Chapter 32 The Kraken (1)
Aten and I arrived in front of the broadcasting room.
“… … Is Serp still there?”
“I don’t know if he’s here, but he’s probably watching us.”
They used all the students who received business cards to try to kill me.
He looks like he wants to kill me anyway, so he probably didn’t just jump out.
“Then this broadcasting room itself could be a trap.”
“right. Because you know I have no choice but to come here.”
Aten raised her hand and closed her eyes.
“… … I don’t feel mana. It doesn’t look like a magic trap has been installed.”
“great.”
I nodded and slowly opened the door. Nothing happened.
I looked around and went inside, and saw some fallen students.
“Aten.”
“Yes.”
Aten approached and checked the condition of the students. In the meantime, I checked the broadcast room equipment.
And I found it soon. What was Serp’s intention?
[Come to the auditorium.]
one short line. He has designated a place to meet with me.
Meanwhile, Aten, who checked the condition of the fallen students, said:
“… … I am bleeding heavily. It’s okay for now, but it would be dangerous to leave it alone.”
“I mean, I’m going to tie you up here.”
Aten nodded.
“Are you okay? I think the auditorium is really a trap.”
“I can’t keep the students like that.”
I pulled out my phone.
“Will you call me?”
“yes. to my brother.”
Philly’s driver slammed into his car with a guardrail.
It’s probably because of the ‘business card’.
After receiving the phone call and making the trip, you must have heard Serp Daniel’s voice on the phone. Now that the ‘business card’ has spread all over Constell, we must inform Atzier.
I want to tell Philly, but I don’t know what else you’ll say to me if Atzi is by your side.
I hear a brief phone call.
-… … frontier.
Atji got the call.
“Ah, brother. That’s me. Now Constell is out of business. Most of the students are taking the journey of the previous Empress’s driver.”
I explained hard, but somehow there was no response from the other side of the call.
Then, Atjie opened his mouth.
– Frontier, I have something to tell you.
“What?”
– Well, that’s right. To borrow your expression… … .
Atjie said something in an awkward tone.
– This is also a rip off.
“… … Yes?”
– No, I’ll correct it a bit. The situation is not dizzy. However, there is no doubt that something strange has happened.
“what happened?”
– Most of the knights of the Imperial Palace are standing still.
“Are you standing still?”
-okay. His eyes are distant, and his expression is like a corpse. I feel similar to the driver you mentioned. They all stand still with that kind of face right now.
If so, it’s definitely Serp’s fault. Business cards were also distributed to the knights.
But it’s odd.
He said he thought the same thing.
– But I don’t know the purpose of the killer. If you can give an order enough to slam your car into the guardrail like last time, there would be nothing you couldn’t do with a collection of articles like this. I don’t understand why they put it up like this.
I frowned, thinking the same thing.
Serp would have been able to issue a lot more diverse orders.
“… … !”
I shook my head.
Realized. If you think about it, it was simple.
“… … I see.”
– Frontier?
“okay. He can’t be alive.”
I was mistaken. This case is a joint operation between Gregory and Serp.
But it was impossible. What I first thought, what I believe was right.
“Oh, thank you. I’ll quit first.”
– Hurry up if you can solve it there. This is an emergency due to work paralysis.
“Yes.”
I hung up the call.
I was mistaken.
Yes, to borrow Atjie’s expression—
The enemy is now on a super emergency.
* * *
The sound of footsteps echoed through the empty auditorium.
Tub, tumble, I walked slowly, but the echo echoed throughout the auditorium.
“… … Howdy.”
And in the center of the auditorium, a man was sitting on a chair.
He was not wearing any armor. It was completely defenseless.
I slowly walked towards him. He raised a hand as if to say hello.
“Hello, Frontier.”
He acted as if he knew me, but it was the first face I had ever seen.
Yes, it was natural.
I am seeing Gregory’s face for the first time now.
“… … I’m hurt.”
“Uh-huh.”
Upon closer inspection, Gregory’s condition was serious.
His whole body was covered with wounds, and his side was especially serious. There’s no blood, but that’s probably it.
“It’s dying. I got hurt while running away, but I couldn’t go to the hospital. Now, surgery is the only answer.”
“… … Did you even find a pharmacy or a quack?”
“Hot ha. You don’t know the Indus too much.”
It was explained in one word.
Most of the non-legal ones have Indus eyes and ears. It wouldn’t have been possible for a body to run away.
“After all, it wasn’t Serp.”
“okay. you knew The guy died in the hut. hit by an arrow It was stuck in the center of my forehead as if I had painted it. If I were alive after that, I wouldn’t have hung out with him.”
It was Gregory who handed out business cards and ordered me to kill myself in the broadcasting room.
“You saved the voice of Yongke Serp.”
“It’s just one sentence. ‘Kill Frontier’. He had been screaming like that a dozen times at the place where he died. We analyzed the remaining mana with a recorder and recorded it.”
Serp is dead, but his business card remains.
The card still had Serp’s powers. It was useless because there was no Serp, but only that voice remained.
Gregory looked up and looked at me. The emotions of resignation and abandonment were fully read in those eyes.
“Frondie. Arrest me.”
“… … .”
“You can’t run away from the Indus. It was unreasonable to borrow the eyes and ears of all animals. The investigation network is getting narrower. It is better to be caught by the police after this has happened.”
“Did you spend three months trying to get caught?”
“right. Based on the information I have gathered so far, you are the right person to make a big fuss.”
I have been connected to many named characters within Constell. Of course I’ve been trying to be that way.
But in Gregory’s eyes, it was more worthwhile.
“What did you do to the Imperial Palace?”
“It didn’t matter. At first, they digged up the information of the crooked knights and threatened them. So it was made to cause minor crimes. Of course, I borrowed the Indus name.”
“… … You turned the eyes of the Indus toward the Imperial Palace.”
Gregory nodded.
The commotion going on in Constell right now. It seems like a huge event to me, but you don’t even know what’s going on outside.
On the other hand, the case of the Imperial Palace is going to be uproar by now. Still, there have been incidents of new and junior knights, but today the knights are standing still as a group.
“The orders are the same. Of course it was ‘Kill Frontier’. But the knights may not know who the frontier is. So you just have to stand still.”
It was for this reason that I was certain that Serp was dead. It’s not because Serp didn’t give any other orders, but because I realized that he could do nothing but kill me.
“You’ve done a great job for just wanting to get arrested. It would have been a job to just embroider yourself.”
“If I had embroidered without doing this, I would only live for a year at most. At the time of the hut incident, I was just an informant. Prior to that, it was mostly just that. ‘Cause I’m a spy Then, after being released, they will only be targeted by the Indus again.”
“… … You mean that you had an accident and extended your sentence? Is it important to live even after serving a long sentence?”
“Of course. I want to live like crazy. And the other guy can’t be relieved. Even if I’m arrested, the Indus might pull me out in the meantime. I needed a guy who was famous and who had a very high-profile family.”
That’s where I was perfect.
Gregory had a sad expression on his face as if he had finished telling the story. He held out both hands.
“Come on, arrest me.”
“… … For once, I have no handcuffs and no ropes.”
“Then let me suppress it with your bare hands. This is because acting is important.”
Gregory speaks frankly.
I sighed and reached out to Gregory.
Moment.
“──I found it.”
As if neither male nor female.
I could only hear a voice that was just muffled.
👌👌👌👌👌
Something black came out of Gregory’s back and wrapped around his neck.
“Big!”
Gregory was dragged helplessly around his neck. Woodang! The chair fell and Gregory swung his legs frantically, but he slipped helplessly.
‘whip?’
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No, it wasn’t that simple. The moment that thick, mushy thing, mixed with a very faint purple light, grabbed Gregory, it reminded him of the tentacles of a mollusk.The tentacles came out of someone. Where did it come from, or where it was from in the first place. Even though he was in front of him, he didn’t feel a sense of reality. It was so heterogeneous.
The other part is a normal human figure, with his right arm turned into a tentacle and holding Gregory.
… … There is no guarantee that only that one right arm will change. That whole body pretending to be human might be something like a mollusk.
“Wow… … I’m afraid… … .”
Gregory waved his hands to free the tentacles from his neck. But the hand could not grasp the tentacles, as if through water.
──Ignoring that tentacle, the opponent’s physical power, I unilaterally exercise my own physical power.
“Hello, Frontier de Roach.”
Like his voice, his face and body couldn’t guess the gender.
“I am, ‘I am not related to the Indus’.”
Strange tones and voices, bizarre looks, everything was scratching my nerves.
He has nothing to do with the Indus, huh.
“Free Gregory, Indus.”
“yes? why? You’ve just been an enemy. If you suddenly pretend to be friendly, you can’t use it. and,”
The guy stretched out his left arm. The moment I thought that my index finger was raised,
bloody-
Its tentacles brushed against my temple. After all, it’s not just the right arm that can turn into a tentacle.
“It’s not the Indus. Did I just say that?”
“Okay, then what? What is the number of ‘People unrelated to Indus’?”
He grinned at my question. The manipulation of the face, with its eyes and mouth curved like a crescent moon, was not a human smile.
“I don’t need to know the number, but well.”
He rolled his eyes as if he remembered it now,
“yes. Call me ‘Kraken’.”
With a name that really suits him, he introduced himself.