I Became a Blind Swordsman at the Academy chapter 152

152. Zagoras and Ekis (2)

“…Why?”

“I can’t tell you the exact reason. It’s just that I can’t be involved in Cadet Zeto’s curse at all… If this is the end of the business, can you please leave. I’m busy with the Knights.”

“…”

Eisel, who was silent at my answer, lifted his trembling arm on the desk … And eventually left the room.

“……”

I sat blankly in her seat and looked at the door where she left.

There were no lies.

No, it would have been more comfortable if I could have spit out a lie.

Eisel Ludwig.

Looks like an academy classmate who is close with Zeto. She was a woman with white blonde hair and golden eyes.

I paid attention to her for the strength she showed during the open class, but I never thought she would have a relationship with the branch manager of the ‘Black Hand’.

Zetto is a charming character.

So it must be that there are many people around him who care about him.

Should I be relieved that I wasn’t the only one who noticed his curse? Shouldn’t it be seen as the ‘fate’ given to her, not me who can lift his curse?

Why did the Goddess come up with such a plan?

My head got complicated.

I haven’t done any research on her method of giving, but I hope she can find a way to do it.

I just do my best as myself.

I shook off my thoughts, got up and went outside.

When I open the door, a woman in a robe bows her head.

“Did the talk end well?”

At the question of leader Ines, who was holding out his robe to me, I smiled and gave an ambiguous answer.

“I hope so. Did you hear anything else along the way?”

As I continued, I put on my robe and immediately moved towards the investigation headquarters.

Ines, who followed me immediately, whispers.

“…Got it.”

“Is that true?”

At last, progress was being made in the subjugation of Delion.

***

Three women were sitting in a conference room located in the Temporary Investigation Headquarters of the Silver Wing Knights.

Innocent Saint Bernice.

Knight Commander Ines.

And it was the vice-captain Ecclin.

Piles of paperwork on the conference room desk.

And on one side of the wall, there were countless memos with information about Delion, the vice-captain of the Golden Lion Knights.

They were secretly investigating Delion based on the information from Jeto, an honorary knight, that Delion was a demon.

“”……””

Since the issue was an issue, there was a severe silence in the conference room.

This investigation had to be conducted in complete secrecy in order to avoid confrontation between countries because it was investigating the Knights of another country, which could be considered partners. So, even if it was unavoidable that the location was known to the information guild, the information inside the investigation headquarters had to be kept from leaking out.

Soon after, one of the knights entered the meeting room and handed Bernice a bundle of papers.

“This is the requested material.”

After that, the knight who handed over the bundle of documents slightly bowed his head and left the room again, and Inès opened his mouth.

“These are the reports submitted to the Allied Forces containing the entry and exit records of all members of the Golden Lion Knights and their recent activities. I have left the originals intact and copied them.”

“…The informant must have had a lot of trouble. Have you all read it?”

Berniche, who was holding her papers in her hand, asked at this Nes’ explanation.

“Yes, but it was strangely tidy.”

“There are no records of entry or exit that show any signs of predation. This matches the behavior of the creature we recently investigated.”

Ines spoke first, followed by Eclyn.

Insufficient evidence that Delion is a demon.

What they wanted to investigate was none other than ‘human predation’.

Human predation.

This is one of the things that demons cannot give up.

Asmodians accumulate demonic energy by absorbing human vitality. Furthermore, demons instinctively pursue strength. So wherever they are, human corpses inevitably arise.

Since most of the demons who set foot in human land had to be seen as having come to prey on humans, if Delion is one of those demons, he must be preying on them.

They were aiming for this and conducting an investigation.

Bernice examines the papers.

As Eclin and Ines said, no abnormalities were detected in Delion’s personal access records.

“…But if you look at the individual Delion, it’s neat, but if you look at the entire Knights, there are some parts that are not clear.”

Innes said that to Bernice, who was looking through the documents, and Bernice tilted her head at this.

“Recently, the word “No survivors” Is noticeably frequent in their subjugation.”

At the words of Inez, Bernice looked at the internal report of the Golden Lion Knights.

“Hmm… Certainly. No matter how incompetent and slow the response, this is enough to make me wonder if the knights aren’t even able to properly play their role… It happens too often. Missing the demons is a bonus… And , The fact that the survival rate of new knights is low is also a factor.”

“There are no survivors… Perhaps…”

Ecclin murmured in a meaningful voice.

What could happen if the vice-captain of the knights who had to catch the demons were the demons?

Even if demons are discovered, if they intentionally miss their fellow tribesmen, prey on the humans who were there, and blame the demons for killing them…

No, the demons never appeared in the first place, and there is a possibility that Delion killed the humans and reported missing the demons.

While various possibilities are unfolding in the heads of the three women, Bernice finds a clue to her while looking through the report.

“…Could this be a coincidence? All the areas reported with no survivors are slums.”

He was able to notice this because it was Bernice who often went to the slums to help those who had difficulty receiving proper medical treatment.

“If it’s a slum, no one will care even if a neighbor gets killed by demons overnight. I think it’s a suitable place to prey on without making noise.”

“Even so, the knights would have gone on a subjugation together. Would I have been able to completely fool their eyes and prey on them?”

Ecclin questioned Bernice’s guess.

At that question, Inez came up with a hypothesis.

“…No, I think that’s quite possible. If all the knights are acting according to his will. The leader is nothing more than a scarecrow, and the vice-captain is the real power. The environment is ready for him.”

“Then the survival rate of new knights is remarkably low…”

“Isn’t it at least a task to eliminate those who might go against his will and those who failed to be recruited?”

“If all of this is true, he must be quite cunning and cunning, so the possibility seems good. Since the Demon Tribe joined the Knights to catch the Demon Tribe in the first place, I think we should factor in his meticulousness. But this report seems insufficient as evidence. Unless predation is discovered on the spot…”

Bernice summarized the conversation between Eclin and Innes.

That’s right, it was just a heart attack anyway, and the situation was still in the dark.

But now that the possibility of Delion being a demon is clearly higher than before due to a heart attack, they were reviewing the information they had been investigating from the beginning to see if they had missed anything.

In the meantime, Echlin discovers something.

“Wait a minute. Do this…”

Ecklen holds out the paper she was reading to Innes and Bernice, who were looking through the piles of papers on the desk.

On that paper, the entry and exit records of the Golden Lion Knights were written.

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Ecklin, who was pointing at a piece of paper, opens her mouth.

“…Delion seems to have set foot in the orphanage under the pretext of making donations for a certain period of time, but if he was really a demon, would he have been making donations to the orphanage normally…? He could be investigated someday. It might be a camouflage considering the situation, but if not… An orphan from an orphanage. Why isn’t it quite similar in temperament to a slum? ..”

“…Was he preying on orphans?”

Ecklen nodded lightly at Inez’s conclusion.

“But the young children lacked vitality, so the quality wouldn’t be good enough for him.”

Yes.

Compared to healthy adults, young children lack vitality in their bodies, so demons usually do not even consider predation. For the same reason, the same applies to older people.

At Bernice’s words, Ecklen removed the pile of papers on the desk, and eventually a map was revealed.

“But that orphanage is a fairly large orphanage in the capital of the Kingdom of Terrasia. Well, as we all know, children who lost their parents due to war are overflowing… It’s a terrible story, but in terms of quantity. Can be considered sufficient. If the director is helping, it will be more stable than in the slums.”

Ecklen pointed to the map and said.

“The usual source of stable human supply was an orphanage, but for some reason, this guy, who became desperate, was prepared to damage the reputation of the Knights and frequently raided the slums… Can it be regarded as that?”

“”……””

Since Bernice’s tidying up, there is silence in the meeting room.

Even though it was a hypothesis they had made, it was an unpleasant story.

But if the nasty hypothesis were true, they had no time to sit back.

“I would like to ask you to investigate the orphanage. Based on the date he visited the orphanage, if there are children who were put up for adoption on a nearby date, it would be better to track them back. Then, the director of the orphanage and Delion There is a high possibility that he is secretly communicating, so please handle this investigation quietly.”

Ecclin and Innes, who received Bernice’s order, give a short answer and leave the conference room.

“…”

Berniche, who remained in the conference room, quietly calmed down her anger.

Hopefully their hypotheses are just hypotheses.

***

As the investigation into the orphanage progressed despite Bernice’s wish, the possibility that Delion was a demon was gradually increasing.

No, it’s almost confirmed.

The hypothesis they set up was exactly right.

They tracked the children who were put up for adoption back from the orphanage.

I visited the houses that were known to have been adopted, but the only thing that came back was that there was no such child in this house.

Above all, the adoption rate was ridiculously high.

In the name of that, the orphanage was filled with new orphans.

A kind of circulation was taking place.

No matter how much the kingdom of Terrasia was being rotted away by the old king, it was shocking.

Maybe it happened because people in the world didn’t pay much attention to the overflow of orphans.

Similarly, Delion must have known about this and came in aiming for it.

He was a very clever fellow.

It was a clever move that seemed to have grasped the essence of what the public was interested in and where they were not.

In the end, Bernice, who decided to confirm the hypothesis, arrests the director of the orphanage, who is believed to have provided orphans to Delion, the demon tribe.

It was an arrest, not a formal investigation, so it was a kidnapping.

But it wasn’t much of a problem.

Even if the director says he has nothing to do with Delion, there will still be questions about where he took so many children away.

The director, who met Bernice in a basement without knowing English, was tied up with a rope and was shaking all over.

It was because Bernice’s pink eyes in front of him felt as if they were looking right through him.

The director quickly grasped the situation.

It was not a group of bandits.

The women in silver armor nearby were the Knights of the Silver Wings. So, this silver-haired woman is no different, it means that she is a saint.

He tried to hide his sins as much as possible, but he couldn’t avoid Bernice’s power.

Bernice asked him directly.

I wonder if there was a fact of providing orphans to Delion, the vice-captain of the Golden Lion Knights.

The answer came back.

“…False.”

Bernice replied with an indifferent look.

The director, who somehow knew that Bernice was a saint, but didn’t know about her authority, ended up reciting lies to somehow get over the situation.

Well, reciting the truth won’t change the situation.

“But, don’t you know what kind of person Delion is…! Do you dare to suspect that the knights of a kingdom, and even the vice-captain, are demons!”

“With that answer, it has been confirmed that Delion is a demon.”

The director noticed it only then.

The meaning of ‘innocence’ attached to Bernice’s title.

For some reason, it seems that Delion is a demon. That too was stamped on by the ‘saint’.

The director quickly shook his head.

‘I’m sure he won’t die right away…’

Anyway, you’ll need a witness to touch Delion.

Around the time the director was thinking about that.

Bernice bent over and met her eyes with the director, who was on her knees.

“Do you really think you won’t die? Do you think that even if you end up in prison, if you somehow manage to get out of it, you’ll be fine?”

“…”

It fit exactly.

“Unfortunately, you die today.”

Why?

Around the time that question passed by, Bernice turned her head away from him.

“From the moment it was confirmed that Delion is a demon, your life has no meaning. Delion’s head will serve as more convincing evidence. Moreover, I want you to continue your life, even for one more day, one minute, one second. I don’t like it. I have to do it for the sake of the children who have passed away without a moment.”

That’s how Bernice’s cold sentence was handed down.

ㅡSeureung.

Before long, a woman with short green hair draws her sword and approaches him.

This meant his end.