Chapter 951 – Bodie Island (7)
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We penetrated the barrier and security with the mana left by the admiral.
“Serious.”
The cave where the relics were piled up was almost like a waste disposal site.
It’s like a mountain of garbage in developing countries. It would take a while to find something that can be recycled. I rummaged through the artifacts at the top of the mountain of trash.
“Nor! Be careful not to get hurt——!”
Dana shouted from below for a while. I, who had been tossing around this goddamn cave with the Valkyries, poke my head out under a mountain of garbage.
“Thank you for your concern, but my husband won’t be cut by rusty pieces of artifacts——! Why don’t you start paying attention to Seo Bang-sama as well——!”
“It’s because it’s annoying to take care of an injury, ten years old——!”
“Okay——! From now on, if I get hurt, I’ll just go to Tirsi——!”
“… …”
“… Hey! It’s a joke, so don’t look shocked!”
After using the clairvoyance, the artifact was in my hands in about two hours.
It was very fast, but honestly, it’s a secret that the current hit came hard after about an hour.
“Tsubeol, I had a hard time buying it. Here, sister. Look at this.”
“Sleep. There must be some remaining reagent somewhere in the medallion… “
─Back and forth. Dana takes out some bottles from the artificial mithril medallion.
Using a dating technique common in the archaeological community, we determined that the artifact was of the same age as the Hittite navy that participated in the Azteca voyages.
Note that this is not often used. It’s fucking expensive and only reacts to metal.
Dana said as she put away the reagents.
“If the era background is the same, the source must be the same.”
“It must be one of the artifacts I had to leave behind in Azteca. The Specters detected this artifact and attacked the Delta company ship.”
“I heard that Delta was on its way to dispatch? Why is it in the boat?”
I explained to Dana who didn’t seem to understand.
“Remember what I said when I first got it? I heard Deltesa had a party.”
“… Are those guys? No, even if you’re right, this is a Hittite artifact from the Azteca side? The ruins haven’t even been excavated yet.”
“Yes. The scholars who participated in the excavation must have recruited other scholars to excavate the ruins of Azteca again. Of course, this artifact must have not yet been distributed.”
The unwritten rule that what is obtained from a dungeon or ruin belongs to the person who acquired it is an exception to the archaeological excavation. Otherwise, the research itself would be impossible.
Dana seemed to understand what I was about to say.
“… If it was on the way to academia, there’s no way Delta wouldn’t have known about it. That’s why the fellows of that human moved the artifact without revealing it to anyone.”
“Yes. It is embezzlement.”
Same with Delta’s case.
I rummaged through the artifacts. It was a magic item that made feet faster and healed wounds. It’s similar to the artifact Lalilura received from the colony in Ulster. Was it a trend of the times?
It is small enough to be smuggled in.
“He must have embezzled the artifacts obtained from the excavation of the ruins of Azteca as his own. It must have been because it was quite useful.”
It’s enough just to manipulate the acquired path.
It’s doable if you have the time and budget. Even if you bought it at an auction house or received it as a gift, it would be difficult to forcibly take it away and dig up its origin.
“Did you intend to use the artifacts you acquired like us in combat or in your daily life?”
“If you ask me, I don’t know.”
Who knows the mind of the dead.
If you ask the spirit, it is at the bottom of the sea where you don’t even know where it is. I didn’t have the heart to ask such a useless story while taking the trouble of searching the whole sea.
But maybe our reasoning was correct.
I’m going to say it again and again, but the archaeologists of the other world have to know how to fight to a certain extent to protect themselves. If it was a powerful artifact, of course I would have wanted it.
“… Tsk. You, don’t tell Delta.”
Taking the artifact from my hand, Dana looked at it and clicked her tongue.
“Det? Why?”
“It’s obvious. From now on, I’m taking an archaeologist to the place where the relics were stolen, but I didn’t openly carry the relics in front of him. He’s not even an idiot, so why would a guy who’s an idiot do that?”
“Criminals basically don’t think they’ll get caught.”
“Don’t do that. Look at it rationally.”
“… Did you know that Delta was embezzling?”
A dog with poop is a dog with chaff, and even if they get caught, they are in the position of a criminal who is acorn-kissing. He would have been brazen if he thought he had a weakness.
“A quick-witted bastard. That’s right, is there anything else besides that?”
Dana sighed with contempt, then sighed.
“They said they checked the material of the credit card. I don’t think Ji did it, so someone friendly enough to have access to that human’s connections would have found the ‘record of appraisal of an unknown artifact’ by Delta.”
“Even if the relics were found out, did you think it would be bad if you were to ask who was swearing at the subject of embezzlement?”
“Rather… I think he was thinking, ‘Even such a docile guy steals artifacts from behind, so what can I say I can’t do?'”
“Hmm.”
This is the opinion of Dana, who is more an archaeologist than I am.
It’s a cerebral fissure with no evidence, but it’s highly persuasive. No, although the fact that the artifact exists is itself a kind of proof.
“It’s to the point where the president of the school entrusts the work. Delta’s guy isn’t an idiot either. It’s not someone else’s business, and it’s something that Ji almost died, but this level of possibility will be more than enough to think about.”
My older sister, who had dark circles, came out of the cave and covered her eyes with her hand. Her sighing was like watching a tragedy on the news.
“Still, if I don’t show you the artifact, I’ll end up thinking ‘just in case’.”
Lies will be revealed someday, but there are things in the world that you don’t have to know. It’s time to live without being conscious of it or realizing it, and your mind will be healthier.
It’s not contradictory. It might be better not to know that friends and innocent people died because of him.
Even if I found out, I was just suffering without a law to atone for, like the admiral of the stolen goods retrieval army.
“Atonement to the bereaved family is probably the way to go, but would a bastard who wouldn’t atone for bringing in evidence would go around swearing at the bereaved family?”
“Well, it is.”
Delta isn’t even the direct cause. There is no moral intent to atone for.
Tap, tap… !
A fire burned on the sandy beach. Nefertiti, who moved the ammu or ho and searched the sandy beach to collect the white bones, was having a funeral.
Those white bones must be the corpses of the Specter crew.
“It looks like he noticed, so he’ll take care of it himself. Unlike that boss Specter, Delta is still alive. The future depends on one’s will… But why do you look like that?”
“No, I thought my older sister would become a good professor.”
“Anyway, that bastard’s professor is.”
I meant it, but Dana laughed and spit it out.
“The ending has a bad aftertaste, but it is a lesson in its own way.”
“What lesson?”
“The phantom hunter who fulfilled his duty even after death, and Delta Company who tried to save a close brother, did it with good intentions. It’s just that good intentions don’t always come with a good ending.”
Sometimes things done with good intentions come back as misfortune.
It was the shitty logic of life in the world.
‘Odin, who was a better prophet than me, was destroyed by chance and misfortune.’
Keep in mind. Unexpected misfortune will come to me who can see the future.
“… Huh? Are you both back already?”
Veronica, who was silent at the funeral, asked.
The flames of her funeral fluttered and cast a shadow over her face.
The sun was setting, and half of the sheep’s horns were covered in darkness. In sync with the swaying movement of the fire burning the corpse, the shadow of the flame ran across my cheek like a tongue.
—… Tell that stupid bitch It is not okay to be overly greedy.
Why was it? At that moment, I felt uneasy about myself, not knowing what to say, but I shook my head without saying anything.
“I found what I was looking for. The remaining artifacts will be retrieved at once later.”
“Um, I see! That’s it, leave it to me Let’s create a magic that absorbs all the artifacts with authority and stores them in
“Neng, do as you like.”
I smiled and watched the funeral.
─Bass. Nefertiti danced with blades of grass like a dancer.
A statue carved by Frank and a keepsake from the ghost ship. It was to consecrate them and perform funeral and requiem ceremonies. Nefertiti’s lips parted.
“──♬”
It was a song that did not use words like vocal music. It was so soft that the feel of the tune sounded like a hum. The girl dancing on the sandy beach in the deep moonlit night was really beautiful.
“… Uh huh Yes, does Nefertiti’s sister sing?”
“Whoops. Is it that strange? There are at least one or two funeral rites in any denomination.”
“Yeah, but… ! What is it, do you sing very well? This is the appearance of an unexpected singer who threatens the all-round entertainer Lalilura!”
Surprised, Lalilura lowered her voice and grimaced, but I managed to convince myself.
‘Because Nefertiti has a unique voice from the beginning.’
Even if you speak softly, a voice that automatically enters your ears. It was also the reason why she became a scene-stealer whenever she interrupted her conversation because of her low voice and low voice.
“♪♬──, ♩♪──…”
As they danced and finished the funeral with a siren-like voice, the flames went out.
It was different from the work of mana. Perhaps the amount of firewood was carefully controlled, but the magic-like skill that did not get caught in my senses added a sense of mystery.
As much as Nefertiti, who buries a statue imitating the deceased in the ashes, really looked like a fairy or spirit that came down on a moonlit night.
“… It’s been a long time since I sang. Sleepy.”
Of course, as soon as she opened her mouth, all the colic broke.
─ Clap clap clap!! Larry Lura herself is also an entertainer, so she tried to react violently, but since it was a funeral, she restrained herself as if she noticed.
“That was great, sister Nefertiti! But if she sings so well, I wish she would sing a song or two when she gets a chance to go on stage!”
“I forgot. Because I used to leave without seeing other people’s funerals.”
I noticed. It did. Isn’t it Nefertiti who was the first to leave during the Unicorn Warlock incident we first met?
Maybe it was unconsciously reluctant to face the death of a person.
“I have been singing for almost 10 years. It’s the first time since her hometown was burnt and she was freshly entrusted to the Church of Hathor. I miss it a bit, but yes. It was better than I thought.”
“… Ab, eb, eveb. Yes, yes, yes.”
When Lalilura blushed at Tallulah’s attack, our fourth-dimensional lady regained her senses and changed the topic like a 30-year-old mother-of-pearl man who had been duped into dating.
“Well, I only know the requiem. A song that can be sung at a fun place, let me know later.”
“Yes, yes! Just leave it to Ralilura! Like a dwarf artisan who processes raw stones into jewels, I will make Nefertiti a singer who will not be ashamed no matter where she is presented♡!”
All of us burst out laughing at Lalilura’s rudeness as she hurriedly boarded the Tallulah rescue boat. Nefertiti also giggled and then spoke to me.
“I will learn and tell you. Even to the Nords.”
“Let more people hear it. Nefertiti’s voice is a bit of a waste to monopolize only us and the dead.”
“… The song is good But I hate attention. Fame is just tiring.”
“I wholeheartedly sympathize with you.”
“Because it’s really tiring to have so many people recognizing you.”
When Tirsi and I replied, Veronica, who accounted for about 30% of the reason I became a celebrity, quietly drank and avoided my eyes.
The moon goes down Leaving the ghost ship left on the island by the souls.
We left the island the next day after tasting just enough alcohol not to spoil the taste.
