Chapter 402 – R or L (5)
After going through a reunion that was too early to be such a thrilling meeting, we each took our seats.
It’s a small inn room, so she sits on her bed, and I sit on her chair, making her sit. It was a very good position for a man and a woman of different sexes to get awkward, so I said before the strange atmosphere.
“Are you good at Britannia too? Did you learn because of work?”
“I’m an information dealer, but I speak at least three languages. Of course, Romanian is the most comfortable, but for the time being, I’m going to use Britannia consciously. Because the fastest way to learn a language is to learn it locally.”
“If you do, I will speak in Britannia. I came to ask for someone I want to find for a while, is that possible?”
“It doesn’t matter because it also doubles as an agency… Aren’t you a dangerous person?”
“I will be fine. But if you find them chasing him along the way, you better avoid them.”
“… Would you like to hear the contents? I will listen and think about it.”
“Of course I will.”
I explained in detail while hiding what I had to hide.
Catherine hears that she is looking for a golden sun quarter dwarf called ‘Zoid Two Stars’ and takes notes after hearing his appearance.
She heard all I had to say and was a little impressed.
“I’ll look for it, but there are two things you should know.”
“Tell me.”
“It is very difficult to find a person in such a vague way, and for such a long-term request, the request fee must be renewed regularly. I don’t think other secret agencies would say the same?”
“… I understand the second one, but it’s hard to find someone as characteristic as this?”
“Nord-sama, you know how big the world is, right?”
Having said that, I had nothing to say.
Even Jammin knows that it is difficult to search for missing persons or ‘Finding XX’. Even my hometown Korea is like that.
Even in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi country where fingerprints and genetic information of all citizens are investigated and serialized and managed in a narrow land full of CCTVs and car black boxes, there is a missing child poster attached to the back of Jolly Pong.
What if that kind of surveillance infrastructure wasn’t developed at all?
Even if the country boy packed up his bundle and ran away at night, it would lead to the erasure of his personal information, which even the FBI would stick out.
“Perhaps that person also fled abroad. Find your immigration records… You don’t have the right to do that.”
If it was the pattern of the Armials family, you would be able to see the record of Romania. Because the elders in Gaju who can issue this pattern are members of the Senate, and the Senate is a state institution.
But that can’t work overseas. I thought about it and said.
“I’ll narrow it down. Just look in it Wouldn’t the information guild help?”
“It’s meaningless because it’s a guild that only exists in Romania. From my point of view, it’s a state institution disguised as a private guild. It’s useful, so I’ve been using it in an appropriate way.”
I roughly understood It must be like the FBI that monitors social media and media outlets.
If it was possible to control the media and investigate public sentiment at the same time, it would have been a national policy.
“If it’s useless, that’s fine. Find Britannia and Narmer-Nile.”
“I think it will be easier to find if you know the criteria you narrowed down.”
“It’s elimination.”
I didn’t intend to explain the deep circumstances, so I was vague.
Perhaps Zoid left Nida Velir after his brother died.
Usually, people of this world bury his bones in his hometown, but he is the second son who has not inherited a house or inheritance from his parents. Usually, they fall into peddlers, adventurers, and religious people.
So he must have been an adventurer in his childhood. Merchant? Geum Taeyang, who came out of the store, must have been a peddler.
‘And if you’ve lived as an adventurer, there’s no reason to hesitate about going abroad.’
So, what is his destination?
Germania is not. It is a very similar and close country to Nidavalir, which reminds me of my brother’s death.
Not even Romania. Is this really a country that Zoid, who lost his older brother because of the fake Thor, could go to? Wasn’t he also burning with a vengeful spirit? If he had avoided Romania, he would have avoided it, and would not have taken the initiative.
The rest of the country? Too far or too close.
So, by elimination, Britannia and Narmer-Nile.
“If you give me money, I have no reason to refuse. It was a difficult car because there was not enough work in the city. I never thought it would be such a relaxing and peaceful city.”
Catherine accepted with a sigh.
I just laughed at her complaints. I was often teased for being a idiot, but as time went on, she would adapt to Sargadis.
It wasn’t as territorial as in the real countryside.
“… By the way? There is one strange thing about this city, too.”
Then Katherine’s eyes suddenly lit up. I noticed that the manner of speaking that subtly stimulated curiosity was a means of business, but there was no reason to ignore it, so I reacted.
“The weird part? I didn’t feel it even after living here for several months, what the hell is it like?”
“Whoops. What I realized through my intuition and sober observation? In fact, this city…”
Katherine whispered, letting her rhyme airy.
“──It was as if animals were observing people.”
“… …”
“Are you surprised? No, it sounds like you’re dumbfounded or embarrassed. But it is absolutely true.”
She spreads her breasts like a new employee announcing in front of her boss.
“It is not strange that there are many animals such as stray cats and birds. However, it is strange to see one or two of them wherever you go, and it is very rare that the animals in the city take an interest in humans for a long time.”
“… …”
“So I did some research? The animals of this city, of all species, were congregating under one ordinary cat! And that being possible means there is no competition for food between animals.”
I know what you’re talking about even if you don’t listen to the end.
Rather, to show off evidence and reasoning in a secret room with the person behind the incident. You do things like the victims in the introductory Closed Room Murder without realizing it.
If I were a real evil big boss—no, a cat boss, I would already have a rope wrapped around my hand. Possibly disguised as suicide.
It is a different world without even mystery novels. Even the perfect crime would be as simple as eating a piece of cake.
“We need a real boss to make such a grand unification of the races possible! Someone who can subdue them and tame them with food! Unless you’re as keen as me, you would never have noticed this!”
Katherine spoke proudly. ‘Cause she’s such a poor fellow
I decided to go along with her reasoning until the facts were revealed. There is no malice. If she was going to be embarrassing anyway, at least until then, she could talk happily.
“Wow, really? That’s great. Do you know who he is?”
“Nope. Actually, I have no idea. I can’t even see the slightest presence… ! As if it doesn’t exist… !!!”
That’s because I came home today.
‘This isn’t a fucking leaky bird.’
It’s to the point where it’s fun to point out the wrong leg like this. While I was smirking like that, Catherine, who had fallen into her own world, twisted her mouth, not even noticing my expression.
“But who am I? Katherine Heswald, the genius information award of the troubleshooter office ‘TikTok’! I already got a clue!”
“What! It hasn’t been a few days since you guys came to the city, are you there already?!”
It was a reaction that made my limbs shrivel even after I did it, but it seemed to fit well with the gambit of another world. Katherine smiled and took out the cage she had hidden under the bed.
“Look at this!! The evidence I caught!!”
─Rumble! A cage containing food and water was placed in front of me.
Wakoo’s cat, who seemed to be feeling all the shit in the world at the same time, was trapped inside.
“Nimignant. (1 hour.)”
It was Teresa, our house cat.
“I captured the cat that was rallying the animals on behalf of the darkness, and locked it up perfectly like this. Heohak!!!!”
I blew a pear on Catherine.
Hey, you bastard. Why couldn’t he see
***
“I didn’t even dream about it!! Oh my gosh!! Who would have known that Nord-sama was a black man!!”
“Shut up. Lower your voice.”
“Ukkyukkeekkeek!!”
After punishing the thief who kidnapped someone else’s pet cat and subcontractor, I left the children of the inn Mutarat. Not to mention that I packed a bottle of alcohol into the inventory slab.
I stroked Theresa in my arms.
“Nyan New Neun Nyang. (I cursed.)”
“Shaak—! Ha ha-! (I know yeah!)”
I went on my way home while appeasing the man who was yelling at me. With the feet of a cat that couldn’t handle mana, it would have been a long way from escaping from Catherine, who had an amazing dashing skill that I could copy.
Was it because he was caught and suffered for days? Even though I left half of it out and grew it, the hair that had been slicking down became a little frizzy.
‘I should at least serve some health food.’
Otherwise, he’ll hit the drone manager.
“Nyaaaaan——!!”
I was thinking about buying some of this guy’s favorite fish on the street before trying to placate him with catnip, but Theresa tapped me on the arm. I put him down for the moment as he tried to focus my attention.
“ᚴ(Kaunan).”
Once connected by telepathy.
If I, whose face was known, was caught nitpicking on the street, I would get gap-scorn rather than build a good impression with gap moe.
─Taktak! Said Teresa, who was hitting the floor with her tail in a fit of temper.
“I have something to tell you. Two suspicious people—”
“What?”
I opened my eyes wide at the hooked story.
“A person who wears what humans call a ‘hood. Two. Dangerous. When I look at it, my hair stands on end. I looked hard and got caught.”
Teresa, uncharacteristically loyal, pointed her paw toward Dana’s lab.
“They always hang around in the house on the other side of the head.”
“… What the fuck!!!”
Feeling my heart pounding, I grabbed Theresa as if snatching her up and kicked the ground.
The house on the other side of the purple head.
According to Teresa’s expression of lack of understanding of human society, it is Dana’s laboratory. I poured mana into my feet and spurred wall after wall, soaring above the unobstructed roof and running at super speed.
Whoo oh oh oh-!!
My body, running at an uncontrollable speed, even tore the headwind to pieces. As I squeezed in the strength I had literally sucked in and ran, my elite great gallbladder returned several times faster than that.
‘Dana is alone in the lab right now!’
There might be other researchers, but it was absurd to expect combat abilities from scholars who had given up their careers. When a battle breaks out, only Dana can fight. It’s good if the other researchers don’t have luggage.
‘Damn it, damn it, damn it… !! Did you come back before us and infiltrate!!’
I glared at the research institute so much that my eyes were bloodshot.
The taste of blood came from his gums as he clenched his teeth to the point of breaking them. But that kind of thing was good.
It wasn’t a leisurely walk. She wasn’t letting her go to the lab alone.
It’s my fault. Even though I thought it was dangerous, I had a carefree thought somewhere like ‘this might be too overprotective’. I wanted to line up all the me from a few tens of minutes ago, who was doing something else, and pierce them with a spear.
The belated regret and anger boiling in the stomach paralyzed reason. I moved my feet like a wolf unleashed in the meadow.
Kwah-!!!
The laboratory was quickly approaching.
It was the first time I had run so fast in my life, but even that speed felt so slow. Dropping Theresa on a nearby roof, I leaped into the tallest building’s chimney.
The process was natural, without any blockages or stops. Fighting with the knight commander and training his footwork had paid off.
… Chuck! It landed on the chimney almost silently, widening its eyes like a hawk trying to descend on its prey.
──I found it.
Back of the lab. It had purple hair that I couldn’t even recognize.
He didn’t look like he was hurt yet. Dana, in her scholarly gown, stood with her arms crossed. With an indescribable sense of relief, life almost spilled over to the two bastards who took off their hoods in front of Dana.
Hard… !!
I endured it patiently enough that the taste of blood in my mouth doubled. The advantage of surprise could not be abandoned. I had to hide it until I got there.
‘Two guys. Met at the back of the lab means an uninvited guest who neither wants nor wants to invite.’
─Pud Deude Deuk!! The calf muscles made a sound like a twisted iron rope.
It gathers information from the enemy with eyes wide open to the point of tearing.
‘The one on the left is either weak enough to be unworthy of an opponent, or a warrior that I can’t discern his true strength. On the other hand, the one on the right is a mage one level lower than me or at a similar level.’
Then the enemy to aim for is the one on the right.
Utilizing surprise, I make it impossible to fight at least in one blow, and pour the rest of my power into the left side.
I crouched down on the chimney, and after that 0.1 second, I was ready to run out with all the acceleration I could use. It took only 2 seconds to combine all the buffs and skills into one.
“… Uh?”
But right before I ran out, I lost my concentration when I saw the face of the man who took off his hood earlier.
Even in a different world full of white people, her white skin and purple hair!
They were bright and full of vitality, far from the shady signs of warlocks. Also, there was no arrogance or madness like
‘… Dana’s hometown?’
No, seeing that they had the same hair color, they might be family.
My heart, which had once collapsed, pounded again. If he didn’t, he could have turned Dana’s family into skewers because of a misunderstanding. I felt like I would know a hundred times more about the feeling of the old man who cut me openly.
‘Calm down, calm down…’
I took a big deep breath.
Didn’t he already get tired of suffering from misunderstandings in Romania? Even if I felt like I was going to lose my head at any moment, I could have had a few words of conversation with that young man.
And, it was morally right to do so.
[Dana! I won’t say it twice! Come back to your hometown now!]
The purple-haired wizard said with a dignified face.
[And marry me, and continue history as a descendant of Erinn!]
Ok let’s kill
