Mardinal: The Assassin's Adventure
Chapter 20: The Building Collapses

“So, this is one of the buildings that collapsed due to Rogue?”

Alpha, M, along with three Delta, Loli, Sanjay, Baran, and Beta are busy investigating the collapse of city buildings in the south.

The southern region was an area that Guilds could still not manage. It used to have the most severe impact during the fight between the previous ruling Guild and the Jaguara Guild. Because it is not managed, the south became a nest of monsters and hiding places for the Rogue. This makes the area the most dangerous area in Kamaju City.

The fifth is currently paying attention to the debris of one of the buildings, collapsed badly and left only the bottom of the building that is still standing even though it has begun to be very fragile.

“So severe is the damage to buildings here?” asked the Beta still watching the building.

“Emang has been damaged from the time of the dispute between our Guild and the previous ruling Guild, Beta Ordox,” Baran commented while carrying his assault rifle.

“But ‘kan, the plan is that the remaining good buildings can still be renovated by our Guild. Time is smashed like this?” ask Loli not happy.

“In addition...” Sanjay pointed to the side. “Other building lines are also affected by similar damage.”

They followed Sanjay's direction. Sure enough, there were about seven more multi-storey buildings around it collapsed, shattered to formless debris.

“Are there any fatalities when the incident happened?” ask M.

Baran replied while fixing the position of his sunglasses. “From the data we got, there were absolutely no fatalities when the collapse of the building here occurred. After all there is not a single civilian living in the southern area.”

“There were no fatalities here, but ‘mayan there were fatalities in inhabited areas,” Sanjay said.

The tan-skinned man was indeed spicy. Sanjay criticized the low level of security for inhabited areas of their city. Quite a number of civilians are victims of the violence of the Rogue, for example as happened last night.

Hearing the insinuations, M just bowed while kneeling the temple. What Sanjay said was right. But that was also because they already lacked enough Guild members, and not a single civilian was willing to join their Killing Guild due to the lack of people experiencing the awakening of Ru Energy. If anything, maybe they prefer to be Rogue for various reasons.

“Haaah..” M sighed, looking up at the rest of the building. “You know? I'm actually tired of being an Alpha Guild. Mending that Guild we still think of the residents of his power city. Try if another Guild, can be abandoned in the city.”

M is also stranded. “If I think this, I think to stop being an Alpha, go out of the planet, make short videos of the content rocking pargoy, continue to be copied on the internet. You can be an influencer.”

Ordox patted his face, getting tired of this babble from his boss. If M had said so, it would mean that his brain had already endured too much of the trials as the leader of the Killing Guild.

Indeed, if it has a lot of work, the brain can digress everywhere.

“Keep, if you want to be an influencer, what endorsement?” ask Baran idly.

“Airpator nails.”

Baran laughed out loud at it, glad to prank the leader. While Ordox has become more dizzy with the behavior of M. He thought, it's been hard being an influencer, the endorsement of the tacks?

“Ish! You guys are on by the way, anyway?” ask Loli annoyed. “This we again think about wanting to be in addition to the problem of these collapsed buildings!”

“Gini yes, Neng,” said M on Loli while pointing at the building. “All of these buildings are planned to be made to become a civilian business field. Of course we clean first, settle first from the monsters and Rogue. But, if the shape has already melted gini, gimane does not sayonara my brain to the afterlife?”

Sanjay shook his head in response to their interaction. If M has nagged so, it means that his dizziness thinks various problems have exceeded their limits.

“Input less, tax increase will not be able, Guild members decrease, business begins to plummet, plus the Guild cash either flies where. As long as you know, dizzy to be a driver! Jesus Christ...” M knocked on his own head.

As M grumbles to himself, Baran walks towards the building, finding a slight scratch on the building wall.

“Hmm…. The scratch is kayak produced from a serrated weapon,” Baran meticulously.

“Ya.” Baran looked at his comrades. “There is a possibility of Rogue destroying buildings here using a serrated weapon.”

“You are sure that such a Rogue destroys buildings?”

When Loli asked, Sanjay was busy looking to the side while peeling.

Loli again said, “Maybe the scratch was just a result of friction between building debris, or Rogue like that just passing by, happened to run out of a fight with another Rogue.”

“That kayak is also not enough to be used as evidence for masti’in what is the reason the buildings here collapsed.” Sanjay nudged upilnya. “Kuat alleged that it was only a result of scratches between buildings.”

“Well, there you mean— Ish, slovenly ‘lah, Sanjay!” Loli was immediately disgusted to see Sanjay had been snacking.

Baran turned his bright eyeball, already bete same response Sanjay. According to him, Sanjay is indeed a typical person who is difficult to agree with him. I don't know what Sanjay's problem with Baran is, he doesn't know.

“Alpha! Alpha!”

One of the Gamma who had been ordered to explore the area here hurriedly approached M while carrying a tab.

“What's up?” tanya M is trying to be authoritative.

The gamma replied while slightly panting, “..We just found footage from the results of the surveillance camera that was installed. Just a short, not-so-obvious recording of the camera being damaged. But, maybe this is enough to ascertain the cause of the collapse of the buildings here.”

M takes the tab, immediately sees the tape followed by the Delta and Beta looks beside it.

The video contains footage of the incident at night. The video was a bit blurry and dark, but they could still see the silhouettes of the buildings and the bodies of people hanging from one building to another. But after passing through the building, the building immediately collapsed pulled by several chains. It also happened in other buildings until the footage stopped.

“So, really Rogue?” sanjay asked, squinting after seeing the tape.

“Tuh, right! Bener! Rogue, right?!” babble Baran behind M while pointing at Sanjay.

“But, yes one Rogue can destroy big buildings like this?” ordox said in disbelief.

M handed the tab back to Gamma. From the video footage alone it is clear that all the destroyed buildings were caused by the strange actions of a Rogue. If it's like this, it's been decided this Rogue will be a fugitive.

“For Delta, search this Rogue all over the south. If necessary, all the city. If you can, hand him alive before me,” orders M.

Loli, Sanjay, and Baran replied in unison. “Ready, Alpha!”

The three immediately disappeared, darting rapidly away from the scene. While M and Ordox still need to join Gamma earlier to continue the search, ensuring which places they need to pay attention to.

Behind one of the pillars of the old building, someone tried to crawl out when he saw M and the others walking away. That person was a Rogue who often roamed here.

He was already unable to walk, trying to scream for help, but his voice was rambunctious due to enduring the excruciating pain. His body was scarred, dirty and bruised, and blood was seeping through his head and mouth.

“A-Akh..

As he again voiced towards M with his hands raised as if to reach them, suddenly his neck and shoulders were tied by iron chains, his head was halved using a machine-toothed weapon from behind, making blood with brain lashes everywhere as the weapon's serrations cut it.

I don't know who killed Rogue that horribly. What was clear, the figure grinned widely under the shade of the darkness of the building.

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