The Extra Villain's Second Chance: A Hero's System-Chapter 45 - 44 - Disabled

"Princess, what happened to you?"

Wyatt and the executioner tried to restore the consciousness of the stunned Harlequeen.

At that moment, Lev only had one question in mind, ’’Could it be...? No, it’s almost impossible considering she doesn’t recognize me.’ Lev immediately dismissed his hypothesis.

As if losing the mood to do her hobby, Harlequeen let go of the whip in her hand and took off the apron hanging around her neck. She surprisingly walked out of the torture room, leaving Wyatt and the executioner standing dazed.

However, Wyatt’s expression suddenly turned very dark, as if he knew what was going on with Harlequeen but was not happy with what was happening.

After Harlequeen left, Lev received an interrogation from Wyatt.

He had expected that Wyatt would definitely come to interrogate him, but he just didn’t expect that he would have to wait so long.

’What a good psychological trick.

He recalled that he had also done the same thing on Earth. When interrogating the suspected murderers of his former parents, he imprisoned them and forced their friends to torture them.

Those suspects must have thought that they meant nothing to him. Therefore, when he came, they would automatically spew out everything to be forgiven.

Unlike the suspect Lev had tortured, he had absolutely no intention of speaking as Wyatt wanted.

"Is there something you want to tell me?" Wyatt spoke as if he was no longer interested in Lev.

"Do you want to know where Andrei’s magic pouch is?"

"...."

"Seeing your silent reaction, it looks like my guess was right. I’m curious. What is it about Andrei’s belongings that you want? Is it something valuable?"

The frown on Wyatt’s old face twitched even more when he heard Lev’s words. Perhaps because Lev’s eyes were a little blurry, he felt Wyatt’s beard stir as well.

Wyatt looked angry. He then picked up a torture device from the table. The device looked like a glove. However, it was made of metal and had holes where each of the five fingers could be placed.

Lev’s hand was inserted into the device, which Wyatt called the screw of penitence.

In each of the finger holes that went into the screw of penitence, there was a rusty screw that, when twisted, would slowly pierce his fingers.

"Let’s start with the little finger."

The torture began.

Wyatt slowly turned the screw with some kind of screwdriver so that it pierced Lev’s little finger.

As the screw penetrated the skin to shatter the bone, Lev’s hand shook violently.

"Urp! Hurp!"

He tried to scream out loud, but only a throaty sound came out.

Lev’s mouth had been gagged with a dirty cloth first before he was tortured with the screw of penitence.

If his mouth had not been gagged, perhaps his subconscious would have screamed to bite off his tongue so that he could kill himself.

When the screw had completely penetrated the entirety of his little finger, a disgusting thing happened.

The executioner pulled up a bit of his executioner hood that covered his face. Then he opened his mouth to bite Lev’s fingernail until the entire fingernail was peeled off.

In the end, Lev fainted because he could not bear the pain he was experiencing.

The torture started from the little finger and continued to the ring finger and so on. Every time a finger was drilled out, he would faint.

After Lev lost three fingers, Wyatt was nowhere to be seen when he opened his eyes after losing his consciousness.

Wyatt had stopped coming. Probably because he was tired of torturing him.

In a world where hypnotic magic was commonplace, Lev wondered why Wyatt didn’t want to hypnotize him?

Could it be that Wyatt couldn’t use hypnotic magic?

Then couldn’t he bring a magician who could do it?

Or, could it be that he couldn’t bring a magician who could hypnotize him?

Lev himself did not know what role he had, but seeing that he was close to Harlequeen, maybe he was Harlequeen’s personal servant, or judging from his appearance, maybe he was a court magician.

Lev chose to stop guessing.

***

Splash!

"Hey, I have good news for you. Do you want to hear it?"

After waking Lev up just like usual, this time the executioner opened the gag in Lev’s mouth.

"Ptooey!"

Lev spurted out saliva full of dirt from the gag.

He seemed to be just spurting out his saliva, but the direction he was aiming for was the executioner’s face. He detected the position of the executioner’s head through the sound he made.

Pluck!

Catching the sound, it seemed like his shot was right on target.

Surprisingly, he did not receive the usual harsh actions and words, "Huft. You’re lucky that I can’t play with you today."

Lev didn’t know if his saliva managed to get into the executioner’s eyes, or if it only got on the hood of the executioner’s face.

The reason he didn’t know was because he couldn’t use his eyes anymore.

Blindness, that’s the condition of Lev’s eyes now.

Considering Lev had been tortured for so long, his Dark Mana should have been fully charged despite not doing meditation.

Are you asking why he didn’t try to escape?

Was he too obedient to the quest given by the Hero’s System to endure the torture? No, of course, that’s not the case.

It was true that his Dark Mana was fully charged, but he realized that he couldn’t do anything against the executioner in front of him.

Hundreds and thousands of times he imagined using his Mana String and piercing the executioner’s body, but he realized that such an effort would be futile.

The only thing he could do was endure.

Luckily he knew how to maintain his sanity.

The reason Lev was able to maintain his mental health and not fall into madness was... imagination, that was his answer if you asked him how he had survived all this time.

From living a life like a puppet on earth to living like a kite in his previous life, he knows that constantly running his brain to imagine will help him stay mentally and mindfully healthy.

Clank!

The sound of metal was heard.

"I have removed your hand and foot locks."

Hearing the explanation from the executioner, it seemed that the iron sound he heard was the sound of his hand and foot locks being released.

"Where... do you want to... take me?"

"There will be a trial for you. Whether you will be executed or receive a pardon, it seems like this is our last meeting."

Lev did not care about the executioner’s exaggerated tone. "Don’t... worry... I’ll repay this suffering I’ve endured later."

Lev struggled to speak at first due to a dry throat, but after receiving some water from the executioner, he was able to speak smoothly.

He was not only given some water but also food that was a little more decent than usual. He was also given a shirt and pants to cover the scars on his body.

Hearing the executioner’s explanation that he would stand trial in the court, he understood why he was being treated differently than usual.

Lev could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

’Is this the end?’

After waiting for so long, he could finally see the end of his suffering.

[Congratulations. You have completed the quest, Unbroken Will!]

[You received the Pain Resistance reward.]

[The Pain Resistance skill is not a passive skill. You will only not feel pain when you activate the Pain Resistance skill.]

Surprisingly, even though his eyes couldn’t see anything, he could still see the system notification message.

The system notification message was the only thing that appeared in the darkness in front of him.

The blindness he experienced was not the same as people with a large minus—which was just blurry, but rather a blindness that eliminated all forms of light.

His eyes could no longer receive light so there was only black in his sight.

When he received the notification that the Pain Resistance skill was an active skill, he was relieved.

It was common knowledge that the ability to feel pain was necessary for the body.

If he lost that ability completely, then he would not realize if he received a sword slash from behind.

Hence, relying too much on Pain resistance was not good...

[Pain Resistance - activated.]

Still, in the state of his body full of pain, there was no other choice but to immediately try to activate the pain resistance skill.

"Huft."

All the stinging, pain, and discomfort in his body finally disappeared. Although the wounds on his body did not disappear, the pain from the torture had disappeared.

His breathing finally became much smoother.

He originally didn’t have much hope because he thought that pain resistance only resisted the pain that came after activating the skill, but it seemed that the pain resistance skill eliminated the pain in his body.

’Wouldn’t the name pain relief be more suitable?!’

After the notification for the Pain Resistance skill appeared, more notification bubbles began popping up, informing Lev of additional things—including an unexpected extra skill he hadn’t anticipated.

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