The Most Arbitrary Wizard

Chapter 177: Chapter 104: "In Your Dreams!

Sabeck felt insulted.

’I’m a grown man! And my punishment is doing math problems? Does he think I’m a little kid??’

’And the worst part is, I don’t even know how...’

Sabeck suspected that Sean had investigated him, knew he was uneducated, and was deliberately using this method to humiliate him.

’Otherwise, who the fuck forces a captive to do math problems for an interrogation?’

’Would that even work?’

Sabeck decisively chose not to do them.

For a poor student like him, solving math problems was undoubtedly a form of inhuman torture. But as long as he didn’t look at the problems, Sean couldn’t torture him.

Sabeck decided to follow the Night Watchers’ example and simply close his eyes.

Out of sight, out of mind.

He thought Sean was being pretty naive.

’Does he really think I’ll just obediently listen, cooperate by finishing the problems within half an hour, and show immense pain?’

’In his dreams!’

’A warrior can be killed, but not humiliated! They could beat him to death today, and he still wouldn’t do what Sean wanted and solve those damn math problems!’

But... it wasn’t up to him.

Could he really not see just by closing his eyes?

Of course not.

Quite the opposite. Closing his eyes meant the image in his mind became "purer," stripping away all irrelevant factors from his vision and, paradoxically, allowing him to see even more clearly.

Yisha quickly brought over the test paper. Adhering to the elegant principle of politeness before force, Sean made a point to ask one more time, "Are you sure you don’t want to open your eyes?"

Sabeck snorted. "I’m not opening them."

The question was as naive as a criminal asking a girl to willingly take off her clothes. Who would voluntarily cooperate with their own violation?

’If you have the guts, then forcibly strip my clothes... no, I mean, forcibly pry my eyelids open and make me do the problems!’

"Fine, you chose this yourself." Of course, Sean wouldn’t do something as crude as prying someone’s eyelids open. He had plenty of ways to make Sabeck "behave."

He was heard saying to Yisha, "Unfold the test paper."

Yisha did as she was told, spreading the paper out in her hands.

Then, Sean curled a finger and gave a light flick. The very ordinary test paper began to glow. The characters on it peeled off one by one like scattered puzzle pieces, floated in the air, and then gathered under Sean’s direction. They formed a massive golden funnel that poured entirely into Sabeck’s head.

In that instant, Sabeck’s body went rigid. With a DRONE in his head, his vision filled with math problems. No matter how he shook his head or writhed his body, the problems stubbornly remained before his eyes. It was useless even when he opened them; he couldn’t even see the ceiling clearly. It was as if his entire world had been reduced to nothing but these math problems.

"Bastard, what did you do to me!" Sabeck shrieked, losing his mind.

In theory, even if he were forced to look at the math problems, as long as he didn’t think about them, Sean couldn’t do anything to him. But the problems seemed "alive," like tentacles drilling deep into his mind, hijacking his thoughts and attention. It gave him a suffocating feeling of wanting to resist with all his might but being completely unable to.

In just a few seconds, Sabeck’s face turned beet red from the strain.

He felt like he had been violated by knowledge.

’I’m not pure anymore!!’

Watching Sabeck wriggle on the floor like a caterpillar, Yisha couldn’t help but reveal a gloating expression.

She could actually somewhat understand how Sabeck felt at that moment.

After all, Sean’s problems often had her tearing her hair out, and that was when she chose to do them herself. If she were forced, she’d only want to die even more. Sabeck must be in agony right now.

Yisha’s assessment of the situation: He deserved it!

Who told him to sneakily follow them all this way, trying to see them to their graves?

It was just a few math problems. Yisha felt Sabeck was getting off easy.

’If it were me, I’d start by chopping off that cigar-holding hand of his and feeding it to the bats. Hmph.’

But in truth, the math problems were just a distraction.

How could Sean really use a few math problems for revenge? That was too childish, and he wasn’t that bored.

The purpose of the problems was to distract Sabeck and weaken his mental defenses.

His true goal was to have Sopea exploit the opening while Sabeck was being tormented by the math problems, and thoroughly search the man’s memories.

Sabeck was a Tier Five Wizard. If a Wizard of this Level was on guard, Sopea, who wasn’t skilled at making people honest in the way a "Lie Breaker" is, would find it difficult to get the truth. Therefore, Sean had specially created this opportunity for Sopea.

Sopea moved quickly as well. He walked over to Sabeck, squatted down, placed a hand on his head, and directly began Entering the Dream to perform a Soul Search.

With Sean providing support using the Truth Technique, Sabeck’s entire life story appeared before Sopea’s eyes, laid bare and perfectly clear.

This included how many times the guy had wet the bed as a child and what brand of diapers he used—Sopea dug it all up.

「Half an hour later.」

Sabeck, drenched in sweat and trembling all over, indignantly accused Sean and Sopea of their monstrous acts.

"You... you people... You’re despicable! You’re shameless!"

’To think they searched my memories while I was doing math problems!’

Sabeck was, after all, a "Sea Witch." He did eventually notice what Sopea was doing, but by then, it was too late.

They had already gotten the information they wanted.

"This guy came because he accepted a bounty from the Florist Family," Sopea said.

Strictly speaking, he wasn’t a member of the Florist Family, but more of a "business partner." However, his relationship with the Florist Family was better than that of a typical partner. Or rather, Sabeck understood the Florist Family better than most Witch Hunters and had even been a guest in the Florist Family’s castle.

However, this castle was not quite the same as the one they had seen in the "New World."