Dekan Was a Pro at Taking Advantage of Familiar Faces

Inside the church.

"Morion, you're really lame."

Dekan leaned back on the bench, tilted his head, and looked at Morion sitting in the distance with a mocking smile.

"Oh, are you two inseparable even during school?"

Morion said with a cold laugh.

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

"Aren't your teachers scared?"

"How could that be? We're both top students at the Knight Academy, and our teachers like us a lot."

Hearing Dekan's words, Cat Teacher wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, she swallowed her words.

Cornelia was sitting next to Dekan, just like they would in class at school, with no sense of distance between them.

Morion, on the other hand, sat at a distance at the other end of the church.

Morion wouldn't act this way if he were alone with Dekan or Cornelia.

But whenever the two of them are together, Morion will stay far away.

"Could you ask her to put that book away first?"

Morion stared at the book in Cornelia's hand, feeling a chill run down his spine.

Cornelia had already abandoned her knight's armor and donned a nun's outfit.

To better assist Dekan's operations in the town, the City-State Knight outfit is clearly less useful than the Holy Rite Church outfit.

Correspondingly, the weapon was changed from the [Terror Warhammer] (double pain) to the more refined [Blood Investigation Ledger] (Murder Book) (physical).

"Your sister is much braver than you, Morion. What a disgrace!"

"Are you very familiar with Flora?"

Morion raised an eyebrow, his reaction clearly showing he cared a lot about Flora.

"Of course, she's our companion."

"Flora, my good friend."

Cornelia added earnestly from the side.

Although her face remained expressionless, Cornelia's tone became much more cheerful when Flora was mentioned.

She and Flora were very close; whenever Flora came to school, she would seek out Cornelia to play together.

"Well."

Morion seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, or perhaps he was actually sighing.

He stood up and walked towards Dekan and Cornelia with a rather helpless and resigned attitude, then sat down next to Dekan.

"How is Flora?"

"She's happy every day, doing what she loves, except for the recent final exams which were a bit tough for her. Getting this queen of truancy to pass all her exams really exhausted me."

Flora originally wanted to skip all final exams and start her happy vacation early.

But after Dekan told her, "You can't let your idol fail a course."

Flora reluctantly joined Dekan and Cornelia's study group.

"Heh heh, I didn't expect you, you heartless bastard, to actually care about your sister."

Dekan smiled slyly.

"Ever since leaving the Norton Kingdom, she has been my biggest worry."

Morion gave a wry smile, as if admitting his weakness.

"Then you can rest assured, I assure you that she is the safest person in the entire Norton Kingdom right now."

Flora lived with those two girls, making her safer than the king.

"What's the meaning?"

Morion was a little worried that Dekan was being sarcastic.

Dekan: "Hmph, beg me, and I'll tell you."

Morion: "Tsk, I'll believe you outright."

Both of them shook their heads with cold smiles.

They were both employing psychological tactics and refusing to back down.

"Now that you've finally opened up to us a little, let's get down to business."

This confirms that a basic level of trust has been established within the temporary team.

Dekan's expression became more serious:

"I investigated the town yesterday and confirmed that a battle did indeed take place the night the town's previous High Priest went missing."

After finishing the [Great Woodman] yesterday, Dekan resumed his diligent investigation.

First, he instructed Captain Dekan to conduct a search in the town, but they did not find anyone who clearly harbored hatred towards him.

Therefore, it is very likely that there are no Resurrection Cultist in the town.

Even if there is any, it's not much hostility towards Dekan.

In addition, Dekan went door-to-door searching for clues related to the High Priest's disappearance and the destruction of the bridge.

It was eventually confirmed that some townspeople believed they heard the noise that night.

In addition, Dekan also learned some folk tales.

For example, in ancient times, a great war took place near the town between the Holy Rite Church and the Blood Race.

And the name of the church where the three of them are now— Roderick Church.

Do you think any of them are withholding information?

"I can't tell unless we investigate."

Dekan shook his head and said.

"Meow meow meow! Dekan, please don't even think about arresting and interrogating all the townspeople, meow! Croix isn't here, you'll kill them!"

The Cat Teacher responded instantly.

Dekan ruffled the Cat Teacher's rather small head again and smiled helplessly:

"Don't worry, I can assure you that we cannot harm the townspeople, and in fact, we need to protect them."

"What's the meaning?"

Morion's first reaction was also that Dekan wanted to use torture to extract a confession, but he never expected him to say such inhuman things.

Dekan stood up and walked towards the pulpit at the end of the church.

Morion watched Dekan's cryptic behavior, wondering what he had discovered.

"Although there are basically no clues, I've already guessed the general situation of this Shadow World, so there's no need to go through the trouble of gathering intelligence and making deductions along the normal route."

As he spoke, Dekan bent down, grabbed the carpet covering the pulpit, and yanked it off, throwing it aside.

"Wait, this carpet could be lifted up at first...?"

Morion remembered that when he first came to this church, there used to be a huge cross pressing down on this stall.

But now, it seems to have been moved aside by someone with unparalleled strength and power.

Seeing Dekan's actions, Morion realized that there must be something wrong with the place under the cross.

He also stepped onto the pulpit, his brow furrowed as he stared at the spot that Dekan had been displaying.

On the notice board was an extremely complex magic circle, and a faint red light shone from one corner of the circle.

"How much can you deduce from this magic circle?"

Morion knew that this magic circle was definitely a key piece of intelligence for the mission.

But I don't understand why Dekan thought he could guess the general situation of the Shadow World just by relying on a magic circle.

"Cornelia and I saw a magic circle in the Shadow World last time, but it was nowhere near as complicated as this one."

"If the previous Shadow World and this Shadow World are actually the same world."

"Then this magic circle must have been used by the Holy Rite Church to seal away Blood Race, and beneath this church should be sealed an extremely powerful vampire, the hidden ultimate enemy of this Shadow World!"