Kill the Queen 63

Chapter 63 – 6. Bruhlin Sniper Battle (3)

Time to go back to reporting.

“Fininger.”

I sat down on the sofa in a comfortable position. He put his hands on the armrests, crossed his legs, and rolled his head. I measured what was given to me and what was not. Looking around at every side of the crowd, I thought about ways to overcome the current situation.

“Did you receive it well from Franz?”

“Yes, Your Excellency, First Lady.”

“Elfriede is at Otto’s house.”

There is no easy road in life. Because the world is never just beautiful. If there is a rainbow shining under the warm sun, there is also a disgusting gutter. The name of the gutter is none other than absurd. Unless you have immoral vested interests, it is a shadow of life that you will experience at least once.

“I will head to the hospital in an hour. Gwanghwi and her group of demons will definitely come to catch me. In the meantime, save Frieda Moritz and Thorsten Hofner.”

No matter what field it is, the pianist’s world is particularly rugged. As a performer who crosses the boundaries between music and art, I know very well how unfair the reality is. Because I experienced it in the Chopin International Piano Competition, which was my only career.

“Hao!”

“I do not accept objections.”

There are things in the world that cannot be achieved through hard work. There are things that can be achieved only by following innate talent and luck. After advancing to the finals of the competition after a lot of hard work in the past, I learned that from monsters who added effort to their talent.

Our lives are never fair. Even if you try to reduce the amount of time you sleep, you can’t match a person with outstanding talent and ridiculous luck. Who dares to catch up with that glaring gap with effort alone? It’s not like they aren’t making an effort.

“Your Excellency bought our loyalty. You’ve earned the truth. This Anton Feininger is not the kind of man who will kill his master!”

“I’m really glad that I’ve gained your allegiance. But Feininger, you are not my slave and I am not your master. We are just like-minded comrades.”

“Youngbu-gun, Your Excellency…….”

“Unfortunately, Adele Schneider is the only one who can take me as her master.”

Adele shook her head in silence. It was a very blunt response. I continued to say what I was saying even though I felt a little embarrassed.

“I ask you as a comrade, not as an owner.”

“Are you saying to watch His Excellency Geary step on a limb?”

“No, I mean to watch over me so that I can do my best.”

Feininger closed his lips with a hard expression. It seemed that he finally understood my determination.

“I will follow…….”

“Thank you.”

Yes, the world is absurd. But even so, I didn’t stop trying. Even though I once made extreme choices due to the things that entangled me, I will no longer do that. Because it changed and I realized again.

What really matters is hard work and talent, not luck.

That it is an attitude against absurdity.

How fair was the ability to come back to life even after dying?

“Please come back alive.”

“Let’s try.”

The opponent is brilliant. No matter how secretive the intelligence department is, it cannot deal with a group created for the purpose of killing, like the SS annihilation country. Even if they fight against each other, it will only take some time, but defeat is expected.

“Franz?”

“Yes, Your Excellency. Then I will continue my report.”

I don’t know if it’s an espionage war, but is there a chance of winning in an all-out war?

“First, about brilliance.”

I picked up her document about her from among her papers on her table. Elfriede’s documents were not enough to be stamped as top secret, and were full of censorship in places. Except for her biography and name, her identity was unknown, and there was no way to find out.

“Elfriede Eichmann is the second director of the SS. Her Bureau of Annihilation, which she leads, is the smallest of all her SS divisions, but ranks among the most armed.”

The artifact Franz had brought earlier lit up. Feininger handled the enchanted item and relayed the images contained in it to me one after another. Armaments, combat manuals, and methods that I found out by comparing the traces they had swept away.

“The core of the ceremonial armaments of the Extinct Lands is an artifact called Bloodstone.”

Subtitles emerge from the light flowing from the artifact. Bloodstone is an object that eats people’s blood and mind and replaces it with magical power. In order to use this object, it must be implanted, ignoring the body’s rejection reaction. Likewise, those who implant this into their bodies inevitably lose their humanity.

“The developers are three doctors from the Ministry of Munitions, who were assistants to Dr. Maximilian in the past.”

“…… Of Hesse’s inspiration?”

“Yes that’s right. According to our investigation, it seems that he took a wrong turn and grafted the forbidden while trying to restore the bluestone technology he had developed.”

Forbidden!

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I expected it from the time when it was said to eat blood and mind, but it seems that the bloodstone that the demons dealt with was obtained by breaking taboos.

“If so, the brilliance?”

“Elfriede Eichmann has a total of six blood stones implanted in his body.”

The main use of bloodstone is to raise the quality of magical power or increase the total amount. Coincidentally, Elfriede was a six-ranked mage, and a terrifying conclusion was drawn when she connected the six bloodstones that were said to be embedded in her body.

“Beatrix you crazy bitch…….”

He said he was a disciple, but he did not teach himself. Based on my experiences in the past, I inferred how Elfriede was reborn as a demon.

―If you want to become that strong, getting your hands on the forbidden is probably one way.

It reminds me of the goddamn taboos, of her urging prisoners from the extermination camp to make rivers of corpses and disenchant them. Magic and alchemy, which only existed in this world, were not necessarily bloodstone, but there were too many techniques that could gain power at the cost of human life.

“Elfriede was the monster she created.”

The ranks of magic require greater effort and talent with each successive success. Elfriede must have sucked the blood and spirits of countless people in order to reach the rank of 6. Whether she was and she was the kind of person who wouldn’t feel guilty about it, she wasn’t…….

It must have been Beatrix who aided in that.

“As is the case with forbidden, it is very difficult to deal with with the same or lesser skills. As of now, the only answer we can give is to avoid engagement as much as possible.”

“I was planning on ostracizing you from the beginning.”

“Elfriede, as you can tell from her second name, uses magic that is represented by light. If inevitably you have to fight her, keep her as far away as possible. Approaching with a flash of light is the main specialty of the brilliance, so you must fight from a distance.”

Surprisingly, the distance with the strong is realized. If you come face to face with the brilliance, you should get rid of it first, and if it is difficult, you should spread the distance as much as possible. And if you fight only in the range where the opponent’s attack doesn’t reach, is there a chance of winning?

“I think you’d better arm yourself carefully, master.”

Adele, who had been silent all along, opened her mouth. As much as she was, she was a meaningful advice. But the gun I use can only be obtained by going to the annex of the official residence?

To my bewilderment, she added a few more words.

“If you’re not going to the intelligence department, there will be weapons for operatives.”

“Yes, as Miss Schneider said.”

“If you have the materials needed for alchemy, please lend me the workbench. I will synthesize some useful medicine.”

Starting from Adele’s words, things progressed without hesitation. Franz brought several of her bags from a place she and I hadn’t been able to find, and Feininger seemed to be calling her from somewhere and returned from her hallway with a large box in his arms. It must have been a subordinate who was waiting below.

“This is all the equipment I have here.”

The colorful weapons appeared all at once. I continued to receive weapons and reports from Franz and packed the things that fit my hand. Adele took the box Feininger had brought and left for a while.

“This is the latest shotgun from Kochel. It uses dual disc magazines for the automatic type.”

“What about bullets?”

“Fires up to 9 armor-clad HE shells per second. Squad-level firepower alone is no problem.”

The gun was heavy. When I opened the magazine, there was a picture of a skull drawn on the inside along with a phrase to be careful of fire. There were 99 rounds in all, and there was one each on the top and bottom of the barrel. If the shotgun I used in the annex of the official residence was a classic, the gun Franz handed me was hot power metal.

“Okay, I like it.”

Except for heavy things like weight lifting, I was satisfied. Even so, it was a disadvantage that had to be acquired in order to have overwhelming firepower, so it was a weapon that would not be regrettable if used only for its intended purpose.

“It’s a sub-type grenade launcher. Made by my family’s munitions company, it can fire a total of three bullets.”

“What kind?”

“Antipersonal deterrence flash grenade, penetrating shaped charge bomb, magic absorbing bomb.”

Franz handed over the iron splint, the protector, and the armband, which was the most important part, in turn. Assembly was simpler than expected, and the grenade firing part was on the back of the hand. I put it on both hands and hid the bullet belt he held out all over his body. There were 10 of each type, for a total of 30.

“Great, what’s in that bag over there?”

“It is a sniper rifle. But His Excellency’s armament should be enough.”

I tilted my head. Of course, the shotgun was for short range, and the grenade was also for medium range, but it was not a weapon capable of long-range fire.

“Keep the maneuver warfare in mind. You must never engage in close combat with the Director of Annihilation.”

“Should you lighten your body?”

“That’s right.”

“But Franz, Julich is a sniper.”

So are his violinists. Even if they have not undergone professional military training, it is difficult to give up long-range means of attack in the face of being held hostage.

“Even if I am inexperienced, sniping should be one of my options.”

“I will help.”

Franz skillfully assembled the rifle in his bag. He attached something like a tough belt among the accessories to his gun and put it on my shoulder. It was not something he had done once or twice. He was a stance that only a fairly skilled shooter could display.

“My family Rosenkrantz is a prestigious family. It is not a family that will be easily destroyed just because one of the deficits who were competing for the succession position went astray.”

“I might die. Are you still going to help me?”

“I survived the moment the lieutenant colonel was taken away, but I was wrong right away. Wouldn’t it be better for him to have a fight with his benefactor than to servilely beg for his life when he is not even sure he will survive?”

The cheeky dwarf grinned. He was so arrogant that he didn’t even have the courage to say anything. I touched the side of the guy who was holding the pom by himself.

“My first impression was poor, though.”

“I’m going to back off if I have to, so be aware of that.”

It was a short but enjoyable conversation. Soon after, I checked my weapons and clothes. From Feininger, he received a briefing about Brullin Special General Hospital, and from Franz, he heard about the identity that Julich Renner and his violinist were hiding.

“Expressive General Hospital is a twin building composed of two wards.”

There are 7 floors above ground and 2 floors underground.

“In the hospital, each ward is called Alpha-dong and Beta-dong.”

It is not a main building and an annex, but two main buildings.

“There are a total of six accessible routes, and the locations are as follows.”

The front and rear doors on the first floor of each building, and the emergency stairs leading to the second basement floor.

“On the 5th floor, there is a passage connecting the Alpha building and the Beta building.”

“In which hospital room is Elizabeth?”

“This is an intensive care unit for VIPs on the 7th floor of Beta Building. It’s on the far right when you walk in through the front door.”

There are three elevators in each ward, and only one stairway in the center is connected to the hallway.

“It’s a global war…….”

Normally there was only one staircase, so the elevator must be occupied by them. It wouldn’t be strange if booby traps were set up in case of any possible suppression, so the road to the top floor must be very difficult.

“Julich Renner and his followers have served in the 0th Army Corps in the past.”

The 0 Corps that Franz said was an abbreviation. It is Bernhard’s illegal unit called the Impossible Legion. Of course, its existence is officially denied, and it was born only to win the battle after grafting various prohibitions.

“Two days ago, exactly 16 gun-type artifacts treated as weapons of mass destruction were leaked from the Army Agency equipment storage room. On the same day, 20 of the magic bullets that can be fired by inserting them into the artifact in the Brulin Defense Headquarters were lost with 250 bullets.”

The magic bullet, despite its tremendous power, was said to be an item that was no longer produced. It was because there was no one who could use it anymore after all the members of the unit who used it died.

“The magic bullet shooter.”

The official call sign in the Army is DF-009.

“That is the name of their unit.”

The official weapon is an artifact in the form of a sniper rifle. Literally, bullets filled with various magic. And stimulants to escape the pressure and stress of the mission. Up to a cyanide capsule placed under the tongue to prevent being captured.

“They can shoot magic that does not require mana consumption at the cost of my lifespan.”

I know the words of those who put their lives on the line and pursued the apostles by leaving the right.

“It won’t be easy to deal with either way.”

I guess so. But I’m not alone.

“Are you ready?”

“Okay.”

Adele, who had been absent, returned. Like an alchemist, she filled a round flask filled with an unknown liquid, sealed it, and handed it over. It was a red liquid, a blue liquid, and a clear liquid, respectively. Use was written on the bottle.

“I wish you luck, master.”

I lost as much as I gained and gained as much as I lost.

But that kind of crappy calculation method is still up to this day.

“Feininger, take Adele to a safe place.”

“Don’t worry. Good luck.”

Beatrix, did I get caught here?

“Franz, it’s going out.”

“Glory to ignorance.”

If you’re scared, you’re going to die.