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The "cleanup" went smoothly and after Gakuto disposed of the bodies somewhere even though they are still alive, we continue inside the store where I finally canceled the Mirror World's effect.

"Even though I don't need much of your help earlier, I am grateful for what you did since I don't want to fight that much."

"If you don't want to fight, why did you fight against me earlier?"

"I want to test your strength whether you can handle the situation in this underground mall or not. I am fine reclaiming this place alone but since I already don't want to perform any battles anymore, I just decided to wait for the Magician Society to finish the task here."

When I heard his reasons, I want to facepalm. You can finish and destroy the Riot Massacre by yourself and you decided to not act because you are now a pacifist?! Ugh... what frustration. I shouldn't have to come here...

Gakuto grinned as he stares into my face. "I can tell that you are complaining due to how I can do it alone but I didn't do it, right? No worries, you can hate me, I don't care much. But you can't change my mind. It's you young ones that needed to do this since the younger generation's potential is almost infinite."

"Yeah, yeah. You can stop there. I want to hear the details if you don't want to fight. I can't just waste my time here knowing there are slaves here."

The moment I said "slaves", his face started to get serious.

"So they have procured another batch of slaves? These guys have no care about human lives and just use them for the sake of money. Those gangsters have stooped so low."

"Do you have any idea where they are putting the slaves they have gathered?"

"I sent some spy mice around the place but only a few managed to return to me. It looks like they have tight security that my petty tricks don't even work easily. But luckily, I obtained the info you needed. Currently, they are located much deeper into this place. Perhaps around the personal area where the leader of the Riot Massacre is currently holed up. The spy mice that I used to reach the place did manage to return but some pieces of the spy mice have been broken which means there is something that can easily detect spy mice."

"Can you let me see what the spy mice look like?"

Gakuto stood up and took one out of the cabinet. It was like real mice but the only discerning thing you can notice on this rat is that it has a red button on the belly area. Still, it is not enough to be seen as spy mice due to the uncanny resemblance to real mice.

"Maybe they have a cat?"

"Impossible. Spy mice are made with special materials that cats and dogs don't like to smell so even if they spotted this, they won't dare approach it if they don't want to smell what the spy mice have in store for them so a cat is impossible."

If what Gakuto said is true, that means there is indeed some sort of security that can easily identify the spy mice, destroying most of them.

"What else is currently happening here?"

"There are lots of illegal things happening here. Even the underground connection of dark magic users have opened. Slave trading is one of them, second is rare monster selling."

"Rare monster? They have procured it somewhere?"

"Yes. Some realms and some portals have those rare monsters that can be used to tame or to experiment with. The magicians banned the latter since it is kind of a taboo. After all, we ask for help on rare monsters that became our familiars. However, that taboo was broken after Sho also opened up his business involving that."

"Is there any more info about Sho?"

"He is quite famous in an underground society where he made dealings with different kind of shady dealings that is widely known for being illegal and a crime. Aside from that, he practices dark magic which made him a little bit troublesome. He has been a wanted man by the Magician Society after he was involved in an experiment and killed a talented magician who was kidnapped by him. Lately, we don't know how strong he was now since he stopped using magic and instead used physical means to fight others.

Now, he is running the Riot Massacre, and just like usual, he is running another illegal business. I have no idea what he is running deeper in this mall though. I suggest you investigate further. Of course, I will be helping you by giving you some materials, tools, and some other necessities you might be needing.

"So I will still go and investigate alone?"

"Of course. After all, I refuse to participate in these battles."

"..."

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Gakuto's info is quite limited due to how most of his spy mice are destroyed. But that doesn't mean things are not dire. I have to infiltrate further on this place a little bit more. The good thing is that Gakuto managed to get me something I can use to infiltrate the place easier.

"What is this?" I asked and shake the bottle that contained some sort of blue little candies.

"I call that the shrinky candy. It is one of my inventions when I am still a well-known magician. Eating that will allow you to shrink to the size of an ant. If you wanted to infiltrate the facility a lot faster without any risk of being detected, this is the solution."

"By shrinking? How about returning to my real size?"

If the first bottle he showed me has color blue candies, the one he showed this time is color green. "This candy is the one I call reverter. Eating this will revert you from your normal status. It is not only effective on the shrinky candy's effect but it works on other things too like poisoning, injury, and some other things like curses. If you eat this while something occurs to your body, your state will return to the point where you are still fine. It can be called an all-cure candy."

"Wait wait... if I shrink, then my clothes will be left out?"

"Ah no, aside from your body, anything in your body that is with you will also shrink to your actual size. So as long as those clothes are on your body, once you drink the shrinky candy, your clothes and some belongings will also shrink including these candies."

I was hesitant at first but look at me now, I am currently under the shrinky candy's effect. I also got a spy mice that I will be controlling and will be using this as my means of transportation in the market. With the situation looking grim, I needed to hurry.

Controlling the spy mice reminded me of controlling an RC car. It was kind of easy and fun to use but I am not enjoying right now because of the people around the place. I have to maneuver around the place carefully or else I might get squashed by these people walking about. From the perspective of an ant, it was quite a very big place. I didn't even imagine that being this small is quite a scary thing. Most of the fast movements of the people are too slow once you are small. However, seeing them as towering people made you feel like you are witnessing the real-life titan attack.

Since the Spy Mice's movements are quite fast, I can use it to my advantage and get myself infiltrate deeper into the underground mall. The delinquents have no idea I already passed by their fabulous guarding time.

Entering the deeper area of the place, I was not expecting to feel heavy pressure of dark magic. It was heavy but it was not on the scale of heaviness before where we barely defeated the female enemy but that doesn't mean what I feel is not something you can just scoff off. This time, I made my moves slowly. I can't let them discover me or else it will be over.

Using the underneath of the furniture, I have gained the way to move from the enemies without them detecting me. I can't afford to be spotted. As I traverse a little bit more in a tight hallway, I arrived in a room full of big cages. These cages are big enough that a person can be placed inside. I was not expecting that they put all the slaves they have inside the cage?!

Making sure no one is around and any kind of surveillance is not present, I decided to check around the cages. And I grit my teeth in anger. I saw children gagged and tied up in one cage, the other is young teen guys and the other are some teenage girls. The slaves that they have been keeping has now been found!