The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 8 by nigozyu and Umibouzu

Author:nigozyu and Umibouzu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

“He’s the supernatural Gluttony.”

Battlefield of revenge

Natsunagi and I desperately ran down the stairs of the deserted office building.

Thanks to the power outage, the elevator was still unusable. If we wanted to escape, we had to get down twenty-seven floors.

“This is our chance, while he’s eating,” I said.

Natsunagi gagged, clapping a hand over her mouth.

“Sorry,” I apologized, but I kept running. Gluttony had promptly started to devour the White Tengu’s corpse. He’d opened his huge mouth, sinking his teeth into flesh and slurping up the blood with his long tongue. That had to be the source of his name… Frankly, I didn’t even want to think about it. I just sprinted down the stairs toward the exit.

“You know about that man, Kimizuka?”

“Not well, but…he used to be an enemy of the world.”

I filled Natsunagi in on what I knew about Gluttony. Including him, there were a total of seven supernaturals named after the seven deadly sins. They had once been designated enemies of the world, but the designation had been removed for some reason. And Gluttony was Reloaded’s sworn enemy.

“Apparently, he’s in the habit of eating any living thing that has outstanding genes.”

“…And we have to escape from it.” Turning pale, Natsunagi ran down the stairs.

The nineteenth floor—the stairs seemed to go on forever. They reminded me of that night at the hospital last Christmas. I hadn’t been able to use the elevator that time, either, and I’d kept running downstairs for all I was worth—

“Kimizuka! Look…!”

I’d been keeping my eyes on my feet, but Natsunagi grabbed my arm and yanked. Gluttony was on a landing a few floors up, peering down at us. Because of that mask, I couldn’t tell whether his eyes were on us or not, but that protruding mouth was definitely smiling.

“Natsunagi, this way!”

I tugged her by the hand through the stairwell door, taking us into the eighteenth floor.

If we’d stayed on the stairs, he’d have caught us in no time. Racing down a hall, we looked for somewhere to hide.

Turned out I was right. There was a dull crash back in the stairwell, as if someone had dropped a ton or two of steel. The supernatural had jumped down, and now he was hot on our heels. Natsunagi and I ducked into a room with rows and rows of desks.

“For now, let’s hide here.”

I led Natsunagi to the very back of the room, where we hid behind what was probably a senior worker’s desk.

It was five thirty PM; there was a thunderstorm outside, and the lights in the office were off. The two of us hugged our knees in the dark, holding our breath. Before long, we heard a sharp, metallic clanking out in the hall.

“…Ah-ha-ha. That’s really pretty scary.” Natsunagi was doing her best to sound cheerful, but she buried her face in her knees.

What options did we have?

We couldn’t use the elevator or the stairs. We were still on the eighteenth floor, nowhere near low enough to survive jumping out a window. We had no way to escape.

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