Chapter 197: Interrogating
Chapter 197: Interrogating
I questioned the man lying on the ground pressing his abdomen. He was gasping, but his head seemed clear."Who hired you to come here?"
At my question he spat a bloody gob of saliva with a "gufu" and said,
"I was hired in the capital. They said there was a job with good pay and asked if I wanted it. Just killing a kid and two women — an easy job..."
"You don’t know anything about the employer?"
He shook his head.
"I’ve met the employer. We were brought part of the way. That guy... I don’t think he’s from this country. His speech felt a little different."
Hoh, is that so. As I thought.
"Do you know which country?"
"I don’t know that much detail."
"I see. How did you follow us all the way here?"
"Fufun, seems we were the next wave of pursuers or something. The previous bunch messed up, so we got called out. If it hadn’t been for that we wouldn’t have gotten much money, so when I heard we could go and make a profit I was happy... and this is the result, ahaha."
"How did you find this hut? We thought that once we entered the forest we’d be out of your sight."
"Ah, that. I thought it was strange too. Searching blindly, there’s no way we’d find you. But there was a guy guiding us, and somehow he could tell. There was a woman among you, right? He said he’d put a mark on her. When she’s far away he only gets a rough direction, but as you go that way and gradually get closer, the location becomes exact. That’s his ability — pretty convenient. That’s how he brought us all the way here."
I was shocked by what the man said. When I slowly raised my face, Stevie’s face was also frozen in shock. The one who had a mark put on her — was that Lily? And by following that mark, the ability user would come searching for us? That was how they could aim for this hut with pinpoint accuracy inside the forest?
"What happened to that ability user?"
"He ran. Ran first thing. Ran before the fighting even started."