Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 202



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The Regressor’s Notepad 202

Encounter (3)

I looked inside from the cave entrance. Belmore’s weapons, then and now, were eight hatchets.

Whirlyrick────!

Belmore threw six hatchets into the air. They flew like trained falcons and cut down the enemy.

──!

However, the opponent is also a formidable werewolf.

The bastard knocked away all the hatchets with his claws. Kwak-kwak! He kicked the pavement and rushed at Belmore. The wolf’s force caused rocks to fly.

Chaeng───!

Belmore swung the hatchet he held in both hands.

Chaeng chaeng chaeng───!

Claws and axes clashing. The sound of metal grinding. Sparks flying brightly.

They exchanged dozens of points in an instant, but suddenly the wolf stretched out his leg and struck Belmore in the stomach.

─Ugh!

The werewolf simply jumped and chased after the bouncing Belmore.

Belmore concentrated his magical power into his hatchet and fired it. The wolf crossed his claws and cut it off.

Kwaaaa …

The axe exploded. Magic particles instantly covered the inside of the cave, and a crimson flame erupted. A high-temperature fog rose, scorching the inside.

Thanks to this, the situation can no longer be observed even with the SZX-9500.

Chaeng─! Chaeng─!

All I can hear is the sound of the battle still going on.

I ran there.

We quickly arrived at the battlefield, but the situation was already over.

Belmore fainted.

The werewolf across from him was also nearly exhausted.

Probably, if I didn’t intervene here, Belmore would die.

It’s a chance to blow your nose without using your hands… … .

The death of a comrade is a negative factor in my career, because it is half a mission failure.

“… … .”

I saw the fallen Belmore.

This guy still has some utility.

… … Krrrrrr.

The werewolf let out a low, sooty howl.

“Why did you kidnap me?”

I asked the bastard. The werewolf took a step forward without saying a word. Blood flowed from the ear that had been cut off by the hatchet.

I said it again.

“… …Your comrade is alive.”

At that moment, the bastard trembled.

“Do you want to kill your comrades too?”

───!

The bastard lunged at me, howling. I prepared my “Sword of Absolute Destruction.” The “First Sword” would be enough for the exhausted wolf.

However, he did not draw his sword. He just struck the bastard’s body with the sword in its sheath.

Taaak───!

There was a dull crack. The werewolf that had been hit in the ribs was thrown back and buried in the wall.

I looked at the guy.

“It seems like there is no reinforcements. Was it just you and your companions from the beginning?”

The bastard responded with just one word.

─Kill him.

“I heard your colleague is someone’s ‘fortune teller’.”

─… … .

“If you don’t speak out, your comrades will die.”

─… … It’s just the two of us.

I nodded.

“The reason you kidnapped the collateral branch is because she noticed your existence?”

─… … Okay.”

Sonya, the collateral line.

She, who would later be recognized as Zia’s second-in-command, would still be under the eldest son, Jedrick.

“How did you know that the collateral line knew of your existence?”

─… … .

Then the guy shut his mouth.

Maybe you heard it from someone.

To insiders who resent Sonya’s business, or traitors who pity the werewolf.

─Kill him.

The guy closed his eyes, as if he had no intention of saying anything more.

I was worried.

Werewolves live in hiding, knowing that human society fears them.

The age of the werewolf was so long that it is now considered a semi-legend on the continent.

Werewolves resemble wolves. They are feared by those who do not know them, but in fact they are the truest beasts of all.

It was Libra who forcibly dragged them out, and it was Libra who forcibly accepted them.

“… … There is a hideout to the east, in the midst of a cascading waterfall on a cliff.”

At that moment, the werewolf’s eyes opened again.

─… … That bastard!

He moved his body almost as if he was having a seizure.

“Don’t worry.”

I thought about it for a moment.

Was it the werewolf named ‘Weber’ who killed me before I returned?

Or maybe it’s a tribe called ‘werewolves’.

Or maybe it’s ‘Libra’.

“No one knows about it yet.”

There is no correct answer.

However, it is certain that the wolf pack is not at fault.

“Do you want to live? With the crowd.”

I asked him.

He didn’t answer, but I continued speaking calmly.

“There is still a way.”

Perhaps it is an offer you can’t refuse.

* * *

Libra’s third-ranking collateral line, Sonnet Reveal.

AKA ‘Sonya’.

She is a young woman in her mid-20s who contributed to Jedrick’s rise to the position of first successor.

He is the person who designed and completed the ‘Libra Industrial Complex’ to reduce the number of subcontractors, gather production plants in one place, and place various affiliates nearby so that they can work closely together in order to escape the inefficiency unique to the Libra defense industry. He is also a businessman who submitted a plan to abolish the Libra Orphanage and transform it into an economic zone.

what.

She, who has accomplished so many things, is now running away with a limp.

“… …Fuck my leg.”

He has already relinquished his title as the youngest executive director.

Although he called it a ‘new challenge’, it was actually because of Jedrick’s order to ‘leave the clan and look for something that could be used as a weapon’.

At the end of the succession dispute, armed conflict will inevitably occur.

This is such a crappy way to treat a public servant.

“Ugh… … Huh.”

Thanks to that, she is going down the mountain almost dragging her legs.

The chasers may win or lose, so they are trying to escape alone.

at that time.

“Where are you going?”

“!”

Suddenly, a voice was heard from behind her. Flurrr── Sonya’s entire body trembled as if she had been shocked. She trembled and fell forward with a crash.

“… … Keuk!”

“Are you okay?”

I looked back in that direction hurriedly. I saw the man with mud-covered eyes.

A man carrying a man on his shoulders.

“This is Zion Ascal.”

“……phew.”

Sonya breathed a sigh of relief.

“Please wait a moment.”

He suddenly lifted the ground with his magical powers. He created a coffin-like ‘cave’ and placed Belmore inside.

Sonya asked blankly.

“Are you dead?”

“No. If you leave him here, he will wake up on his own. His injuries are not life-threatening.”

“Is it “Spectrum”?”

“Please lift me up first.”

He bent down on one knee and exposed his back to me.

“… … .”

It’s a little humiliating, but it can’t be helped given the circumstances.

Sonya climbed onto his back.

“I will go.”

“Yeah, F*ck. My legs won’t move. I already get teased for being a collateral, and now they’re going to call me a collateral cripple.”

“… … It will be fine if you heal it.”

“No. My body knows. I missed the golden time.”

“… … But. More than that.”

He asked as he went down the mountain.

“It’s a werewolf. Did you know?”

“Oh. I found it recently.”

Werewolves are a significant force. If you can just bring them under Jedrick’s command, you can train them for just three years, and they can crush Jahanna, whether they’re Balancers or whatever.

“I found them by chance. I don’t know where they’re hiding yet… … They’re a species that can be used as weapons. It all depends on whose hands they fall into. Which side are you on?”

“I serve the youngest, Jia.”

“… …The youngest? Jia?”

“yes.”

Sonya smiled faintly.

“Are you a guy without ambition, or is your ambition so great that it’s unspeakable?”

He didn’t answer. I couldn’t see his face well because he was on my back.

Jeokbuk─ Jeokbuk─

When we got a little way down the mountain path, he opened his mouth again.

“Why is the werewolf going that way-”

“Call me Sonya.”

“Could they have kidnapped Miss Sonya?”

“What the heck? The information was leaked.”

As soon as Sonya discovered the werewolf, she reported it to Jedrick.

As luck would have it, the werewolves attacked the very next week.

It means there is a traitor who leaked the information.

The most likely candidate is, of course, the eldest daughter, Jahanna, who is wary of her eldest son, Jedrick’s power.

“Where are you from? What’s your name?”

“This is Zion Ascal. Edsilla National Magic-”

“No. Of course it would be a national university. Other than that, you mean a different one. If you’re going to be a Chaser, you’d probably have some kind of connection to Libra.”

“I’m from Libra Orphanage.”

“nursery school?”

“……yes.”

“okay?”

Sonya glanced at him, her expression slightly puzzled.

As he said,

“I can see the city now.”

We left the border and a quiet city came into view.

“Hey… … Hey.”

Sonya nodded, then hesitated and pointed somewhere.

“Over there. I’ll stop by.”

At the place where that finger touched, there was a store called [Candy Bar].

* * *

[Candy Bar]

As soon as Sonya came in, she swept up the chocolate. I watched her quietly. I thought it would go well with Gerken.

“Don’t you eat candy?”

Sonya turned around quickly.

“Do you like that kind of thing?”

“No. It’s the same thing.”

“I. am not alone.”

She fluttered, clutching the edge of the chocolate.

“I like this.”

“Yes. There is not much time. The pursuers may be on their way.”

“Draw, draw.”

Sonya placed the chocolates on the counter.

“We need to find the insider quickly and punish him.”

I didn’t show much reaction to Sonya’s words.

betrayer.

The insider she thinks of is, as she expected, ‘Jahanna’. Sonya, who raised Jedrick to the top, would be an obstacle to Jahanna.

However, surprisingly, Jedrick was not active in saving her.

“But you two came alone?”

Maybe Sonya knows too.

If I had been proactive, I would have put in a balancer.

“Yes. Don’t worry. I will protect you.”

“… … .”

Jedrick hates the number two. So while he pretends to treat you well on the outside, he’s probably trying to figure out how to get rid of you on the inside.

To put it simply, it is a case of a landslide.

Sonya, who was abandoned and abandoned like this, ends up joining hands with Zia.

“It’s 530 yen in total.”

The counter said.

“uh…….”

Sonya searched her pockets. There was no cash, of course, and she turned to me. I shrugged.

“I don’t have any money either. Please use a certified check.”

I took a notebook out of my pocket and tore out a page.

“Okay. Hey. Do you have a pen?”

Sonya asked the counter.

“Oh, that trauma… … ”

“It’s not a trauma. It’s Libra.”

“… … .”

Sonya snatched the pen from the counter’s chest. With it, she wrote a certified check in her notebook and signed it.

Before she paid for it at the counter, I accepted it first.

and……

[As the third bloodline of Libra and a blood relative living in the Hanging Gardens, I guarantee payment of 530 Ren.]

[Sonnet Reveal]

I “remembered” her handwriting and signature.

I hope she becomes Libra’s enemy. I hope she bounces off Libra.

Because you shouldn’t be Jia’s number two.

Because I have to be Jia’s number two.

So, we’ll start designing today.

I handed the check back to the cashier.

“Please accept it. You can pay at a nearby Libra bank and receive it.”

The counter looked suspicious, but had no choice but to accept it.

Chi-chik- Chi-chik-

Then suddenly the lights went out. Crackle- crackle- a strange sound came from the filament, and the silhouette of a wolf appeared on the distant hill beyond the window.

“It seems like a tracker.”

“Ah, shit.”

Kanya frowned as she took a bite of the chocolate.

“Do you have any tea?”

I asked the counter. The counter answered with a cold sweat.

“There is, but… … .”

“Miss Sonya, let’s just pay for the tea.”

“Oh shit. Okay, I get it.”

Sonya wrote one more sentence on my notebook page.

“Thirty thousand renminbi. Take it. Where are the car and the car keys?”

“In the back parking lot… … .”

The counter clerk pointed to the back door.

“What about the car keys?”

“Hey, here-”

I snatched the car keys that the employee had taken out. As I was about to go out, Sonya called out to me.

“You have to take some chocolate too!”

“……yes.”

I slung the bundle of chocolates over my shoulder, left the store, opened the car door, and shoved the bundle into the backseat.

“Oh, shit! This piece of shit costs 30,000 Ren, and it’s not even worth 10,000 Ren?”

First, Sonya, who was in the passenger seat, looked around the car’s garbage-like interior and expressed her anger.

“Let’s say it’s a special situation. And.”

I picked Sonya up in a flash and placed her in the driver’s seat.

“You go first. I will stop the pursuer.”

“……what?”

“You can’t avoid him by car. So I’m going to buy him some time. Can you drive? Or maybe you can drive with both feet-”

“One-foot driving, you punk!”

“That’s fortunate.”

I closed the car door.

Sreung─ He pulled out the sword at his waist.

“Go.”

“… Are you really okay?”

Sonya looked a little strange beyond the window.

“It’s okay. I just serve Libra.”

“I’m a collateral person, Inma.”

“It’s the same.”

“……what?”

Sonya looked at me with a slightly furrowed brow.

“Even the collateral lineage, to me, it is Libra with Libra’s blood mixed in.”

“… … That’s a dangerous statement.”

Sonya has probably been discriminated against as a collateral until now. It’s not just Sonya. Libra’s collaterals are practically treated as slaves by their direct line. Even more so than outsiders.

“Go.”

“… … Okay. I’ll see you when I get back. You remembered my face.”

It was a compliment that felt like a threat.

Boooo …

She stepped straight on the accelerator and glided away through the darkness.

Immediately after that.

Kwaaaa …

A werewolf fell from the air.

─Ugh!

Sonya’s last words, softly flowing from afar.

Her car roared and sped on, and I reached out my sword at him. He blocked it with his claws.

Chaeaeaaeng───!

The sound of swords clashing. One loud ringing.

We looked at each other, our weapons facing each other.

─… … .

“… … .”

Stay in that position for about a minute.

─… … What should I do now?

The wolf asked back.

I sheathed my sword and took a step back.

“Let’s just pretend to grumble.”

─Okay.

The werewolf accepted my offer.

Up until now, it was a play to build ‘trust’ with Sonya.