The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 290

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Chapter 44

“Niece Seolha! What is it? What did you find out now?”

Seeing my expression was unusual, Uncle Wang’s voice lowered.

“Let’s get out of here first.”

I left the incinerator and led Uncle Wang to a secluded place.

“You found a clue, right?”

Quick-witted Uncle Wang urged me to speak up.

“Uncle Wang, let’s think carefully. Gong Ya-chi, and the person who came all the way from the graveyard to Wuhan only to die in the end.”

“Yeah.”

“What do these two people have in common?”

“…The golden restriction?”

“That’s probably right too. But there’s one more thing. What Gong Ya-chi feared most.”

Gong Ya-chi had screamed that if Tam-rang found out he was caught, Tam-rang would kill him with poison.

“You mean the poison?”

“Correct!”

I snapped my fingers and asked.

“Do you think those two were his only subordinates?”

“Absolutely not.”

To someone like Tam-rang, subordinates were just expendable items.

And the more expendable items you have, the more useful they become.

Uncle Wang immediately caught the meaning of my words.

“Poison insects are always born in pairs, male and female. The male poison and the female poison.”

“The key to controlling poison insects is dividing that pair and placing one in each of two separate entities.”

“If Tam-rang controls ten subordinates, where would their matching counterparts be? This is what you wanted to ask, right, Niece Seolha?”

“As expected, I can never match Uncle’s intuition.”

I really liked Uncle Wang, who understood perfectly even when I explained things indirectly.

“One side must carry out orders, while the other side must be held as a lifeline. So they can be killed immediately when things go wrong, like yesterday.”

“Could Tam-rang, who infiltrated the Martial Arts Alliance as a spy, control many people?”

“A Military Department member privately controlling people? That would be nearly impossible, wouldn’t it?”

“Then how is Tam-rang handling the poison insects?”

It was when Uncle Wang and I were rapidly exchanging ideas.

Woof woof!

Awoooo—

Once again, the sound of dogs barking came from the Military Department.

“Uncle Wang, shall we answer?”

“Niece Seolha, aren’t you underestimating me too much?”

“What do you mean? We communicate so well like this!”

“It feels like I’m bowing to receive praise, but how about we say it simultaneously on the count of three?”

“Good idea.”

When I nodded, Uncle Wang started counting.

“One, two, three!”

“Dogs!”

“Canines!”

We shouted different words, but the meaning was the same.

We both grinned and looked up at the Military Department.

The courtyard of the Military Department.

Uncle Wang and I had come full circle back to the Military Department pavilion.

As the person we met at the incinerator said, the Military Department wasn’t a place just anyone could enter and exit freely.

The reason we were able to meet General Commander Jegal Mun-gi earlier was because he had summoned us.

But we had discovered that Tam-rang was hiding in the Military Department.

To find him, investigating the Military Department was an unavoidable situation.

So Uncle Wang went alone to meet General Commander Jegal Mun-gi to get his approval.

“He’ll probably be quite shocked.”

I recalled Jegal Mun-gi’s angry expression when he heard about the Geumhwa Tower incident.

But how shocked would he be to learn that the culprit was working under him?

“A perfect blind spot.”

Thinking about it, the Military Department was indeed the optimal environment for Tam-rang, a spy of the Bloodsky Sect.

Since it was a place where much information flowed, there would be plenty to steal.

The tracking technique using the Soul-Chasing Fragrance had failed, but I had the advantage of being a possessor.

Having narrowed it down from the entire Martial Arts Alliance to the Military Department, I had gotten more than halfway to him.

“Excuse me.”

Standing in front of the pavilion, people entering and exiting the Military Department glanced at me as they passed by.

I carefully called out to one who looked kind.

“…You mean me?”

“Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.”

I pressed my palms together and greeted him first to break down his wariness.

“What brings you to do this?”

As expected, reciting the Buddhist invocation made his attitude more generous.

I seemed to have chosen the right person.

“I have something I’m personally curious about, so I took the liberty of speaking to you.”

“I’m sorry, miss, but since I belong to the Military Department, I probably have nothing to tell you.”

“Ah! What I’m curious about isn’t that kind of thing.”

“…Really?”

“Yes, I keep hearing dogs barking. It sounds like more than ten dogs, not just one or two. Is there a particular reason the Military Department keeps dogs?”

The man looked at me with bewilderment for a moment, as if he never expected me to ask about dogs.

“Actually, I really love dogs. I was wondering if I could at least take a look if I knew the reason… I apologize if it was an inappropriate question.”

“Not at all. It’s not classified information, so there’s nothing I can’t answer.”

My pitiful acting had paid off.

The man explained as if doing me a favor.

“They’re all abandoned dogs.”

“Abandoned… you mean stray dogs?”

“That’s right. They’re all dogs that aren’t in good health.”

‘As expected, my guess was right!’

My body trembled slightly with excitement.

In the original story, when Tam-rang disposed of his useless subordinates, the dogs he killed all had disabilities.

This bastard worse than dogs!

He brought poor stray dogs and fed them poison insects?

Wow, I suddenly felt my anger flaring up.

“Who takes care of those dogs?”

I desperately prayed that the name of Tam-rang’s disguised identity would come out of the man’s mouth.

However.

“There isn’t anyone specifically assigned to care for them.”

This wasn’t the answer I wanted.

“Then how…?”

“Several people take care of them together. They’re pitiful, and the dogs are cute too. For various reasons like that, everyone loves them. Well, I think I’ve answered everything, so I’ll be going now.”

The man politely bowed and entered the pavilion.

And not long after, Uncle Wang came out.

“Niece Seolha.”

“Uncle!”

I hurriedly ran over to Uncle Wang.

“How did it go?”

“Don’t even ask. He seemed to be in tremendous shock. If he were older, he would have collapsed from high blood pressure.”

“I would have too.”

A spy from the Bloodsky Sect in the Phoenix Corps?

I might really have a mental breakdown if that were true.

“So what about the permission?”

“Of course I got it. Though we can’t look around the entire Military Department… Ugh!”

Before Uncle Wang could finish speaking, I grabbed him and headed straight to the backyard.

Woof! Woof woof!

Bark bark! Bark! Bark!

Whine, whimper!

Several dogs were playing around excitedly.

They seemed well-accustomed to human touch, as they didn’t show any wariness despite strangers arriving, instead wagging their tails and approaching us affectionately.

Just as the man had said, all the dogs had disabilities.

“Oh, such adorable things.”

Uncle Wang couldn’t hide his pity and gently petted each one he saw.

“There are things you should do and things you shouldn’t. Planting poison in these poor creatures?”

“To Tam-rang, they’re just tools.”

“Did you find out who takes care of them?”

Uncle Wang asked in a small voice that only I could hear.

I shook my head with a dejected expression.

“Several people take care of them.”

“Ugh.”

Uncle Wang groaned at the worst possible answer.

“What are you doing there?”

Just then, a man in white robes approached us, holding something in his hand.

“Guanyin Bodhisattva.”

“We’re just looking around on orders from Chief Military Strategist Zhuge.”

I reflexively called out my protective phrase, and Uncle Wang confidently showed his badge.

The man immediately dropped his suspicion and went to feed the dogs.

“Oh my! You little ones, eat slowly!”

“These guys were all abandoned dogs, right? You’re doing truly good work.”

I casually approached the man and praised him.

At the same time, I suspected whether this person might be Tam-rang.

The dogs seemed to cling to him more than usual too.

The man scratched the chin of a dog that came close and laughed heartily.

“I only bring them occasional treats. There’s someone else who really takes meticulous care of them.”

“Really? These kids are living well. It’s amazing that the Martial Arts Alliance military officers cherish them so much!”

“But what does taking meticulous care involve?”

“Feeding them is an everyday thing, and when they’re sick, he even calls physicians. It must cost quite a bit of his own money.”

Uncle Wang and I secretly exchanged glances.

That’s him!

Unless it was Tam-rang, there was no reason to go that far.

“Oh, there he comes. So-un!”

The man looked behind us and called out happily.

Uncle Wang and I quickly turned around.

And our eyes met with the person called So-un.

‘It’s Tam-rang.’

At that moment, I was certain.

He acted as if nothing was wrong, but I read the subtle flow of his energy.

Tam-rang was definitely surprised to see me.

Got you, This Guy!

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