A Scientific Urban Detective

"This guy beside me, Touma Kamijou," Stiyl said, pointing at Touma, continuing, "He has already saved Index, understand? Aureolus, from now on, Index—she won't lose her memories again, she has indeed been saved! Your efforts are useless!"

Touma Kamijou remained silent, unsure if Stiyl's words were meant for Aureolus or a self-deprecating remark from the fire magician himself.

"So that's how it is."

Somewhat unexpectedly, Aureolus calmly accepted this fact: "Index said the same thing."

"You..." Stiyl said in surprise, "Did you send a clone over there too?"

However, considering Lin Wuming and the others were with Index, Stiyl wasn't overly worried.

Instead, he could understand why Aureolus had suddenly ceased his attacks and stopped the fighting.

"In the end, I was completely deceived—by your Archbishop," Aureolus said, "Even so, you still continue to work for her, Stiyl?"

"That's another matter." Stiyl relit his cigarette, "As a magician, this kind of behavior isn't incomprehensible, is it?"

"Yes," Aureolus nodded, "As a magician..."

Obsession and distortion are the essence of a magician. In the end, magicians are an extremely 'selfish' bunch, willing to sacrifice everything else to achieve their own ideals and beliefs.

"Then, I'll ask you instead, Aureolus," Stiyl said, staring intently at him, "Why did you suddenly give up so easily? I thought you would continue to struggle... no, with your strength, you could have defeated us, right?"

"It's meaningless, just like you said." Aureolus shook his head, "Since Index has indeed been saved and has obtained happiness—then my continued struggle is meaningless."

"After all..." Aureolus looked at the half-vampire in the classroom, "I know better than anyone that becoming a vampire is not the best solution."

Aureolus understood this through personal experience—the so-called 'vampire' is nothing special.

To be precise, a 'vampire' can almost be regarded as a special kind of human, with no other characteristics except being naturally countered by 'vampire killers'.

Therefore, for most 'vampires', their bloodline is just a pure debuff, harmful and useless.

The reason why vampires are feared by magicians is because, theoretically, vampires possess infinite life, which can be regarded as possessing infinite magic power.

As a magician, the strength of magic power is fundamental.

But the problem is, if you don't practice magic, then even having vigorous life is meaningless.

Moreover, the actual situation is that 'vampires' are like a recessive trait. Most people with this bloodline are unaware of it. If the bloodline is not activated, they are no different from ordinary people, they will also be born, grow old, get sick, and die, and even have no special advantages in terms of lifespan.

Imagine, in modern society, how many normal people would casually drink human blood and coincidentally activate the vampire bloodline?

In addition, how many people would embark on the path of practicing magic due to various adventures?

The former is accidental, and the latter is also accidental. Only when the two accidents are combined can a true 'vampire magician' be born—what a small probability event is this?

Therefore, those immortal and infinitely powerful "noble bloodlines" in legends do not exist.

There is no instance to prove that a vampire's brain has infinite memory capacity.

After personally becoming a vampire, Aureolus knew these things—his plan was likely to fail.

However, this was, after all, a path he had found with great difficulty and painstaking effort, and he could not easily give up before he had a better choice.

Until now, as the substitute number two in Academy City District 6 was crushed by Lin Wuming, Aureolus finally let go of his obsession...

"So," Stiyl turned to look at the empty classroom, "You locked up Himegami Aisa in order to..."

"To protect myself," Aureolus said, "I don't want to die inexplicably."

The 'vampire killer' ability can be described as 'rule-level', it doesn't make any sense, any vampire will be affected!

Even Aureolus, who was also a magician and alchemist, found it difficult to suppress that impulse after transforming into a vampire.

Helpless, he had to temporarily seal Himegami Aisa to prevent the leakage of her aura.

And this is what Himegami Aisa hoped for—she didn't want to kill those innocent vampires anymore.

The reason why she agreed to cooperate with Aureolus was to find a way to 'seal' her ability.

"What can we do? We can't keep that girl locked in the classroom forever, can we?" Touma Kamijou said.

Aureolus let go of his obsession and accepted reality, so he didn't have to fight him anymore—which was certainly a good thing.

Speaking of which, their mission this time was to "rescue the girl imprisoned here"!

"Don't worry," Aureolus said, "I will make a spirit item specially used to hide her aura for her. The principle is similar to the 'mobile church', it's not difficult."

"And before that..." Aureolus walked into the classroom.

Reaching out to touch the "amber" sealing the "half-vampire."

"Your mission is also over..."

Touma Kamijou quickly said: "Is there a way to save him..."

But before he could finish speaking, he saw the "amber" dissipate, and the human body sealed within, as if rewinding—the right half of the body that had been turned into sand actually reassembled bit by bit.

Before long, this unlucky vampire miraculously returned to normal.

"This is my world." Aureolus turned to look over, "Did you think this person would die?"

Stiyl remained silent, once again marveling in his heart—fortunately, he didn't have to continue to entangle with this guy! As an enemy, there was probably no one more difficult to deal with than the Aureolus in front of him!

The "vampire" woke up and regained consciousness.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the boy, who was essentially just an ordinary student, was a little dazed.

"Don't think too much," Aureolus said, "Leave here, go back and get some sleep, and then forget about what happened here."

The "vampire" nodded somewhat blankly, as if he had just woken up, turned around and left.