Chapter 83 – The Magic City and the Great Detective
Door still banging. Seong-il walked in front of that door and said to Charlotte.
“I’ll be in charge of the front line, so will Detective Charlotte support me with a wand from the back?”
“Okay!!”
As soon as he hears her answer, Seong-il opens the door by raising his inner strength.
When he opened the door, five sturdy rice cake sticks appeared in front of Seongil’s eyes.
“Hey, are you that Wil Wheaton or something, you bugger?”
“… What are you doing? Where are you? To me …?”
“Han Seong-il. Assistant to Detective Charlotte Moriarty, special advisor to the Wyndham Metropolitan Police Department.”
“…Was the Metropolitan Police Department’s dog? Why? Do you think I would be scared if you mentioned the Metropolitan Police Department’s name? You dare to be a detective who is not a police officer?”
When Wheaton said that, the people around him also laughed and mocked Seongil.
“Fuhah! This baby. If you have two sides of the biral, you have to believe in her fist, tell her backdress?
Nodding his head at his words, Wheaton continued.
“Did you hear? Wouldn’t you be pushing here too if you were on your back? I need to meet my cockhouse and fuck you, so can you move away?”
Saying that, Wheaton bounced on his back and imitated his junior position.
Seong-il, who became feverish at his provocation, exploded the energy she had accumulated in her fists and shouted at him, spreading the bankruptcy priesthood.
“I think that’s right. You have to trust my fist when you’ve kicked both sides!”
After shouting that, Seongil swung his fist like lightning and struck Wheaton’s chin in surprise.
Baek!
Wheaton, unable to react properly to Seongil’s lightning-like surprise punch, collapses with his jaw smashed as if half-twisted.
In response to Seongil’s attack, Wheaton’s colleagues took out daggers and began swinging them at Seongil.
“Dare to be a fucking dog !!”
Along with those words, a thug thrust a knife into Seongil’s side toward Seongil’s stomach.
Seong-il, through his senses sharpened by ‘sensitization’, did not even check the knife with his eyes, and after grasping the direction the knife was flying, sneakily dodged it and cut off the top of his head with his hand snatch.
“Chehehe?!”
Seong-Il’s attack, which is not a fist, but a hand-catch, can feel the ignorant destructive power.
The gangster felt the pain of having his head split and bent his back in an L shape.
Seong-il does not miss him and stomps the thug’s back with his elbow.
“Kuhh!!”
The blow must have been so great that the thug felt his intestines shake and sprawled on the floor with hemoptysis of blood.
“You dare this bastard!!”
And the sharp swords of the other three thugs, enraged that Seong-il subdued two of his colleagues in an instant.
“Suck!”
At that moment, Seong-il tried to avoid the swords that came out from various directions by pulling his body back.
“Advanced shock!!”
With Charlotte’s cry, the space is distorted and a haze is blown away at the gangsters.
“!!”
Quaang!!
There was no flame, but a shockwave of tremendous power that actually looked like a fireball.
The thugs who were directly hit by the shock wave bounced back to the army in all directions without being able to withstand the shock.
‘Now!’
Seong-il rushes against the thugs who have become defenseless in shock.
“Ms. Charlotte! Please cover me!!”
“Do not worry!!”
In order to prevent Seongil from being swept away by the shock wave, Charlotte mercilessly fires shock magic at the rest of the thugs who are far away without using magic in the direction of the space he is in.
Taking advantage of her cover, Seong-il took the flag-bearing ceremony of the Pasin priesthood and threw himself at a separate gangster.
“Are you taking a nap, you bastard?”
A thug who was standing up with a knife, holding her body after being hit by the shock wave.
Hearing Seongil’s ridicule, he quickly grabbed his sword and started swinging it at Seongil.
‘See!’
Seong-il, who has become close to a superhuman through continued training in color ball. Based on that body, as the bankrupt priesthood that had been steadily beaten into her body was spread, Seong-il felt that the world was slowing down, and naturally, the gangster’s clumsy sword path (劍路) began to come into her eyes.
Seong-il bends down to avoid the knife that stabs him in the face, then strikes the thug’s elbow from bottom to top with the back of his hand.
Then the thug’s hand holding the knife went up over his head, and Seong-il, seeing that the guard was released, punched him in the face.
Baek!
The gangster’s teeth shattered with a dull sound.
“Kehehe!!”
The thug falls down, coughing up blood with a gasping sound.
Clink!
Seong-il, seeing the dagger dropped by a gangster on the floor, quickly kicks it with his feet.
Then Seong-il roared as he looked at the other two thugs.
“You bastards! Throw away your knives and drive your head right away. Otherwise, you’ll really die!”
Embarrassed to see their comrades subdued in an instant, the two thugs stand hesitantly holding knives and pointing them at him.
Looking at them like that, Seong-il sharply shouted.
“Are these bastards out of their minds yet?”
After saying that, Seong-il hit the wall next to him.
Poop!!
Then the hard stone wall crumbled like sand,
Shocked by his monstrous power, the pale-faced gangster shouted at him.
“You… You bastards… Do you dare to do this to us? Do you think Logan will come to his senses once he does this?”
They started threatening Charlotte and Seongil with trembling voices and raising their backs, as if they had no confidence to subdue them by force.
When he hears their words, Seong-il laughs and returns what the thugs said in the past.
“If you’re a two-faced bastard, you should trust your fist. Are you talking about your back? Isn’t this what you guys said earlier?”
“…This bastard.”
A gangster who bites his teeth at Seongil’s sarcasm.
Then he started threatening Seong-il.
“You… I guess you don’t know how high the sky is by punching. Be careful? I’ll knock your family out.”
“Under…?”
“I’m going to catch your father, scoop up the pods, feed them to pigs, and dismember my mother and sell her to a brothel. Do you understand? You son of a bitch?”
When Seong-il was genuinely furious at his words, he raised his fist and tried to kill the thug.
“Hmm… That’s funny. I heard that Logan unified the gangs in Kowloon Citadel these days, and now the Wyndham Metropolitan Police Department looks funny, doesn’t it?”
Inspector Lestras and his men quietly emerge from a corner of an alley with a magic wand.
“Uh…?”
The gangsters are surprised by the sudden appearance of the Inspector.
“What ‘eh?’ You thug. If the police inspector showed up, you should get down on your knees right away and get ready to beg? Hey! What are you doing! Don’t arrest these guys right away!”
At the words of Inspector Lestras, the officers immediately take out their magic wands and fire shock cannons at the thugs.
“Heuk!”
When five officers fired shock cannons at the two thugs from all sides, they were quickly subdued without even a proper resistance.
Damn!
Inspector Lestras slapping a kneeling thug in the cheek with his hands bound in handcuffs.
“These invincible scumbags without citizenship. How dare you threaten a good citizen? Do you think our Police Department didn’t invade Kowloon City because they were afraid of you?”
“…”
“If you put the trash in the trash can, you’ll be politely thanking them and sticking them in the trash can. You dare not say anything like that to the Special Advisor of the Metropolitan Police Department.”
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry.”
“Shut up! You guys not only violated the agreement and invaded the city of Wyndham! They preemptively attacked innocent citizens, so you guys should pay for your crimes too, right?”
“That…That’s…”
“So. Two.’
“Yes…?”
“Choose two.”
“What.. What..?”
“Due to the special agreement signed between Windham City and Kowloon Fortress, in principle we cannot arrest your new recruits, but our pride does not allow us to hand them over.”
“…”
“We’ll have to take at least two of them in the form of you surrendering. So choose. Which bastard will die.”
“That.. But the tongue.. Agreement..”
Inspector Lestras clenched his fist at his words and slapped the thug in the face.
“You arrogant bastard. The kingdom was defeated by the Empire 100 years ago, and the agreement was humiliatingly concluded, and the effect of the agreement is only four years away, you bastard. So don’t you know that even the Empire can’t tackle us like this?”
“…”
“In addition, this case was caught in Wyndham City after you guys were arrogantly jumping out of the Kowloon Wall and talking about it, so the justification is on our side. So choose this bastard.”
A police inspector who threatens thugs with a bloody face.
At his words, the thug trembled and taught Wheaton and one other thug with both hands.
“Hey. Take those two.”
“Yes! Inspector!”
The officers take care of the fallen Wheaton and the thugs.
Seeing that, Inspector Lestras said to the rest of the thugs.
“Hey. Miscellaneous things.”
“Yes…? Yes…”
“Tell Logan. It’s good to trust the Empire and play around. Keep it out of our eyes, okay?”
“Yes yes…!”
Having said that, the thugs hurriedly picked her up and ran away, and Yuna, who had come out of her room, roared at them holding her own cat, Mr. Googles Worth.
“Keltuza… No, it’s a victory for magic engineering! Have you seen it, Mr. Googlesworth?”
‘…What is that again?’
Seong-il looks at Yuna blankly, puzzled by Yuna’s eccentricities.
After cursing the thugs who bullied her for a while, she came up to the Inspector and Charlotte’s group and began to greet her.
“Thank you! Everyone! If it weren’t for you guys, I’d probably be in a bad shape!”
“You’re welcome! Yuna-sama is a guest member of Moriarty Detective Agency, so it’s only natural that we protect her!!”
‘…Whoever wants to be a guest member is he?’
Yuna answers her words with a bright smile.
“Thank you so much! If you have any engravings or magic engineering items that you need in the future, please let me know! I’ll take care of them at cost!”
“Oh! That’s a good word! Ohhhhh!!”
‘At las…!’
One of the main reasons for enlisting magic engineer Yuna. She can create some pretty outstanding minor artifacts over time.
Of course, it can’t be made unconditionally, and if the user provides major artifacts, the item can be disassembled to mass-produce the original minor artifacts.
Although it is a deteriorated version inferior to the original, it was a great advantage that it could be reproduced anyway.
‘Later, if you get an item like a black ball and give it to Yuna, she might make a degraded version of the ball! This is a great advantage!’
Then, Seong-il remembered 『Pocket Girls』, Which ended in vain.
‘Haa… If I had seen the ending of 『Pocket Girls』 Normally, I could have gotten a white ball and asked Yuna to make a degraded version… It’s a pity.’
Leaving behind his bitter feelings, Seong-il thanked Inspector Lestras.
“Thank you! Inspector. For fulfilling our difficult request…”
“Haha! You’re welcome! It’s our job to beat those villains!”
“…Won’t it become a diplomatic problem later?”
Inspector Lestras smiled at the words of such a holy day.
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
“…?”
“Did you know that after the Madou Industrial Revolution, our national power has grown as strong as the Empire, and we intend to forcibly break the unequal treaty with the Empire sooner or later…?”
“…I’m not sure about that because I’m a fool.”
“Heh heh.. It’s embarrassing that even the children of Wyndham City know, but the intelligent Assistant Detective Seong-il doesn’t know!”
Having said that, Inspector Lestras briefly explained the situation in the kingdom.
A kingdom that was defeated in a war with an empire in the past.
The kingdom was forced to cede many territories based on an unequal treaty with the empire and was on the verge of collapse.
And the most famous cession, a symbol of shame made in a corner of Windham City, the heart of the kingdom. Kowloon City.
To commemorate the victory with the kingdom,
Designation of a corner port in the city of Wyndham as a special zone.
He mocks the kingdom by making Kowloon City an outlaw that does not follow the kingdom’s rule of law for 100 years.
Days of humiliation that seemed to last forever.
However, far from being frustrated by the situation, the kingdom and its people unite even more closely to develop sorcery and cause a tremendous revolution called the sorcery industrial revolution.
An unprecedented revolution that expanded magic, which had been exclusively reserved for wizards, to ordinary citizens.
Based on that revolution, the kingdom exploded its national power and raised its national power to the bottom of the empire. This explained
‘Wow… There was a background like this…?!’
Seong-il, shocked by such an explanation, asked Inspector Lestras a question.
“Then… Why didn’t you subjugate Kowloon Fortress, which was created by an unequal treaty with the Empire?
“I will.”
“…?”
“Right now, I’m just patient with the political conditions, but I know that sooner or later the superiors will issue a massive subjugation order.”
“Aha…”
“It’s clumsy to subjugate them, because they’ll be in trouble if they sneak into Windham City and parasitize.”
“Hmm…”
“That’s why we’re brainwashing them into saying we can’t catch them under the pretext of the agreement until we’re completely ready to get rid of them. That way, they’ll be safe and gather in Kowloon Fortress.”
“Aha…”
“Then, when the preparations are complete, the Empire and Nabal will wipe them out without notice.”
“Okay…”
“Oops! This is information that only high-ranking figures know even inside the Metropolitan Police Department. Seongil-nim. Please be careful not to leak information! Do you understand?”
“Yeah! Muh… Of course!”
