Chapter 131 (1/2)

“There’s an inspection team at the annex. As soon as I arrived in Tezeba, I sent all the evidence collected by the Angelic to this place.”

The second floor was closer to a laboratory than an office. As they entered the far end of the hall, Noah then took her hood off, peeking inside a room.

The room was divided into two sections. On one side, dozens of recorders projected translucent screens on the white wall, and over the large glass on the left lay a wide iron table. Researchers at the Bureau of Investigation Security busied around the iron table in their white gowns.

As they moved, Noah caught sight of the object on the table. It was the scraps of metal she had found in the mana operating room back then.

“I speculated that it was a bewildering spell but, but they say it’s completely different from the structure of the bewildering magic.”

“Then…”

As Kyle beckoned the researchers, they quickly cleared the perimeter and disappeared over the door on the other side.

“Let’s go in and see. You’ll probably know as soon as you see it.”

Noah carefully stepped into the glass door. On the iron table lay the lumps of metal that were in grotesque shapes. At first, she didn’t understand what they implied, but as soon as Kyle lightly grabbed her shoulders and turned her slightly, a sound of realization fell from her lips.

“Oh, this…”

The scraps, which were similar to a broken machine debris, were all of different sizes. There was a piece larger than her body, a piece as small as gravel, and a piece shaped like a long bat. When Noah first discovered them in the mana operating room, she had never really thought about what they would have been like.

Kyle held a round, spherical scrap of metal on a thick cylindrical scrap next to him. It was then that it became clear. Noah’s lips trembled.

“…A person.”

Yes, when all the fragments were arranged, they took the form of a person. The largest piece resembled a body, the scraps as tiny as gravels seemed like the joints of the fingers, the bat-shaped scraps of metal mirrored an arm, and the spherical and cylindrical bits were the heads and necks consecutively.

“Oh, my goodness. So it wasn’t bewildering magic, but a machine with human appearance?” Strands of hair on the back of Noah’s neck stood tall and tiny bumps rose on her arms. She carefully examined the machine lying on the iron table with her chilled arms tightly folded.