Maria Caria’s Adventure in Strange Lands Chapter 4

We get to the police station in the district.

The police station is a five story brick building, If you eliminate the fact that it is located right in a street corner and how severe its entrance looks, it is a quite an ordinary building

In front of the police station stands a man with an extremely large build, with a thick, disheveled carrot-red whiskers.
The man wears a police uniform with a band on his left arm showing his ranki insignia as an inspector.

“It seems it’s the rumored captain. How unfortunate, but today, the police station has closed. Now please go home quietly.”

The man skillfully manipulates the rope of his baton with one hand, throwing it at the air and returning it to his hand repeatedly.

“Nah.”

When I try to push aside the man to enter the entranceway of the police station, the man sends his baton towards my throat, stopping it right when it touches my skin.
Naturally, I also ready my Beretta that pull my Slide on my right hand.

“Ho ho, that’s the boasted quick draw of yours, If it were me, I’ll listen a little bit more.”

“Me drawing my gun is meant as a warning and a rejection of your request. Move away from there.”

“Ooh, scary. I say this from the kindness at the bottom of my heart. If you go in now, you won’t return home alive. Everyone here hates you, Captain-san. You’re an obstacle that they want to disappear.”

“I know I am hated. I’ve killed a lot after all. And I also know that you hate me. So this is a waste of time. Move.”

“The one that got caught as the culprit of an attempted murder? It’s the son of the chief here. The idiot named called Leonard Cole. The one that caught him was Sergeant Roger Percival, a really stubborn person. It’s nigh impossible to not make it a family matter. We don’t want some outsider to stumble in and disturb things.”

“I have my own work so don’t disturb me. And you’re just wasting your breath worrying about his life, So shut up and move.”

The man grins. He retracts the baton and lets us through.

I know who this guy is.
Inspector Andreas Atwood.
His current position is low, but inside the police he is the reformist faction’s leader. This country adopts a spoils system. And if he becomes a mayor in the election, Andreas becomes the chief of police.
By the way, in this country, we adopt the two-piece system of the interior ministry police with jurisdiction over the whole country and autonomous police with jurisdiction over the region / provinces.
The police station here corresponds to the autonomous police.

As Andreas says, this incident of attempted murder can be said to be a family trouble between the conservative and the reformist elements inside the police.
The father of the brat called Leonard Cole is the Conservative leader named Luis Cole, while Sergeant Roger Percival belongs to the reformist.

When Andreas held me with his baton, he was warning that if I interfere more than necessary, I can turn the reformers into my enemy.
But it doesn’t matter to me. Even if I have to make them my enemies, I shall do my duty that has been entrusted to me.

Conservatives are generic names for people who hate people from another world and want them to go back there.
If that is the only meaning, then the spirits and I are also conservatives.
However, the majority of conservatives want the power of the spirits to be available again to the residents of this world, excluding people from the other world. What troublesome people.
An example would be a first cla.s.s magician who doesn’t want to become a fraud. And that’s just the tip of the brush.
They can not forget the power of a spirit who once broke their strike for personal reasons.
Of course, the spirits and I are not included with those folks.

On the other hand, the reformist refers to people who want to make friends with other people on the other hand.
There are various people there. There are the ones who like the delusions of the people from another world. There are also powerless people from another world who are treated socially unfairly, wanting to improve their status. There’s no problem if it’s only those guys like that.
However, there are dangerous people trying to take advantage of the number of foreign worlders who are increasing every day and the carelessness that comes from their youth. Moreover, these dangerous people love modern weapons that sometimes flow from the other world. Especially sniper rifles and so on.

When we entered the police station, a heavy police chief came out of the reception counter.
It seems there was communication from the Ministry of Interior Ministry police, and we were informed to the interrogation office of Leonard Cole graciously by the chief investigator named Miles.

I got a very strange feeling just by entering the interrogation room.
The interior is bright. And there is no smoke of cigarette hovering around the investigation officials. I do not even smell the tobacco.

As I enter the room, the guy who’s sitting on a chair turns his head and glares at me. This person is the idiot called Leonard Cole. Fifteen years old. He’s still 15, huh?

The brat cuts his dark-reddish hair short, with the bangs divided and hanging to the left side. Eyes are light brown. He has a handsome facial appearance. He looks like a young master of a well-off family.
It is a type I have not known for since I was young.

The interrogator stands up and makes a greeting.
“Officer Fiona. Captain Maria Carlia, I’m sorry for the late at night,”
“Thank you for sparing time to do this valuable investigation. Corporal Elizabeth is in the back.”

 Officer Fiona shakes hands with me. Then I try to shake hands with Corporal Elizabeth but I can’t.

I was bewildered at first, but you can’t really touch a spirit. Their appearance is just an illusion of the eyes.
It is something I can not understand at all, but they seem to have some kind of energy body. I do not understand why the energy body has an ego and reason though.
However, I only know that even if they do not eat, they will not feel sleepy nor fatigue.

“By the way, Officer Fiona. It seems that special treatment is being given for the interrogation of Leonard Cole by the chief’s measure.The air in the room is nice and it’s also bright.Although it is before dawn, he doesn’t look sleepy at all. There’s no sign of weariness either. What is the meaning of this?”
“Most of the interrogation of Leonard Cole has already been done. He answered all of our questions honestly.Because of that, he was allowed to sleep in the nap room after the interrogation since he looked tired. That’s why he still looks fine.
And there’s no smell of cigarrette since he didn’t like the smell. Since it wasn’t necessary for the interrogation, we decided to grant his wish.. “
Officer Fiona replies to all my questions smoothly.

But for me it’s a big one.

From the Ministry of Interior police, Leonard Cole was told that he knew something about the sender of a different world.
This is abnormal.
It is the inhabitants of this world, and it is the son of conservative fellows, it is impossible to know such a thing first.
If so, what does that mean?
Did he happen to hear from someone? At first, I also thought so. He was a son of a conservative so he was thought to hate foreign worlders. Maybe by chance he found some information that would be disadvantegous to foreign worlders
However, when I entered the interrogation room, I noticed that the fact was different. It was because Leonard Cole stared at me with disgust.
If he glared at me as if I was his enemy, then there was only one answer.

Leonard Cole is definitely a reincarnationist.

Moreover, saying he dislikes the smell of tobacco explicitly and saying he dislikes the darkness of the room. A normal boy should be tolerant a little. It should be a cheeky age. It is not so. If so, is this a girl who has been s.e.xually changed? How troublesome.

And the fact that this son of a heavyweight conservative is a reincarnate would make a big scandal … ….

After thinking so far, I silently give Leonard Cole a blue badge.