Bad Born Blood Chapter 306

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“Damn, now it’s time to lose. I’ll lose even if I tear this kid and Kinuan apart!”

Maria grumbled as she approached. She looked down at the assassin I had subdued.

“I’ll leave the finishing touches to you. You’re my child’s enemy.”

I said as I stepped aside.

Maria aimed her sniper rifle at the assassin’s head as if she was shooting him in the head.

The assassin waited for the end calmly, without even frowning.

Maria’s expression became more sinister, taking the place of the assassin.

“This is the kind of people I hate the most. They act as if their own lives are of no importance. It doesn’t feel good to kill them. But… … .”

Maria pulled the trigger.

Ter- Huh!

The assassin’s head was brutally blown off while pressed against the gun barrel.

“… … It’s more comforting than not killing.”

Maria said, pressing down on the assassin’s burst head. Her shoes dangled with tattered flesh.

“Quilia, help Maria here and collect the bodies. We can’t just leave Raphael and Uriel behind. Maria, do you have the manpower to move the bodies?”

“We have non-combat personnel on our side too. We can just call them and leave them to it.”

Maria picked up the terminal and was making a call to someone.

“I’ll look up and come down. And I’ll borrow Sariel’s nose too.”

Maria, hearing what I said, motioned for Sariel to follow her.

I went upstairs with Sariel. I had been worried since earlier.

Crunch.

The walls and floor of the stairs leading up were broken. The debris was still on the floor, indicating that there had been a commotion here not long ago.

“The smell of blood and the smell of madness. I can smell it.”

Sariel lowered his large body and put his nose on the floor.

“and?”

“Metal, oil, burnt silicone… … .”

I stretched my senses and pushed the door open. The doorknob was broken.

Kkieii.

I stared inside without blinking. When I opened the door, I smelled the familiar smell of death.

The smell of death is not all the same. It depends on who, how, where, and when they died.

‘The familiar smell of death.’

I stared inside.

The first thing I saw was a familiar bodysuit and combat uniform. My heart pounded.

Chijik, Chik.

There was a sound of electricity jumping.

‘Destroyed full-body.’

The prosthesis was lying around, horribly torn and broken. Currents sporadically pulsed, and the prosthesis’s fingers twitched with fake signals.

‘The force explosion occurred inside the body. It probably wouldn’t have been able to withstand it.’

Just by looking at the scattered furniture, the soot marks, and the state of the body being hit, it was clear how the damage had been done.

And… … the body that was destroyed was a ‘special agent’.

Ilay’s subordinate. I remember the bastard’s face and armor. I was just agitated earlier because I thought it was Ilay’s corpse.

Since arriving at Border City, I have been moving separately from Illei. Illei’s special forces also arrived here while independently tracking Kinuan.

‘No, to be exact, I got caught up in Kinuan’s bait.’

I opened my eyes half-asleep.

Kinuan, who had been hiding himself by deceiving everyone until now, was now being caught loose here and there. This was clearly his intention.

‘If Kinuan had wanted to hide, Mariana’s assassins and Illei’s special agents would not have discovered any traces of Kinuan.’

However, they all found traces of Kinuan and gathered at the same place.

This is clearly Kinuan’s intention. He is trying to cause his enemies to clash with each other.

‘Here, Cora’s assassins and Accresia’s special agents met.’

Of course, there would have been no room for conversation. They would have instinctively realized that they had met their nemesis and started fighting.

Unfortunately, the victim was a special agent. His brain was in shambles after being hit by the Force. Thick, pinkish fluid was seeping out from between the cracks in his artificial skull.

‘Lars must hurry and join Ilay.’

I risked being eavesdropped on and tried to communicate directly with Ilay. I wonder if he knows what happened to his subordinate here.

Beep.

The end of the line was empty. There was no immediate connection with Illei. Illei was probably unreachable at the moment.

I manipulated the terminal and left an encrypted message for Ilay and Lars instead.

Rattling.

Sariel moved around on his own and broke the cupboard.

“Ma, Mangyi, smell, sniff.”

Sariel held a large pair of underwear that was clearly Maria’s.

‘It must have been a coincidence that Maria’s group found the relic Kinuan needed. But Kinuan took advantage of that coincidence.’

Kinuan also knows Gabriel. After seeing Maria and her group, he must have noticed that there was some kind of connection between them and Gabriel.

‘He exposed his information to Maria and got her involved in order to use me.’

Given my personality, it’s hard for me to kill or let die Maria and her group, who are related by blood to Gabriel. I hate to admit it, but it’s true that my nature is soft in this way.

Users of Aki’s Victory can attract even the passing coincidences and turn the situation to their advantage. For me and Kinuan, it’s as natural as breathing.

Thud, thud.

Maria followed us upstairs. There was more noise and commotion downstairs. They must be collecting the body.

“Maria, from here on out, things are going to be too much for you to handle. If you go any further, you’ll end up in an irreversible situation.”

I said coolly.

Maria frowned as she accepted the underwear that Sariel had handed her.

“It was my mistake that killed two sons. Now it’s a matter of revenge.”

“Revenge? These are the unofficial special forces of the country. There is no room for grave robbers to interfere. I don’t intend to ignore them, but those involved in this incident are on a different level than you.”

Maria ground her teeth.

“That’s exactly what ignoring them means. We also have a secret weapon in place. If you steal Arcane relics, you’ll encounter state-level violence. It’s not like we just run away every time.”

“Then don’t just talk. Bring me the real thing. Sariel isn’t a secret weapon, after all. And tracking by smell is no longer possible. If you can lure me by smell, you would have already used chemicals to remove your body odor from the relic.”

Maria laughed bitterly.

“No, the scent trail remains. Don’t underestimate Sariel’s sense of smell. Even if you erase the scent, the traces from before will remain.”

Maria rummaged through her waist bag. She pulled out a syringe filled with medicine.

“Ma, Mang?”

Sariel, who was next to Maria, got scared and backed away slowly. He stopped walking only after he was pushed against the wall.

“It’s time for your shot, Sariel.”

“That, that, hurts. My head, hurts a lot. Sariel, I, I don’t like you.”

“Uriel and Raphael are dead. You have to take revenge. Your brothers are dead. Do you think you can just let it go? Your mother didn’t raise you to be such an unrighteous person.”

I watched the scene.

It’s not my place to meddle. Sariel is an adult who has to do his part, and without Maria’s protection, things would be even more dire…

Damn, let’s throw out the rationalization. Sariel is being injected with unwanted drugs, and I’m just an unscrupulous bystander.

Kuk.

Maria touched Sariel’s forehead and pulled him, then injected him into the nape of his neck.

The rippling drug seeped through Sariel’s throat.

Rumble.

Sariel’s extremities trembled, and his head in particular shook as if it were going to flip over.

“Crunch.”

From the corner of Sariel’s mouth, pure white breath flowed out along with saliva. The bristling hairs were stiff as if they would prick someone.

Sariel’s nostrils dilated as if blood had rushed to him, and the muscles and blood vessels around his nose twitched and twitched in a disgusting way.

“Sariel, find the path of scent.”

Maria seemed to have administered drugs to Sariel that stimulated his sensory organs.

Sariel was in pain, perhaps due to his hypersensitive sense of smell. His brain must be processing a huge amount of olfactory information.

‘It’s a dangerous method.’

There was no way that Sariel, the Nomad crawler, would have undergone neurochemical treatment. However, Maria increased Sariel’s sensory and cognitive processing capacity with drug administration.

‘Sariel has exceeded the amount of information he can accept.’

Without any biological neural enhancements or brain enhancement training like Archie’s Victory, it would be difficult to handle.

“Kreuk, sniff.”

Sariel crouched down like a four-legged animal. He put his nose on the floor and then moved to a wall, a staircase, a pillar, and so on.

“The road, the sight, the trace, the footprint of the smell.”

Sariel was leaning against the wall, sticking his tongue out to smell something. It was quite a strange behavior.

“Okay, Sariel. After this is over, we can have fun together.”

Maria followed Sariel with a grin. She gestured for me to follow her.

“Quilia, can you move?”

“Of course.”

Quilia followed along without a word.

I fiddled with the terminal for a moment. There was still no reply from Ilay and Lars. Ilay may not know, but Lars never failed to answer my calls, even in urgent situations.

‘I feel uneasy.’

As the dangerous and uncertain situation approached, my head started to burn. This is also funny.

* * *

Sariel was a creature that existed only for the ‘sense of smell’. His intelligence was also reduced, and he even lost sight, the most sensitive of the five senses.

‘The brain’s function itself is focused solely on the sense of smell.’

Sariel started to trace the path of the scent. If he followed the path the scent came from, he would find traces of Kinuan.

‘Is the tracing of smell also within the scope of Kinuan’s plan?’

I don’t know.

Kinuan is not omnipotent. He does not plan everything, but only prepares within the scope of his own experience and knowledge.

Kinuan may not be fully aware of Maria’s group’s strength.

‘Maria’s group is a variable to Kinuan. He has used that variable to the fullest.’

Gabriel and his blood relatives, Maria and her gang, stole Holy Energy capsules and delivered them to the auction house. This is not an event that can be expected.

‘It’s just a coincidence and a variable.’

AKS Victory users use variables to their advantage by pulling them to their side.

There is also a limit to extracting information about Maria’s group that was intervened as a variable.

‘Kinuan doesn’t know Maria’s deepest strength.’

I would think so. Of course, this is also an unstable guess, but we have to believe this thought and move forward.

What if Kinuan had anticipated Maria’s gang’s intervention and planned everything out the night before? There’s nothing we can do about a monster of that level. We’ll have to deal with it.

‘Rather, what is within Kinuan’s prediction range is Nana Illei’s special forces. Kinuan will be taking into account everything that Illei and I can do and moving forward.’

Maria’s party is a weak force, but it becomes a ‘variable’. It will depend on who this variable will work to their advantage in the future.

“You’re thinking a lot, young man. I can hear your brain working from here.”

Maria, who was following Sariel, looked back and said. Sariel was sniffing around left and right as he came to a fork in the road.

I changed the subject as if hiding my true feelings.

“Sariel’s lack of behavior isn’t simply a problem of intelligence, right? Perhaps as his sociality normalizes, his extrasensory abilities also decline. They must have intentionally left him in that state. Using drugs or something.”

It’s a common mechanism: When certain brain functions become extremely developed, other functions decline.

“Hmm, this lady’s bag strap is so short I can’t understand what she’s talking about.”

Maria shrugged her shoulders naturally.

I resisted the urge to grab her by the back of the neck and pin her to the ground.

“Judging by the way you treat your children, there must be quite a few who run away.”

I secretly wondered about Gabriel. Gabriel knows that he has been abandoned.

‘Maria would not abandon her child. She is not that kind of person.’

Maria raised her eyebrows. Meanwhile, Sariel got his bearings and started moving again.

“Look, bachelor. For over twenty years, I have had children every year. The only people I can trust the most are the children I raised with my own hands. My husband is just a stranger after all. I may seem like an inadequate parent to you, but I have never had a child run away from me.”

“Ever thrown it away?”

Well, this may be a bit of a blunt question, but I don’t think Maria would have the slightest idea that I was connected to Gabriel.

“You ask a strange question. Are you also an orphan who doesn’t know your parents’ faces? It’s unfortunate, but all the men born from my womb have thick facial lines like real men. A fool like you is not born.”

Maria must have thought I was looking for my mother. Anyway, it’s a strange experience to have someone call me Bishil.

Thud, thud.

Maria followed Sariel, turning her back to me. She only shrugged her shoulders before speaking.

“… … One of my ex-boyfriends stole my child and ran away. He claimed it was his. He was the only child I had ever lost.”

“What happened to the man and the child?”

“After much searching, I found him. However, since he had already become a drug-addicted wreck, I couldn’t find out where the child was. Well, that’s all for the depressing story. Sariel’s nose is moving busily.”

Sariel’s steps stopped at an old teahouse located in a shabby shopping district. Tea was a luxury item completely unsuited to the poor and the homeless.

That’s why the teahouses on this street were so heterogeneous.