Meanwhile, in a darkened chamber...
*Flickering light. Logs crackle and burn in the fireplace*
The Full-time Grand Dark Rizzard and part-time philosopher, Itvasme Diogenes, better known by his indignation-inducing moniker, "The Devious Dio", sat cloaked in the shadows, seated in a chair that was… turned around, hiding his true villain identity as per usual.
Before long, a young man entered the room. He was dressed stylishly, and was clearly handsome, yet at the same time, if one looked a little closer, they would find that this attractiveness was only skin-surface deep, like a bad smell masked with copious amounts of cheap air freshener.
This indeed, was a player among players... the infamous Dark Rizzard, Hugo Heartbreak.
Hugo bowed, albeit with a somewhat supercilious air. "Your Deviousness, I have done as you requested. I will continue to utilise the Arts of Dark Rizzardry to wreak havoc and emotional damage on unsuspecting females, males, and they/thems."
Indeed, Dark Rizzards did not discriminate. For them, any hole was a goal (figuratively speaking, to keep things PG), and a broken heart was just the start. They delighted in scr*wing people over, manipulating the Art of Rizz to pull off utterly despicable crimes.
Take for instance Gladys, the granny who wanted help to get across the street. Hugo had promised to help her, but then... he didn't!!!
"O-O-Oh dear." Gladys' rasped in a grandmotherly tone. Her poor heart palpitated, as she saw the vehicles going by so quickly! "Where has that nice young man gone, who promised to help me?!"
Hugo snickered from behind a bush, before running off.
Eventually, a gallant young hero from Become-a-Hero Co. had helped her across, but who knows what would have happened otherwise...
And what about that young boy, who had bought a can of Koke and was about to drink it?
Hugo had strolled up to him, his eyes filled with false warmth and kindness. "Young boy, don't drink Koke." He pulled out a blue can, which was labelled Pep-Z. "This is better... Why don't you drink this instead?"
The young boy looked up at this seemingly cool older brother with trusting eyes. He wouldn't trick him right?
"Okay." The boy swapped the red can for the blue can happily, only to end up crying later, with truly explosive repercussions, although the full details would probably be best left as a tale for another time.
That's right. Hugo had swapped a can of Pep-Z for the young boy's can of Koke!!!
*At this the majority of the audience shook their heads in disgust. This... now this was just... irredeemable!!!*
"Oh come on!!! It's not that bad!" someone protested. "I-I like Pep-Z..."
"Shut up!" The overwhelming majority hounded him until he caved in to the peer pressure.
The Grand Dark Rizzard Itvasme gave a guttural grunt of approval which he thought made him seem more badass. (He was correct, save for the bad part).
"Gooood. Gooooood. Noowww, for your next missionnn..."
"...Master, your words sound cool but could be hard to read, can you just speak normally?"
*cough* "All right… Anyway, I have something for you…"
The Devious Dio fumbled around a bit since it was really dark in the room, before eventually pulling out a photo of Bob that he had taken from the University website.
"This person has made breakthroughs in Epigenetics, that are of... interest to the Dark Rizzard Alliance. I would like you to find out more... about this... young man. Get close to him. Win his trust. As for the research... I trust you know what to do."
"Consider it done, Master." Hugo bowed and took his leave.
As his disciple left with his Dark Rizzard cloak billowing, Grand Dark Rizzard Itvasme began to chuckle. "Haha. Hahahaha. Mwahahahahahaahahahahahahaahaa!!!!!"
The satisfying villainous laugh filled the chamber.
All his plans would soon come to fruition.
And then!!!
*gasp* It was the moment the esteemed readers had been waiting for. Slowly, the chair turned around...
This was difficult, since it was really just a normal chair, not a spinny one, so Itvasme had to manually lift himself up and hop the chair a few times until he faced the front. "Friggin' low-budget webnovel!!!" he cursed. After a while though, the chair was in the right position and the readers finally got to see his face...
only to reveal that he was wearing a mask!!!
Itvasme laughed. "Hahahahahah. You thought you would get your face reveal... but instead, this is all you'll get. Itvasme Dio!!!!!!"
He cackled, as the readers all spewed out their powerstones. This deviousness was really too much.