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  Chapter 222 Part C5

  The fae intelligent agents consulted each other privately away from the interviewee now. The one they were interviewing was Shun.

  “What do we do now?” one asked.

  “I tried to ask his girl about everything he did. She won’t give him up,” the other sighed.

  “The foxkin girl? I’m surprised. They usually like independence so much that they wouldn’t cover for some one that easily,” another said.

  “Nope. She’s solidly loyal. Even seemed to see through all my tricks also,” the other said.

  “Maybe we’ve got the wrong guy?” another said.

  “But he’s the only one with enough magic power to have done any of that stuff. One of the victims was a high rank adventurer,” one said as they huddled in a corner of the inn.

  “Oh yeah I forgot that. So let’s go over what we do know again,” he said.

  The Profile so far...

  Capable of taking high rank adventurer girls

  High Magic power saturation in the area around where crimes taking pce

  High Rank Incubus

  Shows up to Gss Rose Inn over a week ago, coinciding with Shun arrival

  “We’ve found everything we could from this site. We need to instead, go to the city guard headquarters to further the interview there,” the team leader said after they discussed it further.

  “Fine, do it,” one of the other other agents confirmed.

  Just like that they transferred Shun and Sylvie to the (not quite a police station) city guard headquarters station.

  Sylvie found herself stuffed in an interview room as they gave her question after question again.

  “Sylvie when did you first meet Shun?”

  “Huh? I already told them that. We fell in love. It was love from the very beginning. He’s my true love,” she said happily.

  “This again! That sappy love drivel,” the second agent with that one said.

  “He could be a killer you know?! How can you be so naive?!” the first questioner blurted out angrily.

  Sylvie ughed. “Shun is my man. He’s honorable and courageous. You won’t get any dirt on him from me.”

  They gave up interviewing her after that. Then they went back to Shun’s interview room.

  “Ready to confess your crimes?” one of the fae agents smirked.

  Two of them dressed like old school police detectives had entered the room to interview him.

  “I’m innocent. I’m not the one you are looking for,” he said.

  “Tell me how you met Sylvie,” one said.

  “She already told you that. There’s no point,” Shun said.

  “But I’m asking you.”

  “She probably told you something like it being love from the beginning,” Shun said tiredly.

  The agents grimaced as they realized it was going nowhere.

  Then they stopped and left the room.

  “How are we supposed to crack him when its like this? Its like there’s no way to get through,” the one said.

  “This is getting so difficult,” the other sighed.

  “Maybe he’s really innocent?” the third asked.

  “Nah, couldn’t be. He’s the closest we’ve got to the profile.”

  …

  But a few minutes ter a runner came up to them. “Hey they’ve got a new clue they want to show us. We need to go to meet with the Captain. They are bringing in some other agents also. Some mage got a hit on this guy,” the runner guard said.

  “A hit on Shun?” the one asked.

  He nodded. “I don’t know the details yet. But that’s what it looks like.”

  “OK. Maybe this is the clue we’re looking for.”

  “At any rate, make sure there’s a guard on this room so he can’t leave,” the other said.

  They assigned 2 guards to the room and then went over to the meeting room where several other fae agents were there. And to their surprise there’s a mage there with them.

  “Afternoon everyone. Should we get started?” one of the head bosses asked.

  They exchanged a few polite comments. And then announced they were starting. But one of the guys suggested they had to skip breakfast and hoped they’d have refreshments brought to the meeting while they talked about the case.

  “OK. That’s fine. let’s do it. Donuts and coffee then?” the leader asked.

  Several nodded their heads.

  “On it,” a younger officer went outside to get the trays of food and drink.

  “Thank god. I’m ready to die in peace now that I can get some food in me,” one of them joked.

  The other officers ughed.

  “OK. So now we’re going to have one of our head mages give us a break down of what he found at the scene,” the leader said. “I’m turning the time over to him.”

  The leader stepped aside and the mage agent went to the podium. “Greetings everyone. I’m a time space mage as you know. For the st 10 years I’ve been using time space magic to do a special technique called, ‘Scene Rewind’. Its a spell I developed to let you peek at the near past on certain scenes. It lets you go back in time to see if you can find glimpses of what happened and who came through an area.”

  A fae raised a hand. “How conclusive is this technique? Is it reliable enough to hold in court?”

  “Its reliable enough for that. We’ve used this technique thoroughly over the st 10 years. And of that time, since 7 years ago cases were holding up in court on this spell. We can use it to help with this case and I’ll show you what I found on this Shun guy,” the mage said.

  Several agents were now eating donuts as a younger officer with the donuts went around the room.

  “So did you get him? You saw something didn’t you?” one of the team leaders asked.

  The mage flinched. “I’m afraid its a bit more complicated then that.”

  They frowned. What did that mean?

  “OK. Show us.”

  The mage then did a spell to show the projection of the inn. “Now here’s where it gets weird. So that foxkin girl, because she was with him her magic interferes with mine. Isn’t that weird? I think she’s covering for him. So I couldn’t do a spell rewind of Shun’s inn room specifically for when he goes to meet the foxkin girl Sylvie. So she might be an accomplice. As soon as she joins him or even gets close to him I can no longer do reading spells around him.”

  “That makes it look like she’s covering for him,” one of them said.

  Several nodded.

  “I thought so too.”

  “But it could be a miss-reading. Everyone knows foxkins are powerful mages. So much so that they have extra mana radiation leaking out around them everywhere. That could cause accidental interference,” another mage said.

  Several frowned.

  “Wait. If that’s true then we might end up with grabbing the wrong guy,” another agent frowned.

  Several more nodded. Now the time space mage is worried that his work will be discounted. So he hurried back to topic.

  “Regardless. Let me show you what I’ve got first. Then you can decide if he’s guilty or not,” he said.

  He then pyed the time rewind scene on the screen. It went back showing the point where Shun had come out of the time space portal, directly after the scene where they’d finished the battle with the incubi Nero, and leaving Shun’s dream state portal dimension pocket realm. There the gateway is open where you can see through into that realm from this normal realm’s side. And there the time space mage froze the image.

  “OK. So now you can see the image. You can see there’s a dimension pocket in there,” the time space mage pointed out.

  And as you looked at the image, something interesting was happening. As a time space mage somehow he’d also accidentally viewed himself also viewing Shun. So this meant in the image it was a duplicate time space magic window, which also captured his previous 2 time space magic window viewing attempts, such that he was viewing himself viewing the scene, and that past self and his current past self were viewing the original scene of Shun leaving the pocket also.

  It was simir to how on Earth people sometimes had multiple clone windows.

  One of the fae mages ughed, since this was a bug that the time space mage should have known how to remove.

  “That’s distracting to have multiple windows stacked like that,” someone said.

  The time space mage blushed. “Yeah sorry about that. Anyway, let me zoom in.”

  He moved the spell by zooming in. He had to do it very carefully. The screen moved slightly with his magic to move closer and closer to the gateway spell doorway. Then it even got high powered enough to zoom in.

  And then the other mage realized what he’d done!

  !

  The time space mage had used his other selves and other magic views to stack up some kind of upgrade on the viewing image! This let him gain more power in the spell! So it wasn’t a mistake after all but a cheat! And by doing this it let him see into the brief frozen image of time viewing into the pocket realm!

  They were seeing everything now.

  The image showed a ruined hotel with the front blown out. And the scene was a scene of combat, horror, and devastation with the whole zone of that pocket realm basically blown to bits or smashed by massive forces. It looked devastating.

  And then they saw the bodies.

  “What the fuck,” one of the fae agents swore standing up eyes wide.

  Others stood up also in shock.

  The image showed hundreds of incubi and shadow imps sin all over the front of the hotel. There were so many bodies of them there that it was difficult to even count how many there were.

  500? 600?

  Or was it just 300?

  Either way… there were a lot of them.

  “Why aren’t those bodies evaporating from dungeon corpse eating magic?” someone asked.

  “Good question. I wondered about that too. But I think its because that’s not an evil pocket realm. If it had been made with evil magic, then the corpse eating magic of dungeons would have activated faster. This is also an idea transferable to other realms. On some worlds our mages have visited they find that the more evil a realm is the faster the corpse eating magic of the dungeons activates. The less evil a realm is the slower the magic activates to clean up corpses. This is also why those corpses in the sewers weren’t eaten yet because our realm is a light element realm of goodness and purity,” the time mage said.

  “I-I knew that. I just forgot,” the guy asking the previous question sputtered.

  “So the corpse eating magic of the dungeons didn’t activate yet. And you caught that image. This means… that guy is more dangerous than we thought if he can take out that many so easily,” the leader in the room said.

  “Shit. If that’s true… we only have 1 man guarding him!” one of the fae agents said in fear and awe.

  “Fuck! That was a huge mistake!”

  There’s an explosion of action as they rushed to send agents to go check on Shun.

  But when the other agents got there they found Shun taking a nap asleep on the table in the room, exhausted.

  They reported back that he was sleeping. And so the meeting continued. The image was still up with the time space mage there as they reviewed the scene in the magic video footage reviewing it.

  “Make sure you all take notes. The slightest detail could be enough to crack the case,” one of the leaders said to the meeting room full of agents.

  “Wait, if this guy’s pocket realm aren’t evil magic made, and if he’s sin imps and demons then isn’t he on our side?” a woman agent asked.

  Several people nodded. “This is actually quite strange. Why are we trying to get him if he’s basically doing what we do?”

  “I feel confused. Why are they ignoring clues that point a different direction,” one fae whispered to another.

  “This doesn’t feel right...”

  The time space mage looked like he was sweating it for a bit. And then hurriedly spoke up. “We still have to make sure he’s innocent. With that kind of power walking around he’s clearly dangerous. And let’s not forget he was the only one in the area with a matching magic power wavelength as the killer’s magic aura found at the scenes.

  Still, some of them had their doubts though. And why was the head boss and the time space mage pushing this so fiercely.

  But they could have their jobs taken away for speaking up and saying they had the wrong guy too. So many of them were just staying quiet and grim faced as they faced the big boss and the time space mage.

  “So what I’d like you to do is look over at the image’s 2nd panel. Here there’s a small clue, where Shun’s hand still has a small amount of incubus blood on it possibly from a wound.”

  “But if he slew those guys it could be their blood instead,” someone said sounding doubtful.

  More of the room was sounding doubtful that they had the right guy now. Many of them were nodding and murmuring with that guy’s logic. And the numbers were now higher in favor.

  The time space mage was now nervous. “Wait! But if you look here...I have in my notes here something else to show you. Bear with me a moment,” he began shuffling through his papers while the image was still frozen in its air projection mode.

  And then the image showed a new character in the viewing image. A figure all in white, dressed like an angel. The figure in white was walking towards the image, even as the time space mage didn’t realize what was happening. And the figure didn’t stop until its whole face was looking right at the room full of agents.

  Several agents felt a chill on the back of their necks seeing it for the first time. It was something unusual, something powerful and mysterious.

  The figure… was some kind of elf angel, but her face was scarred on one side. She was wearing padin’s armor also with a glowing sword that looked like it was made out of the sun’s rays. The armor was hidden by a white cloak. But couldn’t hide her beauty. Even with the scars on one side of her face she looked more beautiful than any fae alive. And she glowed with power.

  Then she spoke in some unknown nguage.

  The time space mage seemed obvious as he was going through his notes. But the fae agents in the room several of them had dropped their pencils in shock. And they were frozen.

  “Is… is that who I think it is?” a small voice in the room finally asked.

  “I think it is… there’s only one person that looks like that...”

  “I think we’re in trouble,” someone said.

  “Um, something isn’t right here...”

  “We need to stop immediately.”

  “OF course. But the boss isn’t listening to us.”

  The room was very quiet.

  The angel was looking at the fae in the room from very close to the image’s camera. And the expression on her face, they realized was one of anger and wrath. They’d been so obsessed with how beautiful and angelic she was that they realized the anger too te.

  And then…

  “I think I found out. Ah! Here it is! Proof Shun’s guilty,” the time space held up a sheet of paper.

  And then before anyone can say anything, the golden sun ray sword went through the image projector’s screen! The bde punctured into reality out of the image! The bde then flicked quickly with lightning speed back and forth once.

  And then the time space mage’s head fell to the ground along with the Big Boss Fae leader’s head. Both heads fell to the ground.

  And the agents were in shock.

  What… the … HELL just happened?!