123 sacrifice
***[First Class Investigator]***
‘This is not the end.’
Investigations don’t end with knowing about the gods from across the planet.
What happened to that god with Gleuk’s homeland, why did he cast the curse of the motto on the priest, and as a result, why did the number of monsters that ruined Glech’s homeland increase and how did it fade away? this remained
The goddess’ wrath continues as long as the cause remains.
That’s something I’ve known since the beginning of the investigation.
If the increase in the number of monsters stopped after the ruin of Gleuk’s country, the cause must have been within that country.
The problem was what it was.
What on earth caused the wrath of the goddess in Gleuk’s homeland?
While conducting an investigation, it is easy to forget what you set out to do in the first place, but investigators must remain focused.
You should always keep in mind what is most important.
That was the first quality of an investigator.
‘Hmm, yes. Yes, it was. I forgot about it for a while.’
He didn’t want to know about the existence of a god beyond the stars.
At first, it was to investigate the background of a human named Gleuk, and that was to determine if there was any danger to the duke.
And now, the investigation has changed to prevent the increase in the number of monsters.
It’s all important.
Yes, it is very important.
What’s important is for sure.
‘Haa, it seems I haven’t been home for years.’
I want to see my wife’s face.
I want to see my children too.
Well, they’re all grown up, but being a child is cute even if their size is distracting.
‘I miss my wife the most.’
I miss those plump breasts and ample buttocks.
‘I have to finish the job quickly and go back.’
The wagon, which had rattled wildly, came to a halt.
It arrived at the destination city.
“Get off! We’re all here.”
When the coachman shouted, the people who had been seated tightly piled up.
The investigator also rose from his seat rubbing his sore buttocks.
Regular wagons are good because they are cheap, but once you get on them, it hurts like all your bones have been disassembled and put back together.
In his prime, his body, which would have been fine with just one stretch, is now not restored to its original state even after ten stretches.
Maybe it’s really time to retire.
‘I’ll have to think about it once I’m done with this.’
The inspector picked up his creaking body and began walking across the city.
In the temple of Glek’s homeland, there were often cases where very young children were brought in and raised as priests or shamans.
It is said that such children were raised in the depths of the temple in the name of not being clothed with the dirt of the world.
I heard that even if the country was ruined by the demon, the children were living in the depths of the temple without knowing anything.
That’s what the investigators noticed.
Children who live in the depths of the temple where no one enters.
If so, maybe there are children who saw what happened in the temple.
Even if he didn’t understand, at least something memorable happened.
However, as the country was invaded, all the children were enslaved.
Originally, there were very few cases where priests or shamans were enslaved, even if they were enemies.
Because God exists everywhere in this world, and most people on this continent worship him.
So there was very little to touch the temple.
However, the children had not yet become priests or shamans, and they were all beautiful.
I don’t know if there was some disagreement, but in the end he was sold into slavery.
It is an adult’s ugly greed.
‘ha….’
I sighed once again.
You can tell what kind of situation these children have become without seeing them.
‘Well, I’ve already seen it.’
Among the slavers who bought the children of the temple was a place the inspector’s father knew.
The investigator got a list from there through his father’s introduction, and then went to another slave dealer after receiving a letter of introduction from there.
The investigator let out a long sigh.
Most of the children were sold into s*x slavery in anticipation of their future, and eventually died after being abused.
Even the surviving children were not in a happy state.
all unhappy
While working as an investigator, you go through a lot of things, but the most painful thing among them is related to children.
The investigator let out a long sigh and looked up.
As the clamor of people subsided a little, the inspector was already on a clean street.
The investigators headed for the largest of them.
The building was quite large and spacious.
It is the largest and richest store in the city.
I heard they have branches elsewhere.
The inspector looked up at the old building.
There are two children, a man and a woman, sold here.
I don’t know why they were sold together.
The names or information of these children were obliterated in black ink and were not visible.
It seems that the person who bought the children asked for secrecy, but those who knew what happened at the time were already dead.
After giving the money, I asked him to ask anything, and the young slave trader answered everything.
‘Anyway, there must be some information here.’
I was nervous, and my stomach naturally went into power.
I’ve gathered some information so far, but nothing great.
I just got some little crumbs.
Maybe it makes sense, but there was too little information to infer anything.
This was the last child he could track down.
“That way! Watch out! Jim is on the verge of collapsing!”
A male voice came from somewhere.
When I turned my head, I saw several large wagons coming and going in and out of the back of the building.
‘Hmm, it looks like luggage is coming in from the back?’
Back at the back of the building, a young man who seemed to be in charge was wandering around shouting or giving instructions to people.
‘Hoh… that’s amazing.’
He is a very handsome man.
It looks pretty, which is rare in a city like this.
‘That’s right. He’s unlikely to be in this city. if….’
As the investigator watched, the man who had been busy shouting for a while turned his head.
“Old man there!
“…”
Contrary to how it looks, it has a rough mouth.
The young man came closer with great strides and raised his eyebrows.
“As expected…you are the one!”
“…”
Who is he?
I thought for a moment about what to do, but this time I heard a woman’s voice from some distance away.
“Don’t try to yell at anyone and try to frame anyone, but first think about it! Are you brain empty?”
Hmm, judging from the woman saying that, I don’t think this side is easy either.
Looking behind the man, a similar-looking woman was standing with her hands on her waist.
No, it’s not similar, it looks exactly the same.
‘found!’
These men and women are their slaves.
The investigator noticed immediately.
I thought it was strange that the two were sold, but it seems that they were brother and sister.
Perhaps their personalities are similar, but this time the two started fighting.
“Nuna! Because you’re so loose, those kids keep looking over here.”
“It’s not about being loose, it’s about saving your father’s face. Do you know how much your father goes all over the place to apologize while you’re guessing?”
“But the guys who covet your stuff.”
“I’m not saying let them go. Just aim and kill them.”
Listening to it, it seems that competing stores keep breaking or stealing things here.
A few days ago, it was said that a night guard was injured and things were damaged.
In any case, it seems that the fight will continue without end if I just stay like this.
The investigator took out a document with the duke’s seal from his bosom.
“Excuse me. I am this kind of person.”
Chuak, he unfolds a single sheet of paper in front of the two of them.
The eyes of the two focused on the crest representing the duchy.
When working as a researcher, sometimes you have to assert that you are a duke.
In particular, when it comes to shopping malls, it is difficult to find out information while hiding your identity.
Documents are prepared for such a time.
The Duke of Weiss’s name was known in many foreign countries, so there were few merchants who didn’t recognize this sentence.
From nob le mt l dot com
Just as expected.
The four eyes of the two of them became round at once.
‘Whoop whoop. How are you, little ones? Does this old man look different?’
The word old is always stuck in my heart.
It’s sad to grow old, but you don’t have to say that.
I must have had a little bit of that feeling.
The investigator smirked triumphantly.
“Seniors! Forgive me for my rudeness.”
As if the person had changed, the young man spoke politely and lowered his head.
The woman slaps the back of the man’s head and laughs.
“I’m sorry, old man. This guy is such an idiot. I’m sorry.”
Are you the type to become weak in front of the strong?
Hmmm, you two look alike.
definitely brother and sister
‘But it’s strange.’
There were no slave necklaces around their necks.
If you wear it for a long time, even if you take off the necklace, the traces will remain, but the necks of the two were clean and there were no marks.
*
The answer to that question was revealed shortly after.
The inspector was ushered into the building and met the store owner.
The owner seemed a bit surprised when the investigator asked if the brother and sister were not slaves.
And he let out a small sigh.
“It’s foolish to trust slave traders. I paid them enough money to keep it a secret.”
yes.
The investigators thought so too.
The slave trader will do anything for money.
Rarely will there be slave traders who work with conviction, but at least the people the investigators met were those who would do anything for money.
The shopkeeper politely asked the inspector.
“If me and the children answer you honestly, what do we gain?”
“…”
The merchants aren’t too bad either.
The investigator shrugged.
“It’s my first time coming here, but somehow I think I’ve seen the name of this store somewhere. Looking back on my memory, it’s the same name as the place I said I wanted to make a deal with the Duke’s family about 10 years ago.”
“Would you like to make a deal?”
“No, I don’t have that right.”
“…”
“Instead, I’ll arrange a meeting with the trade manager. Whether or not the deal will go through depends on your skills.”
It’s not easy to make a deal with a duke.
Meeting the official in charge of the transaction was difficult in itself.
Most shopping malls are blocked there.
The shop owner bowed his head deeply.
“Ask me anything.”
“…”
If the children are weak to the strong, then the shopkeeper is weak to the profit.
also a merchant
“First of all, I’m curious… Are you raising children you bought as slaves as heirs? It’s a little strange.”
It is a world where not only nobles but also commoners have a strong obsession with bloodlines.
Although there was a case of freeing a person who had been bought as a slave, there was almost no successor.
The store owner smiled bitterly.
“I am unable to have children. So I tried to find an heir among my relatives.”
However, it is said that there was no suitable person.
In the meantime, I heard the news that my younger brother and his wife had died while they were in another country.
And that the children entered the temple.
“By the time I found out, the children had already been taken as slaves. It was really difficult to find the children.”
There was a little anger in the shopkeeper’s eyes.
“If I had been a little late, the fate of these children would have been truly miserable.”
“I guess so. At least I’m glad I have a happy child.”
When the investigator spoke, the shopkeeper’s shoulders lowered slightly.
You must have felt that he really thought that way.
“thank you.”
After that, I asked the brother and sister a question.
But the brother and sister were taken to the temple when they were four or five years old.
I didn’t remember much.
It’s just similar to what I’ve heard from other children.
The fact that they lived deep inside the temple, there were several children gathered together, and sometimes the child next to them was dragged away by the priest and never returned.
I sighed in disappointment, but my sister suddenly opened her mouth.
“Ah! Hey… Maybe this is my imagination.”
“…”
“My brother went missing and I saw a man while looking for him. How to say. I’m not even sure if that was a real person. Because he was a very strange-looking person. Maybe I just misunderstood or just imagined it.”
“What kind of person are you?”
“There was a man with a lot of wrinkles.”
“…a man with a lot of wrinkles?”
The woman thought as if searching for distant memories.
“The whole body was covered with wrinkles. It must have been a place where the priests cleansed themselves. I hid behind a pillar and saw a man standing up from where the steam was rising.”
It is said that the entire face and body were covered with wrinkles, as if drawn with lines.
The investigator gulped.
I know one person who has such characteristics.
Wrinkled fortune teller Igor.
In the letter from his father, it was written to let him know if he got any information about Igor.
“Do you know his name? Or have you seen what he was doing in the temple?”
My sister shook her head.
“I’m sorry. That was the only time I saw him. I never saw him after that. I didn’t tell anyone about seeing him because I was scared for some reason. Not even my brother knows.”
The investigator gave his brother a glance.
The color of his face was white.
“You? Have you seen the man?”
“…wasn’t that a dream?”
muttered the man.
and shudder
“On the day my sister said, I went deep inside the temple. I don’t remember who it was, but the friend I was playing with disappeared a few days ago, so I went looking for it. The boy hasn’t come back since the priest took him.”
There, the man saw his friend lying in blood-red water.
“At first I thought he was sleeping…”
It is said that he realized even in his young mind that that was not the case.
Priests surrounded him and prayed for something.
I was so scared that I tried to run away and saw the man.
“It’s the guy you saw. He’s the only one with wrinkles.”
I heard some more stories, but nothing more important.
When the inspector got up, the shopkeeper got up and opened his mouth.
“Please remember your promise.”
I’m talking about an appointment with the person in charge of the transaction.
‘I was startled by the words of the brother and sister until just now, and opened their eyes wide and cursed at the temple.’
The investigator nodded.
The investigator’s face turned serious.
He knew that Igor might have cursed the Duchess.
The fact that Igor was in a ruined country was also ominous, but the timing the brother and sister said a while ago was bothering me.
‘I think there must be some connection.’
It was about 18 years ago that the brother and sister witnessed the incident.
Immediately after that, the country was destroyed and all the children were sold into slavery, so there probably were no more sacrifices.
It was just before the Duke was born.