Chapter 228 – The Criminal
“Park Woon-ho… What is the basis for that?”
Philip asked, frowning.
“It’s what happened after he came here, right?”
“Ha… Are you saying that’s an inference!?”
Philip with a puzzled expression.
“Simple is best.”
When you think simply.
The culprit is me or Edward.
The rest are people who have been together for a long time.
If there is a culprit among them, the fire should have started a long time ago.
And I’m not the culprit…
All that remains is Edward.
“If you think about it that way, Park Woon-ho, isn’t it the same for you?”
“I have an alibi.”
“Alibi?”
People who live alone can’t have an alibi.
Phillip must have thought so too.
I lightly turned my gaze to Carrie.
Carrie blushed and tangled her hair. I could see that some of the villagers who saw it sighed in disappointment.
Recognizing the meaning, Philip opens his eyes wide and opens his mouth.
Grace didn’t seem to care, but I could see her eyes twitching.
“You son of a bitch! Gee-ko!!”
As expected, Richard and Grace stop Phillip from having a seizure and trying to run at me.
“Ji, calm down. Phillip!!”
“This, this! Calm down!! Let it go. No!!”
Both of them were Awoken, so Phillip ran up to me without hesitation and prevented me from being beaten.
“Philip. Stop it. I’m the man I chose.”
Carrie said firmly with an expression that she was fed up with Phillip’s terrible siscon.
“Whoop! Whoop!”
After having seizures for a while, he was barely a real Philip.
“Park Woon-ho… I can’t conclude that Edward is the culprit… With just such a sloppy reasoning.”
“Philip. Why are you so supportive of him?”
“It’s absurd to say that you’re being supportive. Then, did you think you would just listen to what you said and call Edward the culprit?”
Philip snorts.
I wasn’t expecting it either.
The important thing was different.
“Come to think of it…”
“…What else…”
Philip was still full of hostility toward me, as if his anger hadn’t subsided.
“No way… Are you defending yourself as a lover?”
“What… A dog…”
Everyone except me was shocked by my bombshell remarks.
“Don’t be fooled, Philip. I’ve seen you on a date with Edward a couple of times.”
“Oh no!!”
Philip shouted as if he had a seizure, probably sensing that he would be fucked if he did it wrong.
“Isn’t it…Not just me, but other people must have witnessed it too?”
I said, looking around as if asking for consent.
Yes.
Philip had been carrying Edward around all day long, perhaps because he was excited about having a little boy.
Fishing together.
I also swim.
I also go with the supply.
…Gossip about me.
– Hung-seong-gung-seong.
(Come to think of it, I also saw…The two of them fishing together.)
(Oops…Somehow…Even if I seduce you like that…)
(Pe, Philip was gay.)
(…It’s shocking, but…We need to understand.)
“Recently… It’s true that the two of you have been hanging out often, but… Ah, they’re not lovers!”
“Philippe, there’s no need to be shy. I’m not prejudiced against gays. Rather, I support you.”
As the number of gay people increases, the number of women who do not have a boyfriend increases as well.
“Fuck! It’s not! Edward! Say something too!”
“Pi, Phillip. You’re right. Well, we’re not lovers.”
Edward blushes and denies it.
However, when he spoke with his handsome face blushing, the faces of the people who had been anxious turned to confidence.
“Philip, you’re such a bad guy too. What’s wrong with being gay? Are you going to dump your boyfriend because you don’t want to come out?”
“Sir, fuck!! No!!”
Carrie, who was briefly shocked by my bombshell comment, came to her senses.
“Everyone! Philip is not gay!”
“Carrie, Carrie!”
Philip’s face brightened as if he had gained a reliable savior.
“Philippe is bisexual! He’s even had a girlfriend before!”
Carrie’s correction made Phillip’s face harden.
“Philip…No matter what sexual orientation you are, we are friends.”
Grace went up to the liberated Philip and put her hand on his shoulder.
“And Philip, don’t worry. I don’t intend to conclude that your lover, Edward, is the culprit just by Unho’s words. So calm down.”
“That, Grace… It’s not like that…”
Huh… This is the type of work.
Of course, I didn’t even think that this group of purebreds would arrest Edward right away just because I was the culprit.
If I were the leader, I would have played around with it once, but I am just a member of this group.
He is said to be a person with supernatural powers, but his right to speak is weak because he has just joined.
Still, when I saw the liberated face of Philip, I could say that I had achieved some proud results.
“By the way, it’s a big problem. We’ve lost all the food we’ve gathered… I think we’ll have to go out immediately… Woon-ho will go with us, right?”
Carrie next to me whispered to me.
“Then.”
I readily responded by patting Carrie’s butt.
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In the end, the culprit was not caught and the people dispersed.
Since there are no witnesses, there is no way to catch them unless a witch hunt is conducted.
And Carrie and I found Grace’s place.
“What is it?”
Grace opened the door and greeted us with a smile.
But that smile is a bit awkward.
For my alibi, it became publicly known that I had a deep relationship with Carrie.
According to Carrie, Grace also said that she had a little crush on me, so maybe that was the cause.
Someday I will have to untie the knot, but now was the time to pretend I didn’t know.
Rather, it was time to tell them the truth about Edward.
In the meantime, I was distracted from spending a lot of time with Carrie and forgot about it.
“Edward is an Awoken.”
Upon hearing my words, Grace’s face suddenly turned serious.
“…Is that really true?”
“Okay.”
“Can you know something like that with superpowers?”
“Yes.”
“So that’s why you pointed him out as the culprit… Unho, if what you say is true, it’s definitely suspicious.”
“Do you believe me?”
“Well… I’m dubious, but I’m the one who believes it. But… I can’t say that Edward is the culprit just because he has psychic powers…”
Of course, Edward will deny it to the end.
He also has a reliable lover named Philip.
I have a heart attack, but I don’t.
It is useless to accuse Edward of being the culprit unless there is a clear witness who saw him set the fire himself.
That’s probably why Philip gave up on the case of Damon’s disappearance.
“But why did the culprit set the fire?”
Carrie asked.
“That…”
“…?”
“If Edward is the real culprit, as Unho said… The reason will soon come out.”
Grace’s face was full of conviction as she spoke with the sharp eyes of a beautiful sheriff.
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Most of the food in the camp was lost in the fire.
In the end, there was no choice but to advance the planned supply schedule.
Richard and Philip, who are on duty this time to supply psychics.
Philip’s lover, Edward.
Humphrey went out to supply.
And in the end, he came back in vain.
It happened often, but in the current camp situation, it was fatal.
When they returned empty-handed, the always peaceful atmosphere in the camp became even more gloomy.
The next day
“Unho, Philip is looking for you.”
Carrie came.
Philip is looking for me, so there are strange things in my life.
But she didn’t want to go.
“Should I go?”
“I think there is an important story. All the executives are gathered.”
“…”
Carrie added her words, noticing that I had no intention of going.
“Grace suggested it.”
“Hmm…Then there’s nothing you can do about it.”
He lifted his heavy ass off the couch.
Carrie rolled her eyes and pinched my side.
The place Carrie and I headed to was a shared dining room.
It is a place I rarely use.
I saw familiar faces.
Grace. Philip. Richard…Humphrey, Matthew.
And Edward.
Personnel mainly in charge of supply were surrounding the round table with serious faces.
Edward stood next to Philip like an adjutant.
It looked good to see them standing side by side with their lovers.
As we enter, the eyes of the people looking at the table are focused on us.
“Come on.”
Grace greeted us with a smile.
Carrie was holding my arm.
Philip’s face wriggled when he saw it, but he didn’t say anything.
I went and stood next to Grace.
A map was spread out on the table.
There were many X marks around the current location where the lake is.
It was probably a place where they had already been supplied.
The distance to get supplies was also getting farther away.
And not far from the base, Seattle was written.
‘Is Seattle the place where the black man said there’s an amazing guy?’
There were no other large cities nearby.
“It’s hard at this rate. It’s going to be hard to go to the next village we’re going to supply in one day. Maybe we’ll have to sleep outside.”
Everyone fell silent at Matthew’s words.
Next on duty is Grace and I.
Maybe Carrie will go too.
I didn’t have a sense of crisis, but others must have a lot of pressure to sleep outside.
“Even so, I can’t help it… I burned all the food and ate it. I don’t know if the leftovers will be enough for a week. I have no choice but to prepare thoroughly.”
Said Grace.
“So that’s what I mean…”
Philip looked at Grace and carefully opened his mouth.
“I found out where the shelter is.”
“Shelter?”
Everyone made puzzled faces at the words that came out of his mouth.
