Chapter 12

## Chronology

**Spy** (間者, *Kanja*) is the 12th chapter of *Plunderer* manga.

## Plot

After the end of "Abyss Demon" incident, Licht Bach and his friends were all hiding inside somewhere in the forest. While Licht recovering his injuries, the hands of Althing can't stop appearing and harassing the girls, due to the Startheft Bout battle between him and Sonohara Mizuka haven't settled yet. As the girls being harassed, Licht is enjoying himself to see how the girls behaves. Hina Farrow then asked Pele Poporo where did Jail Murdoch gone, he explains that Jail was called back to the main headquarters of the Althea Royal Guard by the Supreme Commander, Alexandrov Grigorovich.

In the Althea, Jail arrived at the commander's office. After Jail saluted, Alexandrov tried to give Jail a hug but he avoids him and stated that if he doesn't have any reason to see him other than "father-son reunion" then he will leave without noticing. As Alexandrov started being serious, Jail reporting his encounter with the "strange group with black uniform" to him, and asking him if they were part of the Royal Guard as well. Alexandrov angrily denied that and claimed that they aren't under his control. Jail is confused and wonder why aren't those group under his control, Alexandrov explained that they were different faction that handling assassination and spying, known as the "Special Service". He also told Jail to be careful as they're spying around everywhere and he would end if getting himself kill if he's not careful enough. Then, Jail want to ask him another question. Before he could say so, Alexandrov stated that he knew Jail wants to questions him about Licht and his true identity, which make Jail realized that he may not able to keep his secret long enough. Alexandrov explains that while he didn't know about the full details, the Legendary Red Barons was in fact created as "mass weapons" for the Abandonment War, with Licht as the commander of the troop. Jail finds this ridiculous and stated there's no way a human can lives for 300 years long, Alexandrov explained they stopped aging at a certain point due to their status as "mass weapons".

Soon, Alexandrov noticed Jail's count has reduced to 12499, so he wonder if Jail hiding Licht from the army or not. While the count decreasing, Jail claimed that he didn't hiding Licht from anyone. This caused Alexandrov being upset at his action and told Jail to stop, but he didn't listen. Then, Alexandrov asked Jail if he acted against Althing which shocked Jail, he told Jail that he must capture Licht or he would ended up being killed by Special Service instead. Jail has no choice but was forced to capture Licht to the army.

After the meeting, Jail returns to find Licht and arrest him. Upon his return, Licht noticed that the Royal Guard forcing Jail to capture him so he claim he will surrender for Jail's sake. The girls tried t stop him but Jail push them away and bind them with his metal. When Jail is about to handcuff Licht, Nana appeared in front of him and slap him, saying that he shouldn't following what the others told him to do but his own wishes instead.

After hearing Nana's words, Jail stopped his action and choose to help Licht like before. Soon, Nana reveals herself is an Baron and, with her time travel ability, sends him, Hina, Pele and Lyne Mei to the past, begging them to change the past where she failed. After they were sent into the past, Jail was confused and wonders where are they and what's that huge building showed in front of them.

## Characters

By order of appearance:

* Lyne Mei
* Licht Bach
* Sonohara Mizuka
* Hina Farrow
* Nana Bassler
* Gespenst Zerlegen
* Jail Murdoch
* Nikola
* Schmelman Bach (Clone)