The Second Battlefield (after battle)

So tell me. Who's your master?

…….

You two... you've been in a war, haven't you?

... No need to deny that, I suppose.

You can still tell, huh...?

And I learned many, many things in my war.

A few hundred ways to convince a grunt to talk, for example.

... Too bad.

Because unlike you, I have but one way to keep my mouth shut.

The man who appeared to be leading the soldiers stabbed himself in the chest without hesitation.

…….

So he'd kill himself without even a moment's hesitation to protect his master's name...

... His master must be a formidable individual.

Or... it could also be that he was under the influence of a suicide Worm - an Anamnaworm that activates on an information trigger to manipulate the host's psyche to take their own life.

Noticing that there was a previously unseen, serious look in Hong Lu's eyes, we forged onward.