Suguru looked on in horror at the small woman trapped in the basement cell. She sat still on the dirty floor, clothes dirtied and torn. He opened the cage forcefully and slowly approached her, hands up. “It’s okay, sweetheart. I won’t hurt you, come here.”

He promised to himself after he’d get the poor thing to safety, he’d burn and eradicate all those cruel, vile non-sorcerer villagers—the monkeys.