＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Hell, Murder and Part Two

■ A week ago Cardina Station

Rascal gave me 'babysitting' as my first assignment, and the boulder tension was stiff.

…………

"Sorry. I think I picked the wrong word"

"No..."

"Was the earlier statement still a mistake," Zhang thinks, and is careful to receive the assignment again.

And

"I have other jobs as well as babysitting"

"Do you have babysitters?!?"

Zhang's scratch about Rascal's remarks made the tension fog somewhere.

But if you try Zhang, it's impossible to say 'OK' as it is.

"Are you serious about that!?"

"I'm good at rounding people up, but I don't grab lies and hide things. It's true."

Unfortunately, Zhang's "verdict of authenticity" has always been unresponsive.

Unfortunately, it was a fact.

"No, wait! What does babysitting mean in the first place!?"

With the infamous nomination arranging clan, why would I need to babysit?

When Zhang thought that he was even in nursery school on the side of the business...

"Are you kidding me?

The door to the hospital room where Zhang and Rascal are opened and out of place...... I heard a tongueless voice.

As Zhang shifted her gaze to the door, there was a young girl opening the door and peering into this one.

Will the age be ten? Is it someone's hobby, he's wearing a pretentious red dress that can be worn at a piano presentation.

And on the back of his left hand is a crest that mimics the "crossing axe".

(Girl......, what if the babysitter Mr. Rascal has been saying from earlier is...!?)

That's when Zhang realized.

Rascal's condition is clearly changing.

On the surface he pretends to be calm, but he is terribly nervous inside.

It's as if you keep it in front of you even with a one-touch, immediate bomb.

"Ah. Grandpa. One of your uncles" shampoo ”?

You haven't noticed such a rascal, the girl talks to Zhang.

"Ah, oh. Earlier, I also signed a contract with Mr. Rascal."

"Shit. Nice to meet you."

"Oh...... nice to meet you"

Zhang couldn't grasp the situation, but responded to the girl's greeting.

And take the hand that the girl has been offering, and shake her hand back, being careful not to put her strength into it.

Then the girl laughed innocently with a full grin about what was pleasing.

"Grandpa, good one! Place (...)! You're not coming (...)!"

……

Zhang didn't know what the girl was talking about.

However, I was only concerned that the tension in Rascal, who was lying down, faded and exhaled as somewhere relieved.

"Wah, uh, no, Ringushu. No, no, no!

"... I'm Zhang Funeral Qi, Nice to meet you, Emily."

"Bu. No, no, no, no, no!

……

As Zhang tilted his neck, for some reason Rascal, again slightly nervous, offered a help boat.

"... This guy's name is Emily Killingston. I still can't pronounce it myself."

"Bu. No, I can't! I'm messing with you!

"... when can you say my name for this minute"

Zhang is convinced as he sees such an exchange between the two, and utters the word again.

"I'm sorry, Emily. Is this it?

"Yeah!"

Emily seemed satisfied that Zhang had properly called her own name.

"Emily, we're still in the middle of a conversation, so play over there. Our makina's dating, right?

"Eh? But“ Makina. ”Yikes.“ Ouch. ”It's getting pretty rough!

"... does that pompous trick beat a kid in Othello"

Rascal exhales like tired again.

Not long after we met, Zhang felt that he might be struggling among the < IF >.

Either way, I hear Emily gets thrown out of her room by Rascal.

"Grandpa. See you later!"

"Oh, oh."

That's how Emily left the room and the door closed,

"... Phew"

Rascal exhaled loudly as if all the tensions had finally been resolved.

Zhang asks such a rascal a question.

"Mr. Rascal. Is babysitting Emily's babysitter?

"That's right. Previously on Me or another subowner, La Crima,... and the recent incarceration of some idiot around... I want to leave it to you for a while"

Even Cardina had the name of renowned nominee La Crima, which Zhang suspected was "Carrying Around by Official Members of < IF >".

I guess that girl is important enough to do that, too.

But there was one thing Zhang couldn't solve.

(Why, while Emily was in the room... was Mr. Rascal so nervous?

Plus, Zhang has another thing to be concerned about.

Rascal's nervousness made him nervous.

As if... I was afraid that Zhang would do something to Emily.

(Does that mean they haven't been trusted yet...... but)

But there's something odd about it.

Rascal had indeed turned his consciousness to Zhang, but his body seemed to be... immediately in a position to (...) shelter Zhang.

That doesn't connect well in Zhang.

"Mr. Rascal, that girl... what the hell is Emily..."

"... oh"

I didn't know what to think, and Zhang decided to ask directly about his future work.

And Rascal starts answering, staying his doctrine of 'no lies, no hiding'.

"Zhang Funeral Chi. You didn't break it to him, did you?

"I haven't..."

"You're right...... If I had, I might have been negative (...)"

Zhang felt uncomfortable with the words.

But in my earlier interaction with Emily, I recall Emily herself saying 'plus'.

Intuition, but Zhang felt those words were deeply paired.

"But didn't you notice by name? Some of us are more famous than me, more than La Crima... more famous than the owners in some cases."

"What? But...................................................!?"

Zhang couldn't remember the name Emily from his memory,... but remembered between them.

Indeed, the name "Emily" is in Zhang's memory.

But Zhang didn't have any connection between his name and... that girl.

Because such a tongueless...... I can't even say my name properly yet and its name doesn't tie in.

"Again, let's talk. Zhang Funeral Qi"

"Oh, oh..."

Rascal overlaps words as he puts his hand on the shoulder of the upsetting Zhang.

"Your first job is to babysit Emily...... job support. But the job itself is connected to you."

Rascal sensed that there was still some upset about Zhang and decided to move on from a slightly off Emily story.

"It was supposed to be a deal with UBM beads. Six of them are scattered around this cardina with your hand. In all countries, the fierce people behind it are moving."

"Pearl..."

Zhang had a command from Mirage headquarters that contained a UBM named [Thunder Beast Danguy].

It was also very useful as a weapon in itself, but Zhang caught his mind when he heard that five more of the same things were in the land of Cardina.

"Join that feud and take away the beads, you mean?

"You're not. No, if you can get it, that's fine, but not the top priority."

"Saying?

"The top priority is the observation of the people coming for the beads. What abilities, what do you want, personality or personality? And get on with this story... it looks like we could scout."

And Rascal said this looking directly at Zhang.

"It's not UBM, it's what we want to fight for."

To the words, Zhang noticed one fact.

That method of feeding on the beads themselves.

It is difficult to execute, since the beads accidentally spread to Cardina.

But vice versa......

"... let's hear one"

"Oh, ask me anything"

In response, Zhang asked with determination.

"What if the beads were scattered around Cardina...?

"Exactly. Another sub-owner of took seven beads from the Yellow River treasure trove and scattered six of them"

Zhang thought he would be deluded about it.

Because Zhang is fighting the "Ethereal Princess" and losing her right arm because of its beads.

But Rascal answered honestly that he had nothing to hide.

That's what he calls' no lies and no hiding 'creed.

"... well. Did you try to trade what you let go of once as a consideration to find the talent?"

"That's half."

"Half?"

"We were also thinking about running the Yellow River on stage in conjunction with Mirage. But you can't believe we suddenly say," I'll lend you a hand "and try to connect with each other.

…………

In that case, I doubt what's behind it, and I would never trust it.

"But if there's a huge consideration in your hands for the national treasure of the Yellow River, and we work together as a deal... what happens?

"… at least I get more peace of mind and understanding than when I'm free"

"That's the thing. There's nothing higher than free love, and whoever can believe in free love doesn't nag the back society. It was my plan to make them pay first to be trusted."

I see, Zhang was convinced.

"... I don't even know what Zeta (he) thought on the inside."

Rascal leaked part of his mood into words to do so from time to time from the beginning.

It's also due to the 'don't lie and hide' creed, or unconscious, which Zhang still doesn't know.

"I'll tell you a few things that I know for sure where I am now. Don't start by heading out the closest you can get to this place, and start working."

Nodding at the explanation from Rascal, the question that I put on the shelf once again arose on Zhang's chest.

"I understand about the job. … but I want to check again"

"You mean Emily, right?

"Oh.... are you sure that kid is (...)?

"Yes."

I still don't react to Rascal's words, True or False.

Zhang already knew.

At that point, he said this was the truth.

But there was no way that that girl and its truth could have been linked.

"But he's just a kid. I'm not even going to throw you out into the desert of Cardina by yourself. To do this, we need someone to do it beside us."

Rascal said, "... Zeta (ITS) said, 'Recommendations. That kid is ten, too. You'll be able to tour the countries by yourself and work alone." I missed it. You can't do this. What genius. There's no way I have such a ton of demonstrable children "to leak the word and then overlap it.

"When it comes to supporting Emily, there is ultimately only one caveat to tell you."

"... that, what?

"Don't be Emily's“ enemy. "

"Enemy"? "

"You can scold him as a guardian, or you can tell him. But don't disparage me without meaning. Don't hurt me for no reason. Don't let him go down. Never let your impression be negative in him. Don't switch him on. Otherwise..."

"Otherwise...?

"- You're going to see for yourself what he is."

The word was uttered heavier than all previous words.

And notice.

Rascal's nervousness when Emily was there was that Zhang was afraid to take some kind of hostile action against Emily.

I was wondering if that 'ascertain your nature' would happen in front of you.

"... the advice struck my liver"

"It's understandable that I haven't really felt it yet and I can't believe it. Still, you'll see soon enough."

Rascal gave Zhang a written statement detailing his work before opening the map and pointing out a point.

"Your first place of work - if you get to Cortana, the commercial city."

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■ Commercial city Cortana

It had been a week since Zhang became a support member for < IF >, and Zhang and Emily had arrived in Cortana.

It should be noted that Emily was exhausted from the heat in Cortana, but did not suffer that much heat when traveling in the desert.

When travelling from the city to the city, he was aboard a small boat for desert sailing prepared by Rascal.

There was also air conditioning inside, so Emily was reading picture books and such inside.

The occasional worms are handled by Zhang and handed over to Jewel by Keongshee.

That's not how Emily shows what Rascal calls “nature," and Zhang was unsure that Emily was identical to that (...) person she hears rumors about over the past week.

(... but I don't even think Mr. Rascal lied. Again, I guess there's something I just haven't seen yet)

Thinking about that,

"Uncle Chan! Ma'am?

Emily called Zhang from in front of the cafe. I still only see that figure as a child, and Zhang laughs just a little.

It should be noted that both Zhang and Emily now misrepresent themselves with accessories.

Emily, who belongs to IF, has been nominated, of course, because Zhang could have been targeted in a tangle.

The accessories prepared by Rascal were fairly high-performance, so even the largest level of "Nursing" is not completely discernible. It's called a small ship, Rascal was a very well-prepared man.

I'm sure Zhang and Emily now only look like normal families or something to the rest of us.

However, only Zhang's right arm is a prosthetic hand made of tokens, so it would be slightly uncomfortable.

"Oh, I'll be right there"

Zhang said so and walked up to Emily's waiting cafe...... lost the word.

(............... why are you here?

This Cardina cafe has wide windows if not luxury stores that keep it air-conditioned, so you can see what's going on in the store even from outside the cafe.

And Zhang saw it.

I'm sitting at the table talking about something - the "Ethereal Princess" look.

Yes, the cafe they were about to enter... was the same cafe Hugo and the others used to meet.

(Come to think of it, she's also the target of beads, so sometimes they'll bowl together in a city with beads...)

For Zhang, he is also arguably the enemy who crushed his deposited branch and took his right arm.

But what Zhang held was not vengeance or intent to kill, but concern.

(What to do... The task entrusted to me by Mr. Rascal is observation. Data collection of talent gathering for beads. It's hard to accomplish the task entrusted to you in case you find out who this one is...)

Zhang turns his mind around in order to complete the task entrusted to him.

He is basically a serious socialite kind of guy.

Although he was a resident of the back society.

"Emily. Not here, in a different store..."

It says, "Wow!“ Ashiyu!

Zhang's best idea of moving the store was smashed to pieces by the wood dust by Emily, who walked into the store with a smile when she saw the store's item writing.

And leaving Emily alone in this store, etc... can't possibly be done given Zhang's work.

"... yes, stay"

Zhang then also followed Emily into the store,

"Ah. Excuse me. It's full now."

"Oh, I can't help it."

"Now I can change the store," he rejoiced when he heard from the clerk what the saving hand looked like.

"Please be seated with your guest"

……………………

They recommended the same table as a row of "Ethereal Princess" sitting at a table for six.

"Wow."

And Emily was already in that table seat.

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