Dutch said, "Got it, go in." and left the room.

After a few seconds, Dutch and Kepin walked into the room. Upon seeing Keping, the man named Harrison showed a proud smile: "Isn't this Keping Clints?"

Harrison looked at Dutch and then back to Keping: "Remember me? Hey, we are in the same grade..."

"Of course I remember. Mr. Harrison." Kaiping interrupted him and sat on the chair in front of Harrison: "I also read several of your papers."

"How was it? Is it interesting?"

Kaiping lowered his gaze slightly, his eyes showing disgust: "That's about the 'chimerism theory', right?"

"That's right! That's the most outstanding work."

Keping smiled through his nose. Harrison's smile disappeared immediately, "What are you laughing at?" he said, glaring at Keping.

"Isn't that thing just an inferior copy of Lance Povard?"

Harrison angrily tried to stand up, but only swayed because he was restrained by the chair.

“That’s an adaptation of a paper he published when he was a student, ‘The Theory of Fusion of Monsters,’ right?”

Harrison stared at Kepin.

“His paper violated ethical regulations and had no practical application, but you just removed the parts that violated ethical regulations, modified it slightly, and got an inferior product.”

Kaiping kept smiling, "Do you still remember the ratings?" he continued.

“The content was revised and resubmitted, and everyone laughed.”

"What did you say!"

Dutch glared at Harrison, who was about to riot, and then said calmly to Keping: "Don't anger him."

Keping nodded and said to Dutch: "I'm very sorry." Then he turned to Harrison: "Mr. Harrison, I'm sorry. But what just happened was about our student days."

"what?"

"You worked for Mr. Grimm and read the books we published together."

Grimm's eyes widened with excitement. Because Ryan kept frowning, Nia whispered to him: "It's 'Monster Cultivation'."

"Ah, that?" Harrison said.

Ryan and others came to their senses and looked at Harrison again.

"That was just an idea that my master and I joked about. It was just put forward casually and has no academic value."

"Well, maybe so. But my husband and I were deeply affected."

"What?" Harrison stared and raised his eyebrows a little.

"About how to understand each other with monsters with whom coexistence is difficult. It is a dream-filled content that turns fantasy into theory."

"...That's all. It turned out that was impossible, and the master and I argued many times."

"But that's okay. Arguing or something."

"What?"

"My husband and I often quarrel. After all, we are all human beings and have different opinions. It is normal to quarrel."

Harrison looked around, smiled and said, "Yeah, that's probably true. But I didn't expect you to actually read that book. After all, it was just something that came out casually, and it wasn't published that much."

"But, that book is interesting."

"...Really?" Harrison sighed deeply: "So, what do you want from me? Are you just here to chat?"

"I want to ask about the Ecological Research Institute."

"You mean the incident a year ago?"

"There's interest in that too, but today is about other things."

Harrison frowned.

“About Allen Fultzbelt’s relationship with the Institute.”

Harrison's eyes widened. He was surprised for a moment, then laughed again: "I didn't expect that you came here for this question?"

"Well, yeah, you know something?"

"You know something about his 'experimental field', right?"

Kaiping was surprised, not expecting to get the answer so quickly. However, I got the opposite answer than expected: "But I can't tell you."

"You!" Dutch slapped the table.

Harrison smirked.

"Answer it. Otherwise..."

"What should I do? Do you want to use torture? I don't care. The more I torture, the more silent I will become." Dutch smacked his lips and took his hands away from the table.

"Mr. Harrison," Keping called calmly, "why didn't you tell us?"

Harrison stared at Keping and said, "Well, can you do me a favor?"

"Can I do you a favor?" In response to Kaiping's question, Harrison smiled: "You should know the reason for my arrest, right?"

"Yeah, I know you captured the black dragon listed as 'Special Warning Order' at the 'Ecological Research Institute', and then -"

"Then he ran away. But isn't it strange to do this? Isn't it just what a fool would do if he let him go after he was caught?"

"Indeed, it is theoretically unjustifiable behavior."

"Yeah, you should be able to understand."

Kaiping expressed his understanding: "That's it, you want me to prove your innocence."

"That's what I mean."

At this time, Dutch was surprised. Dutch tried to grab Kaiping's shoulders and refused in time: "Then the fact that you illegally captured the black dragon exists. Even if its escape is found innocent, your crime is not light. The most important thing is that you There was no introspection." Dutch retracted his hand that was still in mid-air.

"Wait a minute. I've completely incapacitated it. And then—"

"It doesn't matter. You are the culprit and the crime is the same."

"What does that mean? Are the escaped prisoners just left alone?"

"Of course not!" Dutch said, "You are indeed an important reference person, but your crime is limited to illegal capture. I have explained it many times! The prisoner is still being searched!"

Keping stood up and grabbed Dutch's shoulders.

"I'm sorry." Dutch lowered his head, and Dutch fell silent.

"My friend died as an adventurer in that incident."

Harrison and Keping were silent.

"Although I saved my life, I lost my strength..."

"......this means......"

"I should have kept my personal emotions from interfering with my work, but I couldn't accept it. Although it was eventually treated as an accident, I still couldn't believe it was an accident. So I kept looking."

Dutch stared at Harrison: "Tell me, why did you capture that thing? Why did it escape?"

"I have said it many times. It was captured for research. As for why it escaped, I don't know. Moreover, only I and a few people know about capturing it."

Suddenly, the door behind Kaiping opened.

"The opponent is a black dragon, right? Even ecologists, a few people can't deal with that kind of thing." Grimm walked in, Harrison's lips trembled.

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