Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save The World

Time rolls back some time ago.

When Nick started a specific meeting in "Anemone of the Sea," Zem began to talk about what he saw and heard in the construction abandonment area, and speculations from it.

"The Stepping Man is Mr. Nargarva."

Adda, the cautionary stick, and Red, the store's mom, look distracted by the words.

"From what I've heard, I've been talking about a lot of virtuous Mitsuhito..."

"As far as I can hear in Uwasa, I am also a man who imposes on the poor."

However, [Survivor] 's face-to-face reaction was different.

"Mr. Karan and Mr. Nick aren't surprised, are they?

"Un"

"Hard to believe by the look of it...... but you have something to convince me of"

So Nick explained to Zem what he had heard to Leon.

"... so you need to have a connection with a broker to buy a magic guide. Nargava would be a powerful person to be able to do that in a construction abandonment zone. They have a glimpse of the wildlings."

"I see, that's for sure"

"How did Zem realize that?

"... there was a body of a sick and dead child. I think he's a child taken away by a stepman."

All but Kizna and Tiana turned to the word.

"What...!?"

"I asked Kizna to write a copy of the child's appearance and go home. I confirmed it in" Manhunt, "but it matched the missing girl"

"Right...... Then I knew it."

Nick almost noticed something strange.

"No, wait. Not like he was murdered, but sick and dead?

"Yeah. I thought you had yellow ghost disease."

"Trying to cure... couldn't you?

To that guess, Zem didn't shake his neck sideways or vertically.

"About half of it will fit. There were definitely signs of treatment."

"Half?"

"If it's a bona fide treatment, you don't have to force it to come. He probably used the blood of other patients to infect him with yellow ghost disease."

"Oh, hey! That's..."

Nick and the others disappeared even at the glance, and had to stop now.

"He drifted here broken from the temple of the king's capital. That was probably about six months ago. But it wasn't until about two months ago that we showed up in the construction abandonment zone."

"Until then, you lived normal?

"... Perhaps he was lurking. You must have used that magic tool to erase the signs."

"Turn off the signs... were you spreading the disease?

To Nick's prediction, Zem nodded with a dark face.

"It was around the time of the spread of yellow ghost disease that he began his activities in the construction abandonment zone."

"Hey, suppose it fits that far. Then why did you start imitating kidnapping?

"Probably because that's what it's all about."

"Purpose?"

"Until then, it was only a practice platform for examining and treating diseases. His real purpose is to treat humans in the same condition as his own daughter. How the patient is infected and should be treated. Establishing methods of prevention and treatment is his goal."

"... you don't seem to understand. It sounds like revenge, and it sounds like clerical behavior."

Nick nods with his head in his arms.

The other fellows had similar expressions.

"I guess the logic in him makes sense. I... somehow understand."

"Hey, do you have anything that sounds like proof? If that's all that matters, the Sun Knights will be investigating it for real, so 'I caught you' with an empty bill could be trouble."

It was Tiana who answered that Red's point.

"It's not proof, but I've heard it too... Talk about a cleric whose daughter got yellow ghost disease and was banished. It was a scandal, not among the people involved. I remember the name, but it's pretty much consistent with what Mr. Nargava said."

Nick, who heard about Tiana, also realizes what the story means.

"So when Tiana was still in King's Capital, that Nargarva guy was already kicked out of King's Capital?"

"That's what's gonna happen."

"Anything in evidence will come out if you look for his office. Hi, there's no such thing as a thorough attempt to destroy the evidence. Because the body was left without being purified, or even we noticed it was crude enough."

"... So, what do we do, Le?

When Karan muttered so, Zem listened back.

"What are we going to do?

"If Zem says so, I trust the eagle. After that, it's a matter of how to catch him, Siu said."

"That's true...... do you want to step into his office and catch him?

"That's a pain in the ass over there. There will be more entanglements, and less advantages in fighting at parties because they are narrow and easy to escape"

Nick said with a bitter face.

"I want to catch you on the move. That way, I can hold onto that magic guide that uses the Phantom King jewel."

"I was having a hard time because I can't do that... so that means I can do it now, okay?

Nick grinned invincibly at Tiana's bewildering inquiry.

"Oh. I can seal both the measures of the magic guide that erases the signs, and that lightness. Hey, Olivia."

Olivia, who was called in, just starts talking to me about waiting.

"I've seen just a few of them, too, but Mr. Nick's" Lightweight "is a great thing. However, that would not extend to a stepman alone. Not yet reciprocal."

"That's all I explained to you."

In bringing Olivia in, Nick was wearing "Lightweight" and calculating to catch the stepper. Nick consulted Olivia in terms of "where exactly to fight a stepper".

"So, it's good for the land and it fills the difference."

"Ground interest?"

Tiana repeated Olivia's words.

"This one allows steppers to narrow down the routes they travel frequently. If you want to wait, you can wait."

And Olivia spread the map to the table.

It adds the Stepping Man's route of travel, with more information written than I saw before.

"The most commonly used scaffolding for work in this building."

"What is this place?

"It's a factory. No, should I say 'it was a factory' to be exact? It's a deserted building because it's now bankrupt. … and the scaffolding strewn around it was built to dismantle this factory"

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Stepping man snapped off his hood.

Then the appearances and voices that were ever blurred and could only be recognized as "men" began to contour rapidly.

It's Nargarva, a bald-headed man who opens a treatment center in a construction abandonment area.

"I knew it."

To Nick's whining, Nargarva glanced with harsh eyes.

"You don't understand. Indeed, Non's identity was exposed. But there are many other hiding places in the Labyrinth City. With this Phantom King jewel, it's not easy to hide."

"You think so, don't you? But the Phantom King treasure has its weaknesses."

"What?"

"It is not a delusional magic guide that deludes light and sound, but human perception. It's easy if you delude a human perception you've never even met, but it's hard to withdraw an enhanced perception"

"... what do you mean?

"I mean, if you're the one hiding yourself with the magic guide, and the weather spreads, the Phantom King jewel doesn't make any sense anymore. If they break it, it won't work. It was a mistake to admit your identity to the detour."

Signs of confusion come from Nargarva.

But after a while I started laughing.

"I don't know if that's a lie or a truth, but I think I've been pushed a long way"

"You seem convinced."

"Then the story is simple."

With that said, Nargarva stood up again.

"Well, wait. I've come to such a beautiful place because of this. Let me take a dose. You might be the last lady to drink, don't you?

That's what Nick said and took out the vial.

……

"Right."

Looking at Nargarva as if she showed no interest, Nick sighs as if convinced.

And Nick stirred up the contents of the vial and lit the fire with the "Ignition" magic prop.

"Become... you!?"

When Nick blew out the contents of the vial with momentum, a big flame struck Nargarva in front of him.

It's not magic or anything, it's just flames.

But Nargava was therefore stiff.

If it was aggressive magic, there would be a lot of omens just before activation, but there was no such thing. I found myself fooled by something like street art, and Nargava stares at Nick with angry eyes, but

"What!?"

There's no Nick there.

"I don't know what street art is for! Eat!"

"Up there!

Nargarva looks up.

Nick dropped his heel there relentlessly.

Probably felt that way for Nargarva.

Decide it's impossible to avoid it, cross your arms to the cross and take the heel.

"Gu, you idiots......! The blow on the weight in a place like this......!

"I did it because I know what's gonna happen. As expected... it'll break easily!

I thought the sound of smudging continued, and it turned to the sound of smudging.

The roof is not originally assumed to weigh two humans.

They both fell from an empty hole in the roof into the factory indoor.