Chapter 592 – Reunion
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Did you say that humans are animals of adaptation?
I am starting to get used to living in solitary confinement.
Isn’t this a static space I’ve felt for the first time in my life?
It’s completely soundproofed, so you don’t hear any noise until the door is opened, so you might think you can concentrate better.
In the past, even when watching a movie, there was a lot of stopping in between, but that wasn’t the case here.
-Jiing…
The food outlet opens, and green soup comes out.
That’s an alarm.
This lets you know that another day has passed.
‘Is this the second time since being interrogated?’
It seems like two days have passed.
A cook is a fairly difficult position.
However, I wonder if there is any place where cooks are as good as here.
You only need to create one menu.
Of course, I had no intention of eating that disgusting green soup.
I sat down with my back to the surveillance camera, took out a chocolate bar from my inventory, opened the skin, and took a bite.
Since there is the power of deception, it might be okay to just eat it openly… But it was better to be as careful as possible about showing a foreign appearance.
The combination of sweet yet soft chocolate, chewy caramel, and crunchy, nutty almonds delighted my palate.
“Mumbling…”
While eating a sweet chocolate bar, I decided to predict how things would unfold next.
According to the information received from Sunni, it seems that Zephyria’s army has captured quite a few people.
It looks like the interrogation is in full swing right now.
However, the clues or criminal they want will not be caught.
That person is leisurely eating a chocolate bar.
How will they come out after interrogating all the people they have arrested?
It would be nice if they were released…
For some reason, I don’t feel like things will work out that well.
After a certain period of time, the green soup was recovered.
Not long after…
-Cheolkeong.
The cell door was opened.
“8702. Come out.”
After two days, I was again taken in by the prison guards and headed somewhere.
‘Are the interrogations of other humans over? Or re-examination?’
Looking at the atmosphere of the prison guards… I don’t think they will release me.
‘Could it be that the green soup from a little while ago wasn’t the Last Supper?’
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“Go in.”
The prison guard who took me to the dark door said.
I opened the door and went inside.
A wide space appeared.
‘Auditorium?’
Of course, it is not an atmosphere like a school auditorium.
It was a space with a more desolate atmosphere.
There were several entrances to the spacious interior.
Soldiers in combat uniforms were standing around each entrance and the second floor railing.
And it was crowded.
A lot of people gathered.
Everyone wears the same outfit.
Just like me, he wears orange tops and bottoms with a large number written on the chest, and magic suppressing devices on his wrists and ankles.
And from a different entrance than the one I entered, I saw people wearing prison uniforms being taken in one after another.
It seemed like they were gathering the people captured for this incident in one place.
Of course, the atmosphere inside the room was calm.
I naturally walked towards where the prisoners were gathered.
I can feel the people who saw me approaching are secretly looking at me.
Most of them are at least a head shorter than me.
From their perspective, I have a physique that inevitably attracts attention, so there is nothing I can do about it.
People of all kinds gathered together.
People with a scary look like real criminals.
On the contrary, a person who looks neat for a prisoner.
Even humans looking around with anxious faces like herbivores.
I don’t know if they had become friends in that short period of time… Or if they had known each other from the outside, but they were gathered together in small groups and chatting.
Of course, since I had no friends, I had no choice but to stand alone and a little distance away from them.
“Bark!”
Then someone called my name.
My eyes naturally turned in that direction.
I see a familiar face.
A haughty beauty I haven’t seen in a long time.
It was Cowra.
‘It seems like I’ve lost a little weight…’
She might have starved like me.
〈Who is starving? 〉
That’s officially true.
Kaura was the one who brought me to Rebellion.
Of course, he was a higher-ranking executive than me, and maybe that’s why I was brought in?
“Bark, were you captured too?”
“Well… That’s how it goes.”
“But you…”
Kaura tilts her head as if something is strange.
“Is there some problem?”
“Huh? Ah, no. I’m sorry. It’s because of us…”
As someone who knew the truth, it was a bit prickly.
“It’s okay.”
Do I generously forgive Cowra? I did it.
〈 Shameless…〉
As I was listening to Cosmos’ quiet rebuke, another beauty came up and said hello.
“It’s been a while. Mr. Bark, I didn’t know we’d meet in a place like this.”
… Did you say Claire?
She was also the executive who joined me in Rebellion, along with Cowra.
“Including you… How many Rebellions have been captured?”
“That’s…”
“Claire, he’s probably not here because of Rebellion.”
A man’s voice interrupts our conversation.
A man with a cold-looking appearance and a large man in his late 190s appeared.
As I looked at them quizzically, Claire began introducing the two men.
“This is the cloud.”
Claire pointed to a cold-looking man.
“And this one…”
“It’s Hermann. Nice to meet you. Anyway, it’s bigger in person.”
Hermann, a large man who intercepted Claire’s words, spoke to me with a kind smile.
“What I’m saying is that the reason you were caught here, even though you’re just a low-level team leader who doesn’t know anything, is strange. Do you have any idea why you were caught?”
I ask as Cloud’s sharp eyes shine.
“This is absolutely ridiculous. How do I know that? And why do I have to tell you that?”
“What…?”
Cloud’s face had the expression of a sergeant who had been scolded by a private.
Although I was a little active in Rebellion, I never thought of them as my superiors.
“Did you say Cloud? I am not your subordinate. In that case, you have to ask for a favor, not an order. Now, please ask politely.”
“…”
Cloud’s eyes turn grim at my generous teachings.
“Cloud. You were wrong. Anyone would feel bad if you questioned them like that to someone who thought they were going through this kind of trouble because of us.”
“Tsk…”
Cloud turned his head sheepishly.
This guy’s likeability just hit minus 100 in me.
“Mr. Bark, I’m sorry. I hope you can understand Cloud a little more. He’s in a sensitive state because an important operation failed before it even started.”
Are you talking about the operation that was planned a month ago?
“What Cloud wants to say is this. I didn’t know that someone other than us from Rebellion was captured.”
“Not you?”
I understood that I was not at the level to be caught by Rebellion.
However, Claire… Speaks as if it is strange that someone other than the four of them was captured.
“… No way?”
“Yes, we are leading the Rebellion.”
“Claire.”
Cloud frowns and calls out Claire, as if he doesn’t like revealing that fact.
“Cloud. What’s the secret that brings you here? If you want to solve our questions, you need to reveal the truth to him too?”
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Claire, who silenced Cloud, looks at me.
“So… Claire, are you saying that the reason I was captured was something other than Rebellion?”
“That’s right!”
Claire brightly answered my question as if it was the correct answer.
The Zephyria military first captured the leaders who knew the most information in Rebellion.
And it seemed like Claire and her group who were being interrogated had already had an in-depth conversation based on the questions they were asked during the interrogation before I arrived.
And they would have come to a conclusion.
What the military is looking for is not Rebellion, but the organization that caused the accidents in Selby and Meridian.
In a situation where such a decision was made, other members of Rebellion were not visible, but I, who could be said to be the low-level team leader, appeared.
“It’s not like there’s nothing to point out.”
The eyes of Rebellion’s four leaders are focused on me.
-There must be something wrong with this! I, I am not guilty! It means that they are just ordinary citizens-!!
Before I could answer Claire, there was a man yelling loudly at the entrance.
“… So here!! Gagging!”
The man complained to the guard guarding the entrance and was kicked by his foot, rolling on the floor.
It was a face I had seen many times somewhere.
It’s rare to find a man who leaves an impression on me.
As I was tracing my memories, one of the group of prisoners nearby spoke first.
“… Isn’t it Willas?”
“Willas? Is this true? The face is exactly the same as the avatar?”
“Did that guy get caught too? Damn it, what did we do wrong…”
Seeing the man being beaten by the guards, a group of prisoners swarms.
Willas… I remembered.
In Pantera’s Ramona, the army was completely destroyed, and in the Great Devil Castle, he was beaten to death by demons due to my interference.
〈True… There are different people who have had accidents, and strict people are having a hard time.〉
‘… Cosmos. Inevitable sacrifices are necessary for the greater good.’
