Chapter 218 – Principality of Morph

After subduing the leader, we went down to the first floor and attacked the members guarding the front door of the hotel. Due to the rushing in of the defenders, the engineers outside were still unable to break through the main gate.

“You guys are dead! If you give up your resistance, I’ll save your life!”

I personally brought the corpse of the frozen shaman from the top floor of the hotel. When I rolled the shaman who had become a frozen human into the lobby of the hotel, the reaction was amazing.

“No, that’s nonsense…!”
“I believed that the captain would save me!”

The reason the members persevered was because they had confidence in the shaman’s magic. It’s ironic that Shaman actually intended to abandon the members and jump. It must have been a very cunning bugger. Convinced his men that he thought only he would survive?

[Liquid Ring]

I smashed the waves towards the members who were united. As the rolling waves swept over the entrance of the hotel, the members instantly lost the will to resist. There were those who rebelled until the end, but Bella’s feathers flew her vital points and her breath was cut off.

“As a bugilma of Galarhorn, I will guarantee it! If you provide useful information to our guild, I will guarantee your safety. Drop your weapons and surrender.”

When Bella, a bugilma, presented the conditions directly, the surviving members finally gave up their resistance. Since the guild’s top executive guaranteed his life, there was no choice but to trust him.
Of course, only their lives survive, and these guys will be imprisoned for the rest of their lives. Nostalgia is said to be an organization involved in contract killings and drug trafficking in the North.

“Um, really, is the lady in charge of the Galarhorn? Did she appear in person to catch us?”
“To be precise, it’s to catch the phantom thief who hired Nostalgia. You can rest assured that the person in charge is right. I’d like to hear from you guys about the phantom thief’s identity and escape route.”
“Okay.”

Among the members who surrendered, there were also executives of Nostalgia. He is the vice-captain who worked as the old shaman’s right hand. He dropped the weapon he was holding and raised both of his hands, revealing his lack of will to resist.

The battle at the hotel has ended.
All of the Nostalgia members who were captured were tied up with ropes.

“Separate the hands and tie them together. They may try to form a hand sign and seek an opportunity to escape. Wandering wizards can be magically crippled just by suppressing their hands.”
“I understand, Mr. Xuan!”

The captured members were gathered in the lobby of the hotel. Soon they will be taken to the North and handed over to the Royal Army as new recruits. I’ll have to blow all the information about the phantom thief before being dragged away.

“I’ll take care of the interrogation, Sister Bella.”
“Have you ever interrogated criminals?
“I’ve never tried it, but I’ll be able to do it somehow. The bully-like appearance is for you to use now.”

I took on the role of interrogating the vice-captain. I approached him trusting his bully-like appearance, but the other side also had a great face, befitting the head of a criminal organization. He has a gangster-like face, so it would suit him perfectly if he sashimi.

“What’s your name?”
“It’s Kyle. Judging from the fact that you’re holding a wand, it seems that you’re also a wizard. It’s meant to be that the same wizards met, but I want you to take care of the situation. Your wrists have been too tight since earlier.”

Vice-captain Kyle looked at me with a smirk. He was getting on my nerves from the start by making unnecessary noises.

I’m not asking you to loosen your wrists.
It’s a magician who can make hand signs just by looking at it, but can you release his hand? It was a fucking excessive request, but Kyle looked at me with a commanding expression.

‘Did the liver protrude out of the stomach?’

If you do me a favor here, I’m sure you’ll get caught up in the momentum. If the favor continues, he looks like the type who thinks he’s Dooly. No, I’m not talking about dooly, I’m talking about rights.

“My wrist hurts, so I can’t concentrate on the conversation…”
“Hoy.”

I cut off Kyle and recited a water spell. The size of the water drop protruding in the air was called, and it was made slightly larger than a human head. If you can’t concentrate on a conversation, you should increase your concentration with magic!

“What, what are you trying to do…! Oops!!”

I put water droplets on Kyle’s head like a motorcycle helmet. Since ancient times, it has been said that there is nothing more effective than water torture in draining a person’s soul.

Gurgling-!

Kyle, whose head was trapped in the water droplets, struggled with the rope tied to him. However, even when he headbangs, he is not released from the droplet. Because I kindly moved the coordinates of the water drop every moment with the liquid spell.

“Puhua Ahhhhh !!!
“Do? It’s short.”

Come to think of it, why is this bastard talking to me? I peeled off the water droplets and it bothered me so I put it on again.
Peeling off the water drops just before he passed out infused Kyle with manners.

“Kuluk! Cool! Oh, I’m sorry! I’ll tell you anything, so please stop! Kuhuhuhhhhh! What are you curious about?”
“You must have heard from Bella-sama earlier. Say what you know about the phantom thief who hired Nostalgia.”

Kyle gasped for his breath and spilled out information about the thief.

“The alchemist who hired us was a member of an organization called 〈 Trinity 〉. He came to the leader three months ago and asked us to cooperate with him in stealing. We also had a separate schedule, but it was impossible to refuse.”
“Why was it impossible? Was I paid so much that it was impossible to refuse?”
“Money is money, but if we refused the offer, we would all be killed by that man. As a member of 〈 Trinity 〉, his ability to kill people was certain.”

What is Trinity? I knew it was an organization from the underworld, but it was the first name I had heard of. I was going to ask her directly, but Bella, who was by her side, told me Trinity’s true identity.

“It’s a criminal organization operating in secret all over the world. Most of its members say they are involved in serious crimes. It’s almost the only organization on the continent that worships the ‘Devil King’.”
“You worship the demon king as a god? They’re complete jerks.”

I know for sure that Trinity is a dangerous organization. In the Midgard continent, the devil means the god Loki, who was the main culprit of the great war.
The culprit who led the three giant monsters to collapse the heavens, the evil god who mercilessly slaughtered the people of the continent, and the fallen hero who was also the founder of rune magic along with Odin.

It is not possible to make it an object of faith by common sense. It’s the same as the Jews building Hitler’s shrine and worshiping him as a god. If Loki had won the great war, the continental people would have gone extinct. It is said that the god Loki of another world seriously dreamed of ethnic cleansing.

“Like my younger brother said, they’re idiots. They’re like cockroaches that must disappear from the continent. I didn’t know that the phantom thief was a member of 〈 Trinity 〉.”

According to my sister, there is a large bounty on Trinity’s members. If you slit the thief’s head and return to Northern, you will be able to earn additional gold coins. They say you can get more money if you capture them alive, but you can’t see them as easy opponents.

I asked vice-captain Kyle an additional question.

“What’s the purpose of the thief? They didn’t just steal money, they stole a lot of strange things. Like a love potion.”
“Even we weren’t told exactly why they were stealing. I don’t know what they were going to use the stolen items for! They just handed us the golems and left.”

Soon, Kyle told me where the phantom thief had fled.

“The alchemist left for the Great Grove. He was told there was something to steal from the Great Grove’s shrine.”

Are there plans to steal from Morph as well? Do you have a kleptomaniac that you can’t live without stealing? Now that we’ve figured out the location, it can be said that the interrogation is almost over.
Let me ask you one last question.

“Do you remember what the guy who hired you looked like?”
“Yes, just remember. He was the same kind as the dream horse teacher. He was an incubus with horns on his head. He was a middle-aged dream horse who was quite old. His hair color was black. Other than that… He was handsome like a dream horse? By the way. I remember the name well.”

Incubus!
All in all, is it a nightmare again? Bastards like Kyaru from another world! I am determined to end it with my own hands before being caught by others. That way, the perception of the dreamer among the continental people will improve a little bit.

“What’s your name?”
“Eh… His name was Albert Wiseman. Maybe it was a pseudonym. I’ll tell you once I remember. That’s all I know.”

The interrogation is over.
However, I couldn’t leave the vice-captain’s side.

Albert Wiseman…
It’s a name I know well.

It was the same for Kate, who was watching the interrogation. She placed her hand on her slender chin and made a puzzled expression.

“Wisman? That’s a strange surname for a dreamer clan. It’s a surname I’ve heard a long time ago. Where did I hear this?”

The surname Wiseman is bound to sound odd. The Mongma clan has a unique naming sense, so they usually go around with their last name followed by their drink name. It is a way of making the family’s favorite liquor their last name.

Whiskey.
Ginger ale.
Tequila.

I like this kind of thing and go around using it as a last name. It is safe to say that there are almost no mongma families that do not use the name of the drink as their surname.

“Hey, you two?”
“Yes, me too!”

Like me, Kate had heard the last name Wiseman long ago.

“I’ll put my head together for a moment and think about it, Mr. Dream!”

Took!

Kate literally fell head-to-head with me, in anguish. What the fuck I never thought she would really physically butt me in the forehead. Soft blonde hair tickles my face. Kate’s warm body heat passes through her forehead.

“Oh, I remembered! I heard about it when I was at Evergreen Orphanage.”

Did the head-to-head really work? Kate succeeded in recalling her memories. But this is not the time when she is weighing the effects.

Kate opened her mouth in surprise.
Like her now, I must be wearing her surprised expression.

“Luke Wiseman-!! It’s the name of the dreamer!”
“…Right.”

I nodded my head as I swallowed.

Because Wiseman was also my last name.
To be precise, my full name in this world is Luke Wiseman.

Was it when he was a newborn baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes and abandoned in front of an orphanage? He was wearing a baby metal bracelet with that name on it. Thanks to this, I don’t know who my parents are, but I know their names.

It’s an unusual surname for a mongmachi, so I tried to find my parents. All attempts to find it have failed.
But at this moment, I thought I would find a dreamer with the same last name as me.

‘Are you saying that Albert is my relative?’

〈 A member of Trinity 〉.
Albert Wiseman.

If I catch him, I might learn something about my mysterious bloodline.
He had at least guessed that the birth of Luke wasn’t normal.
It is a body that possesses the talent of a great wizard.

“Do you know someone? Maybe a relative?”
“I don’t know yet. I’ve never been in contact with a relative. Maybe this is the first time.”