Running at the same time]
In the Academy, the stalker student brings a guard to the men's bathroom, claiming that John is running away from the consul.
Stalker: Here, he was right here, he used the Ventilation window to escape from the bathroom.
Guard: Even if he escaped, the guards outside the building should've seen him by now.
Stalker: I'm telling you, he's there. Just tell the other guards to look for him.
Just then, the sound of a toiled getting flushed comes from the closed toilet door.
The stall's door opens and John walks out of it While whistling, He heads to the sink, and when he finishes washing his hands, he turns to the guard with a surprised expression on his face.
John: Oh!? Is there any problem?
The stalker student pointed his finger at John and talked in a rude voice.
Stalker: That's him, this is the student I told you about. Please hurry up and arrest him.
Guard: Is it true that you used the Ventilation window to escape from the bathroom and get out of this building? Don't try to lie to me.
John answered the guard's question with a shocked expression on his face.
John: Who?! Me? I think you're mistaken me for someone else because I was here taking a shit.
Stalker: That's not true, I've checked all the toilets, and you weren't in any of them.
The stalker student steps forward and opens the toilet door that John just came out of.
Stalker: If you were really taking a shit, the smells should be bad- ARRRGGG "cough" "cough" what the hell is this smell?
A disgusting smell hit his face as soon as he opened the door. The guard covered his nose with his hand, while John had a little smirk on his face.
John: See, I've told you that I was taking a shit, but you won't listen.
The guard looks at the stalking student and gives him a warning.
Guard: Do you know what happens to those who try to trick the consul? They die, I'll turn a blind eye this time, but the next time, there will be no mercy.
The guard turned to John and advised him to see the doctor.
Guard: And you, go to the academy's hospital and let them check on you, a smell like that is not a good sign.
With these words, the guard leaves the men's bathroom, while the stalker watches the guard leave. A hand grabbed his shoulder tightly, and with fear in his eyes, the stalker turned his head just to find John smiling and raising his fist slightly.
John: Since we're finally alone, how about we have a "peaceful conversation", hmm?
Stalker: No, no, please, no.
[At the same time]
Elesa walks between the shelves while reading a file in her hand and three additional files floating around her. She seems annoyed by the useless information from all these files.
Elesa: "The Academy's rules" Boring, "the Academy's 1st Anniversary, 2nd Anniversary, 3rd Anniversary" AARRRGGGGHHH, that's even more Boring than "enemies to lovers" novels, seriously no wonder no one came here for a very long time this place looks like a museum with all that dust around the place.
While she walked, Elesa couldn't help but gaze at a closed door with a triangle surrounded by a magical circle.
Elesa: Huh? Is this a type of seal? But why would anyone put a seal here? No the right question is what are they trying to seal?
She steps closer to the door and begins to open the seal.
Elesa: Hmm, it has a different shape from regular seals, but its basis is no different. I just need to change my mana pressure on my spell to match the seal, AAAAAND Done.
Just then, the seal that was locking the door disappeared, and now Elesa is ready to investigate inside that room.
Elesa: Heh, whoever put this seal here surely didn't expect me, the Demon Queen, to come here. What can I say I'm just too awesome. Now, let's see what's going on behind this door.
When she opens the door, Elesa sees a small dark room with a Strong musky smell.
Elesa: "sniff.. sniff" Gross, did someone forget a Dead animal in here? Okay, let's light this place and get out of here. Ugh, I feel like I'm going to throw up.
Elesa summons a little crimson fireball and lit up the room just to find Six decomposing bodies were hanging from hooks on the walls, in the middle of the room there's some boxes that seem to have some files inside of them, people will be scared if they saw something like that but Elesa doesn't seem that surprised, in fact from her cold expression, she see it as a good sign.
Elesa: WOW, six dead bodies, that should make my work here easier, but I still need to check on them. "Sigh," it's always the beautiful people who work.
[At the same time]
In the men's bathroom, the stalker is sitting on the ground and leaning his back against the wall. Many blue bruises were clearly visible on his face, standing in front of him and folding his arms across his chest, John looked at the stalker with a disgusted look on his face while repeating what the stalker said.
John: So you're telling me that you are one of the Lithblom family Servants, and Magalie sent you to follow me so she can prove that I'm the one who defeated the demon?
Stalker: y-yes.
John closed his eyes for a moment then raised his fist in front of the stalker with an angry tone.
John: Hmmmm, why should I believe you?
Fear appeared on his beaten face when he heard those words. In panic, he tried to calm down the monster in front of him.
Stalker: IT'S THE TRUTH! IT'S THE TRUTH! I SWEAR ON MY LIFE IT'S THE TRUTH!!!
John: Well, your life better be worth it because if I discover that anything you've said to me was a lie, we'll have another "peaceful conversation," and if that happens, I won't go easy on you like today.
Stalker: U-UNDERSTOOD!
John: Good.
John leaves the men's bathroom, but before he steps out of the door he turns his head towards the stalker while his red eyes are glowing.
John: Oh by the way, about Magalie.
The stalker's face became pale as he saw a clear sign about what he needed to say to avoid being killed on this day.
Stalker: SH-SHE WILL NEVER KNOW ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE I PROMISE, I PROMISE!
His red eyes got back to normal, and a little smirk appeared on his face after hearing that from the stalker.
John: I thought that you'd need a few more hits on your head to understand your situation, but it seems that I was wrong. I'll leave first, and you wait for 10 minutes, then leave the bathroom.
Stalker: U-UNDERSTOOD.
John leaves the men's bathroom knowing very well that one of his Enemies is now away from his neck.
As for the stalker, he couldn't believe that he had just survived from a monster like that.
Stalker: (Finally I thought that I'll die here, even though I was extra careful about stalking this guy but he was able to act normal and hide his true plan, the best thing I can do now is listen to him, technically if I stayed alive I'll be able to serve Lithblom more in the future, yeah I'm not doing anything wrong, a Dead man is useless to the noble families so I'm pretty much helping Lithblom family here haha, I think I peed a little in my pants).
In the hallway, John walks to his class, and there's only one idea that keeps repeating itself in his head, it's the next step.
John: (a lot of things start to get clearer, but there are still some holes I need to fill. I hope everything is going smoothly for Elesa).
[At the same time]
Standing in the middle of the room, Elesa is reading a file and is stunned by the thing she just read inside the file.
Elesa: Those crazy people, I'd better return to master and tell him about this.
With quick steps, Elesa walks to the metal door and turns herself into a black mist.
Outside the room, she returns to her human form.
Elesa: I think this is enough information I need to get out of here.
Just when she was about to leave the corridor, a man's voice from behind told her to stop.
Male guard: Hey you stop.
Two guards were standing at the edge of the corridor.
Elesa stops and starts thinking if they saw her get out of that room.
Elesa: (shit, did they see me getting out of that room, *sight* I guess I have to kill them now).
Her nails grew a little and were covered in a crimson energy. Just when the male guard approached her, he started talking about a ceremony.
Male guard: What are you doing here The ceremony will begin shortly.
Elesa: (huh!? A ceremony? I'd better act along with them until I see a chance to get out of this place) Oh yeah, I was heading there.
Male guard: You must be one of the newcomers. Follow us, we're heading there.
The two guards continue their way while Elesa follows from behind.
After a while, they reach a dark room, and suddenly, the light turns on. It appears that the room they just entered was a colosseum, and in the middle of it, there was some kind of seal and summoning circle. They are somehow integrated with each other.
Elesa noticed that the magic in the circle is kinda different from the magic used in this place.
Elesa: (another strange magic? And here I thought that I've already seen everything in this life, are they going to summon another demon or something?).
Just then, a group of 8 people entered the arena where the seal was, and the group stood above the seal in a circle.
From a balcony, a man raises his hand while his face still in the shadows and orders everyone to be silent.
???: SILENCE.
Suddenly, everyone stops speaking, and the colosseum is filled with silence.
Elesa quickly realizes that this strange man is the one in charge.
Elesa: (Tsk, no wonder no one dares to speak in front of this guy, after all, he is the head of the consul, but to be honest, I never expected to see Him this fast).
The mysterious man starts speaking from the shadows, Elesa noticed that he carries a book with a closed eye on it.
???: TODAY WE ARE GATHERED HERE TO OPEN THE PATH FOR OUR SAVIOR. THERE WILL BE NO MORE WAITING FOR US. WHEN THE SAVIOR SETS A FOOT OUT OF HIS CAGE WE CAN FINALLY LEAVE THIS FILTHY WORLD.
Crowds: LONG LIVE TO OUR SAVIOR.
Elesa: (savior?, Filthy world? What's all that about? And what the hell is wrong with that book? I feel like it contains the same type of magic that is used in this place).
The 8 people stabbed themselves with daggers ending their own lives, their blood slowly covered the seal circle, just then a strong light gets out of the circle blinding everyone for a short time, after that the stranger in the balcony shadow starts speaking and a hint of excitement is obviously in his voice.
???: THE SAVIOR JUST SPOKE, OUR LONG WAIT HAS FINALLY COME TO AN END, TOMORROW AT NIGHT THE SAVIOR WILL EAT WITH US AND THEN WE CAN START EXORCISING, SO FILL THE AIR WITH HIS NAME.
crowds: LONG LIVE TO OUR SAVIOR, LONG LIVE TO OUR SAVIOR.
Elesa: (well, it seems like the Logic has left this place a long time ago, my priority is to return to master and tell him everything).
[Later that night]
In his room, Sitting on his desk and reading a book, John is trying to gather all the Pieces of his investigation together but somehow it's missing something.
John: (a lot of things have been cleared but there's still a lot more that needs to be known, *sigh*).
Just then, the door starts knocking.
John: ( who could it be at this hour) it's open.
The door opens and Elesa enter the room, her guard uniform seems to be wet as if she was swimming with it.
John: wow what happened to you? Were you swimming in the middle of a river or something?
Elesa: hahaha, very funny master, do you know how hard it was to get out of the consul and making my way to your room? *Sigh* anyway I guess you want to hear about my part of the investigation.
John: looking at how you were able to get back here in a short time I guess you have some important things to say.
Elesa: you're not wrong about that, I managed to get inside an abandoned room filled with files about the consul, while investigating there I found a sealed room, when I opened it I found 6 dead bodies and it seems like they were there for a long time, and in the middle of the room I found a few files talking about some New management of the consul and to be more exact, those files were written one year ago, and the New management seems to be held by one person.
John: let me guess Minsium.
A shock of surprise came across her face when she heard that name.
Elesa: HUH!? How did you know?
John: it's simple, because the seventh body is now at minsium's coffin in cargo village, I can't say that I was sure about Minsium's connection with the consul but I had a theory about it and hearing you mentioning the 6 dead bodys and the New management of the consul It made me even more certain of my theory.
Elesa: well since you know about all that I guess that saves me some time of explaining it to you.
Elesa then explained what happened in the room that looks like a colosseum.
John: WHAT!!? Are you sure about that?
Elesa: yeah and the worst part is that we don't have much time to prepare.
John close his eyes trying to figure something out, then he grabbed a pen and a paper.
John: Elesa, return to your cat form I want you to deliver a massage to someone.
Elesa: huh? You already have a plan?
John: right now The effectiveness of my plan depends on whether I can gather the necessary supplies in a timely manner.
Elesa turns into her cat form, John folds the paper and ties it with a string around her neck.
John: here, go to the main building, head to the east side of it, you'll find a room with some light on it, you'll find Aldric and the others on it stay with them until I return.
Elesa: wait where are you going?
John returned to his desk and used a knife to cut his palm making his hand bleed, then he used the blood as an ink to write on a new paper.
John: as you said, we don't have much time, and we can't accept a high risk plan, go, don't worry about me.
Elesa took one look at John then left the room from the window.
Jumping from one building to the other until she reached the main building of the academy.
In the student meeting room, Aldric and Lona with Arnold and Cohly are focused on some paperwork, but then Aldric heard something scratch the window from the outside.
Aldric: huh? Something is scratching the window.
Lona: I think you should go check it.
When Aldric opens the window and he's shocked to see John's black cat on the window.
Aldric: huh, isn't that John's cat?
Elesa: meow.
Cohly: Aww, she's so cute.
Arnold: wait something is on her neck.
Aldric: it's a paper, I wonder if it's a message.
While Cohly is holding Elesa in her arms Aldric start reading the paper in front of everyone.
Aldric: "in the past few weeks I was investigating the consul on my own, and I found some important and dangerous things, I can't say anything further than that, meet me at the same small statue that we met at the last time, and bring Lona and Arnold and Cohly with you and wait for me".
Cohly: what does that mean? Is there anything bad about to happen?
Arnold: Lona, what do you say?
Lona: from the look of it, it seems like bad News, and the fact that he can't say a lot of things on a paper mean that he has some serious things to say about the consul.
Aldric: I want to go, the fact that John was able to put his hands on some danger information about the consul is more than enough to say that he discovered something serious.
Lona: hmmm, you're right we should go, but let's be careful from the guards.
Aldric and the others make their way carefully to the small statue.
After a while of waiting there, the sound of someone moving towards them started getting closer, just for it to be John, Elesa left Cohly's lap and jumped on John's shoulder.
Aldric: John you're here.
With a serious look on his face, John starts talking in a Cold voice.
John: everyone, thanks for coming here, I don't want to lie to you and say that the situation is bad, at this moment The general atmosphere around us is worse than bad.
Lona: wait, what does that mean?
John: we're going to enter a War against the consul.