260 – Attack
A day ago.
While Crow was gathering information by meeting Sharon, the head of the agency, and the Time Transcendant one by one.
A girl was heading somewhere, her body completely damaged due to her injuries.
“Ugh…”
Her name is Juliet.
She barely succeeded in escaping from the count’s mansion, which was no different from her father’s death, but in return, she lost all of her men and was seriously injured.
However, because she was under a nationwide search order, she could not go to the hospital and receive treatment.
Besides, she had work to do.
Now that the Count had fallen and even the original strategy had been scrapped, he had to make his own move.
‘I can’t give up…!!’
The superficial reason of overthrowing the monarchy in the name of resistance was actually irrelevant.
Just as the Count of Monte Cristo used the fake excuse of revolution as a cover to revive theocracy, Juliet also joined the Resistance to achieve her own goals.
We only stayed together for a while because we had the same interests, but when he disappeared, the organization called Resistance was now useless.
Of course, the knowledge the Count received from the Sun God was of great help. Not only did she inform him that the director of the foundation she worked for to hide her identity was a thief, but her current destination was also informed by the Count.
Thanks to that, Juliet did not give up and finally managed to avoid her pursuit.
“Is this place…?”
As she took off her robe and looked around, she saw the entrance to a cave with a dark and gloomy atmosphere.
Juliet, who was glaring at that place, stood tall with her stern expression.
She may meet her terrible death if she goes further than she heads forward. She wouldn’t even blink an eye even if the being in front of her made her like that.
Nevertheless, she overcame her fear and headed towards the cave.
To achieve her own goals.
··· To meet her father again.
“Please wait a moment. Father.”
***
“Ah, Sharon.”
She saw Sharon coming this way and waved her hand happily.
Maybe it was because I met her the day before yesterday and stayed with her all night and told her all the stories I had kept inside her, but for some reason, it felt like she was much closer to me than before.
I believe that I am probably not alone in this thought. Isn’t this almost the first time Sharon has approached me like this?
In fact, Julia and Rachel also seemed quite surprised by Sharon’s unusual behavior.
“What’s going on? “I never thought someone with a heavy butt like you would come first.”
“Rachel. “It’s rude of Sharon to say that her ass is heavy.”
Sharon, who had been watching the two people chatting indifferently, turned her head to me.
“Cro.”
“Uh, huh?”
“Did you go well yesterday?”
Although embarrassed by the sudden question whose meaning was difficult to understand, she nodded her head.
“Uh…”
“Wait a minute, what does this mean?”
Then, Rachel’s mysterious question, interrupting my answer, and Julia’s embarrassed reaction were mixed together.
“You two met alone on the weekend…? Did it go in better than that? Could it be that Crow went to Sharon’s house…!?”
Only after seeing the two people’s intense reactions did I realize how easy it was to cause misunderstanding what Sharon had just said.
No, it is difficult to even call it a misunderstanding in the first place. Because it is true that, as Yulia said, she went to her house on the weekend.
But what the two people were thinking about never happened.
I tried to quickly correct my mistake to prove my innocence, but Sharon was one step ahead of me and intercepted my answer.
“It’s nothing special. Because we just had something to talk about. “I was just worried that Crow would stay up all night and go home.”
“You two stayed up all night alone…?”
hahahaha. Looking at their expressions, I don’t think they will believe anything I say anymore.
It was clear that in Julia and Rachel’s minds, they were already treating me like a trash criminal.
I can’t help it. It was an ambiguous problem to blame, so I could only sigh.
Sharon is usually indifferent to others, so she tends to speak without thinking about what the listener will think. She couldn’t have intentionally intended this difficult situation.
After that, I tried to make excuses as best as I could, but the two people only nodded their heads and didn’t seem to truly believe my explanation.
In order to provide a satisfactory explanation, I would have to explain everything we talked about all night, but that was practically impossible, so it was unavoidable.
“So you two are still not in a relationship?”
“I’m still sleeping and I’m saying it’s definitely not the case.”
“Hmm…”
Rachel, with her arms crossed and a strange drooling voice, whispered softly into my ear.
“Well. “It seems like you’re the only one who thinks that way.”
“What?”
“That’s it. “I’m a fool for explaining it to an idiot like you.”
Anyway, perhaps thanks to my desperate denial, the topic never came up again after that.
But for some reason, with the addition of Sharon, all three seemed to be in a worse mood than usual. I was so intimidated because I felt like I had done something wrong.
“Haa…”
I was sighing in confusion as to how to resolve this situation.
Drurruk-!
The back door opened and someone came into the class.
“Cromoris student.”
It was a familiar face, but an unexpected person I never thought I would meet here.
It was none other than Catherine, a member of the executive department, and for some reason she came to visit me at the academy.
Naturally, everyone’s eyes in the class were focused on both Catherine and me.
In that situation, she looked straight at me and said without any hesitation.
“I have something to ask you about the last school trip, so please cooperate.”
“···Now?”
“Yes.”
I quickly understood the purpose of the visit itself. The same thing happened right after the last test.
But what was puzzling was the timing. Why did you come here now, attracting unnecessary attention when you could just quietly sing after class like last time?
Although I was confused, I calmly followed her and left her class.
I calmed down the children who looked worried by looking at them and telling them to wait.
I continued to think as I walked down the hallway after Catherine, but again, no clear answer came out.
In the end, I couldn’t bear it anymore and after confirming that there was no one around, I asked directly.
“Is it related to Gina, just like last time…?”
“Yes. “Exactly.”
“But why now? “Isn’t it much safer to proceed quietly after class?”
To my question, she stopped her steps and took a moment to answer.
“Because it’s too late.”
“···Yes? “How can you be late?”
“A series of incidents that the academy experienced during its last school trip. “The remnants of the resistance in the Frankish kingdom, which were at the center of it, have now been captured by the executive branch.”
Of course I know that. Because those remnants were working as employees at my foundation.
“As a result of interrogating them and extracting information from them, I realized one thing. “They are somehow connected to Drakan.”
“···Drakan?”
The Resistance and Drakan are related?
That can’t be possible. Drakan is the most vicious and dangerous villain organization in the original work. However, it is a small elite organization that acts arbitrarily unless it is for the sake of a goal.
In the first place, there was no point of contact between the two…
···No, when I thought about it carefully, there was one thing.
‘Rapano.’
He provided funds to Drake, who attempted to brainwash the phantom thief’s followers into revolutionary forces.
And as the owner of Leia’s former workplace, it was because of him that Rachel almost became Drakan’s test subject.
Why didn’t I think of it earlier?
We clearly saw through the crystal ball shown by the Witch of Prophecy that Rapano had become Drakan’s subordinate!
It doesn’t matter who reached out first.
What is certain now is that Drakan and the Resistance were connected and cooperating through Rapano.
“We tried to use him to reveal Drakan’s base and attack them first, but since they were at the lowest level, they didn’t have accurate information. “But there are people who would know that information.”
A high-ranking figure in the Resistance who knows Drakan’s hideout.
‘Juliet!’
The situation is so twisted.
If she, who is missing, somehow awakens the conscious Drakan…
“So there is no time. If Drakan starts to move, of course their first target will be Jean Granger. “He must be your friend.”
I understand that this is definitely an urgent situation. But I still don’t understand.
When we reached Gina, she was waiting for us inside her empty classroom.
“You…”
“From now on, we are moving to the Edinburgh branch in Scotland.”
“Now, wait!! “Suddenly it’s Scotland. Even if it’s true for Gina, why do I…”
“I don’t know that either. “I just follow the manager’s orders.”
In the midst of this series of processes that proceed so suddenly.
It seems we were missing something important.
Kooo–.
With an ominous sound echoing throughout the academy, the world was suddenly engulfed in darkness.