Spy Classroom, Vol. 9: Annette and Her Many Knickknacks by Takemachi and Tomari

Author:Takemachi and Tomari
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

It was the twelfth day of their vacation, and that evening, the girls used the designated secret route to get to the naval base’s command room.

The room was situated on the top floor of the base’s central headquarters and offered a full view of the sea around the island. The sun was beginning to slowly sink below the horizon, and fog was gathering over the water.

The only people in the room were Grenier, Thea, and Sara.

Grenier faced the two of them from across the table and rubbed his round belly as he smiled with joy. “All right, my Din spy friends. Have you found the navy’s enemy?”

“Oh yes, we know everything. And we know about the pathology infecting the island, too.”

Grenier arched one of his eyebrows at that.

Thea ignored his display of skepticism and gave it to him straight. “We figured out who was behind the serial killings. It was Ensign Mercier, wasn’t it?”

“………”

Grenier’s expression was unreadable.

That was the answer Thea had arrived at: that he—the navy man that Raftania killed—was the one who’d been causing the unexplained deaths around the island.

“Everyone was working from the wrong premise. They all thought that Mercier got attacked by the serial killer, but the truth was the other way around. Mercier was the serial killer.”

“…Oh-ho. Fascinating.”

“Don’t you ‘oh-ho’ me. You knew, didn’t you? You knew all along.” When the vice-admiral implied that he hadn’t been involved, Thea shot him a glare. “Mercier held a confidential title here—he was your secret laboratory’s director.”

The man was dead, so perhaps she should have stuck a “former” at the start of that job description.

There were three facts backing up her theory. The first was that no matter how you sliced it, stealing inventions from the lab would require the help of an inside man. The second was the testimony she had saying that Mercier had been a favorite of Grenier’s. And the third was how delayed that one man’s reaction had been to being called “Director.” He’d only held the position for a few days, if that.

When she sat down and thought about it, it was an easy enough conclusion to reach.

“Looks like the jig is up.” The vice-admiral gave her a thin, impressed smile. “The man was good at what he did, but his morals were a bit lacking. He was never satisfied until he’d tested his inventions out in the field. I’m telling you, I’ll never understand these eggheads.”

“If you didn’t stop him, how are you any less guilty?!” Thea bellowed.

That was the truth behind the string of mysterious deaths that people called the pirate’s curse—they were Director Mercier’s experiments. In order to find out if his spy gadgets were viable for fieldwork, he tested them out on islanders and tourists. A double-digit number of people had lost their lives at his hands.

Just thinking about those tragic victims made Thea’s blood boil.

Sara had told her everything. She knew that three years ago, Raftania’s mother had died under those same suspicious circumstances.

“Mercier’s killer was after one thing—vengeance.

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