Infinite Dendrogram: Volume 20 [Parts 1 to 7] by Sakon Kaidou

Author:Sakon Kaidou
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Armored Pilot, Hugo Lesseps

We walked around the section with all the passenger cabins, but Cyco couldn’t find Emily anywhere. Had we been worrying for no reason? Was Emily not even on this ship? Or...

“Is she offline?” I wondered. If that was the case, it would be impossible for us to find her at all. And if she stayed offline right up until the moment she did something terrible, there was no way we’d be able to counter her in time.

I thought that we could also try to find Emily by looking for someone she was traveling with, but that proved to be difficult as well.

According to Cyco, she could easily sense and locate extreme outliers like Emily, Caldina had no shortage of people with kill counts so high they could qualify as mass murderers.

But that was the problem—Cyco didn’t know if they actually were mass murderers. She couldn’t differentiate between tian-killers, player-killers, player-killer-killers, and regular duelists. That was exactly why Fran’s plan had placed her against Gideon’s Masters.

“The fact that she can’t tell them apart won’t make this any easier...” Cyco had actually sensed a big number on a Master wearing a crimson jacket with a lion motif, but again, we didn’t have any knowledge to guess how he’d actually gotten that kill count.

Only Emily herself had a number big enough to be conclusive evidence that we’d found her. Without that, the only thing we could really do was investigate everyone we found suspicious.

“I don’t think I’d be good at that.” That seemed like a job for a detective...and that thought made me remember the boy who’d seen right through me, which just made me kinda upset.

“What now?” Cyco asked.

“Let’s end the search for the time being,” I said. “We’ll resume when we stop at the next city.”

There was one last stop on the route to Drac-Nomad. If Emily and whoever she was with were planning to get on this ship, that would be their last chance.

Maybe I should talk to Moneygold first, I thought.

“Umm, may I have a moment?” Someone called out to me just as I was thinking through all of that.

My attention instantly shifted to whoever it was—and I jumped in surprise when I saw who had spoken.

“Ohh! Please don’t be afraid!” said the person—a petite woman wearing a hood, probably to hide from the sun. Below the hood, wrapped just above her eyes, there was a piece of cloth covered in complicated patterns. It reminded me of some 19th century native costumes from central Asia that we’d seen in Miss Nina’s class.

More importantly, though, she had gloves on her hands, so I couldn’t tell if she was a tian or a Master.

“I saw you walking and looking around, so I spoke to you because I thought you were searching for something...” she said. “Umm, I’m nobody suspicious, though! I’m not your enemy!”

So I’d caught her attention because I was poking around somewhere that was mostly empty of people. I’ll have Cyco check her anyway, just in case.

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