Sometimes, when I watch crime movies or dramas, I see something like that.
There are times when scenes are filmed in locations that create a slightly dark and gloomy atmosphere, making the already gloomy atmosphere even more gloomy.
Roughly speaking, construction sites, docks, vacant lots, dark mountain workshops, abandoned buildings, etc.
It only shows gloomy and uncomfortable places, and I feel like the selection of places would make even the viewer feel depressed.
Well, I understand.
The subject is crime, so we can’t film in a bright place.
Because crime isn’t something you can just go anywhere and do with pride.
but….
‘If you are confident, isn’t it not a crime?’
If you are confident in yourself and can look up to the sky without feeling any shame even if your actions are exposed to others, then it is not a crime.
so….
“You just need to be confident in a bright place without having to hide anywhere.”
“… … .”
“Isn’t that so?”
“… … .”
“Child, you’re not answering.”
Lee Han criticized him, saying that he had a bad personality, as expected from a person who orders things.
An adult asks you a question but you don’t even answer.
“Is the cake here that delicious?”
“The world has really become a better place. Who would have thought that a cafe for commoners would open?”
“I heard the boss here is a black-haired nobleman. Is that possible…?”
“Hey, no way. Could it be him? Haha!”
Dessert cafe.
It is one of the cafes that has become popular in Wangdo recently, and is famous for selling desserts and coffee at affordable prices that even commoners can enjoy.
Although most of the customers were female, judging by the number of male customers, it is clear that the temptation of sweetness is not limited to men and women.
So it wasn’t unusual for a particularly large knight to be sitting here.
“Sir, would you like to order?”
“Please give me one fruit crepe cake and one milk tea.”
“The person sitting in front of you is-?”
“Just give me a cup of coffee. Oh, and this person likes his coffee with ice, so put a lot of ice in it.”
“Oh, I see… .”
The female employee, who was giving a cold stare to the blond man sitting in front of Ilsun Leehan, muttered to herself, “He looks neat, but his taste is weird.”
As if to ask how one could put ice in coffee so inconsiderately.
“!?!!”
But the blond man felt wronged.
Because I never had the hobby of putting ice in my coffee.
But why did he have to be misunderstood like this and why couldn’t he even correct it? The blond man, Huy de Bayron, was pounding his chest and feeling deeply.
But unfortunately.
“town….”
The man couldn’t open his mouth.
He can’t move a finger, and all he can do is roll his eyes.
Huey was deprived of his physical freedom.
…unintentionally.
He looked at the knight who had taken away his body’s freedom with a longing gaze.
But the article.
“Oh, this cake has a lot of fruit in it? It’s okay, here.”
I was just happy to have found a great cafe that I could become a regular at.
* * *
A full 17 hours had passed since Huey de Bayron had been kidnapped.
As he is a noble guest of the kingdom, countless troops would have been dispatched to find him, and the magicians on the Magic Tower would also be frantically chasing him.
Yet it was quite strange that he was still being held for 17 hours.
That too.
Slurp.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had one. When it comes to coffee, iced is the way to go.”
“… … .”
“Why? Do you want to drink?”
“… … .”
“Why don’t you speak, you punk?”
“!?!”
I thought it was the ultimate twist that I was confidently in a cafe and yet no one was looking for me.
Is it because you know this?
“How on earth are you alive and not moving to save a single one of your comrades? Honestly, I thought I would run into one or two spellcasters, but I heard they’re all resting in the castle. Well, that’s the nature of spellcasters, so it’s not that strange.”
“…town!”
Lee Han teased, and the blond wizard got angry.
However, his face turned red, perhaps because he felt ashamed of not being able to refute Lee Han’s taunts.
More than the fact that he was ridiculed as a spellcaster, he seemed to be ashamed that his reputation as the great disciple of the Magic Tower was actually worthless.
But this isn’t all that surprising to Lee Han.
From the moment I mentioned the meeting of the magicians, I was certain that there was no camaraderie among them.
‘How many spellcasters have I caught?’
When Lee Han was working as a ‘spell-casting hunter’, it was not uncommon to see them running around in groups, but it was the first time in my life that I saw them with so little cooperation.
Extreme selfishness.
The wizard race is none other than social misfits who are only interested in their own studies and interests.
‘It’s things like team assignments for university teams.’
That’s also a gathering of trolls.
In that sense, it was already expected that kidnapping this guy wouldn’t cause any major problems, and since he only had to avoid the soldiers, he had the luxury of being in the cafe so openly.
… It may be because of the audacity of kidnapping a blonde sorcerer that it seems like there is no crime to be committed.
anyway.
“When I look at it, it seems like there’d be no problem if you could just wander around for two days or a week? It’s not that the soldiers are incompetent, the guild guys are helping you out a bit. If they wanted to, they could make you disappear for life. So, can you finally answer my question?”
“… … .”
“Greg Bean. Where the hell is this kid? You know him. Don’t you, Yellow?”
“!”
“By the way, if you don’t tell me today, I’m afraid I’ll have to resort to extreme measures. So please, I hope you’ll end it when you’re done talking nicely.”
Crunch..!
“Yeah, what would I talk about with a swindler? I was stupid, man.”
Lee Han grumbled.
After all, conversations are meant to be had with people, not with someone who casts spells.
but….
“Ugh!”
‘You crazy kid, let me talk so I can say something!!!’
Huey, whose mouth had been sealed for a full 17 hours, felt extremely wronged.
Please let me talk!
… … He seemed to be going crazy.
Currently, Huy de Bayron’s body was imbued with the power of Yi Han.
If you look at it technically, isn’t it similar to [blood transfusion]?
It is a condition in which the person cannot properly use hand gestures, foot movements, or the muscles of the mouth, and it can be said to be a natural measure for Lee Han.
That’s understandable, because to those who use magic, the tongue and hand gestures are like sharp objects.
Opening his mouth meant giving him an excuse to attack, and for Lee Han, it also meant that he couldn’t allow him to speak.
So, the inability to communicate is something that we have no choice but to accept.
but.
“I told you it was okay to blink or signal in some way, but you keep trying to speak, you? Why can’t you understand what I’m saying?”
“…town!”
“You little brat, you’re just full of pride.”
Lee Han knows that the guy won’t cooperate because he won’t open his mouth.
That’s just rebellion.
It could be because of pride. Or maybe he just has a hard time judging a situation.
… you might say, why don’t you just torture them instead?
‘A spellcaster mixes 50% truth, 30% lies, and 20% fabrication into his words.’
The man who has hunted more wizards than anyone else knows.
Torture doesn’t really work on those who cast spells.
It may be painful, but you can’t trust the words you’re saying.
So, you have to let them speak out on their own, of their own volition.
Otherwise you won’t be able to hear the truth.
… but.
‘Time just keeps passing.’
We can’t continue this war of attrition forever, because time keeps passing by.
You could also try to find the Illegal Wizard by directly hitting the Sultan, but that would be a headache in its own right if the Illegal Wizard hides.
So this guy’s cooperation is needed.
This guy is definitely… .
‘Because you probably already knew.’
Lee Han was certain that Nureongi knew of the existence of the illegal wizard.
It wasn’t a judgment based on intuition alone, but rather on experience and knowledge gained from being a knight who had hunted magicians more diligently than any other knight in the past 100 years.
so.
‘… I can’t help it.’
Although I feel a little tired, I am determined to get some answers from him in a more certain way from now on.
Speak directly to Nureongi’s ‘body’.
“You’re probably thinking, ‘Why on earth would this crazy guy kidnap me and suddenly find an illegal wizard?’”
“!”
“You’ll probably think this too. ‘Even if you’re looking for an illegal wizard, you should politely ask for their cooperation. Why are you doing this?’”
“…???”
“I guess that’s accurate.”
The guy looked ridiculous.
‘If you know me so well, why are you treating me like this?’ A look of disbelief.
“But why am I treating you so badly? To explain why, let me go back about two years ago. Among the spellcasters I caught, there was a woman named Christine. She was an illegal sorceress known for conducting human experiments.”
“!!”
Huey was astonished.
Christine, the master of brain magic.
The name was also famous in Matap.
Once upon a time… .
“-He said it himself, that he was a member of the Magic Tower.”
“──.”
“Then I heard an interesting story. ‘Even if the wizards who once belong to the Magic Tower are kicked out, their actions are all reported to the Magic Tower’, was it?”
“… … .”
“… I see, what that kid said was true.”
“!!”
… For a moment, Huy de Bayron felt goosebumps.
Even though he himself wasn’t saying anything, that worthless knight seemed to be having a conversation with him.
‘… How on earth?’
A situation that is incomprehensible.
The wizard trembled before the ‘fear of the unknown’.
‘Oh my, my head hurts.’
But unlike the other person who was trembling with fear, what Lee Han was doing was not that difficult.
That would be true.
‘It’s tough trying to read heartbeats and muscle contractions at the same time.’
Because it was simply imitating a [lie detector].
… it may be a talent that only he can do.
