuminated the dim space, as well as the lifeless heart of the girl.
She walked in with the light, her exquisite face bearing a cold expression, but the girl could feel the anger hidden beneath that coldness.
The shackles that bound her were torn apart and shattered in mid-air like an insect. Coupled with the lightning in her hand, at this moment, the girl felt as if she had seen a Archon.
"I'm sorry you had to go through something like this," she said.
"I know this is a difficult experience for you to recall, but in order for those who harmed you to receive their deserved punishment, could you please describe what happened in detail?"
The girl's nose stung upon hearing this, and then she lowered her head and began to sob softly.
Sigh...
Seeing this, Shiki couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Whether on Earth or in Teyvat, there are always abhorrent things like human traffickers.
Inazuma City, being at the feet of the Archon, such things wouldn't happen, but in Yashiori Island, far from the Archon, it's a different story.
Poor communication, low-quality education, ignorance, and foolishness.
These often lead them to develop some bad habits, although in their eyes, these are perfectly normal things.
The girl wore only a simple garment that barely covered her vital parts. Besides this clothing, her body was covered in bruises of various sizes.
'These scumbags!'
Shiki extinguished the lightning in her hand, untied the bow behind her, and then draped the black and white furisode over the girl's shoulders.
Although her modified furisode kimono was in two parts, the upper part of the furisode had a skirt that hung behind her, which was enough to serve as temporary clothing.
As for what she wore underneath, she still had a pure white juban, with sleeves similar to the furisode.
"Let's go, I'll take you out of here."
Shiki extended her hand, and after a moment of hesitation, the girl placed her hand on it.
Her hesitation wasn't because she didn't want to leave; of course, she wanted to leave this place. She was just afraid that her dirty body would defile this fair hand.
Bang!
The iron grate door was completely crumpled into a ball by Ryougi and thrown aside. Then, pulling the girl, she ascended the stairs and reached the ground.
At this moment, Kobayashi Kumata was still nailed to the wall, and beside him stood a bewildered woman. From her face, one could vaguely see the shadow of Kobayashi Sakura.
"I'll fight you!"
Kobayashi Katsura grabbed a cleaver and rushed towards the two. Seeing this, Shiki used her free left hand to knock down the cleaver, then grabbed the other party's neck and lifted her off the ground.
"Cough… cough…"
Kobayashi Katsura struggled wildly in mid-air. Shiki turned to look at the bowed girl, thought for a moment, and then threw her to the ground.
"Your chance for revenge has come. How do you want to deal with them?"
Being confined in the dark underground and suffering torment, the Kobayashi family had become a shadow in the girl's heart.
And the simplest way to emerge from the shadow was to end them with her own hands.
The girl released Shiki's hand, then silently picked up the cleaver that had fallen to the ground…
But as she took just one step, Shiki placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I respect your choice, but before that, I still have some questions to ask them."
Shiki said, stepping past the girl, and pulled Kobayashi Kumata off the wall, throwing him next to Kobayashi Katsura.
His limbs were brutally pierced by the blade pieces, and another scream of agony escaped his mouth.
However, Shiki remained unmoved. Everyone must pay the price for their actions.
"Feeling a bit more awake now? I ask you, where was she bought? When? What was the seller's name?"
"O-one week ago… A man named Saburou brought three girls, and I exchanged my own child for her…"
"I really don't know anything else, please let me go, okay?"
Kobayashi Kumata's face was ashen, and his breath was as faint as a thread. Excessive blood loss made even the instinctive act of breathing extremely difficult for him.
"How ugly. If only you had known, why did you do it in the first place?"
"You are the first, but not the last. I will kill every single one of you scumbags, not even a Archon can stop me, I said it!"
After speaking, Shiki turned and patted the girl's shoulder, then heard the sounds of blades entering flesh, one after another.
When she turned around again, blood was everywhere, and the bodies of the Kobayashi couple were a mangled mess.
The girl dropped the blood-stained cleaver from her hand and stood in place, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Waaahhhhh!"
Shiki looked at the blood-soaked furisode and suddenly felt a headache. Should she take it back or not?
If she took it back, how would she explain all the bloodstains to Ayaka? Maybe she should wash it first?
Hmm, that's decided. Anyway, she still had a juban on her upper body.
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