My Children Swarm the Cosmos

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐥 (5)

If I hadn’t mixed Puker’s digestive fluids with my blood when I coughed it up on the floor after being hit by the Bythos’ viral vapor, I would’ve been done for.

Like Haber said, they were ‘dangerous opponents’ indeed.

I absorbed something from Ludwig that had been part of Bythos’ brain. It wasn’t enough to fully absorb his brain and take his abilities for myself, but I could glimpse some of his past experiences. Just a tiny bit.

Bythos, the Subject 166 of the 2nd batch, hacked into the artificial human city during the preliminary selection.

Bythos’ legion control was terrible compared to the other subjects, but his ability to hack came from his proficiency with electronics and computers.

The army of the artificial human city that he hacked moved as if it were his own pack, and from the beginning of the preliminary selection, he annihilated his competitors with the firepower of the artificial human army.

Bythos supplemented his lacking mutation ability with human weaponry. He reinforced his personal combat power by skillfully using human firearms, tools, and equipment, like a human mercenary.

The reason why Bythos, who was capable of causing a blackout, ambushed me alone in the sky was actually quite trivial.

He easily hacked into the artificial human city and its army during the preliminary selection, but when he actually entered human society, he wasn’t able to properly hack into the real human systems.

If he had hacked into human society the same way he did during the preliminary selection, he would’ve been able to use drones, humanoids, and various firearms.

Thinking about it, Bythos’ ‘network specialization’ ability clearly showed its shortfall in real combat. He did a good job of using the gap between the chimeraz’s powerlessness and human powerlessness, though.

And the fact that he underestimated my personal combat power by seeing me as a typical strategist ruler like ‘Damian’ was a huge miscalculation.

Bythos paid the price for his arrogance and impulsiveness with his life and was eliminated from the coming-of-age ceremony.

“So. . .are you saying that Bythos is mostly at fault for falling into the basement during the battle? Since he was the one who created the cracks on the floor. . .”

“Yes.”

8:02 AM. I’m explaining yesterday’s incident to Haber before leaving for work.

“At that time, I was on the verge of death. So there was no time to send a wave directly to Ludwig. You know, the wave’s stability is directly linked to the ruler’s mental power, right?”

“Yes, I know.”

“I did shout at him in a hurry back then. I told him not to kill him because it would be a violation of the rules.”

“But Ludwig didn’t hear it and killed him anyway.”

I let out a loud sigh for Haber to hear.

“I didn’t have time to do anything. I was panicking, and so must’ve been the Bythos guy. But what can I do now that Ludwig has already dug into his brain and devoured it?”

“If only his brain was devoured, what happened to the body?”

“It was too late. I couldn’t let the body rot overnight, so I told Ludwig to eat that as well.”

“Ah, I see. Well. . .I understand the situation. That could’ve happened. It’s a shame that an accident happened in the experimental field that I hid in the basement to prevent such a thing from happening.”

“Haber, you’re a capable secretary, so I trust you’ll be able to explain it well to the Foundation.”

Haber smiles bitterly at my words.

“I’m glad to hear that. Haha. Yes, I’ll take care of yesterday’s matter. Young Master.”

By the way, Bythos was a guy who didn’t hesitate to show his xenophobia.

He got a job at an information security company, infiltrated the company’s underbelly, and became a gray hacker under the guise of an information security expert.

However, he was quickly fired and became unemployed because he kept ignoring and criticizing his human colleagues at the company.

Not only that, but he was so caught up in his superiority after passing the preliminary selection that he even took his secretary for granted, treating him like a slave.

If such an extremely exclusive guy had become the ruler of the chimera, our species might have literally become monsters.

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Kreion is walking to work.

‘𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴. 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘝𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴. . . .’

He is carefully checking the appearance of the roads around his mansion. At this time, there are very few cars passing by, delivery drones, or humanoids. And it seems that security cameras are densely placed everywhere without any blind spots.

𝘉𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘸! 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘧!

“Oh, this guy.”

An old man wearing sportswear and walking his dog walks ahead. A large dog connected to a drone and a leash barks fiercely at the passing cars despite wearing a muzzle.

𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘧! 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘭. . . .

‘𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.’

Kreion walks along, thinking that even the large dog could be a resource. Then the large dog and the old man passed him by.

𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘢𝘬. . . .

The large dog, which had been barking ferociously until just now, suddenly tucked its tail when it saw Kreion.

And Kreion did not particularly recognize it, but the ants at his feet, the frogs in the sewer under the wall, the butterflies on the garden trees of the wealthy mansion, the cats hiding behind the vehicles, and the pigeons sitting on the streetlights also avoided Kreion.

The sensitive sensory organs of those animals were sensing a natural disaster.

Because of the strange waves sweeping through like they were alive, centered on Kreion.

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I arrived at the company quickly. In this way, the Bioblock design work began as usual, and time passed until the afternoon.

“Mr. Kreion, you have only been here for two days, but you have already completed the design drawings for six products.”

“Yes.”

The team members were impressed by the news, and the deputy team leader was praising me in front of the team members.

That kind of thing was very familiar to me. It was very similar to the way the teachers in the Foundation praised a particular experimental subject in front of the other experimental subjects.

“You don’t have any practical experience in this field, do you?”

“Yes.”

“So if Mr. Kreion has any secrets, it would be better for the whole team to accept them. Can you tell us?”

If you ask me what the secret is, I have no great answer.

This is because I am an individual recognized by the Darwin Foundation for my 92 points in creativity, 100 points in memory, and 94 points in comprehension. However, I cannot explain that to these humans.

“Before I find the problems in the design drawings, I read and understand all the explanations in the design drawings. Then I drew a series of imaginative images in the order in which the signals are processed.”

“Hmm. . . . Could you explain a little more specifically?”

Let’s just say it’s a matter of talent.

“Looking at the design drawings, understanding them, and imagining them also involves mathematical calculations such as temperature, voltage, processing capacity, and logic gates. So when it comes to this area, I’m not sure how to explain it. Just like I explained earlier. . . .”

After convincing the team members to some extent, the same work as yesterday continued.

When a design drawing based on the Bioblock with problems is found, I improve it, send the results of the experiment through the unmanned research institute to the deputy team leader, and the deputy team leader sends the design drawings and feedback collected in the morning and afternoon to the team leader.

Then the team leader sends this to the production team, and the production team actually makes the item and tests it. Then the design drawings with problems found are returned through the team leader.

Work in a company is a repetition of such tasks.

However, it was not completely meaningless to me. Honestly, it was more interesting than I thought.

This is because every time I change the design of the machine, they are different types of machines. So the idea that it was repetitive gradually disappeared.

And strictly speaking, cells have many parts that are similar to machines in principle. So I learned by looking at the sophisticated machines of humans.

What kind of design would I need to create in order to create this kind of machine with Chimeraz pure cells? That was the kind of imagination I had as I approached my work.

During my break or lunch break, the team members approached me first.

I learned how to get along with humans a little better by having meals with them and listening to their troubles. I still felt disgusted by the idea of different species, but the feeling of being with beings who had no ill will toward me was not as bad as I thought.

Was it a sense of belonging? I don’t know. Anyway, it seems like I could get along with humans for the rest of my life if I had to.

Since I had memorized the route to work, I took a slight detour on the way home and took a different route. This time it is a route that passes through the downtown area of the city.

The streets lined with restaurants, bars, and shops are full of humans who have finished their work for the day. This is what is called a crowd when you see it.

The fertility of humans is the worst compared to any creature, and the process from when a human woman becomes pregnant to when she gives birth to a child is incredibly inefficient.

Such humans have built this civilization and are ruling this galaxy. That proves that humans are stronger than any other race known in the world, at least at the present time.

‘𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴.’

I don’t know if I can be truly close.

‘𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦.’

I made it that way, so I tried to make it that way.

‘𝘐 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦.’

I don’t know if they would still think of me fondly if they found out my true identity.

I don’t know if there is a human who would really like me even if they knew everything about me.

Let’s put all that aside.

It is not so strange for different species to coexist.

‘𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴. . . . 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦.’

I try to send a wave to my mother in vain and then change my mind.

If I send a wave to my mother like this, it will become an unauthorized wave. The coming-of-age ceremony is not over yet.

I walk while remembering the windows of tall buildings and the cameras located in various places one by one.

In the meantime, a woman was standing among the crowd ahead.

I can tell as soon as I see it. The woman standing there is a different kind of creature from the ones around her.

And she stopped among the moving crowd and stared at me.

I make mental preparations as I make eye contact with her.

Soon the voice of the wave came.

━𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲? 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐨𝐧.

‘𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢.’

Former3rd batch, Subject 240 .

Specialized in wave interference.

She is standing about 30 meters away. This time, I can’t think it’s a coincidence. It looks very suspicious. And her appearance is also unnatural.

A little taller than the average human female, short black hair, large horizontal eyes, large breasts, a thin waist, and thin arms and legs.

At first glance, it is an external design to fascinate male humans. I don’t think the Foundation or my mother designed such an obvious beauty that fits the ideal of humans to that extent.

━𝐈’𝐦 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?

She has information that I killed Bythos last night. How does she know the subject, the incident, and the time?

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦?’

━𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

Aria stares at me with only her eyeballs and takes out her cell phone and operates it.

‘𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢?’

━𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲.

Her eyes show no emotion or animosity, but I can guess.

Aria, who specializes in wave interference. I don’t know what that ability is, but the current situation was created by Aria.

I can’t go along with the situation that Aria has prepared. Even if I get out of this downtown area, I’ll be watched somewhere, but if she has something prepared in advance, I don’t know what will happen.

I don’t know what she’s thinking, so I have to defend myself for now.

I had just made that decision when. . . .

“Mr. Kreion. Is that right?”

“. . . ?”

Two unknown humans suddenly grabbed my arms from both sides.

“Who are you? Let go of me.”

“We’re the police.”

What is this now?

The two people who caught me each took out their police badges and showed them to me.

If they are real police officers, they should be able to show their badges properly.

I glance at Aria.

“Whoever ordered you, just let me go. Impersonating a public official is a felony.”

“No. We’re plainclothes police officers. Mr. Kreion has been identified as a suspect, so we would like to ask for your cooperation.”

“It’s a crowded area, so I don’t think it’s a good idea to handcuff me. Just answer the investigation. Today.”

It seems that the guys who received Aria’s request are not.

━𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐬.

‘𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦? 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢.’

When I looked back, Aria was smirking over the shoulders of the crowd.

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On the way in the police car with the two police officers, Aria sent me a wave even though she had disappeared from my sight.

Judging from the direction and distance of the waves, she is still staying in the downtown area, as if trying to hide her home address.

━𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡. 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬.

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸?’

━𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥? 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭.

I can cut off the wave or she can cut off the wave at any time now. Then we won’t be able to know each other’s real-time location or have any means of communicating with each other.

So the fact that we are talking now without cutting off the wave means that she, like me, wants to enter a kind of psychological warfare.

‘𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴.’

━𝐎𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?

After a playful response,

━𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

An answer came back that was definitely not a bluff.

She specializes in wave interference. What is that ability? Did she look into my head? If she had reported it to the police, she must have known everything that happened last night and prepared a plausible report.

In many ways, she seems to be an opponent that I shouldn’t let live for long. I might have to revise my top priority to Aria.

For now, I need to finish the investigation at the police station today and hurry up and come up with a way to kill her.

━𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭?

I stopped breathing without realizing it.

The police car was still driving.

That’s definitely just now. . . .

━𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬.

Is this the ability called wave interference?

━𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞?

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦?’

━𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧? 𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧?

It sounds like she has no personal ill will. Does that mean she wasn’t on friendly terms with Bythos or anything like that?

━𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬.

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦?’

Is it a check accompanied by a warning that she can show her ability and deal with it socially if necessary?

━𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐭.

Even in the midst of this, she is reading my thoughts. Let’s cut off the wave even if I lose sight of her.

Anyway, Aria is my rival and an opponent I might face someday.

As expected, it’s difficult.

I don’t know how to deal with her ability right now.

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸

Kreion faces the police in the interrogation room.

“Kreion. 18 years old. Originally from the Rubyco star nation, he became independent after leaving his parents. He came to Nemea and got a job at Coelacanth.”

“Yes.”

“What did you do between 6 and 8 p.m. yesterday?”

“I went home from work and rested.”

“You live alone?”

“Yes.”

“What about your parents?”

“I don’t know.”

“Your legal guardian is Mr. Haber Heydrich. Is he the secretary your parents gave you?

“Yes.”

“Mr. Haber said that you became independent due to family problems. Even so, considering the fact that they gave you a secretary, it seems like your parents are worried about you.”

“Yes.”

“. . . Do you understand your position properly?”

“Yes.”

“You’re too short-spoken. Stop pretending to be resigned and answer my questions honestly.”

‘𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮.’

To Kreion, the human sitting in front of him looked like a particularly disgusting pest.

“I’m not lying.”

“A boy your age named Zeul Pin Bythos is missing. Do you know him?”

Kreion remains expressionless and keeps his mouth shut.

“It’s the first time I’ve heard that name.”

“Then what about Bellum Damian?”

If it’s Damian, he’s a rival I met at the company yesterday. In his case, there were witnesses, so lying wouldn’t work.

“I know Damian.”

“I’m asking you what your relationship with Damian is.”

Kreion hesitates for a moment and then replies.

“I don’t know Bythos. And Damian. . . . We know each other personally.”

“Damian works for a very famous security company in this city. We owe a lot to that company too.”

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺?’

The police officer puts the cell phone on the desk to the side and leans his back against the metal chair. He looks down at Kreion.

“Damian testified that you and Bythos were friends.”

“A per. . . . I didn’t even know there was a person named Bythos.”

“So are you saying that Damian lied to us?”

“. . . .”

𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬.

The police officer raises his back and brings his face closer to Kreion.

“It would be better to be honest now. You’re still a minor who doesn’t know the ways of the world.”

“I have no idea what’s going on.”

“Ha. . .! This is a funny kid. Somehow, when I looked through the records, I thought this and that was suspicious.”

“What do you mean?”

Something,

I have a hunch that something is going on.

“Yesterday, only your house had a power outage. The cameras, black boxes, and entry records near your house were all gone.”

“It was a temporary power outage and it was fixed automatically. I don’t know the cause of the power outage or the other details.”

“As it happened, there was a situation where Bythos went to your house last night. And after a while, there was a power outage. You came to work today without your secretary. And today, Bythos disappeared.”

“. . . .”

“Damian says you and Bythos are friends. You deny it. But Bythos went to your house. Can’t you tell who’s lying even at a glance?”

‘𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘮 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴.’

In that case, Damian, who had promised to cooperate with Kreion, used Bythos’s death to make the work easy.

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢? 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬? 𝘜𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴?’

“Hey, Kreion.”

The remaining rivals are Autophagy Tosis, Bellum Damian, and Aria.

‘𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬. . .?’

“This kid, aren’t you paying attention when an adult is talking?”

‘𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.’

Damian and Aria used the delicate rules of the coming-of-age ceremony and the laws of human society as a check. They made things complicated.

“You’re hopeless. If you don’t confess here, we have no choice. We won’t protect you and we’ll start a more active investigation. Do you understand?”

Kreion realizes.

That the power in his hands was not all.

This was society.

“I understand.”

“Don’t regret that answer.”

“I won’t regret it.”

As the police officer reaches for the cell phone that has been pushed aside, the door of the interrogation room opens remotely.

The police officer points his finger at the door.

“Get out of here now. When you come back, you’ll have handcuffs on your wrists.”

“What are you going to do with handcuffs? Are you crazy?”

Right in front of the door that had just opened, the representative of Coelacanth was standing.

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵?’

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