Chapter 298
Daniel continued,
“This includes the recent mutant lair that you dealt with, Lord Claude.”
At those words, Claude furrowed his brow.
Claude also had his suspicions about the operation to destroy the mutant lair, which he had shown to Rose.
They had thoroughly prepared in advance and destroyed the lair, expecting to draw good leads from it.
However, upon investigation, the information they gained was pitifully insignificant compared to their expectations.
Most mutants are nocturnal. Therefore, during the day, most mutants should have remained inside the lair.
But the remains of the collapsed lair revealed only a few dead mutants.
“At first, I thought it was just bad luck. But as I kept observing, I noticed that the moments when the mutants seemed helpless had a particular pattern. It was when… In a fit of rage, you acted independently and abandoned communication with us. So, I vaguely thought, maybe, just maybe…”
“…”
“…Someone could be influencing the mutants’ strange behavior using information shared only among our unit.”
Daniel’s usually calm expression slightly twisted as he uttered the last words.
Daniel was confused about whether continuing this conversation was the right thing to do. The reason was obvious. He was an unusually righteous person. Therefore, he was conflicted about whether it was right to suspect his comrades without clear evidence, based solely on intuition.
But his hesitation was brief, and his second point flowed from his lips.
“Secondly, after you, I too began suffering from guiding allergy. So, I made a conjecture. If there is a force behind the fact that S-Class Espers, of all people, are consecutively experiencing guiding allergy… And if they have a purpose, it might be… our rampage.”
“…”
“Then, as if unraveling a tangled thread, many unresolved questions suddenly felt answered. By dragging out the battles, perhaps what they were waiting for was our rampage. And the most annoying presence for them would be… Lady Rose, who repeatedly delayed our rampages at critical moments.”
At that moment, a voice flashed through Claude’s mind.
Once, Rose had asked him accusingly.
She questioned whether Daniel’s guiding allergy, following Claude’s, could be a butterfly effect caused by her interference.
Rose had such an unpredictable train of thought that he dismissed it at the time as just another one of her quirks.
But looking back now, it didn’t seem entirely impossible.
If he hadn’t met Rose, he would have eventually gone on a rampage. However, finding Rose had ultimately prevented such an occurrence.
Daniel had been in a similar situation. Also on the verge of rampage due to guiding allergy, Daniel narrowly avoided his fate thanks to meeting Rose and receiving her help.
If their guiding allergies were not merely a twist of fate but the work of a force with a purpose, and if their goals had repeatedly been thwarted by Rose…
Could the current situation, where Rose mysteriously disappeared, still be considered a coincidence?
“And… the final reason.”
After an even longer pause, Daniel finally spoke again.
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