Why Not Just Crush Them with Greater Strength?

Valterion and Chiron arrived at the prison near the Grand Banquet grounds and immediately followed an intelligence agent inside.

"This is the place."

"..."

A mysterious man, bound tightly with dozens of chains.

Perhaps because he had only just fought a battle, blood—presumably his—was dripping from between the chains wrapped around his entire body.

"Why have they bound him so thoroughly?"

A prisoner?

Well, he'd wiped out the escort protecting Leonix, the Empire's Third Prince. This was only natural.

Still, no matter how you looked at it, there was something clearly wrong with having his limbs bound and his entire body so thoroughly wrapped in chains that it was barely visible.

At Valterion's words, the intelligence agent who had led them there answered calmly...