EP.173
There is a small and dirty restaurant on the outskirts of Taboo District 13.
The cold-eyed owner is sharpening his knife so that he can cook at any time, but the dusty table and the mold plastered instead of the greased plate wallpaper make even zero-level citizens who don’t care about hygiene turn away. At this level, it is no different from a barrier to pursue customers.
What is the owner cooking? Why are only the blades sharpened in this filthy place?
A customer came in after a long time to a secluded store whose existence itself was questionable.
It was evident that he was from another district. The man wore a straight shirt with a tie and a luxurious hat slightly lifted. A woman in a straw hat walked in lightly after him.
Men and women who were relatively well-dressed were taken aback when they saw dirty walls and dusty tables the moment they entered the store.
“Uh… Rain, is this the right place?”
The woman who came along followed me with a hard expression on her face.
“Yes… no, it is. Bon… As far as I know, I’ve heard that this is a crowded restaurant.”
“Isn’t it wrong? I came here because it was a restaurant where two people in District 13 were eating and would not know even if they died. Isn’t this a restaurant where the two of you will die of food poisoning while eating?”
“You’re talking too much!”
When the customer didn’t even come in and was just snooping around the shop, the owner nervously banged his knife.
The man flinched greatly. The owner looked at the man through his messy hair and said.
“Can you do anything?”
The man who had lost his spirit stuttered.
“What’s the best seller over there?”
The owner showed this and smiled. A few were missing, revealing sparse teeth.
“steak. Blood dripping.”
“Hey.”
The male side seemed to read the atmosphere better. The man with a frightened expression quickly grabbed the woman’s wrist. Seeing the host’s notice, they hesitantly withdrew.
“Excuse me! I’ll come next time!”
“Sure.”
Even though I missed a guest who hadn’t come in a long time, the host didn’t look sad at all.
Because this restaurant is not actually a restaurant.
‘Someone crawls into a place like this. But I’m aware of it, so it’s less of a hassle.’
Restaurants are, at least, the most visible stores in the military. It’s also a place where you won’t be suspicious even if a stranger visits.
That’s why organizations created junctions masquerading as restaurants. To assemble when members of an organization contact each other or when there is an emergency.
‘I can’t make troublesome things today. It’s a good thing you didn’t get rid of the body…’
The owner opened the warehouse door. Instead of food ingredients, a black space and wooden stairs leading down appeared.
Until the shadow overthrows the kingdom and takes over the back alleys. Only a few days left. Being only a low-level man, he doesn’t know when the execution date will be, but he is ready to overthrow the country if ordered.
A dangerous smile appeared on the owner’s lips…
“That’s right. A tangent place.”
Coming out of the store, I muttered as I took off my hat. The captain also nodded.
“There were suspicious circumstances. A strange flow of population was observed in an alley where there should not be much flow. At certain times of the day, groups of people would visit the store at regular intervals.”
The other side must have made a contact paper in a quiet back alley to avoid suspicion in its own way. Pretending to be a bad restaurant.
But they wouldn’t know.
military communications officer. There was an existence that could access the golems hidden throughout the city and look down at the city like the palm of your hand. For them, a quiet alley was easier to watch than a crowded street.
…Well, the reason they couldn’t open a restaurant on the main street was because they didn’t have enough money.
They are not stupid. I didn’t know either.
The existence of a communications soldier and the fact that the military is such a crazy country.
“Captain Pip is really great. Pinpoint a suspicious place among the many alleys in the military.”
I read thoughts. Even the ugly secrets that you have to carry to the grave reveal your vulgar nakedness in front of me. Even a secret agent who endures all the tortures in the world can dig up the inside by just passing by, so human depth is meaningless to me.
However, if the person itself is superficial, then I become very useless.
okay. For example.
Especially in this militarized country where people are accustomed to part roles.
“The shadows of the military are a point organization with no one to know each other, so I was having a hard time finding them. No matter how much I shake it, I don’t know anything about it, so it doesn’t taste good. If it wasn’t for the beep, I wouldn’t have found this place.”
“denial. The idiom is excessive. The main building just did what it had to do.”
“It’s a compliment because you did a good job. It’s a feat to figure out the contact point on the first try.”
I can’t really dig deep like I do, but the ability to detect that covers such a wide range is definitely a power that I don’t have. The captain who does it again is great.
At my praise, the captain grabbed the brim of the straw hat he was wearing and muttered as he lowered it.
“…denial.”
‘…It’s too much praise. This is the first time the head officer has been praised for his work.
Although he did not reveal it outwardly, the captain was deeply moved. Excited, the captain strode ahead with a step full of enthusiasm.
“We will head to the next suspicious location. Please follow me.”
However, the next suspicious place the captain found was a restaurant that was famous as a good restaurant in the back alleys of District 13.
What comforted the discouraged captain was the special menu proposed by the kind owner. The captain glared at another taste and emptied the two plates.
The shadow of the military is more like an octopus hanging in clusters using only the tail of a lizard as bait, rather than a dotted organization.
When some of the ‘Shadows of the Kingdom’, the main body, show their strength, street bullies flock to them. Then the shadows entice the bullies with sweet words.
Let’s join forces together.
Let’s turn this terrible country upside down.
When I rule the back alleys, I will entrust this area to you.
Bullies who don’t know anything believe this word iron-stone. It was impossible not to believe because the ‘shadow’ would kill the bullies who did not believe and rebelled.
Bullies or hoodlums or low-class people believe in them and follow them without knowing where to go to meet who the shadow is.
Proud of the fact that they belonged to such a dangerous organization.
“Tsk. I don’t see any clues here either. The tangent place is correct, but there are only real places.”
Mind-reading information was obtained at each contact point that could be seen, but no useful information came out.
Because everyone here was a horse to be used once and thrown away, and at the same time, like a lizard’s tail, it was just a bait that could be cut off at any time.
The captain muttered as he organized the information he had obtained.
“More than 20 contact points alone. Estimated mobilization force of about 400 people… If we count the meeting places that the main building failed to discover and their main body, the ‘shadow’, it is expected that there will be more than 1,000 people.”
If a commotion caused by a thousand gangsters all at once is at the level of a riot, even if it is not a rebellion. I trembled at the enormous scale.
“A commotion caused by a thousand people at the same time. If other disaffected guys join it, it’s more than just a riot, right? Isn’t it really a big deal?”
“denial. It seems unlikely that this situation will grow beyond a certain point.”
However, the captain flatly denied it. The fact that up to a thousand outlaws were rioting throughout the capital did not alarm the signalman.
I asked.
“why? If you use the power of the military police, you can slaughter a thousand people at once?”
“I agree with your statement itself, but that is not the reason. I don’t know if a thousand people can cause a commotion at the same time as you say… because they don’t have the ability.”
“If it’s ability, what is organizational power?”
“Positive.”
After thinking for a while, the captain explained to me while organizing his thoughts.
“As a result of your investigation and your investigation, a group claiming to be the shadow of the militarized group was clustered in a small group in the 10th sector of Amittengrad. They are too small to be detected by the home country, but at the same time, the disquieting element known as the Shadow prevents them from issuing orders. They will have very limited means of contacting each other.”
“It is.”
If you can give orders to the bullies so easily on the streets scattered throughout the capital, why would the military spend an enormous amount of resources to raise communication soldiers and create magic golems?
“In addition, as a result of direct observation by the main building… most of their meeting places were poor and poorly managed. The ability to conduct systematic operations cannot be expected from those who are not trained.”
“Well, it sounds like a messy mess.”
Market and family. It is not just a gathering of people with the same concerns. For an organization to come together, it needs a central point to be the center and a sense of kinship that connects each other.
However, such a thing was not seen in the gathering of the shadow gangsters of the military.
I nodded my head in agreement.
“It sounds strange. This kind of riot gets bigger the more you group. Blood boils in a riot caused by a thousand people, so if you tell them to divide it into ten people, there is a high possibility that they will hesitate. The more people there are, the less fear there is.”
The shadow of the military is a ragtag group of bullies. Even if you just give an order, there is a very small chance that it will be obeyed. Even more so if the order is tantamount to a suicide commando.
“Would you wield such a complicated operation with a ragtag, no matter how much chaos your goal was? It is doubtful.”
Ah, where does a ‘shadow’ come out? It’s easy to understand if you just read your thoughts.
This is why mind reading is bad. I can’t read your thoughts unless the shadows and the lurking ones show up. I’m really sick of it.
At least if you can read the other person’s intentions…
Ah.
“beep. Do you know about the taboo?”
The captain, who had become accustomed to being called pi, answered without feeling any awkwardness at the title.
“Taboo? Sentence components are missing. Please say more.”
“I forgot until now because the informant was unreliable, just in case.”
I was hiding it because it went against the morals, but I can’t help it now that it’s like this.
Sorry Nehru. I’ll pass your information on to the Captain.
“Nehru said that Wolfen, the real shadow, knows the taboos of the military.”
“…Is it a taboo of the military?”
“yes. Well, it was alluded to as if it was great information, but I forgot because I didn’t know what the heck he was talking about. I suddenly remembered.”
I spoke quietly and read my thoughts lightly. Indeed, how much do military communication soldiers know about taboos…
‘It’s difficult. There are too many suspects to decide on one.’
I thought so. this crazy country
you don’t deserve me At least I know exactly what my crimes are when I’m arrested.
Instead of giving up trying to think of something taboo, the captain was wary of Nehru.
“If you’re talking about Nehru, are you referring to Suin, a cat who runs a magazine…. There must be a need to investigate.”
Ahaha. I knew it would be like this. sorry Nehru.
is it unfair But I can’t help it. Are you saying that a couple is one body? You should have thought it would be conveyed the moment you informed me.
Anyway.
“You really don’t know anything?”
“Positive. Bone Shadow Wolfen has been imprisoned in Tantalus for 20 years. Even before the main office was dispatched, it was continuously isolated and could not come out of there even once before escaping. There is no opportunity for him to access high-level security information that is taboo for the military.”
You said you were captured from the beginning of the military. Then there will be nothing that Wolfen, trapped in the abyss, will be able to find out.
no wait There is a flaw in that statement.
You can’t be sure that Wolfen found the taboo, can you?
“What if Wolfen heard about the taboo from someone who was also imprisoned on Tantalus? Could it be?”
“Possibility of information exchange…”
At my words, the captain hardened his expression.
“…Wait a moment. There are suspicious circumstances.”
Cheer up. A book opened in the captain’s head. The list of those who had passed through the abyss fluttered and disappeared.
One person the captain found by recalling the personal information of the trainees one by one.
‘…The leader of the escape was former Colonel Lancart. The youngest leader of the magic corps and a traitor who sold the mystery by making a deal with the federation.’
One person’s personal information is spread out. It’s hard to remember until you mention it because it’s information that you’ve only come across in documents, but once you think about it, related information continues in a chain.
‘The youngest member of the military genius wizard. And the survivors of Hameln.’
Hameln.
The moment he remembered that word, the captain’s expression became serious.
‘The incident in Level 5 Security Information Hameln. If Lancart, who was one of the parties, informed the truth behind the incident.’
“…I will cancel. The headmaster was wrong.”
The captain opened his mouth. Her body was shaking with chills.
“The shadow of the army is not their limbs. It was a deadly poison that made the army kill everyone in the back alleys…!”
