Chapter 664 – Tracking
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After removing the magic suppression device, we continued to move east at a fast pace without stopping for a while.
When the dark night sky becomes lighter,
I stopped walking, looked back at the group, and said.
“Let’s just have a quick bite here.”
It didn’t look like it was that difficult, so everyone took a break. Since the magical power suppression device has been removed, there is no way it could spread to this extent through forced marches.
There is room to move further, but the destination is Pantheran anyway.
The Pantheran was in the south.
We are moving east.
If you continue your forced march, you will only get farther and farther from your destination.
‘The purpose was not to escape in the first place…’
I thought I had traveled a reasonable distance.
“But… Did you just come without any luggage?”
Nora asked, looking at me and the three women who were my housemates.
Her questions were natural.
Even if you lighten your body because of the escape, it is strange to anyone to see that you escaped bare-body and without any luggage.
The luggage of the women I live with are in my inventory.
However, Nora and Cowra do not know that the luggage of the women I live with are in my inventory.
Rania, Emily and Nehru. Three women look at me. The look in his eyes asks if I can tell Nora the secret of my subspace.
We had already come this far, so there was no reason to hide it.
For the first time in a long time, I decided to eat food from Earth.
In the meantime, I couldn’t use my inventory carelessly in Karaz, so I didn’t eat food from Earth unless I was alone.
Besides, I’ve been living with three women recently, so I don’t have time to be alone.
It wasn’t that the food Emily cooked was tasteless, but perhaps because it was home-cooked food, it was a bit different from the spicy food on Earth.
It’s been a while since I’ve been craving pizza.
I bought a combination pizza at the dimension store.
And I took out a pizza box from the inventory.
The scent of tomato sauce coming from inside the pizza box stimulated my appetite.
My companions were shocked when they saw the pizza box in my hand.
Rather than being surprised by the pizza box, you might have been surprised by the phenomenon of the pizza box magically appearing.
“Bah, isn’t that… Ah, subspace?”
Nora asked, her eyes sparkling.
When someone asks about my abilities, I feel at a loss as to how to explain it.
At first glance, it is an ability that is likely to exist somewhere, but if you dig deeper, it is not an ability that can be easily understood through explanation alone.
Actually, I don’t know exactly how this phenomenon occurs.
〈 It’s natural not to know. Do you clearly understand the principles of how the body you were born with moves? 〉
Cosmos asked.
‘Well… Well?’
The body just moves instinctively.
〈You can think of it as similar to that. Rather, thanks to me, you know more about awakening abilities than other people.〉
‘I know well?’
〈 I organize your abilities clearly and show them in the system window, right? Other people can’t see their abilities as objectively as you can? You can’t just pinpoint the abilities you want.〉
If you think about it that way, it seems right?
Cosmos, who knows my awakening system best and claims to have created it, says so, so it is somewhat credible.
In any case, it is difficult to share these feelings with others.
“Well… That’s right. You can think of it as something similar to subspace.”
I have no choice but to overlook it like this.
Nora, sensing that I didn’t want to explain further, didn’t ask any more questions, but her face became brighter than before.
“Still, I feel reassured. It proves that my choice was right.”
The more outstanding my abilities, the closer Nora’s wisdom became, and that felt good.
“I understand that people with subspace abilities are subject to forced conscription… How much are you hiding from us, including what happened at the barrier gate?”
Cowra, who had been listening intently to our conversation from a little distance away, couldn’t help but interrupt and ask.
“As time goes by, you will slowly understand. Let’s eat this.”
She sat down and opened the pizza box.
“Is it food? It looks interesting?”
One by one, starting with Rania, they come to my side and look at the pizza with curious eyes.
When they saw me taking a piece of pizza and eating it, they started eating it too.
“Is it still warm?”
“What is this thing that is expanding? It tastes delicious.”
“Nehru, is this the kind of food you eat in the city above?”
“Well, well? I haven’t tried the food in every city… It’s my first time seeing food like this.”
“I thought I had wandered around enough… But it tastes good, and it’s the first time I’ve seen this food.”
Nora chewed her pizza and agreed with Nehru’s words.
I was disappointed when the cold cola was missing from the pizza.
“What is this black water? It’s making bubbles rise.”
“…?!”
“The texture of something popping in your mouth is amazing!”
There were two people who did not belong to the group eating a lot of pizza.
It was Cloud and Cowra.
“Are you not going to eat it? If you want to eat it, you can eat it.”
I had no intention of being petty with the food I ate. In fact, I felt sorry for Cowra chewing what looked like dried beef jerky.
“It’s okay.”
Cloud flatly refused.
It seemed like Cowra couldn’t eat because of the cloud.
It’s not an attitude that you can’t understand.
Cloud and I don’t have a trustworthy relationship. If it weren’t for Cowra, I wouldn’t have brought Cloud.
In the absence of mutual trust, the food I give you may be questionable. Since it’s your first time seeing food, you’ll be even more wary.
I also had no intention of forcing food on someone who didn’t want to eat it. I ate the pizza without any further advice.
“When are you going to go to Pantheran?”
Cloud asked.
“I need to get things sorted out first.”
“Organize…?”
When an expression of not knowing what I was talking about appeared on the faces of the group…
-Wow.
Just then, an airship with a sleek body about 20 or 30 meters long approaches from afar.
‘They say even tigers will come if you tell them what to do…’
The faces of the group who saw this became tense.
Why would an airship fly to a place like this where there is nothing?
“… I think it’s a military tracking ship, right?”
Nora asked, looking at me secretly.
“I guess so?”
“Uh, what should I do?”
Nehru grabs my arm and stamps her foot.
The sky seemed difficult to resist the pursuit of a flying airship, and there was no place to hide in the rocky area.
-Surrender calmly! It would be best not to think about rebelling. If you want to be captured in good health!
The hangar behind the airship that quickly approached us opens. And from there, thirteen soldiers jumped out.
They were wearing sturdy-looking full-body armored suits, and their faces were not visible.
Most of them were wearing gray-colored reinforced clothing, but the two guys were of different ranks and were wearing slightly flashy black and green reinforced clothing.
“Major Leo. 8702 is…”
“Don’t worry. I’ve already heard from Captain Henry. I’ll leave this guy to you. We need to interrogate him, so we can’t kill him.”
“Thank you, Major.”
Is it my mistake to think that the black reinforcements and the green reinforcements are shaking when they see me?
“It’s the military’s reinforcements. What do you plan to do?”
The cloud asked me.
“Whatever I do, I have to deal with it quickly and move on.”
“… Processing it?”
“This guy is out of his league!! He’s a bastard! I’ve been waiting for this day.”
Of the two guys who were shaking at me, the green reinforced soldier stepped forward and spoke.
8702 is my prison number.
When I see you talking about me, I feel like you are a human who knows me.
“Who…?”
“Who is it?! Wow! This guy doesn’t even notice me!”
The green reinforcements make a sudden advance.
His numbing anger reaches here.
Of course I was dumbfounded.
“Are you crazy? How do I know you?”
The guy was wearing a full body armored suit, so I couldn’t even see his face. As if he knew what I was thinking, the visor of his helmet turned transparent.
“Hmm…?”
Looking at its distorted face, something seems familiar. Still, I couldn’t remember clearly.
〈 mine. Don’t you know? 〉
“Ah…”
I remembered the hint of the word mine in Cosmos. He was the one who tried to trap me in the magic stone mine of Karaz and became the monster’s food.
Did you say his name was… Dwight?
‘I think I saw the leg being eaten…’
But for some reason, it is alive.
“I’ll teach you a bone-chilling story about why you shouldn’t go against the military.”
-Slap!
Dwight swung his arm, and a long baton was placed in his hand. It looks like a weapon hidden in a reinforced suit.
“Could it be… Are you challenging me to a fight?”
“Eight-seven balls. Make the mistake. A match with a worthless guy like you? This is punishment.”
“…?”
His learning ability was miserable.
If you suffered that much, wouldn’t you have noticed?
It’s not for me.
Are you mistakenly thinking that you experienced such a situation because of the magical power suppression device?
Dwight’s confidence was absurd, but he decided to give it a clean finish considering his past relationship.
“Duh!!”
Dwight lunges at me with a face full of anger.
I lightly took a step forward with my left foot.
The ground caves in with that light step.
He extended his fist towards the guy.
With the heavy sound of cutting through the wind, the fist was aimed at the guy’s heart.
Feeling scared, Dwight quickly moved his body back and dodged the punch.
But, that was all.
– Quad deuk!!
The shock wave that exploded from the tip of my fist swept through his upper body. No, he was crushed.
Originally, the shock wave alone would not have been enough destructive force to kill Dwight, who was wearing a reinforced suit.
But I focused on that shock wave and increased its destructive power.
“Stupid. If you had watched it three times, even a fool would have understood the theme.”
Dwight didn’t listen to my advice.
-Hood!
The crushed remains of Dwight pour down on the reinforcements. And Dwight’s lower body, which had been standing shabby since his upper body flew off, fell forward.
The atmosphere froze at the sight of Dwight ending his life in vain.
