You Shouldn't Have Come Here

"Li Jun?!" Shirayuki couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"You...?!" Jeanne was even more surprised to be attacked in her own camp, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"Wait... wait!" Aria burst in from outside, glaring at Fang Li. "Didn't we agree on a covert operation?"

"Article 5 of the Armed Detective Charter: Actions should be swift as the wind, with the aim of a decisive victory." Fang Li looked at Jeanne d'Arc, whose expression kept changing, and smiled faintly, "Since there is a lone enemy here, let's just take her down. That way, we won't have to bother looking for the professor. Wouldn't it be better to have Miss Jeanne lead the way for us?"

"Miss..." Jeanne blushed slightly at such a common word, but she quickly regained her composure and said with a mocking tone, "I didn't expect you to actually infiltrate I-You. How foolish."

Before Fang Li could say anything in response to Jeanne of Arc's mockery, Aria spoke up.

"We weren't exactly smart to decide to fight against you vicious criminals, but we will still fight." Aria pointed her gun at Jeanne, her crimson eyes filled with stubbornness, and said, "Demonic Sword, you are also one of the criminals who framed my mother with false accusations. 107 years of my mother's sentence were yours. I will arrest you and bring you to justice."

"If you can do it, then give it a try." Jeanne glanced at Aria, her usually handsome face now showing pity, and said, "Kanzaki Holmes Aria, you shouldn't have come to I-Yu."

These words caused Fang Li's brows to furrow slowly.

What does this mean?

Aria seemed a little confused as well, and just as she was about to say something, Shirayuki spoke up from the bed.

"Jeanne is right, Kanzaki." Shirayuki looked at Aria with a slightly bitter expression and said, "You shouldn't have come here."

"Wh... what?" A look of confusion finally appeared on Aria's face as she exclaimed, "Why can't I come to I-Yu? Are you trying to scare me?"

"Shirayuki." Fang Li turned his gaze to Shirayuki and asked, "What exactly happened?"

"... I-You is a terrifying place," Shirayuki said hesitantly. "Moreover, the leader of I-You is Aria's..."

Before he could even finish speaking, the accident happened.

"Slap... slap slap..."

Suddenly, the temperature in the room dropped sharply, and with a series of freezing sounds, the moisture in the air condensed into ice particles and fell down.

Upon seeing this, Fang Li's eyes sharpened, and the dagger in his hand suddenly moved.

"Pfft—!"

The sharp dagger held to Joan of Jeanne's neck immediately slit Jeanne throat, cutting all the way to the bottom, sending Jeanne head flying into the air.

"Fang Li?!"

"Li Jun?!"

Aria and Shirayuki were both taken aback.

However, the next second, the two of them saw it.

After Jeanne of Arc's head was cruelly severed by Fang Li, it gradually froze in mid-air, and even Jeanne's headless body froze.

No, it wasn't Jeanne's body freezing; rather, her body was originally ice.

This scene finally made Aria and Shirayuki realize what was happening.

"This... this is a stand-in?"

That's right.

This is a body double.

A stand-in made of ice.

Perhaps because the first Jeanne nearly died by burning at the stake, Jeanne family has been studying ice magic for generations since.

Therefore, Jeanne was not Saintess, but a witch.

By the standards of the Armed Detective High School's Superpower Investigation Research Department, Jeanne is a Super Detective.

Super Detective who uses ice magic.

"This is the deep sea, a Matoba where I can fully utilize my abilities. You've chosen the wrong target."

Jeanne's voice echoed through the surrounding space.

Immediately afterwards, the doorway to the room suddenly began to freeze.

"You all just stay inside and behave yourselves."

With those words, the door slowly froze shut.

Only then did Aria's somewhat anxious voice ring out from inside the ice gate.

Outside the door, Jeanne's lips curled slightly, and she spoke with a hint of arrogance, "A mere armed detective is no match for Super Detective."

As soon as he finished speaking, another voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Is that so?"

"..." Jeanne of Arc was startled and quickly turned around to look behind her.

There, Fang Li was looking at Jeanne with a half-smile, the dagger in his hand twirling nimbly between his fingers, the cold glint of the blade constantly flashing.

"You..." Jeanne involuntarily took a step back, one hand resting on the hilt of her Knight Sword at her waist, and subconsciously began to speak, "When..."

"If you're asking me when I came out, then I can answer you, it was when I chopped off your double's head," Fang Li said casually. "Since I had a way to rush in and subdue you before you even noticed, I naturally have a way to rush out in an instant, right?"

However, that's not the point.

"Jeanne of Arc," Fang Li said suddenly, looking at Jeanne.

"Take me to see the professor."

Upon hearing this, Jeanne was immediately stunned.

Fang Li, however, seemed unconcerned, and said as if talking to himself, "Not only Riko hiding the professor's true identity, but your and Shirayuki's reactions to Aria's arrival at I-Yu are also rather subtle. All these signs tell me that, although I don't know why, letting Aria meet with the professor seems a bit ominous. Am I right?"

This time, Jeanne remained silent.

"Take me to see the professor," Fang Li said with unusual calm. "Anyway, this is your base of operations. I've already given up on continuing my Lurk. Surely you're not afraid to let me meet the professor, are you?"

"...There's no need to provoke me like this, Gun Magician." Jeanne lowered her hand from the hilt of her sword, looked at Fang Li, and said, "Very well, if it were you, the professor would probably be happy to meet you."

After saying that, Jeanne turned around and said to Fang Li, "Follow me."

Fang Li nodded, then turned his gaze to the direction of the ice gate and said, "Shirayuki, you stay here with Aria and don't let Aria out."

"I... I understand."

Shirayuki's voice came from inside the ice gate.

"Wait! Why did it turn out like this?!"

Aria's sharp, childlike voice rang out loudly as well.

However, Fang Li had already left with Jeanne Arc.