Became the Weapon Monopolist of the Gods-Chapter 37: Vanessa Walker (1)
Vanessa did not commit the murder of prostitutes.
This is a fact that Conan confirmed himself.
However, Vanessa keeps appearing at murder scenes.
Why?
There was only one possible reason.
‘Vanessa is chasing a murderer.’
Then, it could explain why Vanessa appears at every murder scene.
Because she had to catch the murderer.
And the murderer Vanessa was chasing was likely someone related to the British government.
In the affair, Conan kept silent about Jack the Ripper.
If Conan had not failed, the only person he could have kept silent about was the British government.
It was only a guess, but it was highly possible.
The government that encouraged prostitution, the poison, Conan’s silence, the reason for leaving the gang alone, Vanessa who was not the culprit... ... .
All the circumstances pointed to the British government.
Above all... ... .
[Complete Jack the Ripper's Murders.]
I had a feeling that the target of this murder was the real 'Jack the Ripper' who murdered prostitutes.
If so, Vanessa would fail to catch the real Jack the Ripper.
This world was not a normal world, but a 'failed world line'. And the failure that the status window said usually meant 'death'.
'There must be a reason for the failure.'
I had to find out the reason for Vanessa's failure.
Even while I was looking for the reason for Vanessa's failure, Jack the Ripper's murders continued.
Emma Smith, Misa Tabram, Annie Chapman, Double Event... ... .
It was a murder case in the East End called the 'Whitechapel Murders'.
The police were caught up in the unprecedented serial murders throughout the East End.
However, Jack the Ripper sent a letter to the press, mocking their sloppy search.
[I laugh every time the police say they almost caught me.
Now they call me a doctor, haha!
I hate prostitutes and I won’t stop killing until I’m in handcuffs.
My new knife is sharp. I want to use it as soon as I get the chance!]
It was a letter mocking the police’s botched investigation.
His letter quickly spread through the newspapers.
Rumors began to spread that Jack the Ripper was not a doctor, but a madman murderer obsessed with pleasure.
The speed of the rumor spread was strangely fast.
As if someone had spread it in a small group.
However, what Jack the Ripper overlooked was that the police were not the only ones chasing him.
“This is a trick to confuse the investigation.”
The one chasing him was Sherlock Holmes' father,
"Cold hands. The culprit seems to be a surgeon with extensive knowledge of anatomy."
Arthur Conan Doyle.
The god of deduction who could solve a hundred mysteries with just one clue.
Conan's deduction did not waver even in a letter that seemed to be about pleasure killing.
"Is the purpose an experiment? It could be that they collected samples of the bizarre tissue."
As the murders continued, Conan discovered new facts as if he was putting together a puzzle.
A surgeon, a left-handed person, a surgical scalpel, a strange experiment...
As the traces increased and multiplied, Conan's puzzle also became complete.
The list of suspects on Conan's desk continued to shrink.
And when it was finally narrowed down to 10.
"This is it."
Conan picked out one suspect.
[Ashley Cooper (48)]
The person Conan pointed out was a surgeon in his 40s.
He was a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer of various mystery novels.
And he had never been a suspect for the London police until now.
Although he should have been mentioned at least once, Ashley Cooper was strangely not mentioned at all.
People did not find this strange.
He was Prince Albert's personal physician and vice president of the Royal Society of London.
No one in London thought he had anything to do with Jack the Ripper.
Except for Conan.
"We have to collect hard evidence to investigate him."
Ashley Cooper was a big shot who could not be driven out by mere circumstantial evidence.
Of course, even if we secure evidence, we can't point out Ashley Cooper as Jack the Ripper.
He must be under the protection of the British government.
Even if that weren't the case, I had no intention of revealing that he was Jack the Ripper.
The real Jack the Ripper that the witnesses recorded in history saw was Vanessa, not Ashley Cooper.
[Complete Jack the Ripper's murder.]
My goal was to help Vanessa's murder succeed.
From that day on, I monitored Ashley Cooper's every move with Conan.
I didn't plan on doing anything right away.
I had to find out why Vanessa 'failed'.
I couldn't kill Ashley Cooper until I found out.
Ashley Cooper's daily life was the same.
During the day, he taught students as a professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, and in the afternoon, he visited the royal palace to meet Prince Albert.
He returned home in the evening and wrote mystery novels late into the night.
He was a renowned professor, doctor, and mystery novelist without any faults.
A great person who had never been involved in any scandal.
Ashley Cooper was a man of such integrity that even a speck of dust would come out if you shook him.
During the three days that I watched him, he showed no signs of any murderous behavior.
If it hadn't been for Conan's conviction, I would never have guessed that this man was Jack the Ripper.
After four days of watching Ashley Cooper with Conan,
The lights went out in Ashley Cooper's room where he was writing his novel.
A late night with a drizzle falling.
“Ahem ahem~”
Ashley Cooper, wearing a suit and a bowler hat, headed somewhere while holding a black umbrella.
Her steps were as exciting as dancing.
She even tap-danced on a shallow puddle of water.
Ashley Cooper headed to the slum ‘East End’, not the Royal College of Surgeons or the British royal family, with such a joyful look.
“See you later.”
“Okay.”
As Ashley Cooper headed to the East End, Conan quietly disappeared.
He had decided to bring people over.
─Ahem ahem~
Meanwhile, Ashley Cooper hummed and entered the red-light district as if she had been there many times.
She looked so different that I couldn’t tell if she was the same person I had been watching for three days.
I followed him a little longer while staying at a distance.
Because I still didn’t know why Vanessa would fail.
And... .
Swish,
A man appeared next to Ashley Cooper.
A knight with a sword.
‘Awakened...!’
I knew the moment I saw him.
That knight was a great master.
Before the man appeared, I didn’t have any feeling that he was there.
It gave me goosebumps.
If I had touched Ashley Cooper without thinking, I would have been hit by that knight’s sword.
And I knew.
That knight was the reason Vanessa would fail.
The man’s momentum was like a mountain when he showed his energy.
For a moment, ‘Yi Sun-sin’ came to mind.
‘It’s not that bad.’
Yi Sun-sin is a hero who saved a country that was on the verge of destruction. The legend that ended the Imjin War.
But I can say for sure that the knight was close to Yi Sun-shin’s level.
‘S-class Hunter.’
This was a little,
a lot dangerous.
“Jeanne.”
[Saved Girl Jeanne d’Arc]
[Rank: Legendary]
[Attribute: Holy]
─ Summon Jeanne d’Arc.
Jeanne, who had been unsummoned during the day, appeared next to me.
When Jeanne appeared, I signaled her to be quiet.
She also checked the knight and quietly shut her mouth.
However, unlike us, there were some who did not recognize us.
“Hey, gentlemen! What brings you here so late at night?”
A prostitute walking down the alley threw a sidelong glance at the two men.
“Dirty.”
Ashley Cooper frowned as if she had seen something she should not have seen.
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Step, step.
“What, what is it?”
Ashley Cooper approached the woman.
Something flashed in his white-gloved hand.
A double-edged surgical knife.
It was a Liston knife.
A jet-black magic flowed out from Ashley Cooper, who was holding the knife.
‘Host!’
I realized that he was the host who spread the plum poison in the East End.
That was the moment Ashley approached the woman.
Whew!
Something flew toward Ashley Cooper at a frightening speed.
Red hair blew in the wind.
Golden eyes sparkled in the darkness.
The ghost of death.
The unsolved mystery that history recorded as Jack the Ripper.
It was Vanessa.
Her movements were quiet yet fast.
It was as if she was moving through the darkness.
The knight who saw that swung his sword at Vanessa.
Kaaaang─!
But the knight's sword couldn't reach Vanessa.
"......."
His sword was blocked by the twin dragon swords.
"Gyaaaaak!"
The prostitute screamed and ran away after seeing the swords clashing.
Vanessa was also engaging Ashley Cooper in combat.
Scream, scream.
"Keukk!"
Red roses bloomed all over Ashley Cooper's body at the eerie scissors that extended from the darkness.
"Get out of my way."
The knight spoke to me.
─Kuaaaak!
Even though Ashley Cooper was being hacked to pieces, his voice was relaxed.
As if he could kill me at any time.
After all, he was the S-class Awakener that England was proud of.
Suaaaah... ...
A golden aura rose above the knight's sword and took on a solid form.
The ultimate that the knight could reach.
The symbol of the Sword Master that only those who have completed their own world can bloom.
It was the sword.
Whisk─
The knight tried to cut me with the sword.
There was no energy above the twin dragon swords that blocked it.
However.
Kaaaang─!
The sword was blocked by my sword and bounced off.
“!”
The knight’s eyes were strange.
I could hear someone’s teachings in my ears like an auditory hallucination.
─ Hide your energy.
─ Showing your energy is a stupid thing that only the Ming people who like to show off do.
It was the voice of Joseon’s famous general An Wi.
─ In Joseon, we use internal energy instead of external energy.
“Alexander Cunningham.”
The knight’s voice was superimposed over An Wi’s voice.
Before I knew it, the knight, Alexander, had abandoned his leisurely attitude and was approaching me with a bow.
I glanced back.
Vanessa was pushing Ashley Cooper.
I had to hold on to this knight until she finished Ashley Cooper off.
It was impossible to hold on to him for long.
Even though Jeanne was with him, her sexual power was limited, so she was weaker than she was in her prime.
WHACK!
Alexander rushed at me.
His body was as if it was stretching at an incredible speed.
I couldn't even think of pulling out Napoleon's gun.
Kyaaang!
I barely managed to block the knight's sword and stepped back.
My grip on the twin dragon swords was sore as if it was going to tear, and my wrist screamed.
However, the pain disappeared in an instant.
Flick, flutter!
The light of the sacred power that bloomed from Jeanne waving the flag was bringing me a sense of fulfillment.
Whoaang!
The golden sword shards of the knight’s sword flashed dazzlingly.
If I blocked something like that head-on, no matter how much sacred power I had, my wrist would be crushed.
I instinctively took something out of my subspace backpack and threw it.
Kaaaang─!
The knight’s sword shards were blocked without being able to pierce through that thing.
Thump, thud.
What was rolling on the floor was Yi Sun-sin’s helmet.
While the knight’s sword was blocked by the helmet, I released the special feature of the twin dragon swords.
‘I swear to the heavens with a three-foot sword, and the mountains and rivers tremble.’
삼척서천산하동색三尺誓天山河動色.
Yi Sun-sin’s pure white sword shards were drawn over the twin dragon swords, and Jeanne’s sacred power was once again applied over them.
Holy power, double stack of sword power.
I ran towards the surprised knight and swung down my twin dragon swords.
“!”
The frightened knight hurriedly raised his sword to block it, but.
Kwaaang─!
The golden sword power was pushed back and the knight flew backwards.
Of course, it wasn’t a big hit, so the knight walked back slowly.
But that was enough.
When the knight prepared to attack again, the surroundings had already become noisy.
“Over there!”
“Jack the Ripper!”
“Ooh!”
Reporters with cameras swarmed the alley.
“Take a picture!”
The one who led the reporters was none other than Conan.
“Oh.”
Seeing the reporters swarming, the knight looked at Ashley Cooper and ran away alone, leaving him behind as if he had no choice.
And then, the next moment.
“Kuaaaaah!”
“Huk!”
“Ghost, ghost!”
Ashley Cooper’s bloody body swelled up in a deformed manner.
The reporters who saw this, instead of running away, started clicking their camera shutters.
Ashley Cooper, who had swelled up, exploded like a punctured balloon amidst the flashing lights of the cameras.
Kwaaaaang─!
Dust rose up and rocks flew around.
A fierce gust of wind blew.
The aftershock of the explosion engulfed the reporters, but Jeanne’s power protected them.
─ Jack the Ripper’s murderous act has been completed.
A phrase indicating the quest’s success appeared before my eyes.
Jack the Ripper’s murderous act was none other /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ than his host Ashley Cooper.
An alley where the aftershock had subsided.
“T, this is a scoop!”
“This is a jackpot!”
The reporters were busy taking pictures of Ashley Cooper’s body.
Beyond them, in the dark alley, a pair of golden lights were shining.
‘Vanessa.’
Suddenly, a bitter feeling rose up.
Even at this point when Ashley Cooper died, Vanessa had to remain in the shadows.
Because she was Jack the Ripper.
A suspect who would never be caught.
A ghost of death.
The moment Vanessa stepped out of the shadows, the British government would place all the blame on her.
The royal family would not want their corruption exposed.
That is why Jack the Ripper had to remain an ‘unsolved case’ forever.
The death of Ashley Cooper, a member of the Royal Society, would be recorded as a death unrelated to Jack the Ripper.
As the history was written that way.
And... ... .
“!”
Jack the Ripper,
The Ghost of Death.
Gave up on becoming 'Unsolved' on his own.
From the dark darkness to the bright sunlight, the ghost walked briskly.
"Who is it?"
"Suspect! Take a picture!"
The camera shutter flashed.
Vanessa smiled brightly at me who was staring blankly.
"Is it okay now?"
[Warning]
[A distortion has occurred in the flow of history.]
A warning message came to mind.
She could no longer be Jack the Ripper after she was freed from 'Unsolved'.
A suspect who will never be caught X
The Ghost of Death X
It was Vanessa Walker.
A woman who loved children and ate bread very well.
A woman with a lot of humor.
[The distorted one is expelled from the world.]
The world, became dark.
