“It’s difficult,” Nigisor said seriously. “I actually thought about trying fire…”

His friends looked at him in shock.

“Isn’t that a bit extreme?”

“Yeah, maybe a different form of interrogation would be better.”

An interesting suggestion!

“Huh?”

Oripulas’s admiration made the students waver slightly. After all, if a demon who’d served as the Imperial magistrate for 131 years found it worth considering, maybe it was.

“What about drowning them?” suggested one student.

“A clever idea!”

“Or hanging them upside down?”

“A respectful approach!”

With Oripulas’s encouragement, the students began tossing out creative methods with enthusiasm.

Lee Han, who had been …