Chapter 575: 'A Place to Belong”

Chapter 575: “A Place to Belong” “A Place to Belong”

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“An opportunity... to be separated... !?”

“Exactly, like now.”

Detective Munodes, rolling the purple sphere in his right hand—

“And yet, you two are always together, side by side. Like... important partners. I... I really... I really, really, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY!!”

And then, his small, round eyes clouded with hatred, he shouted!

“I was so envious and jealous!! I wanted you to disappear!! My god... didn’t give me... such a ‘place to belong’!!”

“‘My god’... !?”

“Ha, ha, ha! ...Yes! My god! I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but... I’m actually an ‘apostle’ of the Detective God. Do you know what an apostle is? I’m a human chosen by God!!”

Hearing his monologue, I raised my guard against Detective Munodes several levels.

My clenched fists are damp with sweat.

<No wonder his untrained body holds such an incongruous amount of mana. He must have been granted power by the Detective God, as his apostle. The fact that he found Emi in this sewer without getting lost can also be explained if we assume that he was given the Detective God’s power to find people!>

Extra-sama’s voice, stating her deductions in my head, is also tense.

But contrary to my heightened vigilance, Detective Munodes didn’t immediately attack me.

This chubby old man, his eyes gleaming, puffed out his chest, and started speaking boastfully, as if shouting!

“I was originally a loser, just as you see! My dad, my mom, my older brother, my older sister, my younger sister... they’re all excellent elites... but I was the only failure, a loser, incompetent! Studying, exercising, magic... I was bad at everything! No matter what I did, I failed! I was the only one... who didn’t have a ‘place to belong’!!”

Detective Munodes is yelling.

The emotion in his voice is, naturally, anger.

And as I listened to his words, I gradually...

...Got irritated.

“...Shut up, you’re so noisy.”

I said to Detective Munodes, who was breathing heavily after his rant.

“Have you said everything you wanted to say?”

My voice was involuntarily cold.

“In the end, you’re saying that I’m in your way. So you want to kill me. Right?”

The true strength of Detective Munodes, empowered by a god, is unknown.

But that doesn’t matter anymore.

“Then you die.”

This guy is my enemy.

I kill my enemies.

Killing intent and mana surged through my body.

I put strength into my fist, intending to strike first and crush his head.

But.

“If you kill me, you’ll be Akashiterika-chan’s enemy!”

Detective Munodes, grinning, declared that.

I... couldn’t move.