NOVEL WEB Chapter 339: Pervert
Alice naturally wouldn't appear before Sylvia in her real appearance. She currently needed to play the role of an interrogator. If she appeared in her real appearance, Sylvia would instantly recognize her, and her interrogation might not achieve its intended results.
After all, the appearance of the Gryffin King's illegitimate daughter had caused quite a sensation on the internet a few months ago. Anyone who had been on the internet and seen the news during that period would have seen Alice's appearance. If Sylvia was an old woman who didn't frequent the internet, Alice might not have bothered to disguise herself. However, Sylvia evidently wasn't an old woman.
On the contrary, Sylvia was not only a fashionable gyaru but also a well-informed thief. If Alice dared to interrogate Sylvia in her real appearance, Sylvia would definitely recognize her. To avoid the potential troubles that could come with such a development, Alice put on the large magician's hat she had bought from the magic town to cover most of her face, letting Sylvia see only her mouth. Only after doing so did Alice speak up:
"Hello, Sylvia. Or should I say, Lilith's subordinate?"
"Who are you?"
Lilith remained relatively calm. She did not panic simply because her hands and feet were bound. Instead, she calmly responded to Alice's greeting while trying to free herself from her restraints. Of course, despite her actions, Sylvia didn't think she could free herself. After all, Alice knew about her secret identity as a thief, so the other party had most likely come prepared to restrain her.
Sure enough, when Sylvia tried to break her restraints, she promptly noticed that Alice didn't use a normal rope to restrain her as the rope possessed incredible toughness. Moreover, Sylvia noticed that the rope wasn't tough because it was magically treated. Instead, it was because the rope inherently possessed an exaggerated amount of mana. This, in turn, gave the rope toughness surpassing even ropes that were magically enhanced ropes.
This discovery rendered Sylvia speechless. She couldn't help but feel that she had been abducted by a prodigal. If a magically enhanced rope was equated to a hose that compressed water to release it at high pressure without wasting too much water, then the rope used to tie her would be equivalent to a hose releasing all the water in the reservoir it was connected with to achieve high pressure.
In terms of efficiency, the high-pressure hose would naturally be the superior of the two since it could achieve the greatest destruction using the least amount of water. However, if efficiency was to be disregarded, the hose that released all the water in the reservoir to achieve a high pressure could naturally achieve greater destruction than the high-pressure hose.
Of course, Sylvia could have never guessed that the rope used to tie her was actually a vine created using the taboo "Hubert's Tree." Hence, the mana it carried naturally exceeded the mana contained in the average magic rope.
Meanwhile, Alice had naturally noticed Sylvia's attempt to free herself. However, Alice was confident in the toughness of the vine she created, so she wasn't worried Sylvia could break free from it.
"Who I am is not important. What's important is what you, or more specifically Lilith has been doing recently. I'm sure you would know about her actions, right?" Alice asked ambiguously, hoping to induce Sylvia to reveal some hints regarding Lilith's recent plans.
However, Sylvia was incredibly alert. Although she knew what Lilith was currently investigating, and she was even one of the people involved in this investigation, she wouldn't casually reveal the subject of their investigation to someone she didn't have any information on.
"What Her Highness Lilith has been doing recently? What does that have to do with you?"
Sylvia's current plan was simple. She had previously arranged a meeting with Lilith at 2 PM to make a regular report.
Originally, Sylvia planned to uncover the identity of the person trying to investigate Lilith and report this matter to Lilith in the afternoon. Now, however, not only did she fail to identify the culprit, but she even got caught by the other party… So, what Sylvia needed to do now was to buy time. So long as she could drag things out until 2 PM, Lilith would realize that she could no longer be contacted and search for her.
Lilith was the Rhine Kingdom's only princess. Although she wasn't a successor to the throne, she still had the authority and ability to conduct a wide-scale search for someone in the Rhine Kingdom. So, Sylvia did not think the person in front of her could escape Lilith's search.
"How tight-lipped you are."
Alice chuckled. Sylvia's personality was much more stable than she expected. However, she didn't find this particularly surprising since Sylvia was a thief recruited by Lilith to collect important intelligence on her behalf. There was no way Sylvia would be easily flustered like normal girls her age. Otherwise, she would have long since exposed Lilith's actions.
However, after all was said and done, Sylvia was only at the age where she should be studying in school. She might be able to withstand ordinary interrogation for a long time, but Alice wasn't the type of person who would play by the books.
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With a smile on her face, Alice approached Sylvia and extended her hands under Sylvia's confused gaze. Then, she grabbed Sylvia's skirt.
"Wait! What are you doing?!"
Sure enough, Sylvia's calm expression instantly crumbled in the face of Alice's abrupt behavior, and she involuntarily cried out in a panicked voice.
Originally, Sylvia thought she would only be subjected to a normal interrogation. After all, even though Alice had made her voice sound coarser using mana, the two small bulges on her chest gave it away that she was female.
However, Sylvia never thought that her female interrogator would suddenly pull off her skirt. She instantly panicked in this situation, and the first thought that came to her mind was that she had come across a female pervert.
Subsequently, under Sylvia's flustered gaze, Alice cut the sides of her panties and removed them from her lower body.
This development frightened Sylvia. This situation was completely outside of her expectations. She never thought that the person in front of her would go from asking about Lilith's information in one moment to stripping off her skirt and panties the next moment.
Meanwhile, after looking at her newly acquired prize, Alice had to admit that Sylvia was indeed a gyaru to the core. Even though Sylvia had worn conservative clothes to their meeting, the panties she wore underneath those clothes were very bold.
The black lace panties Alice currently held had even less fabric than the bold panties Rosa usually wore. Out of Rosa's panty collection, only the few thongs in Rosa's wardrobe and the band-aid Alice sequestered yesterday could compete with Sylvia's lace panties.
Alice had seen many panties before. So, it was incredible that Sylvia's panties could receive such a high evaluation from her.
However, Alice didn't strip Sylvia's panties just to bully her. On the one hand, she had done so to make Sylvia panic so that she could pry information out of Sylvia more easily. On the other hand, it was to show her identity to Sylvia through this pair of black panties.
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[Weapon: Soft Black Lace Underwear]
[Quality: Artifact]
[Effect: Strength +3000, Constitution +3000, Speed +3000, Spirit +7000, Control +7000, Mana +7000]
[Additional Effect:
Mana Cancellation (Passive Skill. You will not be affected by offensive magic);
Absolute Defense (Passive Skill. You will not be hurt by physical attacks);
Destruction Grip (Active Skill. Upon use, releases a hand of darkness that can crumble the target's soul.)]
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Immediately, dark mana overflowed from Alice's right hand and rapidly filled the isolated room, causing the room to darken.
Sylvia was originally panicking a little already after having her panties forcefully stripped from her. Upon seeing the large amount of dark mana and dark mist coming out of Alice's right hand, her expression changed once again. Then, when she recalled the recent events that had taken place in the Rhine Kingdom, she subconsciously blurted out the first thought that came to her mind:
"You're the Demon King?! You're the one trying to investigate Her Highness Lilith?! Don't tell me you've already decided to interfere in the Rhine Kingdom's royal affairs?!"