Zog had considered many possibilities for who might secretly climb the wall into the gun works.
A teenager, goaded on by his friends and getting carried away. People that age were prone to doing crazy things.
Some influencer desperate for fame, filming a video titled "Putting on a show for you all, today I'm bravely storming the gun works."
In short, whoever did something like this definitely wasn't a normal person.
Then he saw the "spy" who'd been dragged in. And he really wasn't normal—it was Lavin.
'Huh?'
"You... why did you climb the wall into the gun works?" Zog asked.
'Don't tell me Lavin got too into character, actually thinks he's Buffalo Bill, and has gone insane.'
Lavin lowered his head and said nothing.
"You don't really think staying silent is going to work, do you?"
In the past, forcefully using the Soul-Searching Technique might have carried the risk of scrambling the target's brain.
