The Academy’s Savage Swordsman

31. find the culprit

“The principle is simple.”

Saying so, Yuri spread magic on both hands. Since what was unfolded was basic 1-star magic, it must have seemed easy enough for any 2-star wizard to do, but looking inside, it wasn’t.

“It feels like doing two chanting at the same time. It’s like having two heads.”

“Feels like having two heads?”

“yes. So if you apply this—”

Saying so, Yuri demonstrated two 3-star magics at the same time. Indeed, two magics were demonstrated at the same time. Theoretically, this is an impossible method.

Usually wizards learn to use one magic twice quickly, rather than using both at the same time. Elder mages who have become accustomed to this high-speed chant say that it is as fast as double casting.

However, just because Yuri doesn’t mean he can’t master high-speed chanting – as a result, the gap between Yuri and other wizards will continue to grow.

“I understand?”

“… … To be honest, no.”

Kyle kept chewing on the magic theory taught by Yuri. I thought that I could use the principle of double casting in swordsmanship, but learning the principle itself was a problem.

‘I think it would be nice to learn it… … .’

When he was young, Sir Leon had told him. A mage cannot be said to be simply born with a talent for manipulating magical powers.

He said it required a variety of talents. It reminds me of why I said that. Not just magic power, but also considerable intelligence.

“It’s fine. After all, this is just a trapping technique.”

“It’s a catch technique… … .”

“Comparing Double Casting and Aura Blade, I prefer the Aura Blade.”

The authority of an Aura Master that can cut through anything. A miracle that cannot be reproduced even with magic. Yuri has said that with that Aura Blade, the things you can do increase exponentially, and if you can change it to double casting, you want to change it.

Hearing that, Kyle smiled and advised you to learn swordsmanship. Even if he actually learned swordsmanship, the probability of Yuri realizing the blade with an aura converged to 0%.

“By the way, becoming a 3-star wizard while realizing double casting. Yuri, aren’t you a genius?”

“yes. I am a genius.”

“… … Aren’t you cheating? Why don’t you look at me like that?”

Kyle, who made an expression of regret towards Yuri who was looking at him with melancholy eyes, shrugged his shoulders and conveyed that he had no intention of deceiving her.

Well, praising a wizard who has just become an expert level as a genius might sound like a joke.

Thinking that he would be careful next time, Kyle turned his head and looked toward the door.

“—Princess Kyle. A guest from the academy has arrived.”

“At the academy?”

Hearing the butler’s words from outside the door, Kyle told him to let them in. After a while, the door opened and two men in neat suits appeared.

A man who doesn’t leave much of an impression, and a handsome man with a neat and well-groomed appearance.

The handsome man in front smiled and started introducing himself to the two.

“Nice to meet you. Cadet Kyle Meyer, Cadet Yuri Grace. My name is Special Investigator Ivan.”

“Yes, Detective Ivan. What are you doing?”

“Can we sit down and talk first? And it’s not something to talk about in front of others.”

When Ivan said that and looked at the butler, the butler lightly bowed his head and left the room. When there were only four of them left, Ivan took out a magic tool from his chest and activated it.

The magical energy emitted from the magic tool engulfed and engulfed the surroundings.

When I looked at him, wondering what kind of magic tool it was, Ivan waved his hand as if telling him not to worry.

“Ah, this is simply a magical tool that prevents the story from escaping. It is a very important story.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Are you aware that valuable research materials were stolen not too long ago?”

Kyle shook his head. At best, I donated research materials that would make double casting possible, but the principal immediately told me that it had been stolen.

I thought it might be the principal’s act to monopolize the huge achievement of double casting, but the principal was very busy and was unhappy that he couldn’t read the material properly.

From that expression, he could feel the wizard’s resentment for missing the double casting, so Kyle immediately dispelled his doubts.

“I heard the story.”

“Yes, I was sent to find the culprit who stole the material.”

“Can’t we just make the material again?”

“If you try to make it without catching the culprit, it will only be stolen again.”

How the hell are you going to catch it? Kyle shrugged his shoulders as if wondering. A few days had passed, but it wasn’t strange even though I had already taken the materials and shipped them to another country.

But Ivan shook his head, saying that it was not so.

“I can’t tell you the details, but… … First of all, from the day the data was stolen to today. There is no one who has not left the academy and not returned.”

“That word.”

“Yes, that means the culprit is still at the academy.”

At those words, Kyle suddenly had a culprit on his mind. Professor William, who possesses psychic powers that even the Master himself can fool. Wouldn’t he be able to sneak in and out of the principal’s office?

Kyle conveyed the idea directly to Ivan.

“Professor William would be able to sneak in and out.”

“All possible suspects are under investigation. And Professor William’s investigation has already been completed.”

“Nevertheless, the fact that you came to us.”

“Professor William is not the culprit.”

I don’t know what or how the investigation was conducted, but since someone like the special investigator wasn’t the culprit— Kyle nodded his head in agreement.

Ivan, who had a rough conversation, began to talk about it, saying that it was time to start the investigation.

“Now—then, let me ask you. Kyle Meyer, Yuri Grace. Are you two the culprits of stealing research materials?”

“… … no?”

“Do you know the suspected culprit?”

“uh… Except for the professor I mentioned earlier.”

“What about Cadet Yuri?”

“do not have.”

“great.”

The moment he finished only two questions, Kyle felt a very subtle wave flying towards him and tilted his head slightly.

It was because the wave was not emitted from Ivan in front of him, but from a man with no presence behind him.

“The investigation ends here. Then we’ll leave.”

“Are you done with this? what did you do… … .”

“It is a confidential investigation.”

Saying that, Ivan got up from his seat after retrieving the sound-absorbing magic tool. Kyle, who thought he might have asked other miscellaneous questions just to ask those two, let out a blank laugh and looked at the glass.

However, Yuri looked at Kyle with a nonchalant expression, as if he was very used to it.

“Why?”

“no… Because there is such an investigation.”

“What’s wrong?”

“What kind of investigation is that? Aren’t you usually looking for evidence?”

“Looking for evidence? What investigation is that?”

Yuri looked at Kyle as if he couldn’t understand.

“I just need to find the culprit with magic and force.”

“uh?”

“Isn’t it a more savage way to find evidence by hand without magic or force?”

It was.

This is fantasy, and fantasy has its own rhetoric.

The reason Ivan left after asking only two questions was that those two questions were enough to determine whether the two were guilty or not.

* * *

Time passed. The theft at the academy was a secret, so there were no rumors about it, and classes were never stopped because of the secret case.

At the same time, however, there were no rumors that the culprit had been caught.

It seemed as if the incident would continue like this. Among us, it was even said that the principal was not stolen, but that it was leaked from somewhere.

To be honest, considering the principal’s age, that was more credible.

‘The investigation is so fantasy-like that I don’t even believe it.’

Fingerprinting, footprints, and identification with a camera like the earth—if there was a scientific investigation, it would have been credible—but when the two investigators came and asked a few questions, it felt like this was not an investigation, but a pun.

Are you the culprit?

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No.

ok let’s do it

I feel like I saw that meme floating around the internet right in front of my eyes. I sighed and stretched. Lately, Sera and Yuri, who had expected to receive a reward, didn’t seem very happy either.

‘How can I find the culprit?’

As I walked down the street with my doubts in my head, something soft on my back pressed me down. When I turned my head, wondering if the slime had attacked me, Aria smiled with her blonde hair shining.

“hi! Long time no see, Kyle.”

“aria. long time no see.”

“What are you worried about?”

She tilted her head and jumped forward. With her movements, the big dream and the hem of her skirt fluttered and robbed her gaze.

But no matter how she seduced people, I couldn’t talk about the secret investigation, so I shook my head.

“Nothing.”

“It doesn’t look like that… … Well, if you’re okay, you’ll be fine!”

Having said that, Arya naturally started to cling to me. There was no reason to shake her off, so I walked around the academy with her.

Even when I was silent, Arya threw up stories that I didn’t know about.

“It wasn’t long ago—”

“yes.”

“Because something like that happened.”

“I see.”

“Does it bother me that we are together?”

“Oh, that’s great.”

“… … Aren’t you listening?”

Oh, I heard.

I shook my head as I looked at Aria, who was standing there with a very puzzled expression.

“I just have an idea to do it now.”

“What? talk to me too I’m a commoner, but I know a lot of things that will help.”

Arya began to feel confident that if she had a keen sense, she could solve anything.

Looking at her like that, I began to think about how to explain it except that the research materials were stolen.

“Well… … So, something like this happened—”

After hearing my adapted story, Aria put her chin on her chin, closed her eyes, thought for a moment, and then began to recite her thoughts.

“Kyle! In many cases, the person you thought was the culprit is the culprit!”

“… … What kind of imitation is that?”

“Oh, don’t you know? It’s a mystery novel that’s popular in academies these days—”

I mumbled over Aria’s words and lost myself in thought for a moment. The person suspected of being the culprit is the culprit… … .

– Shall we try?

“Aria, thank you.”

“yes? what?”

“Thanks to you, I think we can find the culprit.”

“Um… I’m not sure, but yes!”

It was said that fantasy has a fantasy-like rhetoric.

Then this goes fantasy too.

* * *

Late at night when the moon rose in mid-heaven, magic professor William Taylor finished his research and headed home.

Walking along the main road alone at night would be frightening to ordinary people, but to him, a 4-star wizard, it didn’t matter.

It means that you don’t have to worry about thugs or thieves in the city.

Like this—even if a black assassin comes.

“William Taylor.”

A voice deliberately lowered. He was wearing a robe on the outside, so it didn’t seem very easy to figure out who the other party was.

William sighed slightly and glared at the assassin.

“Are you doing this because you know who I am?”

“—I came to steal the things you stole.”

“Is this the item that the investigator came to ask about not long ago? I would have proved it then. I didn’t steal It is a fact proved by the investigator.”

“If you give me something, I’ll save your life.”

Conversation doesn’t work Haa, William let out a sigh and used his force to erase the signs of magic, then carefully began to chant magic.

“I didn’t steal, so… … Yes!”

William, who finished the magic chant in an instant, fired the magic as it was, and an intense current flowed through the ground and aimed at the assassin.

The assassin swung his sword as he watched the current flying at him. I’m ignorant, but I don’t know that electricity flows through swords.

The moment I thought so, an aura blade bloomed from the assassin’s sword.

“uh?”

aura master. Realizing what it meant that he had come to assassinate him himself, William looked at the assassin in a cold sweat.

“… … Where are you from?”

“Kibotos.”

“Looks like there’s another weird secret organization or something. It seems pretty great to send a Master… … .”

William sighed deeply and looked at the assassin.

“… … Will you really save me if I give you the data?”

“—No.”

“Ha, how dare you speak so confidently. What if I don’t give you the data and hide it?”

“Because I don’t have to do that anymore.”

Saying that, the assassin threw off the robe he was wearing. William, who thought he would see the face, hardened his expression as he saw the face appearing beyond the robe.

“… … Kyle Meyer?”

“Nice to meet you. professor.”

“What is this, why are you… No more than that- Cadets are Masters? Is that a first year?”

Towards William, who kept spitting out mysterious words as if he couldn’t understand, Kyle confidently opened his mouth.

“I never said that items were data. How did you know that the items you stole were data?”

“Cadet Kyle. It’s against the law for you, who aren’t even an investigator, to do this—”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“what?”

Kyle shrugged his shoulders as he watched William talk about the law. If I had believed in the law in the first place, I wouldn’t have gone out like this.

Law is not an absolute law, but a rule full of loopholes created by humans.

“It is said that science fiction is incomparable to fantasy, Professor.”

State-of-the-art forensic techniques commonly used when mankind built a nuclear bomb and put a man on the moon. Once made a criminal, the evidence is the rhetoric that emerges later.

And at this moment—William confessed with his own mouth that he was the culprit.

“As an honorable academy cadet, I will arrest the professor.”

do not comply

because it’s more comfortable

Kyle said and jumped forward.