Chapter 189: Fireplace Is Initially Scorching (1)

Within the Magenta Corridor dense with laboratories.

Professor Reynold’s laboratory.

“I don’t know what you want, however I’d admire it for those who might end rapidly. I’ve one other class in an hour.”

Gracie, seated along with her legs crossed on the visitor couch, stated as she slicked again her shiny, grey hair. It was exhausting to inform whether or not she was a scholar or a guardian from her demeanor, however the man dealing with her nodded with none disturbance.

“In fact, scholar Gracie. I guarantee you it received’t take lengthy.”

The person’s identify was Berian, the senior assistant in Professor Reynold’s lab, who was not current.

“I simply wish to clear up a misunderstanding.”

“…Misunderstanding? What are you speaking about?”

“Final daybreak, whereas I used to be finding out the professor’s issues, armed officers got here to the lab with a unexpectedly written search warrant.”

“…”

“They requested me why they had been doing this, and absurdly, they accused me of being the suspect who assaulted the professor.”

“Why are you telling me this now?”

Gracie unfolded her legs and positioned her fingers on her knees. Till a second in the past, she had been the epitome of a haughty noble girl. Although she didn’t stutter, maybe she felt responsible about one thing, as her gaze barely shifted sideways.

“Why, certainly?”

Educating assistant Berian stared intently at Gracie. Not like earlier, when he was expressionless, now a touch of issue may very well be sensed.

“It’s not the primary time one thing like this has occurred.”

“…”

“Let me inform you, this was the seventieth time. So by now, you’d suppose I’d have found out who is perhaps reporting me.”

“Ahem. It was simply out of concern that I reported. It’s not private, it concerned a lecture that my commencement is determined by. I adopted all the right procedures.”

Gracie admitted frankly that she was the reporter. The musty odor of paper and ink stuffed the lab, and being in a slender room with an odd man was fairly a burden for a woman in her prime.

“Sure, due to following the right procedures, I used to be in a position to face you all.”

“…”

“Thanks for not abducting me to a warehouse on the outskirts and interrogating me, Woman Gracie.”

Was that sarcasm? The thought briefly crossed her thoughts, however each Gracie and Lucia promptly dismissed any impolite ideas. The complicated feelings that surfaced on their pristine faces conveyed sufficient while not having to probe additional.

“It appears there was such an incident.”

As an alternative of the blushing Gracie, Lucia continued the dialog.

“Simply a few times, however fortuitously, somebody supporting our lab helped us out instantly. I assumed I used to be going to die then.”

“Did that supporter assist out this time too?”

“No, no. Why would they?”

Educating assistant Berian, startled, waved his fingers.

“The honorable officers of the empire don’t need any harmless victims… It was resolved with out the necessity for the supporter’s intervention.”

“Why?”

“It’s easy. I can’t use magic.”

Educating assistant Berian held out his fingers as if to point out them. It was meant to really feel for any qi or magic. Gracie checked first.

Gracie blinked.

She felt no mana from the fingers she held.

“Oh…”

“Being this fashion, I can’t use not solely magic but additionally inside power or sword qi. To hurt esteemed Professor Reynold, another person would want to intervene. In fact, the previous investigation data saved right here additionally help my innocence.”

“…”

“Has the misunderstanding been cleared?”

“I… I’m sorry.”

Gracie bowed deeply. Earlier, she had acted as if she was above reproach, however realizing his incapacity, she felt extremely inappropriate.

Educating assistant Berian, not understanding what to do with the apologetic Gracie, smiled reassuringly.

“It’s okay. It’s not the primary time.”

“However nonetheless…”

“It’s not simply you, scholar Gracie. Many have misunderstood me. Maybe it’s not your fault however fairly that this case itself is an utter catastrophe?”

By now, it appeared like destiny. Educating assistant Berian spoke calmly, having reached a state of enlightenment. Gracie, not sure of what to do, saved bowing and apologizing.

“The misunderstanding is cleared, so my enterprise right here is finished. Any extra questions?”

“However isn’t the present head within the hospital?”

“And Professor Reynold remains to be in his twenties. Listening to you, it looks like this lab has a protracted historical past… and the patron seems to have a prolonged lifespan…”

“What are you interested by? Simply say it.”

“Professor, are you able to swear you haven’t harmed anybody?”

Lucia turned her head sharply and stuck Berian with a glare.

“I hear not solely Professor Reynold but additionally a number of wizards have handed via this lab. If this continues, extra victims will emerge. What’s the division head doing? And the chancellor?”

“Why are you talking informally, Lucia? I’m a whole bunch of years older than you. Isn’t that impolite?”

“How outdated are you?”

“Over 4 hundred.”

Lucia snorted at that. This man should actually be an elf.

However there was one more reason Lucia laughed.

“Then I’m older.”

Lucia positioned her foot casually on the espresso desk.

“I’m 4 hundred and forty-two.”

“…?”

“100 years youthful than me, and right here you’re, a younger child messing round.”

“Is that true?”

Berian, unusually for him, appeared flustered. Then, his gaze shifted to Lucia’s ears, which confirmed no indicators of beauty adaptation to human society.

“However certainly you’re not a demon, as there wasn’t even a hint of demonic power. Lucia was purely human, with a purity of ten tenths.”

“Precisely, you’ve simply been fooled all this time?”

Nevertheless, that truth was not necessary to Lucia.

She had been buddies with Seira, who was 700 years outdated, and had spent most of her life, together with earlier lives, in eras the place the robust dominated as brothers and fathers.

Furthermore, for those who embody the age from her earlier life and add the time taken to reincarnate, Lucia felt no disgrace in how she handled Berian as a result of technically, she hadn’t lied.

“And also you, are you aware who my father is?”

“…Hugo?”

Berian involuntarily talked about the identify of the Empire’s biggest swordsman. From the time Lucia Prient and Siriel Prient enrolled, everybody among the many academy workers knew them due to Hugo’s fame.

“Not him. Glen Prient, you understand?”

“…I don’t know.”

“This child has wasted his life. What are you aware after dwelling for 400 years? And, uh? My brother…”

Lucia stopped talking. Berian, discovering her odd, cautiously requested.

“Why did you cease talking?”

“It’s none of your corporation.”

Lucia growled and clicked her tongue. Simply the point out of Siriel’s identify prompted her chest to tighten. The engagement. His relationship with Siriel. The longer term. The query of whether or not he might spend his complete life with Siriel tormented her thoughts, including to her frustration.

“Anyway! Who’s the patron, and why are they sponsoring this lab?”

“Are you an fool? Haven’t I discussed it earlier than? I can’t converse of it to anybody outdoors the lab household.”

“Is that so?”

Lucia turned away from Berian and strode towards the door.

“You don’t have to inform me. I’ll discover out for myself.”

With these phrases, Lucia abruptly left the lab.

“Ah…”

It felt as if a storm had simply handed. Unusually, Berian sat on the couch, surprised, for a very long time.

He remained misplaced in thought for some time.

He sighed deeply, overwhelmed by a way of injustice.

“…It’s irritating.”

Because the analysis on teleportation neared completion, it was at all times like this. Over the previous few centuries, magicians on the verge of mastering teleportation had both gone insane or fallen into comas. And since Berian had closed his power facilities, he couldn’t show the magic himself.

But, the patron had no intention of letting Berian go.

With a stern face, Berian gazed out the window on the pink fort.