Arcana Mob

"Gasp!"

Luna, who had just regained consciousness, was still looking ghastly pale as if she had just seen a ghost.

Her last memory before she lost consciousness was Ray looking at her with that dark, expressionless eyes as if there were not even human.

From her small mouth, she tried to gasp for air, and slowly her face began to get its rosiness back.

Yet, her expression didn't change at all, as she kept looking at her surrounding, trying to understand what had just happened.

Luna was like this, she might pretend to be strong on the outside, but whenever it came to matters or someone that she cared about, she was pretty fragile.

In the original story itself, It wouldn't be until much later that she would overcome this as she began to realize that doing so would only burden her partners.

"…"

Aurum approached her to pat her back.

Luna turned her eyes at Aurum with a confused expression while Aurum, after a sigh, began to explain things.

" If you are worried about Cade.. then he is okay."

Luna sighed a bit of relief when she heard this. But she immediately tensed again when she knew Auruum was not done yet.

" However, I couldn't really say what he did was justified. You might not realize it, but even if the opponent might have a tie to the underworld, killing someone in daylight was still.. "

Luna's face turned pale once again.

The moment she heard underworld and kill, she knew Cade was in trouble. But at the same time, she felt relieved when she learned that Cade should not be in the wrong.

To her, who had received her family education from an early age, she knew that anyone with ties to the underworld must not be a good guy and should be killed. Cade's only wrongdoing was he as of now was still a university student and currently did not have "the license to kill" yet.

" Then, we should help him to clarify the situation!"

Luna immediately stood up as she ran and went to find Cade, leaving Aurum at the side a bit dumbfounded.

"Leave her be. I'm sure she was just worried about him and nothing else."

Eva from the side came and pat Aurum on the back, while Aurum could only sigh at the behavior of this friend of his.

****

In a white room with only a single desk and two chairs, a splendid face for investigation and interrogation, Cade was seated with an officer on the opposite side.

The officer, Jaden who also previously handled Cade when he just got into the hospital, let out a dry cough, then spoke briefly.

"Good to see you being well Mr. Cade."

"…Yes?"

Jaden stared at Cade with a very calm expression.

Jaden Smith. Cade somewhat understood why he was here. In their previous meeting, Jaden had introduced himself as a member of Luminous City Police, but it couldn't be closer to the truth.

In fact, Jaden was a member of Ultima's federation Special force which would only appear if there were cases that ordinary police could not handle.

This Special Force was full of Master and would later play some crucial roles in the midgame.

But what Cade couldn't understand was why he kept appearing in front of him.

"…We're running into each other rather often, huh."

"...Well…."

Jaden chuckled a bit when he heard Cade's unresponsive answer.

Obviously all of this was not a coincidence, and Cade had been long put into Jaden's watchlist.

As the two finished exchanging greetings, Jaden immediately changed into his serious face.

" I'm not gonna lie anymore. I was watching over you."

"???"

Jaden who was smiling mysteriously, ran through his pocket, then he took out something that looked like a flashdisk before putting it right in front of Cade.

[Prime suspect – Cade North.]

The flashdisk blinked as it showed a hologram with the image and name of Cade on it.

Even though he was a Special Force, there was no way Jaden would openly display something to his suspect like this. In other words, Jaden actually didn't have any evidence at all, and was trying to find something from Cade's reaction.

"Prime Suspect…?"

Cade's eyes widened.

Though he had some guesses, he was also a bit surprised.

Because this event.. it' felt way too familiar.

[…As the *protagonist* was brought into the special white room for investigation and interrogation after that incident, a familiar face appeared in front of him.

"…We're running into each other rather often, huh."

With a calm face that looked like even a big flood would not faze him, he greeted him out of the blue. The protagonist was confused, unable to comprehend the situation.

' Why was he here?'

But it seems like the man was able to see right through the protagonist.

"…We're running into each other rather often, huh."

Smiling mysteriously, Jaden's smirk slowly turned into a serious face.

" I'm not gonna lie anymore. I was watching over you."

"…Yes?"

Jaden, who was smiling mysteriously, ran through his pocket, then he took out something that looked like a flashdisk before putting it right in front of the protagonist.

[Prime suspect – Aurum Griffyndor.] ]

' Damn… have I just take the protagonist role?'

' Hyahahahaha, when they said you are the protagonist of your life, I would never expect you to take a lot of Aurum's role here.'

Grigory's voice resounded as it had a sarcastic tone on it.

Once again, and without him noticing, Cade had taken Aurum's role. SInce he came to this world, whether it was a coincidence or not, Cade began to slowly take the protagonist role from Aurum, and it certainly was not one that he wanted.

Yet from the outside, Jaden actually saw that Cade was frowning and thought that his strategy was successful.

He coughs a bit to woke Cade up from his daydream.

" *Cough* Sorry to interrupt you, but our time was a bit limited here. Therefore, I think we need to begin now."