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Chapter 46 - Mephistopheles (3)
Chapter 46: Mephistopheles (3)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
The office of Special Ops Team 3, Bureau for Abnormal Phenomena Countermeasures.
As if something had just occurred to her in a flash, rookie agent Lee Hye-eun spoke up.
“Team Leader Si-on.”
Ẅ е.b ñ о.v̌е̄ l Е n̆ūmå
She addressed Si-on, who was reading a new case report at the desk beside hers.
“If that Yo-han guy is suspicious, why don’t we just secretly ransack his place!”
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Si-on’s face was her usual calm and expressionless one, but her eyes widened in surprise.
“…I see. So there’s that method.”
She then rummaged through her desk, gathered a pen and some A4 paper, and handed them to Hye-eun.
“Hye-eun-ssi, you’ll be writing a reflection essay too. Please fill the A4 page with ‘Breaking and entering is a crime. I will not do it.'”
Е̂ nu m̂ à
“You can’t be serious!?”
Watching Hye-eun’s startled reaction, Si-on smiled faintly and took the pen and paper back.
“I’m joking. However, breaking and entering really is off-limits. You’re free to harbor suspicions or do your reasoning in your head, but….
There’s been no investigation request, no report filed, and no definitive evidence. Entering someone’s residence without authorization is both an overreach of authority and a crime.”
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Hye-eun slumped over in her seat and answered.
“Uuugh… I’m sorry.”
W е̄b̀ń о v̇e l̄ Ên̄ u m̌ а̂
“No, it’s fine. I appreciate you looking out.”
Si-on gave a gentle nod and continued in her calm voice.
“…And Yo-han-ssi is no longer simply a suspect. He’s a civilian collaborator now. I need to keep my personal suspicions in check.”
Si-on turned her gaze back to her own desk and thought.
Her hand came up to rest against her lips, and her eyes narrowed.
Breaking and entering was obviously something that shouldn’t be done.
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But setting that aside, if Yo-han truly was the owner of the grimoire <Lemegeton> and the owner of <De Vermis Mysteriis>, carelessly entering his home would be dangerous.
Now that she knew Yo-han was a wizard, reconsidering things, it was likely Yo-han who had dealt with the Boogeyman at the painter Smith’s mansion, too.
In this campground incident as well, he had repelled Edward Coffin.
Si-on did not think of Yo-han as simply an ordinary person who happened to pick up a grimoire.
The way Yo-han had lured the Ghouls without a moment’s hesitation.
She recalled those eyes, truly calm in a way different from her own.
Ӗ ǹ u̇m а̇
She didn’t know much about the Wizarding World, but he was a wizard who had grown rapidly.
That was Yo-han.
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Every situation where Si-on had confronted Yo-han so far had been one where the Special Operations Division could intervene from nearby.
A situation where Yo-han, too, could not act recklessly.
A situation where he hesitated because his identity hadn’t been exposed yet.
An opponent who found the cleanup after killing more troublesome than the killing itself.
Еnu m̃ǎ
However, if someone were to trespass into his living space without permission to collect evidence, he would unhesitatingly treat them as a hostile threat and act accordingly.
“……….”
Si-on caught herself. She pulled her hand away from her lips and relaxed her narrowed eyes.
She had just said suspicions toward Yo-han weren’t good since he was a civilian collaborator.
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…And here she was again with her habitual suspicious reasoning and speculation.
And now, beyond the suspicions about the case itself…
Ẁ е̌ b n̈оv́ е l̂ Ёnú ṁ a
Si-on reached out and pulled out a file. It was a file with Yo-han’s photo and a brief summary of his personal information.
What concerned her more now was why she kept paying attention to Yo-han in the first place.
‘Kim Yo-han, twenty-one years old, single, raised in an orphanage….’
It wasn’t as if they had met somewhere else separately, and the only thing they had in common was being the same age, twenty-one.
Yo-han’s birthday came a little earlier than hers.
Just then, Hye-eun leaned toward Si-on’s desk again.
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“Team Leader Si-on.”
Si-on casually closed the file.
“Yes, what is it?”
Hye-eun pointed at the case report Si-on had placed on her desk.
“Is that report a case we’ll be taking on? I’m just curious.”
“No, this is a case currently assigned to another team. I was looking at it just in case.”
Wе bnöv е l̈ Е n̄ǔm̀а̌
The report contained brief information about this particular anomalous incident, along with a photograph of a laptop screen.
[Every boy and every girl, capture them all~ Heart-Pounding Harem Academy Life~ Love and death, together]
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It was a deliberately old-fashioned visual novel background, sparkling with stars and hearts, featuring beautiful girls with hair of every color against a school setting.
It wasn’t an official game, but rather one that had spread after being uploaded to the internet by some unknown person.
On certain forums, it had gained a reputation not as a visual novel but as a haunted game.
The problem was that when the rooms of recently missing persons were investigated,
Еn úm а . і̆ d
this game was found running on their phones, laptops, or computer screens.
Because of this, the Special Operations Division had classified this game as a cursed-video-type anomaly that must not be viewed. It was currently under investigation.
“……….”
However, given the Special Operations Division’s emphasis on firepower, they were somewhat weak against this type of anomaly.
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If Team 3 were to investigate and join in,
they might need Yo-han’s help.
Е n ū ḿа . і d
***
Yo-han’s small studio apartment.
I sat leaning against the wall of the studio, listening to Grizzly eat.
Crunch, chomp, chomp!
Since Grizzly ate bones, clothes, and even shoes just fine as long as they were mixed with meat and blood, there was no need to worry about sorting and disposing of the corpse’s clothing.
Of course, I didn’t watch Grizzly eating the corpse.
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Staring at someone while they eat is rude enough as it is, and it wasn’t good for my mental health either.
“……….”
This was out of nowhere, but the woman who gave birth to me had a decent-looking face.
I couldn’t remember her face anymore, but she was probably decent-looking.
Pulling out the tiniest, haziest fragment of memory,
that woman didn’t seem to go to work or do any kind of job. But she didn’t bring men home either.
E ǹu ḿ а̄
Even so, the place we lived in was nice. I didn’t realize it back then, but thinking about it now, it had the feel of a high-end officetel? [TL: An officetel is a Korean mixed-use residential building, similar to a studio apartment in an upscale complex.]
Anyway, seeing how she would sometimes drop me off at daycare and head out with a genuinely delighted expression,
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I figured she was probably some rich man’s mistress.
In any case, that kind of life continued for a while. Then the woman got pregnant.
Her belly grew, and she spent increasingly long stretches of each day stroking it.
It may have been instinct, but I tried hard to behave.
Èn ū ḿ a. ì d_
How well-behaved can a little kid really be? But I did my best.
Then a baby girl was born, and when I turned five,
that woman abandoned me at an orphanage.
I didn’t cry. Or did I? Anyway.
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I had already expected it to some degree, so the shock was minimal.
I don’t know why she abandoned me. I’m not curious, either.
E nu m̃ à. їd̃
She had good enough reason to, so she did.
Well, it’s a common enough story. Starting a new family, and there’s something unnecessary, something in the way. That sort of thing.
I don’t particularly resent her. There’s no point.
From the moment she waved goodbye and washed her hands of me, she became a complete stranger. What is there to resent?
The only thing I ever learned from that woman is that you have to live life for yourself.
“……….”
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I looked at the tarp, dirtied with the blood that had seeped down.
When I checked this woman’s wallet, she had multiple IDs, so I wasn’t sure what her real name was, but going by the one on top,
I couldn’t say for certain what this woman named Kim Ga-eun was after when she tossed my place and pointed a gun at me.
A rough guess would be that word got out about me using magic during the zombie campground incident, and she was after my grimoire.
Or she wanted to get dirt on me and use it as leverage. Nothing else came to mind as a reason I’d suddenly be targeted.
Thinking about it that way, I was glad I killed her.
W̌еb n̆.о̌ v̀е̇l Е n̈ ûm а̂
The very idea of someone precious like me being led around on a leash because someone had dirt on me, that was the last thing I wanted.
Kill them before they can blackmail you.
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And with that, I’d sorted my thoughts enough.
In animal terms, territory.
I processed the stress of having my personal space invaded,
and refocused on the task at hand.
Е̇ ǹu ṁӑ .id
I examined the items I’d taken from Ga-eun’s body.
First, the pistol.
I wasn’t really into firearms, so I didn’t know the details, but judging by the look of it, this was also a Walther semi-automatic, the kind that shows up a lot in movies and media.
“A suppressor, huh….”
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It definitely reduced the gunshot noise, but it didn’t lower it to the “pfft, fwip” level you see in movies.
More like turning a “BANG!” into a “bang,” if I recalled correctly.
Е́nú m̀ â
Naturally, since I’d never actually used one, I couldn’t say for sure.
Next was the phone. This one had a lock screen and password set, so I had no way in.
The soul. If I could pull up the post-mortem memory data and find out the password, great.
If that seemed impossible, keeping it around risked letting her associates or contacts track its location, so I’d just smash it and toss it.
“Gyaaah~.”
Right on cue, Grizzly must have finished eating, because it cried out contentedly while licking around its mouth with its tongue.
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Good. Then it was finally time for the Soul Summoning Ritual I’d been itching to perform.
I looked around the small studio apartment.
If someone from the magic world had tracked me down and found this place, it meant I could be attacked again at any time.
An unsafe den had to be abandoned.
So….
I looked at the plastic bags containing the hair of Kim Mi-ryeo and the Zombie Wizard and spoke.
W̃ е b n̊ о́ v еl Е n ŭm а
“Do me a favor and give me some good information.”
It’d be nice if something like a hideout came up.
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I moved the tarp into the bathroom and cleaned the floor thoroughly.
When I opened my hand, <The Lesser Key of Solomon> appeared.
Whummm…
I heard the sound of <De Vermis Mysteriis> vibrating. I ignored it casually.
Е n̆.ü m̃а̄ . і̃ d̊
Soul Summoning Ritual, step one.
If the ritual location was designated as a wizard’s Workshop, day or night didn’t matter much, but the space needed to be darkened.
Since it was already nighttime, all I had to do was draw the curtains and turn off the lights.
Step two: once the space for drawing the magic circle was cleaned, recite the prayer and draw the necessary magic circle.
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“May God be gracious to us and bless us, and make His face shine upon us.”
“That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.”
Е ňu m̃ӑ. id̈
Once that was done, sprinkle Holy Water around the magic circle with a Holy Water sprinkler while chanting the incantation.
“Zazaii, Zamaii, Puidamon, El, Yahweh, Ya, Yagla, aid me.”
With that, the magic circle portion was complete.
I lit the camping stove and placed it at the center of the magic circle,
then took out the Parchment Pentacle I had prepared.
[First Pentacle of Saturn]
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“O spirits of Saturn, answer my call. Aid me in what I desire.”
I tossed the hair of Kim Mi-ryeo, the old Zombie Wizard, and the freshly obtained Kim Ga-eun into the burning stove.
Crackle, crackle, FWOOSH!
It was only hair going in, yet the flames surged upward and smoke began to form.
From within the hazy smoke, the shape of a human face appeared.
[Ah… Aah…]
Е̄ n ú m̌ a.і d̃
A woman with a slender face. The first was the wizard who had been eating people’s brains.
It was Kim Mi-ryeo’s memory data.
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