What if Matt could scare a kid into telling him everything he knows about the case?
Matt was only placing a small bet on a hunch. He didn’t have high expectations from this investigation.
Matt wouldn’t have acted on this hunch had Eren not left the city of Osan where Nina’s influence was strong. But it all changed when the kid decided to head to the academy.
Matt came to know that the group would halt at the city of Laurel. He decided to question Eren at that time.
Matt was going to find a chance to get some alone time with Eren but the latter only made the job easy for him when he decided to book a separate room.
It was past midnight. The city of Laurel was asleep. Matt had also booked a room in the same room to gain entry into the establishment. He found Eren’s room and used his thieving skills to unlock the door.
When Matt entered Eren’s room, the latter was seen looking right at him.
Matt immediately got the creeps after he realized Eren was staring at him with a ‘different kind of anticipation.
***
Eren jumped on his bed as soon as he found his room in the inn. An extended trip in the small box, drawn by powerful colts who don’t care about the bumps on the road, ought to give you a sore back, even when you are an F Rank ranker.
But as soon as he laid on the bed to straighten his back, Eren was reminded of his nights in bed with Nina.
Would they still do it after suffering through a long journey like this, had she been here with him? Eren thought of that and answered affirmatively.
Eren tried to sleep. And he succeeded in sleeping for a few hours. But when he woke up and looked at the moon outside, Nina’s naked visage was all he could see over it.
Eren’s thoughts about Nina invoked a reaction down there. His dick woke up from his slumber as a result.
Eren started stroking it. Not for nutting with self-help. But soothe it while he thought about her. He had already decided that he would never nut in vain in this life.
What if Nina were to come into his room now?
Eren had this thought and chided himself for it. Why would Nina follow him here?
Or maybe she would?
Eren was lost in his fantasy while stroking his Lil guy when Reen, who was sleeping on his chest, informed him about an intruder. Eren immediately thought of Nina.
‘Did she really follow me here?’
Eren was excited and started looking at the door. His pace of strokes also increased in anticipation.
Eren’s furore was at its peak when the door was unlocked and a person walked in sneakily.
***
“Brat, what the hell are you looking at? And stop masturbating while looking at me? My preferences are straight.”
Matt forgot that he was supposed to sneak in. A feeling of ‘declaring his stance’ had overwhelmed him.
“Who the FUCK are you old man? And why does everyone keep thinking that MY preferences are not straight?”
Eren had already forgotten about the emergency patient he had at the apothecary. He wouldn’t care about a guy like him even if he could remember him.
And the guy’s timing had to be the worst thing about him.
It was Matt who had arrived at Eren’s doorstep unannounced when the latter was about to have his ‘talk’ with Nina.
Eren would have progressed much faster at the very beginning when the proverbial iron was hot had it been not for this guy.
But that wasn’t enough.
Matt had to barge into Eren’s room to not let him think about his ‘good times’ with Nina in peace.
Eren didn’t even feel this much anger on Isaac when the latter had stopped him on his whims.
“I see that your hormones are raging. I can sympathize. But I’m not here to be the object of your skewed fascination.
What I want is simple, kid. Answer my few questions and I’ll let you go.
And don’t even think about shouting to call for help. I’ve already used an F Rank sound isolation artefact.”
Matt had accepted his cover was blown. He closed the door and walked in slowly. He took the only chair present in the room, which was placed right in front of Eren’s bed.
Matt had deployed a sound isolation artefact before coming here as a precaution. Now he was glad that he did.
“Are you sure the artefact works fine? What if someone were to circulate their F Rank mana through their vocal cords and use a mana-induced voice?”
Eren asked just as calmly. Matt had to admit the kid had a good bearing.
“This is an upper-grade artefact of F Rank. No amount of your efforts can allow you to surpass the artefact’s limitations.
Now answer my question. You probably don’t remember me. But my name is Matt from Dom’s Raiders.
I was the one Dom had brought to your apothecary as a case for severe SR snake poisoning. Did you talk to someone after we left your place? And did you give information about…”
Eren had stopped listening to Matt. He was talking to Reen in his head. He first confirmed that the artefact Matt had activated the way he claimed to be using Reen’s mana sense.
He checked for any potential eyewitnesses in the vicinity. And lastly, Eren checked for any audiovisual artefact on Matt’s person that could transfer what was happening here to any remote place.
Eren finally looked at Matt who was still talking about something. But Eren had stopped caring.
The guy could live as the last living survivor of the tragedy that had befallen his party. He could have a family and lived to tell the tale to his grandchildren.
If Eren was in Matt’s shoes, he would have relocated to a different kingdom instead of risking his life getting to the bottom of this cover-up that looked all kinds of muddy even to a blind person.
But Matt didn’t want the easy life. Eren didn’t waste any more time. He didn’t even get off his bed to get rid of this idiot.
“Reen. Go have your late-night snack.”
Reen ironically morphed into naked Dom. Since Matt was talking about Dom, Reen thought her food’s last wish before it would get consumed was to see Dom.
Matt had aimed his monologue at Eren. He had so many questions that were growing like a spider’s web inside his head. His heart had been filled with injustice. In his need to vent out these feelings, he had forgotten to check on his listener.
And suddenly naked Dom appeared in front of him.
The word ‘surprise’ was an understatement.
The word ‘puzzled’ only touched the surface.
And the word ‘shocked’ barely covered it.
What Matt felt was a concoction of these emotions, and then some more.
“Wh.. what? H… how? Why?”
Matt couldn’t form coherent sentences. But before he could, he heard Eren’s answer and everything went dark in front of his eyes:
“Just die in mystery!”
Eren said this and dropped hard on his bed. His Lil guy had already fallen asleep. It was about time he did too. He drew the sheets on him and shut his eyes.
The Osan Woods’ Butcher didn’t even spare a glance at Matt who was struggling inside a slimy ball of mass. The struggle stopped soon after.
Reen sneaked inside the sheets to take her usual spot after turning into her usual form.
Like this, Matt had joined his party in its afterlife adventures after committing a seppuku.
One could imagine his soul getting welcomed by his friends, who would then take their time cursing Eren to his past and future seven generations.
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Author’s Note: Hello. Please check Important Notice placed in auxillary volume.