Watashi Ga Betsu No Sekai De Umarekawatta
16-7: Carelessness of the Royal Research Institute
"L-then, you said that you handed the disposal of the Fiend Drug to the associate contractor…!"
The subordinate of the Prime Minister roared at the director of the Royal Research Institute…
I can't say anything next to him either…
The next morning, when Kuro aka I joined the Prime Minister's subordinate who went to the Royal Research Institute to witness the circumstances…
"B, no…"
"From what I understand, it should be an expired Fighting Spirit Medicine…"
"I never knew it was a dangerous drug like Fiend Drug..."
The director sweeping his sweat did not seem to know that it was a Fiend Drug…
On the other hand, the woman who seemed to be a secretary, standing behind him, looked pale…
I directed the attention of the Prime Minister's subordinates to the secretary…
"Woman over there, you seem to know something…"
"If you speak honestly, I'll talk to the Prime Minister dono so that it won't be a case of treason…"
"...Ha, betrayal?!"
"H-Things like that, I never did…"
"Hoo..so that's it…"
I looked at him cynically and slightly intimidated him…
The pale secretary fell to her knees to the floor…
We managed to get the situation from the director and secretary with the help of an Inquisitor brought in by the Prime Minister's subordinates…
Stupidly, due to the secretary's mistake, the disposal documents for the Fiend Drug were misplaced with those used for Fighting Spirit Medicine…
Normally, the medicine would be destroyed by mixing it with acid first before disposing of it to the waste, but since it was mistaken as Fighting Spirit Medicine, it was only dissolved in water before being discharged into the waste…
"N-however, even though it was thrown into waste, it shouldn't be enough to make it turn into a monster…"
"Even if you were to verbally take the Fiend Drug, you would have to do it dozens of times before the symptoms on the surface of the monsters changed…"
"In my opinion, the cause of the monster disturbance might be something different..."
"Omong empty…"
"Bring them…"
The Director insisted, but the Prime Minister's subordinates cut off his talk and ordered the Prime Minister's army to take the two away…
It seems that they will be entrusted to the examination specialists…
Since the Prime Minister's subordinate had ordered a low-class official to inspect the actual dump, I took the opportunity to tag along…
"Junk dump, huh…?"
"That's not something that equal officials and Nobles should care about…"
"Jawab the question…"
Low-class officials asked questions of a manservant wearing a lap…
This person was not a staff member, but someone who was taken from the slums to dispose of laboratory animals and feces…
Manservant led us to the dump…
This cylindrical chamber is made of a material such as flat concrete…
There is a large hole about 5 meters in the middle of the room and its length is about 10 meters down to the surface of the water…
"Don't get too close…"
"Some time ago, a newcomer fell and fell prey to a slime..."
Slime…?
There were some in the underground tunnels nearby, but nothing seemed to be directly below us…
"Your…?"
"Visitor…?"
"Can I take this trash out now…"
"Official equals, do you allow…?"
"Give it up for la…"
"Wait, we don't mind, throw it away…"
I harassed the lower class officials, and let others who came into the room then take out the trash…
That's the monster corpse that was dissected yesterday, huh…
Hmm…?
The rat-type monster's corpse had no back legs…
I think the back meat and the breast meat were also taken too much if it was for the sample…
I saw the corpses of monsters being disposed of while just glancing at the low-class officials who were grimacing from the stench…
The moment the monster's blood touched the surface of the water, the slimes in the underground tunnel gathered…
"Wait, Sir…!"
I jumped to the surface of the water while hearing a confused voice from the manservant behind me…
I activated Sky Drive just before I touched the water, and be careful not to touch the monster corpses and slime…
I illuminated the surface of the water with Light Drop…
There was no red rope-like pattern on the monster corpses on the slime…
Instead, many black bugs were attached to them…
It seems that the slime here only eats carrion…
I collected tissue samples from several slimes and put them in an organized test tube…
I will ask the Royal Research Institute to check this out and see if they have any remnants of the Fiend Drug and its effects…
Before leaving, I will confirm something with the manservant beforehand…
He would probably pretend not to know or lie even if we checked, so I asked him after I confirmed that the low-class officials had returned to the front…
"I won't blame you because monster meat is also eaten in the Labyrinth City, but there are many that are rotten or poisonous…"
"There are also some that can spread the disease, so be careful…"
"Yes, we know…"
So they actually took meat from the corpses of laboratory animals and sold it behind the scenes, huh…
It seems like the slums were affected by an epidemic a few years ago, I wonder if the cause is the meat these people brought…
It might be good to create an epidemic prevention manual…
"We let a neighbor ratkin and a bar of kara eat meat that would rot…"
Maybe I should check out the slime that was in the Clean Water Facility located near the outskirts of the Royal Capital…
Right, if they were to take the meat, they might as well take the medicine that was supposed to be thrown away…
I have already checked that the Fiend Drug is not in the Royal Capital, but just in case…
"If there's a drug that's hard to dispose of, I'll buy it from you…"
I told the man in a soft voice, and told him one of the downtown bars run by the Prime Minister's secret agent…
With this, it should be easy to take back the medicine that has leaked out…
I'll leave the rest to the Prime Minister…
I went to the Water Purification Plant in the city center and gathered slimes interested in the corpses of the monsters I threw out of storage…
I'll ask the Royal Research Institute staff to analyze the rest…
I thought I could analyze it alone with the Ivy Mansion facility, but doing everything alone was infuriating…
Let's put the information together for a while…
In the end, the things I know are…
The Fiend Drug was thrown into a dump without proper treatment…
It is possible that it has spread to living creatures underground through slimes…
Fiend Drug is mistaken for Fighting Spirit Medicine…
The drug has some similarities to Fiend Drug, so it may be sold illegally in the city center…
The people in the slum area might have taken the Fiend Drug…
Fiend Drug was not in the Royal Capital…
Is that everything…?
No, there's one more…
The monster disturbance might have nothing to do with the Fiend Drug…
Just when I thought I had captured the cause of the monster chaos, the mystery deepened…
I wonder if the cause will be resolved soon, where the great detective will appear comfortably…
The Phantom thief exists anyway, hoping for a great detective as well…
"You're late, desuwa…!"
"Sorry, I have some business to attend to…"
Miss Karina reprimanded me as soon as I entered the hall of the state guest house where she was doing special training…
The one in this room is Miss Karina, our dancing instructor and girls…
Tiane accompanied Nina san in her work, so she was not here…
"Karina the same, please concentrate…"
"Secilia will be my training partner…"
"You watch and instruct from there…"
Miss Karina told the instructor, and then she extended her hand to me…
His cheeks were flushed a little, but his face looked a bit pouty…
Well, I'm late, I think I could be his dance partner…
I will dance with our girls as well after Miss Karina's training is over…
"Then I will accompany you…"
I took Miss Karina's hand and went to the center of the classroom-sized hall…
I lead Miss Karina while likening the dance music that Mia played…
The dance is straight and soft as always…
However, it seems that he has worked hard, he improved his leap and bound better compared to the previous dance…
"You've worked hard…"
"You're pretty much better than before…"
"T-of course…!"
"Because I survived even when the night order was watching the training…"
"Se.. Secilia danced with me earnestly…!"
Un, isn't it impossible in earnest…
During the dance the night before the Royal Conference, the party where the higher upper nobles including the Viscount gathered separately with the party where the lower Nobles and including the Barons gathered…
There were no such rules, like the unspoken covenant, it seemed that Nobles who did not have many levels did not blend in with them…
To be more specific, the Upper Noble's side was the Duke, Marquis, Earl, and Viscount, but there were some cases where Barons and Baronets could also participate…
A Chevalier like me was forbidden from participating…
The sides of Lower Noble were Baron, Baronet, and Chevalier, but Viscount could also participate…
High Noble including the Earl had never participated on this side…
Of course, Miss Karina will escort Baronet Muno who is treated like the Earl as the lord of the territory, she will attend the Upper Noble dance party, so it is impossible for us to dance together…
"I can't participate in the Upper Noble dance so…"
"You can't, desuwa…!"
From his line of sight that was slightly higher than mine due to his heel, he interrupted my denial with a childlike anxious voice…
Even if you say that…
"Excuse me…"
"Karina is the same, some visitors came for you…"
Pina showed up then, telling us about the visitor…
Good timings…
"They wait in the living room, please come with the same Chevalier…"
"Visitor…?"
Not for the Father?"
"Yes, they are the same Sera and Toruma Shimen the same…"
They were pretty fast though I was told that they would come last night with the airship…
The two blue light spots that were in the living room of the country guest house were fine…
I postponed the matter and went to the living room where the two were waiting…
