episode_0441

In the underwater city where mysterious disappearances take place, I selected a few mermaids who could be the culprits.

Investigating Sheriff Maring looked at the people I found with suspicion.

“These two mermaids are.. Toto.“

“Yes! Sheriff!“

“Take the kids and find out. Because I’m going with Jageun.“

“Okay!“

A group of people moved with Toto.

They went out of the building under Maring’s instructions.

We moved to investigate the anchovy and shrimp mermaids.

“Let’s get started.“

“We have to leave… But I know where the first and second mermaids are. The puffer fish mermaid you mentioned has no address.“

“Right? It’s suspicious that there is no address.“

“Ha.. I wonder if your thoughts are right.“

It was Maring who felt that I would find the culprit through luck.

I felt like no matter what excuse I made now, they wouldn’t believe me.

So, I thought the best option was to prove it by showing it rather than telling it.

“You don’t have to look for where he is.”

“Huh? Why?“

“That’s because it’s near us.“

“They’re nearby us? Where!“

Maring started looking around the house after hearing what I said.

“Not in the house. I think you should look around the building where you can see this building clearly.“

“…That’s what I meant.“

Maring said he didn’t trust what I said, but he quite believed it.

I guess that behavior is cute in its own way.

There was something about it that felt like it went well with the dog image.

That’s how Maring and I moved.

I swam straight to the place where I felt the red energy earlier.

“This is the energy I felt earlier.“

“Uhm.. Since there was no address.. I’m a little suspicious of that motel. Let’s go.“

“Oh.. he’s the sheriff after all. Are you experienced?“

There were several buildings where we arrived following the red energy.

While looking around, I found a motel located high above Maringi.

Is he also a sheriff?

At first, I felt like I should take back what I said about not having an instinctive feeling.

I can’t believe I found a motel that smelled like a criminal.

-Tingle…

This motel was exclusively for mermaids.

So the building was also full of water.

Looking around the lobby.

It was well decorated to resemble a wild sea, so you could see sea anemones, clams, and fish moving around.

I felt like I was in a fish tank.

“Is there an owner?“

“Who are you?“

A counter table with no one around and a lot of trash piled up.

I stood there and called the owner.

A voice was heard from the ceiling.

and.

-Sooo…

A mermaid with a moray eel face jumped out of a hole in the ceiling.

“This is Sheriff Maring. Are you the owner of this motel?”

“Why did the sheriff come here? “

“Have you seen this mermaid?“

“Mermaid.. Let me take a look..“

I showed the mermaid data photo I found earlier to the moray eel owner.

The moray mermaid looking attentively seemed to know this puffer mermaid.

“Hmm.. Why are you looking for this mermaid?“

“A disappearance accident occurred recently. I need to find this mermaid and ask her something.“

“Is this mermaid the culprit?“

“I can’t tell you that because it’s part of the investigation.“

“I see..“

“Master, are you sure you are here?“

“I saw it until recently. 300.. what room it was.. I don’t remember the details.“

“Room 300.. I understand.“

When I heard that they were staying on the 3rd floor, I decided to knock on all their doors.

We started from room 301 and moved on.

Then, let’s knock on the door of room 306.

“What is it?“

“This is Sheriff Maring. Are you Scope?’

“…I see.“

“I’d like to talk to you for a moment.“

I found the puffer mermaid according to the photo.

It looked really unique because its chin was made of thorns.

If there is anything different from the data, the current appearance is that the body is quite large.

“Of course. What are you curious about that you came to see me for?“

“Recently, there was a disappearance case in this area.”

“So?”

“Only people went missing. I came here to see if you were related.”

“Me? That can’t be possible.”

I caught it and said it was not a pufferfish mermaid.

“I heard that your body size will become much smaller. I’d like to see it sometime.”

“Why do I have to show that…?”

“This is to prevent crime in the city. Please cooperate.”

“Oh my…”

The puffer fish mermaid frowned and glared at Maring.

“I’ll show you. Just watch it and leave right away. I’m tired so I want to sleep.”

The puffer fish mermaid glared at us in a very unpleasant way and showed off her talent.

I spit out the water that was inside my body.

Then, its body quickly shrunk, becoming almost the size of an insect.

“Enough now!”

As my body got smaller, my voice also got smaller, like that of an ant.

It was a very unique puffer mermaid.

It’s kind of cute, though.

“Your performance is certain.. No, you have good skills.”

“Please leave now!”

It was an angry puffer fish mermaid.

We had no choice but to leave the room.

“Are you done now?”

Maring looked at me as if he had picked the wrong culprit.

“Yes, that’s enough. I took a quick look around the room and saw traces of several people. Whether it’s hair, the shell of another mermaid, or blood…”

“What? Blood?”

“Yes, I am a blood mage, so I can feel someone’s spilled blood very well.”

Blood spurted from all over my body, and I checked the blood of many people brought from the room.

It’s like doing a scientific investigation.

“This is a mermaid-only motel, and there is a lot of blood from people I don’t know~ I guess they kidnapped it and brought it to this room.”

“…”

Maring heard what I was saying, but he was unaware of what I was seeing and feeling.

“Jageun.. Even if you knew.. you can’t actually prove that that mermaid is the culprit. People donate blood and sell it in the market too..”

Maring was right.

Even if I said that this mermaid was the culprit, without accurate evidence and confirmation that everyone could accept, my logic was just fake.

“Then, shall we take a look at how they were kidnapped?”

“What are you looking at..”

“How did that puffer mermaid catch the person?”

“Can you see that? How?”

“With the blood I got from him like this…”

I created a high-level blood magic using the blood of the puffer mermaid that I secretly extracted.

The guy’s blood slowly began to change.

“Blood cloner.”

“I can’t believe it..”

The blood changed to look exactly like the puffer mermaid in the room.

Except for the fact that the entire body was blood-red, it was exactly the same.

“Amazing.. This is diamond grade..”

“Well, something like that. Because I said I wanted to see you first. I’ll show you.”

-Just right!

I snapped my fingers and the cloned blood-red puffer mermaid moved.

I slowly swam down the hallway and went all the way down to the lobby.

The owner of the moray eel was waiting at the counter.

The moray eel owner looked at the red puffer mermaid and glared at it curiously.

“Huh? What is it?”

“…17811.”

I took out a pen and sea anemone paper from the lobby, wrote the number 17811 I just mentioned, and placed it on the counter.

And the cloned pufferfish mermaid went out of the motel.

“…You already did it. no. What is this? Who are you! Where! Where are you going!”

I didn’t care if there was a owner or not.

I just acted and moved as I had in the past.

We also followed the cloned puffer mermaid out of the model.

“Where are you going!”

The owner called us urgently, but we didn’t pay any attention.

I followed the cloned puffer mermaid.

It stopped at one point.

“This is… the sewer pipe of the missing person’s building..”

“Oh.. I was wondering how I got into the house, but I guess I got in here?”

“…”

The body of the puffer fish replicator became smaller.

I followed the foamy sewer pipe and entered the missing person’s house.

“Let’s go inside the house!”

Maring hurriedly entered the missing person’s house.

And at home…

“Not there yet?”

“Where is it..”

The guy hasn’t been seen yet.

But since I made it, I could feel it when I closed my eyes.

“It’s in the bathroom.”

“Toilet..?”

I went into the bathroom.

“It’s near the toilet.”

When I checked the toilet, I didn’t see any replicators yet.

“If you flush the toilet, will it come out?”

“I’ll take a look…”

Because I flush the toilet.

“Damage!”

-Shoot! Tuk-tuk!

A red puffer thorn appeared, bouncing all the way to the ceiling.

“This…I can’t believe it!”

“It’s not a skill I’ve tried once or twice.”

It was like that. The puffer fish mermaid, with its small body, had climbed down a sewer pipe and entered the missing person’s toilet tank.

And most people had to go to the bathroom right away when they woke up in the morning.

The missing person sitting in the toilet went about his business and flushed the water…

He was shocked when he discovered a smaller puffer fish mermaid.

“…there is. The traces I couldn’t find… are the thorns of the pufferfish mermaid…”

I couldn’t find any evidence or traces, but Maring finally found it.

There was a fine thorn stuck in the corner of the toilet that the criminal missed.

Traces of thorns were found on the ceiling.

However, this alone could not prove that he was the culprit.

“How did it get out..”

“It must have gone out the same way, right? Because that’s how I came in. Even when going out.”

“People are not puffer fish. How does it get smaller?”

“Hmm… I guess that guy’s thorn poison… was a poison that made him smaller…?”

“…That’s right. It’s written in the material. A puffer mermaid with spiny venom that reduces its volume. It says that if a human is hit, their body suddenly shrinks and they faint from shock..”

Maring looked up the data on the puffer mermaid and frowned as he clenched his fists.

He seemed very angry.

“Wait.. do you remember that number from the motel?”

Maring, who causes anger… I remembered the number she mentioned at the lobby counter earlier and asked her.

“17811..”

“What does that mean?”

“At a glance. Looks like a date. On the 17th… 8 o’clock. This is the estimated time of the incident.”

“Then what’s the 11 after?”

“..I don’t know. No, if you look at the note I left for the motel owner earlier…”

“I guess that means we’ll meet at 11 o’clock.”

“The probability of that happening is high.”

“Then the owner will have another note similar to the note you wrote earlier.”

“I guess so. If you rob him, it will come out. Moray eels are lazy and don’t throw away trash quickly.”

I felt like the investigation net was narrowing.

So I headed to the motel lobby with Maring.

“I have something to ask. 17811. What does it mean?”

“? That strange thing from earlier! You guys did it!?”

“So?”

“What on earth are you doing, big tits! Catch the strict mermaid and point her out as the culprit! I went up earlier and told him. I heard you found fault with my body getting smaller!”

As soon as the motel owner saw us, he got angry and started pointing things out.

“Business is not going well today because of you! this! I will contact the higher-ups and tell them that they are doing something strange!”

“You can say it. Go to jail.”

“What..what!”

“Because you are also an accomplice.”

“Woo..don’t say anything funny! Why am I an accomplice!”

“This note… in the trash here. A note written by the replicator just now. 17811. 17811 The numbers are the same. You are also an accomplice.”

“No..! What are you talking about! Get out of here right now!”

The moray mermaid got annoyed and tried to send us out.

Of course, Maring and I could not communicate verbally.

I immediately tied up the moray eel and put it in the corner of the counter.

“What is this!!”

” Let’s catch the culprit first and talk about it separately later?”

So Maring and I smiled and headed back to room 306.