Lu Yao worked efficiently. Before the afternoon arrived, she messaged Mu You back and sent over the information he had asked her to investigate.
There were three girls named Sayaka who met the criteria. After receiving the information and doing a little elimination, Mu You easily identified the one with something suspicious about her.
This Sayaka had taken a month off school a year ago, on the grounds that her parents' work transfers required her to stay with an elderly relative in the countryside for a while.
And this "elderly relative in the countryside" had happened to die unexpectedly on the very day Sayaka returned to school, so no one could confirm whether she had actually gone to the countryside during that month away.
After confirming that this was the girl, Mu You immediately teleported back to his country and brought Lin Xue over. The two soon located the girl and began secretly watching her.
They kept watch until the early hours of this morning, when she finally made her move.
They followed her all the way and ultimately found the Spatial Rift in this dry well.
Mu You reckoned that this Sayaka was probably a fallback the bespectacled young man had prepared for himself. She had already been replaced by a Shadow Person from the Undead Society a year ago, but had ordinarily lived and attended school without incident, never exposing her identity.
Only now, when the person behind everything was injured and preparing to leave Earth, had this fallback come into play. After returning to Japan on Tuesday, the bespectacled young man had come here and replaced the original Shadow Person, hiding under the little girl's identity while waiting for the Spatial Rift to open.
"I already made concessions and deliberately avoided opposing you. Why must you keep