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"For starters...let's set up the camp and interrogate this giantess..." Shye mused as he scanned the unexpectedly wide pathways of the hideout. "These guys might be a bigger organization than I thought...Are they actually that Hadean Varsa terrorist group that City Lord Felix told me about?

Frowning as he let his thoughts wander, Shye swiftly set up the Small Camouflage Camp.

He then put Varie's unconscious body on the ground inside the camp.

'I'm gonna need some kind of sound suppression skill...' Shye thought inwardly, opening the system shortly after.

Luckily, it took him only twenty minutes to find a suitable skill.

Only, the sound-suppressing barrier was a bit too huge for the camp.

'Tch...Oh well, I'll just activate Mana Pulse to detect my enemies first. If worst comes to worst, I'll just slaughter them all.' He pondered before putting Varie's body in a sitting position.

Then, all of a sudden...

*PAH!*

The crisp noise of a solid slap that would've echoed across the rocky pathways of the hideout if not for the sound-suppressing barrier reverberated inside the Small Camouflage Camp, effectively waking up the unconscious giantess.

"Now then, tell me everything you know or I'll slaughter you just like your boyfriend"

"I-I'll tell you what you need, just don't kill me! A-Also, that shorty isn't my boyfriend..."

'T-That was unexpectedly easy...' Shye mused while maintaining a cold exterior.

This darned giantess was full of tough talk while talking to the midget.

Who would've thought that her mental fortitude would be so fragile?

'Well...it's better this way, I suppose....'

Inwardly disappointed as he wanted to try a few torture methods, Shye glared at Varie for a few seconds before taking out a lesser orb of truth.

He then retrieved Adamance from the system's inventory and slashed Varie's pinky finger clean off, eliciting a high-pitched scream of anguish from the no-so-tough giantess.

Soon after, he forcefully extracted blood from the harrowing injury and dropped a fairly huge amount of it to the lesser orb of truth.

"A-Ahhh! It hurts...It hurts!!"

Annoyed at Varie who was squealing like a dying pig, Shye was forced to make her drink one health potion just to shut her up.

Naturally, he felt that it was wasteful to use a health potion on someone he would kill after the interrogation; however, it seemed that Varie's pain tolerance was utterly low so there wouldn't be a proper interrogation if he didn't heal her finger.

Thus, to get rid of the negative feelings in his heart, Shye slapped the hell out of the giantess one more time.

Only, he didn't expect that Varie would slightly blush after getting slapped, seemingly deriving pleasure from it.

'T-This degenerate...' Shye thought, inwardly horrified. 'I shall not do that again...'

Forcefully shaking the earlier unpleasant scene off his head, Shye proceeded with the actual interrogation.

"Now then, first question. What is the name of your organization?

"W-we're known as the Grand Nyx Syndicate."

"Hmmph! What a presumptuous name for such a small-time ragtag group..." Shye insulted.

Naturally, Varie wouldn't dare retort as she perceived the unknown ashen-haired young man in front of her to be very ruthless.

Satisfied at the giantess' reaction, Shye continued: "Next, what is the goal of your organization?"

"I-I don't know the boss' goals. However, we engage in human and monstrous creature trafficking. As for who the clients were, I don't know exactly, however, I overheard that one of our well-known clients is a pretty huge terrorist group in Valenzia..."

'Hoh, a prominent terrorist group, huh? Could it be Hadean Varsa?'

It could be another terrorist group. It could also be Hadean Varsa.

However, Shye knew that only high-ranking members would be privy to such information so asking for further details from this giantess would be pointless.

"I see. Next, what was your group planning to do by nurturing that False Gorgon?"

"As I said earlier, our group engages in monster trafficking. The boss was planning to evolve that Gorgon before taming it by controlling its mind with some kind of pill. It would then be sold for a hefty sum to the terrorist group."

'Hoh, so they're using monstrous creatures as pawns...'

A rather disturbing discovery.

Fortunately, he learned of it early on.

'I'll ask if Guild Master Soaring Raven already knows about this and if they already have a planned course of action...'

...So far, the giantess had been fully cooperative, allowing Shye to effectively gather intel without making too much noise.

Unfortunately, things weren't bound to remain peaceful as in the next few moments, the mana pulses detected someone approaching the location of the camp.

"Hmm? What the hell is this weird barrier?"

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A middle-aged man's voice sounded outside the camp, eliciting a reaction from the despairing Varie.

"Squadron Leader Hugh! Hahahaha! I'm saved! Brat, you better release me now. This specific squadron leader is the strongest out of all the squadron leaders in our organization. If you release me now, I shall put in a good word for you.

If you're willing to join us I shall let bygones be bygones!"

Hearing the giantess' sudden burst of excitement, Shye was displeased.

'Heh, strongest squadron leader, huh?'

Without replying to Varie, Shye boldly stepped out of the camp.

Naturally, his shocking emergence out of "thin air" instantly made the squadron leader wary.

"YOU!! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HE--"

Before the squadron leader could even finish his words, Shye already ripped his head off from his neck with his bare hands.

He then calmly walked back to the camp while holding the unsettling macabre.

Meanwhile, inside, Varie looked forward to the scene of the squadron leader entering the camp to save her.

Only, the next moment, the person who entered was the familiar ashen-haired young man, not the respected squadron leader she was expecting.

"Y-You! How are you still alive? Where's Squadron Leader Hugh?!"

"Tch, I thought you knew each other well...turns out, you can't even recognize whose head this is," Shye said before throwing the head in his hand toward Varie's feet.

"A-AHHHHHHH!!!!"

This time, the giantess was truly scared out of her wits.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Why wouldn't she when the strong and respected Squadron Leader Hugh was killed in mere seconds?

"Now then, where were we?"