Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 425

Chapter. 19. Game of tag (6)

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Wiiing- Wiiing-

『Don’t be afraid to send out alarms in every alley! This is the one who betrayed Sir Tachelm!』

『Two riflemen and one flamethrower! Block the passage and let the rest follow! You couldn’t have gone that far!』

The alley was noisy with the noise of the Wiggen guards and the detection equipment they spread everywhere.

The large city of Wigen, worthy of its name, provided expensive equipment and consumables to the guards, and thanks to this, the guards who received word from Tachelm were narrowing the siege by distributing magical engineering equipment through the complex passageways.

“Thanks to you, escaping became much easier. “Isn’t that right, uncle?”

“Oops! Shut up….”

Shake it off!

Unfortunately, they did not achieve the results they spent.

“Hmm hmm hmm~”

Clutch clatter-

“Let’s see… two throwable echolocators and two cans of flamethrower mixed fuel. “Wow, you have some money?”

“Lord Hyde! Now is the time to empty the security guard’s pockets! “If you have escaped, you must run away immediately!”

“Please have something. I lost one big thing today, so I need to make up for it like this. Is this something we can’t ignore as regular security equipment for big cities? The secondary armament is a regular pike… Oh! There’s a dagger with a magic stone tip, right? Look at this. “This alone is worth 20,000 shillings?”

“What if I just mess around and get caught by the detector! Why were you able to get away without getting caught in the first place? “The entire passageway was already in range of the detector!”

“Is that because you have this?”

To Pablo, who was fidgeting, Hyde held up a stick that looked similar to the one hanging on the guard’s belt.

An object that serves as a kind of identification tag for magic engineering detectors.

“Is that also from that all-purpose bag? “Like before?”

“no. The detector tags used by the city guard are renewed periodically, so anything you get from outside is useless. Rather, it becomes a target with an unregistered signal.”

“then….?”

“I stole it. Earlier, when the distance between me and that stone knight had narrowed significantly. The guards going over there must be running towards that stone knight walking leisurely without a dog tag right now. “The Shard Knights are just doing their job and being indifferent to the rest, so even if that guy’s detector goes out on his own, no one will suspect anything.”

Pablo was stunned to see Hyde giggling and even checking the inside of the unconscious guard’s underwear.

No, you were thinking of stealing that at the moment you were caught in a nobleman’s trap?

Crunchy Crunch-

“….Can I write it as habitual kleptomania?”

“This is the path I pursue. When looking for a way out, you have to put all the possibilities within your reach into your pocket. “You never know when and where you might need a key item, right?”

Hyde threw the now naked guard into a corner and finished by tying his dog tag around the neck of a passing rat.

“If you’re not a fool, you’ll realize that we escaped by some means, and then Stone Knight’s next target will be that little friend going over there. Normally, this kind of detection equipment also tells the location of friendly forces, right? Just seeing a friend moving alone in a strange place is suspicious, right?”

“Ah, so I attacked that security guard on purpose…!” By now, all the guards outside will have joined the siege, so let’s go out. If you hurry, you will be able to escape from Wigen without any trouble. “Where can I go this way?”

“yes. You will come out on the other side of the station fence…”

“It’s perfect. After all, using Newsboy was the best way.”

Hyde smiled brightly as he saw the alley suddenly becoming brighter and the familiar fence appearing in front of him.

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The boy, Pablo, was struggling to understand the rapidly changing situation.

At dawn, I wore luxurious clothes that I had worn for the first time in my life and wandered around the station.

Around morning, I ate cheap soup with my courtesy ‘Mr. Hyde’ and was asked to guide him along the way. At lunch, I faced

the guns of refugees, and in the evening, I faced the guns of guards. came out

Clang!

“What are you doing? “I’ll catch you, so come over quickly!”

And now, as night was just beginning, I was looking at Mr. Hyde’s outstretched hand from the barbed wire of the station.

Of course, trespassing on a station is a serious crime. Just like climbing over the wall of an aristocratic family.

Clang!

thud!

“Uuuh….”

“You’re good at jumping, but your strength isn’t very good. Grow it in advance. Your body is your most trustworthy tool, right? Especially in urgent moments like this.”

“Ordinary people… are not often exposed to situations like this, right?”

“That’s like someone who lives and dies normally. “I’m not normal.”

While Pablo was patting his butt on the floor, Hyde, who was clinging to the window in the corner of the station, was squirming for a moment and was quickly tearing off the welded security window and gesturing to him.

“You’re not going to get paid? Since we arrived a little late, the drivers of the ‘Dynamite Lady’ are probably already drinking, and if I drop them in the meantime, they can drink with crooked noses just by reminiscing about what happened with me today. From there, gathering useful information is at your discretion.”

“Ah, conservative…. yes old! “I’m leaving now!”

repair. Yes, conservative. In return for providing directions, I decided to join the drivers’ drinking party. The story of train drivers overflowing with high-quality information. That was the price.

While Pablo was straightening his new clothes, which were already torn and covered in dust, Hyde continued talking as he headed down to the station’s basement.

“I’ll probably have to part ways here. They bought us some time in the alley earlier, but if they know we’ve completely escaped, they’ll find another way. It won’t go that far, but… if you’re really unlucky, you can blockade the city. If that happens, you will suffer dozens of times more than you did today, so you should get out there while you have time.”

Rustle rustle-

“Ah, pay for the clothes. “I probably would have put my mind to it, but I’m sorry for making you do that on the day you put on your new clothes.”

“Oh yeah. thank you.”

Pablo noticed a familiar money bag coming out of the guard’s pocket. Even if it is not heavy, the amount would be twice the cost of the clothes.

The underground garage of the station was as large as the size of a large city. Several trains were parked in a large, dark space, and in the distance, several people who had lit a bonfire in a corner could be seen tilting their leather bags.

“Then what are you going to do now, Mr. Hyde?”

“The dispatch ticket… hm? me? What’s a fragment hunter to do? I’m going to go hunting. “I unexpectedly got some valuable information, so I’m going to check it out.”

“Warlord… are you talking about?”

“Uh oh. Um… there are no trains leaving at this time. It’s ready…. Oh, is this it? Train directly under the Huigen family. The cargo is magic stones and magic stones… This is purely fuel and magic stones. This is the only thing put on the track in the direction of Roderick. “If it’s the 2-2 line, it’s over there.”

After checking the location of the train, Hyde put his hand inside his cloak up to his elbow. What came out with the unique coolness of the subspace pocket was a glass bottle with dark brown liquid flowing all the way to the neck of the bottle.

“Pablo, take this and go get your reward.”

“This….?”

“A very strong drink. I guess I’ll have to hijack a train in this town, right? If you just watch, you will be arrested as an accomplice, so tell this to my acquaintances over there, the drivers. Drink this and stretch out. “You join there too.”

“Do you even know how to drive a train?”

“It’s been several years since you freeloaded and became a handyman. There is probably no one who knows the various trains as thoroughly as I do. “That’s enough now, right?”

Hyde waved his hand as he boarded the flashy train that was clearly owned by a noble family at a glance.

For some reason, Pablo was hesitating with the strong drink he gave him.

At that sight, Hyde couldn’t help but sigh from deep in his heart.

‘….Just take it.’

When I faced the Stone Knight, I deliberately covered my face, and although I saw Pablo’s face in the refugee camp, I didn’t have to worry about being reported there.

You even deliberately gave me something to use as an alibi with a train driver you know.

Pablo, you guy, please.

“Uh… can I just watch the train start? “I’ve never seen the inside of a large magic train like this before.”

Ugh.

“…Okay. “If I have to do that.”

Hyde clicked his tongue and cleared the way for the boy who followed behind him.

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Squeak!

Pop! Pop! grasp!

Rumble! Teuong!

While Hyde was filling the coal, pouring in magic stones, and waking up the train’s engine, Pablo was watching quietly from behind him.

“Speaking of that warlord earlier….”

Squeak-

gurgling!

“I think that by now, part of the old Roderick region, perhaps more than half, may be outside the control of the nobles.”

“….”

“That’s right. The fact that it has been quiet until now but recently rumors have begun to leak out can be taken to mean that they no longer have the power to silence people. “Unlike here in Wigen, where information is still tied up tightly.”

“….”

-Growl!

Woo-woo-woo-

After lighting the fuel and pouring water into the tender, the engine started moving and the train was slowly gaining power.

“Mr. Hyde… you have a really good mind.” “You have good observation skills. Surprisingly, people forget more than 90% of what they see and hear. Dozens of people pass by each day, but we can’t remember all of their faces. “I have a habit of paying more attention to such trivial things and organizing them.”

….widely.

“For example?”

“For example? “Hmm, for example, the alley where I first met you is an alley that not many people walk by.”

Let’s go.

“Newsboys who are familiar with the city take the shortest route, so they never end up in such an alley by chance.”

Let’s go.

“I said I heard about the location of the refugee camp from Rodrik from a newsboy friend, but unless the guy who lives there goes crazy, there’s no reason to go around talking about it-”

Clap!

“When I first arrived at the refugee camp with you, the place where the people there looked at me before me, the faint coming and going of eyes, the familiarity of clearly pointing out urgent situations along a dirty, complicated road, the newsboy who went out little by little in advance as if he knew where to go in the refugee camp – the boy. “All the way to your toes.”

“…I did my best to hide it.”

“What you see changes depending on what you focus on. “It’s the same with the skinny boy’s thick, high-quality vest carrying a pistol, and this too.”

Palak!

Hyde looked back at Pablo’s gun pointed at his head and pulled out a small paper notebook from his sleeve.

A notebook filled with fine writing written in thin charcoal.

“…When did you steal that?”

“When leaving the back alley. Writing on a woodblock and writing on paper sound different. “I couldn’t help but wonder why a poor newsboy even bought expensive paper to write so hard.”

“…Mr. Hyde is kind. “He also tells me everything.”

“Oh, I have a habit of feeling better when I tell others the ins and outs of something.”

Seeing his leisurely appearance, the boy aimed the gun at his head and pressed it to his temple. The boy’s face, reflected in the shimmering engine light, was burning with anger that had built up nowhere.

“Is it you? In the old man’s story, a pregnant woman comes to the city with the Warlord as he promised. “One guardian, one child.”

….Wow.

“It was you who first brought up the rumor about Warlord. ‘They say he conquered the dungeon alone.’ ‘They said they didn’t sell a single fragment.’ If you are a fragment hunter, this is a story that is bound to be of interest. Moreover, since there are eyewitness reports that he landed near Rodrick, I can’t help but wonder about the story surrounding him and Rodrik.”

Rattling-

“It was strange. It was clearly the Warlord who killed all of the old man’s neighbors, but strangely enough, the old man’s anger was directed at me. He even seemed to be trying to hide it by pretending to be calm. Your mother… probably died in this city, right? Your father, who traveled in and out of the city, most likely died at the hands of a fragment hunter. Warlord is also a very sensitive person. In order to keep my promise to each child and adult, I decided to save your grandfather and give him a ticket to Wigen. is not it? Roderick from the refugee village-”

“Stop talking like you know everything!!!”

“-Pablo.”

Palak.

The boy’s notebook, fluttering in the heat of the engine, passed under the boy’s trembling muzzle.

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[Fragment Hunter Jade]

– Round tattoo on arm

– Taller than her father

– Dagger and arcane shooter

– People hunter active in the southwestern Teldrat region.

– He likes alcohol and women, and on the day he commits murder, he hugs women unconditionally.

– I’m going to kill you.

– I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you.

– The magazine said they would come to Wigen for this auction.

– With the money from selling his belongings, he prepared money for medicine and errands to give to a prostitute. It wasn’t difficult.

– Killed. The fragments were thrown away.

[Fragment Hunter Phil Norai]

– Uses a steel bow with a magic stone tip

– Famous for assassinating shard knights in training

– If you release a colorless fragment related to agility, there is a high probability that it will come to you.

– Lack of information

[Fragment Hunter Idaub Gel]

– Orc warrior.

– A tribalist who wants to kill humans under the pretext of hunting for shards.

– Planning to visit Wigen in the summer. Won’t they attack me if I’m alone in a dark alley?

– Killed him.

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“This is a great kill list. Does the future look promising? “Pablo.”

Everything organized in clear letters is the fragment hunter’s information and movement path weaknesses. And there is a small but clear record of their removal

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[Fragment Hunter Hyde]

– Asset owner. Wanderer

– Sword and armor? A believer in chivalry? Ownership of a rifle-type firearm

– Showed interest in Warlord’s information. Willing to hunt humans for shards

– very intelligent.

– I think I can borrow Stone Knight’s help.

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Hyde’s own information written on the top page.

“Buy a newspaper. It’s a good job. “This is especially true if the person you are blaming is from a specific profession scattered around the world and you want to find out their weaknesses.”

“You trashy human hunters… What’s the difference between you and the Warlord! “They’re all murderers who only see people as containers for debris!”

“….”

“Dad died right in front of Mom! On the day you went to the market to buy a present for my fifth birthday! They cut my dad’s body open in front of me and mom! Tear it! They pulled out fragments covered in blood and oil! “Leaving my father’s tattered corpse in front of us!”

It’s a common story. Rather than searching through ordinary mutes or human corpses to find fragments, it is much more efficient and profitable to catch a Shard Knight that has absorbed at least four or five of the lowest grade colorless fragments.

Perhaps the main character is the fragment hunter recorded on the first page of the notebook. An object that stands out for its disorder and emotional record, unlike what was recorded later.

Pablo seemed to have achieved satisfactory revenge, but the end of revenge did not mean the return of his dead parents, so his lost anger was directed at the shard hunters who hunted humans.

More thoroughly, as an orphan boy, he became a newsboy who could acquire information about the city and be familiar with the geography, in order to catch and kill the debris hunter.

“hey. “Pablo.”

“shut up.”

“Are you going to shoot me?”

“shut up!”

“really? If you pull that trigger, ‘Hyde’s’ head will be blown to pieces before your eyes?”

“shut up! shut up! “Shut up!”

Pablo strengthened his fingers, but was unable to pull them back easily. The notebook in Hyde’s hand felt like a pistol aimed at his head.

“Drop the gun.”

“Uuuuu….”

“If you do that, I’ll throw this away. “Let’s say it’s a simple barter exchange.”

Pablo watched as his notebook of resentments and his murder list headed toward the engine’s flames.

Information on the enemy that I desperately gathered while working as a newsboy.

A notebook containing fragmentary information about all fragment hunters active in the vast old Teldrat region.

The only driving force that brought his already broken life to this point.

“No…”

Hyde was clearly a good person.

It was cheerful, sly, shockingly witty, and yet somehow immature.

A person who strangely enjoys just being around someone.

“They deserve to die…”

My dad, who was torn alive before my eyes, was also a good person.

My mother, who was unable to wake up due to shock, was also a good person.

The grandfather who came to Pablo’s side from outside the peaceful city to this hellish city is also a good person.

good people.

People who have to die horribly at the hands of bad people at any time.

Pablo couldn’t bear to see any more of that.

Just like my grandfather. What if my grandfather becomes like that? What if the bad world tore my good grandfather to pieces so cruelly before my eyes…?

“I can’t go back.”

Pablo, who had only thought about killing people in recent years, was aware that he was no different from those ‘bad people’.

Sometimes I dreamed of putting a gun to my head and pulling it. Towards a disgusting bad person. Just as I dreamed.

So, one more thing before that.

“There is no way back.”

Kiririk –

The boy’s trigger was pulled towards the man who was so kind.

Taaang –

the boy thought as he watched the shock running up his young arms and Hyde’s head falling as if it were breaking.

It was as if the gun was stuck in my hand.

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Seueuugh-

“So you mean you have the intention to go back? It’s because you don’t know the way.”

“He was alive like this-”

Wow!

“Aaaah!”

Pathfinder, whose forehead was torn apart by a narrowly avoided bullet, laughed as he broke the wrist of the boy holding the gun.

“So you are my guest?”

Brightly, as if to commemorate finding the exit of a road that was as complicated as this city.

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