Chapter 341
“I found someone who said he saw Sophia.”
Adela spoke on behalf of Miss Elena.
“… … Are there any witnesses?”
The person who erased the traces so neatly made the mistake of being visible to the witnesses?
“Are you sure you saw it?”
“yes. I think that’s for sure.”
Adela nodded with a confident expression.
“He knew exactly what to wear.”
It must mean that he knows exactly what the person who looks like Sophia in the CCTV is wearing.
“I knew exactly not only the blue robe, but also the cross-shaped emblem engraved on the robe.”
“If you knew the emblem, then you really saw it.”
“yes.”
Knowing that much detail means being a real eyewitness.
“Could it be a trap?”
“I wouldn’t say there’s no chance, but the odds are low.”
This time, Elena-sama answered on behalf of Adela.
“If this information is false, then the man is a villain sent to lure us. Are you saying that the probability of being a black magician is high?”
“There is a high probability of that.”
“That’s why it’s not. The man who gave us this information wasn’t even a warlock… … .”
“Because he was diagnosed with an incurable disease and was declared dead.”
Adela continued.
“Incurable disease?”
“yes. They say it’s stage 4 mana refractory.”
“Mana Refractory… … .”
I took a moment to organize my thoughts.
“It’s highly unlikely that the villain sent to fool us has such a disease.”
A disease caused by the inability to absorb mana into the body.
Mana present in the body. Among them, it is a disease in which the mana that conceived life, called the Congenital Guardian, is gradually leaked out.
By the 4th stage, there would have been almost no mana left in the body.
It is highly unlikely that such a man would be connected to the warlock side.
“That, heir. Sorry for the sudden interruption. What exactly is mana refractory?”
Mimir, who was quietly listening to the conversation while being hugged by Elena-sama, asked.
“hmm. Simply put… … .”
Ma explained in detail the symptoms of mana refractory and the cause of its occurrence.
“Ah, that’s the disease.”
Mimir nodded his head knowingly.
“know?”
“huh. Even back in the days of the Bytenor Empire, there were some people who suffered from that disease.”
Even if I understood it quickly, I thought it was too fast. You’ve already researched it.
“There are so few of them, and it’s a disease that hasn’t been properly analyzed yet, so I couldn’t even give it a proper name. I mean mana refractory. huh. I think it’s a fitting name.”
Mimir gave a small smile as he said it was a very good naming.
“If the witness is mana refractory, then it makes sense that the unknown person missed the witness.”
“right. Around the 4th stage of mana refractory, it becomes impossible to detect mana at all.”
Mana Refractory Stage 4.
It is not an exaggeration to say that all the mana drained from the body was severe.
Even if it was Sophia-sama, it was close to impossible to detect a person without mana.
If that person had been a fake and not Sofia-sama, I wouldn’t have noticed even more.
“Where was the eyewitness born? Have you looked into it?”
“yes. I have already investigated.”
Adela pulled out a note and handed it to me.
“I was born in this town, so I’ve never left here.”
The man’s personal information was written on the memo.
“You can say that there is no chance that he is connected to the Villain Alliance or the Warlocks.”
I was born in this village, and I have always lived in this village.
A man who has never been out of town because he has mana refractory.
It’s very unlikely that a man will be the villain.
“What do you think, Elena? Looking at the man, he noticed something fishy. Was there anything like that?”
“No. I think that man is definitely white.”
“okay.”
On top of that, Elena-sama’s confidence.
The chance that the witness is the villain will converge to 0%.
“understand. You can definitely see it as a real eyewitness.”
“yes. I think it’s real.”
Adela nodded.
Elena-sama looked at me like that and her eyes shone sharply.
“If you understand, I will continue talking.”
Miss Elena gestured to Mimir to step away for a while, then moved to a position facing me directly.
“Oh, here before that. I recorded the man’s testimony separately. Listen as you read.”
Then, a hologram monitor floated in the air.
It was the same program as the notepad application Mimir used earlier.
“that day. Witnesses said they were taking a walk as usual.”
I quickly read through the notes and listened to Elena-sama’s words.
“A walk at that late hour… … . Originally, it’s nonsense, but… … .”
“This time around, it doesn’t make sense. Witnesses are mana refractory.”
“yes. If it was Mana Refractory 4, it would be enough. The intense mana that the sunlight contains is no different from poison to a mana refractory patient.”
Patients with mana refractory cannot walk around outside.
It is common to take walks at night.
“For the same reason, they have to avoid places with many people, so they say that the trails were fixed in places where there were few people near the factory complex.”
A deserted factory complex at night.
As a mana refractory patient, there could be no more suitable walking trail.
It was all understandable.
“Then it means that the witness found the woman who looked like Sophia-sama in the factory complex.”
“yes. that’s right.”
I manipulated the hologram monitor and turned to the next page.
Coincidentally, in the first paragraph of the next page, it was written that ‘the sighting location is a factory complex’.
And after that, there were detailed eyewitness accounts.
“I was resting on an old chair in an alley near the Rid Furniture Factory, near the factory complex, when I saw a figure wearing a bluish robe walking by. He stated so.”
It was a pretty vivid eyewitness account.
As for the item that I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman.
And the fact that I was sitting on an old chair near an alleyway.
Each eyewitness account was so detailed that it was difficult to believe it was made up.
“In case you didn’t know, I went to the location the witness said. There was actually an old chair lying in a nearby alley. A middle-aged man was sitting and smoking a cigarette. In a pretty lame outfit.”
“It’s a chair that the person who lives nearby puts it there for the purpose of smoking.”
“yes. It was a chair with a feeling of use that seemed to have been used for at least ten years.”
The eyewitness’s words added more credibility.
As the promenade is a factory complex, there will be no benches.
If you want to sit down and rest, you must have had no choice but to use such a special structure.
“… … The testimony is very detailed. Considering these points, you were convinced that what the man said was the truth.”
“yes. It’s too real to be a made-up story.”
I nodded.
I wholeheartedly agree with Elena’s words.
“The witness found an unknown person while sitting there and resting. They say he hid because he thought he might be a robber.”
“Originally, whether he hid or not, he would have been caught, but he was a mana refractory patient, so he was not caught. This is it.”
“Yes.”
“Perfect.”
Starting with the 4th stage of mana refractory, to the fact that I found it while using the usual trails, to the reason why it was not exposed.
The front and back fit tightly.
As Miss Elena said, it was a perfect eyewitness account that made it strange to doubt.
“It seems that the testimony ends here.”
The note ended with the man hiding himself.
After that, it’s blank.
In other words, the information of this eyewitness just ended with ‘seen.’
“There are eyewitnesses. That alone is enough information. Thank you for your effort.”
I turned off the hologram monitor and looked at Elena-sama and Adela in turn.
“It is a great harvest just to know that the CCTV footage is not fake or a trap. Then, assuming that this person really exists, if we investigate again… … .”
“wait a minute.”
Miss Elena cut me off with a smile.
“I’m not done talking yet.”
Adela also smiles with a similar expression to Elena-sama.
“What do you still have left?”
“Sure. Only ‘there was an eyewitness.’ If it was over, I wouldn’t have bothered like this.”
Elena-sama paused for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth.
“The unidentified person is said to have gone inside the Rid Furniture Factory.”
“… … You didn’t walk toward the factory, did you see it go inside?”
“yes. He said he had seen him go over the fence.”
I dared to jump over the fence and move into the Rid Furniture Factory.
that means this.
“That means there’s a good chance there’s something inside the Rid Furniture Factory.”
I mean like this.
“yes. I don’t know if that blue robe is the real Sophia Annechefri… … .”
Miss Elena continued with a serious look in her eyes.
“There’s a good chance there’s something inside that furniture factory.”
* * *
After that.
I immediately texted Sunchan to return.
“I came because I was told to come, but… … . why? Did you get any important information?”
20 minutes have passed since then.
We conveyed the information we obtained this time to Soon-chan, who had just joined us.
“Rid furniture factory… … .”
After all information has been passed on.
Aslan-nim blurted out her words with a meaningful expression.
“Asran. This… … .”
Sunchan’s expression was no different. Meaningful and serious, somewhere in between, he blurted out his words with the same expression.
“okay. It seems that what the man said wasn’t all nonsense.”
The man was right.
that means this.
“Did Aslan-sama also have information about the Rid Furniture Factory?”
It makes sense.
“okay. Among the information obtained from the bar, there was information related to the Rid Furniture Factory.”
“Actually, it was a drunken person who could not even call it information. So I just listened in one ear and let it out in the other… … .”
Sunchan was speechless.
“It would be different if we got information about the Rid Furniture Factory from this side as well.”
Following Sunchan, Aslan-nim spoke.
“That drunkard. You must know something.”
“yes. I think so too.”
The two looked at each other and nodded with serious expressions.
“Don’t empathize with just the two of you, explain it properly to us.”
Mimir glared at Aslan with a frustrated expression.
It was a coercive look that told her not to talk just the two of them and to explain properly.
“Ji Soon-chan.”
Aslan glanced at Sunchan at Mimir’s words.
It was the look in your eyes and the name you were calling with the intention of explaining.
“uh… … . So, to put it simply, while we were gathering information. In a bar, a drunken man started a riot with a loud bang?”
Mimir gave a chin gesture to continue speaking.
“The world was wrong, I was unlucky, these were close to bullshit… … . one of them. There were some very strange words in it.”
“Weird words?”
“yes.”
Sunchan said coldly with a serious expression.
“’Let go! These cattle cubs! Fools who don’t even know what’s going on in Rid… … .’ Called.”
Sunchan turned his head towards me.
“At the time, I thought it was just a drunken truthful nonsense… … . Just because you said there was something at the Rid Furniture Factory, it didn’t sound like nonsense.”
“As long as the name is the same, there is little chance of it being a coincidence.”
“right?”
I took a moment to organize my thoughts.
With someone who looks like Sofia, who entered the Rid Furniture Factory.
A drunken man who claimed to be doing something at the Rid Furniture Factory.
It seemed clear that there was a link between the two.
“… … I’ll have to meet that drunkard first.”
What did the drunk know about what he said?
You need to find out from that.
“Mimir. I’m sorry, but would you go to the virtual space with Aslan and find that man? Aslan-nim should know about what it looks like, so if you use it to search the database… … .”
It was time to ask Mimir to find a drunkard.
“Heir. I guess it’s too late?
Mimir cut me off and said with a serious look and voice.
“Ten people… … No, 11 people?”
“No, there are four more people 50 meters away. If you include them, there are a total of 15 people.”
Miss Elena and Miss Aslan.
And it was the same with Adela and Soonchan.
All four are wary of their surroundings with a bloody expression.
“… … I found it.”
The next moment, 11 figures appeared around me.
“yes. sure A Westerner with a tough impression. It is as it was captured on CCTV.”
Among them, a man broke through the darkness and appeared in front of us.
I’m holding the phone to my ear.
It sounds like you are talking to someone.
“yes. I’ll be sure to take care of it, don’t worry. Please leave it to me.”
The man hung up the phone and put the phone in his pocket. He looked at us and smiled mischievously.
“I’m sorry, but you have to die here.”
At the man’s words, the lives of the people around him grew thicker.
When a man’s order is given, his will to attack us immediately stands out.
“Are you a robber? If you want money… … .”
“money? ha ha ha.”
The man was big.
“money. definitely not good Normally, I could have just received money and sent it to you. I can show that much mercy to travelers who don’t know anything. however… … .”
The man suddenly became serious and glared at us.
“Unfortunately, I can’t do that this time. you guys. No, I heard that guy over there shouldn’t be in it.”
Among them, I was aiming at Soon-chan.
“If you’re going to resent me, blame that idiot for drunkenly saying things you shouldn’t say.”
The man slowly raised his hand.
From that point on, a life that deepens further.
The moment that man’s hand goes down, their attack will begin.
“If you feel unfair, you can go and find out. That guy will go to King Yeomra first. He’ll go after you and make an argument.”
The man slowly lowered his hand.
And at that moment, the men who had surrounded us started to move in unison.
