Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 338 Calm
After everything was over, the enforcement team resumed their routine of cleaning up the mess.

Milo roughly sorted it out.

Many people have gone missing.

At least a dozen familiar names were on the list compiled by the enforcement team.

Those were law enforcement officers who died in pursuit operations on the outskirts of the city.

Until law enforcement officials come up with a script, the dead will only be treated as missing persons.

This includes the armed personnel that the inspection team brought from the army.

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Old Theon is also missing.

Milo never saw him again after that night. He searched everywhere he could, from the tavern and the pleasure house to Arden Village, but the guy seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Meanwhile, after the hunters left behind the corpses of 70% of their members during the hunt in Nanwei City, the rest of the survivors also disappeared, including Monquia.

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Nero is hailed as a hero.

This was expected.

However, there are some discrepancies between his heroic deeds and the actual events.

But ultimately, he died as a law enforcement inspector.

The bodies of the hunters lying in the law enforcement headquarters building became his achievements.

Although Milo found these explanations utterly ridiculous, he had no way of explaining to anyone what had happened to Nero. All he could do was take Kay from the law enforcement headquarters that night and hand her over to Rebecca.

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The city of Nanwei held a solemn funeral for Nero.

He was buried next to the grave of the Seven Exiled Shadows.

The same color scheme, the same mourning procession, the same eulogies from the mourners—

"In the difficult waters, no one could have demonstrated courage, strength, and selflessness better than him... Gods of heaven, have mercy on his soul."

Diracio arranged Nero's funeral.

But he and Milo knew perfectly well that it was that self-proclaimed god who brought about Nero's death.

To some extent, the eulogy at this funeral had long lost its solemnity and instead added a touch of irony.

But in the end, Nero's real surname was inscribed on that tombstone—"Drapal".

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Shortly afterward, the inspection team also set off to return to the prefectural government.

The ambitious county councilor Max reinstated Milo before leaving.

He knew very well who was fighting against the hunters in the city when the opera troupe he had brought from the prefectural government was massacred in the suburbs.

Although there is still some discrepancy between this and the facts, the hunter corpses left in the corners of the city alleys are real.

"I knew you were a visionary young man."

Even on the eve of his departure, the stubborn county councilor refused to admit his dereliction of duty in this operation, and instead used a relatively common and conventional method used by the county council to try to shut Milo up—a sugar-coated bullet.

He promised to appoint a new law enforcement inspector to Nanwei City, to promote and raise Milo, and to award three royal honor medals, the J-Woman Medals that Milo often mentioned.

Max promised many benefits.

Just as he did for commoners and nobles.

He now only hopes that this matter can be resolved in a relatively good way, and in fact, the death of a law enforcement inspector is enough to silence most people.

The path to promotion for county councilors remains bright.

His impassioned speech at Nero's funeral was a stark contrast to his private dealings with Milo and other law enforcement officers who knew the truth.

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Of course, Milo's troubles are not over yet.

Remember Emma's tantrum-like explosion?

The roof of the house was blown off.

Of course, it can't be called throwing a tantrum; it can only be described as a unique way of coping with that particular situation, because she ultimately saw the evil hidden in the octagonal crystal left by Nephren Ka.

Before she was about to become deeply entangled, she chose to perish together with him.

Only someone like Emma, ​​who knows she doesn't have long to live, could do something like this.

Fortunately, no one died in the end.

Including the evil hidden within the crystal.

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But a new place to live for the family of four became a problem.

Of course, such a problem is nothing to a law enforcement officer who has already been promised three J-girl medals.

Whether it was the county councilor or the Sherman family, they were happy to take a tiny, insignificant portion of their own money to help Milo resolve this minor problem.

It all depends on Milo's choice.

As the family sat in their dusty, ruined living room discussing their new home, Milo suddenly realized that without the Valrokan family, he might not have needed to consider these issues at all. He might have just found an apartment, or even stayed at the law enforcement office, or the pleasure house. Yes, Milo was so close to fitting into old Theon's lifestyle.

This made him feel a little uneasy.

Just like after spending too much time in the law enforcement team, the scales will eventually tip towards the side of decadence. Fortunately, there are still a few people on the other side of the scales keeping things in check.

Eventually, the Valrocan family moved into their new home.

Milo refused the generous gifts from the Sherman family or the county councilors, as those luxurious estates were far too incongruous with his status as a law enforcement officer.

But all in all, the new place is much more comfortable than the old, tiny, back-to-back apartment building that was as small as a matchbox.

Milo used his significantly increased salary and the guarantee from the enforcement team to acquire an old land title, including the small building on that small plot of land, at a relatively low price.

The two parties in the transaction were the Valrocan family and the Kent family.

That's right, it's Enid's dad, old Kent.

This cunning and shrewd businessman acquired a large number of private residences from a bankrupt merchant. If Milo hadn't insisted on going through the proper channels, he could have simply given Milo a house for free.

The reason why old Kent made such a big move was not only because he was well aware of the relationship between Milo and the Sherman family, but also because he had completely lost control of his daughter Enid. She had registered and passed the initial review, and she would be taking the law enforcement assessment at the beginning of next year.

Old Kent had to start paving the way for his daughter.

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The Valrocan family's lifestyle remained largely unchanged despite the attack.

As before, Kang cooked, Milo and Emma were responsible for washing the dishes, and little Finn was responsible for making all sorts of weird noises and then getting beaten up.

Milo was unaware that he wasn't the only one in the family whose name appeared on the hunters' kill list.

The stern-faced older sister in the family was once considered an apostle of misfortune by the church.

She was chosen by a shadow that transcends eternity.

But in the end, Emma responded in an almost resolute manner.

She almost blew herself to pieces.

However, Emma never mentioned Nephrenka and the octahedron to Milo, perhaps because she didn't know where to begin, or perhaps it was just her personality.

Milo may have sensed something was amiss.

But all he could do was try to avoid being blown up by Emma in his sleep that day.

If it really explodes, I hope it kills him outright, rather than leaving him half-crippled.

The above are Milo's exact words to Emma.

Emma's response was to nod seriously.

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Time passes day by day.

Milo always thought that after killing a wisp of the Outer God's will, he would have to encounter some misfortune or curse, otherwise the matter wouldn't be so fulfilling.

But in reality, Nanwei City entered a relatively stable period after the hunt.

There were no mysterious incidents, no criminal cases, and even petty theft cases have significantly decreased.

Even so, Milo still couldn't find old Theon.

This guy, like Monquia from the Hunter Organization, vanished without a trace.

As a result, following the disappearance of the seven-member criminal investigation team from the South City Law Enforcement Bureau, Old Theon's name also appeared on the missing persons list.

In the end, he never found the whereabouts of the group of brothers in the office, but instead became one of them.

The crocodile is dead, and almost all the hunters are dead too.

Milo was at a loss as to where to begin in his search for clues about old Theon.

Shortly thereafter, a new appointment order was issued.

Milo naturally took over the position from old Theon.

Having been on the job for less than six months, he was promoted from a frontline law enforcement officer to a team leader, which doesn't seem like a big problem.

But the truth is, Rebecca, who is above Milo, is not very experienced. If she were to be promoted further, it would be difficult to gain the respect of the people. Therefore, Milo's promotions are limited to within one law enforcement agency.

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For the next six months, the situation in the south of the city remained stable.

Thanks to Milo's efforts, the South City Police Station's case-solving rate tripled, from a pitiful 20% at the beginning to a steady over 50% later.

Clearly, when a psychic can skillfully employ unconventional methods, no case becomes mind-bending.

The church's De La Chaux became Milo's exclusive funeral director.

The victims of murder cases will be buried as quickly as possible, no longer hampered by the procedures of the past. Milo can easily access the memories of the deceased.

On the other hand, dealing with suspects who have already been apprehended is much simpler.

Milo only needs to figure out the source of the suspect's deepest fears to easily manipulate, torture, and crush his will, forcing him to tell the truth.

The spirits of the dead peer in, guiding dreams.

With the two methods combined, it wouldn't be fair to say that they were invincible, but at least for a long time, Milo didn't encounter any obstacles in solving cases.

Of course, finding the deepest fear in one's soul is not an easy task.

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(End of this chapter)