When Jojo, in his Ghost Rider form, noticed that Roman was not going to rant his lies, he pressed his boot on Roman's left hand's finger.
"HEHE~ NOW... NOW, BOY, WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR NONSENSE. FROM NOW ON, YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. UNDERSTAND."
Calmly, Jojo's boot pressed with a little strength while the temperature increased on his foot.
Roman's finger couldn't take it and immediately started to burn to a crisp.
"Ahhh..."
When Roman experienced his fingers in one of his hands turning to crisps, he screamed in agony, tears continuously running down from his eyes.
He shook his body vigorously, trying to dislodge Jojo, who was locking him using a chair while sitting on top of it.
Even though he had enhanced strength, he couldn't break free.
For some reason, he felt weak under the hollow gaze of Jojo, who seemed to be enjoying his suffering.
"Ahh~ why? Why? It shouldn't be like this."
Feeling the burning sensation not disappearing from his hands, Roman shouted unwillingly while looking at Klaus and Hope with hatred.
"____"
When Hope looked at the hatred-filled gaze directed by Roman towards her, she was shocked and felt hurt.
Even in school, many of her classmates and schoolmates always looked at her with hatred or fear.
They always spoke about her and her family behind her back.
So, very few considerable amount of people were willing to chat with her normally.
She believed Roman was one of them who could be a good friend to her.
But she was wrong; currently, she was seeing Roman, whose face was torn by Jojo, looking at her with hatred.
"WHAT SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THIS?"
Jojo turned Roman's face toward him with his foot and asked him, while Roman's gaze turned towards him.
"I... I..."
When Roman met Jojo's eyes, he shivered and started to stutter in fear.
He had never felt this way while facing someone.
Even Klaus before him didn't give him this feeling.
Klaus could kill him and torture him easily; he felt fear while facing him but facing Jojo, he felt hopeless, scared, and oppressed like no other, and he felt his mind was an open book before Jojo.
'Everything should have gone according to plan until this monster showed up and messed up Mother's perfect plan.'
Roman gave Jojo a look which seemed to say it's all your fault.
"____"
"I don't know who you are. What are you? The problem is between us and those filthy mixed bloods. Why are you helping them?"
Seeing he has no choice, Roman wants to take a gamble and try to pressure Jojo to release him.
"MIXED BLOODS?"
When Jojo heard Roman, he acted confused and looked at Klaus for an answer.
Sigh...
"Jojo, let me explain."
Hearing Roman's reason, Freya with a sigh started to explain to Jojo.
"You see, Klaus before you, he was the first hybrid between werewolf and vampire. When an offspring is born with the traits of two different species, it's called a hybrid or mixed blood, as he is referring to."
Freya pointed at Klaus and explained to Jojo, while Roman below Jojo gave a look filled with hatred directed at Klaus.
"____"
Jojo acted surprised and turned towards Roman, tilting his head.
"____"
"SO YOU ARE KIND OF RACIST, NOT A KIND OF PURIST, RIGHT?"
Looking at Roman, Jojo calmly asked while scratching his skull.
'Well, both are toxic anyway.'
Were the thoughts in Jojo's head.
He never had a plan to let this guy and his mother leave anyway.
In his previous world, while watching this show, he wanted to punch this guy's face whenever he saw him smiling while taking advantage of Hope's friendship.
"____"
"You... you don't understand. Their existence itself is against nature. They will only bring destruction to this world."
Hearing Jojo's remark about him, Roman roared with a crazy look.
Which was like one of the looks those crazy cult members gave him while preaching about how they were going to clean the world.
HAHAHAHA...
"TYPICAL PREACHING, HUH... YOU GUYS NEVER REALIZE YOUR MISTAKES."
Hearing Roman's reason for the Mikaelsons' existence, Jojo laughed loudly and mocked him.
"Freya, search his memory. Let's see clearly for ourselves. It seems like he lost his mind."
Hayley nudged Freya to read Roman's memory, who seemed to have lost his mind.
Sigh...
"Okay."
Freya walked towards Roman and cast a spell on him to read his memory.
Ahhhh...
When the spell took effect, Roman started to scream, the nerves on his face bulging, signaling the strain the spell put on his mind.
Would Freya care about it? Nah... She, without any mercy, used the spell to its maximum effort.
Ahhhh...
Only Roman's screams were heard for a few minutes all over the room.
Phew...
After the spell concluded, Freya let out a relieved sigh, then turned to look at the others and nodded her head, indicating she was successful in her attempt.
"I will explain. It seems like he got Hope's information from Salvatore Boarding School."
Freya looked at Hayley and Klaus and said with a serious tone, her eyes narrowed, indicating the seriousness of the situation.
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"____"
"Let's first take him to the basement and lock him there with a salt boundary spell."
Hayley suggested that Roman might still hold some use to them.
"Let's kill him."
Klaus, upon hearing Hayley's suggestion of imprisoning Roman in the basement instead of killing him, suggested his own.
Ahem... Ahem...
Seeing Hayley and Klaus arguing about what to do with Roman, Freya coughed deliberately to get their attention.
"____"
"____"
"I think he can be given a better punishment than us."
Freya pointed at Jojo while giving a deadpan look to both Hayley and Klaus, who were arguing.
"WHAT TO DO WITH HIM, HOPE?"
Feeling the attention on him, Jojo looked at Hope, waiting for her answer.
"____"
Sigh...
"He approached me with bad intentions today. If not for Jojo and Dad, he would have succeeded in his intention. I won't forgive someone who wanted to harm my family, Jojo. So, I support whatever decision you take."
Seeing Jojo caring about her feelings, Hope felt touched and gave Roman a cold look.
She walked towards Jojo, and hugged him, burying her face in his back while saying the last part.
"____"
"I know, damn it! I know he's not the good guy."
Klaus, who saw his little princess now hugging a boy before him, shouted offendedly.
"____"
Chuckle~
"Be careful, you might get hurt."
Seeing Hope's antics and Klaus's ugly expression, looking at this scene felt amused.
"God! Please, kill me. I can't take this anymore."
Roman felt like a third wheel while Jojo and Hope being lovey-dovey gave him poses like they were taking wedding pictures.
"____"
"FREYA, I WILL KILL HIM."
Jojo stood from the chair and lifted it, freeing Roman.
Seeing his chance, Roman tried to retaliate and ran away, but he was captured by Jojo, who caught him easily by his neck.
"Wha..."
Jojo lifted Roman by his neck while he was trying to punch Jojo, which was all in vain.
"DO YOU WANT TO VIEW YOUR SINS? THEN LOOK INTO MY EYES."
Jojo moved Roman close to his face, forcing him to look into his eyes.
Ahhhh...
"Ah~ Please forgive me. Diya... Kenny... No, don't... Ahhh~ Please..."
Gulp...
Seeing the horrified expression Roman was giving off while looking at Jojo and screaming with different names made Hayley gulp in shock, while Freya looked at them with a smirk, observing Hayley's shocked face.
While Klaus looked at Jojo with interest, at first he was not expecting much, but now he felt interested in what he was doing to Roman.
For some reason, he felt satisfied.
Ahhhh...
Roman, who was struggling, suddenly became silent without any movement.
Thud...
Jojo threw Roman down, which made everyone take a close look at his eyes.
"____"
"____"
"____"
"What happened to him? Jojo, why do his eyes look like that?"
Hope asked him while curiously looking at Roman, whose eyes were turned into charred black with cracks of heat in them.
CHUCKLE~
"WELL, IT IS ONE OF MY ABILITIES TO PUNISH SOMEONE BY GAZING AT THEIR SOUL THROUGH THEIR EYES AND DESTROYING IT IN THE MOST PAINFUL WAY."
Jojo chuckled while explaining his ability to Hope, while the others also listened with interest.
"TOMORROW LET'S VISIT THIS SCHOOL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. AND FREYA, NOW YOU CAN EXPLAIN WHAT YOU SAW IN HIS MEMORY."
After explaining to Hope about his ability, Jojo turned to Freya and asked her to explain what she saw in Roman's memory.
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