Chapter 260 – 16.14 Interview
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An hour that seemed like 10 hours passed again.
We arrived at a villa far from the city.
The distance was quite far, and it took longer to return to the same spot.
Why did you come back like that? Did you have any tailings?
No one answered me when I asked. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t want me to know his exact location.
Anyway, it just arrived. To a luxurious Japanese-style villa.
While in the car, enter through the front door of the villa. A few more expensive-looking cars were parked in the large yard.
“There are a lot of bodyguards.”
From the entrance from the outside of the building, people like agents were scattered all over the place.
“Because that happened. There are going to be a lot of heads on the security side, right?”
“But.”
Aside from the main culprit in this case, the most criticized are probably the bodyguards. If only the bodyguards were alert, this wouldn’t have happened, and they are still being beaten to death in the news and on the Internet. Only then will there be no choice but to enter the spirit.
Besides, this tight security must mean that he is here.
Ichiro Mizuki.
Kunokuno-senpai indirectly informed me that it was the man who called me.
Was it still alive? Ichiro Mizuki.
Even though I thought so, I couldn’t guess why he called me.
Even if he survived the incident, it would be normal for him to be in the hospital by now. Being in a place like this is likely to be seen as being alive with the Revive Rune.
But he didn’t connect that with why he called me here.
It’s unlikely that Chairman Mizuki asked for me to be summoned as a will while using the Revive Rune.
If that’s really the case, I might end up killing everyone here. What about Kunokuno-senpai?
The car stopped in the yard and I got out of the car with Kunokuno-senpai.
From there, the senior led me to a separate building at the back of the yard.
“Senior.”
“Why?”
“… You didn’t bring me here to secretly dispose of me, did you?”
The outbuilding we are heading to now.
I felt a strange aura there.
Magic is swirling around the outbuilding… Can I express that?
Was it that a massacre of civilians took place here, and that’s why ghosts were roaming about?
The closer I got to the annex, the stronger the chill chilled my spine.
“Well. Put your hand on your chest and think. If you didn’t do anything wrong, you wouldn’t have anything to do with it, right?”
“No way… By touching the president?”
It was the only thing I could pinpoint.
However, I don’t think it’s something to be criticized by a man who saved his life by sacrificing his family. At least I won’t sacrifice the president in order to live.
“Certainly, it might be better to deal with rapists like you here.”
“Senior. I have to speak straight. That’s not rape. Choi Eum-hyang was written by a senior. Actually, that’s what happened to me.”
“Noisy. You rapist.”
It’s embarrassing.
Arrived at the outbuilding.
Like the senior, I took off my shoes and stood on the floor.
And the senior knocked on a certain door.
“I am Kumon Kikuno.”
– Come in.
The voice you hear on TV.
It was President Ichiro Mizuki.
… Is it. Did you really do it
There’s no way a person who had a cardiac arrest until last night could have said so sanely.
My heart, which I hoped was not until the end, was betrayed in the end.
The senior looks at me as if to enter.
Seniors don’t come in?
When she asked with her eyes, I went in alone.
Was it the senior who asked me to come in?
But the old man stepped back. From here on, I will go alone.
I can’t help it. I opened the sliding door and entered the room.
President Ichiro Mizuki sat at the head of the room, and Kyoko Mizuki, president a little further away, sat next to him.
The chairman was unharmed. Should I see this as luck out of misfortune?
Then, the one who wrote the revive rune is the chairman of the board.
Ichiro Mizuki… He was truly a man without blood or tears.
“I heard you found it. Knives Windsor.”
You won’t have to go ahead.
Because I don’t know anything yet.
I politely bowed my head and saluted.
… By the way
“Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.”
“…”
This man, for some reason, had been considering me as a mortal enemy.
I think the identity of the cold that I felt when I came here was also because of this person.
… What did I do so wrong?
I touched the chairman, but that was because the young man and woman liked each other. No matter how much the chairman’s father resents him so much, I think the number is wrong.
“Welcome.”
However, President Mizuki greeted them briefly with a nonchalant face.
There are people who are so different inside and outside. Even Akane, in her prime, ran away crying.
I’ve been observing people with mind runes for a long time, but this is the first time. Is this a politician? Scary
I only greeted the president with my eyes. Because the captain of this seat is this man.
The chairman might get scolded if I just started talking. You have to be careful.
“Today, I called you… Please…”
Is your health bad too?
The governor paused while talking.
“Ask… Please…”
“?”
Is there something wrong with it?
His eyes looking at me are empty and out of focus.
It looked like a zombie impersonating a person.
“No…”
Mizuki Ichiro muttered.
No? What?
After watching it curiously, the president suddenly jumped up from his seat.
“——Kill! I will kill you and I will die too!!”
“Eh?!”
And then suddenly pull out the Japanese sword that was on display in the back, isn’t it?!
“Father!”
I hear Chairman Mizuki’s scream.
“Die-!!”
Swinging at me without hesitation, the top slam!
Of course, I wasn’t the one who would get hit by the amateur’s clumsy knife.
“Bout! Arashi-ryu sword, hold the blade!”
I aimed for the head and grabbed the falling blade by holding it in my palms.
“Kuh… Keuuugh-!!”
President Mizuki, who used his sword to the extent that his face turned red.
But the blade doesn’t move at all. I’m not soft enough to be able to kill with just a spirit.
“Why! Why don’t you die quietly!”
“What are you talking about?! Why me?!”
It was an odd thing.
Could it be that he even thinks that I committed the terror?
“Father! Stop!”
-Fuck!
“Heuk!”
With the clear, high-pitched sound of hitting the wooden table, President Mizuki rolled his eyes and collapsed.
The chairman picked up the sheath that had fallen on the floor and struck his father in the back of the head.
“Phew.”
I wiped my chest as if I was cold.
Of course, it wasn’t much of a threat. However, blocking the sincere attack of a laughing adult casually is a bit of a stretch.
“I’m sorry, Knives. Because my father is out of his mind right now.”
“No, what… It’s not the president’s job to apologize.”
I returned the knife I was holding in the palm of my hand to the chairperson’s sheath.
“Something? I came because I was told to come, but he suddenly tried to kill me.”
The chairman looks at me and the fallen father with a puzzled expression.
“Ryoko… Ryoko will never give…”
The old man who was lying on the floor mumbled.
He must have passed out, but he wriggled and tried to get up.
“Ryoko? Chairman Ryoko Mizuki?”
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The only Ryoko I knew was him.
The chairman nodded slightly.
“I’m sorry, Knives. Actually, I called you because I had a request.”
“Please?”
“Will you help?”
The president steps up and grabs my hand.
Tiny fingers quivering thinly. Fragile eyes full of tears.
Is there a man who can refuse such a request from the president? At least I can’t
“Just give me orders, Chairman. Then I will be your sword and cut your enemies. Are anti-rune holders extremists? Or the corporation that supported the extremists? Or are you a member of the Opposition?”
Of course, I know that a smart chairman would not give such an order to this city.
The chairman smiled and said.
“It is a hearty story. But… This request is not like that.”
“Then?”
“My mother… Please attack Ryoko Mizuki, the chairman of the board.”
“Are you attacking me?”
The object and verb didn’t match for some reason.
Attack the chairman
I put the puzzle together in my head for a moment.
“Attacking the chairman is, by any chance, something like that?”
“Yes. That’s what I mean.”
“… Why?”
Why did you come to that conclusion?
Why?
“Mother wrote the Revive rune on her dead father.”
Was it too
It was as expected so far.
But if that was the case, the chairman would have already died.
“It was the first time I actually saw the revive rune activated. So I’m not sure… I think her mother’s condition now is similar to that of Mr. Tsukimiya.”
“Tsukimiya? Are you talking about Akane?”
“Yes.”
The chairman met Akane once right after he rescued her from the laboratory.
At that time, Akane’s magic power was weakened like a candle about to go out. She can’t even produce her own magic, and even the remaining magic is slowly leaking out. In a little while she would have stopped working like a toy whose batteries had run out.
“The chairman then… Isn’t she dead yet?”
“Yes. Mother is still alive.”
“… How?”
If you use Revive Rune, you will die.
Wasn’t that a set formula?
“I don’t even know why. Maybe that’s what Revive runes are originally, or maybe it’s because my father isn’t a rune holder.”
The person who uses the Revive Rune consumes all of their mana and cannot recover their mana on their own. In fact, it’s only a matter of time, and it’s no different from being dead, so it may have been known only that if you use the Revive Rune, you’ll die.
Also, as the president said, since President Mizuki, who is the subject of resurrection, is an ordinary person, he may have had less magic power. It’s a life-and-death matter, so it’s impossible to verify. Anyway, it was a story that the chairman was still alive.
“So… Are you telling me to put magic on the chairman?”
“Yes!”
The chairman nodded sharply at my words.
“I definitely felt it. When I was hugged by Knives, I felt a strong magical energy fill up in my body. And okay. The feeling Shino said was this. If that’s the case, I’m sure my mother will be able to come back to life too!”
Said the president confidently.
Just as Akane is still alive, that her mother will also come to life.
“Chairman…”
But…
This time, I couldn’t follow the president’s words either.
“That’s not okay.”
I shook my head.
And to the chairman who looked at me with eyes that could not believe me, I drove a wedge once again.
“Chairman. Please send her mother away like this.”
