"What are you planning to do next, Young Lady Olga?"
"What else can I do? First, reinforce the room's barrier, then find Theresa's murderer."
Olga Marie clenched her tiny fists, blazing fury burning in her gemlike, innocent eyes.
"No matter who it is, anyone who harms my people will pay the price!"
"Yeah, that's the spirit."
Seeing Olga Marie looking so imposing, Higashino Kanade could not help picturing her as the Director after she grew up—frail, yet full of strength.
"Why are you so clumsy? That doesn't go there!"
"You idiot! You wasted another one of my magical materials."
"You're practically an uncivilized savage. You don't understand anything. Were you taught magecraft by pigs?"
"Move aside and let me do it! Get out of the way and watch!"
Throughout the entire afternoon, Olga Marie never stopped scolding Higashino Kanade, and she only grew angrier and angrier.
The reason was that Olga Marie wanted to reinforce the room's magical barrier against the murderer who had yet to be captured, so she grabbed Higashino Kanade, the readily available laborer, to assist her.
However, Higashino Kanade's meager reserve of magecraft knowledge simply could not support setting up such a high-difficulty barrier. Although he had read every book in the Clock Tower library, he had merely memorized them superficially and understood none of the principles.
What followed was a string of nonstop accidents. With Higashino Kanade's counterproductive help, not only did the room's barrier fail to be reinforced, but quite a few precious materials were wasted. Olga Marie was so angry that she could only chase him aside and make him watch.
Seeing that the upgraded barrier, which should have taken only an afternoon to complete, was still less than halfway done, Olga Marie finally snapped and harshly rebuked him.
"Isn't Lord El-Melloi