Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 23

EP.23 Bad Dog

When I threw the pot at the regressor yesterday, the pot, which should have been full of stew, was empty inside. Someone had eaten all the stew in the pot before I arrived.

Two prime suspects. A child or something hiding in a restaurant.

However, the existence hiding in the restaurant was a golem, and the golem does not eat food. Naturally, one suspect disappeared, so it is now clear who the culprit is.

Aji, who was being questioned by me, widened his eyes and shouted. how is it Were you surprised?

“Have you finished eating?! You alone?!”

“You ate!”

“no! bruise! don’t eat me! Hungry but wait! Eat together!”

Despite my fierce questioning, Aji denied it to the end. Even in the situation where the culprit was confirmed, even my cool-headed reason was shaken at the sight of him insisting on his innocence.

really isn’t it? Or are you stubborn because you are a dog, forgetting the disadvantages? Mind reading doesn’t work, so I really don’t know. If it was a human being, I would have known right away whether it was true or a lie.

But other non-mind readers, other than me, live a long life without knowing the truth. When someone tells a lie, it is evidence or a witness, so you find it and draw an accurate conclusion in your own way. Let’s follow their way for today.

“Anyway, check it out and you’ll find out. Captain Abbey! Were you at the restaurant last night?”

“Positive. The main building has been accessing and collecting information on this object since around 4:00 yesterday.” “

Then, did you see the person who stole the stew from the pot yesterday?”

『Yes.』

“Okay. Enter confirmation. Salty jjarajan.”

I hummed and grabbed the golem’s armpit. For some reason, it seems that the golem’s microphone came out with a haha.

Holding the golem from behind, I looked around and said,

“Captain Abbey. Please choose here. The culprit who crawled out of the dark like a rat last night and ate the stew in the pot!”

Now indeed. Who will the golem’s finger point to? There won’t be too many directions to point to. about one?

The golem slowly raised a finger. I looked with anticipation to the future that cold steel would show.

The golem’s hand pointed in my direction.

what?

“Was it me?!”

oh my god. A twist that a detective story should never do! real me? What did my subconscious do?

“denial. I didn’t mean you.”

The golem shook his head and raised his finger again. Looking at it now, the golem’s finger was slightly out of my way. I slightly twisted my head, and the damage did not follow.

Wanting something, I walked little by little along the golem’s fingers as if looking for a water vein. Each time, the direction the golem is pointing changes slightly. As I groped for it, changing my direction from time to time, I finally saw an iron stopper with dense holes drilled at the end of it and a drain hole beyond it. It was a drain through which water flowed when disposing of leftover food.

It seems a bit narrow for people to enter. I looked down at the golem with a feeling of hopelessness.

“… in this. Is there someone who stole your food?”

“That’s right.”

“Are there even rats inside?”

『This is Woomun. There are no ground beasts or insects on Tantalus.”

“Yes. There is no mold here. Damn it…”

A land that was cursed by the Earth Mother and could not be invaded by the workers of the Earth Mother. Because of that, of course, I was sure that I hadn’t stolen the food. Because the only living beings in the abyss were me, Aji, and the regressors. Among them, the most greedy and stupid dog would have suspected anyone but me as the first priority.

In addition, I read the thoughts and found out that the regressor did not eat. All clues, including the elimination method and the empirical estimation method, pointed to Aji.

But the third person is the culprit? It was a very unexpected result.

Come to think of it, I heard faint thoughts in the restaurant last time, right? At that time, I passed it inadvertently, but the clue was already given. You’re right in thinking there’s something else on Tantalus.

Anyway, the past is the past. The important thing now is to decide what to do next. I don’t want to disturb the beehive, but if you’re going to deal with it, it’s better to use your hands now that Aji is around. If this is a monster, it would be impossible for me alone.

Dogs have been man’s old friends when danger lies ahead.

“Ah.”

“bruise!”

“There’s a guy down here who stole your food and my food.”

“Woof woof! It was bad!”

“Was it bad? So take it out and let’s mess it up. Can you take some out?”

I’m scared to take it out myself, so I’ll have to ask Aji. Dogs are man’s best friend.

Aji came to my side. But instead of digging the drain right away, he looked up at me with a disgruntled expression.

“But you were worse! I didn’t eat! I waited patiently, but he got mad because I ate it!”

ah. I remember that. I was hoping you forgot, but you don’t seem to be that stupid. Dogs seemed to have better memories than goldfish.

Still, Aji is the dog king. A being that can be persuaded by words. Like a dog, I’ll roast and boil it with my rhetoric.

“Ah. does that matter now? We have common enemies. A real thief who stole our food.”

“bruise! I didn’t eat!”

“okay. I’m sorry for doubting you. first.”

“bruise! I didn’t eat!”

“Yes, yes. I’m sorry. Let’s be friends from now on.”

“Woof woof! Didn’t eat! But I screamed that I ate it! angry! Not friendly!”

“That’s Aji.”

“It was bad! bruise! bad!”

“…”

Whoa. can’t help it

It is a self-inflicted disaster. you’ll have to pay the price

I went back to my room and took out a leather ball after a long time. The leather ball had already been blown out and flimsy after not taking care of it for several days.

after. He let out a long sigh and raised his left arm straight up. He tapped rhythmically from the elbow to the wrist with his right finger. When the promised somatic was fulfilled, the wretched body squeezed out mana and pushed it up with its left arm.

“I never thought the day would come when I suggested playing ball first. human figure. But remember mutt. I was defeated, not humans.”

Mana gathers. The mana that had spread throughout my body traveled through my veins and headed to the fingers of my left hand. I feel the omnipotence that I can achieve anything at my fingertips. At the same time, the limits of this omnipotence are visible. I also feel the regret that the sense of omnipotence will also end if this small amount of mana, which can fill only one finger, is used up.

Why do I have so little magic power? With a grunt, he put his fingers into the ball and chanted a 0-level ritual magic spell.

A level 0 magic spell that causes the phenomenon of bursting air itself.

“pascal.”

With a pop, the leather was pulled tight and the ball swelled up. A ball made by stitching small pieces on the inside and large pieces on the outside inflates at once so that air does not escape through the cracks. I removed my finger, sealed the hole with alchemy, picked it up again, and headed for the dining room.

There, Aji, whose eyes sparkled more than ever, put her front paws on the desk and twirled her tail furiously. He was excited to see the leather ball.

I said while holding up the leather ball.

“Can we play ball?”

“Woof woof! Delicious rice too!”

“okay. I’ll make it delicious.”

“Aww! good! good! you are nice Be nice now!”

“Now then, take out what’s inside.”

Aji nodded, ran straight to the drain, and squeezed it in like a dog digging the ground with its front paws. Aji, who had scratched the floor a few times, pulled his butt all the way out and buried his head halfway into the drain before finally grabbing something.

One arm severed below the elbow.

one leg.

Big hands this time.

And the last thing Ahji took out, whimpering, was a large torso with only one arm and one leg.

A short beard and hair on a muscular body that looked harder than a golem. It looked like a famous martial artist, but the appearance of it with its arms and legs falling off one by one was devastating. In cross section, clear muscles stand out.

“Wow.”

Nausea comes out. That’s not a human being.

Sections are neat. Looking at the twisted traces, it seems that a giant giant grabbed and broke the limbs as if playing with a toy, but no blood oozes out and the bones are intact, so I wonder if it is a well-made human body model. It is a gruesome figure with limbs removed, but there is not a single bloodstain on the copper-colored skin, making one wonder if he is really dead. But since I can’t hear a single thought, it seems certain that he’s dead.

It must have been attacked by someone who threw the body away and then threw it into the drain. He endured for several days with his strong vitality, but in the end, he must have died lonely in a place where no one was looking for him.

“oh my. How did he change his name in a place like this…”

It seems that the thoughts I heard then were the last words of my life. I’m sorry but I can’t help it. I raised my severed right arm, intending to bury this dismembered body. It’s a land cursed by the Earthmother, but it’s better to be buried…

I grabbed my right arm, and the right arm also grabbed me.

uh.

la?

“Quaaaaaagh!”

I was so startled that I tried to throw my right arm away. However, the right hand that held me held so much strength that it swayed along with my hand and did not fall off.

This much strength even with a crazy severed arm? If I was in a normal state, I would have bent my arm with just my grip.

This is not the time. I flipped the other palm over and took out the card I had hidden. A strong and resilient playing card made by densely squeezing metal with diamond 1 alchemy.

I put that thin card between the fingers holding me. With a slight twist, the fingers slide off. After shaking it off one by one from the possession to the middle finger, I was able to finally remove my right arm and throw it.

“Heh heh heh. Huh Eok. What is that?”

The right arm, which fell to the floor, tried to crawl on the floor with only its fingers, but eventually stopped as if it had exhausted its strength. In front of the gore beyond horror, I gasped for breath.

I asked the golem, who was staring at his right arm indifferently, to see if he already knew.

“Captain Abbey. What is that?”

『A right arm that moves even if it is cut off. It is presumably of the undead race.”

“Is that also a trainee?”

“That’s right. When the prison break occurred, he was seen being killed by another trainee, but it seems that he did not die due to his immortality. To be able to revive from such a wound, I must raise my evaluation one notch.

” You were surprised!”

Aji is curiously tapping her right arm. Every time his right arm squirmed, he would back away in a fit of rage, then return when it was quiet again. I pushed Aji away and carefully lifted my right arm and placed it under the elbow of the corpse.

The sections fit perfectly, but they didn’t stick together. The right arm was separated and acting independently as if it were a completely separate entity.

oh my god. A right arm that moves by itself.

“So that right-hand man ate the stew?”

“Positive. In order to heal the body that fell into suspended animation, he instinctively went out in search of food.”

“What? that is. scared.”

Now the severed hand is said to move on its own. The real Tantalus has all kinds of monsters.

The golem looked at me and asked.

“What do you want to do?”

“What?”

『The immortal race.』

“That one? What do you do with that?”

At my nervous question, the golem turned its head and stared me in the eye. A cold light drifted from the crystal ball, which was inorganic, no, inorganic itself.

『The headmaster suggests to you how to eliminate the undead race before they are revived.』

Yes?