Chapter 98 – Breaking the Seal (8)
How much information about Boyd can we get from this guy?
Thanks to him making a foolish mistake, he was caught and is now trembling in our hands.
Looking around, I saw that in addition to the Timothy family, people from the noble families that Renia, Lienne, and Ellie had destroyed were flocking here.
“Hey, there’s someone like you in every family, right? Don’t even think about lying.”
“Hi!”
Lien, who had followed my words and caught me, threatened the guy by sticking out her fist.
If it is true that the head of the family did not know about this matter, it is expected that there is someone who was in secret with Boyd internally.
“What on earth are you doing? Why are you guys suddenly attacking our family?”
“You think you can get away with killing someone from our family!”
We were trying to question the guy called Gin about Boyd, but people from other families started coming up to us to question us.
It felt crazy to see so many people gathered in groups and talking noisily.
“Ah, it’s annoying. Don’t disturb Jinu, you beasts!”
Perhaps annoyed by the sight of so many beastmen around her, Renia screamed and summoned the Spirit Kings again.
And he launched various attacks such as fire, ice, and wind to prevent the beastmen from coming around.
“Ugh!”
“What’s this!”
The beastmen attacked Renia, but the beastmen retreated to avoid the attack and were not injured.
It felt like it wasn’t tailored on purpose.
If he had been planning on killing the prisoners, he would have killed them outright.
The beastmen of other families were surprised by Renia’s attack and did not rush in immediately, but instead confronted us.
“Please wait a moment. I have something to ask them.”
The head of the Timothy family came in between us who were standing in a standoff and spoke.
“Are you sure that Gin has something to do with the people from our family who just turned into monsters?”
“That’s right. Not only this family, but all 10 noble families were here.”
When Timothy heard what I said, he looked surprised.
“That can’t be possible… I can’t believe that those monsters exist not only in our family but also elsewhere.”
“We never thought we would be involved with Boyd here. There are probably people involved in other families as well, so we need to catch them all.”
After hearing what I said, the head of the Timothy family nodded.
“Everyone, please listen. I think we need to get the heads of each family together and talk about it.”
“What are you talking about? Do you believe their story?”
The head of the Timothy family pointed to the pile of corpses of monsters that had melted away from Renia’s attack earlier.
“We wouldn’t have believed it until we saw it. I guess you didn’t see it. Your family members turning into monsters.”
Although the corpses were completely melted and unrecognizable, other prisoners looked at them with disbelief when they saw the corpses, which at least could not be considered normal prisoners.
“There must be corpses of people in your families who have turned into monsters like that.”
As I was looking at the prisoners who still looked like they couldn’t believe it, Lien and Ellie came up next to me.
“Jinui, it looks like some people are trying to run away after seeing the commotion. We will catch those who are running away.”
“Huh? They’re probably related to Void just like this guy. Do you want to catch them all?”
Lien and Ellie, who heard what I said, nodded and quickly ran out.
“Noah, Yuria, can you help us too? We have to catch them all without leaving a single one behind.”
“Yes, Jinu~~!”
“Yes, yes, I understand, master.”
Yuria and Noah heard me and ran after me.
“I wonder who you are.”
“You can think, ‘What, hero?'”
After hearing what I said, the head of the Timothy family turned around and went to the other noble beasts. Three people, including Rhenia, were destroying things rather aggressively, so we decided to gather together with each noble family at the Urf family, which was the most normal.
The heads of each of the 10 noble families are gathered in one place in a circle, and Renia and I are sitting together in one place.
While the other four went to catch the remnants of Boyd who were trying to run away, Cherry told me to wait in the yard and Lenia, who seemed to be in a good mood because she thought she was with me for the first time in a while, was sitting right next to me.
“So you’re the one who caused this situation?”
A beastman with a lizard’s head looked at me and spoke with his arms crossed.
“That’s right. We don’t know what will happen if it gets involved with Void, so we’re sorry, but we’ve invaded all the families in order to block it in advance.”
“Void? What on earth is that?”
This time, a beastman with rabbit ears sticking out of his human head asked me.
“Before we explain to Void, we need to explain who we are.”
I started giving a brief overview of us.
It explained who we are and the dangers our world currently faces.
In a situation where Demon is trying to invade this world, God’s purpose is to summon a warrior to stop Demon and destroy the dimensional gate Numerun.
Apart from that, I don’t know what the purpose is, but I also explained about an organization called Void, which summons and manipulates demons or fuse them with itself to have a negative impact on the world.
When Void summons a demon, he uses the divine power that permeates the equipment used by the warriors summoned by God to summon the demon and fuse with the demon to gain strength.
He also said that Boyd came here to the family and found out that they were hiding their henchmen.
“Jinuni~~!”
While we were talking, the four people who went to capture the remnants of Void earlier returned.
Patter!
Puff!
The four of them threw the remaining Voids they had captured into the middle of where we were gathered.
There were roughly 13 to 15 prisoners.
“Uuuuu… What is this place?… Wow!”
The Void remnants who had not yet come to their senses barely raised their heads and were surprised to see us glaring at them.
“Now, I need you guys to explain. How did you meet Boyd?”
“Well… I don’t know anything!”
“Me too! What on earth is Void…?”
Ha, it makes me angry to see these bastards getting away with wanting to survive.
I’m already doing this nonsense because of you guys.
“The person I need to ask more clearly than you all is… Did you say Gin? Why don’t you explain first?”
I pointed to the guy in Timothy’s family who made a mistake.
“I don’t know anything. That’s just nonsense.”
Long Timothy shouted, his body shaking.
Ha, this is not the only loss I have suffered because of the Boyd guys.
I’m already mad, but seeing him deny that he doesn’t know makes me very angry.
I was about to say something when Ellie slowly walked over to stand next to Timothy and she lifted her mace above her head.
Puck! Kwasik!
Timothy’s long arm was bent in an unlikely direction by Ellie’s mace, possibly breaking her bones.
“Aaaaah!”
“What are you doing!”
The other head of the household was startled by Ellie’s behavior and tried to stop her, but Ellie glared at the head of the house with a scary expression.
“Don’t interfere with our work now. Jinu is already in a bad mood because of these guys.”
It seems like my emotions just showed on my face.
After being attacked by Ellie, Timothy holds her arm and holds her unconscious.
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Ellie healed Timothy’s arm, which she had broken, and restored her broken arm.
“Ugh… Huh? Doesn’t your arm hurt?”
“Okay, but if you say shit again, I’ll destroy you both this time.”
The guy heard Ellie and turned towards me and hit her head on the floor.
“Oh, I’ll tell you everything I know. Please just spare my life.”
“You will have to hear it and then decide. If you lie, I will kill you next time.”
After hearing Ellie’s words, she started spitting out what she knew into her mouth.
“Well, that was… 10 years ago. At that time, when there was a usurpation match for the nobility, a person wearing a black hood approached…”
I think it’s probably similar to the guys I saw in the elf village Ar’estel.
“They said they would give them strength so that they could occupy the noble position for a long time… At first, I couldn’t believe them and tried to kick them out, but they said they would show them their power and told me to come to a designated location.”
“Did you show the power of fusion with Demon there?”
The guy who heard me shook his head up and down vigorously.
“Yes, yes! That’s right. Paul, who was the strongest at the time, was defeated without being able to do anything due to the overwhelming power he showed at that time. And he said he would give that power to us, and the people present were able to receive the power of the Void…”
“So something like that happened? I thought it was strange that my strength suddenly became stronger…”
After hearing Timothy’s long story, the head of the Timothy family was surprised.
“They said they were planning to use this power to occupy the nobility of the Kingdom of Francia and devour this kingdom. For now, they only showed it to the nobles, but they said they were planning to take over the king’s position in the future as well.”
“How could something like that happen?”
Long Timothy continued his speech, pointing to himself and the prisoners behind him who had been captured.
“And… I later talked to them about the Void and gained some strength by telling other families about the Void. Thanks to that, all 10 families I came into contact with achieved autonomous nobility, and so far, they have never stepped down from their noble positions…”
Last time, they sent an Infector to take over the Kingdom of Britinya, and it seems they have been working to take over the Kingdom of Francia as well.
What is the purpose of these guys?
I just hope you don’t get in my way.
“So you turned them into monsters…?”
The head of the Timothy family shook off his anger and spoke in a low voice.
“Do you know anything else? For what purpose did Void try to devour the kingdom?”
“That’s all I know. I’m serious! Trust me, please!”
Judging by the expression on its face, it appears to be real.
Honestly, these guys are probably at the bottom of the Void organization.
You won’t be able to find much information if you ask a lot of questions.
I tried interrogating other people besides Timothy, but there was no result.
We told each family to take care of what to do with these guys and returned to our lodgings.