Regression Sword Apocalypse Reconquest - Chapter 66
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Episode 66
Special grade materials, theft of flesh from a river predator.
Because of that, Sehyuk had been looking around Bokseul Bokseul’s room since morning to see what was going on.
The outline of the incident is as follows.
Boksulboksul has not yet handed over the flesh of the river predator to Sehyuk and his group.
So Bokseul Bokseul kept it in his room.
Inside a sturdy safe made by the blacksmith, Bokseul Bokseul himself.
But the entire safe was gone.
“I’m truly sorry. I will definitely find the culprit and compensate him.”
“Okay. Be careful in the future, and your apology for this will be paid in more labor.”
Fluffy with a complicated expression.
Sehyuk said to Bokseul Bokseul coldly.
“Don’t be sad, let’s find the culprit first.”
Sehyuk first brought out the easiest and simplest solution.
“Huh?”
Cha Ye-seong, who was lying on the cement floor after drinking, comes into Bokseul Bokseul’s room while touching her hair.
‘Because the ability to predict is also the best tracking and profiling ability.’
Explain the incident to Cha Ye-seong and ask for a prophecy.
However, things were not easy.
After a while.
“I, I’m sorry, I don’t know.”
Cha Ye-seong scratches his cheek with a slightly relaxed face.
“What? What does that mean?”
“No matter how I look at it, I can’t figure out who the thief is.”
Cha Ye-seong glances at Se-hyeok.
“How many times have you experienced it? Sometimes, when there is intervention from a powerful force, prophecy becomes impossible. I think this is one of those cases.”
That’s quite a thought-provoking answer.
‘A powerful force.’
That means that the person behind this theft is someone with enough power to interfere with the prophecy.
‘Something doesn’t seem right.’
While thinking about that, Bokseul Bokseul sighs and looks at the two.
“Then what should I do?”
“We must continue to look for the culprit.”
We can’t give up here.
The value of the unique material and the circumstances behind this incident.
Because I had a feeling something big was going to happen.
“If the easy way doesn’t work, let’s try the classic way.”
It seems we have to find each clue and deduce the culprit.
At Sehyuk’s direction, Bokseul Bokseul gathered all of the personnel to the hideout.
To ask about what happened last night.
Write down in detail what you did last night to the people around you.
“But, they all have alibis. Except for the people who went in normally, none of them even entered the room.”
Choi Sung-hyun’s sharp observation.
Boksulboksul’s face is gradually becoming ashen.
“If no one entered Mr. Bokseul Bokseul’s room, then the culprit must be among the people who originally entered Mr. Bokseul Bokseul’s room.”
So in the end, the culprit is Bokseul Bokseul and her closest associates who can enter and exit Bokseul Bokseul’s office without being suspected.
It all comes down to the people I met when I first came here.
“But, doesn’t everyone have a clear alibi?”
Fluffy, desperately trying to defend her colleagues.
But then, someone among the people gathered suddenly raises his hand.
“I….”
“What? Tell me.”
“I saw Mr. Seok-kyung Kim enter the room during night patrol time.”
Kim Seok-kyung.
A decent-looking man in his 30s who worked in positions such as secretary or general manager.
He was the person driving next to Bokseul Bokseul when they first met, and he was the one who explained various things to Bokseul Bokseul and Sehyuk.
Excluding Bokseul Bokseul, he is the person who has the most conversations with Sehyuk and his group.
When Se-hyeok looks at Seok-kyung Kim, his face turns pale and he waves his hand.
“I, absolutely not! Absolutely not!”
And the questions continue.
Someone carefully raised their hand and gave another testimony.
“I, I don’t think Mr. Seok-kyung Kim is the culprit. Mr. Seok-kyung Kim was not particularly late and arrived right on time during patrol time.”
At those words, Bokseul Bokseul nods.
“Sure, if I had stopped by here briefly during night patrol hours, I would have been late for patrol.”
Then, testimonies began to emerge one after another that Kim Seok-kyung had arrived on patrol on time.
“So, did someone impersonate Mr. Kim Seok-kyung? But everyone has an alibi for what they did.”
Choi Sung-hyun speaks with a bewildered face.
It’s a veritable crucible of chaos.
“Let’s disband for now and explore somewhere else.”
Finally, Sehyuk made a decision.
“If we keep looking, we might get more clues, so I think it would be best to get out of here as quickly as possible.”
Upon hearing that, Bokseul Bokseul stands up from his seat, not knowing what to do.
“Okay, okay. Then let’s get ready quickly.”
“No. Let’s go by ourselves for now.”
“Is that okay?”
The eyes of the fluffy, swaying hair.
“I have something to do.”
Sehyuk left the room, leaving only those words behind.
Take a jeep and drive away from Fluffy’s hideout.
And then, after a while.
“I caught the culprit.”
Sehyuk returned to Bokseul Bokseul’s shelter and threw a person out.
“Uh, how?”
The perpetrator and the people around him were confused.
Sehyuk smiled and began to explain slowly.
* * *
The story goes back a little while.
Just when I was sure I had shaken off the fluffy group.
Sehyuk stopped the car.
The reason he acted so suddenly was simple.
“Cha Ye-seong. Speak.”
Just now.
Cha Ye-seong gave Se-hyeok a silent gaze.
A look that seems to know something.
And it wasn’t Sehyuk who couldn’t notice that gaze.
A situation where no one can be trusted.
So as not to expose important information to untrustworthy people.
And Sehyuk’s arrangement was right on the mark.
What Cha Ye-seong wanted to say was something really important.
After confirming that there was no pursuer, Cha Ye-seong opened his mouth.
“I found where the flesh of the river predator is.”
Sehyuk smiles when he hears that.
“Yeah. I knew it.”
Cha Ye-seong clearly stated that ‘we don’t know who the culprit is.’
He didn’t say where the stolen flesh was.
And, Cha Ye-seong is basically a prophecy user.
He is quick-witted.
I just don’t notice.
So, the two tacitly hid that fact from others.
To deceive any possible traitors.
To prevent someone from intercepting it first.
Turn the jeep around and head towards where the stolen goods are.
The flesh of the river predator was hidden between the steel frames of a nearby abandoned building.
Cha Ye-seong looks down at the flesh.
“Then, should I take this flesh and load it into the car?”
“No. I’ll leave it here for now. I want to catch the thief too.”
Cha Ye-seong tilts his head at those words.
“But, if I stay here, is there any guarantee that the culprit will come?”
“I’ll explain that later.”
Leave the flesh alone and start hiding.
“Who do you all think the culprit is?”
Go Jeong-hwan, who was hiding in cover, brings up the topic.
Choi Sung-hyun responded with a serious face.
“I think it might be fluffy.”
“why?”
“Something kept reacting strangely. It’s suspicious.”
“What about Sehyuk?”
“If you wait a bit, you’ll get an answer.”
Time passed quickly after going into hiding and it became night.
And, the culprit moved just as Se-hyeok predicted.
A suspicious man comes here alone.
The man looks around and slowly heads towards the steel frame.
To where the flesh is.
And Se-hyuk rushes in without missing that gap.
puck!
Se-hyuk strikes the criminal’s forehead with the handle of his sword like lightning.
“Cough…!”
The attack caused the perpetrator to fall down and pass out.
Slowly remove the criminal’s mask.
And, Go Jeong-hwan frowns slightly when he sees the face inside.
“Kim Seok-kyung!”
The face under the mask was clearly Kim Seok-kyung.
“I had high hopes, but I never thought this guy would be a real traitor.”
Sehyuk’s colleagues are making a fuss.
However, Sehyuk calmly calmed them down.
“It’s too early to say for sure. In my opinion, it’s probably not Kim Seok-kyung.”
As a result, I returned to Bokseul Bokseul’s hideout with a person who had the face of Kim Seok-kyung.
They saw.
Clearly, what they brought was a person with Kim Seok-kyung’s face.
However, in the hideout, there was another Kim Seok-kyung with a worried face, discussing with Bokseul Bokseul.
“I think the one with Bokseul Bokseul is the real one, Seok-kyung Kim.”
“Hey, profit!”
At Sehyuk’s words, Seok-kyung Kim, who had been captured, put up his final resistance.
The fake Kim Seok-kyung attacks Se-hyeok.
Phew!
Sehyuk immediately kicked the bastard in the stomach and blew him away.
Kim Seok-kyung was caught rolling around on the floor.
His body, unconscious, jerks as if in a seizure.
pop!
The fake Kim Seok-kyung, who had fainted, turned into a hologram and disappeared without a trace.
Go Jeong-hwan, who saw the sight, looked surprised.
I was impressed by Sehyuk’s brilliant reasoning.
“How on earth did you know?”
“It would be a bit long if I explained it in detail, but the culprit seemed to be in quite a hurry. That’s why I thought he would come back right away.”
When Cha Ye-seong gave a silent signal.
Sehyuk had already planned everything.
I decided to set a trap secretly.
“The flesh of the river predator was already in Fluffy’s hands before we arrived.”
But he’s left it alone until now.
Then suddenly yesterday, he tried to steal.
“Then this means that we have been given the task of taking over the flesh and doing something.”
If so, it means that the other party did something quite hastily.
“The culprit was impatient and wanted to get things done quickly, so he tried to steal the flesh and run away as soon as possible. That’s what we were aiming for.”
“That’s amazing!”
“Was that so!”
Bokseul Bokseul and Seok-kyung Kim, who were listening to that, clapped their hands in joy.
Seok-kyung Kim, whose name has been cleared.
He looks at Sehyuk with admiration.
“Then how did you know that the criminal was impersonating me?”
“I didn’t pinpoint it exactly, but I thought that if it was like this, it was most likely someone imitating Seok-gyeong.”
If there are two Kim Seok-kyungs at around the same time, it is reasonable to think that one of them is fake.
Monsters of that kind, although not common, do exist.
“Thank you so much. I survived thanks to you.”
Kim Seok-kyung bows his head 90 degrees toward Se-hyeok.
“No problem. I did it for you, so don’t worry too much.”
“You have a big heart.”
Fluffy nods as if impressed.
Sehyuk just shrugged his shoulders.
‘Well, what’s good is good.’
It was true that it was to Se-hyeok’s advantage to catch someone impersonating Kim Seok-kyung.
Sehyuk can use the group well only if they are motivated.
It seemed that the purpose had been achieved admirably.
Because Bokseul Bokseul and Kim Seok-kyung, who could be called the leaders of this group, were looking at Se-hyeok with eyes of infinite trust.
Everyone’s eyes are focused on Sehyuk.
Everyone pays attention to his speech.
Now, it really seemed like Sehyuk had the power to move the group according to his will.
‘Then, let’s move a little more according to my own ideas.’
This case is not over yet.
Imitating someone is a powerful skill.
Sehyuk had never seen a monster with such skills in this area.
And Sehyuk had almost complete knowledge of the information in this area.
Except for one thing.
‘The final boss of this area. The giant monster of the Crystal Cave area. He was the only one not written in the Book of the Future.’
So, the conclusion is this.
These tricky and powerful ‘imitators’ are obviously related to the final boss of this area.
He is most likely the one who holds the biggest secret in this area.
Now that we know of the existence of such a monster, we cannot just sit back and watch.
That’s too big of a variable.