I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

"Go away, I'm not a girl-controller and a lolita-controller like you."

Shenji was never polite to Yade, who was extremely arrogant.

Yade didn't care either. The two of them hadn't known each other for a long time, but they were already used to a mutually destructive conversation, just like bad friends who shared the same bad taste.

"Then why do you want to help those brothers and sisters? Are you so kind?"

"You are wrong this time. I really mean so well - I also have a sister. Seeing Rosalind's attachment to her brother, I can't help but think of my sister."

Most brothers and sisters in the magic world have weak relationships, and fratricide is not uncommon. In this environment, the relationship between Heine and Rosalind was particularly precious. Shenji didn't want such an innocent relationship to die, so he was willing to help the brother and sister.

Yade could understand such feelings, but the words coming out of his mouth were another story.

"Oh~ It turns out that you are also a bitch girl, and you still talk about me."

"I'm not a lolicon. My sister is one year older than Gray."

"They are all the same, they are all crows, and no one is whiter than the other." Yade chuckled strangely, "I have no problem with you helping those brothers and sisters, but why don't you go yourself?"

"Because I have more important things to do. My purpose of coming here to hunt for treasure is only a secondary purpose. The main purpose is to investigate one thing. Now is the best time. You don't need to know what it is specifically. It is the dark side of the clock tower. I promised Weber not to let you come into contact with these, otherwise he would not agree to your coming out with me to practice."

Hearing the solemnity in Shenji's words, Yade said no more, while Gray carefully put away the map and amulet on the coffee table and asked.

"When does it begin?"

"Tonight at 12 o'clock, no, 10 o'clock, watch until dawn. If nothing happens, come back and rest - remember, don't look directly when watching, use your peripheral vision. Unless you are in danger, don't show up, let alone Do the extra stuff.”

"Yes, instructor."

"When encountering a battle, you must protect yourself first, and then think about rescuing others. There is no shame in running away if you can't fight. If necessary, crush the amulet I gave you and I will come as fast as possible to support you."

"yes."

…

The appointed time came quickly, and Gray, who had rested for an afternoon and half the night, quietly left his room.

Watching the girl disappear into the darkness, Shinji nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good, the concept of picking out the concept and making a secondary addition is successful. The concept of 'Hades Cloak' is working. Although it is not as good as the original version, Gray's presence is not high. In this way Even a magician who specializes in perception would have a hard time detecting her existence."

Gray had been living in the countryside and had no experience in stealth maneuvers. Shen Er dared to ask her to spy on the world's top magician. The secret lay in the amulet hanging around Gray's neck.

That seemingly ordinary and inconspicuous ball actually contained Shinji's latest research results on magic.

Five years ago, during the decisive battle with Shirou, he understood the method of extracting concepts from Honkai's Noble Phantasm and applied it in battle. After five years of research, he has deepened his research on the concept of Noble Phantasm, and has been able to separate the concept and attach it to other carriers. Although it does not last long, correspondingly, the mystery after it is attached is not as conspicuous as the Noble Phantasm. When necessary, these one-time weakened versions of Noble Phantasms can work wonders.

Touching the dagger that was temporarily used to replace the "magic gun, bow and knife" through his clothes, the young man came to the hall that connected various departments of the castle and walked slowly down the hanging ladder.

The statue of Michael still stands in place. The blood on the statue has been wiped clean by the servants, and the severed sword has been repaired by Heine using alchemy. It looks the same as before, as if it was the tragedy more than ten hours ago. Didn't happen.

"Kayano Hisri..."

Stopping in front of the statue, he pronounced the name that was weird even among the Japanese who had so many weird names. The curve of his mouth revealed a slight weirdness.

"A member of the Legal Affairs Department, whom everyone talks about among magicians, died inexplicably? Haha, hehehe."

The laughter, whether it was sarcasm or pity, seemed particularly penetrating in the silent night.

After just laughing for a few seconds, Shenji turned around and walked towards the deepest part of the hall. There was the warehouse area of ​​the castle, and one of the rooms was used as a temporary morgue. The body of Hano Hisri was placed there, waiting for inspection by the magicians and the relevant personnel from the Legal Affairs Department who would eventually arrive.

The corpse has undergone relevant processing and will not decay naturally, let alone emit corpse odor. The dead woman was like a one-to-one doll, lying there quietly.

Shenji walked to the bed, lifted up the white cloth covering the corpse, and looked at the eye sockets on the face of the female corpse that had been gouged out. Not only did the eyes disguised as black not contain any emotions such as fear or disgust, but instead looked like It is a collector who has encountered a treasure that is in his heart, looking at every detail on his face carefully.

Suddenly, he reached out to cover the upper half of the female corpse's face and spoke as if talking to someone.

"Do you know? Human eyes are a very strange thing. Sometimes you can detect the slightest difference in a smile, and sometimes you turn a blind eye to obvious changes. This is often done in the news, mosaic people's eyes, so You can’t tell what someone really looks like.”

"It's really strange. Although a person's eyes only take up a fraction of the face, but after losing the eyes, the person's ability to distinguish unfamiliar people will be greatly reduced, just like losing the entire face. You Isn’t it strange, Ms. Hisari Hanano?”

There was no response. Only Shenji's voice echoed in the empty morgue, but he had no intention of stopping and continued talking.

"There is another very interesting thing. The first lesson for a magician is to recognize death. Every magician is accustomed to dealing with death. But except for a small number of necromancy magicians, most magicians Still hate death, hate corpses. After the autopsy was done in the hall, they never touched the body again."

"And the exaggerated death method of having the eyeballs dug out and hung on the angel statue also greatly affects people's judgment. After all, people are visual animals. When the vision is strongly impacted, they will subconsciously ignore many things."

"So, they didn't find any difference between this corpse and Miss Huanye who they saw yesterday - for example, here, Miss Huanye's flying sleeves are really beautiful. Such beautiful flying sleeves can't be wielded by such a weak wrist. come out."

Shinji said, leaning down to hold up the kimono sleeves hanging by the window, which were embroidered with bright flowers.

The hanging sleeves swayed, and the shadow behind the young man also swayed, as if being blown by the wind.