When I threw the pot at the regressor yesterday, the pot that should have been full of stew was empty inside. Someone had eaten up the stew in the pot before I even arrived.
Two possible suspects. Oh, or something hiding in the restaurant.
However, the entity hiding in the restaurant was a golem, and the golem does not eat food. Naturally, one suspect has disappeared, so it is now clear who the culprit is.
Aji, who was questioned by me, opened her eyes and shouted. How are you? Were you surprised?
“Did you eat rice?! Are you alone?!”
“You ate it!”
“no! bruise! I don’t eat! I’m hungry but wait! Eat together!”
Despite my bitter interrogation, Aji denied it until the end. Even in the current situation when the culprit became clear, the sight of Hansako asserting her innocence was enough to shake even my cool rationality.
Isn’t it real? Or do you just forget about the disadvantages of being a dog and stick to it? I really don’t know because reading mind doesn’t work. If it were a human, I would have immediately figured out whether it was the truth or a lie.
But other non-readers besides me live far and wide without knowing the truth. When someone tells a lie, they find it as evidence or a witness, and come to an accurate conclusion in their own way. Just for today, let’s follow their way.
“Anyway, you’ll find out. Captain Abbey! Were you still in the restaurant last night?”
“Positive. The main building has been collecting information by accessing this entity since yesterday around 4 o’clock.
“Then did you see anyone who stole the stew from the pot yesterday?”
“Positive.”
“like. Enter confirmation. Salty, jjarazan.”
I hummed and grabbed the golem’s armpit. For some reason, the golem’s microphone seemed to come out with the sound of a breeze blowing.
Holding the golem in the back, I looked around once and said.
“Captain Abbie. So, please choose here. Last night, the culprit crawled out of the dark like a mouse and ate the stew in the pot!”
Well, indeed. Who will the golem’s finger point to? Well, there aren’t that many directions to point. about one?
The golem raised his finger slowly. I looked forward to the future that cold steel would show.
The golem’s hand pointed towards me.
what?
“It was me?!”
Oh my gosh. A reversal that a detective should never do! Are you really my country? Is it something my subconscious did?
“denial. I did not point to you.”
Golem shook his head and raised his finger again. Looking at it now, the golem’s finger was slightly deflected from me. I shook my head slightly and the damage didn’t follow.
I walked along the golem’s fingers little by little as if searching for a vein for something. Each time, the direction the golem is pointing in will change slightly. As I fumbled, changing directions from time to time, I found an iron stopper with a tight hole at the end and a drain hole beyond it. It was a drain hole that drained water when processing leftover food.
It looks a bit cramped for people to enter. I looked down at the golem with a hopeful feeling.
“… in this. Is there anyone who stole the food?”
“That’s right.”
“Is there even a rat inside?”
“It’s the right door. There are no subterranean beasts or worms in Tantalus.”
“okay. There is no fungus here. damn… .”
A land that has been cursed by the Earth Mother and her workers cannot invade. Because of that, of course, I was convinced that Aji was the one who stole the food. Because the only living beings in the abyss were me, Aji, and a returner. If it was the most greedy and stupid dog among them, anyone other than me would have suspected it as the number one.
Also, as I read the thoughts, I realized that the regressor did not eat. All clues, including extinction methods and empirical estimation methods, pointed to knowledge.
But the third person is the culprit. It was a very unexpected result.
Come to think of it, did you hear faint thoughts from the restaurant last time? At that time, I passed it on unintentionally, but the clue was already given. You are right to think that there is something else in Tantalus.
Anyway, the past is the past. The important thing now is to decide what to do next. I don’t want to mess with the hive, but if I’m going to take care of it, it’s better to use my hands now that I have a friend. If this is a monster, it would be impossible on my own.
Dogs were man’s old friend when danger was ahead.
“Aji.”
“bruise!”
“There is a guy down here who stole you and my food.”
“Woof woof! Bad!”
“Is it bad? So, let’s take it out and spit it out. Can you take some out?”
I’m afraid to take it out myself, so I’ll have to order Aji. Dogs are man’s best friend.
Aji came over to me. But instead of digging right through the drain, he looked up at me with a dissatisfied expression.
“By the way, you were worse! I didn’t eat it! I waited patiently, but he got mad that I ate it!”
oh I remember that. I hoped I forgot, but I guess you’re not that stupid. Apparently, dogs have a better memory than goldfish.
Still, he is the king of dogs. A being that can be persuaded by words. Like a dog, I will roast and boil it with my words.
“Oh hey. Does it matter now? We have a public enemy. A real thief who stole our food.”
“bruise! I didn’t eat it!”
“okay. I’m sorry for doubting you. First.”
“bruise! I didn’t eat it!”
“Okay. I’m sorry. Let’s be friendly in the future.”
“Woof woof! I didn’t eat it! But I shouted that I ate! I’m mad! Not friendly!”
“That’s it, ah.”
“It was bad! bruise! bad!”
“… .”
Whoa. Can’t help it.
It is a self-inflicted disaster. You’ll have to pay the price.
I went back to my room and took out a leather ball after a long time. The leather ball had already been blown out of the air after not taking care of it for a few days.
after. He let out a long sigh and raised his left arm straight. He tapped rhythmically from the elbow to the wrist with the right finger. As the promised somatic was fulfilled, his wretched body squeezed magical energy and pushed it up with his left arm.
“I hope the day will come when I will propose to play ball first. human figures. But remember, you bastard. I was defeated, not man.”
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Magical powers gather The magical energy that had spread throughout my body ran through my veins and directed to the fingers of my left hand. You can feel the sense of omnipotence at your fingertips as if you can achieve anything. At the same time, the limits of this omnipotence are visible. It is also desperately sad that the sense of omnipotence will also end if you use up this tiny amount of magical power that can fill only one finger.
Why do I have so little magic power? While grumbling, he put his finger inside the ball and memorized a level 0 ritual magic spell.
A level 0 magic that evokes the phenomenon of bursting air.
“pascal.”
With a popping sound, the leather was pulled taut and the ball inflated. A ball made with a small piece on the inside and a large piece on the outside will inflate at once, so no air escapes through the gap. He pulled out his finger, sealed the hole with alchemy, and took it back to the dining room.
There, Aji, whose eyes twinkled more than ever, put her front paws on the desk and swung her tail fiercely. He was excited to see the leather ball.
I said raising the leather ball.
“Can we play ball?”
“Woof woof! Delicious rice too!”
“okay. I will make it delicious.”
“Oww! good! good! you are nice! Now good!”
“Okay then, take out what’s inside.”
Aji nodded and ran straight to the drain, and pawed it in like a dog digging into the ground. After scratching the floor a few times, Aji pulled out her buttocks and buried her head halfway into the drain, then snatched something up.
One arm broken below the elbow.
one leg.
Big hands this time.
And the last thing Aji whined out was a large torso with only one arm and one leg.
A muscular body that looks harder than a golem, short beard and hair. It looked like a famous martial artist, but the appearance of it with its arms and legs falling off one by one was terrifying. The clear muscles stand out from the cross section.
“Wow.”
Nausea comes out. That’s not a human.
The section is clean. Just looking at the twisted traces, it looks like a giant giant grabs hands and feet as if playing with a toy, but it doesn’t bleed and the bones are intact, so I wonder if it’s a well-made human body model. It’s a pitiful appearance with his limbs removed, but his copper-colored skin doesn’t have any blood marks, making him tilt his head to see if he’s really dead. But seeing that not a single thought can be heard, it seems certain that he is dead.
It must have been that someone attacked and threw her whole body into the drain. He survived for a few days with his strong vitality, but in the end, he probably died alone in a place no one was looking for.
“Gosh. How did you change your name in a place like this? .”
It seems that the thought I had at that time was the last fluke. I’m sorry, but I can’t help it. I raised my severed right arm to bury this fragmented corpse. It’s a land cursed by the Earth Mother, but it’d be better to be buried… .
When I grabbed my right arm, the right arm also grabbed me.
uh.
la?
“aah!”
I was so startled that I tried to throw my right arm away. However, the right hand holding me had tremendous power, and it only shook with my hand and did not fall off.
Crazy, even a severed arm is this strong? If I had been in good shape, I would have crushed my arm with just my grip.
This is not the time. I turned over the other palm and pulled out the hidden card. Diamond 1, a strong and resilient trump made by alchemy tightly squeezing metal.
I put that thin card between the fingers holding me. With a slight twist, your fingers slide off. After shaking off the small to middle finger one by one, I could barely take off my right arm and throw it.
“Heh, heh heh. huh. What is that?”
The right arm, which fell to the floor, tried to crawl up the floor with only her fingers, but eventually stopped because of exhaustion. I took a deep breath in front of the gore that went beyond horror.
If he already knew, he asked the golem who looked at his right arm indifferently.
“Captain Abbie. What is that?”
『The right arm that moves even if it is cut off. It is presumed that it is probably of the immortal race.”
“Was that also a trainee?”
“That’s right. There was a scene where another trainee was murdered during the jailbreak, but it seems that he did not die due to immortality. To be able to revive from a wound like that, I have to raise my evaluation a notch.”
“If there is such a thing, you should tell me sooner! You were surprised!”
Aji is looking at her right arm with curiosity. Every time his right arm twitched, he retreated back and forth, and then came back when it was quiet again. I pushed Aji away and carefully raised my right arm and placed it under the elbow of the corpse.
The sections fit snugly, but they don’t stick. The right arm was separated and acting independently as if it were a completely separate entity.
Oh my gosh. It’s the right arm that moves on its own.
“So you mean that right arm ate the stew?”
“Positive. He instinctively went looking for food to heal his body that was in a state of housework.”
“what. that is. scared.”
Now the severed hand moves on its own. There are all kinds of monsters in real Tantalus.
The golem looked at me and asked.
“What would you like to do?”
“What?”
“The immortal race.”
“What about that? How do you do that?”
At my nervous question, the golem turned his head and looked into my eyes. Inorganic, no, a cold light flew from the crystal ball that was the mineral itself.
『The main building suggests to you how to get rid of the immortal race before it comes back to life.』
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