'He's already near me? Just in a second?'

Leo's face appeared blanched and urged the teleportation to speed up. The fact that he didn't notice the towering man approach him was another indication of the danger he was currently facing. Though half-hearted, the d.a.m.n old clone told him of this man's peculiarities! He couldn't be caught by him!

Yet his hope was dashed when an iron-like hand grabbed him by the neck. The lights gathering around him faded in a blink.

"Ack! W-wait! Bro! I'm innocent!!!" The teenage boy felt horror when the hand did not lose grip even after he put all his strength against it.

"Oh? Why are you pleading innocence? What did you do wrong?" The boy could swear he heard malice no less than Fred's unnamed clone's.

From within the barrier Chris stared at the man he only met for no more than the number he could count using the fingers of one hand. As he watched the problematic boy struggle futilely, he didn't know why he had the urge to sigh in relief.

"Chris..." It was the breaking voice of the woman next to him.

He softly said to Alessa. "It's the genuine demon. I think we're safe now." The woman heard it clearly yet she only felt a little secure. Her hands kept grabbing onto his s.h.i.+rt.

"Sir George!!!"

Steffy tried to ran towards the bodyguard who turned out to be the only person she recognized between the two. The reason for this was the fact that since she was only Sofony's fake sister, Gio had no intention to be acquainted with her. As a result, Steffy only had an impression on George as a highly capable secretary under her sister. As for why he was following a stranger, she was too incensed to care.

"Ouch!" She collided into something hard, solid, yet unseen. When she fall onto her b.u.t.t, with teary eyes, her hands went to her nose and forehead.

For a moment, Gio Albarez threw her a casual look. His deep expressive eyes that seemingly held wisdom as vast as the ocean went to Chris, aware that the younger man whose name had become resounding in the whole country was his fiancee's ally. He straightforwardly asked, "Is there a way for that girl to break out of your barrier?"

Tha half-host shook his head. The non-host supporter nodded as an acknowledgement, not without ensuring the boy being choked by him was almost a yard off the ground.

Those watching them couldn't help but wonder which of the two would win in terms of being a human air-conditioner and surprisingly, it was the actor who won. However, in terms of presence, lethality, and mysteriousness, Gio surpa.s.sed the other by leaps and bounds. Such a comparison result was very odd given that Chris was the system user between the two. While the former couldn't even inflict a bruise anywhere Leo's body, the latter had the same boy frightened to the point of running away.

Gio thought for a second. He asked the guy again, "Hypnosis or Mind Control?"

The one asked felt weirded out by the question. It was quite unbelievable for him that Sofony told her non-host partner even this information that only system users should be aware.

He was referring to the only abilities a host could have on Level 1. The two were also mental abilities good for dealing with situations where a system user had to control a non-host or an inferior to do anything. These were quite sensitive intel but still within the scope of what could be told to a non-host. He just couldn't help but wonder to what extent did Sofony reveal the system's existence to Gio.

Still, seeing the other easily suppressing a high level headache, he replied, "Mind Control is inherent, Hypnosis learned."

"Not bad. Make Sofony's sister forget everything about the kidnapping. I'd try to reinforce your hypnosis later once that barrier is down."

'Is he really just a non-host?' While being commanded by a stranger was not nice, Chris knew it made sense to erase the woman's memories since she was not part of their world.

His eyes darkened. After frowning once, he waved a hand at the girl punching the invisible wall. Unlike Sofony who exercises professionalism when using the skill, words were still golden for him. This fact became more so as he thought of who she really was.

He merely said, "You didn't see, hear, recognize nor sense anything starting from when your sister brought you home."

After that, the half-host did not even check how his hypnosis impacted the girl. The system AI in his head of course criticized him for being stupid. It was simply feeling depressed for being ignored.

Alessa watched from the side... not. She was reluctant to see the process. Honestly, she felt so tired that she just wanted to lie down and sleep like a log until the next sundown.

"Just hold on. Once the 25 more minutes is up, we can leave this d.a.m.n place."Chris mouthed. 

"Sir, what should we do about this middle-aged woman?" It was George who asked. The a.s.sistant pushed his eyegla.s.ses up then looked away from the tranced girl.

"I wonder?" Gio revealed a rare smile. "I feel like dealing with this d.a.m.n boy first."

Leo repeatedly tried to warp away and body-swap. When nothing worked, he felt furious and ashamed. Pride for boys his age was greater than the boundless universe.

"Heeeeyyyyy!!!" The full-fledged host angrily kicked at Gio's knee. However, the d.a.m.n leg did not budge a bit.

The smiling devil grinned. "Yeah, hey, Fred's errand boy."

"I'm not his errand boy!!!"

Gio responded by putting more strength in his hand. Those around widened their eyes, finding it unbelievable that they seemed to hear sounds of bone cracking. Leo admirably didn't let out a sound of pain.

The guy responsible for the bomber's plight nodded in praise, but his next words were nowhere pleasant to the ears.

"Tell me, boy. Since you know about me and tried to flee, it must mean you hold quite the importance to that madman's eyes, right? I seemed to remember you wrecking my Ever Victorious and colluding with that dog to separate me and Sofony? Do you know that I've yet to send my payback to him?"

With his face starting to turn purplish and his throat and windpipe giving him trouble speaking, the pitiful juvenile bomber's reply sounded so laborious and hoa.r.s.e, "I'm... black... mailed!!! Do you... think... anybody can resist... a nutjob of that caliber?!"

"So what if you can't?" Gio sneered and with this, another bone part of Leo's lower neck broke into numerous pieces. "Since you're the chosen errand boy out of the people he could blackmail to be his underling, you must be good and talented enough. Good. I can perhaps send your corpse to him as the interest. For the initial debt, how about I make your corpse an red fireworks setting out inside that accursed abandoned mental hospital?"

Throughout Leo's career as a bomber, this was the very first time that he came across somebody who wanted to blow him up into pieces and at the same time had the ability to make it a reality! 

'Dang! Dang! Dang! This scenario is wrong! I should be the one laughing taking joy in somebody's unpaintable face as he begged for mercy not to be bombed to death!'

The little guy was about to copy Chris and had weapons of all types, shapes, and lethality to shower upon the devilish non-host when Gio smilingly spoke. 

"Before you start your little tricks, I have to remind you that since I awakened, nothing but weapons amd attacks from people at your master's level could hurt me." He paused for a while then added, "By the way, I realized the initial plan is so lenient. How about while I wait for Sofony's ideas, I first have you become an experiment material for my cousin? I can commission her to research how good it would be for the whole body of a being like you to be made a hatching ground of flesh-eating insects and spiders?"

The insecure actress felt her head clear up by that simple question. Her face lost color as she imagined a human being full of spiders and insects where a third were gnawing slowly and audibly on his outer flesh, a third laying uncountable eggs inside, and a third the disgusting baby insects and spiders hatching out and joining the first army. 

Chris noticed her state and regretted not also having her senses shut down. "Stop thinking of it. Delete them from your memories..."

As for Leo, he was stunned by the visual image he subconsciously drew upon his head. He was a boy who had gone through so much as well but even he couldn't stand the picture. His eyes turned red from madness.

Fueled by pride and unwillingness to be subjected to such very d.a.m.nable fate, he disregarded the warning earlier and took a deep breath for almost fifteen seconds. After that, exactly when Gip didn't expect it, he opened his mouth as wide as he could!

"F*** YYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

That extremely loud yell that almost broke the mind spell casted by Chris and burst the eardrums of everybody in the room was not merely a very crisply said profanity, but an unconventional skill Leo had bought for fun.

Gio was as equally shocked hence his grip momentarily loosen. Before he knew it, Leo had already bolted away together with the unconscious madwoman. 

Time pa.s.sed quickly. George was one of the first to recover and despite the head-splitting headache and pain from his ears, he manahed to stand up and approach his frowning boss. "Sir, what should we do now?"

Gio sunk deep in contemplation before replying, "... Nevermind. That stupid lad got scared so much and became so desperate. He won't be as fortunate next ti---" 

"CHRISSSSS!!!"

His sentence was not finished as another scream, this time shrill and full of fright, echoed in the badly wrecked room.

When the two men checked the sole person who could let that out, they saw it was the beautiful hazel-eyed woman kidnapped just to lure out the half-host. They saw her crying, lying disheveled on the floor and in her weak, trembling arms she was hugging an unconscious young man whose five apertures were heavily bleeding...

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