No Fatigue: 24-jikan Tatakaeru Otoko no Tenseitan

During the day I returned from the underground cavity and had Beck treated by Mr. Ciel, I was told by Brother David that the Ripper (Ripper) was working a sixth case while I was away.

I'm here with Beck's appendix, and now the Ripper case. Normally, I almost want to tell you to give me a break, but that's just [hard work] and it's mentally stress-free.

Nevertheless, head switching has nothing to do with tiredness. My head was about to boil when a hypothetical, irrelevant case sprang up against the next Ripper.

The sixth case differed from previous cases.

First, the victim. It was a half-elf adventurer who fell victim to the Ripper this time. He's a C-rank adventurer, but at the level he's putting his foot on the B-rank in terms of strength, and despite that, he said he didn't get the rank up because of his poor predisposition.

This means that the Ripper has enough power to kill the B-Rank Adventurer equivalent.

In this regard, there was also a view that I had seen the unexpected side of the cleaver (ripper) that had been aimed at all the women (like this) before. However, I have already considered the possibility that the Ripper may be quite capable. I wouldn't have thought this would be so surprising.

But there is only one point that makes me feel intensely uncomfortable.

This adventurer is a man. He talked about being beautifully shaped just for a half elf and not looking like a woman if she was dressed as a woman, but he said it wasn't enough to look at him in gear as an adventurer and mistake him for a woman.

The body had been slit throat and belly, but naturally no uterus was found from the scene.

I don't think the amputee (Ripper) had mistakenly identified the victim as a woman because her belly also felt that she had mutilated into one letter besides trying to remove her uterus.

The Ripper attacked with knowledge that the victim was a man.

There are other things heterogeneous about it.

One of them is the condition of the body.

My hands and feet were ripped off and scattered around the scene.

As for the degree of scattering, he said it was worse than it was at the time of the fourth and fifth - double homicides.

Mr. Corsey told me that someone felt like a mess.

It was also characterised by the fact that the victim's face was solidified in fear.

Previously, the Ripper victims have been killed very lightly. For this reason, it was thought that this hunter-killer was not interested in being tortured alive.

But this time the victim was different. According to the doctor's appraisal, the victim lost his blood after being pulled off his hands and feet alive in order from the beginning. He said the wounds to his throat and stomach were put on after that.

In this way, there were many differences in this case from the previous amputee (ripper) case.

This has also been debated at Investigation Headquarters, where he said he split into two groups: those who take the interpretation that the Ripper (Ripper) has become vicious, and those who think that a Ripper (Ripper) copycat may have appeared.

but he came to the conclusion that there was no copycat line, apparently for the decisive reason that the "X" sign, which is classified as an investigation, was written multiple times on the wall of the alley, which is the scene of the discovery.

"Brother, how was Brother Berhardt's [case detection]?

I'll ask Brother David.

Brother David's reply was unexpected.

"That's why there was no reaction."

"What? But you're tormenting and killing the victim, so you should have had a strong reaction..."

"If you're right about Brother Berhardt, you're right."

"... that Brother Berhardt is lying?

"I don't think so, but it would be possible that you have misidentified the performance of [case detection]"

Sure, I can't deny it, but "I didn't happen to react" or "I misgrasped the extent to which I could recognize" doesn't make it very clear.

"Brother Berhardt joked and said it was still the work of the Necromancer."

Brother David said with a bitter smile.

I have to explain that to you.

I explained to Brother David what happened that was an underground cavity.

"... I see. Necromancer theories, underground passage theories, they all have to be made. Good test results, Ed. I'm also concerned about the demon who just showed up once."

"Then..."

I wasn't sure if I'd say this, but it's also a deeply related story to Brother David. You can't possibly not talk about it.

I tell my brother David a story about Princess Beatrice's ghost possibly inside the library labyrinth.

Of course, me and Brother David couldn't help but think of a "certain person".

"... frankly, I didn't doubt that either."

That's what my brother said as he frowned.

"First, the Royal Library Labyrinth is close to the site of the body discovery in the Old Town. The Viscount Vistesia residence in the third case and the walls, the site of the discovery of the fourth case, are only about half an hour away from the library"

If you ask me, it's a place where we can both go back and forth in as little as an hour.

"But isn't the scene of the new city too far away?

"Ed would have said. He said he might be able to get out by possessing people. Then you may be able to get out of the city in the middle of the night by switching who you possess."

"Hmmm...... I don't know if it's strict in time. Besides, the Golden Gate Bridge has no passage at night, so only the Golden Gate Bridge will have been crossed by ghosts on their own feet."

The ghost won't have legs, though.

Assuming it is, it would also mean that it is a much lighter ghost of "footwork".

"It is true that it is a hypothesis with many difficulties, but let's just try to test it"

So I asked the sergeant knights to do the experiment.

I intend to be a ghost, "possess" the person I see, and then I tail him. And when you're about to stray from your path to your destination, stop tailing and repeat, "take possession" of other humans. It's kind of an experiment like children's play, but the sergeant knights took me seriously to my duties.

This turned out to get us from the Royal Library in the Old Town to the scene of the new town in the furthest sixth incident in about 3-5 hours. (There is a width in time because the amount of time it takes to "possess" the opponent will vary dramatically depending on their misalignment.

... It should be noted that there was also a problem that some officer knights (in personal clothes) were reported to the officer knights from the tail object as suspicious persons on the way to the tail. Compared to the police of previous life, the Sergeant Knights still have a hard side to describe as a professional investigator. We usually fight as an army when things happen, so the army and the police are still undifferentiated in this country.

"So it's possible for ghosts to travel back and forth to the scene of a new city by relaying possessive objects"

"It's really critical, though. Besides, the Ripper case first started in the New Town and started in the Old Town along the way. If the ghost of the library labyrinth is the Ripper, this order is more natural in reverse. The library labyrinth is in the old town. Nevertheless, we don't know the circumstances of the ghost, so maybe there are reasons and constraints we don't know."

After all, there is no definitive proof that the ghost of the library labyrinth is the Ripper (Ripper).

But there is also no evidence that it is not.

"Ed, did you ever meet with Mr. Luce the day the Ripper incident happened?

Brother David asks.

"You first met Mr. Luce after the third incident. The next time I saw him was just after the fourth or fifth incident? The sixth case was the day before I dived into an underground cavity, but I haven't seen Mr. Luce this day either."

Which means I can't be a witness to Mr. Luce's alibi.

"But I don't see Mr. Luce that often originally. If that's all, it's likely to happen."

When I argue that,

"Yeah. That's what I thought too... When I looked into it, I found facts worth noting. Mr. Luce didn't go through the library labyrinth reception."

"What!

Reception is about that place where I was once stopped by a gatekeeper knight.

You shouldn't be able to get into the library labyrinth without going through there.

"I still have the ingredients. How far does Ed know about Princess Beatrice's legend?

"Princess Beatrice, who was famous as a singing princess, was killed after being torn in the throat and belly for having had an unjust child with a wife, a man..."

"Heritage tells me Princess Beatrice was an impressive beauty with flax hair and grey blue eyes"

"Same as Mr. Luce..."

Mr. Luce has flax hair and grey blue eyes. It may be some young when it comes to beauty, but it doesn't make a difference to be a beauty shape.

The names are similar and the appearance being conveyed is common. On top of that, there was even something in common with the amputee (ripper) case in terms of getting his throat and belly torn.

I don't want to think about it, but are you indiscriminately attacking young women as amputees (rippers) for resenting the beatings you used to get? No, the victim of the sixth case was a man...

While I'm thinking about it, Brother David keeps going.

"Then it's that Mr. Luce didn't know about the Dragon Knights. The establishment of the Dragon Knights is in the name of Ilgand III. Meanwhile, Princess Beatrice was the princess of Ilgand II who hit that generation ago"

"If Mr. Luce's knowledge had stopped at the time of his death, do you mean Tsuji would fit..."

Brother David snorted quietly at my words.

"But if Mr. Luce is a Necromancer, there's no way Melvi or Toshiya won't notice..."

I almost noticed.

- Mr. Luce and Melvi have never looked at each other before.

This won't happen.

Just before Melvi arrived, Mr. Luce had disappeared.

At that point, I wasn't thinking about those two together, but what if Mr. Luce was sensing Melvi's presence with some skill?

What if Mr. Luce was intentionally avoiding contact with fairies who could see through lies and not be seen by the bad guys?

There are other things to be suspicious.

Above all, Mr. Luce couldn't get through the [Devil's Eye of Truth].

It didn't go through, or it did, exactly.

I didn't know what that meant then, but yesterday, I had the same experience again. When I tried to see Barron and Queen in the [Devil's Eye of Truth], it was as simple as it was in Mr. Luce's time.

If this "bare street" is due to the same reason, it would mean that Mr. Luce is a Necromancer.

The more I think about it, the more suspicious Mr. Rouche seems to be.

Mr. Luce hasn't given us his real or family name yet.

I can't imagine very well that Mr. Luce with that soft grin is a hunting killer, but if Mr. Luce is a necromancer, there is also the possibility that he will only be paranoid and change his personality under special conditions... etc.

"What do we do? You ask Mr. Luce directly? Shall I call Melvi?

Melvi is now preparing for your husband's liberation festival in Fairy Town.

Since the work of undoing the stripping junction is well under way, Melvi's husband will be open soon.

In keeping with that day, they decided to throw a grand feast in Fairy Town.

It feels like Melvi is packing roots, so Cecel and Cecela said they had plans for the opening festival.

Anyway, if you want to hear from someone involved in the case, it would be useful to have Melvi. I'm sorry to treat you like a convenient fairy, but I can tell if Mr. Luce is telling the truth.

You'll also know why Mr. Luce is avoiding (possibly) Melvi.

However,

- No, this should talk to me and you.

Brother David disagreed.

"Mr. Luce is our mutual acquaintance. As far as I'm concerned, I think we're friends. I don't want to imitate my friends."

Brother David says clearly.

I wonder if I've been told to go away with this.

True, that's what your brother says. You can't suddenly try a friend because you're suspected of being a Ripper.

But the idea is to ask directly.

Most importantly, he's the first love of Brother David. Even if Mr. Luce wasn't a Ripper, his first love would no longer be fruitful.

In the first place...... what is Brother David going to do with his feelings if Mr. Luce was a cleaver (ripper)?

"... if you did... what would your brother do?

I'll probably ask.

- I confess.

"... Huh?

"I confess to Mr. Luce"

"Hey, why did you come to that conclusion?

"I don't like to change my attitude after listening to you. Does it matter if Mr. Luce is a ghost or a person or a trespasser in the library? Mr. Luce is Mr. Luce."

"But if the legend says so, carry the unjust child..."

"What is it, Ed? Everyone has a past. If there is such a continuum of past, current Mr. Luce, I would like to accept Mr. Luce, including any joint ventures in the past.

So I confess to Mr. Luce without asking. "

What a well......

"Yeah, I'll be there for you, brother"

"Thanks. Well, it's quick, but can you get in touch with me? Ed is younger than me, but he knows more about common sense than I do, including in previous life."

"Of course. Even so, how do you confess, right?

"Yes. That's the problem... Should I write a love sentence or give a poem..."

"Why are the first and second candidates those two!

"What... but in classical theatre usually..."

"Keep your literature out of your head for the moment."

Well, both Brother David and Mr. Luce are beautifully shaped, so there's the possibility of an outgoing crush...... no, you don't. Exactly.

"So, what do we do?

"Why don't you just say it by mouth, usually? I like you, go out with me."

"Become... su, tsu... eh!

"... no, I think it would be more hurdled to write a love sentence or give a poem"

"No, Ed, okay? Him, people have created different forms of expression to express their emotions. One of them is prose and rhyme. Ignoring the wisdom of this civilization and conveying favors in direct language doesn't seem very right to me...!

My brother is reluctant to say that with a toad.

Oh, my God! Not as good as I imagined, this guy.

"Um... Brother David will take Mr. Luce as he is, won't he? Then why shouldn't your brother himself tell you how he feels?

"Ugh... that's true"

"Besides, the emotions your brother has right now are the most honorable of all human emotions, aren't they? Why should I be ashamed to tell you that?

"Ugh... that's..."

"... no, I get it. Even I get nervous if I want to confess to someone. I also find it embarrassing. I don't know what I'd do if I failed."

I don't have that experience, though!

"But isn't that why they're so impressed with you for confessing to me over it?

"-!"

Rarely, my brother was out of line.

And think about it for a while.

For a while, silence flowed...

"... yeah. Right. Maybe Ed's right."

Brother David said that with a resolute face.

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So the day after that.

Me and Brother David headed into the usual browsing room.

I haven't made any promises about the date and time, especially with Mr. Luce. It's about working together when we get together.

So, when I was bad, it was possible that I went to the browsing room to get ready and there was no Mr. Luce,

"... was there"

I said that inside the browsing room, peeking through the corner in front of it.

Taking my word for it, Brother David, who was behind it, walks into the browsing room in a squeaky move.

Here's the eavesdropping - and I don't even have the option of watching, but I think we should just shy away.

I decided to slow down the hallway of the library labyrinth by killing the signs so Mr. Luce wouldn't notice me and kill time in another browsing room nearby.

Of course, I can feel the signs of the two of us from here.

Otherwise, in the worst case scenario - Mr. Luce is a mutilator (ripper) or evil spirit, and he can't get in there to help if he tries to attack Brother David.

Even Brother David has a level of combat ability that he's not a regular person due to his demonic modification by me, so I don't think he's going to be late unless there's so much...

Brother David tells me you'll be here in about fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes has never felt this long.

I took the watch out of the dimensional storage and made sure it had been fifteen minutes before heading to the two waiting browsing rooms.

There's...

There was Brother David, who was bright white and brought to the chair, and Mr. Luce, who was blushing and crying.

Dude...... how do I follow this?

"... brother, Mr. Luce"

In the meantime, speak to two people who haven't noticed this one.

"Oh... Ed? As you can see."

Brother David said to throw.

"Sorry......"

Mr Rouche says in a nagging manner.

"Yeah... my brother confessed and Mr. Luce turned it down... so that's okay, right?

My brother trembled, but I couldn't think of anything else to say.

Mr. Luce will answer.

"Yes..."

"The... reason? Brother David is smart in erudition, and he is also the Marquis' third son. I think he's handsome, as you can see, and I think Mr. Luce and I were playing."

"That's... I think it is. But I don't deserve that feeling."

"Qualifications…?

"Yes, I'm sorry... I won't be able to come here any time soon"

To Mr. Luce's words, he raised his face as Brother David had been played.

"Oh no...! No way, because of what I confessed...?

"Chi, no... right?

I have a situation too......

Anyway, uh... oh, sorry... whoa! I really can't!

To another rejection, Brother David slipped out of the shell.

Dressed as it was in the famous scene of the boxing animation of the previous life, my brother brings it to the chair to ashes.

In short, is the translated part of Mr. Luce why he refused to confess?

However, it's bad for your brother, but looking at Mr. Luce, it might have been suspicious if this confession had been accomplished even if there had been no "explanation". Mr. Luce seems to see Brother David only as a friend, and Mr. Luce doesn't seem willing to ask for love in the first place.

This point might have been something I could have done in advance if I had a little more romantic experience. I've done bad things to my brother......

But when a confession is a failure, it's hard to hear what else you wanted to hear.

No, on the contrary, should I already ask directly?

Mr. Luce will answer now, too.

"... I'll ask you directly why it's troublesome already, but Mr. Luce is the ghost of the library labyrinth - not the legendary Princess Beatrice, right?

"Oh, yeah! Wow, I'm not like that, am I?

Mr Rouche said in a heartfelt surprise.

"So, is Mr. Luce actually a demon or a demon spirit, killing people at night as cleavers (rippers)...?

"And I won't! Terrible! Were you suspicious of that!? So David was looking strange!?"

No, I'm just annoyed that something's wrong with your brother.

Mr. Luce is unconscious about his charm, isn't he? What kind of environment would I grow up in?

"No, I don't seriously doubt it. If Mr. Luce is Princess Beatrice, it would be strange to wear glasses."

Yes. Now I realize... it's strange that old ghosts wear glasses.

At this point, it would have been nice to know that Mr. Luce was not the ghost of the library labyrinth.

You can't completely deny the charge of the Ripper, but you don't even think this is all an act.

"Brother David didn't say and hear that if Mr. Luce was a ghost, he wouldn't mind, he would convey his thoughts. That's all I really like about Mr. Luce."

"What..."

"Hey...... eh, Edgar!

Mr. Luce's cheeks turn red again. It's brilliantly rosy because the original is white.

"So I won't force you, but if you can talk, will you tell your brother about Mr. Luce? Even if I shake it, I don't think I can give up like this."

Looking straight at Mr. Luce, I beg you to.

I'm sure Mr. Luce has a translation, and I know Brother David doesn't seem to have a pulse. Still, it's my first love. Your brother looks cute without knowing anything.

"... Phew. Sure, you can't stay like this.

First of all, I should like to say to you at the outset that I was very pleased with how David felt. But I can't think of having a partner. This is not just how I feel right now, but a conclusion that I have lived through for a long time, so I am not going to bend it. So David's... well, I can't respond to the confession. I'm sorry. "

Brother David's neck broke disappointingly in Mr. Luce's words.

"Next, why don't I tell you about my qualities… I can't tell you the details about this either. This is important to me… what can I say, friend, or companion, like a courtship towards such a person?

But that brother-in-law is almost over. At that time, I will appear before you again, Mr. David and Mr. Edgar, to explain all the circumstances. "

I am not sure what Mr Luce is saying, clearly, but I know that he is trying to answer me honestly as Mr Luce.

"A little more, how long?

"I'm really almost there. Probably won't take two weeks."

Much more specific.

"Finally, I have nothing to do with the Ripper (Ripper) terrorizing the city. I am not a ghost or evil spirit, let alone a devil. Then when they say something..."

Mr. Luce cut the words there, and hiccup, he saw me (...) for some reason, not Brother David.

So, I was accidentally attacked by visibility. Speaking of which, even when I first met Mr. Luce, I felt like I'd met him somewhere. I thought it was my fault in the end, and I haven't digged in before......

"Not yet, I can't answer. But the only thing that means you haven't done anything wrong is, believe me, it's okay. You believe me...... right?

"Yes, of course."

Brother David responded instantly to Mr. Luce, who raised anxiety and asked the boss.

Kind of, I thought, but it didn't even look like Mr. Luce was calculating and doing it.

"Until that day...... you shouldn't be here anymore. For a while, but let's say goodbye. See you... again"

That's what Mr. Luce said and left the browsing room.

"Ah... wait!

Brother David leaps out of the browsing room after Mr. Luce.

but my brother suddenly stopped at the corner outside.

I go to my brother wondering what's wrong and take a peek at the back of the bend.

There's...

"... not here, or"

Mr. Luce's figure had disappeared like smoke or something.