human
Elisabeth:  "It would seem the Butcher opened the cage on his own, then fled.”
gpt
Kaito:  “You’re saying that he wasn’t removed by force? Could Mr. Butcher be all right, then?”
human
Elisabeth:  “No, there’s no way… Something definitely went down after he broke out.”
gpt
Kaito:  Kaito turned to look back toward the bedroom’s entrance. Drops of blood were scattered about by the doorway. And not only were there grotesque paladins prowling the castle grounds, there had been a scrap of black cloth floating in the pool of blood back on the first floor. There was no way the Butcher was unharmed.
human
Elisabeth:  Elisabeth sighed, as though agreeing with Kaito’s fears. “I can probably surmise what happened. After breaking out of the cage, he had the poor fortune of running into those paladins. They probably brought a fair number of men here with the intention of capturing me on my return from the underground tomb. There were doubtless priests among them to activate my shackles, to boot. After capturing the Butcher, though, they returned to their headquarters. That gives us our reason why none of the ones we faced were in any state to fight.”
gpt
Kaito:  Upon hearing Elisabeth’s hypothesis, Kaito nodded. It was true that all the paladins they’d encountered had already been half-dead. The assembled manpower had been too half-assed to conduct any sort of proper purge. It seemed likely that the only ones left behind were those who’d had a poor affinity for demon meat and were on the verge of death. Even though they weren’t as sure of it as Jeanne, the Church was probably looking for the Apostle, too… So it makes sense that they took the Butcher back to their headquarters with them.
human
Elisabeth:  “You mean to say that Mr. Butcher has been captured? The Church is… Oh?”
gpt
Hina:  “What’s wrong, Hina?”
human
Hina:  “My beloved Master Kaito, my dear Lady Elisabeth, what might that be?” Forgetting how worried she was, Hina sounded flabbergasted.
gpt
Kaito:  Kaito and Elisabeth turned toward the direction she was pointing. Something had been placed in the room’s blind spot, arranged so that the Gibbet would draw one’s attention in its place. Upon seeing it, the two of them squinted in unison. “That’s…” It had a preeminent presence to it, which made the fact that it had evaded their attention for so long even odder. Once they saw it the first time, though, it was thereafter impossible to ignore. Sitting on the floor was a massive slab of bone-in meat. It was so impressive, it practically deserved fanfare.
human
Hina:  “’Tis meat.”
gpt
Elisabeth:  “Yup, that’s meat.”
human
Kaito:  “It’s meat, isn’t it?” Despite themselves, all three of them said the obvious. The paladins had sunken into madness, so it made sense that they’d overlooked it. But its very presence was such that Kaito and the others couldn’t help commenting on it. The three of them cautiously approached the meat. The closer they looked, the odder its countenance seemed to be. Kaito and Elisabeth exchanged a glance, then started elbowing each other in the side. “Go on, then, Kaito.