A few minutes later, the utility room was empty and no one was using it.
Waver tossed Shinji a cigarette, lit it for him, and spoke in a heavy voice.
"This morning, Lord Baruyereta called me and said that Maiou's magic circuits were necrotic and destroyed. Although it will not affect his daily life, he will not be able to be a magician in the future. Baruyereta was also questioned by the inheritance department because of this."
"Oh, I see." Shinji took a deep puff of his cigarette and replied indifferently.
Waver suddenly raised his head, stared into Shinji's eyes, and asked, "You did it, didn't you?"
"What I did."
"Is there any point in playing dumb? Don't forget that you were the one who told me about the teacher's symptoms 10 years ago. Although Maio's symptoms are relatively mild, you also said that the better the magician, the worse the fate will be when encountering such a problem. If I remember correctly, the killer magician who injured the teacher has always had a good relationship with you - do you want me to explain more?"
Waver's eyes were shining, with a power that reached people's hearts and made them irrefutable.
"Haha, you are indeed worthy of it. Flatt and Sfin are absolutely right to compare you with Sherlock Holmes."
Knowing that he couldn't hide it, Shinji simply stopped hiding it.
Weber snorted coldly: "Excessive flattery, I know my own abilities very well."
"Tsk tsk, why do I feel like you are underestimating yourself?"
"Your way of changing the subject is so clumsy.
Waver bluntly exposed Shinji's true purpose, and the latter said helplessly.
"You've seen through all of this. Okay, what do you want to know?"
"Is that what the queen meant?"
Shinji asked back, "From what standpoint? If it's on behalf of Baru Yereta or Brissin (inheritance), then I can only say that there is no evidence, so don't talk nonsense."
"No." Weber shook his head, his tone softened a little, "If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have brought you here. I'm doing this in my personal capacity, as a friend."
"Oh, you should have said it earlier. You made it so serious and made me so nervous." Shinji breathed a sigh of relief. "No, except for the slap in the face at the dinner party, everything else has nothing to do with Lorelea."
"So you want to do this? Why? Because his actions touched your bottom line?"
Hearing this speculation, Shinji looked at Waver with eyes as if he had seen a ghost.
"You—Tameow can read minds, right? You can even guess this?"
Waver looked at him with a similar expression: "I remember you had no connection with Izeluma, didn't you?"
"No, this is my first time going there."
"Then why did you - did you fall in love with Shirogane-hime at first sight? Yes, it's very likely. First you left the battle to capture people on the other side, then you came to invite me and Lord Baru Yereta, and finally you persuaded me to let them join the classroom -"
"Stop, stop for a moment, Pong friend." Seeing that Waver was getting more and more outrageous, Shinji interrupted him quickly, "It's not what you think."
What Waver was talking about was an episode in the Izeroma incident, which was also the real reason why Shinji ignored the battlefield and went to find Princess Shirogane.
He wasn't going to ruin the girls' escape plans.
In fact, he also thought that Byron had gone too far, whether from the perspective of a magician or an ordinary person. The girls had no choice but to escape to protect themselves, which was understandable. Although they took advantage of the El-Melloi classroom and Aoki Orange, they did not cause any actual damage. Considering that they could come up with such a plan, it is not impossible to let them go.
Isn't there a saying that beautiful girls always have privileges? Well, that's just an excuse. Letting them run away from home is actually forcing them into a desperate situation.
Their departure was destined to be hidden from the public. Waver also saw through the truth of Golden Princess' death, and the fall of Izeluma became a foregone conclusion. Even if they regretted it and wanted to go back, they could not.
Because of the stunning appearance of Golden Princess, there will definitely be many people who want to get them. When that happens, you can imagine how scared the girls will be without any escape route and without anyone to rely on.
At this time, if they let Lanis and Weber play the good guys, they could easily take them in. The fact that the girls used the El-Melloi classroom as a shield meant that they had indeed considered this way out, but they didn't dare to take the risk because they didn't understand it. Now, they have nothing left, and it's easy to imagine what choice they will make.
Well, don't think about it in a wrong way.
Shinji didn't have any bad intentions towards them, nor did he want to give Waver a harem - even if he gave them to him, Waver would have to accept them. If nothing unexpected happened, this guy should still be a virgin. The reason he did this was because he was impressed by Shirogane-hime's ability.
The abilities here include both strategy and beauty.
Strategy. Although the calculation failed this time, it was the outlier of the magician, the famous detective Weber. If it were any other magician who was not specialized in autopsy, he would have fallen into her trap long ago, and this was the case in the original world line.
Without Shinji's instigation, Weber stayed at home as usual. Lanis took Gray to the party and was almost killed, forcing Weber to put down his classes and come to rescue him.
This scheming, coupled with the fact that she is about the same age as Shinji, is not an exaggeration to say that she is a female Zhuge Liang. What Waver lacks most at the moment is this kind of talent. Most of his subordinates are poor lecturers who have failed in political struggles and troublesome problem students. They are okay in teaching and administrative work, but they can't be relied on in other aspects. It all depends on Lanis and Waver themselves. If Princess Shirogane can be recruited, the pressure on the two will be much relieved.
Beauty, needless to say. Princess Shirogane's beauty is so attractive that it attracts people of all ages and genders. Talking to such a person can easily lead to a brain short circuit and reveal flaws. This is the so-called privilege of beauty. Think about it, if such a person is appointed as a diplomat for foreign negotiations, how many people can refuse
Of course, this is just Shinji's wishful thinking. The girls' escape had just begun, but it failed because of the pharmacist Mai.
Maiou has been searching for traces of Golden Princess before her death. As a collaborator of Izeluma, he grew up with Golden Princess and knows her very well, so he found Kalina's existence faster than Waver. At this time, Kalina is making final preparations for her escape.
Seeing Maio coming, Kalina did not hide anything and told him her escape plan and the fact that she was the Golden Princess. Because Maio was not only Tiadra's childhood sweetheart, but also her childhood sweetheart. She and her sister Regina had been maids in Izeluma since they were young, serving Tiadra and Estella full-time.
Maio and the costume designer Isro are the people the girls trust the most. Kalina thought that he would support her and help the girls escape, but she didn't expect that Maio not only refused to help, but even wanted to kill Kalina.
In the forest not far from the Moon Tower, beside the spring, it is strikingly similar to the place where the great hero Siegfried died.
Not only did he use the hero's relics, he also became contaminated by the hero's fate. Sometimes fate is really ironic.