King of Shadows

"Then where is the culprit who was caught? Are you in the heavenly guild you caught the first time?"

"No, they're in our guild. We are the only ones in the three guilds who have installed the biggest and most sturdy iron bars. It's been moved just in case."

"The heavenly guild has been handed over to you. I would have interrogated you on the spot."

"It seems that the guild is intertwined, so the bowels of the heavenly guild have not been so careless. Are you interested?"

"If you say no, you're lying. What do we know?"

"I've been incapacitated since birth, and at the scene of the incident I was strangely told that I had the ability to transform into a body that resembles a monster."

The ability to turn into a monster. It occurred to me that the unsub might be a human being in a similar position to himself. He was also in the position of becoming a hetero in humans. I didn't know he was an ally.

"I'd like to meet him in person."

"Personally, it's hard. Not just us, but other guild members are watching their eyes. No one has access to it. Then why do you want to meet him?"

"The power of the unsub is at stake. Maybe I do."

"Then attend the 'interrogation' in the afternoon. If that's where the important members of each guild come together, it's not like I'm letting you in."

"Is that the right line? Well, there's nothing you can't meet if you're serious, so let's just keep an eye on things there."

So, she set a future schedule and walked to Hansung University with the end of the road. To be honest, even if we opened our hearts to each other and made up, the atmosphere was not going anywhere just now. That's why only awkward and stuffy silences were hidden in the company of two men.

At that time, Shi Hyun and the end path saw a sudden shadow. Hetero and non-human creatures were impressive foxes with large ears and white fur. The little fox, smaller than the human forearm, leapt forward to the end of the road and the chassis.

"Animals?"

Even as you look at Chuck, you see a fox that looks like a pet. On your knees, you reach out your hands. However, the fox hurriedly turned and ran to Sihyun. At the appearance of a beast of unknown origin and history, Jihyun turned back in disgust. But the fox sticks together. He pulls on the hem of his trousers, forcefully demanding his opinion.

"I guess you like it."

"I've never seen him before today. I don't think so."

"Animals tend to follow their instincts more than they think, so you might feel like your mother. You survived this world, by the way."

"It looks suspiciously clean, so it looks like you have an owner. You're not a monster cub, are you?"

"You look like a normal fox to me."

The fox gazes up at him with gleaming eyes, and he carefully extends his hand. The fox uses his arm as a leg to go straight to his shoulder. Since it was so quick, there was no time for him to react.

Lick, lick. The fox on his shoulder greedily licks his lips. Then I shook my tail vigorously to see what was so good. Xi frowned, but nodded as if he had seen the end of the road.

"The expression of affection is intense. If you react that way to someone you've never seen before, you're naturally very affectionate."

"... I think it's pre-kindergarten."

Sihyun observed the white fox for a while. It was calibrated by the Emperor and Empress, but there was nothing suspicious about attracting the power of the fluoroscope. It was a real beast, not a hetero.

"We can't just abandon them like this... Let's take them."

/034

The place where the interrogation was held was in the auditorium at Hansung University. The two walls of the classroom were broken down to create a plausible space that was entirely dark in color. The darkness was not just the silk interior.

Due to the topic, the mood of in-house sensitivity was rigid. There are many murders everywhere. A place where scorpions, sky, and the Reverse Guild come together. Interrogations attended by middlemen from each guild created a suffocating distress.

While everyone was watching, the interrogation proceeded for a long time. I was persistent and asked for the truth explicitly. However, Jung Yiwook, who was arrested immediately at the scene, did not easily tell the truth.

Every body part, except for the face, was engraved with nasty wounds, but only the tail of his mouth was raised before the interrogation began.

"Have you ever killed a scorpion guild member or a member of the Reverse guild?"

"Maybe he did or maybe he didn't."

"Do you know of any other perpetrators who have caused a series of incidents?"

"You may or may not know."

"How did you acquire that ability? Is that some kind of Stigma?"

"Stigma or no Stigma."

"Now I'm not joking, Yiuk. At this rate, we'll have to kill you as cruelly as possible. And remember, the relatives and friends of the people you've killed are watching."

"Kill to kill. I killed everyone I had to. I don't want to live anymore."

I didn't bend over in front of Lee Hong-woo, the interrogator. Progress has been impaired by an uncooperative attitude. It was a target that killed dozens of the same humans in the first place. It was too much to hope for pure cooperation.

But I couldn't kill him without knowing it. The incidents that occurred in the three guilds also had overlapping time zones.

In other words, it was not the culprit. In a situation that proved to have an accomplice, the person caught 23 days later was the same as the person who discovered the oasis in the desert. I couldn't get rid of it without pulling out the roots.

"Tsk, it's just junk."

After seeing this, he did not undergo any filtration and expressed his emotions as he felt. The more he glanced at, the less trash he discarded from humanity. After all, it was a human barracks that could not be with him.

It was clear that someone had touched it, but he could not accurately understand its nature. It was like a mosaic, putting pieces together all over the place. It was an inexhaustible ability to be called Stigma. In the beginning, his body did not change with his mind.

It was just a dramatic change by 'body remodeling'.

"The fusion of hetero and human. Who the hell did this? Did you know that?"

The demonstration blocked all surrounding sound with thought. And from the first moment we met, I grabbed the cheek of a loving fox, wagging its tail.

"Ugh."

The unsub easily reveals his identity. What came out of the fox's mouth was not the cry of the beast, but the cry of the pioneer. The fox sighs, and Lynn whispers.

"Since when did you notice?"

"From the first moment I saw you. There was an end to it, and it reacted in a grave. Still, I never thought I'd lick my lips like that. That's when I realized I couldn't hide my actions even if I hid myself with my glutes."

Lin, who was caught with her secret lust - playfulness - did not lift her head, and rounded her body.

"Ugh, how dare you play with my innocence like this."

"No, don't call it pure, because I did it openly. Pure boys and girls all over the country will cry."

"But if you did, you'd have to react. I was the only one who knew the gluteal artery was working."

"Thank God, I know it's a scandal."

"Ugh, I'm going to get revenge."

Rin looks up at the demonstration with sharp eyes. Her eyes burn with determination.

"Well, enough jokes. Let me get this straight. Is it possible to bond between a hetero and a human?"

"Of course you can. You already know what a hetero material is, right? Dead people are possible, but living people are impossible. More modifications are possible if it's the will of the parties."

"You can do that without Rondale, the manager? Body remodeling is what happens at the ranch. It's almost impossible for a powerless cripple to get there and have surgery."

"I don't know that much. But without a manager, there would have been an intermediary who would have connected the ranch with humans in some way. I don't know who he is, but we have to be careful."

When it was noisy around him, he raised his head.

"Shhhhh!!!"

"Grab it, tie it up and put it back in."

In his vision, he could see what was causing the seizures. The two arms shook violently, giving off an unusual blood glow that could not be said to be human. Furthermore, as I was leaving the auditorium, the interrogation ended.

With a bad feeling that something unusual was happening in a place he did not know, the end of the road rushed to him and asked his opinion.

"How was it?"

"It was boring. But I realized one thing."

"What is it?"

"That's not a stigma, that's just a body remodel. If you want to cover up the culprit, focus on the people who disappeared from the guild and resurfaced without warning. Then you'll see the way."

"Why is that?"

"At least he needed time to get his body remodeled."

/035

He was trapped in a prison that only had a faint light, and gave his whole body strength to unwind the chains that bind him. His arms were soon turned into spears and fangs, but it was not enough to break the chain by reinforcing the grant family's stigma.

"Damn it."

Yuck. After all that time trying to break the chain, a boy came into the prison. Suddenly, I woke up a visitor who was struggling.

"Who is it?"

"Dinner."

The boy raises the plate as if watching. It was covered with a lid, but I didn't realize it was supper for today. Only then did he realize he was hungry. I slowly crawled to the crevice where I restored my arm.

Heave. I pushed the lid with my mouth as I saw the plate coming through the small hole. But there was nothing on the plate. Unknown circumstances. I called the boy with his head up.

"Kid."

When the word "boy" came out of his mouth, he felt even more ominous. The first is that a boy, not a jailer, cannot go into prison. And second, there is no lid on the plate. Everything was strange. I looked up at the boy's face with a cooler backbone.

The eyes of the boy who had plotted a plot were burning brightly.

"You shouldn't have gotten caught."

"What?"

"You heard the rules when you were empowered, right? One, stay out of sight. Secondly, do not disclose where you got it. Third, if you have promising seeds, actively ingest them. And four, don't let the person who has been identified live."

"Wait, that's the only reason you're killing me?"

"That's the only reason. We haven't even started yet, and we don't want to get caught."

The boy smiled coldly.

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