Some of you may get interested about what's happening inside the "torture chamber" in the very first chapter. Well this short chapter is for a glimpse to it.
We start from Dr. Schroeder, the Belkan paramour of Rosa Cossette D'Elise.
Schroeder is being tied up to a pole, naked. Guards lash his body with whips attached with nails. Until there isn't a single patch of his skins remains intact. Then the guards wrap him in bandage — bandages soaked by strong brine, doing so is to make his skins and fleshes thoroughly "infiltrate" into the fibers. After that, they violently tear off those bandages, also tear off skins and fleshes at the same time, rendering him bloodied as being skinned — actually this is a method of skinning, called "Mourning Apparel", once utilized by special intelligence sects of Republic of China to pry information from captured communists.
Now we move to check up Rosa Cossette D'Elise, Avril Mead personally conducts the "repair".
She is tied to a long bench, facing ceiling, with two additional belts on her ankles and throat. As she gasps for air, Avril Mead brings a jug of chili solution and pours to her mouth and nose. Rosa Cossette D'Elise closes her mouth, but liquid finds its way of entry via nostrils, also suffocating her, forcing her to open mouth, resulting both mouth and nose become saturated by this strongly irritating substance.
Rosa Cossette D'Elise feels her respiratory tract and esophagus are being sawed by sharp saw blades, she sweats like being tossed into a pond, and shakes like being connected to an electric chair, but she's well-confined, no possibility of break loose. As the "repair" progresses, her entrails also begin to burn like stuffed with live charcoals, not to mention her belly is gradually swelling as if a pregnancy being fast-forwarded for a thousand time.
Finally the jug is empty, and Rosa Cossette D'Elise's abdomen is inflated as if in third trimester. But now is where the best part comes: Avril Mead raises one of her feet in hobnailed boots, stepping on Rosa Cossette D'Elise's tummy forcefully to squeeze all the chili solution out, from its ways in. Rosa Cossette D'Elise feels her organs are bursting into pieces, both respiratory tract and esophagus feel like being sawed again, only to be way severer. She loses consciousness, an astute decision made by her seldom-used-brain, since she faints, she doesn't see initial liquid forced out from her body is soon replaced by her own blood.
Avril Mead orders her fellow guards to wake Rosa Cossette D'Elise up by pouring freezing water on her, then implements the aforementioned procedures anew… This corporal punishment was used by Japs during the Second Sino-Japanese War, for torturing captured members of resistances. Darth Vader really should torments Han Solo by this method in Cloud City.
The End
Ending Theme: La Anchorhead (a parody of La Marseillaise)