Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"So, you think this woman is Seylan?

He returned to the Inn with Augley and explained the situation and Lorraine immediately asked.

Naturally.

It is decided what it means to catch such a thing abruptly.

I wonder why Augley could have done that, too.

If Augley says he's one of the Goblins, I'm convinced, but I don't know why he's going to capture him, and that's not going to happen.

For the most part, if you think about it, it's going to be like how many years has Augley been planning on getting close to me?

Now anyway, there's no such thing as the value of my use before, it's impossible.

Of course, I took advantage of the fact that I was there by chance, because it's not possible... but it would be unlikely.

In other words, Augley somehow identified and captured Seylane.

Augley answers Lorraine's words.

"I'm not entirely sure I am, though. Probably what. Of course, there's no zero chance of a mistake."

"Well, the details around it are good. Anyway, how did you know it was Sai Lane?

"Well, there's a young man over there. I smelled him when I carried him."

"Smell?"

I was told, me and Lorraine approached the youth and sniffed.

Well, I do smell it, but it smells a lot.

Like a villager. Smells like grass, dirt, the body odor you have in the first place?

And then...

"Slightly, smells like some kind of fragrance, huh?

That's what Lorraine said.

If you ask me, it also smells like that.

I have a pretty good nose too.

I know it smells like that, but I wonder what happened to it.

Because it's a country village, there's about a grocery store.

I often sell one or two perfumes to distract me from the opposite sex I care about.

Of course, it would have been handmade by the villagers or collected and made flowers and such around here, but it's not unnatural.

But Augley seems to have one thing to say about this.

he says.

"Yes, yes. I do sell about a perfume that would be a country village. I smell it from him. That's the only guy I sell in the King's Capital. I wanted one too, and I've been in line. I thought it smelled somewhere, but I just remembered."

"I mean, that one? It is unnatural for the scent to come from villagers like this. Someone from Wang Capital was wearing it, and the smell shifted a little when he came into contact with someone, someone who must be Sai Lane, is that what you mean?

Lorraine guessed what Augley would want to say and summed it up concisely.

I see, I can be convinced if that's the case.

but even so......

"Augley, you, you have a pretty good nose, don't you? Regardless of my guess, I can't believe I smell it coming from somewhere in the village..."

I might be able to do the same thing if I smelled blood, but I can't smell perfume.

They're not developing my nose in that direction.

For once, I guess it's because you're a vampire.

I feel like I could even go with the smell of meat......

"Well, that's one of my thousand stunts. You want to hear something else?

It's a way of saying it that I don't know if it's a joke or if it's serious.

It would be pretty awesome if it really was there, but that wouldn't happen to a boulder.

If that were the case, I'd be out of the silver class and up even further.

"I decided to let you hear that sooner or later, and now let's not. Well, I guess we'll be interrogating next. We have to wake up the hypnotized..."

Lorraine flushed it and said so.

"Will you talk to me properly?

When I say that, Lorraine...

"What, you just have to make me feel like talking. No problem. Hey, you guys stay out of this room. Yeah, move these three, too. I'll do the interrogation alone."

"What? Are you okay, Lorraine? He's a bent opponent with the ability to brainwash people. It's not safe to be alone..."

Augley says that worryingly, but I'm not too worried.

"... no, you'll be fine. I'm more worried about this Sai Lane. Lorraine, be gentle."

That's what I said, leaving the room in charge of the fainting young man.

By the way, it's Augley's room we're headed to.

Augley was also responsible for the two women and rushed to follow me.

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After a while, Augley's room door is slammed modestly.

Then,

"It's me. It's Lorraine. Do you mind if I open the door?

That's what I heard, so me and Augley nod at each other face-to-face, then open the door.

Maybe beyond Lorraine, I was thinking of all possibilities, but it was definitely Lorraine the person who stood there.

As Lorraine enters the room, she begins to talk about the results of the interrogation.

"By and large, I could hear what I needed. First of all, about Seylan's abilities."

"After all, are you glad that you hypnotize people?

When I ask, Lorraine snorts.

"Oh. By and large, they can manipulate about twenty people at a time to their will. However, this seems to require a certain amount of preparation. Let them smell certain medicines, or have some conversation. Also, if you have too different physical and mental strengths... in this case, if the person you hypnotize is too expensive. They can't hypnotize me. Well, this is pretty much not going to be a problem if you're going to call the villagers."

"Ha ha... isn't that magic?

"It's not magic. It's called anomaly or idiosyncrasies. It's a very rare force, with no magic intervention. It is an area where research does not proceed because no law has been found by those who express it, but it is very interesting. As much as I'd like to have it autopsied once."

I don't mind Seylan being dissected, but I just want you to keep that for now.

What is needed now is not an exact elucidation of the principles, but a method of disarming those who have been hypnotized.

Lorraine seems to understand that too, keeping her own researcher temperament down and reversing the story.

"So, how do you disarm hypnosis... that was surprisingly easy. They're already disarmed. When the operator loses consciousness, it will disarm him. Sai Lane has been stunned once by Augley. So they say if you wake them up normally anymore, they'll wake you up."