No Fatigue: 24-jikan Tatakaeru Otoko no Tenseitan

"- So, did you have a clue about the Ripper?!?"

A while back in Prince Ellen's lab, which serves as a special investigative headquarters for the Ripper case.

I suddenly screamed like that when I wondered if Prince Ilfreed had stepped into the lab without a knock.

"Calm down, brother."

"Can this calm down! My maid with me was killed!?"

Prince Ilfreed grabs Prince Ellen's chest up and screams.

Prince Ilfried, who is likely to be 190 cm tall, grabs 170 there Prince Ellen, and Prince Ellen's feet are about to float off the floor.

But Prince Ehrens did not hesitate, but turned his chilling gaze to his brother.

"... There are other victims of the Ripper. And each victim has family and friends who mourn each death."

"Gu......"

Prince Ilfreed roars like that and takes his hand off his brother's collar.

"So is that... only when my body was killed did I get hot, and if I were an irrelevant guy, other people wouldn't have been the attitude of the future wannabe"

"I think thick in love is a good thing about my brother. That's why I'm admired from my subordination as well. I don't know anything about it."

"That would naturally happen if you were talking with your chest collar open. I always envy you for being so calm."

"Oh man... my brother is unconscious of his talents"

I shrugged my shoulder as Prince Ellens still seemed a little bitter.

Indeed, as Prince Ellen put it, it would be a qualities of birth, such as being admired by people as soon as you open your chest collar. That's what you call a general. Nevertheless, even Prince Ellens, although not with a generator, looks like a possessor of qualities suitable for military teachers and staff. That is probably the best combination for this country that Prince Ilfrid will be king and Prince Ellens will hit that auxiliary as royalty.... Princess Irvara is... hmm.

"So, in this case, is it likely that the Ripper (Ripper) will come to light?

Prince Ilfreed said when he just said he wouldn't allow his maid with him to be killed and not be eyewitnessed.

"Shall we sort out the situation first? Brother, you've already heard Miss Mary wasn't the only one killed by the Ripper last night, right?

"Oh, oh... the body must have been found in the new town too"

"Yes, given the situation at the scene, you can't go wrong with this one as a Ripper."

Prince Ehrens explained to Prince Ilfreed some of the characteristics found at the scene of the Ripper (Ripper) case - the torn throat and belly, the fact that his womb is being exposed, and the countless "X" -like marks left on the wall.

but

"I know that!

Prince Ilfreed, head of the Dragon Knights and first prince, seemed to have independently purchased investigative information. Maybe he's surprisingly unremarkable.

Prince Ehrens nods to Prince Ilfreed in a calm manner and continues the conversation.

"In this case, you asked me if the Ripper was going to have eyes on you? And the answer is -- unfortunately, no."

"... what?

"Don't be angry. Because I'm just stating the facts. 'No,' I said, 'but it's actually worse than that. This time, the mystery has deepened."

"What do you mean... explain it to me"

Prince Ellens sends eye contact to Brother David.

I thought your brother would explain accordingly, and what an eye contact from the prince he has been passing towards me.

Huh? I'll explain? To Prince Ilfreed, who feels like he's roaring with anger?

But I sigh and start explaining because there's not going to be anyone else around.

"The controversy in previous cases was whether the Ripper (Ripper) was a person in both old and new towns. The mutilator (ripper) case is happening in the New Town in the first and second case, but in the noble mansion of the Old Town in the third case. And for convenience, the fourth murder of Miss Mary is in the Old Town, and the other one, the fifth, is happening in the New Town."

"... what's wrong with that?

There's not much to think about, Prince Ilfreed says.

"The hypothesis that has been seen as a power among us until now is that the Ripper was in the New Town in the first or second case, and in the Old Town in the third case."

"That would be so. Because there are only dragon knights, such as those who can travel freely to and from both cities."

Blatantly, Prince Ilfreed said.

Whoa... you know how serious that testimony is.

"But this case - four or five cases - has forced this hypothesis to be reviewed"

"Why?

"Because the fourth Miss Mary killing and the fifth female pay killing are happening the same night. The Ripper killed Miss Mary in the Old Town last night, and then crossed the New Town to kill her salary. Or maybe the other way around."

"...... Huh!?"

Looks like Prince Ilfreed finally swallowed it.

I send my gaze to Brother David thinking this would be enough.

When Brother David stepped forward, he said this to make up his mind.

"- This is a double homicide, Your Highness. If we take into account the fact that we don't have the means to cross Lake Monocanus at night -- this is an impossible crime."

"Impossible… crime"

Prince Ilfrid snapped like he was bewildered.

Prince Ellens says.

"Thanks to you, the investigation is going to be back to the mundane. If the Ripper had the means to cross the lake overnight, the investigation he had focused on" who was on the side of the Old Town on the third night "would not make sense."

When I saw Mr. Corsey standing in the corner of the lab properly, he had a deep sigh with a tired face.

Mr. Corsey is brought about in such a way that he deposits his hips on a large trolley placed in the corner of the lab. The load of trolleys looks like Prince Ellen's experimental equipment.... I don't know, I brought it.

says Prince Ilfreed.

"But it can't be more impossible than it's actually happening!

It was Brother David who reacted to the words.

"Exactly, Your Highness." It can't be more impossible than it is actually happening "- a word I'd like to put in my forehead and decorate."

Brother David says in his true face, but the other guy wasn't in a mental state where he could enjoy such things.

"Oh, are you kidding me!?"

"No, not at all. Your Highness is right. Somewhere, there's a way to make it impossible."

To the words of his brother who remains calm, Prince Ilfreed tells him to regain his composure.

"... from the very beginning, I didn't really understand the existence of a Ripper."

"I'm not sure...? What do you think?"

"That there are such people. The deal of killing people and having fun is that they're never on the battlefield. But he rips his throat, breaks his belly, uncovers his uterus, and rips off his limbs. I don't understand what the guy who does this is thinking."

Prince Ilfreed's senses would be sound. In fact, many Monocanus citizens should feel the same thing.

"What I don't even know inside is that I've been falling apart since I killed him. There are people on the battlefield who kill someone after they've hurt them. This is a compensatory act based on a motive to be convinced of one's advantage and to clear one's daily depression by inflicting pain on the other. It is not incomprehensible, although it is a mischievous act. Even I would like to scatter my enemies, and without such aggressiveness, I would not act as a knight.

So we have to assume that whoever leads the army leads a large number of murder weapons. If we are cautious, this murder weapon will hurt not only our enemies, but ourselves. In this country, I distinguish myself from conscripts by calling them 'knights' about professional soldiers who receive salaries. This is a way to protect your identity, bring knighthood awareness to knights, and keep them from behaving like they are on the battlefield. "

"... even from my older brother, the leader of the Dragon Knights, that the brutality of the Ripper (Ripper) is unusual?

"Is the cleaver (ripper) atrocious in the first place? Cruelty, as I know it, is like a loot carried out by a defeated soldier or a pernicious mercenary regiment. Is the Ripper trying to separate the victim after he kills her? Rippers don't cry and beg forgiveness. What's so good about dismantling 'Just a Body'? I don't know."

Silence as Prince Ilfreed thinks.

"... I see, it's an inclusive word. What makes a Ripper happy to do this..."

"No, Royal Detective. Is there something deep in my words?"

Prince Ilfrid shakes his head at Brother David's words.

Now Prince Ellens said.

"Speaking of which, Corsey. Could the victim of the fifth case have been identified?

Mr. Corsey fell on the spot trying to get up from the trolley he was bringing. To that clap, the experimental equipment falls from the trolley and rolls onto the floor.

"Oh, hey, Corsey!

Prince Ellens approached him and helped Mr. Corsey up.

"Su, suiyasu..."

Corsey apologizes to the Prince as he returns the fallen equipment - artillery shells for the cannon to the trolley.

Prince Ellens said in a manner that seemed half worried, half frightened.

"I hear you haven't even been home properly these days, have you? I know I'm in a hurry, but sometimes I need to look in the face of my wife and children and rest physically and mentally. The Ripper case could be a long shot. Doesn't your body have it as it is now?

"... I have no words to give back."

Mr. Corsey seemed a lot tired indeed.

Even on days when there are no Rippers, there are no days when reports of "Rippers" or "Rippers" will not join the Knights of Officers. It's only natural if you're tired because you're confirming all of it.

So a knock sounded in the lab. When Corsey opened the door on behalf of all of them, there was one officer knight there.

"Captain Corsey, we have the identity of the victim of the fifth case."

The sight of everyone in the lab gathered to the sergeant knight who told him so while saluting.

The knight seemed nervous when he stared at the face as such, including the two princes, but Corsey urged him to continue reporting.

"The victim is Carol Annette, a female wage in a tavern in New Town."

That was the word we expected.

Because the corpse was wearing a women's clothing, it would be normal to assume that it was a woman's salary unless it was a cleaver (ripper) workmanship.

But in the words of the knight, there was one person who reacted violently.

- He is Prince Ilfreed.

Prince Ilfreed looked frightened and trembled at the knight's words.

Soon after, it seemed to push and kill the upset and back to normal......

"... what's up?

Brother David also seems to have noticed, asking Prince Ilfreed.

"... no, nothing"

Prince Ilfreed shakes his head and asks Mr. Corsey.

"Still, you know who you are, don't you? I heard the body was severely damaged."

"His face was intact, so he made the painter do sketches and interview him in the taverns and cafeterias around the scene."

Mr. Corsey takes a glimpse of the officer knight.

"Ha. The victim seems to be a beautiful and famous female wage in the vicinity, and her identity was quickly identified. Female pay - I asked the owner of the liquor store where Carol was employed to confirm it, and I got testimony that it was definitely Carol Annette."

"Confirmation..."

"Yes, the victim had been decapitated by a Ripper, so you will only be asked to confirm the head..."

"Ugh..."

Prince Ilfreed stands up with his face blue and white.

"... sorry. I don't feel good. Will you do it again...?

"Of course it is. Please, rest."

Prince Ilfreed will come after the lab, which is the investigative headquarters in a different way than when he came.

Prince Ellens dropped off that back faceless, and Brother David seems to be thinking about the case while looking out from the side where the lab wall was removed.

I had an unexpected reaction. I tried to get my thoughts around Prince Ilfreed and the woman's salary that she was the victim, but the ingredients we have now seemed to guide nothing that seems to be conclusive.