[Location: Somewhere in Izuno Province.]
" The 'Kamon Family'? " Black Merchant asks a random mini-restaurant owner, showing the picture of his recent customer, the one that made him had to close the shop for a while, feeling guilty while eating the food.
" Yes, the one you're looking for is the child from the Kamon Family, whose manor is just kilometres away. " The owner answers him.
" By the way, Merchant... "
" For what purposes you search for him, did he do something to you? " The owner asks.
" Well, he just buys from me some 'Plasma Sword'. " Black Merchant quickly replied.
" You know..., those laser swords that cut almost anything? " Black Merchant says it which made the owner and all the people around decided to pause whatever they're doing right now.
" He..., bought something like that...? " The owner feels so terrified when hearing such news, during his panic, he looked around, followed by his customers who also looked around per the owner's first act of gesture.
" Mmm... " Black Merchant stares when seeing the people around behave out of notion, he quickly realized something is off.
" Is this region ruled by the Kamon Family? " Black Merchant asks the old owner which made him rain sweats when the question was asked.
"(If their mouths are shut like this, then the uttered question must be the deal here...)"
"(Fine then Black Merchant, the mouth-to-mouth information gathering is over...)"
"(Time to see it through their minds.)" Black Merchant says, finally deciding to use his 'Telepath'-kind of ability.
[Ability: 'Memory Interference']
[Allows the User to interfere the memory of another Subject.]
[Skill: 'Memory Revelation']
*Displaying Memory*
"(Show me)" Black Merchant use his ability to reveal the secrets thought by the ones around him, he witnessed it all as their memories shown him a bearded person, the one who is in charge of the Kamon Family.
In that vision, the Kamon Family Head governs his people with great just, he was loved by the people as they revered him and his family, a wife and a son, the teenage boy that Black Merchant is looking right now.
After seeing that kind of vision, suddenly, the memory vision shows that one day, a mysterious woman with black clothes, the woman comes alongside some people with black suits that had the motives of a spider. With that, the woman visits the Family Head, a public visit that any people could see as the Family Head welcomes her with opens arms.
The memory shows nothing on what happened to the woman and the Family Head just then, but all of their memories suddenly shown that days later after the visit. The Family Head's wife died, and the Family Head immediately announce his second marriage with the woman who just recently visit him. Creating a huge festivity over it, while the people cheered for him but feel sorry and sad...
As in those memories, all of them see the Family Head's son, sit near his father with ragged clothes, unworthy to be used by the son of an aristocrat.
"(Mmmm..., so that's why?)" Black Merchant remembers his meeting with the boy, he realized that the boy is also using a shirt that is quite ragged, an unusual cloth used by a son who came from an Izuno aristocrat-like family, he should've at least used some Kimono or some Izuno-like clothes like the others.
"(No wonder he wants to buy a 'Plasma Sword', so she wants to slay the vixen who take his father from him.)"
"(The vixen that I also see happened to bring some men with her to the Kamon Manor.)"
"(From those clothes, I could only predict that this woman in black is either from Trashville or Hellios, thus her current hold over an Izuno local aristocrat.)"
"(Mmm...)" Black Merchant deactivates his Skill, he realized the owner and the other customers suddenly received a shock out of nowhere.
But for Black Merchant, despite the whole thing is unusual to be seen, he keeps his calm for his mind quickly assessed the whole thing.
" I see, this came from afar. " Black Merchant says as he raised up from his seat.
" If this that happened, then there's no doubt that a 'Telepath'-like ability user is pulling out their plug behind the scenes as I dig deeper. "
" Mmmm... " Black Merchant looks behind him.
" I see you've all been alarmed. " Black Merchant says, as he sees many people with Black suits with spider symbols already marched behind him while sitting on the rooftops around the restaurant.
" You must be the one whom our lady deemed to be 'interfering'? " Said one of the confronting people as Black Merchant used his ability on the speaking confronter, scouring his mind as he sees and hears the name of these people from it.
" 'Arachon Soldiers'..., 'W.E.B.'? "
" ... "
" Ah..., your boss is the Villainess 'Aranea Syphon'..., 'The Mind Binder'. "
" That explains things, no wonder your clothes had things that looked like you are a cult that worshipped spiders or some sort. "
" Interesting creature, aren't they? " Black Merchant asks after scouring one of the Arachon Soldier, something that immediately made the person stunned, but suddenly.
* The Arachon Soldier fainted. *
The fainting Arachon Soldier fell into the ground, with his nose and mouth leaking blood that can be seen despite him using his mask.
" Ah yes, his mind is bound to her that deep. "
" Guess I should've expected that the Villainess could easily damage their brain since she had full control. "
" Well, that's your fault for letting a vixen like her control you for so long, didn't it? " Black Merchant asks as the Arachon Soldier comes to him, quickly jumped him after one of them faints.
"(Kill me or you all will share the same fate as that poor soldier...)" Black Merchant says in his mind.
"(Is that what Aranea ordered you in your minds right now?)"
...
(Meanwhile).
[Location: Kamon Family Manor]
" It seems someone had been daring recently... " Said the Lady, Aranea Syphon, currently in the room where she holds the Family Head and his son hostage.
* Kamon Family Head being delirious while being webbed into a chair. *
As the room there is filled with Web, while Lady Aranea still manages things using her Mind, she didn't forget to take a good sight to the other person she webbed in the room, the one she mentioned to be daring.
" Well, look at you, boy. " Lady Aranea says as she holds the Plasma Sword the Kamon Family Head's son just bought.
" It seems you have been harbouring great hatred for me, is it because of me taking your daddy? " Aranea asks while the boy could only grunts as he refuse to say anything while sharply stared at her.
" Hmph, look at this wound you gave me. " Aranea says while wiping the wound in her face, a wound so hot.
" I never thought for once that you would use something like this to ever harm me. " Aranea says while grunting, being pissed seeing the wound in her beautiful face.
* Plasma Sword Activates. *
* Aranea quickly placed the plasma blade onto the boy's neck. *
" This kind of sword is rarely made and only few are allowed to use swords like this, even in Hellios and Trashville. "
" So, tell me, 'Son'... " Aranea refers the boy as her 'son', to make show her current status over him.
" Where did you get this sword from? " Aranea asks him, while slowly approaching the plasma blade, slowly trying to sever the boy's head from his neck.
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Hello guys, after this Chapter, I will go on Indefinite Hiatus for this Novel, as promised, make sure to see my other Ongoing Novels especially "I Level Up To Fight The Gods" during this Hiatus. Thank you.