6kv Chapter 17: Visit From The White Death
Chapter 17: Visit From The White Death
Chapter 17: Visit From The White Death'Haa... what now?'
Ash sat on his bed, unable to sleep as he pondered on the issue that lay before him.
What would have been a sequence of investigations had been cut short due to only one person in the entire Staff Quarters which fit into the model that he was
Ash ran out of his living room and down the hallway, finding the White Death and its accomplices to be chasing him.
'Good... keep coming!' He smiled. 'The accomplices are using the darkness of the hallway to hide themselves while the glare and buzzing sound of the White Death makes it so my focus is on it.'
It really wasn't a bad strategy.
'But... I'm not falling for that!' Ash kept screaming as he charged towards the room at the furthest part of the hall.
It was none other than the Workers Residence.
BAM!
Not hesitating for even a second, he broke the door down and dashed into the room.
Once he entered, he knew exactly what to find.
'Britta should be missing... which will undoubtedly provide proof that she's with the White Death.'
Any other person missing would also be under the same kind of scrutiny.
'Regular Workers are not meant to step out of their rooms once it's curfew, which means that Britta would be unable to explain what she was doing outside! I can use this to my benefit, telling her to quietly point out her remaining colleagues while keeping a low profile and slowly working my way up the ladder.'
The reason he didn't opt for a more straightforward approach—that is, beating up the accomplices and revealing their identities right there and then—was simply because of the fact that he didn't know who they were.
'Since only one is a former Beta Student, the others could be much stronger than I am currently supposed to be.'
How would he be able to explain killing someone very powerful if an individual of such a caliber happened to be among the group? Besides, catching the accomplices in such a direct manner would cause the true culprit of the White Death persona to slip out of their fingers.
Ash had thought about it for a while, and honestly... he doubted any of the accomplices knew who the White Death was.
'If I was the one, I wouldn't let the underlings know my true identity... and the White Death is quite smart. If the person is an Otherworlder, then it also makes sense that they would keep their identity hidden.'
All in all... this was a very risky gamble for him, but it made a lot more sense that he ran away scared and ended up in the Workers Room than fighting and killing four people.
And he was about to see the result of his gamble as he stumbled into the sleeping quarters of the Female Workers.
There... he found a sight that startled him to the point of bewilderment.
"W-wha—?!"