The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　He thought for a moment, then asked, "What about the headmaster?" Professor Sylph couldn't help but show a helpless expression: "You know."

　“Well, she’s having a tough time too,” Professor Cazell shrugged. “I’ll go check on the golem now. How dangerous is this?”

　Professor Sylph paused thoughtfully: "Mitya made a prediction about this semester before she started her job. I know you don't believe in predictions, but sometimes they really do come in handy."

　Professor Cazell waved his wand habitually and said, "You're wrong. It's not that I don't believe in prophecies. It's just that prophecies..."

　What these so-called prophecies are merely predetermined paths to the future. From the moment they make their prophecies, the future they see is already the future of the past. Sometimes, such prophecies can even be misleading.

　Professor Sylph: "But it cannot be denied that it also has reference value."

　Professor Cazell: "That will only create dependency."

　Professor Sylph: "As long as you are careful enough."

　Professor Cazell: "From the moment you began to believe in prophecy, your caution was already clouded."

　Professor Sylph:

　Professor Cazell: 'So, you're not going to tell me about Medea's prophecy?'

　Professor Sylph:

　Professor Cazell shrugged: "It cannot be denied that it has some reference value."

　Professor Sylph couldn't help but cover her forehead: "Alright, Cazell. You must know, Midia never reveals the full extent of a prophecy lightly. She only told me that the children will be harmed, and the hero's sword will pierce the black mist!"

Chapter 291 Darkdemon is Too Popular (4k)

　Professor Cazell is actually very capable of taking action.

　However, sometimes he is not very willing to take action.

　Before the lunch break ended, he had already extracted the information from the golem from the previous night.

　Ignoring the chaos caused by the two magical sprites, they indeed found clues about the "invisible man".

　The "invisible man" was indeed seen loitering near one of the entrances to a secret passage.

　The seal at the entrance to the secret passage also showed signs of being disturbed.

　However, the seals set up by the professors are not so easy to break.

　Therefore, the seal remains intact, and the "invisible man" was unable to infiltrate the secret passage.

　"A student or a professor?"

　Professor Sylph couldn't help but start thinking.

　The students of St. Marian have never been peaceful. Their family backgrounds and identities give them their own stances, and there are also pawns of other forces that have infiltrated them, both overtly and covertly.

　Information about many colleges comes from this source.

　However, St. Mary's College is essentially a purely educational institution, with a touch of "education for all" and doesn't particularly care about the students' background.

　Therefore, if the "invisible person" is indeed a student, it will be very difficult to find him.

　But conversely, if it's a professor.

　The pool of suspects will instantly shrink to just two people!

　Most of the professors in the college are well-known and, to be honest, much more trustworthy than the students.

　Of course, this excludes the newly arrived Professor Ryan Hax and Professor Mitia Bartholomew.

　Although Professor Sylph and Professor Mitis were old acquaintances, one can only know a person's face but not their heart. Her relationship with Professor Mitis was not yet close enough to be considered intimate.

　Professor Ryan Haxes is even more suspicious!

　Since its establishment, almost all professors at St. Mary's College have been personally selected and invited by successive principals.

　Today, this has become an unwritten rule.

　But Professor Ryan Hawkes applied on his own initiative!

　Although his application seemed to have good reason, it still raised suspicions.

　But today's matter cannot be resolved simply by having suspects.

　Professor Sylph frowned slightly.

　From her perspective, it's not easy to interrogate a professor.

　Moreover, everything should have a cause and effect.

　What is the reason that the "invisible man" wants to enter the secret passage?

　If it's for that vampire who is most likely already dead and gone, then what's so special about that vampire?

　Place

　Why is it worth taking such a huge risk to find it?

　No, that's not right!

　Professor Sylph suddenly realized something very important.

　She turned sharply to Professor Cazell and asked, "Cazell, have we made the matter of vampires public?"

　Kazel was also taken aback, and after a long while, he shook his head and confirmed, "No."

　Professor Sylph then said, "So theoretically, the new professor shouldn't know about that. And among the students..."

　Only they know.

　The "they" she was referring to were naturally Dak, Witt, Robert, Scott, and Betty.

　Although students are not usually reliable when it comes to keeping their mouths shut.

　Sylph also considered the possibility that one of them had leaked the information.

　However, in this situation, simply investigating each suspect one by one can further narrow down the range of suspects.

　Unless, of course, the "invisible man's" purpose in accessing the secret passage was not that of a vampire!

　This logic makes sense.

　But if you want to investigate a case, you have to do it step by step.

　After careful discussion, Professor Sylph and Professor Cazell decided to temporarily refrain from publicizing the case and instead narrow down the scope of their investigation to conduct a secret investigation.

　Monday afternoon is Potions class time.

　After class, Dak intended to go to the library to do his homework as usual, but just as he was about to get up, a gentle breeze blew by and delivered a note to him.

　He opened the note and immediately understood what was going on. He went straight to Professor Sylph's office.

　Compared to the offices of Professor Cazell and Professor Lily, which he was already very familiar with, Professor Sylph's office was...

　It is said to be relatively unfamiliar.

　He stood at the door for a while before knocking.

　"Dong dong."

　"Come in."

　Professor Sylph's voice came from the office.

　As always, it was bland and aloof.

　Dak turned the doorknob and pushed the door open to enter.

　Professor Sylph's office was spotless and smelled of fresh grass.

　With a slight glance up, one can see the neatly stacked assignments on the desk, and the beautiful young woman sitting behind it.

　"Come, sit down."

　It was not Professor Sylph who invited Dark to sit down, but Professor Cazell who was sitting on the sofa.

　Dak closed the door behind him, sat down on the sofa, and didn't seem at all reserved.

　Professor Cazell made him a cup of tea and then asked, "You didn't tell anyone about last night, did you?"

　“Of course not.” Darke nodded, then asked, “Professor, have you found out who it was?”

　Professor Cazell shook his head and said, "It's not that easy to find out, but we have already drawn up a list. Take a look."

　Dark took the list very naturally, looked it over from top to bottom, and was somewhat surprised.

　The list contained the names of students, but the name of Professor Ryan Harker, whom he suspected was not on it, made him look at it again.

　"He only recognized a few of the names after Witt, Robert, Scott, and T. But in his memory, they were all members of that seafood cult."

　He looked up and said, "Professor, this list..." Professor Cazell explained, "These are the people who openly know there are vampires in the secret passage. You should have met them all; Victor has a good relationship with them."

　After thinking about it for a moment, Dak roughly understood.

　Professor Cazell then asked, "So, who did you send it to?"

　Dark: "Nobody knows except Diana and Rose."

　Professor Cazell nodded: "That's good. The number of people who need to be investigated has decreased."

　"Professor," Dark asked curiously, "you suspect it was done by a student?"

　Professor Cazell nodded and said, "We also investigated the two new professors in the first year, but they both have very solid foundations."

　Alibi. Professor Hax was completely drunk at the tavern on Traveller's Street last night. Professor Bartholomew, on the other hand, was in the small...

　He was visiting Lily. The likelihood of him being a professor from another university is even lower.

　Is that all?

　Dak frowned.

　He certainly didn't doubt the professors' findings, but in this day and age, such alibis seemed to be considered...

　Not much

　The mages are all professional users of magical spirits.

　Even if you don't attend in person, there are countless ways to get in.

　"It's suspected to be a substitute, a puppet, or some other kind of magic, or perhaps even a magical spirit acting on its behalf."

　Professor Cazell took a sip of his black tea: "If that's the case, it's indeed difficult to find out. But that requires further investigation."

　Things I need to consider further during the investigation. Tonight, I'll install stealth-detection devices inside some of the golems. If they insist on entering the secret passage, they'll eventually give themselves away.

　Dak nodded; the professors' thinking was even more thorough than he had imagined.

　Calling him over today is probably just a reminder not to leak this matter, lest we alert the enemy.

　As for the name in his hand

　Dark couldn't help but chuckle: "If it really was one of the students on the list who did it, then it might just be a simple prank or a disciplinary violation."

　Professor Sylph, behind her desk, spoke only then: "Actually, it's unlikely. So we need to be prepared that the other side might not be after vampires."

　Darks pondered, "In that case, the search area would instantly expand to the entire castle."

　Professor Sylph nodded and said, "The key is that the other party did not leave many traces, so it will not be easy to track them down."

　Dark asked, "Then, can we use divination to predict it?"

　Professor Sylph smiled and said, "Divination isn't such a useful thing."

　Dark: "As expected, then we have no choice but to lure the snake out of its hole."

　In fact.

　It's not a big deal for students to use invisibility spells to wander around the castle at night.

　Every year, a few mischievous kids are caught and put in solitary confinement.

　This incident was taken seriously because the other party was targeting the secret passage.

　Now we are at a critical juncture where the secret passage is sealed.

　Let's change the era.

　This will at most become a topic of casual conversation, and it won't even last until the next day.

　Dak assisted the two professors in conducting some investigation into the people on the list, and the final result was exactly as expected.