“I will join you too.”
“Why Kyung?”
“that… “The mayor told me to keep an eye on Confucius.”
Guard Captain Sir Gordon said with an awkward expression.
‘Surveillance is an excuse and an attempt to give me power.’
I glanced up.
I saw Mariam looking down at me from the mayor’s office on the third floor of the city hall building.
When I waved my hand slightly, Mariam was shocked and quickly closed the curtain.
‘Anyway, Bracon.’
… You probably have a photo of me or something, right?
While I was imagining something foolish, Sir Gordon said.
“As expected, you two get along well. Please come visit the mayor often in the future. “There are many times when I worry because you are overexerting yourself.”
“… “I’ll think about it.”
I answered vaguely.
‘Actually, Mariam is not a person you would want to get close to. ‘He is the most important character in Yodo’s character scenario.’
Scenarios are divided into two types.
The first is the Academy’s main scenario.
These are common incidents that the main characters experience at the academy.
The second was the character scenario.
It was a personal scenario related to the story of each of the main characters.
‘The worst and most intense character scenario is Yodo’s. You should never get involved.’
I secretly felt anxious.
I still didn’t know who the other two main characters who entered Rubiness were.
‘Anyone can be anyone now, so I hope it’s not just Yodo and Slaughter.’
At that time, Sir Gordon spoke from the side.
“hahahaha, I’m looking forward to seeing what you plan to do. “I’m sure it would be a great thing for the city, right?”
“It’s similar. In the end, it will be helpful to the city.”
“Oh oh! “What can our guards do to help?”
“Please grant me the authority to kidnap, imprison, and interrogate.”
“… … .”
Sir Gordon said, ‘I heard wrong?’ He made an expression like this.
But I was serious.
“We need to catch this urban pest, but it’s certain that it will run away like a loach.”
“… “You still want to do something illegal like that?”
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“Why is it illegal? “That’s what security guards do.”
“!!”
Kidnapping, confinement, interrogation.
If the security guard does it, it is legal.
However, the other person had to be a sinner.
“Is there any evidence?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“But what?”
“All you have to do is create evidence.”
Sir Gordon was shocked again.
He noticed the meaning behind my expression ‘made’.
“… you?”
“Isn’t competent expediency better than honest incompetence? “If only it were for the well-being of the city.”
I spoke as if the devil was tempting me.
“This is all for the good of this free city, so please cooperate.”
Gordon swallowed.
* * *
Fortunately, Gordon didn’t reject my offer.
-You really want to catch criminals who are causing harm to the city, right? Ban, I will trust you and follow you.
I also met another person.
“Oh hoho, I meet my benefactor. “I would like to express my gratitude to my benefactor for the favor he gave me last time on the Ranchel Plateau.”
She was an alluring beauty, one of the lords of the slums’ Dragon Citadel, and the leader of the rebel army, Lyran.
“I came because I had some business to do.”
“Is it because of the rats?”
As expected, Lyran, the Watcher.
He was aware of my business.
“I will fully cooperate with what my benefactor does.”
“Thank you.”
“you’re welcome. It’s nothing compared to the blessings our benefactor gave us. “Not only did you save Saint Johen, but you also gave me the blessing of the great dragon and protected the settlement. I really don’t know how to repay this favor.”
I didn’t particularly deny it.
Because it’s better to show off when you can.
“By the way, do you mind? “Behind the rats, there is a witch of cruelty.”
The mistress of a famous magic family and once infamous Lv. It was the 7 witch.
There was no way I could stay still.
but,
“Okay.”
“but?”
“Do you think I’m just trying to kill a few rats?”
Lyran’s eyes widened as he understood what I meant.
“Oh ho ho. Indeed, a benefactor. “I wonder what you plan to do.”
Lyran lowered his voice.
“But be careful. “It’s not a lie that the Witch of Cruelty belongs to the Abyss.”
Lyran said it is not simply ‘origin’, but ‘affiliation’.
This means that she, the duchess, is still in the Abyss.
It’s an amazing story, but it’s true.
“Know. “I’ll take care of that problem, so don’t worry about it.”
I took a few extra precautions and moved on to my next destination.
-Shoot. Take a picture.
“Ugh! Why did you come to this dirty place? Argh! my shoes!! What did you step on? “I can’t buy more because I’m a beggar with bad credit!”
“Uh-huh! this guy! Where are you trying to run back?! Can’t we get ahead right now?! Confucius Ban, I will lead the way with that bastard!”
Linden and Hans had a reason to make a fuss.
Black darkness.
A disgusting smell that turns your stomach.
This was an underground waterway, the dirtiest place in the Free City.
‘It’s hard for me to bear it too. It’s going to take some time to get things done, how can I hold on?’
At that time, a baby dragon suddenly jumped out of my arms.
“number of animals?”
I named the baby dragon ‘Marie’.
Personally, I think it’s a very gorgeous name.
“Leave it to you?”
The baby dragon, Mari, nodded eagerly and burped.
Paaat!
Is it because he is the offspring of a great ray dragon?
Surprisingly, the baby dragon’s burping purified the underground waterway of its disgust!
-Kyuyu!! Kuyu!!
I patted her head because she was crying for praise.
“Good job, tonight’s dinner is a special sandwich.”
-… Kuyu.
“… I get it. “I’ll have sirloin.”
-Kyuyu!!
Excited voice.
It was a baby dragon that liked sirloin because it was a dwarf and knew what was delicious.
The two of them looked at Marie like that in amazement and asked.
“Confucius, then why did you come to this underground waterway?”
“I have business to attend to. Did you know that all the waste of the Free City flows into underground waterways?”
“Isn’t that obvious? Of course, sewage flows into underground waterways. “Is that what you made it to be?”
“That’s not what I meant. “Look.”
I dig! Light magic was performed.
Then, an unexpected sight appeared under the water.
They were corpses.
‘… It’s a surprise. I knew it, but seeing it in person makes me even scarier.’
Although my heart was pounding, the Black Flame Dragon protected the dignity of the superior in front of the two.
“The waste of all illegal activities in the Free City is dumped here in the underground waterways.”
“So, are you here to find evidence of Viscount Konrad’s wrongdoing?”
Linden tilted his head.
“But how do you find evidence in underground waterways? “A place where you can be lost even if you walk just a short distance.”
The underground waterways are vast.
The place where the monsters that were defeated with Catherine and Rivel not long ago are located is just on the outskirts of the waterway, and even the city officials do not dare to approach the deep part.
‘It’s not for nothing that the deeper part of the waterway was declared an inaccessible dungeon. ‘Once you enter, you can never come back.’
“Okay. “There is a way.”
Linden and Hans made a fuss again.
“Are you really going to go inside? Ouch! I’m not going inside! No, you can’t go! “I’m going to kick you out of graduate school right away!”
“Uh-huh, Linden! It is the duty of a graduate student to be willing to sacrifice one’s life! “I will prepare a rescue method in case Confucius becomes a lost child!”
I sighed.
“… Who said you were going inside? “You can’t go inside.”
“yes? But how do you get the evidence?”
“The evidence will be created here.”
“… Are you making it? What do you mean by that?”
The two blinked.
I nodded as if I was right.
“Okay, you two, it’s finally time to pay for your meal. Especially Hans, your role is important.”
“… yes?”
I looked at Hans with a blank face.
He looks like a bald old man, but his real identity is a 5-star Supreme Mage.
He was also more capable than most junior professors at the academy.
His specialty is creating and manipulating magic items.
“Here, use your magic to create false evidence that will tie the Conrads together.”
“Ha, but? “No matter how good a producer I am, how can I manipulate evidence?”
Of course, manipulating evidence with magic was not easy.
This is because methods have been developed to distinguish false evidence.
There was even a specialized organization in the Magic Tower that verified magical evidence.
but.
“What are you worried about? Have you already forgotten who I am?”
“!!”
I raised the corner of my mouth.
“I, Van Ecclesia, will fill in what you lack. So, don’t worry about the magic tower or anything else.”
* * *
At that time, loud shouts were echoing from the security guard’s temporary prison.
“How dare you do this?! You kidnapped me in a place like this while I was asleep? You don’t know who I am?! I am Viscount Conrad. “He is the younger sister of Duchess Bess, the mistress of a famous magic family!”
Guard Captain Gordon looked like he had a headache.
‘You kidnapped the real Viscount Konrad and his gang to the guard’s prison.’
When I went to work in the morning, I found that Viscount Conrad and his gang had been kidnapped in the prison without anyone knowing.
It was the work of Amanda the Black Swan, a member of the assassin clan.
“How dare you, an innocent day. Sir Gordon, you are prepared to lose your head, aren’t you?”
“That’s right, Viscount. I dare make you pay for treating the Viscount like this.”
“His entire family should be thrown to the bottom of the street.”
Gordon wiggled his eyebrows.
The reason they did not reject Van’s absurd story even after hearing it was because Viscount Conrad and his gang were famous scumbags in the city.
They are completely different from Banregi, who are just a laughing stock, and are literally rotten pests that eat away at the city.
For your information, all of the students who challenged Libel were descendants of this group.
“Illegal processing of magic stones.”
Viscount Conrad and his gang were shocked at the story that came out of Gordon’s mouth.
When processing magicite, several harmful by-products are produced.
Imperial law states that the by-products must be thoroughly disposed of, but they did not follow Duchess Bess’s lead.
“… nonsense. “Is there any evidence?”
Viscount Konrad and his group chuckled.
By-products from the illegal processing process were dumped into underground waterways, so no one could find them.
however.
“The evidence is here.”
“!!”
When I turned my gaze in surprise, I saw an intensely dignified figure looking down at Viscount Konrad and his group with an arrogant expression.
“… Professor Ban, what does that mean? “There is evidence.”
“There is no use in denying it. “I have already completed the appraisal of the Magic Tower.”
It was real.
“That’s not all. We have secured all the witnesses to prove your group’s illegal actions. “They used the poor people of Sarong Fortress to dispose of by-products.”
Viscount Konrad’s expression hardened, but he soon burst into laughter.
“So, what happened? What are you going to do with this body over such a ‘trivial’ thing? Van Confucius, are you sure you don’t know who I am?”