The large stone doors to the royal chamber creaked open as the Oni queen stepped inside. Her attendants followed closely behind, while guards surrounded the room.
All of their weapons pointed directly at the man standing in the middle of the chamber with his hands tied behind his back.
The queen didn't bother greeting her people, and her eyes settled on the human. For millenniums, humans had vanished from the world. Yet, in the last year, they had been popping up like insects.
Most of these humans were weak. They got captured and enslaved by setting up simple traps to attract them. Sometimes they fought back, but the result remained unchanged. The oni always won.
But this man had done something unthinkable. He had killed an Oni, and not just any Oni, he had killed her brother and she wanted to know how.
After all, till then, she hadn't viewed the humans as anything more than insects. But one had to think of a countermeasure once the insects get rowdy.
