The Extra Villain's Second Chance: A Hero's System
Chapter 29 - 28 - Impromptu Exclusive Interview Session

Chapter 29: Chapter 28 - Impromptu Exclusive Interview Session

Lev intended to use Mana String to control Gallios’ body, but not for long, he just wanted to play for a while.

It was impossible for him to control Gallios’ body for 24 hours with Mana String.

What would happen when he slept? What if his fingers were busy writing? Therefore, he thought he would play with Gallios’ body for a while because that was the limit of the Mana String’s use.

Who would have thought that the Hero’s System would turn what he did into a skill? Moreover, it removed the limitation he mentioned earlier.

[Master Puppetry

Description: Master Puppetry is a skill that appears as a result of the user’s skill in using Mana String. The target’s body affected by Master Puppetry will have a Black Mark. You can move the target’s body as you wish from a distance.

Requirements and conditions: The total number of targets that can be affected by the skill and how strong the targets can be affected by the skill will depend on your Dark Mana attribute.]

"Wow, so I just have to think about what I want to command?"

If this was his previous ability, he would have to use strings on his ten fingers to control Gallios’ body, but now it seems he only has to use his mind.

’Kiss my feet!’

Lev gave the command with his mind.

"What nonsense is that? There’s no way I’m going to obey your orders!... What? Why is my body moving on its own?!"

Gallios’ words were the opposite of what his body was doing.

’Apart from the difference in control, everything else seems to be the same.’

Master Puppetry only controls the target’s body, not the target’s will or thoughts.

As long as Gallios was under the control of Master Puppetry, his consciousness would remain normal—in other words, he would feel every insult Lev gave him.

"How does it feel to kiss someone else’s feet?"

"Ugh!" Gallios reacted as if he wanted to vomit, so Lev pulled his foot away from Gallios’s mouth. And sure enough, when Lev let Gallios regain control of his internal organs, he immediately vomited. "Blerg—!"

[Congratulations! You have completed the mini-revenge quest.]

[+5 Dark Mana has been added.]

"Haa~ I’ll let you go for now. I’ll play with you later."

Instead of playing with Gallios, Lev decided to clean up the mess he had caused first. After all, his mission had already been considered complete by the Hero’s System.

He ordered Gallios to wake up his minions.

With his hands still covered in dirt, Gallios slapped his minions. Lev wasn’t sure if it was because of the smell of dirt on Gallios’ hands or because of the pain they felt, but they all woke up in an instant.

Lev resolved the conflict fairly peacefully.

Lev made Gallios announce to his minions that Lev was no longer their enemy.

The mouth was one of the body parts that could be controlled by the Master Puppetry technique, so Lev was free to tell Gallios to say anything. "... This person is a friend."

Their faces were instantly shocked when they heard Gallios’ words. Even though Gallios’ words were stuttered and questionable, the audience could only obey his words.

Soon, Gallios’ minions dispersed and disappeared into the darkness of the night.

When only Gallios was left, Lev began his interrogation.

"Do you know about the case where people disappeared mysteriously?" He let Gallios’ mouth slip out of control of his Master Puppetry skill. So Gallios should have been able to answer freely, "If you don’t want to answer, I will torture and humiliate you further."

"Yes, yes, I know. But why are you asking about that?"

"Do you know where the families of the people who mysteriously disappeared are? Or any eyewitnesses who saw the people disappear?"

In the past week, Lev had been trying to find them, but he had only found a few.

Gallios seemed unwilling to answer Lev’s questions. However, after Lev pressed on Gallios’s leg wound, he immediately screamed and agreed to answer.

Because his body was still under Lev’s control, his body did not react even though he wanted to tense up and rebel. He only shook his teeth pitifully.

***

"This is where they are."

Lev arrived at a fairly remote place in a slum area.

It was right next to the city wall.

According to Gallios, eyewitnesses or families of victims who had mysteriously disappeared were usually placed here.

"In other words, you received orders from your superiors to put them here?"

"No, no, no! I’m not responsible for this. I just overheard my master talking by accident."

Hearing Gallios’ explanation, Lev began to understand a few things.

The Nightfall Organization seemed to be involved in the disappearances—Andrei, his father, was involved with the Nightfall Organization.

Come to think of it. ’It all made sense.’

There was no way Andrei could have continued kidnapping people without involving the Nightfall Organization.

However, it seemed that only the Nightfangs were ordered to secure the witnesses or the victims’ families. ’Or could it be that the Nightfang’s job was to secure the supplies?!’

Lev entered their tent and woke them up.

That was when Lev took out the Memory Orb.

He activated the Memory Orb and began his impromptu exclusive interview session.

Just like he had been doing for the past week.

In between collecting Heroic points and Kill points, he was also looking for sources he could ask for information.

’It seems like the people I’ve met in the past week haven’t been made into backup supplies.’

At the beginning of his search for sources, he had thought that the people he asked for information would rebel or refuse. However, they all willingly answered all his questions.

Most of them replied, "We have tried reporting to the city guards. However, there has been no progress at all. There is no harm in recounting what we have heard and seen."

They all seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate. Their faces appeared emotionless, just like the people Lev had encountered.

"Did you see the faces of the people who kidnapped your families?"

Lev’s question was very simple.

He simply showed them drawings of the faces of the warriors and knights who were in the Razanov family’s house. This was the reason he had painted the faces of the warriors and knights in his residence.

Lev took the paintings out of his magic pouch one by one until they recognized some of the faces in the paintings he had brought with him.

"Yes, that’s right. This is the face of one of them!"

When Lev received their confirmation, he turned off the Memory Orb and put everything back into his magic pouch.

He repeated the same thing to all the inhabitants of the tents around him.

When he had asked everyone for confirmation, he told Gallios to take them all to a certain place.

"Take them all to a brothel called Dreamhouse. There, you will meet someone named Madam Fleur. She will provide temporary shelter for them."

"The Dreamhouse Brothel?"

Gallios looked surprised at the name that came out of Lev’s mouth.

"Yes, it’s the place you almost destroyed." As if knowing what Gallios was thinking, Lev confirmed that the place he mentioned was the same place Gallios had in mind.

"But why are you evacuating these useless people?"

"Are you stupid? If the people involved in the kidnapping hear what I did—confirm what I did—they will execute them."

In the past week, Andrei’s men had begun to suspect that someone was looking for information from the victims’ families. So Andrei could execute those suspected of being family members at any time.

’For now, they don’t seem too sure.’

Without giving Gallios time to open his mouth, Lev didn’t let Gallios speak and just controlled Gallios to immediately take them all away.

Did they all just obey when Lev wanted them to evacuate? Of course not.

The only option was to knock them all unconscious and transport them with a hay cart.

He ordered Gallios to lift the unconscious people onto the hay cart and allowed Gallios to pull the hay cart with the help of several of his minions after covering the unconscious people with burlap.

’Even though the Dreamhouse brothel is in the middle of the city, it’s nighttime and the Dreamhouse brothel is in a remote area, so they should be safe. It seems like all that’s left is to expose Andrei’s connection with the demon.’

When everything was done, Lev flexed his muscles and intended to return to the mansion.

"Hmm?"

He looked up at the sky.

It had started snowing.

He didn’t think anything was strange, so he didn’t pay any attention to it.

Just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly heard a voice behind him.

"Wow, why are you dressed like that? It looks interesting."

When Lev turned around, he saw someone he never expected to meet.

’Harlequeen?’