Impostor! I Saved Myself!

"I have my reasons." The School Bully crossed his arms and leaned against the desk.

"You're being far too selfish. Every additional person erased makes things harder for us, not to mention that was a very important Feudal Lord..." The Principal stepped forward, his chest rising and falling slightly.

"Why are you so concerned about the Grade-Level Head?" The School Bully frowned and eyed the Principal warily.

"No one else has said anything. You're the only one making such a fuss. Could it be that both you and the Grade-Level Head have Beasthood?"

"Don't change the subject." The Principal gritted his teeth. "Do you want to keep the Court Minister's Disorder Law for yourself, so you refused to save anyone else?"

The School Beauty looked at the School Bully worriedly.

The Homeroom Teacher sighed. "He should have been saved..."

The School Bully frowned, seemingly unwilling to pay anyone any attention.

Yin Ge stared at him and spoke knowingly. "Is it that you didn't want to save him, or that you couldn't?"

At those words, the School Bully's body stiffened.

"Yeah, what if you're not the Court Minister at all?" Suspicion appeared on the Sports Commissioner's face as well. "What if the underachiever who's already dead was the Court Minister?"

"Are you slow, or just stupid?" The Homeroom Teacher frowned. "If the underachiever was the Court Minister, why wouldn't he save himself?"

"Ha, haha." The Sports Commissioner looked a little embarrassed. "Sorry, I didn't think of that. I was just focused on the possibility that the School Bully might not be the Court Minister."

"Otherwise, how could he possibly fail to save someone? Don't you think?"

"That's not what I meant." Yin Ge spoke again. "I mean that the Court Minister's Life-Saving Rule Disruption Law may have already been used up."

Ever since Persona Time had begun yesterday, she had considered this question.

Because every uncertainty stemmed from the Poor Student.

From Yin Ge's perspective, she knew the Poor Student would definitely be erased, because his Personhood had already been gathered in.

And the underachiever probably did not know there were other Beastheoods either. Otherwise, he definitely would have told Yin Ge who had Beasthood.

Therefore, the Beastheoods probably did not know of one another's existence.

Under those circumstances, Yin Ge had initially left open the possibility that the Poor Student might have been erased by another Beasthood holder.

But if that were the case, would the Court Minister have learned that the Poor Student had been erased?

If he would, then the Court Minister might have used Rule Disruption to save the Poor Student. But the Poor Student no longer had Personhood and could not exist in the Son of Heaven Game, so even if he had been saved, he would most likely still die.

If he would not, then the Court Minister could not have used his Disorder Law on the first night. On the second night, unless he himself did not want to use it, there was no way he would leave it unused.

At present, if the School Bully was the Court Minister, his behavior did not look like that of someone who had not used his Law.

That led to a second possibility: what if the other Beastheoods had not erased the underachiever, but someone else?

In that case, even if the Court Minister had used his Disorder Law and saved someone, once news of the underachiever's erasure came out, everyone would assume that the Court Minister had not saved anyone.

Therefore, no matter which possibility it was, the Court Minister's Disorder Law had probably already been used.

Yin Ge had known this information from the start, but since the Court Minister had not stepped forward, she had not said anything either.

After all, only the Beastheoods knew whether the Court Minister had saved someone they had erased. If Yin Ge said it aloud, she would only draw suspicion onto herself.

But now, the situation had become somewhat clearer. Furthermore, Yin Ge had already verified the Grand Physician's Godhead, so no one would suspect her of having Beasthood. That was why she had proactively raised the question of who the Court Minister was.

Her goal was to make everyone step forward and reveal their Godheads, so they could find the Killer.

When Yin Ge said that the Court Minister might no longer have a Law capable of saving people, the School Bully's hand tightened around his sleeve.

At the same time, everyone else's eyes focused on the School Bully.

The School Beauty pursed her lips, lost in thought.

Both the Principal and the Homeroom Teacher fell into contemplation.

Only the Sports Commissioner failed to understand Yin Ge's meaning and spoke again. "There were two nights in total. If the Court Minister saved someone, how could someone still be erased every day?"

"I did save someone." The School Bully drew a deep breath and said in a low voice, "The Killer targeted me on the first day. I saved myself."

At those words, everyone sucked in a sharp breath.

The Principal looked confused. "The Killer erased you!? Then was the Poor Student erased by another Beasthood?"

"Or did you use a Disorder Law that erases others?"

"I didn't use it." The School Bully immediately replied. "I still have a Disorder Law that can erase someone else."

"Then... then there really are other Beastheoods?" The Sports Commissioner's face filled with horror. "Each Beasthood erased a different person? So two people were erased?"

"You saved one, but no one saved the Poor Student, and then he was erased?"

The School Bully frowned again. "That doesn't make sense either."

"Since the Court Minister can receive information that someone has been erased, even if he only has one chance to save someone, he should receive information on all those erased and choose from among them."

"I agree with that." The Homeroom Teacher nodded. "The Godheads in the Son of Heaven Game seem to follow very strict rules. There should not be anything outside those rules."

"If the rule is that the Court Minister can see information about people being erased, then he should see information about everyone erased, not just one of them."

Yin Ge agreed with that as well and nodded.

The Principal looked puzzled. "If that's the case, then the Poor Student wasn't erased by Beasthood. How did he disappear?"

Because I gathered in his Personhood... Yin Ge knew the answer to that question very well, but the others did not.

Yin Ge considered it from another perspective. From the Court Minister's point of view, there was another explanation for the Poor Student's erasure.

The moment she thought of it, she looked first at the School Bully, because she guessed he was about to turn on the Sports Commissioner.

Sure enough, the School Bully sneered. "Of course there is another way the underachiever could have been erased. He was a Scholar and used the Admonition Law on the wrong person."

There really was a lot to think through... Yin Ge thought.

"That's right, the Poor Student was very likely a Scholar!" the School Beauty echoed.

The others caught on as well and nodded one after another.

Only Yin Ge kept watching the Sports Commissioner.

"Impossible!" The Sports Commissioner finally realized. "I'm the Scholar. I didn't use the Admonition Law!"

"Hmph. I knew you'd say that." The School Bully snorted. "Then why have you been so evasive about your Godhead, too scared to say it outright?"

"And why did you only admit your own Godhead after everyone else's had been revealed?"

"Before, you never dared reveal your Godhead because you were afraid of stealing someone else's Godhead, weren't you?"

"Only after everyone spoke did you pick the Scholar, which no one else had claimed. Am I wrong?"

The School Bully advanced step by step. The Sports Commissioner kept shaking his head. "I told you, it's not me, it really isn't!"

He swallowed. "I... I was just afraid that once the Beastheoods learned my Godhead, they'd kill me, so I didn't say anything..."

The School Bully merely frowned at him. "Stop making excuses."

As he spoke, the School Bully turned toward the others and pointed at the Sports Commissioner.

"Let's accuse him today."