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When the base leader gets no results from the interrogation, Oscar storms in unarmed with his men and carries out a massacre, learns that the order to hunt spies came from the palace, and then reviews Abel's report.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Chapter 16 of Atonement, For Your Cruelty depicts the raid on the mercenary base where Oscar von ReichenHart's men are being tortured. When the base leader gets no results from the interrogation, Oscar storms in unarmed with his men and carries out a massacre, learns that the order to hunt spies came from the palace, and then reviews Abel's report.","key_events":["Mercenaries torture captives but fail to learn numbers or locations of Oscar Von ReichenHart's men.","Oscar asks about phrase the one who sees the world with eyes closed to identify palace suspect.","Translated identity and Abel's 5-day report reviewed, covering market trip, spending, marriage plans.","Oscar interrogates surviving leader, learns spy hunt order came from King of Luxen and royal palace.","Mercenaries discuss money beating status and aiming to become like Beta Union.","After raid leader is killed, documents taken, survivors tied up to look like the dead.","Oscar Von ReichenHart raids the mercenary base unarmed and massacres the mercenaries one-sidedly."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"YOU KNOW HOW IT IS THESE DAYS, RIGHT?\nMONEY TRUMPS STATUS.\n\nIT'S BETTER TO BE A RICH COMMONER\nTHAN SOME POOR NOBLE, WOULDN'T YOU SAY?\nWE NEED TO KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES.\nWE SHOULD BE AIMING TO BECOME SOMETHING LIKE THE \"BETA CORPS.\"\nIT'S TIME TO DITCH THAT VULGAR \"MERCENARY\" TITLE...\n\nESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'RE TAKING ON JOBS DIRECTLY FROM THE KING.\n\nSO LET'S TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE HYGIENIC WITH OUR TORTURE METHODS, EH?\nWHAT IS THIS DISGUSTING MESS, HUH?\nIT REEKS OF ROT IN HERE!\n\nMY APOLOGIES!\nSO? DID YOU FIND ANYTHING OUT?\nLIKE HOW MANY MORE OF THESE BASTARDS ARE UNDER OSCAR VON REICHENHART\nAND WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED.\n\nNO, SIR. WE TRIED EVERYTHING, BUT THEY WOULDN'T BREAK.\nYOU BEAT THEM TO A PULP AND GOT NOTHING?!\n\nHAA... DAMMIT.\nI'M GOING TO ASK THE CHAIRMAN HOW HE WANTS TO PROCEED. YOU KEEP AN EYE ON THEM.\nYES, SIR!\n\nBOTH OF THEM ARE HALF-DEAD, SO WE CAN'T TORTURE THEM ANY FURTHER.\nAND THIS WAS AN ORDER FROM THE KING OF LUXEN, NO LESS. WE'RE SCREWED.\nTHE CHAIRMAN IS GOING TO CHEW ME OUT FOR THIS.\n\nSIR.\n\nHUH? WHY ISN'T HE RESPONDING?\nSIR—\n\nWHAT THE—?!\n\nAAARGH!!!!\nAAGH!!!!\n\nWHAT THE...\nWHAT'S GOING ON UPSTAIRS?\nAN ATTACK?\nIS IT A BRAWL?\n\nNO,\nTHAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A FIGHT.\nIT'S MORE LIKE\n\nA SLAUGHTER.\n\nDAMN IT...\n\nOSCAR VON REICHENHART.\nYOU...\nY-YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF NERVE, WALTZING IN HERE!\nY-YOU-\n\nYOU BASTARDS!\nW-WHAT ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE FOR?!\n\nKILL HIM!\n\nTHIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.\nWE'RE NO MATCH FOR THEM.\n\nAND THEY CAME HERE UNARMED!\nHOW CAN WE BE GETTING THRASHED LIKE THIS?\nAND SO\n\nBRUTALLY.\n\nAAAAAARGH!!\n\nOOF—\nUGH...\n\nUGH...\nP-PLEASE...\nP-PLEASE, HAVE MERCY.\n\nIF YOU WANT TO WALK OUT OF HERE ALIVE, THINK CAREFULLY.\n\nWHO WAS IN CHARGE OF ROOTING OUT THE SPIES?\nW-WE DIDN'T FIND THEM INTERNALLY...\nTHE KING! THE ORDER CAME FROM THE ROYAL PALACE!\nI KNOW THE KING WAS INVOLVED. BUT WHO IN THE PALACE?\n\nHUH...?\n\"THE ONE WHO SEES THE WORLD WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED.\"\nSOUND FAMILIAR?\n\nRIGHT.\nNO NEED TO DWELL ON AN ANSWER I ALREADY KNOW.\n\nBY THE TIME THE SEARCH PARTY ARRIVED,\nTHE LEADER WAS ALREADY DEAD.\n\nANYTHING USEFUL?\nIT SEEMS THEY TOOK ALL THE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS WHEN THEY KILLED HIM.\nANY SURVIVORS ON OUR SIDE?\n\nTHEY WERE ALREADY\nBEYOND SAVING.\n\nTIE UP THE REST AND LOCK THEM AWAY.\nMAKE THEM LOOK LIKE THE OTHERS.\n\nGO ON.\n\nTHE REPORT?\nRIGHT.\n\nIT'S THE TRANSLATED ID AND ABEL'S REPORT.\nIT'S BEEN 5 DAYS ALREADY, HASN'T IT?\n5 DAYS.\nTHINGS SHOULD HAVE PROGRESSED QUITE A BIT BY NOW,\n\nSO I IMAGINE HE'S WRITTEN A LENGTHY REPORT.\nMARRIAGE PLANS, A LATE-NIGHT ENCOUNTER,\nHOW HE WON HER OVER...\n\nA TRIP TO THE MARKET.\nSAUSAGES.\n\nCANDY, COFFEE... PANCAKES.\n5,200 KERTE? IS THAT ALL HE SPENT?\nIT APPEARS ABEL IS STRUGGLING.\n\nINDEED. AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.\nTHE WAY HIS SENTENCES ARE SO CLIPPED, AND HOW HARD HE PRESSED THE PEN.\nHEH\nHEH.\n\nHEHEH.\nGOOD GRIEF.\nI DON'T BOTHER DWELLING ON THINGS I ALREADY KNOW.\n\nBUT THIS... THIS IS BOTH FAMILIAR AND NEW.\n\nI THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE, BUT THIS... IS TRULY ABSURD.\n\nHOW STRANGE.","bubble_count":101,"pages_count":44,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Chapter 16 of Atonement, For Your Cruelty depicts the raid on the mercenary base where Oscar von ReichenHart's men are being tortured.","spoiler_summary":"Chapter 16 of Atonement, For Your Cruelty depicts the raid on the mercenary base where Oscar von ReichenHart's men are being tortured. 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