"So you mean you need me to look over a death scene and see if I can figure out who did it?"
At the inn Jia Xiu had rented out, Mia said this in response to his proposal.
"Uh—would that be difficult? The scene was indeed rather brutal. If you don't want to go, that's fine too."
"No, no, no. Brutal is brutal—how brutal could it possibly be? I'm a Druid of the Spore Society. I've seen every kind of death and every state of corpse decomposition."
Mia said something utterly staggering in an exceptionally calm tone.
There was a reason the Spore Society, as a branch of Druids, received treatment roughly on par with the Necromancy School among mages.
"That's great. What we need most right now is a professional like you."
After folding her arms and falling silent for a while, Mia said, "Whether it'll be difficult aside, the main question is, do we need to get involved in this? From what you said, there are all sorts of Devil Race rituals involved, and it might even involve conflicts between gangs. Isn't that dangerous? If something happens, don't we still have more important experiments to conduct?"
From a certain perspective, Mia was absolutely a pure person. Of course, in her own words, she was a pure half-half—Elf. Everything in her fate had a price tag attached to it, then was prioritized according to that price.
At present, the results of identifying the Devil Race were definitely worth a higher "price."
Even if they could not publicly attach their names to it, lest they end up on some Devil Race kill list, the result was still too significant. So long as the Association had even a shred of decency, it could not possibly fail to show some appreciation.
Jia