"That... I just asked you to investigate, I didn't say I wanted to kill the president..." Hughes threw the newspaper on the table with a gloomy face.
In order to avoid affecting his wife and daughter, Hughes hid as far as possible for the first time that day, not even showing his head, as if he was not a military employee at all. However, when he was still worriedly suspicious of artificial people When I discovered my secret operation, I suddenly saw a report in the newspaper the next day that "the president was killed in a sudden bandit suppression operation during the southern patrol"... Uh, I was a little scared, and I quickly disguised myself. Go to Cadiz Butcher's.
"I didn't kill the president...Isn't there even a photo in the newspaper? It was killed by a monster." Liz shrugged, and the newspaper indeed published a carbonized, human-looking Gulid dragging a large A photo of the president's corpse clamoring for it.
"Hey, people from another world, who are you calling a monster!" Gulid, who was eating steak beside him, was dissatisfied.
"...What!" Hughes read the report in the newspaper that "the army failed to arrive at the scene in time under the obstruction of the subordinate silver-haired maid." Knowing that it was Leeds' maid, he thought that the photo above The monster is Liz's disguise... I didn't expect the murderer to be someone else.
"The "Sage's Stone" made with human souls is more disgusting than anything else in my eyes, and the creatures created with this thing as the core can only be 'monsters'." Liz, who was sitting on the sofa with her head maid in her arms laughed.
By the way, he wasn't molesting girls on a daily basis, he was trying to appease Sakuya, lest Sakuya, who was angry at being wrongly reported as Gulid's subordinate, ran to kill Gulide and the group of reporters.
"Che, I don't know if you have the right to speak of me." Gulid smacked his lips. Leeds did not introduce his identity to him in detail, and he had no way of confirming whether Leeds was not a "monster". He only knew that Leeds was more capable than Even more unusual.
"Excuse me, are you...?" Hughes interrupted.
"Ah, I know you, that good friend of "The Alchemist of Fire"..." Gulid put down his knife and fork, thought for a moment, and clapped his hands, "Lt. Col. Hughes, who has been investigating those things, right? You still What a fate, it hasn't been killed by Rust and the others."
"Haha, do you have it?" Hughes felt a sudden chill in his heart. Sure enough, his actions almost violated the bottom line of some people. The so-called "you know too much", but he was still smirking on the surface.
"I'm Gulid, an artificial human like Kim Bratley," Gulid made his right hand carbonized to prove his identity, "I heard that you are planning to attack the senior military, haha, count me as one. ~~I would also like to take this opportunity to add a bit of the Sage’s Stone~~”
Gullide was killed many times by the president, and the lack of sage stones in his body allowed him to continue to regenerate recklessly. He needed to be replenished urgently. This was the most dignified reason for participating in the war. But in fact, no one knows whether he is angry that his father ordered to destroy himself and caused his loyal subordinates to die at the hands of the president, no one knows, anyway, Gullid will always only say "because I have a strong desire".
"No, we haven't decided to do it yet..." He was very happy to hear the strong foreign aid of Gullide, but Hughes could only deal with it with a wry smile.
In the final analysis, he and his close friend Roy wanted to overthrow the rule of Bratley, thereby changing the country. They took a political line. Only local generals with heavy troops were suitable for launching an armed coup, and they would not try unless they had to... Besides, now that the President has been killed, a good step has been taken.
"Ah...?" Gulid was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Liz, who was still hugging the woman, "Hey, this is different from what you said."
"That's because he doesn't know the truth yet~~ Just thought that the military created you monsters through unethical experiments?" Liz laughed.
"… The truth?" Hughes put away his smirk. He had a hunch that there was something wrong with what he was about to hear.
"Let me explain it step by step." Although Liz still doesn't know the story of the [Little Man in the Flask] era, but from Gulid's mouth, he can know the story of the [Lord Father] era, which is enough, "First of all, to I know that many human beings can be used as materials to make "Sage's Stone", and using the Sage's Stone to make it can achieve the principle of "Equivalent Exchange" that does not need to follow alchemy... Of course, it can also be understood as—"
"—Still abide by the "Equivalent Exchange" principle, but the price will be replaced by the human soul in the Sage's Stone?" Hughes turned pale and forced himself to accept Liz's point of view.
There is no doubt about it~~ Because of his own investigation data in the military, he finally knows what experiments are being carried out on "missing prisoners" and "shady experimental facilities".
"And then, I can't understand it. The larger the number of human souls and the larger the number of sage stones, the more exaggerated what can be done." Although it is true, this is purely a layman's point of view, "So a certain The existence that Gullid and the others call "Father" has established this country since ancient times in order to become a god—"
"What?!" Hughes couldn't help but exclaimed after all.
But Liz ignored him and continued to explain, "Today, the population of this country has reached 50 million, and his refining plan is finally about to start. So he secretly sent a child to dig a super-large circle under the border. , So he caused large-scale bloodshed events in various places to carve the coat of arms of blood, so he has to choose six alchemists with extraordinary skills as "Pillars of People"... Everything is for all the residents of the country as a stepping stone for him to become a god."
"… Hug, sorry, this is a bit difficult for me to accept." Hughes, who had no knowledge of alchemy, opened his mouth and didn't know how to accept these words.
"Haha, Lord Gulid, let me tell you, "Ishvar Destruction Battle" is a bloodshed event launched by the military to engrave the blood coat of arms, and now only the blood coat of the Brisque Fortress is missing~~ "Gulid laughed and said, for fear that people on the street would not be able to hear him. "Also, I don't know how many pillars the old man and the others found, but I think "Alchemist of Flame" must be on the list~~"
"What did you say?!" Hughes' expression changed dramatically, and this was the moment he changed his expression after he came in.
"Haha... It doesn't matter if you don't do it, just wait slowly for the preparations to be completed," Liz suddenly rubbed against Sakuya, "I don't think our souls will be trained anyway." … Liz you have no soul at all.
Guli De also echoed: "Haha, I don't care if you say that, how can I snatch the so-called divine power if the old man is not a god~~"
"… "
but…
Hughes couldn't help laughing.