On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 145

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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 145

 

 

The Initiative Belongs to Ziel (3)

 

 

Even with a person slung over his shoulder, Ziel’s speed didn’t slow down at all.

In the midst of it all, he leaped onto the castle wall just the same, hid in an appropriate spot, and finally returned to Gilbert’s side.

 

“…Did you carry him on your shoulder?”

“Yeah. If I carried him on my back, I’d have to use both hands.”

“Ah…”

 

Setting that aside, he had been asking how on earth he managed to carry someone back like that.

As expected, Boss is different.

 

“Is this the guy?”

“He was targeting Prince Dietrich Valdrain.”

“Huh, who on earth could it be… Could it be the First Prince?”

 

His heart was pounding.

This feeling of being caught in the whirlpool of a massive power struggle!

 

“No. It’s probably not the First Prince.”

“Then, then who…”

“Siren is more likely.”

 

Ziel glanced at the limp Sigrim.

 

“I’m going to find out from now on.”

“More importantly, we’ll be in big trouble if we don’t go back inside… Do we have time to go out?”

 

Since an emergency was declared, they would definitely conduct a headcount.

If they got caught being absent from their posts…

 

“That’s why we’re hiding inside.”

“Excuse me?”

“We’re going back to The Iron Keep.”

 

This was why Ziel had pretended to go outside by leaping high.

Of course, he had actually escaped from The Iron Keep, but they probably judged that he had fled.

 

“Boss, you’re really bold.”

“The area under the shadow is the darkest.”

“How wise!”

“I saw it in a book. Do I look smart?”

“Of course!”

 

Ziel nodded with a strangely proud expression.

 

“I should use that more often.”

 

Anyway, it was time to return to The Iron Keep.

 

“We’ll go through the gap under the castle wall.”

“The gap that guy made earlier, right.”

“Yeah. After that, I’ll hide this guy in a place I scouted beforehand.”

“Then after that…”

“We hand him over to the Imperial Palace.”

“Ah. As expected.”

 

Even the aftermath is handled thoroughly.

Whether what they hand over will be a living person or a corpse remains to be seen.

 

‘As expected, since there’s a connection to the Imperial Palace, he’s handing him over to the Imperial side.’

 

Gilbert, who was misunderstanding on his own, praised Ziel once again in his mind.

 

‘Does he move with everything drawn out in his head? How can he be like this…’

 

Judgment and execution that Gilbert could hardly follow.

Boss’s ability to design and create all of that!

 

“Moving out.”

“Yes, Boss.”

 

The two moved to the gap under the castle wall where one person could pass through.

They moved through the shadows, and coincidentally, the surveillance on the castle wall was also dispersed due to the incident inside.

When they entered, it was truly chaotic.

 

“Strengthen the perimeter and maintain full alert status!”

“Deploy more over here! Bring the trainees!”

 

There was commotion along with shouting voices.

It was understandable.

 

‘It’s an attempted assassination of His Imperial Highness.’

 

In this chaos, how on earth did Boss manage to go in, subdue someone, carry them on his shoulder, and come out?

 

“We’ll hide him here.”

 

In the midst of this, Ziel found an appropriate location.

Right near the remote quarters.

It was under the trees.

 

“You’re not hiding him inside a building?”

“I’ll use this.”

 

What Ziel took out was a small stone.

 

Click.

 

As soon as he pressed it to activate, an illusion was generated and Sigrim disappeared without a trace.

What appeared instead was the surrounding scenery.

 

“It’ll be hard to discover in the darkness.”

“Uh, how did you manage to sneak in? I just came in normally…”

“I almost brought a human skin mask too.”

 

Ziel immediately stepped inside the illusion. As Gilbert quickly entered as well, Ziel immediately woke Sigrim.

 

“…Kill all who interfere…”

 

Sigrim immediately muttered.

However, his entire body was paralyzed, so only his mind was alert.

 

‘That’s exactly how I looked.’

 

Gilbert recalled when he first met Ziel!

At that time, Gilbert felt the desperate fear of death.

But now he stood confidently beside the Boss.

 

‘Yeah, who would have known that nearly dying back then would lead to such a connection?’

 

Gilbert was so infatuated with Ziel that he even romanticized the memory of nearly dying.

 

“But Boss, what does this guy keep saying?”

“It’s proof that brainwashing has been implemented.”

“Brainwashing… that’s scary.”

 

Ziel examined Sigrim’s condition.

 

“I can’t undo the brainwashing.”

 

Unfortunately, only Ziel could break free from brainwashing on his own.

Even Ziel couldn’t undo someone else’s brainwashing.

That had been possible thanks to the unique breathing technique Ziel had learned.

Meanwhile, Gilbert thought this:

 

‘Is he deliberately not undoing the brainwashing?’

 

As another misunderstanding arose, Ziel asked a question.

 

“Who is your master? Is it Siren?”

 

His body convulsed.

His heart rate also increased.

His already high heart rate from the injuries was rising even more.

 

‘A defense mechanism.’

 

Assassins are sometimes forbidden from certain words during brainwashing.

In this case, it was probably ‘Siren’.

However, the level of brainwashing was extremely low.

If it had been Black Sky’s standard brainwashing, it would have been conducted much more thoroughly so that even such defense mechanisms wouldn’t be noticed.

 

‘Whoever did the brainwashing is inexperienced.’

 

Thanks to that, it seemed he could easily extract information.

 

“Who from Siren gave the orders? The head of the family?”

 

The convulsions subsided.

 

“It’s not the head of the family then. So it’s someone other than the head?”

 

Ziel recalled the information about Siren that he had received from the Head of Kundel.

 

“Emil Siren?”

“…”

“Remal Siren?”

“…!”

 

Got him.

He convulsed again this time.

It meant the same defense mechanism was set up.

 

“Remal Siren.”

 

When he said it aloud once more, the convulsions became more severe.

He had caught him.

 

‘Remal Siren.’

 

He had been suspicious, but this confirmed it.

Black Sky had been destroyed.

At that time, Ziel had read the message slip saying ‘Black Sky has collapsed’ but didn’t die.

Because his brainwashing had already been undone.

 

‘Then this guy either didn’t receive that message slip… or was already spirited away somewhere else before that.’

 

Black Sky assassins don’t know each other’s exact identities.

So he couldn’t know who this was, but that wasn’t an important fact.

Black Sky assassins were still alive.

And they had been spirited away by Siren’s hands.

Ziel asked the most crucial question.

 

“Is Siren trying to create an assassination group?”

 

Shudder, teeth chattering.

Another defense mechanism.

 

‘Very sloppy indeed.’

 

Defense mechanisms are sometimes placed on meaningless things for information disruption.

But Siren is not Black Sky.

Naturally, they would have been handling assassins for the first time, and the brainwashing seems to have been conducted very clumsily.

It was probably impossible from the start.

In terms of stages, they would need to undo all the brainwashing and start over from the beginning, but they don’t know that method.

 

‘Then it’s a half-baked assassination group.’

 

However, the ‘Genesis Gem’ used for brainwashing would also be on their side.

That gem that seems to suck your mind in just by looking at it.

Every moment as assassin Ziel began with staring at that gem.

 

“Cough, hack.”

 

Then Sigrim coughing up blood.

It was a wound he had inflicted himself.

A wound created by manifesting a mana sword.

The fine serrated edge of the mana sword completely tears apart the wound, making both hemostasis and complete healing difficult.

This was the reason Ziel felt such intense emotion for the first time when Delev was attacked.

In the same context, this wound too—

 

“You’ll die soon, Boss.”

“Yes. That’s what will happen.”

 

It’s difficult to heal.

 

“It went completely through.”

“He received an attack that warranted it.”

 

This guy was definitely strong.

So Ziel had simply responded accordingly.

Also, he never intended to keep him alive to extract information from the start.

Extracting information was the purpose itself.

But one emotion does arise.

 

“Cough… hack…”

 

Regret.

If Ziel hadn’t been able to break free from the brainwashing on his own…

 

‘I too might have been used by Siren.’

 

The destruction of Black Sky was inevitable.

In that process, only Ziel had broken free from the brainwashing on his own.

The other assassins either died with a message slip saying ‘Black Sky has fallen,’ or were taken by Siren.

 

“Boss, how…”

 

Shing.

 

Ziel drew his dagger without hesitation and stabbed the back of Sigrim’s neck.

The convulsions started then quieted down.

 

“Boss…”

“He’s dead. There would have been no pain.”

 

It was the first emotion Ziel had ever felt.

Regret.

A sense of kinship.

And even a bit of anger.

Ziel had no particular feelings for the other assassins.

He had no choice.

He hadn’t possessed emotions throughout his entire time as an assassin.

But now it was different.

Even if he didn’t know the face, this was someone who had belonged to the same organization.

Ziel, who had learned a sense of belonging while teaching students at the Academy.

 

“Siren must definitely be brought down.”

 

It was the moment Ziel finally made his decision.

 

“Boss… are you alright?”

 

Gilbert was also seeing Ziel with such emotions for the first time.

 

“No, I’m not alright.”

“…”

 

Ziel answered honestly as usual, then stared down at Sigrim’s corpse.

Though emotions were gradually being felt, his judgment remained cold.

 

“We’ll leave the corpse as it is.”

 

He had thought of the most efficient and effective method.

 

“The Imperial Palace will use it as evidence.”

“But what kind of evidence could just a body, I mean corpse, be?”

“It will be. First, they’ll visually confirm the existence of an attacker.”

“Ah.”

“And they’ll also become suspicious of Siren.”

 

Naturally, there’s no visible related evidence.

But there are two things.

One is telling the Prince to ‘investigate Siren.’

The other is—

 

“This is….”

“Poison.”

 

Ziel opened the medicine bottle, smelled it, and nodded.

 

“Made with Mevros.”

“Pardon?”

“It’s deadly poison.”

“You can tell just from the smell…?”

“I’ve used it before.”

 

Of course, it’s an extremely rare poison.

Usually, this material is made into medicine rather than poison.

Because of that, its existence is barely known, but Ziel recognized it immediately.

 

“Mevros is only cultivated in Siren and a few families.”

“Ah! Then….”

“It will become a link of suspicion.”

“Will they realize it can be made into poison?”

“That’s not something we need to worry about. We’ve already made them suspicious. If they investigate with Siren at the center, they might figure it out, or they might not.”

 

Ziel put the medicine bottle back in the corpse’s chest and finally brought his hand to the back of the neck.

Ziel’s strike to the back of the neck wasn’t simply to send him off without pain.

 

“What is… that?”

“A magic stone that reacts to brainwashing.”

 

A black gem.

The object that controlled all the assassins of Black Sky.

This magic stone is what reacts to that gem.

 

‘With this magic stone, I can reverse track the location of the black gem.’

 

Siren and Remal are problems, but more important is that black gem that controls the assassins.

If he could just retrieve that, they would no longer be able to control the assassins.

 

“We’re going back now. As soon as we return, make sure to check on the students’ safety first.”

“Yes, Boss.”

 

With that, the two left the scene.

 

‘What on earth is going to happen from now on.’

 

Gilbert also roughly understands the situation.

That Siren is plotting something.

But they messed with the wrong person.

 

‘As expected of the Boss. To drag the Imperial Palace into this and make them attack Siren.’

 

Terrifying.

Is this borrowing a knife to kill?

To think he could use this situation so efficiently.

This time it wasn’t a misunderstanding.

 

‘If he drags in the Imperial Palace, he can focus more on his teacher position.’

 

Use the Imperial Palace to strike at Siren.

And at the crucial moment, step forward himself to retrieve the black gem and erase traces of Black Sky.

This was the most decisive reason Ziel mentioned Siren to Dietrich.

Ziel had begun utilizing the connection that was created by chance with quick judgment.

 

‘Behind-the-scenes manipulation is interesting.’

 

This very situation where Ziel leads the big picture without direct intervention!

In the process, there was no concern or worry about Ziel’s identity being revealed.

The Imperial Palace.

And a collision with one of the Empire’s most prominent great mage families was foreseen.

 

‘The Boss… has talent for playing the mastermind role too.’

 

Gilbert, who roughly grasped the situation, suddenly tilted his head.

 

‘But wait. If he has Imperial connections, he could just ask the Imperial Palace directly… The fact that he’s not doing that and doing this instead, could it be?’

 

Is the misunderstanding finally being cleared up?

Gilbert looked suspiciously at Ziel’s back, then let out an “Ah” of admiration.

 

‘Even Imperial connections can’t be trusted! He’s opening up other paths too!’

 

Since when has the Imperial Palace been a trustworthy group!

Creating other directions in advance in case of future betrayal!

 

‘As expected, so meticulous. The Boss really… how far ahead does he think!’

 

Thus a new misunderstanding was layered on.

 

“What’s wrong?”

“I was just thinking how much you’re like a boss.”

 

When Ziel tilted his head, Gilbert pledged once more.

 

“I will serve you with complete loyalty, Boss.”

“See that you do.”

“Yes.”

 

And a short while later.

At the place where the two had left.

 

“Th, there’s a body here!”

 

The voices of the apprentice members who discovered Sigrim’s corpse echoed through the air.

 

 

The students were confined to their dormitory, anxious without understanding what was happening.

Delev and Celia each busily moved around, trying their best to reassure and calm the other students.

 

“Where did Teacher go? I don’t see the Teaching Assistant either…”

“Ellie, it’s okay. They’ll be back soon. They probably went to protect us.”

“Right? What on earth is happening…”

 

The students were still gathered at the training ground.

It was a better choice than staying in the dormitory.

Though it was open on all sides, that made it easier to detect approaching threats.

Instead, many apprentice members and official members were standing guard around the perimeter.

 

“It’ll really be okay, right? Nothing happened to Teacher, did it?”

 

Even in this situation, the students were worried about Ziel.

Delev firmly shook his head at such concerns.

 

“Teacher will be fine. Don’t worry. It’s Teacher Ziel we’re talking about, not just anyone.”

“Right? We might not know about the other professors, but Teacher Ziel…”

 

Words that would have hurt the other professors quite a bit if they had heard them.

But the first years’ faith was unwavering.

Ziel would definitely return.

In fact, those most worried were Delev and Celia, who followed him the most.

 

‘Where on earth did he go?’

‘Teacher will come back… right?’

 

The only moment when the thoughts of the two, who always growled at each other, aligned.

It was precisely when it involved Ziel.

Then, how much time had passed?

 

“Oh, it’s Teacher!”

“The Teaching Assistant is with him too!”

 

Finally, the two had returned.

 

“Teacher!”

“Teacher!”

 

The students quickly stood up as soon as they saw Ziel.

 

“Where did you go!”

 

Celia raised her voice the highest, showing her worry.

The expressions of the other students weren’t much different.

 

“There was something I needed to handle for your safety.”

 

Gilbert answered on his behalf, and Ziel looked around at the students before nodding calmly.

 

“You’re all safe.”

 

Of course.

Teacher’s reaction was always like that.

But the students were momentarily stunned by the words that followed.

 

“Thank goodness.”

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