Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 123 The Non-Existent Adventure Group

It's the beginning of August.

In the evening near the weekend, Ritas walked out of the Spring City Guard Knights' base.

On this day, he visited the Knights' base mainly for a few things.

One is to contact the perverted trio again and try to get some information from them. The second is to accept an exclusive interview with the Spring Daily and exaggerate the heroic deeds of capturing "Qi Cai" this time. Finally, together with Courteney and Miriam, he retrieved the clothes stolen by the blind Ino in the trio.

From his contact with the trio, Ritas was unable to obtain any useful information.

This was more or less related to the fact that Ritas had not produced the "Mark of Blood of Sin" and the "Darkborn". However, there was no other way. Many things were not suitable to be discussed in a place like the Knights' station where there were leaks everywhere.

And, if we must say, there are only two of the three people left. Because Bart, who is seriously injured and has not recovered, is still hovering between life and death.

Apart from Bart, among the remaining two, Dill and Ino, Dill, who had a deformed ear, was relatively silent, while Ino was particularly active.

"I smell the same kind on you!"

Across the railing, Ino said this to Knight Commander Blake Hepburn, who led Ritas and others and whose face looked as if he had undergone a failed plastic surgery.

Blake came through the railing and punched Ino.

"My destined rival, please don't let others pick those ripe fruits before I come out again!"

Ino yelled at Courtline again.

Courteney also punched Ino and broke a railing in the process.

"Hehe. Sooner or later, I will peel off all the disguises covering your soul."

Ino, who could hardly stand, still did not let go of Miriam who walked past him.

Miriam looked at Ino as if he were a fool and punched him as usual.

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Ritas, who was at the end of the line, looked at Ino, who had fallen silent, for a moment.

Although there is no reason, but if I don't hit Ino, wouldn't it seem unsociable?

After hesitating for a while, Ritas remembered that he had never been sociable since he was a child, so he just casually blew Ino with wind magic.

After a period of questioning, the stolen property will be returned.

After Courtline got her clothes back, she searched her pockets and made sure there was nothing inside. Then she burned all the clothes.

"Are these clothes still wearable? Who knows what he did with them after stealing them?"

Facing the surprised expressions on the faces of others, Courteney asked in the same surprise.

“Even if you don’t wear it yourself”

Can they also be sold, donated or cut up into rags?

Ritas wanted to say this, but after thinking about it, he felt that it would be inappropriate to deal with the stolen clothes in this way.

Those clothes seemed to have suddenly turned into a pile of dirt stained with some terrible germs. Therefore, apart from burning them directly, no matter how they were handled, Ritas, who used to have mysophobia, would feel uncomfortable.

And even an outsider like Ritas was like this, so as the person involved, Courteney must have been even more unbearable.
However, think about it from another angle.

The property of "getting dirty" as long as it touches Ino can be used properly and may become a powerful weapon at certain times.

Although he didn't have to make the perverted trio really become priests, Ritas thought to himself that he didn't intend to let the three escape from his grasp.

In contrast to Courteney, Miriam was more carefree.

"Boys don't really care about these things."

Miriam, who emphasized the word "boy", collected all her clothes.

Although what Miriam said made sense, Ritas felt that young boys of his age would rarely call themselves "boys".

Moreover, from the fact that Miriam's whole body tensed up and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes twitched from time to time just by touching the retrieved clothes, Ritas felt that the future of those clothes would also be to be burned or buried.

In short, after retrieving their clothes, the three people who came to the base together separated.

Only Ritas, who was interviewed, stayed until the end.

"I'm going to say something really weird next, Xiao Li, even if you think it's funny, don't laugh at me!"

Under the setting sun, as Ritas was on his way back to his mansion, the voice of the bathing goddess suddenly came from the disc.

"."

As one of the most amusing people in the world, Ritas was somewhat curious about what shocking statement the bathing goddess, who started with stacked armor, was going to make next.

"Do you think Miriam is a girl?"

Listening to the words of the Bathing Goddess, Ritas couldn't help but stop.

"bath"

“Ahhh, I didn’t say anything, you just treated me as if I didn’t say anything, and sure enough, you still treated me as if I didn’t say anything!”

Perhaps she felt that she was about to be mocked by a roaring wave, so the Bathing Goddess quickly took back her previous words.

"Well, there's no need to be nervous, Bath Goddess. Although your words do sound a little strange, I can understand your feelings when you said them. Miriam, you do have some unintentional feminine behaviors in your daily life."

"Eh? I stole Miriam's clothes because of that pervert called Ino who claimed to only steal women's clothes. So..."

Before the Bathing Goddess finished her words, she seemed to see a big question mark rising above Ritas's head.

"Why would the Bathing Goddess think that a pervert's behavior can be used as proof or evidence? Rather, perverts and criminals are the most disreputable and untrustworthy people in the world, right? Nothing they do or say has any credibility or convincing power."

"That's true. Tsk, why would I trust a pervert?"

Looking at the speechless Ritas, the Bathing Goddess also realized that she was influenced by Ino.

"But, putting aside the perversion, you also said that Miriam sometimes behaves strangely."

As the Bathing Goddess spoke, she gradually recalled that it was herself who first pointed out this phenomenon.

As early as a few months ago when school started, she felt that Miriam's behavior of not having any physical contact with other male students was a bit abnormal.

Now, a few months later, it wasn't that Miriam had changed, but that she and the people around Miriam had become more or less accustomed to some of Miriam's characteristics, so the sense of disharmony had gradually faded.

".After all, if Miriam is not a man, I would have discovered it after living in the same dormitory with him for several months."

Ritas said, shaking his head.

"That makes sense. You're a professor at the University of the Arts, not the kind of fool who paints a woman and pretends to be a man. Anyone with eyes can see that, but he is the only one who can't see it." "That. Bathing Goddess, don't you realize that if Miriam really has a problem, your words will fly back like a boomerang?"

"Fly back? What do you mean by fly back?"

The Bathing Goddess realized it.

If there is something wrong with Miriam in Ritas' world, then there is a high probability that there is also something wrong with the protagonist of "Star Mark".

Unlike Ritas, who had only been with Miriam for a few months, she was the real "fool" who controlled her to complete so many rounds of the game without noticing any clues before.

"Bath Goddess, do you remember that Miriam was knocked down by Engel with a poison needle and was sent to the treatment center?"

"Remember!"

The bathing goddess, who didn't want to be a big fool, responded positively.

"At that time, the treatment center was not sure whether the reason for Miriam's coma was only the poison injection. Therefore, he was given a full body examination. If we only talk about the results, the things you and I had suspected before would be redundant."

Ritas said this, but frowned slightly.

He believed that the results of the treatment center would not be wrong, but this did conflict with his speculation.

The reason why he suspected Miriam was not because of some occasional feminine behavior, but because of many feminine behaviors that seemed to be done subconsciously by Miriam.

Most of our daily behaviors may be disguised to a certain extent. But those subconscious parts...
"Forget it. There's no point in exploring these things. After all, whether Miriam is a boy or a girl, or a girl in a boy's body, or a boy who became a girl, he is still Miriam. For you, the teacher, it makes no difference."

While Ritas was lost in thought, the Bathing Goddess, who had brought up this topic, took the initiative to summarize.

"That's true. Hmm? No! If Miriam is really a woman, then the fact that we have been sharing a dormitory is a huge scandal that has shocked the industry!"

After a long time, Ritas wanted to question the Bathing Goddess again, whether it would be good for the Bathing Goddess if he was dismissed from his post and imprisoned.

"Don't worry, don't worry. Didn't you say it was okay? Besides, it wasn't your choice after all."

"."

Ritas, who was completely silenced by the words of the Bathing Goddess, began to think sincerely about whether to move to the dormitory next semester.

At night, Ritas returned to his mansion in Spring City.

Turning on the lights in the hall, Ritas saw Courtline lying on the sofa as usual.

"Welcome back, Ritas~ I'm hungry, let me make something."

With her head buried in the cushions folded up like a pillow, Courteney, who didn’t look like an adult at all, or rather, looked like an adult, spoke in a slightly muffled voice.

".I've waived your rent Curt, how about you at least do some chores in return?"

"Next week, next week—"

Courteney waved weakly, and continued to say the words that Ritas seemed to have heard last week.

"you"

"By the way, when I collected the mail earlier, I also collected your letter. I wanted to put it on your desk, but your room was locked, so I left it at the door."

"."

Close your eyes and regulate your breathing for a moment.

Comforting himself, "This is already much better than before," Ritas silently walked up the stairs leading to the second floor.

"Hey, Kurt is so cute."

"where?"

Coming to the second floor, Ritas, who still couldn't understand the sentimentality of the goddess of bathing most of the time, sighed softly when he saw the letters that were really "thrown" at the door of the room and scattered on the ground.

After collecting the letters and opening the door, Ritas began to check the letters on the table.

Unlike before, he was now somewhat looking forward to receiving a few more letters from the "Dark Evil", but unfortunately there were none this time.

In general, most of the letters from Ritas were income and expenditure bills. Looking at some of the expenditure bills, Ritas, who was not very sensitive to money numbers, couldn't help but have a headache.

"Hmm, so many zeros. Are the materials used to set up the teleportation magic circle really expensive?"

The Bathing Goddess asked after glancing at Tas's bill.

"Yes. Captain Black, they all kneeled down."

"Ahahaha, he looked so helpless and sad, I almost thought he was going to say, 'Coach, I want to play basketball.'"

As they spoke, they both recalled at the same time a small incident that happened today when they were heading to the Knights' base.

Since there were some losses in the operation of capturing the criminals, Ritas naturally sent the compensation application to the Guard Knights to see if they could reimburse him.

Looking at the documents, Blake first shouted "Get lost" in front of everyone. Then, when he was alone with Ritas, he knelt down.

Blake, with tears in his eyes, said that the Knight Guards really couldn't afford this amount. This was no longer a question of whether to increase the budget or not. His hands were still "deposited" with His Highness. If he caused such a big mess, none of his limbs would be his own.
"It was just an attempt and discussion, but it was made to seem like I was blackmailing you."

"In some ways, you are worse than those blackmailers."

While the two were chatting casually, Ritas opened a rather special letter.

That letter was a report sent back by the adventurer he had commissioned before.

The style and content of the report were more formal than Ritas had imagined, which slightly diluted his negative impression of the adventurer.

Looking at the contents of the report, Ritas couldn't help but frown.

How could this be?
In order to contact the adventure group that the Bathing Goddess said should have established friendship with the brave team in the last few days before school starts, Ritas commissioned this simple investigation.

However, the result of the investigation is not to find out the details of the adventure group.
The so-called "Helian Adventure Group" actually does not exist at all.

"Bath Goddess"

After repeatedly checking the report and confirming that the location and other information were correct, Ritas was about to inform the Bathing Goddess of this strange situation, but the Bathing Goddess was the first to become suspicious.

"Eh? Why is the 'Upgrade' icon here again? Did it appear suddenly or was it there before and I just didn't notice it?"

"Twenty people have achieved this? What's going on? Does the Bath Goddess Church have so many members now?"

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It's midsummer.

Unbeknownst to the Bathing Goddess and Ritas, something was apparently happening quietly.

(End of this chapter)