One hundred and twenty-six

"What's all this stuff, but why didn't you imprison Mr. Johann from the beginning? I don't think it's easier to keep a lot of watches and stuff around the mansion."

Sasori tilts his neck with his arms together.

"Sure, I do. There was something inconvenient about keeping it close by. But I think I can think of something."

As Sasori put it, Johan's condition was said to be inefficient. If we can get the means to imprison mothers and children, it should be quicker to lock them up as well as put a collar on them. But Johann was in a suburban mansion, and was on guard hired in by the outside. Wouldn't that make any sense there?

Mira, who thought so, somehow turns her gaze to Milene. Meanwhile, Milene's spine stretched tremendously as she put her mouth on the cup of cocoa.

"It's Milene. If you have any particular precautions for the processing of black mist stones, would you let me know more about them?

"Precautions, is? Uh... okay."

Mila said, Milene nodded in vain if she was to help her master out, mouthing information on external secrets.

And Milene told me it was a brilliant convincing reason why Johann was in the mansion with the watch.

Says that before processing black mist stones, it is necessary to keep items about spirits, such as spiritual weapons, away. If you don't, Spirit Martial Arts will break.

The machining has a process from the first to the fifth, and as it progresses, its sphere of influence also seems to expand.

"It's about two meters at first, but in the final process, they say it affects up to a kilometer radius. I can only make it to the first step, so I don't know the details."

Milene, who explained so much, exhales much louder as she pounds the cocoa left in the glass all at once. I'm a little nervous, that's how it is.

"Is it still true? What a nasty nature."

In other words, when processing black mist stones, Mira thought that the curse hidden there would cause some action. I wonder if that will erase the spiritual power that is the root of spiritual weapons and other things that are around us.

Speaking of chimeric closens, it grabs the Spirit and uses its power. Then naturally, it seems to be overflowing with massive spiritual power when it is also the home base. Processing in that place would already be catastrophic.

Hence, Johann was not imprisoned at the most watchful and hassle-free base, and he left his mother and son in the mansion as shackles.

"Earlier, by the way, your lord said you could make it to the first step. If you can, why don't you show me?

That being said, Mira took the black mist stone she had been collecting instead of the evidence from Senki's burial site out of the item box and placed it on the table in front of Milanese.

"Yes...... Well, if that's what you say."

Milene, who replied so, brings the bag that she had in the corner of the living room. It's a possession of Milanese that I recovered when I grabbed her.

Having taken some appliances out of that bag, Milene begins to prepare like an experiment in stiffness and science. He says it's a treasure Johann gave him, and he's carrying it with him without letting his skin go.

And when I got it all together, I took the white bag out of my bag this time.

"Don't you have Spirit Martial Arts?

With the bag in his hand, Milene asks. When the three replied that they did not have it, Milene said, "Well, you're fine," and put the bag back in the bag and sat down in the chair.

"Sometimes, what was the bag you were holding right now?

Bags taken out by Milene by accident. Mira, curious as to what it was, stares at Milene's bag and says so.

"The bag can be made of special packaging material to protect spiritual weapons and the like from the effects of processing."

"Ho ho, something like that."

Milene explained, Mila raised her voice as impressed and returned her gaze to the table lined up with experimental instruments.

"As for machining, as I said earlier, I have only been taught the first steps, so all I can show you is until I turn the black mist stone into a liquid. Is that okay?

"Um, that doesn't matter"

Mira nods back small to Milene, who asks to confirm.

Though apprenticeship is still professionalism, the look on Milene's face sitting in front of the apparatus was quite calm and seriously colored, unlike before.

And the processing of the milaine begins.

Crush the black mist stone, shard half and powder half.

Dissolve and heat the powder in water, and once the black water has boiled, add the shards there. All you have to do is stay put and scratch until the shards are gone.

This is everything Milanese can do, and it seems to be the first step. There are four more steps left in the machining itself, and they need to put it down and stabilize it for a day in this state to move on.

"It's kind of disgusting water."

Staring at the sticky thick black liquid, the sasori frowns. The snake also had no heart or expression.

As far as I can tell, the machining itself was really simple.

But in the middle of it, Mira occasionally made sure that something like a thin black ripple spread out of the container to such an extent that it didn't even reach the corner of the room. And I intuit that this is the curse that wipes out spiritual power.

"I've come up with one thing, but it's an earlier bag, a special packing material, right? Then if you cover the room with that material, can it be processed anywhere?

Having witnessed a definite phenomenon, Mira turns her gaze again to the bag placed in the corner of the room when she simultaneously speaks of the raised questions.

"Yes, I do think that way we can process it anywhere. Materials to make packaging materials are expensive, but they won't spare bad people named Chimera."

Saying so, Milene rises up and returns with a small white shard and coat in her hand from her bag.

"I'm just sure they don't know this very existence. Because this was made by the master himself, and he should never teach such bad people."

You still believe Johann, Milene stared straight back at Mira and put it that way, letting the white shards in her hand drop into the black liquid.

Then I wondered, the black liquid wandered, and when I crossed the gray, it stained even more white. At the same time, Mira confirms that the curse ripples have scratched off.

"Now what? What did you put in there?

Staring at the container, he raised his voice so that the sawdust could curl and stand. It changed from a creepy liquid to a pure white, sarcastic liquid. I can't help but be surprised.

"Eh, it's a Tianshi stone shard. Only in liquid condition, but the effect of black mist stone can be suppressed. And the packaging material is made by processing this birthstone."

Milene, who said so, stops the hand that was spinning the container. Then it was liquid. It coagulated and solidified like a stone. Milene laughs as she takes it out, saying, "If this happens, you'll be thrown away with the garbage".

"And this coat is a spiritual weapon, but it is unaffected because it was immersed in a special solution made from a birthstone"

Milene continued, proudly putting up her coat. It's the coat of spiritual weapons that Johann said it was a gift from.

"I can do that, too. Awesome."

"Yeah, this is important"

What Milene said, which was, in other words, a suggestion that we could counter the abominable arming of chimeric closens.

The Fifty Bells Federation, an organization that stands by and protects the spirits. Many of its members possess spiritual weapons. Naturally, it's a positive spiritual weapon. Therefore, however, the black weapon used by Chimera Clozen was a source of concern.

But this time, I saw the light there. The look on the face of the sasori and snake is really bright.

"Hmm, I see."

When Mira re-sits deep in the chair, she follows her fingers along the tip of her jaw, nods like she was good at it, and sums up the gist.

The processing of black mist stones needs to be carried out without the power of the Spirit around them. And there would be no such place in the home of Chimera Clozen.

The material that solves it was independently developed by Johann and is not known to Chimera Clozen.

In other words, it is likely that the place where Johann was taken is not the headquarters of Chimera Clozen, but a place where there are no objects around him that use the power of the Spirit.

"In the meantime, I guess I should hit a Melville Chamber of Commerce relationship facility or something that doesn't use the power of the Spirit"

"Right. First of all, let's do it."

Combining the information obtained to conclude, Sasori presents a general policy for the future and Mira agrees.

Compared to the home of Chimera Clozen, the difficulty will decrease somewhat. Nevertheless, the Melville Chamber of Commerce is currently the best growing stock in the Principality of Roseline. There will be countless facilities for people, including during construction. The place we need to find out is huge.

That's why the three of us can't even butt in. If all that can be done now is to narrow it down with an authentic investigation, it will only be done thoroughly.

"All you have to do is watch to process the black mist stone. If it affects a kilometer radius, then that black wave has the nature to go through the wall, right? If we check him from the outside, we'll see what we can do. The question is, when did the incarcerated Johann..."

"Hey Mira. Wait, wait."

As Mira was mouthing her thoughts as she came up with them, she raised her voice to block the sasori from floating a bewildered look.

"Mm, what?

"I don't know a lot of things, but what do you mean by the black waves I just said? How does that have anything to do with the processing of black mist stones?

If you look at it, snakes and milaines were also putting questions on their faces to agree with the sasori. When Mira looks around at the three of them like that, she leans her neck towards the meaning of the question. I thought it might have been visible during the first process of black fog stone processing.

"Whatever they say. You see, when Milene was processing, she was out of there."

Mira explained when she pointed to the white mass made by Milene, gesturing and gesturing.

When the powder was dispersed into the black liquid, thin, black ripples began to spread around the area to pulse. And that fits as soon as I put in the Tianshou stone shards, which I can't see now.

Furthermore, Mira is believed to be the culprit of that black ripple wiping out spiritual power because of the circumstances and appearance. If there is an impact outside the room, the wider the scope of the process, the easier it will be to observe from the outside. As a result, you will see where Johann is. Yes, Mira said.

"I didn't see that..."

"I couldn't see."

"Uh, so am I."

Sasori, the snake, and Milene looked at each other face after the three of them, and then made a mouthful that seemed to turn back to Mila. Apparently, you really don't know what Mira's talking about.

"Oh my... So I'm the only one who saw it?

So murmured Mira, sighing one and then bringing her arms together to the chair to look up at the ceiling. And since I saw what the three of them could not have seen, I conclude that I should be the watchman.

(Hmm. What if it's the effect of the Spirit King's protection)

Furthermore, Mira wondered why she only saw herself and came up with one major difference as a factor. According to the story, the curse of the ghost can be purified by the protection of the Spirit King and the use of the Holy Sword Sanctia. Then it would not be strange to have something that would make you perceptible to the power of its protection.

Somehow, but feeling so, Mira quickly laughs toward the void, wondering if the protection of the Spirit King has become tame. The patronage of the Spirit King is an unknown force that Mira also does not yet know, and it seems that expectations cannot be suppressed.

By the way, there are two main ways to tame spiritual protection. Whether the Spirit shall place himself in the place where he shall preside, or whether the Spirit shall exercise the attributes under which he shall preside.

And the more tame the protection of the Spirit, the stronger the influence simply becomes.

So Mira got a corner, and she was doing something to tame the protection of the Spirit King. Even so, the method is simple, if you have time, to play with the Holy Sword Sanctia, which seems to have the deepest relationship with the Spirit King...... just train.

"Well, that's why I'll keep an eye on you. I'm sure we'll find out when the machining starts."

The effect of the training must have allowed us to see the waves of the ghost curse. So duly convinced for a reason, Mira confidently decided on her role.

"Okay. Then Mira decides to keep an eye out, and me and the snake will hit the Melville Chamber of Commerce facility one by one because the machining operation didn't start immediately. Or something like that."

"That's for sure"

"Um, yeah. That would be good."

When Sasori presented a summary of future moves, the snake and Mira also agreed to it, first consolidating their future policies.

"Oh, yeah. Sometimes it's Milanese. Can I ask you something?

Mira looked at the map of the city of Eileen as she began to prepare herself just for the start of the action, just like she had come up with.

"What is it?

Milene, who was cleaning up the alchemy tools, stops that hand and looks back.

"That mask your lord was wearing, do you know where that came from?

That mask. It's a suspiciously designed mask that used to detect. It cannot be carried poorly, so it remains unattended in the inn.

"Origin, is it? Uh, my master even gave me a pass to enter the Melville Chamber of Commerce facility, until I got out..."

"Hmm, don't you see? Does that mean Johann didn't even make it?

As Milene answers, staring into the hollow to recall, Mila speaks further of the question. The mask incorporated the ability to disable the reactions of magic sensors located at the Melville Chamber of Commerce facility. I guess that's why it's a pass.

"The master is only alchemy, so the instrument is a tease"

"Then someone else made it."

Johann can't seem to make the tools. It seems similar and has a completely different field, so it can be taken for granted.

"So you know who made it?

Convinced, Mira went on to do so. If the mask was made, we might be able to trace the client from there. That's what Mira thought.

And the sasori and the snake, too, stop their legs and pay attention to Milene, whether the interaction between them has taken place.

"Someone, is... Eh... mmm..."

Milene, with her arms together and her eyelids closed, wrinkles between her eyebrows as she utters a rumor. And when I let the expression circle further from there, Milene accidentally said, "Ah!" He raised his voice.

"Speaking of which... the box... Eh, take it as a box... In a white box...... What the hell...... I managed to find a workshop..."

Something seems to have come to mind in my memory. Is it reproducing the movement at the time, Milene began to bump and whine as she repeatedly gestured strangely.

"Um, excuse me. He said he was hungry..."

As Mira and the others spurned and watched, the door opened in the back, from which Angelique looked sorry and peered into his face. Beside it, there is also the figure of Anne, with a little confusion.

And that's when.

"Oh, I remember! An all-flat workshop!

Shortly after seeing Angelique, Milene shouted so with her eyes shining as if it were still this. I wonder if this is what is commonly referred to as an Aha experience, he has a really clean smile. But Angelique, standing at the end of his gaze, accidentally froze his expression.

"Hey, Mr. Milene. Why did you look at me and remind me, you know, of an all-flat workshop?

That was a moment. Angelique, with a quietly burning flame in his eyes, was instantly approaching the end of Mille-Nu's eyes and nose.

"Uh, ma'am, that's..."

In vain, Milene glances at Angelique's chest. Is that the decisive hit, the surroundings of Milanese turn from sunny to dark clouds begin to set in. And she would shrug herself into a quiet thunderbolt.

"Excuse me," said Angelique, who made a light breakfast after the storm had passed, returning to the back room again. Milene, who dropped off the hindsight in an upright immobilization, stuck to the table as soon as she could. Milene said that it's usually a gentle angelic, but when I touch on one point, this happens.

With his gaze on the snake, Mira sincerely prayed that the two of them would not bowl together in the bathroom.

After such a little commotion, the story goes back to the maker of the mask.

Milene, who was just the owner, said she didn't know what kind of workshop that all-flat workshop was.

But instead, the snake knew. The snake said he had been investigating the connection between the Melville Chamber of Commerce since he came to the city, among which was the name of the All-Flat Workshop.

Nevertheless, according to the story of the snake, the workshop does not yet appear to be under the umbrella of the Melville Chamber of Commerce. He's been solicited, but now he says it's a no situation.

It is the work of such a workshop, but apparently it specializes in the production of various art tools.

"Hmm, you mean the art shop? If you're being solicited, you're sure of your skill."

Mira shrugs so when she finishes listening to the snake and thinks of a possibility. I was wondering if the magic sensors at the Melville Chamber of Commerce facility were made from an all-flat workshop.

"So, Mira. What's wrong with that mask?

Even though it was a technique, it wasn't so threatening. Then Sasori questions why he touched on the matter just before the start of the action.

"No, it's not a big deal. If that mask can be made, I wonder who made it."

That's what Mira talked about, citing another technique of detection that was being masked, a trick to disable magic sensing.

The performance of the magic sensors glimpsed during the escape from Warehouse Street was a certainty that could also be needed for the security net.

If a scheme can be put in place to escape such security, in other words, the magic sensing device itself is believed to have been developed by the workshop.

If that were the case, it would also require regular maintenance and response in case of malfunction, which is all the more onerous.

If that is the case, there is a good chance that customer information is withheld on the workshop side about where the device is installed, so to speak, and if we examine it, we may be able to discover important facilities such as the Melville Chamber of Commerce, which cannot be confirmed from the table.

In some cases, it may also be possible to obtain clues about the facilities directly related to Chimera and where Johan is being held.

"And that's not why. Trust matters more than anything. Ask me to show it to you. It's not something you can see."

If it worked as expected, it would be a good opportunity to get a lot of information, but that was still the problem.

Even though the workshop is involved with the Melville Chamber of Commerce, the job description is even more legitimate. In addition, according to a snake survey, it is a reliable workshop with many users.

If Chimera Clozen is your opponent, you can do it rough, but if you're just a merchant, it's natural that you won't either.

"Then we'll have to infiltrate."

"I guess so."

I don't generally get annoyed. It's not like you can go from the front again and show it to me. There is also a hand in uncovering all of the reasons and stimulating conscience, but there is a strong fear of being eyed by the Melville Chamber of Commerce, and it is also unclear that we may have that much conscience together in the first place.

But I want information. Then there will be no other way but to steal out the information so that no one will notice.

"Well, now you've got three good ways to do it."

After saying so, Sasori looked around at each of them.

The current overriding goal is the rescue of living witness Johann, who can testify to the relationship between the Melville Chamber of Commerce and Chimera Closen.

And as a result of the discussion, three types of maneuvers were named to find him unclear where he was taken.

The first is to capture the special fluctuations generated by the processing of black mist stones. I just can't observe this without Mira.

The second is a search that assumes the effects that would be due to the fluctuations. When processing black fog stones, if there are spiritual tools nearby, tools that use the power of the spirits, etc., a side effect occurs that the power is extinguished. As a result, there are a limited number of places that can be processed, making it easier to hit them.

The third is obtaining customer information about the location where the magic detector was installed, supposedly in an all-flat workshop. From there, explore whether there is a facility in the name of the Melville Chamber of Commerce that is different from the Warehouse District. If there was, there would be something there that would just tighten security. If there is nothing spirit-related around the place, there is also a possibility that Johann is incarcerated.

"In the meantime, I wonder if the workshop is in my charge"

"I look for an institution unrelated to the Spirit"

I'm not even an observation.

The three of them, each in charge, drank the remaining cocoa from the cup at the table at the same time.

Sasori, who is capable of infiltration work, sneaks into the workshop. A snake who is a magician and can perceive the Spirit is a search for an institution where the Spirit's powers are not around him. Mira was then determined to be a lookout to observe the fluctuations that occur during the processing of black fog stones.

However, it will take some time for Johann to resume processing the black mist stone. As far as the mansion was concerned, he was suddenly taken out, so we could expect that he didn't have all the equipment he needed. In this regard, I asked Milanese that it should not be possible to prepare overnight because the processing of black mist stones requires several special instruments.

In other words, Mira, although she said an observation, also had some respite.

So the three men, who had set a date and time for their next assembly, promised Angelique and Milene that they would leave Johann to them before leaving the basement behind.

Ground floor warehouse in the Ebates Chamber of Commerce office building. Mira, who watched the concealed door close, asked Sasori how to open it again and wrote it down on the appropriate paper that was in the item box. I don't like remembering things like puzzles.

Around you are in a dim warehouse messy with artwork and paperwork. After checking that the contents noted on the sasori match, return the paper to the item box and a fountain pen that looks luxurious. And, at that time, one more document caught Mira's eye.

"Oh, yeah. I forgot."

So whine, Mira takes out the paperwork. It was a bunch of paper spanning dozens of sheets.

"Oh, that."

Looks like I remembered the sasori too. But the snake wasn't there when he received it, so naturally he didn't know, and he peered into Mira's hand and said, "What's this? asked."

"It's from Johann. It's about Black Misty Stone."

When Mira produces the light with intangible technique, she lets him roll the cover of the paperwork. And for a while, the three of them looked at each other and looked through the description.

There were described methods of processing black mist stones, methods of bonding with other substances, and properties that appear in constant combinations in numerous research results.

And the highlight is the second half of the page. There were detailed written countermeasures when dealing with various processed items of black fog stone.

Johan's temper to obey for his wife and daughter but never yield, and as if to absolve himself of making inhumane substances, could be seen from the dossier.

In addition, the description also describes the letter ghost. relationship between ghosts and spirits. It's a rare piece of information that few people know.

Therefore, the credibility of this material is greatly increased. And Johann's thoughts on commissioning this material certainly passed on to Mira and the others.

"This is an emotional report that seems to dictate the war situation. Sooner or later, she might want to bring it to the beard."

After reading through it all, Mira laughs bitterly at the descriptions that were more serious than she thought, with her fingers attached to the tip of her jaw.

"Yeah, you are. There are a lot of craftsmen at headquarters, and as early as possible, we might be able to replicate all the countermeasures that were written."

"Should Prioritize"

Sasori and the snake said so, agreeing again. There are a lot of laborious things about what was described as a countermeasure. It will take a lot of time to analyze the materials well and align and process the materials.

Better start prepping a little early to prepare for battle. Yes, the three of us agree.

"Then I will deliver it. It should take a few days for the black fog stone processing to resume. Based on the machining stage, the more we can observe it from the outside tomorrow, the greater the impact."

If you ride back and forth in Pegasus, you'll be back in a couple of days. With that in mind, Mira offered to take delivery.

Black ripples generated by the processing of black mist stones, he said, would expand in scope as the stage of processing progressed. Even if we set up the equipment and started work yesterday today, it won't be until outside, as Mira said, for about two or three days. It was thought that we could afford just enough in time.

"Okay. I'll take care of Mira. However, if you're about that size, there's a better way!

Sasori said so boastfully somewhere after agreeing instantly without a rush to think. And he goes on to say that the Fifty Bells Federation has a special way of delivering, and mouths the outline.

The method is to request express flights from branches of the Fifty Bells Federation in numerous cities.

They say it's the means used when it's more urgent, and we're talking about it reaching headquarters in half a day.

"There are no branches in this city. One is St. Polly. Outside the Commercial District South"

When Sasori finished explaining it, the snake, saying so, took out the map and showed it pointing to the point where there was a branch.

"Um, I got it"

Peeping into the map and confirming its location, Mira puts a hit on it, thinking of the city of St. Polly, which looked down from the sky the other day, that it would be around.

"And the euphemism." Light in the woods, rest in the Spirit, "you tell the Branch Manager, and you can use a communications machine with direct access to HQ. That's what I'm asking."

"Hmm, light in the woods, peace in the Spirit, bye. Okay."

While answering that, Mira took out the paper and fountain pen again and wrote down the euphemism.