Volume II - Chapter 23: The End of the Lie

I lowered the car window, let the wind blow in my face, and closed my eyes.

When I had specifically called the Joez Group to come with clean clothes, they only needed ten minutes to pick me up. Now we were heading in the direction I had told them.

"Aren't you going to be in trouble for losing them?"

They didn't react at all when I told them they had lost three people. So I can't help being a bit scared.

They won't lure me to the side of the road and kill me, will they?

"Their deaths are due to their own powerlessness. They did nothing but their duty, we took our money and did what we had to do."

I was a little more relieved when the man said this in a very straightforward way, without stuttering, but this time something else began to eat at me.

Unlike me, the concept of death is commonplace for them, so much so that they didn't hesitate to set fire to the entire bunker of the dead in order not to leave a trace.