Chapter 519 – Apocrypha 22) Artifact Theft Case (3)
Abduction 22) Relic theft case (3)
It was getting dark when Yuna and I left the hotel.
“Master, no brother. I really liked today.”
As if the heat hadn’t subsided yet, Yuna whispered to me with her arms crossed.
Yuna’s skin was as smooth as if she had been wearing a mask, probably because of my sincere service and a lot of hormonal injections. Sleeping with his cock in her pussy seemed to have relieved her fatigue as well.
“I will do this more often in the future.”
“Really?”
Was my service that good? Yuna’s eyes widened when she said that she would do it often. She smiled broadly.
“But is it really okay to continue working?
“I’m really fine! And when I’m alone with my brother like this, how is this going? It’s a break.”
“Oh really. Who do you look like so you choose only pretty words like this? Huh? Only the face is pretty. I fall for you again.”
“Hee hee!”
Yuna was delighted like her child.
Wow! It looks like someone passing by pretended to throw up while watching us, but it must be because of his mood, right?
Anyway, Yuna and I made fun of words and headed to the nearest precinct 48. Yuna knew where the villains were screaming, so she didn’t have to contact Jimin.
There was a police line in front of the jewelry store, perhaps to disguise their purpose as robbery.
“Hmm.”
It seems that there was a dead person. A line of a human figure was drawn on the floor in white. There were also bloodstains on the inside of the white line.
“The owner of the jewelry store was shot in the chest and died.”
Yuna briefly explained if she saw me looking at the floor.
The jeweler who lost only 1 million won is dead…! You are now free from 1 million won! Please, in your next life, be sure to check if the 1 million won check is a counterfeit check!
Jeweler Wang Hae-sang paid a brief moment of silence at the place of his death.
‘Psychometry.’
And through the psychometric skill, he read the jeweler’s memories.
The jewelry store owner, who had been checking jewelry and checking his shop until late, could not avoid the unexpected incident. Criminals came inside at gunpoint. He was shot in the chest and collapsed without a word. Criminals without psychic powers took all the jewels stored at the jewelry store.
It took less than a minute for the criminals to come in, kill the jeweler, and steal the jewels.
But they didn’t run away. Ah, correction. Only a few guys who took the jewels escaped. The rest stayed in place. A sniper climbed to the roof of a building to gain an advantage.
How long was there Police arrived after receiving a report. A shootout ensued. A couple of police officers and criminals fell. The villain used his psychic powers to attack the police. He was a lightning-type psychic.
A few more minutes passed after that. The heroes who received the police’s request for assistance have arrived. They fought each other for a few minutes, throwing superpowers at each other. Five minutes later, the villains and criminals started to run away.
‘Stop.’
The moment the villains turned to run away, I stopped psychometry. I approached the villains and checked their faces.
‘The time is… 1:30.’
The time was checked on the criminal’s wrist watch. The villains that the Young Hero children fought in District 26 also retreated at 1:30 in the morning.
‘It was also a premeditated crime. Play.’
As you know, this was a planned crime to steal artifacts kept by the Hero Association.
Even though I already knew it, I checked it again to check the faces of the villains and to verify whether the incident in District 48 was part of the plan.
He knew that the villains caught in the 26th district were ‘simultaneously causing crimes to distract the heroes’, but he did not know where they were committing crimes. Each created a disturbance in their assigned area.
In any case, the crimes in District 48 could have happened by coincidence. If I went after the villains of Area 48 without this verification, I would have wasted valuable time.
‘The verification ends with this. Play.’
Replayed the memory. Following the fleeing villains, I also moved.
The heroes couldn’t easily pursue the villains. It was because of the sniper stationed on the roof. No matter how superpowered a hero is, he dies when a bullet goes through his head.
Villains and criminals gathered in one building changed their clothes and scattered. Criminals without superpowers were quickly caught, but the villains fled the scene.
‘Clear.’
Skill unlocked. After using my Psychometric skill at the jewelry store, I was in a building where villains and criminals gathered. I couldn’t confirm where the villains had fled from the memories engraved inside the jewelry store, so I also moved along the path while using my skills.
“Did you find out, brother?”
“Yeah. Wait a minute.”
After making Yuna wait, I took out a pen and paper from my inventory and started drawing on the spot. It was a montage of villains.
‘Long live superpowers!’
As a human being, I was shit. If you draw a picture seriously, you will have a picture that looks like a kindergartener drew it.
But now it’s different. It was because he used the power of chaos to activate the [Artist’s Soul (Lv. 10)] Superpower.
“Call Jimin right now and ask him to locate these guys.”
“Yes.”
Yuna took a montage I drew and delivered it to Ice Queen. A reply came shortly after. It was a place where the villains were hiding.
“I’m here. Let’s go brother.”
“No.”
“Yes?”
I shook my head. The opponent is a villain. A warrior with superpowers. It’s not me dealing with these guys.
“Today ends here. I’ll catch these guys separately later.”
“Yes? Not now?”
“Yeah. Don’t worry, I have a plan. Oh, tell Jimin not to arrest these guys either. I’ll take care of it myself. Because I’m Tony Styx, the great detective, right?”
“Hehe. Yes, I will.”
As she spoke with a wink in her eyes, Yuna also winked at her and nodded her head.
“Then, our work is over… Shall we go and finish what we were doing before?”
“Ah~ I don’t know!”
She gave Yuna her coy glance and she came out. It was a hot night.
*****
Jimin often asked me about the progress of the search for artifacts. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust me. This time she had the right to know what was going on, as long as she had delegated the work to me in her own right. Moreover, if other association staff were to ask how things were going, what would they know to answer?
So I kindly let him know the progress.
I already knew who the villains were connected to the ghost thief who stole the steel lion statue. Dealing with the villains was left to the Young Hero, so I continued my investigation.
And I found out that more villains were put into this case than I thought. As for the villains I’ve found so far, there are already close to 20 of them. All of them with psychic powers of level 5 or higher.
“It means you’re not a decent guy to put in so many villains.”
Superpowers, regardless of heroes and villains, are expensive. And the value increases exponentially as the level of superpower increases.
“I should have recognized it when the prideful villains raided the jewelry store together.”
You can make a lot of money by robbing jewelers and selling them as stolen goods. Even if you don’t get paid for it.
But usually, jewelers turn with one or two villains. That’s because the balance calculation is right.
In addition, villains with superpowers of level 5 or higher have a high level of self-esteem. From my point of view, they are idiots full of superficiality, but in this industry, they are known as competent people.
So these villains subtly cover the work and get it. Especially when a villain weaker than himself makes a proposal.
That’s why I call the villains idiots, except for a few.
“If a common person with a lot of money makes a proposal, they will be quick to accept it, but they reject proposals made by weak villains with a lot of money like a knife, right? After all, villains are idiots.”
Anyway, in this case, more than three villains robbed a small jewelry store. I should have noticed something odd there, but I just passed by.
“You’re a pretty careful bastard.”
The thief who stole the artifact from the Hero Association did not meet the villains directly. He signed contracts through different agents.
“Oh, it’s annoying. I’ll have to find a representative quickly.”
I sighed and moved on. As the reasoning part flew away, the motivation also flew away.
*****
While the Dark Knight was chasing the ghost thief, time passed like an arrow and it was Saturday.
“Hurray!”
Udadadadat-! Rachel, who ran and crossed the Hero Academy gate in first place, shouted with her arms wide open. Twice, no, 20 times more excited than usual.
“Why is he so excited?”
“Is it because he’s a baby, but he’s full of energy?”
“Auntie Neng.”
“Oh, lady?! Are you going to die?!”
She was so excited that she was Rachel who even joked with Hannah that she was her aunt. The Young Hero members gathered by Rachel’s side.
“Lee, Rachel! Me too, me too!”
The last one was Laura. Not only was she the youngest along with Rachel, but her stamina and running skills were also the worst.
“That’s why I told you to exercise normally!”
“Heh, hehe… Ooh, working out…”
“That’s not exercise, it’s called walking! No way! Laura, let’s exercise every day with me from now on! Stamina is national strength!”
“Huh… I don’t like exercise…”
Laura cried at Rachel’s fighting spirit today. Her favorite thing she did was play with her pet lizard on the soft bed in her dorm.
“Let’s go! Special training from today!”
The reason Rachel was so excited was that today was the day she promised her dad.
Rachel’s father, the Dark Knight, not only allowed her daughter to be a young hero, but also promised to give her superpower training every weekend.
To Rachel, her father was the strongest person in the world and was like the sky who kept his promise to her no matter what.
Didn’t she listen when she asked three years ago to protect this beautiful world for her brother to live in? Of course, as a result, she had to be separated from her dad for three years.
“Lee, Rachel! I’m having a hard time! Chun, let’s go slowly…”
“No! Daddy’s waiting! Gotta go!”
“Huh…”
Rachel took Laura’s arm and walked forward briskly. Laura was almost dragged along.
Rachel was also on the small side compared to her peers, but Laura was shorter than that. She looked like a 10 year old, not a 14 based on her looks.
“Ugh… I really can’t stop it.”
Seeing her two little kids leading her way, her Hanna sighed and shook her head. She then made a promise to herself.
‘Just do your best. I’m going to spur her seat right away!’
Hannah admitted that Rachel’s father was a strong psychic. But for her, being strong and teaching well were two different things.
If her level of education was not good enough compared to the excellent instructors at Hero Academy, then she would refuse even if Rachel begged for it.
The young hero was completely theirs, and Hanna hated letting others enter it.
And she didn’t know
What the Dark Knight has prepared is a Spartan education beyond her imagination.
