Became the Weapon Monopolist of the Gods-Chapter 38: Vanessa Walker (2)

When I finish the quest in the parallel world, I return to reality.

As if I were exiting a stage where the curtain has fallen.

That was the pattern that my ability, the ‘Transcendent Connector’, had shown so far.

However, when my darkened vision returned, I was still standing at the ‘scene of the incident’.

“What?! It’s gone!”

“Where did it go?”

The murmur of reporters, Ashley Cooper’s corpse bursting, Vanessa disappearing.

And... ... .

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Arthur Conan Doyle.

He was patting me on the shoulder.

“But you ended up losing the suspect you were hired to investigate.”

Conan looked at the spot /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ where Vanessa had disappeared, with the eyes of a detective facing a mystery.

The request I had made to Conan was not to catch Jack the Ripper, but to catch the suspect of the Crime Pub.

It was ‘Vanessa Walker’.

Of course, Vanessa’s appearance was captured in the reporters’ cameras.

When the sun rose, her identity would be revealed to the citizens of London as the front page of the newspaper.

With the name ‘Jack the Ripper’.

For ordinary people, it was the end.

However, it was not the end for Conan Doyle.

Vanessa, who suddenly disappeared as if she had disappeared, was still an unsolved ‘mystery’ for Conan.

He felt a fierce ‘curiosity’ about the existence of Vanessa who suddenly disappeared.

Doyle’s strong curiosity made me stay in this world for a while longer.

[Arthur Conan Doyle]

─ Catch the suspect in the crime pub.

Reward: Conan’s fountain pen

To this cold-blooded perfectionist, even this was considered a ‘failure’.

His time in 19th century London was not over yet.

It was a simple task for me to satisfy Conan's curiosity.

If I told Conan the identity of my ability, Conan's curiosity would naturally be satisfied.

However, I did not satisfy Conan's curiosity right away.

The opportunity to enjoy 19th century London would not be given until now.

Until then, I had not been able to enjoy it properly because I was solving quests.

Above all, there was still a story left to be solved.

"Miss Vanessa is currently 'summoned'."

While walking over the bridge of London, I explained to Vanessa what had happened to her.

"Ah, so that's what happened."

Vanessa smiled brightly after hearing the explanation.

Her face still had an incomprehensible meaning.

Vanessa smiled like me for most things.

So I was curious.

"Why did you run away?"

When the reporters were taking pictures of Ashley Cooper’s body, I never expected Vanessa to come forward.

If she did, the British government would blame her for their original sin.

And that’s exactly what happened.

London was abuzz with the news that Jack the Ripper had been identified, and Vanessa’s face was plastered all over the front pages of the newspapers.

Ashley Cooper was recorded as the first ‘male victim’ of plum poisoning.

Vanessa, who had escaped the mystery, could no longer live in London.

But Vanessa didn’t seem to care much.

Instead, she tilted her head and asked me,

“Didn’t you tell Eun-gong to come out?”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

I was shocked. No matter how much my eyes looked like that.

“Do you really think you can jump in without a plan?”

“I told you, I’ll definitely pay back the debt.”

“.......”

Vanessa always said that whenever I shared bread and food with the children.

‘I’ll definitely pay you back.’

If Vanessa hadn’t come forward to the reporters, I, who was there at the scene, would have been suspected of being Jack the Ripper.

Even if it wasn’t Vanessa, the British government needed someone responsible to turn the situation around.

If Jack the Ripper’s true identity was Ashley Cooper, there was a concern that the royal family would be implicated.

Of course, I would return to the present day after completing the quest, so it didn’t matter...

Vanessa, who didn’t know this, stepped forward to prevent me from being harmed.

Just because I shared bread every day.

“You’re saying that because I gave you bread?”

“Yes.”

She really is a helpless woman.

I shook my head in disbelief, but Vanessa smiled brightly.

Her charming golden eyes curved gently.

The golden eyes reflected in the sunset of London sparkled like a fox’s longing.

“It may be nothing to Eun-gong, but it’s a big deal to me.”

“.......”

We walked through the streets of London, chatting about this and that.

We crossed the bridge with the clock tower in sight, passed the Thames River... ... .

We leisurely admired the scenery of 18th century London in the parallel world.

[Conan did it again!]

[Jack the Ripper’s true identity is an East End seamstress?!]

People walked around the streets holding newspapers with Vanessa’s face on them.

“A normal-looking woman is scary!”

“That’s right.”

Even though the main character of the newspaper passed by, people didn’t realize that it was Vanessa.

I was amazed by Vanessa’s abilities.

She was truly a ‘ghost.’

Vanessa had the ability to distort people’s perceptions.

That’s why the police couldn’t find her no matter how hard they searched.

“At first, I thought she killed prostitutes.”

I told her about the past while crossing Tower Bridge.

“I thought she was trying to make them die as humans before they became monsters.”

Vanessa’s eyes widened after hearing my story.

“There’s no way I would do something like that.”

It was an unexpected reaction.

Vanessa seemed to want the prostitutes to die as humans.

But.

“That’s their choice.”

“You didn’t know that everyone becomes monsters because of plum poisoning.”

“Even if I knew, it would have been the same.”

Vanessa leaned against her bridge and stared at the riverside.

“The people of the East End are people who will do anything to avoid immediate starvation.”

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“Even if I become a monster later?”

“Because the present is important.”

Think about the future later.

That was the East End’s way of thinking.

“So there’s no reason for me to get involved.”

Vanessa smiled at me.

Usually, people try to take someone’s life before they become a monster.

To let them die as humans.

But Vanessa saw even that ‘path of corruption’ as an option.

It must have been because of the differences in their living environments.

It might have been ‘bread’ to me, but to Vanessa, it was a hand of salvation.

Vanessa stopped by the church for the last time and said goodbye to the children.

“Vanessa, are you really not coming anymore?”

“Yes, Ciel. My sister has become successful and won’t come to a small church like this anymore.”

“Eww, Vanessa, bad.”

“If you’re dissatisfied, then succeed.”

Vanessa comforted the crying children.

The way she comforted them seemed cruel, but it was Vanessa’s way of saying goodbye.

“After all, the bread that Eun-gong gives is the most delicious.”

“.......”

Vanessa ate the milk bread deliciously.

I could tell that her actions meant that it was time to go.

There was no more room for Vanessa in London.

But.

“Still, I think it’ll be unfair if we keep going like this.”

“?”

“Let’s at least give them some last bites before we go.”

Vanessa just smiled brightly at me, looking at me with puzzlement.

“Prime Minister, explain how this happened!”

“Is it true that the plum poison is connected to the monster?”

A press conference was in full swing at the British government building.

The ‘Ashley Cooper death’ incident brought the plum poison of White End to the surface.

Most Londoners did not know that plum poison was producing ‘monsters’.

However, the secret was revealed along with Ashley Cooper’s death.

The British Prime Minister explained that it was a ‘natural disaster’ caused by the indiscriminate prostitution of the poor.

“We had no choice but to hide it because making it public would only increase the anxiety of the citizens.”

The Prime Minister’s remarks were quite plausible.

Why If the hygiene of the T End was so bad, it wouldn’t have been strange if the monster had occurred naturally.

“However, since it has been revealed, the government is actively...”

That was when the Prime Minister continued his speech in front of the reporters.

Whirlwind─!

Dozens of sheets of paper were scattered into the sky.

“What is this?”

“This is?!”

“Huh!”

The reporters who had picked up the paper and read it absentmindedly opened their eyes wide.

[Plum poison was an artificial disaster caused by the British government.]

[Ashley Cooper, who has been leading the research on plum poison... ...]

The papers scattered to the reporters were the hidden truth about the plum poison incident that Vanessa had been gathering.

The information that Vanessa had gathered by even raiding gangs that had been cooperating with the government was spread to the reporters, and the press conference was chaotic.

“Oh my god, plum poison is a disaster!”

“Prime Minister! Explain what this is!”

“Ugh, that is......”

The Prime Minister’s face turned a shade of gray.

And.

“Hey, it’s Jack the Ripper!”

“Get him!”

The police officers who found Vanessa who had spread the message ran up to the second floor.

And then, Vanessa was de-summoned and disappeared in front of the police.

Late at night.

After finishing all the work in London, I went to see Conan.

When I went, Conan was writing Sherlock Holmes.

Just like when I first met him.

However, the words he spoke were different.

“I guess you’re done with everything.”

Conan greeted me as if he had been waiting for me.

“Then tell me now. Who are you?”

Conan knew everything from the beginning.

That I was the last piece of the puzzle he had failed to solve.

I told Conan the whole truth.

I was an awakened person from another world and Vanessa was exiled from the world for distorting history.

“So parallel worlds really exist.”

It was a ridiculous story, but Conan believed all of my stories.

It was confidence that came from the conviction that his reasoning couldn’t be wrong.

“Please don’t include this story in Sherlock Holmes. If you do, you might get kicked out too.”

“Then take my fountain pen. If you don’t, I can’t stand not writing this story.”

Conan said that if I didn’t take it quickly, he might reveal this story to Sherlock Holmes, and left the fountain pen to me.

─You completed Arthur Conan Doyle’s quest. You will be given Conan’s fountain pen as a reward.

I had already returned to the general store.

In my hands was Conan’s fountain pen.

[Conan's Fountain Pen]

[Rank: Legend]

[Attribute: Mystery]

─ The fountain pen of Arthur Conan Doyle, the legendary British mystery novelist. It has the ability to write down a clue when you ask it a riddle.

'Why did Ashley Cooper kill the prostitute?'

The moment the question occurred to me,

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