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141 – Captains of Kaef (4)

Luna Ayre to Nikolai Hilbert?

Even after hearing it myself, I couldn’t understand it properly. What do you mean?

It was only last night that the three of us talked about the coup. Besides, there’s no way two people who are closer to each other than me would suddenly kill one of them.

But the Logan pistol I found at the waterworks treatment plant a while ago was definitely something I had given to Luna.

So it’s no different than Luna Ayre, who was also present at the scene of Nikolai’s murder yesterday.

I turned my head and looked at Captain Luna, who was almost being dragged out.

“What are you talking about! I, I…… !! I didn’t kill you!! Let go of this!!”

She was defying the gendarmerie members who were trying to drag her by force. I pushed back the military police who were trying to stop me and approached Luna.

“Luna.”

“Captain Enoch Levandel!!”

“What…… ?”

“Captain Enoch Levandel!! You know! Until yesterday, we drank together at ‘Idor’!! I was completely drunk at that time, so I was full! How did you kill him!?”

Luna Aire yelled at me with her tears dripping.

“I didn’t kill you! You know! Captain! Captain, say something!!!”

It was impossible to even determine what the hell the situation was.

Why does Luna call me Captain, and why is the name of the pub she visited last year when she was awarded her medal for her service in the Quernen War?

“Luna!!! Tell me straight!! The pistol I gave you, where did you put it!”

“Pistol…… ? I-I don’t know that! I didn’t do anything!!”

Her hair went white.

I wanted to keep questioning her, but she couldn’t bear to part her lips.

“I didn’t! I didn’t kill you! Captain! Prove my innocence! Captain Enoch!!”

“Have you completely gone mad… …. For now, that friend can be sent to the Military Police Headquarters.”

As Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov clicked her tongue, the rest of the military police waiting for her all clung to her and held her Luna tightly.

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“Aww!!”

Luna being tied down on the floor as it is. I couldn’t do anything while looking at her like that.

“Captain!! Captain!! We drank together yesterday in Idor! Why why! You don’t remember!”

Luna looks at me with pitiful eyes.

“I will subdue you!”

“Yes.”

“Kyaaa!!”

Parts Side!!

The purple magic triggered by a military police officer paralyzed Luna’s nerves. Her fainted body limp.

“He is a suspect in a heinous first-degree murder crime against a soldier, and a fellow soldier in particular. So that I can handle it with certainty.”

At Kamarov’s orders, her other gendarmerie members violently lifted her from her unconscious.

They tied Luna’s arms behind her back and tossed her into her military police wagon.

f*ck! A bound Luna wallows in the bed of her wagon.

After that, as soon as the members get on board, the convoy wagon slowly starts moving towards the military police headquarters.

I was still confused by what happened so quickly.

But Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov didn’t seem to want to leave me alone.

“Lieutenant Colonel Enoch Levandel, I will take you with me. There are many things I want to ask.”

***

“So that means everyone went back to their lodgings around 18:00.”

“Yes, that will be guaranteed by my companion, Captain Bell Meyer. She has her own restaurant where she dined with her.”

“Your alibi is clear. She has no motive, no charges whatsoever.”

Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov tapped the desk with a pen and closed the folder.

“The investigation is over. If a clear crime is revealed later, they may be called again at that time, but for now, they are innocent.”

At the words of the military police task force commander, I nodded instead of answering. I still didn’t feel it.

Nikolai died.

I couldn’t believe that the most likely murder suspect was Luna.

“…… Did she say you were a smoker?”

“Yes.”

“Fiji as one. Come out.”

I followed him out of the interrogation room. An underground hallway where the only lighting is flickering candles.

After passing there, a door leading to the outside appeared. It must have been the back door connected to the detention center.

I had only been inside for a few dozen minutes to investigate, but even the shallow sunlight made my eyes sting.

“Receive.”

“Thank you.”

I took the cigarette Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov handed to me and snapped his fingers to start a fire. Soon, the smoke fills the throat.

“Captain Luna Aire’s interrogation will probably be handled by the Bureau of Investigation.”

“… ….”

“Are you embarrassed?”

“Yes.”

There was nothing I could do other than that.

Nikolai’s death and Luna Ayre’s arrest. All of this happened overnight.

“I guess you don’t know why Captain Luna has changed like that. Yesterday was really just a fellowship meeting?”

“Before the celebration of the birthday of His Excellency the Prince, we met first, and we were just happy to talk.”

“Was that really all?”

At the sharp piercing voice, I looked at Kamarov. The cigarette he smoked was burning red.

“What do you mean?”

“There is no need to react so hostilely. I, too, am digging behind him.”

“What is that…….”

Gendarmerie Task Force Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov slightly turned his head to check if anyone was watching.

“The traitor of the Metropolitan Guard Division and the National Military Police.”

“…… !”

I knocked the cigarette out of my mouth. In the dirt field dampened during the night, the cigarette butts shimmering quickly fade away.

“Isn’t Captain Luna’s condition strange? Was it like that yesterday?”

“No.”

“Then you can agree with me. Even though an incumbent soldier was murdered, there is a reason why I took you, an important witness, away from me.”

Gulp.

I felt like my throat was drying up.

However, it is a situation where no one can be hastily trusted. I calmly waited for Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov’s next words.

“You are a reactionary force in our own right…… To be precise, you already know that the coup forces were still being investigated.”

“Yes.”

“In the process, did you hear about the existence of coup charges against Secretary of State Aberto?”

“Yes.”

“You know most of the facts. It seems Lieutenant Colonel Lannister trusts you quite a bit.”

I wonder if the officer who was linked with Lieutenant Colonel Lannister was none other than Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov.

Certainly, if it was a military police task force, it was an ideal unit to quickly subdue the forces of the coup.

“As you know. Secretary of State Aberto intends to stage a coup d’état by mobilizing key personnel a week later, after the celebration of His Excellency Prince Orlando Luz III.”

He threw down the burnt cigarette and stepped on it with his boot, then continued his speech.

“The main axis of the coup is the Eastern Corps. It seems that the corps commander is also involved. And, coincidentally, the affiliation of Captain Nikolai Hilbert, who was killed today.”

“The Eastern Legion… ….”

“Yes. Don’t you just feel it? Cut the tail It seems that Captain Luna Aire has unintentionally fallen for their trick.”

Luna’s condition was strange to anyone. To the point where he feels like he’s lost his mind.

But there is no magic I know of that eats away at the user’s mind like that.

Unless it’s a ‘command group’ like the Strigoi.

It was only then that it felt like a puzzle was put together in my head.

Nikolai Hilbert completed the decryption of the code passed to Luna Aire before he was killed.

I don’t know what the contents are, but Nikolai changed his word that he would deliver it by tomorrow and contacted Luna Aire.

In the process, I was attacked by someone.

An illegal organization infiltrating the capital city, probably including strigoi.

It is still a mystery how Luna Ayre got hold of her mind, but she took a Logan pistol and fired at Nikolai Hilbert.

There really was a chance that Luna Aire was a traitor.

Her reaction, which she showed just a moment ago, continued to haunt her mind.

If she was really a traitor, she wouldn’t have gone so far to prove her innocence. Besides, why would I stay in my room and get arrested by the military police?

“Have you heard any stories from the Magic Brigade? From the Hafenruuk Helheim Brigadier…… ?”

“Brigadier General Hafenruk is also at the headquarters of the National Military Police. Is there anything that gets stuck?”

“Ah, that is… ….”

I was about to get her word out about the ciphertext that Luna Aire had brought.

I paused for a moment.

Come to think of it, it’s strange.

Why is it Captain Luna?

Hafenruk definitely knows something. My intuition was telling me that. And Captain Luna Ayre, thinking about it now, there were not one or two suspicious things.

The fact that she dared to call me captain, and the fact that she mentioned the bar where Nikolai and I went to an after party last year.

Luna may have tried to hint at me in some way.

I naturally lengthened my tail so that Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov wouldn’t notice.

“I was wondering if there was anything special about Luna Aire. I thought that if she really was a coup d’état, she wouldn’t stand out too much.”

“Maybe they are warning you. I mean, don’t do anything stupid.”

Kamarov said calmly.

“First of all…… It’s too complicated. Right now, the people I had a conversation with until yesterday became like this overnight.”

“It must be confusing. I understand.”

“Captain Bell, who accompanied me, must be very surprised. First of all, it would be right to go back and stabilize her a little bit.”

“If there is any progress in the investigation, I will deliver it to Lieutenant Colonel Lannister right away.”

“Thank you.”

I bowed my head in greeting to Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov, the head of the military police task force, and left the headquarters of the military police.

‘No matter how much I think about it, it’s too suspicious.’

Lieutenant Colonel Lannister.

Lieutenant Colonel Kamarov.

Brigadier of Hafenruck.

There Captain Nikolai and Luna Aire.

I feel like I will regret it if I act hastily in this situation where everyone is mixed up.

‘Then…… First of all, should we visit the place Captain Luna Aire said?’

Especially.

It’s nothing else, and it takes me to specifically mention a bar called ‘Idor’.

‘If I’m not careful, I might hit the ball from the other side.’

I moved quickly, before the case fell further into the labyrinth.