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Chapter 26.6- And so the Dragons Danced

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“Who hired you?” Shin finally asked after the man had begun to sob. The skin running from his knee to his pelvic area had two long smooth cuts running through. Two cuts that stopped right at the edge of the most important limb that as men had.

“The Mayor. The Mayor” He said after keeping silent for a few minutes and making Shin pull the surface of the blade across his penis almost teasingly.

“Only the mayor? I need a list of everyone involved” I said.

“It was just him. Him and Beifong and Xin Fu. But you already captured Xin Fu”

“So what was your plan”

This time, he did not even bother with trying to keep silent. “We wanted to capture you and use you to blackmail your army into leaving.” He explained and I actually facepalmed. I knew the people of this Kingdom were not the brightest, but what truly was going on in their brains? Hostage or not, the Fire Nation Army would rather burn this city to the ground than do something as dishonourable as surrender and leave a village they’d already conquered. Whatever threat was placed on my life, they would be sure to double in the city’s burning while they dedicated it all to Agni.

In the end, we found that this one knew very little so we moved on to Xin Fu, the head of this ragtag group. He was a much harder nut to crack but Shin’s knife seemed to have the ability to ferret out all sorts of secrets. Unlike with the other guy, Shin hadn’t been able to stop at just a few cuts into his thigh. The psychopath had actually used the knife to flay some skin off the other man’s penis. The look Toji gave me while it happened made it clear that we were both going to be giving Shin a second look moving forwards.

In the end, the information we received placed a lot of things into context and helped confirm the words of the first man. First of all, the Mayor and Kue Beifong had indeed hatched the plan. But the plan had first of all been Kue’s idea. It had also been in the works even from before we set camp at their walls and showed that the Mayor had lied to us from the very beginning. A problematic situation. A very problematic situation indeed.