Chapter 165 – Western City Morphea (5)
Lien’s movement was instantaneous.
A gangster-like person who had taken out people who had fused with demons from inside a cage at a speed so fast that an ordinary person would not even notice that something had passed was brought towards us.
Anyone could tell that the gangster’s mind was unable to keep up with the current situation, and his face showed embarrassment and agitation.
If I were in the same situation as I am now, I would make this kind of facial expression.
Now, I can understand his thoughts to some extent.
Before she could say anything about what had just happened to her, she spoke quietly to Lien, who had her mouth covered and dragged away.
“I’ll release your mouth, so don’t go wild. If you even scream… You understand that I don’t have to say anything, right?”
After hearing my words, I could see the embarrassment and agitation on the face of the gangster turning into fear.
Looking at the gangster who seemed to understand what I meant, he signaled to Lien to remove her hand covering her mouth.
Lien saw my signal and removed her hand from covering her thug’s mouth.
The gangster understood the situation he was in very well and did not shout anything.
If I had shouted, the girls around me would have taken this guy’s life before I could say anything.
“Um… Um… What are you guys…”
Puck!!
“Keuuk!”
When the gangster asked us a question in a voice trembling with fear, Lien immediately clenched her fist and punched the gangster in the stomach.
“You are in no position to ask questions. All you have to do is answer our questions. Don’t talk nonsense.”
“K…Keuuch… Yes, four!”
I was momentarily surprised by Lien’s behavior, but I kept my poker face as best I could to avoid showing surprise on my face.
For no reason, I thought it wasn’t a good idea for me to react to each and every one of these things.
“Okay, then I’ll ask you a question.”
What should I ask first?
There are a mountain of things I want to ask right now.
Immediately, numerous questions come to mind, such as what the hell is this place doing, what are the people who were fused with demons earlier, what are the places that those people moved to, and whether there is a being related to the Void here.
Of course, I don’t expect this guy to answer all my questions.
Anyone can see that this guy is definitely living at the bottom of this place.
A guy like that probably doesn’t know all the details of this place.
But I still think I don’t know everything.
I’ll have to try to get as much information as possible.
“First, spit out all the information you know. If you make even the slightest mistake, a part of your body will be destroyed without mercy.”
“Hi! Yes, yes!”
It seemed unlikely that this fearful guy would lie for his organization.
Usually, a girl like this would value her own life more than her organization.
“First of all, what on earth are we doing here?”
“Well, that’s…”
The gangster could not readily answer my question and hesitated.
But that was the gangster’s wrong choice.
Suddenly!
“K, keaa, wooum!”
“Stop yelling, scum.”
When the gangster momentarily failed to answer my question, Yuria, who was standing next to me, cut off her gangster’s fingers in an instant.
When the gangster felt that his finger had been cut, she tried to scream in pain, but Lien immediately covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming.
“Freya, cast 〈 heal 〉 on that guy.”
“If it is God’s will…”
〈hill〉
After hearing what I said, Freyja reached out to the gangster and gave him 〈 Heal 〉.
Then the gangster’s finger, which had been separated by Yuria, returned to the gangster’s hand as if nothing had happened.
“See? Again, answer my question immediately. We can alternate between tormenting and treating you as much as we want.”
“Ugh…”
Lien, hearing what I said, removed her hand from her hoodlum’s mouth so that the hoodlum could answer again.
“Then I ask again, what are we doing here?”
“I just work as I’m told, so I don’t know exactly…”
That’s already within the expected range.
“It doesn’t matter. Just tell me what you know. Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Yes, yes. They are conducting experiments here by capturing people and turning them into monsters… I don’t know what they did, but at least those of us who followed their instructions were not turned into monsters.”
When you say monster, you probably mean demon. Didn’t you explain Demons to these guys?
It seems like the guy in charge of this place decided there was no need to explain things to the staff.
“Us? What does that mean?”
“We were originally an organization that controlled the back alleys of this city. One day, this person suddenly appeared and told us that if we didn’t follow his words, we would be killed. At first, our older brothers rushed at us, asking what nonsense we were talking about, but in the blink of an eye, we “Everyone lost their lives.”
I was troubled by the word ‘him’ spoken by the scoundrel.
“Who on earth is he?”
“Well, I don’t know either! I only met him once when he first came to our organization, and I haven’t seen him once since, so I don’t know.”
It’s unfortunate, but this guy didn’t seem to know much about it.
“Even though we don’t know his identity, it seems true that he is ruling this place. Is his name called Arceus?”
The gangster who heard me looked shocked for a moment.
“How can you do that? That’s right!”
Bingo!
It looks like you’ve come to the right place.
It has been confirmed that this is where the Void organization is hiding.
“I saw earlier that you turned people into demons… No, monsters. How did you do it?”
“I don’t know the principle, but… I just did as I was told. He said that if I showed him what was in his pocket, I would turn into a monster.”
After hearing what the gangster said, I sent a signal with my eyes to Lien, who was next to the gangster, and Lien started searching the gangster’s pockets.
And then something came out of Lien’s hand.
“What is this? My lord, would you like to know?”
Lien took the item from her gangster’s pocket and looked at it.
It was an object that looked like a badge and had a round shape.
I touched the object around, but it didn’t seem to have any special equipment.
Of course, nothing happened to those of us who saw this object.
It’s probably an item that only reacts to people who have been tricked by demons.
However, one thing that bothers me is a certain pattern on the outer surface of the circular badge.
It was definitely a pattern I had never seen before, but I felt like I had seen it before.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s probably the only thing I’ve ever seen.
If it is an item related to Demon, then it must be a pattern related to Elion.
But I don’t remember this pattern exactly.
I think I’ve been playing Elion for quite some time, but where on earth did I see this pattern?
For now, I’ll have to continue asking questions.
There are still many things to ask. You may think about it after listening to all the questions.
“You mean if I show you this, I’ll turn into a monster?”
“Yes! My role is to transform the captured people into monsters and then move them to the sanctuary.”
This time, an unknown word appeared again.
“Sanctuary? What does that do?”
“I don’t know that. I really don’t know this! It’s true! Once monsters enter the sanctuary, my role is over… I just manage the people I capture so they don’t die, and as I said before, I use the badge to turn them into monsters. “I just send them to the sanctuary.”
So, shall we ask another question?
“Then how did they catch the people caught here?”
“I’m not sure about that either, but when I saw the people they had captured, they went half out of their minds and came in here on their own. They didn’t even respond when I tried to talk to them.”
As we expected from what the gangster said, it seems that people are brought here after being brainwashed by something.
The enemy who brainwashes people…
It shouldn’t work on us.
I don’t want to see or imagine my characters fighting to kill each other.
However, if you are brainwashed by the enemy, it will be a scene that can unfold in any number of ways.
“There must be more members of the organization who survived Arceus earlier, so why are you the only one here?”
“That’s because this isn’t the only place in the city that keeps people. It’s not just here, it’s hidden in a lot more places.”
Hmm… Now that I think about it, when I thought they had captured all the people who lived in such a large city, the number of iron bars in front of me and the space here were relatively small.
At least we seem to have come to this place guided by the compass.
“And some of my older brothers also received his power and became monsters. Of course, unlike the monsters that moved earlier, they remained conscious and I believe they are now working as his hands and feet…”
“Is there anyone among them named Gigant?”
The gangster who heard me was once again startled.
“How else can you do that? Yes, that’s right. He used to be one of the big brothers in our organization, but now I heard he’s one of his closest subordinates.”
Judging by the gangster’s reaction just now, does he not know that Gigant died by our hands?
I think this is a good thing.
I was also able to find out how Arceus’ subordinates came to be.
I don’t know where this guy appeared, but he must have sneaked into Morfia City in the Aldoran Kingdom and absorbed the backworld organizations to create an organization called Void.
“So are you the only one here now, excluding the sanctuary?”
“Yes. I believe there is another older brother in charge of the sanctuary, but I haven’t met him since I came here, so I don’t know for sure…”
Hmm… Then I guess I’ll have to go into that place called the sanctuary next.
So, is there any more questions to ask next?
Nothing comes to mind right away.
“Then, have you answered all your questions? Next, shall we go to that place called the sanctuary?”
Suddenly!
The moment I finished speaking, the hoodlum’s head fell off my body and fell down.
