Oli and Eve knew a little about it, but it was Hephaestus's first time hearing of it—and the first time she had learned that Saint Marian Academy's secret passage was so unusual.
Later, when they heard that Ophelia had once been refined into a Magic Spirit by Dark, they could not help looking at Ophelia herself, their expressions turning rather strange.
"Cough!" Even someone as soft-hearted as the "Blood Princess" could not help coughing forcefully.
When they reached the part about Professor Steven Harvey sticking her soul back into her corpse, Hephaestus suddenly said, "Then doesn't that make Victoria from our class your... uh, sister or daughter?"
Ophelia said awkwardly, "Victoria... is that the Vampire girl's name?"
She knew Victoria existed and had even secretly watched her before. But since she was effectively still under house arrest, she had never had any direct contact with Victoria.
Hephaestus sighed again. "Why is it that, despite technically sharing the same origin as you, she didn't inherit even one of your good qualities?"
"Cough, cough, let's not get sidetracked." Dark decisively cut off her teasing and continued with his deductions regarding the Demon King's current state.
Before long, Hephaestus, Oli, and Eve finally understood the full picture of the incident. Then, all three of them fell silent.
Though Dark had described the entire affair lightly, once examined closely, it truly was a catastrophe of earth-shattering proportions.
Anyone else would probably have grabbed them by the shoulders and shouted, "Hey, that's the Demon King! The Demon King!"
But in any case, this incident did not involve only the Demon King. It also involved the Hero, the Holy Church, and the academy.
For the Holy Church, both the matter of "Blood Princess" Ophelia Brad and that of the new Demon King in the west