248. Return to business (2)
What Kevin asked first was fiction.
Because it was important to report to the tower immediately.
Oliver started talking to Wallace about what Kevin had suggested.
How I met ‘Fixer Will’ before going to my destination, Mountain Face, how I got to Mountain Face, what I researched along the way, and most importantly, the work of the Chimera Lab.
Most of it was based on facts, so it was natural without any awkward parts, and Kevin nodded as if there was no problem and listened to the story calmly.
“Bathory?”
Without listening to the explanation, Kevin asked.
“Yes, you know?”
“I’ve never met him, but I’ve heard his name. In the days of war wizards.”
“Is that so?”
Oliver asked, seemingly surprised.
War Wizard, as the name suggests, is a wizard belonging to the military. I thought the related fields would be war and combat.
He added as if explaining whether Kevin had read the thought.
“Warcraft wizards are sometimes used to catch criminals that the ordinary police force alone can’t handle. For example, high-risk criminals.”
high-risk offenders. It meant the worst criminals that the whole world defines as evil.
The eternal puppet. The meat cook, the eternal child fan, and the piper were typical examples.
When he recalled them, Oliver was immediately convinced. They were difficult to catch with the general police force alone, so even if a war wizard was mobilized, it made sense.
“Then, were you also a high-risk criminal?”
“I was a high-risk criminal below that by my standards.”
“Risk level… Can I ask what the standards are?”
“Well, I don’t know because it’s not my job to share that. Above all, Bathory and her family are active in the center of the continent, so I didn’t pay close attention… It’s weird when I say it. Why did a warlock active on the continent suddenly come across the sea, also at Mountain Face?”
Kevin looked at Oliver as if asking for an answer.
“Can you tell me about it in fiction? Or would you like it to be non-fiction?”
After reading the unusual atmosphere, Kevin opened his mouth.
“Non-fiction, please.”
At Kevin’s request, Oliver told the story he had heard at the Chimera Lab.
This is the reason for the assault between the School of Life and the Bathory family.
After hearing the explanation, Kevin was surprised but also convinced.
“I can see why there was such a fuss in the School of Life. It’s more than a warlock’s robbery of the lab and hurting my pride.”
As soon as Oliver came to the tower, he asked, thinking of the life school wizard who came to find him and the students who were screaming at him.
“professor. I also want to ask, what happened while I was at work? Life school wizards and students seem to be making a lot of noise.”
When Kevin heard Oliver’s question, he lit up a somewhat absurd feeling.
“Well······. While you were returning from work, each lab sent you a message about what was going on right away to your school. I heard it too.”
“okay. By the way?”
“It was sent verbally, so the story was a little different. The large stem was the same. A certain warlock attacked the Life School Lab and hid and camouflaged it for nearly a month, and you and the solver you hired solved it alone.”
“Yes, it is true……. So?”
“So what is that? That alone is great enough.”
Kevin said sarcastically.
“No matter how infamous they are, Magic Tower has a tendency to look down on warlocks by default. By the way, it wasn’t enough that such a warlock attacked and occupied a laboratory under the School of Life, and it had been disguised for nearly a month. Even the School of Life and Matopp didn’t know about it for about a month.”
“I think it would be possible if we turned the leather upside down to implement fingerprints and read the memories with blood.”
“So you mean it’s not great?”
“No, not that. Bathory-sama is great enough.”
“Yeah, that was great. And you solved that great warlock only with a solver without the help of a magic tower. this is a big ball If it had been, there could have been more damage. Perhaps the honor of the tower was tarnished.”
“Ah yes. okay······. Thank you for the compliment.”
Kevin stared intently at Oliver, observing.
He was a really weird guy.
what is it He was strangely indifferent to himself, compared to his interest in others and generous evaluations.
Insensitivity to his talents and achievements was one example.
I’ve seen guys trying to build an image like this to pop out of the tower, but Oliver wasn’t real. The real thing without any pretense or intention.
Perhaps, if he hadn’t talked about his achievements, he would not have been fully aware of his achievements.
Kevin questioned whether that could be explained simply in terms of his strange personality.
“Would this be a problem?”
“What?”
“I don’t think it would be so good to stand out in the tower. Especially me.”
“It is not.”
“Will it be quiet or will it be quiet after a short vacation?”
“I honestly don’t know.”
“yes?”
“If what you say is true, the School of Life will keep looking at you. Because they don’t even know their own secrets. In fact, you know now.”
“Then what should I do?”
“You have to think about it carefully from now on. Probably, I’ll write a memorandum of cooperation and take you there for interrogation. You should prepare well based on the report you are going to write. Prepare with me.”
“Oh, thank you. You are kind.”
“After all, it’s my job… But what happened to Bathory?”
Kevin, who couldn’t hear the end, asked a question.
“In the report, I plan to report to the person in charge of getting hurt and running away. Through pools of blood.”
“How did the non-fiction come about?”
“I killed him.”
“…Killed you?”
“Yes.”
“Risk-class criminals who are hostile to human meat cooks?”
“Yes······. He is now in a magic bag with his limbs and head severed. Shall I show you?”
Just in case you don’t believe it, Oliver said in a respectful way. Kevin raised his hand and refused.
“No, it’s okay…. But, how did you get it? They say it has a great regenerative ability.”
“Are you making knives out of emotions? Did you die from being cut?”
At Oliver’s brief reply, Kevin’s eyebrows narrowed even more.
The more I listened to the explanation, the more difficult it was to understand it, as it was far from reality.
Kevin asked to cool his head.
“Don’t ask any other questions. It’s not a big deal, but it’s pretty important, who exactly is the fixer you hired? The School of Life cares a lot and can bet on it. He can know about their own teeth, too.”
“It’s called a solver in the Kell community. My name is Will.”
“Right······. So, what is your real identity?”
“This is Mr. Wallace, the leader of the Kell Free Independence Army.”
“······What?”
“My name is Mr. Wallace, the leader of the Kell Free Independence Army. didn’t i tell you? . . . Oh, I didn’t tell you.”
***
The staff room across from Kevin’s professor’s lab.
There, Oliver was writing a report.
Originally, he was supposed to take a day off and write a report the next day, but Oliver didn’t leave work and wrote a report on the disappearance of Mountain Face because of the incident and Kevin still had a lot to talk about.
It wasn’t too difficult to write the report because Kevin kindly gave me the report form and areas to pay attention to before entering class.
It took some time because there were so many letters to write, but the rest was easy.
All I had to do was transcribe the story I put together with Wallace in style.
“With this, it’s over.”
Oliver, who finished writing the report in a clean and elegant handwriting, said.
There are two reports in total.
It was divided into a summary report that summarized only the main points and a detailed report that recorded details.
The biggest difference between the two reports is the Chimera Research Institute under the School of Biological Sciences. In other words, the difference in the content of encounters with the Bathory family was the biggest factor that divided the thickness of the report.
In the detailed report, the presumed reason for the Bathory family’s attack on the School of Life and how they deceived the School and the Magic Tower. And the conversations and battles they had with them were recorded in detail.
Oliver looked at the report again before handing it over to Kevin to make sure there were no problems.
If Kevin, who will be returning to class soon, inspects the report, and then continues the rest of the story, the urgent task is over.
How did you team up with Wallace, one of the leaders of the Kell Free Independence Army, and how you can trust him?
‘Well, if Mr. Wallace spreads rumors about this incident, the honor of the tower will be tarnished, and not only me, but also Professor Kevin, who sent me as my proxy, will be in a difficult position…’
It would certainly be a big deal if that happened, but Oliver wasn’t too concerned for some reason.
Because Wallace had promised to keep it up to the end.
Of course, the human heart is fluid, so it is impossible to know what will happen over time, but for some reason, Wallace didn’t seem to break the promise easily.
“Well, I think it would be fun to break it.”
As Oliver muttered, he carefully set the completed report to the side of the desk, and took out his notebook.
The notebook was taken from the time I was working at the tower, and it contained the tasks that the professor and individual staff had to do and Kevin’s schedule.
Occasionally, Oliver’s personal schedule was written on the back. right, just like now.
“Well······. I have a lot of work to do.”
Oliver murmured, scribbling down the to-do list in his notebook.
[Find out the identity of the notebook captured from Bathory]
[Learn about the study of improved human beings of the School of Life]
[Meat hammer that absorbed a large amount of Bathory’s blood. Show to original producer Iwan Bremner]
[Batori and the female warlocks made the Invoice Doll] and so on.
“And you should know about the tick-tick-tick eschatology.”
At the very bottom of the notebook, Oliver wrote [tick tock tick apocalypse].
The old apocalyptic theory I heard from Ewan Bremner.
Originally, I was returning to the horse tower after vacation to ask about this. When I think about it, it feels like I’ve come back a lot compared to my original goal.
Well, it wasn’t that I didn’t like it.
“Thanks to you, I learned a lot of interesting things… After I’m done with Professor Kevin, I’ll have to ask if there’s any way to contact the old man.”
Oliver spoke to himself and then folded the notebook.
There’s not much to do in the future, so there’s really nothing to do now.
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Normally, I would go to help Kevin or attend another class, but I couldn’t do that at the moment because Kevin told me to avoid contact with other people as much as possible.So Oliver rationally decided to clean the staff room.
After being away for a few days, dust had accumulated here and there.
Oliver pulled out a corpse cleaning tool he bought from a black market from his magic bag. Just then, a knock on the door was heard.
smart-
Oliver looked through the door through the eyes of a warlock. He was a man with a face.
“Mr. Yareli?”
Oliver opened the door and greeted the woman standing in front of him.
Yareli, with her silvery curly hair and thick glasses, stood there, feeling a little uncomfortable.
“······hello. Xenon.”
“Yes, hello.”
“·················ogue.”
“·················ogue.”
Oliver and Yareli were silent, and Oliver spoke first.
“······· By any chance, if you have come to visit the professor, you are not here now. Then, I will deliver it.”
Oliver pulled out a notebook and pen from his pocket. Yareli hesitated and shook her head.
“No, I’m here to see you, not the professor.”
“Me?”
“Yes, I want to apologize.”
“Are you an apple?”
“I think I spoke too vaguely the last time I didn’t know.”
Oliver tilted his head.
“uh······. I’m sorry, but what did you say?”
“…I told you to do your job right at the library. I told you that if you don’t do your job properly when you’re young, you won’t be able to get a place to lie down when you’re old.”
oh······. remembered
“No, you are right. You have to do the job right.”
“no. I’m sorry. I think I misunderstood Mr. Xenon. I heard that the disappearance of Mountain Face was quite serious, but did you solve it yourself?”
“Actually, the solver I hired did it all alone.”
“And the train.”
“A train?”
“Yes, I heard that you helped people by subduing the robbers who were raiding the train. is not it?”
Oliver thought for a moment.
“Well····. Oh yes. How did it happen?”
“Awesome. Thanks to this, the honor of the tower has risen. As a student belonging to Mato, I would like to thank you.”
Yareli apologized and thanked him, and that’s all. I was really here to apologize and say thank you.
It was unexpected, Oliver didn’t know what to say.
“uh····. You don’t have to thank me. I just happened to do it… Is that the end of your story?”
“yes. This is the end.”
“Yes, that’s right……. I don’t really deserve an apology, but I’ll be grateful for your apology nonetheless. I don’t really care, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
The story ended with that.
Oliver said goodbye and quietly closed the door, and Yareli nodded awkwardly.
“It was the most awkward conversation between a man and a woman I have ever seen.”
As soon as the door closed, a voice was heard from inside the staff room, where there should be no one but Oliver. It’s also a familiar voice.
Oliver turned his head to see Merlin sitting at his desk reading the report.