## Chapter 305 – The Monarch of Monsters (7)
Still, countless investigators were running around busily.
Today, too, the Public Security Police Department was safeguarding the peace of the royal capital with the hurried footsteps of its investigators.
“You’ve returned from your inspection, Investigator?”
“Nothing particularly unusual. How far along is the retrieval operation?”
“Nearly complete. We’re currently in the disposal phase. And recently, there were testimonies from the Guardians who passed through the royal capital’s gates. It seems a wyvern broke through the encirclement and entered. Apparently, it collided with the Undenbrah.”
Due to the massive monster that recently collided with the Undenbrah, a major incident occurred where fragments of its torn flesh were falling everywhere, causing chaos in the royal capital.
The fragments, dislodged by the activation of the Undenbrah, had been steadily falling for a little over a day, impacting buildings and causing significant damage. Managing the resulting chaos was also the job of the Public Security Police Department.
Since dead flesh is bound to rot, recovering and disposing of the meat chunks that fell like meteorites, causing property damage and casualties, was an important task for them…
“Isn’t that wyvern a bit large? Anyway, Guardians? They’re still sloppy with their work.”
Deborah, the silver-haired beauty and investigator, frowned as she received the report from her subordinate, muttering in a composed voice as if displeased.
Hearing the voice coming from someone sitting behind her, she closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh.
“Haa… It’s you again? You live like every day’s a vacation. I’m telling you now, I won’t accept any joint cooperation this time. Now that the report is over, go back and do your rounds or whatever.”
“I’m the ‘Bitch of the Front Lines,’ no less! A named individual, a named one!! Such a high-class resource? And you have the opportunity to use me for free?”
“I don’t need it, so go back to the front lines. And don’t even think about leeching off me again because you don’t want to go back. The Public Security Police Department isn’t your playground.”
Her eyes, filled with annoyance, were fixed on her colleague, a notorious troublemaker with a colorful history. Unfortunately for Deborah, it seemed that everything had been anticipated.
Seeing the woman waving a piece of parchment in her hand with a beaming smile, Deborah’s emerald green eyes were tinged with all sorts of resignation-based delusions.
“Is that so~? But what to do? A joint cooperation document!! I managed to get it again this time? We have to do the retrieval operation properly, don’t we?”
“I don’t know. Ask another department. Here, a guest is leaving. Hurry up and chase her out.”
“Aww~!! Don’t be like that, Deborah♡. We were good together back then, weren’t we? Oh, you have something on you here!? Let me wipe it off!!”
In the end, Deborah, who had been trying to ignore her and enter her office, was flailing around, trying to shake off Pulcinella, who was clinging to her like a cicada.
“What was good about it? You’re just talking nonsense. Let go of me! It looks like you spilled something while eating… Anyway, be quiet and go back or whatever.”
In the midst of all this, Pulcinella seemed to have noticed something on Deborah’s uniform, as she licked her finger and rubbed it.
Deborah was startled and pushed her away violently, sending Pulcinella rolling across the floor at an incredible speed, smashing through several desks before crashing into the opposite wall.
“Uwaaaack…!!”
“Kyaaaack!! Kyaaack!!”
Amidst the flying documents and desk fragments, and the screams of the startled investigators, the attention of people who had sensed the commotion and rushed over from other places began to focus.
Deborah, realizing she had used too much force, covered her forehead with her hand. From behind her, from the half-cracked wall, Pulcinella’s voice could be heard.
“Uhyahhh~ Deborah, you’re too intense… Ugh… My back… I might have broken it… You’re the first person to do this to me… You have to take responsibility…♡??”
“Stop talking nonsense. Go back.”
“Ah!! Thinking about it, I heard a rumor? You’ve heard of dragons, right?”
“Haaa… Even kids don’t believe in dragons these days.”
As Pulcinella got up from her spot, dusted off the stone fragments, and approached, Deborah picked up a few files that were on her office desk and began flipping through them as she walked down the hallway.
“Aww~? Trampling on the dreams and fantasies of children, that’s too much!! So I’ll be staying in the royal capital for a while~ Please take care of me for a while, De.bo.rah.♡”
“Please just disappear from my life…”
Pulcinella, chasing after her from the side, was acting foolish with a sugary tone that didn’t match her sultry voice as she followed her.
“Aww~!! You’re embarrassed again~♡♡♡ I always feel this way, but you’ve been cute since way back then, you know?”
“Ugh… Go drown yourself in dishwater.”
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A while later, only after the main topic was brought up did the two of them walk down the hallway and start talking.
“Do you think that even makes sense? It’s a childish idea that’s even worse than a kid’s.”
Deborah, having heard the news Pulcinella brought, frowned and directed harsh words at her, who was smiling brightly.
But who was her opponent?
If shamelessness was the thickness of her face, then Pulcinella’s head would be bigger than a watermelon.
With a beaming expression, Pulcinella shrugged her shoulders and dismissed her own opinion with a single sentence that was hard to tell whether it was persuasion or nonsense.
“Why wouldn’t it be? There are horses with horns, aren’t there?”
“If you can only talk like that, it just sounds like nonsense…”
“But, it was strange!! I’ve rolled around on the front lines a bit, too, you know? But wyverns weren’t that extremely big, right? Even though I couldn’t see well because of the sandstorm, even the shadow was the size of an Albator!”
Hearing Pulcinella’s words, who brought up the example of the giant bird Albator, which could be called a super-giant airship, Deborah was about to dismiss her words as nonsense.
Pulcinella, cutting off Deborah’s words, brought her index finger to her chin as if she were folding her arms, and began to recite something as if reminiscing.
“If it were just any ordinary monster, we would have just watched and done nothing. But as a field expert, I felt like ‘This is a big deal!!’ and came here, you know? I wasn’t the only one who thought so, so wouldn’t that mean there’s something going on?”
“If that were the case, the guards would have seen something. There haven’t been any testimonies from the royal capital soldiers who were on guard.”
“That’s because they might not have seen it properly, right? What do the royal capital soldiers do every day anyway? They’re always just standing guard meaninglessly, so they might have been distracted, right? Think about it. You said meat fragments were falling all day long, right? Do you think a normal wyvern would be that big?”
The Undenbrah, a kind of electric net with penetrating power, was not simply a protective barrier with defensive power, but a means to protect the city from giant monsters.
As a means to give the opponent damage and aversion to approaching as much as possible, the tendency was strong to use the net itself as a means to tear apart the enemy’s body.
When you think about it, even if a wyvern is as large as a medium-sized passenger plane, it is only natural that it would be difficult for so many fragments to remain even if it crashed into the Undenbrah and was completely destroyed.
“It could have been a large one.”
“I don’t think so? If it’s an old one, it could be quite large, but… This one was doing evasive maneuvers to avoid attack magic in the air, right? Old wyverns have a hard time just flying, right?”
Perhaps it was because it was Pulcinella’s words, who barely managed to avoid failing in class, especially in monsterology class, but Deborah was emitting a gaze that didn’t trust her at all…
Nevertheless, the ‘Bitch of the Front Lines’ was pushing her claim with a confident gesture.
A kind of nickname attached to Guardians who are well known on the front lines.
Regardless of the country, all those who fight on the front lines were figures respected by people from other countries as well.
The most representative examples of this were the Barmhausen engineer [Butcher Heinkel], the Groden mercenary [Mercenary King Bormus], and the Chaoxing transcendent [Fang Lien].
These were like a kind of superstar who was well known even among ordinary people.
Of course, these were just one of the many named Guardians, and if you had to classify them, they were similar to the main heroes who were best known in hero society.
Below them were those whose fame was slightly lower but whose skills were not far behind, or super rookies who had not yet shown great prowess but were undergoing a growth process, scattered on the front lines.
Pulcinella, who was active on the front lines with a nickname, was an expert who showed outstanding prowess that was second to none, at least on the front lines.
“So, you know?
Can’t we eat first?
I’m hungry……!?”
‘She’s kind of a hero… Haa… Whatever…’
