「Bubeh!? Hah, wha, what!? What happe――hih!?」
The pain and impact suddenly running on his cheek made Kaysis woke up. His face grimaced from the dull pain he felt on his back and forehead, but even in such state he tried to rally his confused mind somehow.
However, the moment his hazy visual field became clear, he raised a shriek that he had never made until now.
Although, no one would be able to laugh at him from doing such thing. After all the cause that made Kaysis scream was a sight that was just that bizarre.
「Wha, what!? You guys, just what the hell you are doing!?」
Kaysis called out with an obviously shocked voice. Ahead of his gaze, there were his subordinates that he was familiar with.
……However, each of his subordinate was perfectly making chuni pose.
They were the guards under Kaysis’s direct supervision who were inside the room with him just now. One of them had a pose where one of his legs was lifted with both his hands extended straight to both sides. It was a magnificent pose, as though he was a savage eagle that would fly away anytime.
Another person was standing in low stance with his legs spread apart widely, one of his hands was on his hip while his other hand was held crossing his chest diagonally. That pose looked as though the man was going to transform into a masked warrior in any second now.
And another pose was taking pose where his body tilted slightly forward while his right shoulder was lifted slightly, his right arm extended to below and his left hand was covering his face with his five fingers spread wide open. The angle of his waist was extremely sexy. That pose looked as though something would come out anytime now from his back.The other too, the guards who were inside the room just before Kaysis lost consciousness, all of them were lined up with everyone taking some kind of chuuni pose. So to speak it was like a museum of posing statue. The gallery was using the whole spacious president office.
Those people didn’t answer even when Kaysis was yelling in extreme panic. Everyone of them was wearing sunglasses so their eyes couldn’t be seen, but perhaps they were unconscious seeing how they weren’t reacting at all. When Kaysis strained his eyes to the limit, those posing guards had their body and four limbs entangled in very fine strings, and he could see that they were being hung up like marionettes.
At the same time, Kaysis noticed that he was being restrained on his chair. His four limbs were being restrained by a similar super-fine string.
「Hey, Kousuke. Is it necessary to do this?」
「……If you ask whether there is any necessity, then the answer is definitely negative. This is bad, the damned Lord Abyssgate is easily showing out his face. Perhaps, it’s hopeless already for me.」
Hearing that casual conversation in this bizarre space caused Kaysis to return to his sense in surprise. When he turned his gaze toward the voices’ direction, he confirmed that there were several people right beside him.
Three of them were Kousuke, Emily, and Woody who were inside the room before this. But, in addition of them, there were further three more people.
「As expected from Kousuke-san. You don’t forget this thing called “beauty” even in the middle of battle. I have underestimated you.」
「……Indeed, you suppressed the enemies in less than a minute, and during just the few minutes from you contacting us, you created this kind of artwork. This can be said as terrific. Though now I’m completely filled with the desire to go home.」
「Ahahaha, it’s great that I can move now after having something unknown done to me but……this case that made even the chief to be haggard is really a heavy burden huh. I wish I could keep losing consciousness without waking up……」
Vanessa who for some reason looked dejected even though her expression was enraptured, praised Kousuke. Chief Magdanese was having a faraway look while his gaze wouldn’t move toward the posing men no matter what. And then, Allen who was made to drink restorative medicine made in another world and healed until a point where he could at least move.
In Allen’s case, Emily wished that he would exit the stage with his face still disfigured like before, but Chief Magdanese said「This idiot who kept making mistake cannot be allowed to rest more than this. He has to be made to work like a cart-horse」. And so without any other choice, he was healed.
Even so, he was still far from being fully healed, for the time being his swelling was suppressed and his broken jaw repaired so he could talk. His broken teeth and lacerated nose and cheek were left alone. His face was wrapped with bandage all over like a mummy, making Allen’s figure looked really painful, but there wasn’t anyone who cared about that.
By the way, regarding the restorative medicine made in another world that healed Allen (the highest class of product sold for the general public), Kousuke skillfully hid it and explained that Allen was healed using his ability, so it was currently ignored by everyone thinking that Kousuke also had that kind of power.
Though it seemed that Emily was really bothered with a power that could heal bone fracture in the blink of eye but……. Naturally there was no power that could heal people turned into berserker, so Kousuke told her that while saying that he would explain to her later. Hearing that caused Emily to obediently withdraw.
「……My word, for the chief-sama of the state security bureau to be personally here. What an honor. However, you have made an extremely poor move. As expected, even a living legend has finally gone senile hasn’t it?」
Kaysis implicitly conveyed that at this rate berserkers would be released in the middle of city with his sarcastic and obstinate words. His expression was also sneering at Chief Magdanese.
In a glance he looked composed, but if observed carefully, it could be seen that his eyes were twitching faintly and his voice was slightly shaking. The cause of that went without saying.
Because, there were his subordinates making chuuni pose within his view after all!
「Mister Abyssgate. I’ll leave this to you..」
「That’s why I told you that my name is Kousuke」
Chief Magdanese didn’t show any particular concern to Kaysis’s words and her gaze moved at Kousuke. Kousuke punctually said his request for correction before sighing. Then he put down a chair in front of Kaysis roughly.
Kousuke put the chair so the back of the chair was facing Kaysis and he sat down on it. He put his arms on the top of the chair’s back and he gazed straight at Kaysis.
「Mister Abyssgate……. So that’s your codename inside the agency. Fufu, I’ll remember that. I will surely investigate your background. And then, your important people will――UBAoAa!?」
「Just who do you think you are talking to? Hold down that tongue.」
Right in the middle of Kaysis’s curse toward Kousuke, immediately after that, he directly received a kick on his crotch from Vanessa who had been reduced into a believer of Lord Abyssgate, and he raised a weird scream. Actually he wanted to writhe around, but he couldn’t do so because he was tied on the chair and he could only twitch repeatedly while desperately enduring the pain.
「Aa~, Vanessa. Let me do it, okay?」
「Forgive me. Against my better judgment, it annoyed me seeing his attitude that is making light of Kousuke-san.」
Just where had the Vanessa-san who was always calm, cool, and collected gone at? Even though she absolutely wasn’t someone who would instantly make ‘Direct Attack!’ to the crotch because of provocation……
Allen and Woody similarly turned pigeon-toed while drawing away from being creeped out. Kousuke faced toward the writhing Kaysis once more while they were like that.
「Now then, Kaysis. I’ll have you spit out everything. Not just the cancellation code, but also how this case started, your plan from here on, and then the location of all the【Berserk】that you stole.」
「Do, do you seriously believe, I’ll talk――」
「You will. I said it right? The one who doesn’t understand the situation is you. Why do you think you who is holding the trump card is getting captured like this without question? Why did Woody change side? Didn’t you think about that?」
「That’s……」
Of course Kaysis noticed about those abnormalities. No matter how, it was unthinkable that his subordinate would get lured away by salmon sandwich, he didn’t want to think about it. Also, it was unthinkable that the security bureau would make a gamble that could involve a lot of people’s life using a baseless method like torture, because there was no way he would easily confess just from that.
But, even so, there should be nothing that could shake his absolutely superior position with him taking hostage of this country’s people, as long as he didn’t confess anything, then there was nothing the security bureau could do except doing whatever Kaysis told them. It was undeniable that such believe was curbing down his feeling of danger toward the abnormalities. It was when he was thinking like that,
「I also told you this didn’t I? That’s why you are a third-rate. Honestly, regarding the mastermind of this case, well, I have no doubt that it’s really you but, I think there is high possibility that there is still another existence behind you. The existence that granted you the seat as president of this large company……something like that.」
Kaysis’s expression didn’t change. There wasn’t even any turmoil inside his eyes. His breathing was also not shaken at all. But, there also wasn’t any sarcasm coming from him right away. Kousuke was convinced just from that.
Surely there was another person that knew about the existence of【Berserk】and stole it the very first. After all an impetus was necessary for Kaysis to know about the existence of【Berserk】.
At the same time, there was no doubt that this man was cunning, merciless, and excellent, but, no matter how, Kousuke couldn’t believe that Kaysis had the status that counterbalanced with the organizational power Kousuke expected, so surely his conjecture that this【Gamma Pharmaceutical】wasn’t at the deepest bottom of everything was correct.
While thinking so, Kousuke suddenly took out from his breast pocket a string that was attached with something that looked like five-yen coin. The size was about the same with five-yen coin, but the material looked like an amber crystal. There was a round hole at the center, and the string was tied there.
Once Chief Magdanese and others saw that item, they made a really complicated expression.
「……I don’t know what you are planning to do, but if you don’t release me, a lot of people will die you know? After all no matter what you are going to do to me, I absolutely won’t speak.」
「You know, the world is overflowing with irrationality. Do you forget that just because you are at the side that is scattering around irrationality?」
Saying that, Kousuke then dangled the string. The crystal shaped like a five-yen coin swung back and forth in front of Kaysis’s eye.
Kousuke coughed once *gohon* for a moment and he straightened up his sitting posture, before he suddenly opened his mouth.
「You are gradually becoming stra~ngee~, you are gradually becoming straa~ngee~」
「??? Just what are you saying……. Is your head having a screw looseee-hee~」
The crystal five-yen coin systematically swaying like a pendulum in front of Kaysis’s eyes. At the other side of the coin was a suspicious incantation (?) that sounded strangely stupid. Kaysis’s was doubting Kousuke’s sanity that matched Kousuke’s expression that looked complicatedly embarrassed.
But, right after that, the end of Kaysis’s sentence crumbled. Light slipped off from his eyes, and his snake-like atmosphere dispersed as though it was just a lie, where now he seemed like a mere simple man.
「You are gradually wanting to taa~lkk~. You want to talk about everything, everyy~thii~ng」
「I, I want to taa~lkk~. I want to talk about everything, everyy~thii~ng」
「If you are asked you will want to anss~werr~. You will be unable to not anss~werr~」
「I will want to anss~werr~. I become unable to not anss~werr~」
「You will be happy by telll~ingg~. You will be wanting to tell everyy~thii~ng」
「Will will wiilll~」
The slow and stupid voices resounded inside the room. Kaysis was completely transformed into a repeating machine. At the same time, light of expectation was starting to grow inside those eyes. His atmosphere was like a Villager A who was called out by a hero party, who for some reason knew about a local legend and would tell it to the hero party without leaving anything out.
――Soul magic enchanted-type brainwashing artifact “Staking the Pride of a Villager”
The villager in RPG would tell everything they knew if they were talked to. If they were addressed by hero party, ordinarily they would obediently listen. They also wouldn’t say even a single complain when their house was entered by a hero party as they pleased, and even if their home was rummaged and in the end their possession got taken away without permission.
This artifact would turn the targeted human into such lovely villager. This was an artifact for dealing with the aftermath of an incident, bestowed by the demon king to the abyss lord for his personal use.
A minute later, the president of a large company that could be counted as one of the top five even in Britain finished his job-change into a splendid Villager A. He happily spouted out everything that he knew.
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