195 – Event Horizon (3)
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After the quarterfinal match, I walked through the empty player waiting room lobby.
“I’m glad. There is no need to revise the plan.”
The future has changed, but the divinity buff has not changed from the original work.
Abigail’s divinity buff’s stat increase rate, effects, etc.······ It was the same as what we tested countless times in this work.
This is quite meaningful data.
Divinity buffs exert overwhelming power during many-to-many battles.
Anyway, if the divinity buff wasn’t like the original, he would have had to revise his plan drastically.
“Wait, Maitree.”
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Before the start of the quarterfinals, a 20-minute break was given.
I accompanied Seria and Amy to the waiting room. To interrogate Alice.
Opening the door to the waiting room, I see Alice still lying on the bench.
“Hmm, you haven’t woken up yet.”
“·······.”
Alice lying quietly as if dead.
Are you asleep?
Then Amy raised her index finger and brought it to her lips.
“·······.”
It means to be quiet.
As I nodded, Amy crept- quietly approached Alice.
Then, shook shook shook─.
I threw a jab in Alice’s face in rapid succession.
“·······!”
Alice’s body flinched briefly.
When Taylor did it before, there was no reaction.
Well, what this means is obvious.
“・・・・・・Wake up, Alice.”
“······Hmmmnya, hmmmnyang.”
Instead of waking up, Alice tossed over and pretended to be drool.
······I don’t have a cool guy.
“Don’t make me say it twice.”
“······Ah, um. Ah… I’m sleepy…”
Alice woke up in a daze and rubbed her own eyes.
······You are a formidable woman. She’s already been caught, but she’s acting honestly until the end.
Alice looked up at me with trembling eyes.
“Te, Mr. Theo…? Anyway, uh, where is this place… Uh, where is it?”
At the smoke that could be seen through, I laughed.
“Inside the waiting room of the Knights Faculty Stadium.”
“That’s right.”
Looking down at Alice with a nervous look in her eyes, I went straight to the point.
With the semifinals starting soon, we don’t have much time.
“I came to get the wages paid.”
“Dae, Daegayo…?”
“Yes. I will speak plainly, so speak plainly you too.”
Kiki-
I dragged the chair that was near her in front of her and sat down.
“The artifact you are wearing right now. Where and from whom did you get it?”
“Mi, will you believe me? It’s not like the [Church of Light] Affiliation attends.”
“I will listen and judge.”
Of course, a method was prepared to determine whether Alice’s answer was ‘true’ or ‘false’.
Before entering the room, I told Seria to cast a lie detection spell on Alice.
Said Alice, swallowing her saliva.
“I didn’t get it from anyone. I got it by accident while going to practice in a department near the northern magic city…”
Seria did not show any reaction.
Alice’s answer means ‘true’.
I continued.
“Does anyone else know that you obtained the artifact?”
“······Wasn’t the price of the bet the answer to ‘one’ question..”
Alice hesitated.
Of course you are. The price of the bet was to answer ‘one’ to any question the winner had.
However, it can be refuted without difficulty.
“The use of artifacts in martial arts tournaments must be strictly prohibited. “
“·······!”
“And it is forbidden to bring artifacts into the academy prior to the third year.”
“That, almost no students keep it…!”
“Answer the first question. Alice, is there another student other than you who used an artifact in this martial arts tournament?”
“·······.”
“Answer me. I thought it was a fair competition, but I am holding back the anger that rises from being deceived. I want to hold on to someone and shake off the boiling anger. If you are the head professor of the Exploration Department, you will understand my feelings—”
“Hey, wait a minute! I’ll tell you everything, Mr. Theo!”
Alice hurriedly opened her mouth.
“Oh no! At the time of acquiring this artifact, there was no one else around. After that, the artifact was integrated with my body, and only Theo recognized that I was wearing it!”
“Hmm, the anger seems to be fading a bit.”
Still, Seria did not show any reaction.
······There are no eyewitnesses, only the truth. If so, the hypothesis that Alice is [Turning White]’S spy is discarded.
However, the fact that the artifact she is wearing is a work of My Tree is almost a fait accompli.
I looked at Alice calmly.
“hehehe… Then Mr. Theo. Now that your anger has subsided, can I leave?”
She looked at me, sweating profusely.
I shook my head.
“The anger hasn’t subsided yet.”
“······Yes, yes?!”
“I need to know the specifics of the thing that could get me into trouble.”
As I narrowed my eyes, Alice’s eyes widened.
She wrapped her hands around her own body, as if defending herself.
“That, that… What does that mean? Could it be that the heir of the great Balderk family forcibly took the body of her lady—”
“Of course not.”
Kiki-
After I got up, I looked at Amy and Seria.
“I will take care of it.”
“Kyaa, kyaa?! Oh, there—!”
Leaving behind Alice’s cute scream, I came out.
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Seats in the stadium where the Ellinia Academy Festival [Martial Arts Tournament] Is being held.
Among them, Roy, who was sitting in one place, felt relieved.
‘It was eventful, but I posted it in time for the midterm report.’
I posted an interim report without passing the time specified by Maitree.
Added information about Piel and Alps to the Confession of the [Church of Light]. There is no way to know what the two of them talked about at the confessional, but they even confirmed that they stayed for a long time.
Because of Theo, it was a much more difficult mission than I thought, but… I let go.
Maitri is cruel, but reasonable. Given the quality of the interim report, she might be able to delay the deadline for the final report.
‘Okay, let’s work with a more relaxed mind now.’
Roy poked a piece of chicken popcorn in his hand with a toothpick and popped it into his mouth.
The spicy sauce unique to the east melts in your mouth.
‘aaa This is a small but sure happiness!’
She rinsed her mouth with sweet apple juice.
And when she was about to put a chunk of chicken popcorn in her mouth again.
“What, what, what! Why is he here?!”
“Joe, you are so f*cking pretty… I can feel the sacredness even here.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you since the entrance ceremony… hasn’t it been almost half a year since you appeared in public?”
“It’s not an official statue, you don’t usually show up? I asked the seniors of the College of Bravery, but I’ve never seen them except during the entrance ceremony.”
The entire audience was buzzing.
‘Ah, what else…’
Roy, with veins growing between his eyebrows, looked at the source of the murmur.
It’s not a big deal, just try it.
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But when she saw the person there, she was immediately convinced.
Brilliant golden hair.
In contrast to that, pale skin as if it had not received sunlight at all.
Lips as red as the sun.
She is the first saint of the Great Reni Mead School, and she is a second year student at the Faculty of Bravery, but she is rarely seen.
Isabella Len Lopez.
Because she was there.
She has always been the subject of My Tree’s 0-ranked investigation, but she is a character that was never even attempted because she never showed up.
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“・・・・・・Eh.”
As Roy ate, she put down the chicken popcorn and went back to her work mode.
‘The last time he appeared in public was… Early this year, at the entrance ceremony for freshmen in the 1st year of the Faculty of Bravery. Of course, it doesn’t show up normally. They say that if you’re a student of the College of Bravery, you won’t even show up at the cafeteria that’s all used—’
That’s how Roy is constantly spinning his head.
“·······!”
I met her eyes with Isabella.
Her golden eyes seemed to see right through her.
‘No, no way……. There are so many people. It must have been a coincidence.’
But Isabella’s intimidation was frightening.
After a while, Roy lifted her eyes and looked at her.
‘······Huh.’
She was sitting in another seat with a nonchalant expression, staring at something. It was a clear posture with no distractions.
But where is Isabella looking?’
Roy looked at her where she was staring.
Before long, Roy’s forehead wrinkled.
‘Ah, what else, crazy. Ah, ah ah-! What kind of situation is this!’
······There are a bunch of Theo.
No, Theo was there.
Even if Roy is on enemy side, him being this happy just by eating pop corn is kind of sad