Episode 568
Alex Cross, who was watching this situation from afar, was greatly surprised.
What should I say?
Should I just say I can’t believe it?
I had thought that there must be someone who would keep going after the melons that were being installed.
In addition, there was friction between the party and Melon in the morning.
Melon is a character who makes enemies. She is hard and unyielding.
Someone raided a melon like that? I wouldn’t suspect it. It was likely to happen.
I thought that ‘someone’ would be the party leader, and the party leader was subdued by Melon, and then the patrolman who gave orders to the party leader, Jeong Woo-yeong, was subdued and immediately.
I could never have imagined that the owner of the party, Park Mu-gi, would gather all the patrol officers of the remaining departments, the secret officers under the patrol officers, and the soldiers under them to strike Melon.
What makes it even more absurd is that Melon has now completely subdued the owner, Park Mu-gi.
How can a brat who just graduated from the academy have such strength?
It was ridiculous. It just felt like a dream to Alex Cross.
And immediately a sense of crisis engulfs my whole body.
see.
I don’t know the details of the situation below, but there’s a high probability that Jeong Woo-yeong and Dang Jeok-sang are dead.
There’s no way Melon would have killed him in a situation where a witness was needed. It’s more likely that he was killed by Park Moo-gi, who is lying there.
From Melon’s point of view, securing witnesses is necessary in some way.
Park Mu-gi is the head of the family.
Once his mouth opens, there is no need for party affiliation or Jeong Woo-yeong.
What’s important is how far Dangjeoksang and Jeong Woo-yeong have blown it, and what’s more important is how far Park Moo-gi opens his mouth.
Alex Cross cannot escape responsibility if even the smallest word comes out of his mouth.
Because I am in the position of manager.
Even though I didn’t know ‘everything’ that went on at the Inspector General’s Office, I was definitely aware of ‘what I needed to know’. And I even helped them.
Alex decided.
escape.
Alex decided that he had to run away from this place no matter what. That was when he tried to use teleportation.
Melon, who had been far away, turned her head. Melon’s two eyes looked straight into Alex’s two eyes.
But it was too late.
Alex had already developed the formula and was about to unleash the teleportation magic.
That’s when the change happened.
Melon snapped her fingers.
Then all the mana around Alex started vibrating like crazy.
As the mana vibrated, the mana of the teleportation magic that was naturally being manifested began to become disorganized and like that.
Phew!
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Alex collapsed to the ground with the sound of a balloon popping.
Melon walks in.
Alex looked up at Melon with eyes that seemed to be filled with disbelief.
“The teleportation spell… has been released…?”
“yes.”
“You? You, who just graduated from the academy?”
Melon just squatted down in her seat.
“If you’re someone who just graduated from the academy, shouldn’t you be able to dispel the teleportation spell?”
“… … .”
“I know that you are so young, and I understand that it is very scary. But does that matter now?”
Just a moment ago, Alex’s eyes met Melon’s from a distance.
I didn’t know it when I saw it from that distance, but when I looked closely, I could tell that Melon’s two eyes were very cold.
“I understand that you want to run away. So let’s make it clear.”
Sure, what do you want to do?
“All I know is that a few of the inspectors are alive, that’s all.”
“… … .”
“It’s great, but it’s not enough, to fake death and give a way out to the academy graduates who have a mandatory service period, so that they can escape that obligation. There are those who are dead, separate from the living, and I still have questions about why they died. And ‘you’ would know why.”
Melon no longer used titles like “Manager” or “You”. He used the title “You”.
This is big.
“If you are caught as an accomplice or aiding and abetting, you will be severely punished. However.”
“……but?”
“Being a whistleblower makes a difference.”
“… … .”
“You may go to prison, but you won’t be put to death. If you cooperate well, you may even be able to get out of prison on a special pardon.”
“… … So, are you trying to persuade me now?”
Melon chuckled at those words.
“Rather than trying to persuade you, I’m offering you a path to survival. The Circle will be destroyed and you’ll be forced to live deep in the mountains, but isn’t that better than the afterlife? It’s up to you whether you accept or reject it. Will you accept it?”
Before Alex could even open his mouth to answer.
“Inspector Melon, may I give you some sincere advice?”
Alex and Melon turned their heads at the same time.
There was a man in the sky. Melon and Alex knew who he was. Inspector General Raymond Beck.
He was looking down at the two men, wearing a robe he had never seen before. Melon answered.
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“I will listen to it.”
“Hear me? Don’t get me wrong. I’m still your superior.”
“I don’t think so.”
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Melon said in a quiet voice.
“Raymond Beck, let’s end this quietly, verbally. If you confess.”
“What if I confess?”
“I will help you save your life.”
Beck burst into laughter. Then red mana began to rise from Beck’s body.
He said.
“You killed the ‘innocent’ Cheonhasung clan leader, you killed the patrolman, and you even killed a regular employee. As a new inspector, I fully understand that you felt suspicious about past incidents. I understand everything, but your greed to achieve results was excessive. This deserves summary execution.”
Melon laughed too.
“The criminal bastard talks a lot.”
There was no way Beck could just watch Melon respond to the script he had worked so hard to write with curses.
A circle of magic began to unfold from Beck’s hands.
* * *
In some ways, the most important thing is the president.
Raymond Beck.
He cannot be unrelated to these three people: the head of the party, Park Mu-gi, the patrolman, Jeong Woo-yeong, and the employee, Dangjeoksang.
First of all, the act of faking the death of the inspector of mandatory service and killing the inspector.
Doesn’t the president know about all this?
That can’t be.
Anyone in a position like that would know somehow. What’s important is what they did before or after they found out.
Did you condone it or help it?
Furthermore, did you plan all of that?
Common sense would suggest that Beck would have ‘tolerated’ these things. The scale of the incidents is too small for Beck to have taken the initiative. He probably helped to some extent, but his position would have been that of a thorough ‘bystander’.
So what does Beck gain by doing this?
Jung Woo-young said.
Some of the inspectors who were thought to be dead are alive, having faked their deaths and are living in other places, under different names or with different faces.
It’s like a deserter, and it’s a serious crime to create such a criminal, but Jung Woo-young said there’s something even bigger than that.
I intend to keep Park Moo-gi, Alex Cross, and the Chief alive as much as possible.
After capturing these three, I plan to cross-examine them and obtain information.
Of course, I plan on reporting to the Central Inspectorate. The Eastern Continent Inspectorate will be completely empty, but what can I do?
It’s all your own fault.
The reason I’m muttering like this is because [10 Circle] magic that falls from the sky, such as [Lightning World], can be easily [destroyed].
I opened my eyes wide.
In my eyes, I see the ‘knot’ that divides the world.
My father said that this knot is the flow of mana and also the weakness of mana.
If you can handle this knot, there will be no ‘wizard’ in this world who can beat you.
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It doesn’t matter whether it’s lip service or not.
What matters is that I reached out now and shot my mana towards the knots I could see.
The knots that had been carved around Beck were shattered.
Beck’s eyes widen. It couldn’t be helped.
Because the bolts of lightning that were about to strike me suddenly disappeared with a puff of smoke.
“What the hell are you… … .”
Beck couldn’t help but be surprised, just like Park Moo-gi.
It’s very, very rare for a spell to be destroyed mid-flight, as Alex Cross did.
Historically speaking, the only person who has been able to do this is our father.
And I am the son of that father. There is no way I can’t do it.
My father also said this to me.
‘The talent you have is probably very similar to the talent I have.’
‘All the magic in the world could become useless before you.’
‘Use it well. Your greatest weapon is neither magical talent nor physical talent. It is the eye that can see the knot of mana. That is your greatest weapon.’
Soon Beck, who was in the sky, slowly descends to the ground. He said.
“Do you know what you are doing right now?”
There was no reason not to answer, because I was confident.
“You are doing the right thing.”
“… … Right? This is ridiculous. You’ve completely turned the Inspector General’s Office upside down. Because of you, it’s on the verge of being shut down… … .”
“So what do you want me to do?”
“……what?”
“Shouldn’t you be worrying more about yourself than the future of the Inspector General’s Office right now?”
“… … .”
“You committed a crime that should not have been committed in your position as an inspector. To be honest, I don’t know how much you knew about it. But I know that you assisted, condoned it, and almost took the lead in some of it.”
I turned my head slightly and looked at Alex Cross.
“No matter how high the manager is, he is ultimately under the director, and from what I’ve investigated, seen, and felt, the manager is never someone who takes the initiative in anything. If he were just a rat who does whatever he’s told, then I wouldn’t know.”
I didn’t care if the listening rats felt bad or not. They all had to be caught and investigated anyway.
Whether it’s torture or threats.
Or you can report to the Central Inspectorate of the Western Continent or to the Taoist temple. They will take care of it. The problem is.
Brokerage is clearly only a small part of the story. Crucially, there are already dead inspectors.
Why did they die? Why did the martial artists of Cheonha Castle, including the Blue Dragon, have to kill them?
This is the key. We have to figure this out.
I asked Beck.
“I’m asking this just in case, but is the entire world involved?”
“… … .”
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“Remaining silent would be the worst option in this situation.”
Beck said nothing.
Looking at him like that, I let out a small sigh.
“Justice, truth, human rights, fairness, integrity, these are the virtues that an inspector must uphold.”
“And you assaulted and murdered ‘innocent’ people based solely on circumstantial evidence, without any concrete evidence.”
He shook his head.
“That is for the Central Inspection Office to decide. But you are still nitpicking on what I am saying.”
“… … .”
“There is a saying that a tree with deep roots does not sway in the wind, so it produces beautiful flowers and bears much fruit.”
I walked slowly.
“Raymond Beck, you are neither a deep-rooted tree nor a large enough tree to be unshakable. It is unlikely that such a tree would bear much fruit.”
I just put all my strength into my legs.
Bam.
With that sound, I moved in front of Beck’s nose. Beck’s eyes opened wide. I spoke to him again in a small voice.
“You have two choices: either you submit quietly to suppression, or.”
“or not?”
“I’ll be beaten and forcibly escorted away.”
Beck gives a strange smile.
“I think the third option would be better.”
“There is no third option.”
“No, there is. As the head of the Inspectorate, I have a third option: to stop the ambitious new inspector from causing a disaster by falling into vain delusions.”
I ended up laughing hysterically.
then.
“Let’s go with the second option.”
Beck reached out and I reached out too.
Kwaaaaang-!!
