My Immoral Detective System - Chapter 148

Zion and Martin stared at the stage in surprise, and the dhampir soldier’s face was covered with traces of shock as he glanced at the blood that flooded out of the wound on the dwarf’s chest. The person who just acted as a human being who had signed a peace treaty between the humans and leaders of other races died just like that without even knowing who killed him.

Or maybe he was aware of the fact that someone was after him. Zion’s brows furrowed when this thought popped up in his mind. Just then, he heard a ‘ding’ sound going off in his mind. The system popped out of his head and glanced at his host with a wide smile on his face. “Host~”

“Cut the crap and tell me the details.” Zion didn’t have any patience to deal with this system at the moment. There was already a dead body in front of him that was calling out to him. If this murder situation ended up being the case the system assigned to him, Zion would surely look at the dead body of that dwarf carefully before anyone could touch it.

The system sighed and opened the notification. Then he clicked the topmost option available as he turned toward his host and said in a tone dripping with pride, “I told you that I’ll give you the details of the case soon, didn’t I? Now, get ready to find out the details that the higher-ups sent me about this. The new update is so awesome! You know, host, you don’t even have to-”

“The details, system.” Zion rubbed the bridge of his nose and said in a tired voice, “Give me the damn details!”

007 nodded and reluctantly shut up his mouth. He didn’t want to make his host angry, after all. So after pulling out the details, he posted the small window in front of Zion’s eyes as the man walked up to sit at the top of it while dangling his legs in the air. Then he pointed at the things written down. “Look carefully, host. You’ll find out new surprising information to help you with the case.”

Zion glanced at the small window. There were three points mentioned:

The case: This case is about the murder of an actor working in the East-West drama company organized by the dwarfs of the main city.

The goal of this case: Find out who killed the murderer and bring him to light.

Rewards: 500 points with extra benefits of doubling the points if the host is able to complete the side missions.

“Side missions?” Zion tilted his head and glanced at the system. “You never told me that I’d have to do side missions too.”

The system coughed awkwardly and said, “You’ll have side missions like helping an old lady in the passing, or helping a commoner find a thief. I’m not sure yet, but I’ll inform you whenever something like that comes up! There’ll be a notification for sure. Of course, you’re not entitled to take up the side missions, but I would encourage you to do so because it can increase your points to a millennium! You can directly obtain a thousand points in your account and get a chance to increase your power level for the next case! Don’t you want to become powerful? Huh?”

Zion rubbed his forehead as he glanced at the ranting system and said in an exhausted voice, “Alright. Now go away. I need to concentrate on this case.” Then he paused as if he just thought of something and continued. “Is there a time limit?”

“Not that I know of….” The system trailed the words and shook his head. “If I get that information, I’ll surely tell you about it!” Then the system looked around and said in a sneaky voice, “Is this case also related to a beautiful little dwarf?”

Zion rolled his eyes. He could imagine what this stupid system must be thinking at this moment.

Sure enough, 007 started rambling once again about the beauty of ladies, especially Odina’s in the previous case. “Host, you had started the previous case without my consent, but of course, I’ll forgive you for this since it was an emergency, but this time, you cannot stop me from observing a beautiful young lady with my own eyes! I still miss that beautiful and elegant queen of the elves, you know? She’s a cold ice beauty! I really want to see her using magical spells and stare deep into her glowing eyes. She’s so beautiful that I don’t think I can find anyone as good as her~”

“Shut up.” Zion rubbed his forehead and refused to look at the system anymore.

007 pouted and went back into hiding.

Finally, the vision in front of him cleared up. The body was still lying dead on the ground. There was a commotion around the place as people started rushing here and there, but they still couldn’t get out because the officials had arrived and refused to let anyone get out of this theatre.

All the commoners who had dared to attend this show withered in response. Just why did they have to attend this show today out of every day? They were now stuck with a dead body! They didn’t know what the king would do now!

Soon enough, a dwarf wearing dragon robes shone brightly in red and yellow colors with shades of gold at the edges. The man walked toward the dead body and looked at it with curious eyes. Then his expressions changed to disdain as he turned toward the crowd and said, “Ladies and gentleman, I know the murderer might be among you guys. So I have to stop you from leaving this place for the next two days!”

The entire crowd of commoners wailed at that sentence. Some of the daring ones stepped forward to bow before the man with a red and yellow dress and said, “Your majesty, why must you keep us waiting here at this place? Most of us are commoners who have ordinary jobs. We can’t afford to spend our precious time here.”

Other dwarfs standing among the crowd nodded. Even the father earlier who was holding a child’s hands came forward and said in a pleading tone, “Your majesty, my son has his school tomorrow. You can’t really expect us to spend the entire time here. Surely, my son couldn’t have killed the main actor. You can take me in custody instead, but let go of my son!”

The person who was just called ‘your majesty’ by several people was indeed the king of dwarfs. He was a middle-aged dwarf who liked to wear attractive and bright clothes to show off his beauty and wealth. He was the type of guy who would end up doing anything for the sake of his image and pleasure. He was a very selfish and greedy person and the type of king who would end up sending the entire kingdom to its doom once it’s attacked.

And now, such a king was being requested by the commoners of his main city again and again that they wanted to leave. He got a headache after listening to these words. He rubbed the bridge of his nose as he let out a shout. “Shut it!”

He already didn’t want to handle such a thing, but if he ignored such a murder case that had happened in the broad daylight, he would be taken down from the throne by the official ministers in his cabinets! And he didn’t want that! He was very satisfied to become a king. Many people would offer him ladies to make him feel pleased. He would play with a new lady every hour without getting tired.

So why would he make a mess just because of a murder case that had occurred in his kingdom? He wanted to deal with this as soon as possible to pose himself as a caring and wonderful king of the dwarfs! But these citizens were making things equally difficult for him! He gritted his teeth and glared at all of them before opening his mouth. “If any of you utter a single word against my command, I’d send ya all to jail for defying your king’s orders!” Then he paused and glared again at everyone and said, “Now that you all know your place, standing there, or sit. Whatever. Just make sure not to leave until I say so!”

After that, the king huffed and turned around. Just as he was about to go out of this damned place, Martin, who was also seething in anger after witnessing the king’s attitude, vented his anger at the dwarf king. “What a good king Potentia Kingdom has!” Martin mocked the king and sneered. “You really think suppressing the commoners like this will help you find the murderer? You, your majesty, are mistaken! Before you came and locked this entire place, many people had rushed here and there.. The real murderer might have escaped already in the commotion caused by the death of that dwarf, but you still want to take the easiest route. You’re really a brave man!”