episode_0032

I woke up in a room that looked quite cozy.

Although I am detained, I am handcuffed as if they know that I am a piece of shit. And not backwards, but forwards.

‘Stop adding twists and turns like this, you idiot producer. ‘Aren’t you paying attention to probability?’

Could it be that the reason there haven’t been any problems until now is because I got into it without anyone noticing? Even so, you’re putting a ministerial-level person, not an ordinary person, in this position?

nonsense. There must be some reason.

As I looked around the room, a call button caught my eye. I quickly pressed the button.

Soon the door opened, and two men came in. One was Robben, whom I had already become accustomed to, and the other…

‘Fucking masked knight.’

It seems like I’ve crawled into the tiger’s den.

“I know you might be confused. I suddenly used medicine and put him to sleep. But rest assured. I have no intention of harming you, Director. Right now.”

“What, if you join the plan, they will let you live, or if you don’t, they will kill you?”

“You know very well.”

“I know this because I’ve tried it sometimes, but I’m 100% sure it will work out later.”

“I will keep your advice in mind.”

That bastard.

“Alessia… What did I do with the bodyguard who came with me?”

“I only suppressed it. We might be on the same side, but I don’t want to see blood anymore.”

If you have a masked knight, Alessia alone won’t be able to do it. I already regret sending Bir.

“So, what is that brilliant plan?”

“If you join, we will let you know.”

“Yes, I will join in. So tell me.”

“Isn’t it too light?”

“Would you please write a memorandum? They say they will kill me if I don’t do it, but what are they going to do with me? You can only hit the commander if he survives.”

Of course, I am an exception. Because my boss comes after searching.

“You are quite honest.”

“I have a somewhat plain style.”

Robben pressed his finger between his eyes as if he was dizzy.

“Hmm… All right. Let me tell you. Anyway, the director is going to be locked up here until everything is over.”

“That’s a bit difficult.”

“There is nothing we can do. My wife warned me to be careful with the director.”

“Does your wife know me well? I saw it for the first time today.”

“You don’t necessarily have to see it often to find out, right? Some people can figure out a lot just from first impressions. My wife is that kind of person.”

Does this mean you have a great eye for people? By the way, since a while ago, I keep mentioning my wife.

“I definitely shouldn’t get married. I don’t like being held tightly to my wife like you do.”

“Hahaha, that’s none of my business. Then, let me come back to the main topic and tell you my plan.”

Robben sat at the table in the room. I followed suit and got out of bed and sat down at the table.

“I want to make this rotten country clean.”

“Then you were doing a job that wasn’t for your aptitude. Why don’t you take the path of a cleaner right now?”

“Don’t joke.”

It’s not a joke.

“The Director probably knows this too. The empire is riddled with all kinds of corruption.”

I know. If it stagnates, it rots. Because the upper part of the head is rotting, it is common all over the world.

But it wasn’t any of my business, so I left it alone.

“So, we need to completely tear it down? Are you planning on starting a coup?”

“You know very well.”

“Fuck.”

How big does the board get?

The merger of the front doors turned into a bloody fight, then the corruption of the National Defense Bureau became involved, and now it is a coup d’état?

“Do you have any plans to deal with the knights?”

The biggest mountain that must be overcome for a coup is the Knights. I don’t know how many articles are on Robben’s side, but it’s probably only a small number.

If so, there must be a plan on how to defeat the Knights.

“Of course. This man standing here is a former knight cadet.”

Aspiring knights become cadets at a knight training center and receive education and training. Among them, only some who received high grades become knights, while the rest are eliminated and join the imperial army or return to their hometowns.

Being a knight cadet means that you are an aspiring engineer who was rejected from this training center.

‘Of course it is. Money and fame are rolling in even if you stay still, so how could you possibly carry out a coup d’état?’

“This man had sufficient qualifications, but due to his poor background, he could not become a full-time knight. The idea of evaluating thoroughly based on ability is now a thing of the past.”

“How do you know that? Maybe I’m lacking in real skills.”

“… Then what do you think about the recent manpower shortage among drivers?”

“Hmm… ”

Originally, there was always a shortage of articles, but it has become particularly severe recently. I thought it was simply because the enemies on the outer continent had increased, but Lufia said that the enemies had not changed much.

“Surely, it is not the lack of articles, but the lack of quality that seems to be the reason?”

“That’s right. In recent years, all new knights have come from prestigious families. Even if your skills are lacking, if you are from a prestigious family, you will force your grades by adding extra points for one reason or another.”

If that is true, the empire has become quite rotten. Organizations with the empire’s prestige at stake are selected based on background rather than ability.

“So, I gathered cadets with skills but no background, trained them, and formed a new order of 200 knights.”

“200 people? Too little?”

“That’s right. So I sponsored a certain scientific organization.”

Surely they’re not the scientists I know?

“Ginners. They call themselves that. The director probably knows this too. The Granat Project was implemented in the past in the backworld. The scientists who led the experiment were Guinness.”

Holy shit, it’s all tied up.

By the way, what is Guinness? It’s not even Guinness. I want to have Guinness beer for the first time in a while. It was expensive, so I only drank it on anniversaries.

“I suggested that they conduct safe experiments rather than such inhumane experiments, and thanks to this, the power of the New Knights was greatly strengthened. As a side effect, my skin became discolored.”

Robben shook his head with a sad expression.

“Then, was it your fault to steal the enhancement drug?”

“No, that’s the deputy director’s fault. Funnily enough, he sold drugs to Guinness. Thanks to you, I have a new weapon, so I’m thankful.”

So, this idiot, the deputy director of the National Defense Bureau, sold enhancement drugs to those preparing for a coup?

It’s like the United States sold missiles to Al Qaeda.

“Then why did you try to tie together organizations from the back world to attack the Management Bureau?”

“You knew.”

“How can you not know when you move so openly?”

Robben still had a friendly smile.

“Because we thought the Bureau was a more threatening enemy than the Knights. The Knights’ strength is predictable, but the Administration… Because in many ways, I couldn’t figure it out.”

“So this is this operation, attacking us with those bastards?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

It makes no sense for Robben, who has a childish cause of purifying the empire, to join hands with the underworld. However, it is possible to take advantage of those in the back world.

From the story, I found out that the experiment conducted on the knight cadets was a different type of reinforcing drug. It may not be true that there are no side effects, but since these are drugs that will be used for a long period of time, they must have been very careful.

But the people in the back world are different. Since they only used it for a short time, they must have provided dangerous strengthening drugs. The reason this is possible is because Deputy Director Asshole sold Oz Seven.

‘I’m going to be amazed.’

So what is the relationship between Roddy and Robben?

In Rion’s past story, Roddy was cooperating with a scientist he called Uncle. And the scientist probably belonged to Guinness, which was sponsored by Robben.

In the end, Roddy was just a piece of chess playing in this game.

‘no wonder… ‘There are a lot of suspicious aspects to the idea that Roddy took the lead in this whole situation.’

“I had a lot of worries. What is the mysterious power of the management bureau? I was afraid of the power of the organization created by a young director in his 20s with the active support of the Prime Minister. So we changed our strategy to join hands rather than be hostile.”

“Not a bad decision.”

“Hahaha, so I tried to make an appointment with the director, but I was surprised when he contacted me first.”

Fuck. This is exactly the situation where they say the pumpkin has rolled around on a vine.

“The director said. You can’t always do clean work for the greater good. Is it true that you were thinking the same thing as me?”

“……”

I didn’t bother to answer.

Robben’s big picture has been figured out. Now is the time to figure out the detailed plans.

So, rather than arguing with him, you should roughly pretend to cooperate and get information out of him.

At that time, a gurgling sound echoed from my stomach. You ignorant bastard.

Robben took something out of his pocket and put it on the table. Chocolate bar?

“I wasn’t paying attention. Let’s eat this first.”

“What is it this time? Will you die if you eat it?”

“No, there is no reason to do that in the current situation.”

I picked up the candy bar and looked at it closely.

Wait, what is this?

“It’s not Hises’s?”

“…Is there a problem?”

“There is a problem. Are you fucking kidding me? The root of chocolate is hises. I don’t know the taste of this.”

“Huh… Is that something to be so angry about?”

“Ha, true. I can’t believe I discussed the cause with a guy who has no foundation.”

I threw the candy bar at Robben, but it was blocked by the masked knight’s hand.

However, Robben’s expression looked as if he had been hit by a chocolate bar.

“…If I bring it to you, will you eat it?”

“No, I just want to eat that. Give it to me.”

“……”

Robben’s face distorted. It’s an expression that seems absurd.

The driver looked at Robben’s eyes and gave me a chocolate bar. I opened the chocolate bar and chewed it without hesitation.

“Hmm. It’s delicious. Gada chocolate is delicious too.”

“After… ”

Robben sighed deeply.

‘Eh, there’s not much of a reaction.’

Usually, serious people react sensitively to frivolous and childish provocations. Robben also has a serious personality, so I threw it at him once, but he didn’t get much of a response.

‘How should I die when I die… ‘

Should I seduce my wife and expose her affair? But Helen wasn’t really interested in me.

difficult. difficult.

“So, how do you feel?”

“What? Chocolate bar? It’s delicious.”

“No, stop talking about that damn candy bar. It’s a plan.”

“Hmm… Everything is good. The biggest problem remains. What are you going to do with Rupiah?”

Lufia, hero of the empire. They are currently on an expedition to another continent, but if they hear that a coup has occurred, they will rush in and suppress it in an instant.

Even if the Imuri God Knights fly and crawl, it is impossible to defeat Lufia. Looking at it, I couldn’t even beat Karjen.

“That’s right. The hero of the empire is the problem. Because it’s impossible to beat her. But she has big shackles.”

Surely you’re not saying it’s me?

“The northern and southern parts of the empire are deeply divided by the gap between rich and poor and discrimination. But Rupiah also extends a warm hand to people in the south. If we win the support of the southern public… She won’t be able to step forward so quickly.”

“Hmm……”

If we only look at Rupiah’s external image, Robben’s strategy works. The reason she is called the hero of the empire is not simply because of her major, but because she is devoted to all the people of the empire.

But to me, who knows the real Rupiah… This is a ruined plan.

Because they locked me up. Now that something is wrong with me, Lufia’s public image is meaningless.

“And aren’t you Director Lufia’s lover?”

Robben thinks I can persuade Rupiah. By preaching to Lufia, who loves the weak, the cause of cleaning up the rotten empire, they turn to their side, or at least not intervene.

But the truth is, I will kill them all before I can say anything. Then they will kidnap me and imprison me again, saying it is too dangerous outside.

Plus, she’s a crazy bitch who will clean up the entire empire if I ask her to do so.

I scratched my head roughly.

‘It seems like I’ve been preparing for quite some time… It’s such a vain dream. Even if the plan can be realized, how are you going to clean it up afterward?’

A country is not run by just one leader. Especially in a needlessly large country like an empire, more manpower is needed.

What would the country be like if we killed them all because they were all rotten? Of course it becomes a mess.

You should not just empty the water because it is rotten. If you empty it, fill it with clean water. What if you empty it without any clean water?

‘Everything is dry and falling behind. Even if it rots, water is still water.’

Well, this is their situation anyway, and it’s not my part-time job. Because the empire is neither reality nor my country. Besides, since I already found out about their plan, it’s no different from failure.

I reached out to Robben.

“I’m not really interested in cleaning up the empire or anything, but I’m all for stopping the damn old bastards.”

Robben looked at the hand, smiled and shook it.

“Hehe, whatever the reason is, it doesn’t matter.”

Robben stood up.

“Let’s get a telegraph. You’ll have to contact the management office.”

“Hey, you’re not going to release this?”

I shook the handcuffs.

“It seems difficult to release it yet.”

“Kabi.”

It felt like the atmosphere was warming up and letting things go. It’s a shame.

Robben left, and I was lying down on the bed when the door slowly opened.

I looked to see if the telegraph had already been brought in, but Robben’s wife, Helen, came into the room.

I asked Helen.

“What’s going on?”

“I have something to see the director.”

“I do not have inappropriate relationships with married women.”

I thought it was an opportunity for an affair, but since there was something unusual going on, I put my foot down.

“Hehe, it’s fun. Will you still make jokes like that after seeing this?”

Clap–

I saw a familiar piece of metal.

“Wow, you have great communication skills.”

The muzzle of the revolver in Helen’s hand was pointed at me.

“Our boy is so naive. Keeping a variable and uncontrollable person like the director alive.”

“That’s too much. What should I do when I’m trapped… hmm? Full of variables?”

Anyone who calls me that…

“…You bastard, you are a banshee.”

Helen smiled slightly.

“Please call me Helen from here.”

Holy shit. For some reason, I thought it was strange that he wasn’t surprised when he saw my face.

“Our guy, we treat him quite warmly. On a subject that is all fake.”

“It’s fake. Even after all this, I still love you with all my heart.”

Helen smiled sincerely, perhaps to prove me wrong. That smile truly belonged to a woman in love.

Veronica’s alter egos all have independent thoughts and emotions. That’s why they live their real lives, not fake acting.

Nevertheless, because it exchanges information in real time through its own mental network and follows the main body’s orders as top priority, it can abandon its life without hesitation depending on the situation.

The fact that individuals who can act independently become a colony when necessary. This is the scariest thing about the banshee.

“What are you planning this time?”

“You’re going to die soon, do you need to know that?”

“He’s going to die soon anyway, so you can tell him that much.”

Helen sighed and laughed. Rather than a laugh, it was a laugh that felt like it was as expected.

“Director cannot be at this level. We hope for a more perfect future.”

“Level? A perfect future? I don’t understand?”

“That is something for the director to think about gradually.”

What do you mean by saying you’re going to kill me and then think about it gradually?

Did these guys notice Retry?

Oh, no way.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t think the main body wants you to kill me, right?”

“You probably don’t want it. But it’s all for the body.”

There was no room for negotiation in Helen’s attitude.

‘Is it actually better? ‘I was thinking about how I should die.’

I wanted to know more details, but since I knew that Banshee was involved, there was no problem. All you have to do is extract the remaining information through Banshee.

“Even if it’s your last will?”

“Do you remember what I said before?”

“…Do you mean to not cross the line?”

“Yes. I can’t even cross the fucking line, so I’m even jumping rope. I will punish you, so be prepared.”

“Punishment… ”

Helen looked bitter at my last words.

“Please gently.”

bang-!

There was a hole in my head.

It hurts so bad.

[Game over. Restart from the last save point.]