Chapter 59 – Spirit Commanding

Ed thought it was fortunate that Dex had the white band. If Dex had been seen by the investigator, Ed would have been the suspect in the kidnapping of Dex.

But Ed thought this lady was amazing.

Given that she is trying to arrest a person after breaking into Pendragon’s house.

Looking at the way she talked to Cecilia, it sounded she was from the royal family.

That’s why she was so bold.

Ed rose from his seat without hesitation.

“Sister-in-law.”

As Pendragon intervened in the middle, Emilia looked back at him.

“I want to call you brother-in-law, but Cecilia and I are not real sisters, so I will call you Sir. You should not intervene in this situation. I’m in charge of this investigation under the order of the kingdom.”

Pendragon smiled and looked back at Cecilia. Cecilia replied with her arm around Emilia’s shoulder.

“Emilia, I knew you were smart since you were young. Looks like I can’t do anything about this.”

Pendragon shook his head and looked back at Ed.

“What should I do?”

“I’ll go with her.”

Then Arin stood up.

“I’ll go together with you.”

Arin calmly said as everyone’s attention was focused.

“I’d like to make sure you do not investigate unfairly. Although I don’t think you’ll do that while Pendragon is in town.”

Pendragon burst into laughter.

“Hahaha. I guarantee that. They’re my guests, and they won’t suffer anything unfair.”

Pendragon’s gaze turned to Emilia.

“Sister-in-law. Are you going to arrest him at the palace? Then I have to go as a witness.”

Emilia looked at Pendragon with a sick and tired look. As part of the royal family, she knows the truth of the prince incident that happened. She doesn’t know if Pendragon used his own hands or not, but he entered the sun palace and the prince died.

That was not all.

She heard that he went to the main Palace and proudly explained to the king about his immunity.

When he entered the palace, all the royal guardians followed him. They followed in case he would harm the king, but he wants to enter the royal palace again?

Emilia shook her head.

“Please give me a room for interrogation.”

“Sure, if that’s the case.”

When Pendragon beckoned, the butler approached and guided her. Ed walked with Emilia after the butler. He guided them to the guest room.

Sitting on a sofa on one side of a quiet house-sized guest room, Ed looked at Emilia sitting opposite to him. When she took off her black cape and put it on a chair, her black uniform appeared.

Ed measured the skills of the guardian knight standing behind her, then looked at her again.

In the meantime, she took out a notebook and was looking at Ed.

“I’ll ask you about the attack of Caren and the murder of Walter, the slave merchant. Do you admit to the charges?”

“Yes.”

When Ed answered, Emilia’s eyes shook slightly. She didn’t know Ed would answer so honestly.

“Well, that was easy. May I know why?”

“Caren kidnapped and detained my friend and put a curse on him. Not only that, but he also locked others up using curses.”

“Is that why you attacked him?”

“I was caught killing the abuser, and it was an inevitable choice to save my colleague. So I didn’t kill Caren.”

Emilia thought as she wrote it down in her notebook. If Caren knew this, he wouldn’t forgive Ed, but even if he knew, he knew he couldn’t do much.

After all, Ed was Pendragon’s guest.

“Then why did you kill Walter?”

“Caren sold one of my friends to Walter, the slave merchant. It was an illegal sale. Caren thought she would sell at a high price because she was a dwarf and beautiful, but Walter tried to kill me on the way to save her, so I had no choice but to kill him.”

“So, it was self-defense”.

“Yes.”

Emilia asked Ed while looking at what she wrote in her notebook.

“Where are the friends you saved?”

“They left the royal road because they had work to do.”

“So, you don’t have any witnesses?”

“I can’t say he’s a witness, but there’s someone else I rescued from there.”

“Is it someone you rescued from Caren’s house?”

“Yes. Mr. Gadoin once called the main character of the Southern aristocratic Union’s rebellion. He was trapped underground in a separate building.”

“Why isn’t he a witness?”

“Because he is suffering from many aftereffects from the curse he was put on.”

“Then, he can’t be a witness from Caren’s house.”

“Yes, that’s true.”

“So now you have no evidence or any witness.”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Emilia looked up at Ed. As long as Pendragon was involved, she could not catch Ed, but she had to report.

“Is this related to the disappearance of the champion?”

“No.”

Ed lied about that part because he had to keep it a secret until the end.

Emilia looked at Ed quietly and sighed.

She wondered what this man was.

If Caren was illegally imprisoning people and illegally selling slaves, the direction of the investigation will change. Especially if Gado was involved.

The kingdom was overturned by the rebellion of the Confederate nobility. Although the kingdom of Magelta also actively denied it, there were traces of communication in the house of Gado, and quite a few nobles died at that time.

In the end, the fact that Gado was alive will reveal Caren’s lie.

Caren might be in big trouble.

In addition, Walter’s death could be interpreted as self-defense. Ed’s words were consistent with the testimony of the gladiators.

If all of his claims were true, Walter, the slave merchant, was also suspended for illegal trading, and he would have to pay considerable compensation.

“Can I meet your friends?”

“I think that’s going to be a little difficult. Because they’re busy.”

Emilia covered her notebook and said.

“Then I’d like to check on Mr.Gado before I go.”

Ed nodded and stood up from his seat. When they left the guest room and talked to Pendragon, he gladly guided them to where Mr. Gado was.

The curse condition of Mr. Gado recovered thanks to Arin, but his body had not yet recovered.

She looked at Gado quietly and opened her mouth.

“I’ll report this to our Highness. Don’t leave the royal road until the results come out.”

At Emilia’s words, Ed nodded.

“How did you find me?”

“I got help.”

“From Akalan”?

Emilia stared at Ed. She wondered what the hell this man was. He’s really a man who knows everything.

“That’s right.”

Ed can’t escape Akalan’s eyes within the royal road.

“I’ll stay here until the results come out.”

“Yes, please.”

Emilia bowed her head slightly, greeted Cecilia and Pendragon, and left. Ed, who was watching her leave, realized something.

What would have happened to him without Pendragon?

He would have been released eventually, but it would have been very troublesome.

Under the dark basement.

A rat was seen by the lit candle. The rat raises its head and sniffs.

Squeak!

The rat that ran up came up onto Diego’s palm. Diego stared at the rat in his hand.

The translucent rat squeaked and wagged its tail. Diego smiled at the sight of it expressing affection.

“Dad, did I really do this?”

Juan sat next to Diego and nodded.

-Yeah. It’s the first spirit command you did with your own powers. Will you name it?

Diego looked at the rat and opened his mouth.

“Jerry. I want to name it Jerry!”

-Jerry? That sounds like a nice name. The more you communicate with it, the more your abilities bloom. So try to stay with it longer.

Juan smiled and said as Diego turned around.

-I want to be with you longer, but I think it’s better you practice working with Jerry. It’ll help you someday.

“Are you leaving?”

-I’ll be back again.

“Okay, see you tomorrow.”

Juan stroked Diego’s head.

Diego’s powers were growing at an alarming rate. To the extent that he can summon a new spirit while being with Juan, a high-rank demon.

He could control his spirit command for a longer period of time now. It was the first time that mixed blood with humans controlled the demon’s energy, and it was the first time that he could control his spirit command power.

When Juan disappeared, Diego put Jerry on the floor. And he tried to communicate, which is the most basic of command techniques. Diego, who had a mysterious experience of sharing senses with each other, sent Jerry out.

Jerry’s gaze through the rat hole in the basement of Pendragon’s mansion was low, so it was not used to sharing it, but passing quickly through the dark place conveyed a strange sense of speed.

Jerry, who passed the dark basement while Diego was watching, climbed out of the house. Jerry, who was looking up at the sky, rubbed himself with his front feet and moved.

Diego tried to move Jerry around. Jerry went to the gymnasium. Ed and Dex were seen training at the gymnasium. Dex was training with daggers and Ed was training to throw a round object that he had never seen before.

Diego was looking at the training of the two from Jerry’s point of view, and a dagger flew from Dex’s hand. Jerry couldn’t even avoid it, but since he was under spirit command, the dagger passed through his translucent body.

Jerry left because Dex seemed to notice something was strange and was approaching.

Jerry, who was running through the garden and through the grass for a long time, found a small hole on the wall of Pendragon’s house and escaped.

During the night, Jerry was wandering around again.

Perhaps because Jerry was under spirit command, it had the advantage of being faster and less tired than other rats. When Diego summoned Juan, it was difficult to maintain, but now he thinks he can maintain Jerry all night because he recovers faster.

Jerry was running. Diego felt something weird.

“What’s going on?”

Something looked familiar. At the same time, he felt reluctant.

Unable to resist curiosity, Diego sent Jerry there. What Jerry saw as he approached there was a large gate.

A gate with a pattern of a thorn tree climbing up on a shield. After confirming the soldiers standing on the left and right, Diego sent Jerry straight to the place where he felt the weird energy.

Jerry ran through the wall.

“Hmm. Jerry can run through walls too.”

Jerry was moving according to Diego’s will, so it could run through the wall. And Jerry got faster and faster. The speed made Diego feel dizzy even though, Jerry was just sharing his sight.

The place where he felt the energy was a separate house. Jerry, who passed through the wall, raised his head and tried to locate the spot once again.

When Jerry approached, he saw a staircase going down to the basement. As Jerry went down the stairs, he saw a door and this weird energy coming from inside.

So he went through the door without hesitation. Jerry went down the stairs connected deeper underground. It is a place where there is a line of prisons on the left and right.

At the deepest point, Diego felt familiar and reluctant.

Then, he realized instinctively. That he shouldn’t approach this reluctance.

Jerry was trying to run away, but he heard a voice from inside.

“Hmm. What’s that?”

Jerry couldn’t move as if he had seen a cat. And a woman who quietly approached grabbed Jerry’s tail and lifted him up. This can’t be? Jerry was under a spirit command spell. Jerry saw the red light shining inside the black eyes of the woman who grabbed his tail and lifted him.

She looked Jerry in the eye and said.

“I was really sad because one of my students died, but looks like a cute friend came to visit me. Who are you?”

As soon as Diego tried to stop sharing his senses with Jerry, he heard the woman’s voice.

“There you are”.

Before he could stop sharing his senses with Jerry, Jerry’s body was smashed and Diego felt a terrible pain.

“Argh!”