The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

35 – Secretly Greatly (5)

Alas.

That was the first thought I had. As the fire weakened, the ground seemed to collapse when the impact was applied.

Your lower body rises and rises, which is not a good feeling. I instinctively remembered a magic I had read about in a book.

Instantly, the magic core resonates and emits green mana.

Just before my body hit the floor, the sensation of floating in the air wrapped around my body.

Feather Foot.

It was an intermediate wind attribute magic.

I didn’t even make a clear association, but my body reacted automatically. In the meantime, the results of hard magic training were finally shining.

After slightly twisting my body in the air, I landed lightly on the collapsed rubble.

“Platoon Leader-!!!”

“Ah, Lumia! I do!”

Responding to the urgent voice that could be heard as the floor collapsed, Rumia pushed her face out from the corner of the collapsed ceiling.

“Are you okay?!”

“As you can see, everything is fine.”

“…… Now, wait a minute! I’ll be down soon!”

After saying that, Rumia released her magic power and jumped toward me.

Rumia descends while casting Featherfoot, just like me from before.

As a first-class red mage, it seems that she is learning intermediate wind magic.

“Ah.”

But that wasn’t the problem.

As she jumped through the air, Lumia’s skirt was blown up by the wind. What I saw momentarily was a black color connected to a garter belt…….

I hurriedly averted my eyes, but Rumia rushed towards me, apparently unaware of anything.

“You are not injured anywhere!?”

“Yes, no.”

“Thank God… ….”

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Yes, sometimes not knowing is the medicine. I asked Rumia without expressing myself as much as possible.

“What about the outside fire?”

“Everything has been suppressed. What kind of magic did you use to catch the fire all at once?!”

“First of all, it’s not that important…… Doesn’t that look like a ledger library over there?”

I pointed to a door where only a black shape remained. Black ash falls loosely.

The moment Rumia cautiously approached the library and grabbed her doorknob.

Kung-.

The door that had been erected collapses helplessly. Fortunately, she fell inside and Rumia was not hurt, but the condition of her bookshelf was disastrous.

As much as it is a closed space, not only was there residual fire for sure.

Most of the paper is easier to burn than wood, so there are piles of ashes on the floor.

In this situation, there is no way the ledger is safe. Even if they were safe, a proper search was not possible.

“There are traces of physical barriers on the door…… I guess I didn’t know how to set fire to it. The barrier didn’t work properly.”

“Who knows? I wouldn’t have known that I would set fire to the union president’s building.”

I was able to realize once again how far the position of Guard Captain Ramour was in Cherno City.

He even set fire to the Merchant Guild building.

The attitude behind it is that it doesn’t matter. If you’re willing to go through such reckless actions to destroy evidence, you’re almost like a king.

‘It’s strange that I haven’t been accused in the first place.’

But I wasn’t particularly surprised.

Because it is obvious that the merchants also stuck together, choosing an appropriate symbiosis rather than opposing it.

A platoon that was so low that it would tolerate any injustice, or a city that turned a blind eye to the benefits of a criminal organization.

For me, it was there.

“There, you suspicious guys! Come out now!”

As I was looking through the library, I heard the sound of military boots rushing in from the open upstairs.

They were guards in Cherno City.

There was only one reason why these guys, who had been watching the building burn, crawled inside after the fire was extinguished.

“Rumia, did you bring your ID?”

“Of course.”

“Find it in advance now.”

Because now the politics will begin.

Soon, the guards on the upper floor come down the stairs to the basement, and the man who seems to have the highest rank among them shouts menacingly.

“How dare you set fire to the union head! You are the ultimate punishment!!”

That’s right.

Some people who don’t know their identity went inside, and they didn’t cover it up?

Laughter came out naturally at the easily predictable behavior.

“You must have gone crazy, you can see how you can laugh like that even after being dragged to prison, …… Omg!”

Of course.

It didn’t take long for us to keep our mouths shut when we saw our ID cards.

“Come on, officer…… Did you?”

“As you can see, I am Lieutenant Enoch Levandel of the 3rd Magic Battalion. During my visit to the city, I did justice to the fire that broke out.”

“Ah…… !!”

“Is there a problem?”

Even a second lieutenant, the lowest rank among officers, has a different status from the guards, who are mere local noncommissioned officers or soldiers.

Thugs don’t care about that. Even if they don’t care, the guards, who are clearly a security organization, apply the same rank system of the Ukrnian Army.

In other words, I have a clear correlation with them.

If you want to rub against me, you’ll have to bring at least the Lamour Guard Captain you suck at.

As if showing that fact without filtering, the guards who were talking menacingly a moment ago cautiously approached me.

“Ooh, let me do some identification first.”

The shrunken guy checked my ID and my face alternately.

“What!? It looks different!! Teasing me by forging official documents!? Bind these guys right away and drag them away!!”

“Yes!!”

Huh? f*ck.

Isn’t this what it is?

***

“Confirmed. Sorry for the rudeness.”

Fortunately, Rumia did not wear any disguise other than the robe, so she was able to get rid of her charges faster than expected.

“Why did you dye your hair all of a sudden?”

“There was a reason for that.”

The guard shook his head as he delivered that the charges had been completely cleared.

You can’t even say it’s to avoid the eyes of the city’s criminal gang.

“What…… There are people among us who dye their hair as a hobby.”

Even though it was dyed, the guards didn’t seem to care about it either.

“Then why did a fire suddenly break out in a fine union hall?”

“The captain of the guard said it was Shakov’s destruction of evidence. When I tried to search and seize the books, the head of the union suddenly set fire to it.”

Did you decide to go with that setting?

It was an explanation that I had no choice but to snort as I roughly grasped the entire story.

“Did the head of the union commit any corruption?”

“Isn’t that what merchants do? They only fill their stomachs.”

“Has the suspect been arrested?”

“Yes, fortunately I was arrested on the spot as a red-handed criminal. You are probably being interrogated in the basement right now.”

I exchanged glances with Rumia and her. Understanding her meaning, she suddenly grabs her forehead and frowns.

“Ugh…… Wait a minute, I suddenly have a really bad headache…….”

Rumia stumbled over her body. She felt like she was really anemic.

“I must have used too much mana while fighting the fire a while ago… ….”

“Oh, if it’s the medic, you can just leave and go all the way down the hallway to her left.”

“It’s my first time at the guard barracks, so I honestly don’t know. Hey, maybe…… May I ask for guidance?”

Seeing her pitiful gaze, the greatly embarrassed guard swallowed his saliva.

Where are men different from each other?

It’s an appearance that even I, the platoon commander, would occasionally stare at in awe, but if Lumia came out with an angle like that, no male would be able to withstand it.

“Come back for a while, Rumia. I’ll go out and smoke some cigarettes.”

“Well then, I’ll just ask for it.”

“Sorry, Platoon Commander. I’ll get the prescription quickly and come back.”

Perfect acting.

I watched the two disappear into the opposite hallway for a while, then went down the stairs.

It’s time for the guards to patrol. Since only a minimum number of people were left in the barracks, I was able to reach the basement without any restrictions.

‘On the map of the facility I saw when I entered, there was a detention center around here… ….’

While I was wandering around for a while, I started hearing footsteps not far away.

Are they resident in the barracks?

When I opened the door right in front of me, a warehouse full of odds and ends appeared. Without delay, I went inside and hid myself.

Soon, following the footsteps, the contents of the conversation are also clearly heard.

“…… So what do you plan to do?”

“Haven’t you already secured all the evidence? Merchants are more involved with money than loyalty, so if they don’t want to be screwed too, Shakov will say no.”

“Now we just need to keep it locked up until the National Gendarmerie bites the bait.”

“Okay, don’t be too harsh on it. It’s okay if you get caught.”

A familiar voice.

It was from the Lamour Guard Captain I heard about at the Guild Headquarters. As he was talking about Shakov, as expected, it seemed that the other side was the detention center.

In the first place, since the investigation of Belgordo Fortress had begun, Lamour must have heard the news that the National Military Police had arrived quickly.

‘I must have come up with a good scenario.’

Of course, I didn’t think that an ensign who was cooperating with the National Gendarmerie was witnessing the whole situation.

If I had come without knowing anything, I might have believed the words that the head of the union, Shakov, did everything.

“By the way, I heard that some magic officer extinguished the fire at the guild hall?”

“Yes, I just finished the background check. He belongs to the 3rd Magic Battalion.”

“The 3rd Mage Battalion? What is your name?”

“Enoch Levandel…… It was black hair.”

“If you have black hair, you must be that bastard.”

“Is there anyone else you are looking for?”

“No, not me, my brother is looking for it.”

For anyone to hear, it was the story of the last time I and Belle robbed thugs.

‘Ha, it wasn’t just the guards, was the captain of the guards themselves? So let’s open the bow.’

It was a good way to understand why the city’s security forces were like this. I don’t know who the mayor is, but he doesn’t manage domestic affairs at all?

If this were a real game, the mayor and all related officials would have been dismissed.

‘Do I just screw it up right now?’

I still have the gendarmerie insignia that Major Lannister gave me.

The conversation I just heard was enough to put that guard chief’s mind in a stupor…… I decided to commit to the following.

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Only bamboo spears.

As the captain of the guard, the mayor of the city, and the head of the union, he needed a huge bamboo spear to send as a set in one shot.

It’s not what I want to weave together and send halfway through.

Major Lannister, you can’t just blow away the opportunity created by being a member of the National Military Police.

“…… Stand, ha…… Is.”

“…… Turn it on.”

I confirmed the sound of Lamour’s voice, which was getting farther and farther away, and carefully opened the warehouse door and got out.

The hallway was quiet.

Move stealthily and swiftly toward the direction from which the footsteps were heard. The sensations that I had forgotten for a while were revived, and my steps became much lighter.

Yes, this was it.

Memories that I briefly missed. Leaning on my senses, I sped through the corridor like the wind.

Of course, there was no security.

You wouldn’t have thought that some crazy guy would infiltrate the guards’ barracks and come down to the detention center.

A detention center that was not difficult to infiltrate.

I checked the union leader, who was sitting between the empty bars, and went closer.

As my shadow brushes against the flickering torch, Shakoff raises his head.

“…… Who are you?”

“Shh, quiet.”

I held out the insignia of the National Military Police to the head of the union and said.

“If you don’t want to be dragged to the center with a false accusation like this, just tell the truth.”

Shakov’s eyes widened as he confirmed the certificate of the military police.