Vesryn Pulse: Wrath of Xenon

PHASE 50: INTERROGATION - BLACK OPERATIONS

CHAPTER 50: INTERROGATION - BLACK OPERATIONS

XENON WINGATE

PRESENT DAY - INTERROGATION

My hand trembles. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t mutter any word. Even with the help of the Memory Reading Device in this interrogation, I could not recall some parts of that event. The device is also giving off error warnings that tell that it can’t read such kind of memories that were corrupted in my brain.

My head. It hurts. It feels like my brain is now a corrupted hard disk that has been infiltrated by deadly viruses. Necross Ascension. Necross Messiah. I know them, but I could not recall them. Every time I try to remember, there is this long imaginary screeching sound coming from my ears.

[During the Alterran-Elysian Conference Ball, you met Necross Messiah. Did you take the contract he offered?] The interrogator asked.

“I did not,” I said. “Serena saved me from taking his hand.”

[Don’t fuck with me, Xenon! I was there! I saw the whole thing! Even if we can’t read some parts of your memories, I know you’re lying.]

“I did not!” I cried out loud. “Why won’t you ask Serena!? I wish that I should have taken the Necross Messiah’s contract sooner. I tried to. I wanted to. That desire for revenge, to kill Eldritch, Cheng, and Trystgade, is an emotion I could not fight back. Only Serena has the power to wake me up from my madness. And I’m glad that I never agreed on the contract.”

[You did. Xenon Wingate, you accepted the contract Necross Messiah offered to you. You may be able to fool Serena, you may be able to fool your friends, you may be able to fool the country, you may be able to fool Trystgade and Eldritch. But you can never fool me. I saw the whole thing.]

This interrogator is driving me nuts. I’ve been trying to tell him the truth, and yet, here he is, forcing me to admit a thing I didn’t even commit. This guy just wants to hear the answers he wanted to hear. So I kept my mouth shut. He can do whatever he wants, and he can believe whatever lies he wants.

After a few moments, the interrogator asked a different set of questions.

[After the conference between the countries, what happened?]

“Alterra and Elysia failed to sign a new peace treaty, but no declaration of war happened. However, the tension between the empire rocketed and it put both sides on alert. It became a silent arms race, a cold war as if both countries are trying to save all the supplies before the incoming storm. The Dragon Knight Academy became very strict at that point of time, as they try to do everything to sharpen the abilities of the dragon knights.”

[After the conference, there was a specific event that ignited the cold war. Do you remember what it is?]

“Yes, I remember,” I said. “Two months after the conference, all the confidential data regarding the terrorist group Arcadia, Vanilla City, and the Crimson Dragonfly were deleted from the records. Everything, even files from the network or hard copy logs have been mysteriously destroyed. Emperor Elkyria hypothesized that the destruction of all the information is part of Eldritch’s schemes. But nobody had proof to support his contentions.”

[But the Emperor of Alterra did not turn a blind eye.]

“Yes.” I nodded. “Emperor Sirius Elkyria created a Task Force that will conduct all the necessary investigations for Eldritch’s schemes.”

Suddenly, the hologram globe in front of me popped up familiar faces, including myself, Serena, Alphonse, Z, Danielle, Nathaniel, Major General Valesmith, and his dragonoid Rius. At the background of all those profile pictures is a logo of a dragon and a sword in a pure black font.