Jean Saintfield's brain hid a crucial secret, one that might help them find the whereabouts of the Dark Night Witch.
Although everyone realized that this might be the witch's scheme, that she had deliberately sent Jean Saintfield to them, as an Inquisitor of the Ashen Church, she felt it was worth the risk.
Moreover, Jean Saintfield appeared to have completely lost the ability to resist.
The next Heir to the Saintfield now looked no more than a charred worm, chains embedded in his flesh which had been ravaged by burns, firmly binding him to the interrogation chair, his eyelid-less eyes forced open, while every dazzling ruby in the room reflected his ghastly visage.
His face, severely burned, showed no discernible expression, but the life signs that could extinguish at any moment were sending a message to the Ashen Church — they were racing against time.
