On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 200

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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 200

 

What Happened in Garden (4)

 

It was an absurd sight.

 

The kidnapped children were laughing and playing around?

 

‘Why?’

 

Gilbert stared blankly at the extremely surreal scene.

 

Such thoughts also crossed his mind.

 

Had the poor and commoner children, whose lives were so difficult, fallen for this luxurious lifestyle?

 

‘That can’t be right.’

 

In children’s world, family is everything.

 

No matter what, there are times when they miss their mom and dad.

 

That’s why something felt strange.

 

“There’s no one except the children.”

 

As Ziel said, in the luxurious mayor’s office, only children were playing around, and no other people were visible.

 

At least not in this space.

 

And there was another strange point that only Ziel noticed.

 

“Gilbert. Watch the children’s behavior carefully.”

 

Gilbert soon realized what Ziel meant by those words.

 

“They’re repeating the same actions…!”

 

The children were each stopping at the same spots, running the same distances, and repeating the same words.

 

A scene that brought constant unease from the moment he noticed it.

 

“Right. It’s brainwashing.”

 

“…!”

 

Brainwashing!

 

“At this level, it’s rudimentary brainwashing.”

 

“What could they possibly want by brainwashing children…”

 

“The purpose would be to keep the children quiet.”

 

While Ziel speculated this, he stopped a child who happened to be passing by in front of them.

 

The boy then struggled to escape from Ziel’s grasp.

 

When Ziel released his hand again, the child ran back to the same spot, then returned with a smile.

 

At this point, it seemed chilling.

 

“Brainwashing… can this be undone?”

 

Ziel mentioned when they encountered the assassins at Siren’s mansion.

 

“If it’s not base brainwashing like back then, it can be undone. However, the brainwashing formula must be solved. Mana must be refined accordingly.”

 

“Just hearing about it sounds difficult.”

 

From Gilbert’s perspective, both base brainwashing and regular brainwashing seemed impossible to undo.

 

“At least all the children are safe.”

 

Meanwhile, one boy caught his eye.

 

Wearing obviously high-quality clothes, that child seemed to be Kyle Deshaf.

 

“That child looks like him, Kyle Deshaf.”

 

“First, I’ll undo all the children’s brainwashing. And…”

 

Ziel pointed to the wall of the mayor’s office.

 

“There’s someone behind there.”

 

“…!”

 

“Let’s leave the children as they are and go to the back first. Prepare for combat.”

 

Gulp.

 

Gilbert swallowed.

 

Tension began to rise.

 

‘Who could be back there.’

 

The mastermind who kidnapped the children?

 

Or someone else?

 

“Gilbert.”

 

“Yes, Boss.”

 

“Did you say the mayor was a Secret Arts User?”

 

“…!”

 

Ziel remembered exactly what Gilbert had mentioned in passing.

 

With those words, Ziel approached and pulled out a book from the wall.

 

“Here it is.”

 

Though he had no idea how Ziel knew, when he inserted his hand into the empty space after pulling out the book-

 

Click.

 

With the sound of something activating, the bookshelf slowly rotated.

 

“It’s a common disguised wall.”

 

No it’s not, Boss.

 

‘How did you know exactly where and how that mechanism was located to pull out the right book in one try…’

 

“Now be quiet.”

 

But you spoke first, Boss.

 

The moment they entered through the rotated wall of the mayor’s office.

 

‘Huh.’

 

A completely different scene from the luxurious mayor’s office unfolded.

 

Inside… it was a very dark and damp space.

 

A place that might be suspected of being a storage.

 

Thanks to the dim light inside, outlines could be distinguished, but it was impossible to know exactly what kind of place it was.

 

“…”

 

However, Ziel knew.

 

What purpose this space was created for.

 

‘They brought it from the Western Branch.’

 

Ziel knew from the moment they entered, no, from the moment the wall rotated.

 

A familiar scent.

 

A familiar scene.

 

And even the familiar texture of the air.

 

Swoosh!

 

Right then, an attack came flying through the air!

 

Ziel drew his dagger and deflected it.

 

Clang!

 

‘What? A dagger?’

 

He heard the sound of deflection but didn’t hear anything falling.

 

Then does that mean it was an intangible attack?

 

‘Ah, a Secret Arts User.’

 

A Secret Arts User!

 

Those mysterious beings whose full strength and power had not yet been completely understood.

 

Their power is inherited through generations, and the substance and specific information of that power is kept strictly confidential.

 

However, since their numbers are small, they only maintain their own influence within the Empire and aren’t exactly targets to be heavily guarded against.

 

But what’s certain is that they are very rare yet powerful beings.

 

“A guest has arrived.”

 

And a voice could be heard.

 

Step, step.

 

The person who revealed their form in front of the dim light was-

 

“You’re the mayor of this Garden. And that was Secret Arts just now.”

 

It was the mayor of Garden.

 

“You know quite well.”

 

I heard he was a Secret Arts User.

 

But I never thought he’d be doing something like this.

 

“Did you kidnap the children?”

 

“I did. But no one knows. Except for you two. You know what’s going to happen next.”

 

The response the opponent expected naturally didn’t come.

 

“You’ll be captured, and I’ll receive the bounty reward.”

 

The Mayor burst into laughter at that answer.

 

“You’re overflowing with confidence.”

 

Ziel answered calmly.

 

“Because you’re weaker than me.”

 

With those words, Ziel charged forward, and at that moment Secret Arts exploded forth.

 

That very formless attack that had flown through the darkness!

 

The moment the Mayor swung his hand.

 

Despite the clear distance between them, something flew through the air.

 

But Ziel easily deflected it once again.

 

“….”

 

Had he not expected his attack to be blocked?

 

‘Well, in this darkness.’

 

You could tell from the opponent’s movements that he was swinging something, but who could imagine something flying when there was nothing visible?

 

In other words.

 

“The attack is slow. The attack begins at the point where the arm movement ends.”

 

He had met the wrong opponent.

 

‘Even in this situation, he’s giving feedback.’

 

Swoosh!

 

This time an attack flying slightly faster!

 

Gilbert tried to gauge whether he could dodge that attack.

 

‘The odds are fifty-fifty.’

 

And he concluded that deflecting it would be impossible.

 

Because it was invisible.

 

He didn’t have the confidence to predict the air flow like Ziel and deflect it with a dagger at the perfect angle.

 

And in this pitch-black darkness too!

 

Clang!

 

Ziel perfectly deflected it once again.

 

‘Boss is watching for an opening.’

 

Not counterattacking immediately seemed like he was gauging any hidden moves the opponent might have and looking for a chance to perfectly suppress him.

 

Sure enough, as expected.

 

Flash!

 

Light flashed and this time dozens of swords were created in mid-air.

 

‘Magic?’

 

For a moment, mana waves so intense they could be mistaken for magic filled the space.

 

Tremendous mana that even Gilbert could feel!

 

‘He was a Secret Arts User. Then is that one of the Secret Arts?’

 

Secret Arts was a field with extremely little known about it!

 

If there was anything he knew, it was that the forms of Secret Arts were somewhat predetermined.

 

‘Form Manipulation Secret Arts!’

 

At the thought that came to mind, Gilbert screamed internally.

 

Secret Arts Users are strong.

 

Some people are even rated above Master-level knights.

 

The opponent also had a hidden move after all.

 

“You won’t be able to deflect all of these.”

 

Just as the Mayor said, it really looked that way.

 

So Ziel answered like this.

 

“Then I’ll just dodge them.”

 

“Go ahead and try.”

 

Swooosh!

 

The moment the light-formed swords flew—

 

Swish.

 

Ziel really did dodge.

 

By moving behind the Mayor’s back.

 

“It’s not that impressive a Secret Art.”

 

With an assessment only he could make, he lightly tapped the back of the neck and knocked him down.

 

Thud.

 

It was over.

 

The Mayor collapsed unconscious just like that.

 

Gilbert muttered blankly.

 

“…There’s no tension at all, Boss.”

 

Gilbert nodded as if he had expected this.

 

“No, I was tense.”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yeah. I was worried that if I shocked this guy or caused him harm, the children might get hurt.”

 

Boss really was a warm person after all.

 

“Especially if Kyle Deshaf got hurt, I wouldn’t receive the bounty reward.”

 

“Hey, you’re pretending not to be warm again.”

 

“What are you talking about? Was I being warm? My body temperature is cold right now.”

 

“….”

 

Gilbert quickly gave up on rebutting and changed the subject.

 

“Anyway, there’s going to be chaos. This guy probably never thought he’d get caught either.”

 

“Why would there be chaos? We caught the culprit. Ah, there’ll be chaos because we caught the culprit.”

 

“You missed something in the middle. We caught the culprit, but the chaos will happen because that culprit is this city’s Mayor.”

 

“Hmm. The Mayor has a duty to protect the citizens. Right, people might be shocked.”

 

It wasn’t just a matter of being shocked—it wouldn’t be strange if all the citizens of this city rose up in revolt.

 

He had even caused the Deshaf Family to put up an enormous bounty reward.

 

‘Wait, then are they really going to give the 10 million Cel?’

 

If the Deshaf Family had really put it up out of desperation….

 

‘This is complicated. The Deshaf Family and the Mayor’s side must be closely connected, so when they find out the Mayor is the culprit….’

 

“Now I just need to go collect the bounty reward.”

 

“B-Boss. Do you think they’ll really give it?”

 

“It’s 10 million Cel. Of course they have to give it.”

 

“But it’s such an unrealistic amount….”

 

“Are you saying they put it up as a lie?”

 

“More than that, the Mayor is the culprit. I’m not sure how the Deshaf Family will react when they find out this fact.”

 

“That’s not something I need to worry about.”

 

The complex political structure among western nobles that Gilbert was thinking of wasn’t Ziel’s concern.

 

It probably never would be.

 

“If they don’t give it, I’ll take it by force.”

 

Ziel really would do that.

 

“What if they say they don’t have the money?”

 

“I’ll take something else equivalent to it. If that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t have moved in the first place.”

 

Gilbert saw madness in Ziel’s eyes.

 

“If that doesn’t work, I’ll kidnap the Deshaf Family members myself.”

 

“L-let’s go for now. Should we start by breaking the children’s brainwashing?”

 

“No. We examine this place first.”

 

The culprit was caught, but there were things that needed to be investigated from now on.

 

“By the way, what is this place for… It’s so damp and gloomy.”

 

“A space created for the first stage of assassin training.”

 

“What? Assassins?”

 

Gilbert’s eyes widened.

 

‘The first stage of raising assassins…?’

 

A damp, unpleasant space.

 

At first, he thought they were conducting some kind of biological experiments.

 

Fortunately, the children were alive and safe for now, but seeing that they were brainwashed, something must have been done to them in this space.

 

But to think it was a space for creating assassins.

 

‘Then that brainwashing…’

 

“The rudimentary brainwashing from earlier is one of the processes to make children accustomed to brainwashing.”

 

“I-it’s not base brainwashing, right?”

 

“Base brainwashing is conducted after they become accustomed to brainwashing.”

 

“Ah…”

 

It was one shock after another.

 

So the mayor was trying to create an assassination group?

 

“But it’s too dangerous. To think of creating assassins here…”

 

“No. They planned to send them elsewhere after completing the brainwashing work here.”

 

Because the western ‘branch’ didn’t have facilities for the rudimentary brainwashing process.

 

A branch was literally a branch.

 

While the assassination group’s headquarters in the capital had all facilities, the western branch only had facilities for already completed assassins.

 

A fact that Ziel knew because he had been part of Black Sky.

 

‘Then does that mean someone is using the western branch’s facilities?’

 

The remnants of Black Sky still remained.

 

He thought it ended with Siren, but someone was still coveting that vast and powerful force that Black Sky had boasted of.

 

Wasn’t Siren the same way?

 

‘It was just the right situation to use the key.’

 

The key acquired from the black market.

 

The cipher found in Siren’s vault.

 

Though he hadn’t told Gilbert, one of the purposes of this western journey.

 

In the midst of all this, a new purpose had inserted itself.

 

“Then… is it Black Sky?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Good heavens…”

 

That weighty name!

 

Though it had been destroyed, those who desired its power were still scattered everywhere.

 

Ziel immediately looked at the mayor.

 

“I’ll wake up the mayor.”

 

“A-are you going to kill him?”

 

“No.”

 

Ziel added a word.

 

“Didn’t they say to capture him alive?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“So I just need to keep him alive.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Gilbert had an intuition.

 

The mayor would remember today as a lifelong terror.

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