Dungeon's Final Boss: Banished by My Boss, the Goddess, to Earth—So I'll Continue My Past Life - 101

Chapter 101: Careless

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Unfortunately, I made a mistake in my response. I thought I only needed to anticipate their goal and prepare a countermeasure. Because of that, I forgot to put the most important safeguard in place.

“Oh? What do we have here?”

I didn’t miss the moment when something flew out from one of the detectives’ sleeves. But I didn’t have time to stop it either.

What he held in his hand was a small amount of white powder, sealed in a clear plastic bag. Clutching it tightly, the detective looked at me with a triumphant expression.

“Let’s head back to the interrogation room. Or are you going to resist?”

Resist, huh? That’s an option.

There was a way to get out of this. If I used it, escaping would be easy, but I didn’t do that. It wasn’t because I forgot. I simply couldn’t resist the curiosity of seeing how they, not just the detectives in front of me but the people behind them as well, would move.

So, I uttered the words that should’ve come earlier.

“First, let me make a call to contact my lawyer.”

Now then, what’s going to happen next?

I was taken back to the interrogation room and made a call with my smartphone. First, to Samejima-san. If that didn’t work, I would contact the Ministry of D instead—but the call was connected soon enough.

“What’s going on? Why are you calling me at this hour?”

“Sorry. Could you introduce me to a lawyer?”

“…Explain the situation.”

The detectives were outside the interrogation room, and I was alone here. Still, there could be something like a listening device installed. For now, I gave her a summary of events—how I captured a thief in Shikoku, the strange encounter on the highway bus, and the circumstances leading to my arrest.

I didn’t mention the dangerous object that had come out of the Buddha statue.

“Got it. I’ll send a lawyer immediately. Until then, don’t say anything unnecessary. Understand?”

“Understood.”

Well, with the lawyer coming from Tokyo to Hiroshima, the lawyer is probably going to arrive tomorrow considering travel time.

I was thinking of contacting Mio, but before I could, the door opened.

“Well then, the contents of that bag have been confirmed to be methamphetamine. You are hereby under arrest for possession of illegal drugs.”

“I won’t say anything until my lawyer arrives.”

“Can you afford to act this nonchalant?”

“…”

“This case has already been picked up by a tabloid reporter, you know?”

“…”

“An S-Class Awakened caught with meth. Now that’s a story the public will eat up.”

“…”

“If you speak up now, we might still be able to stop the article. But are you really okay with staying silent?”

“…”

“If you get arrested now, the fact that you were with Tougo Shimazu and Shin Mouri will also come to light. Wouldn’t that cause them trouble too?”

“…”

“What about Mimimi Amanokawa?”

“…”

“If we say you were together, that means you were with her the whole time.”

“She’s a popular D-Tuber, right? If someone like her is revealed to have been traveling with a drug possessor, how do you think that’s going to look?”

“…”

“Are you sure about this? Headlines like ‘A Debauched Relationship Fueled by Drugs!’ could be all over the front page.”

“I really don’t think that would be good for her future!”

“…Hah.”

“Oh? What’s with that look in your eyes?”

“Don’t tell me—you’re planning to use violence?”

“If you do something like that, you might be able to kill us, sure!”

“But you’d be branded a villain. A real criminal.”

“Once you’re labeled a villain, life gets tough, you know? You’d be treated worse than the yakuza.”

“You should give up on ever showing your face in the public eye again!”

“…Yeah. I’d really prefer to avoid being labeled a villain.”

“Oh! Then—?”

“Would you care to tell us the truth?”

“The truth? Sure, I’ll tell you the truth. And that is…”

At that moment, the interrogation room was swallowed in darkness. It was a countermeasure against surveillance cameras. Using 【Shinrabanshou】, I erased all the light from the room.

“I’m surprisingly bad at resisting provocation.”

With 【Telekinesis】, I bound the two detectives and leaned back against the backrest of the folding chair.

“Guh… Do you think you’ll get away with this?”

“Oh, no need to worry. Or rather, it’s not something you should be worrying about, is it?”

After a deep breath—one of many—I answered.

“Your job was to make me angry, wasn’t it? In that case, congratulations. You’ve fulfilled your role. Someone—whoever your superior is—should be proud. Now go die for them.”

“W-Wait!”

“Please!”

After their desperate pleas, they croaked like frogs… and passed out. Of course, I didn’t kill them. They were still valuable sources of information.

Besides, I still didn’t know just how deep the hand of the person behind this harassment had reached into this prefectural headquarters. Surely not all the way through. I had to start by gathering that information.

While I was thinking that, people began gathering outside the door. The surveillance camera monitoring the interrogation room had gone completely dark, so it made sense someone would notice.

The door opened.

“Are you okay!?”

“What the—? We can’t see inside!?”

They must’ve shone a flashlight or something. But the darkness of 【Shinrabanshou】 couldn’t be penetrated by such weak light.

“Who’s in there!?”

Oh?

“It’s no good—we can’t see anything!”

Could it be…?

“Damn it, get an Awakened in here!”

If that’s how it is…

I grabbed the two detectives, used【Short Distance Teleport】 to move us outside, then activated 【Invisibility】 and flew through the air. I considered finding a convenient dungeon, but then remembered I’d need to use my registration card to enter—leaving behind a record.

If I were alone, I could just use 【Phase Through】to enter, but with these two with me… There was no helping it. I’d just have to use a barrier to create a sealed-off space deep in the mountains somewhere.

“Now then, who exactly are you two?”

Interrogating them properly sounded like a hassle, so I decided to use 【Brainwashing】to extract the information.

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