The 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 he was such an important Feudal Lord..." The Principal stepped forward, his chest rising and falling slightly.

"Why do you care so much about the Grade-Level Head?" The School Bully frowned and looked at the Principal warily.

"No one else has said anything. You're the only one talking so much. Don't tell me you and the Grade-Level Head are both Beasthoods?"

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

The School Beauty looked at the School Bully worriedly.

The Head Teacher sighed. "We should have saved him..."

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

Yin Ge stared at him and spoke as though she understood everything. "Did you not want to save him, or were you unable to?"

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

"Right. What if you're not the Court Minister at all?" Suspicion appeared on the Sports Committee Member's face as well. "What if the Poor Student, who is already dead, was the real Court Minister?"

"Is your brain not working, or are you actually stupid?" The Head Teacher frowned. "If the Poor Student was the Court Minister, why wouldn't he save himself?"

"Ha, haha." The Sports Committee Member looked somewhat embarrassed. "Sorry, I hadn't considered that. I was only thinking that the School Bully might not be the Court Minister."

"Otherwise, how could he possibly fail to save someone? Right?"

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

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 that the Poor Student was certain to be erased, because the Personhood on him had already been gathered in.

Moreover, the Poor Student probably did not know there were other Beasthoods. Otherwise, he definitely would have told Yin Ge who possessed Beasthood.

Therefore, the Beasthoods 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.

But if that were the case, would the Court Minister receive information 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 had already lost his Personhood and could not exist in the Son of Heaven Game, so even if he were saved, he would most likely still die.

If he would not, then the Court Minister would have been unable to use 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 seem like that of someone who had not used his Law.

That brought up a second possibility: what if the other Beasthoods had not erased the Poor Student, but had erased someone else instead?

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

So regardless of which possibility it was, the Court Minister's Disorder Law had probably already been used.

Yin Ge had known this information from the beginning, but since the Court Minister had not stepped forward, she had not mentioned it.

After all, only Beasthoods knew whether the Court Minister had saved the people they themselves had erased. If Yin Ge brought it up, she would only invite suspicion for nothing.

But now the situation had become somewhat clearer. Moreover, Yin Ge had already verified the Grand Physician Godhead, so no one would suspect her of being a 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 Godhead 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 gazes gathered on the School Bully.

The School Beauty pressed her lips together, her thoughts unreadable.

The Principal and the Head Teacher both sank into thought.

Only the Sports Committee Member 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 have been erased every day?"

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

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 the Rule Disruption that erases others?"

"I didn't use it." The School Bully immediately said, "I still have the Rule Disruption that can erase others."

"Then... then does that mean there really are other Beasthoods?" Terror filled the Sports Committee Member's face. "Did each Beasthood erase a different person? Is that why two people were erased?"

"You saved one person, while no one saved the Poor Student, so he was erased?"

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

"Since the Court Minister can receive information about others being erased, then even if he only has one chance to save someone, he should receive information on all the erased people and choose among them."

"I agree with that." The Head Teacher nodded. "The Godheads in the Son of Heaven Game seem to possess strong rules. There should not be anything outside those rules."

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

Yin Ge agreed with that as well and nodded.

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

Because I gathered in his Personhood... Yin Ge knew the answer clearly, but the others did not.

Yin Ge considered things from the Court Minister's perspective. There was actually another explanation for the Poor Student's erasure.

As soon as she thought of it, she looked toward the School Bully first, because she guessed that he was about to turn on the Sports Committee Member.

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

That really took a lot of thinking... Yin Ge thought.

"That's right, the Poor Student could very well have been a Scholar!" the School Beauty chimed in.

The others understood as well and nodded one after another.

Only Yin Ge kept watching the Sports Committee Member.

"Impossible!" The Sports Committee Member realized what was happening. "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 kept hiding your Godhead and refused to state it openly?"

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

"You were too afraid to reveal your Godhead before because you were afraid of taking someone else's Godhead, weren't you?"

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

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

He swallowed. "I-I was just afraid... afraid the Beasthoods would kill me after learning my Godhead, 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 Committee Member.

"Let's accuse him today."