“Eyeballs.”

His target this time was a dog-like creature. At last, he achieved something approaching actual success. Although it was a smaller body part than the ankle, perhaps it helped that it was a more distinctive one. With a howl, the dog man fell over, holding his hands to his eyes.

“Nose, ears.”

Yogiri continued to unleash his power. If the beastkin possessed similar senses to that of a dog, he couldn’t leave the ears or nose intact.

Another success. But killing three of the dog man’s five senses didn’t feel particularly merciful.

...

The group soon reached one of the castle’s smaller rooms. The beastkin in question had been restrained and was lying on a simple bed, the lone survivor of the previous night’s incident. He had no particular external injuries, but with his eyes, ears, and nose completely nonfunctional, there was no way to interrogate him. Approaching the dog man, Lain stared at him intently.

“Hmm. At first glance, nothing appears out of the ordinary.” Pulling back the beastkin’s eyelids, she saw no signs of damage. But even the light from the nearby window shining directly into his eyes sparked no reaction.

“We attempted treatment in order to proceed with our interrogation, but our efforts have proven fruitless.”

“Your report said that even healing magic failed?”

“That is correct.”

Listening to Jorge’s reply, Lain held the beastkin’s eye open as she pushed a finger into his eye socket.

“Miss Sage?!”

“I can’t tell what’s happening unless I see for myself.”

Naturally, the prisoner began to struggle, letting out an agonized scream as Lain plucked out one of his eyes with her bare hands.

“Quiet.”

At that one word, the beastkin froze. He was supposed to be deaf, but even so, he had immediately stopped moving. Perhaps the threat of her words had somehow penetrated in spite of his inability to hear.

Tearing the optical nerve off, Lain held the eyeball up to her face. She inspected it thoroughly but it looked like a perfectly normal eye.

“Nothing out of the ordinary. Masahiko, would you mind if I swapped one of your eyes with this one?”

“Wha —?! You can’t be serious!” The lord’s face instantly paled, but it wasn’t long before he realized she was, in fact, only joking. Her words hadn’t been an order. But that didn’t mean he could relax, either. There was no telling when Lain might change her mind.

“Well, who cares about the eyeball itself. This is the real test. Heal.” Discarding the useless organ in her hands, Lain turned her healing magic on the beastkin. As she did, the now empty socket began to change, and within moments, a new eye had appeared.

The powerful abilities of the Sage could recreate a missing body part in an instant — but there was still no indication that the newly grown eye could see at all.

“Hmm. Seems like he still can’t see. The organ itself was perfectly reconstructed, but the function hasn’t been restored..."

-Volume 1 pages 77, 104, and 105