[file number one: News paper]
John: "earlier this morning, professor minsium has been found dead in his office, Hanged by a rope from the ceiling, it's been just one week since the explosion of the summoning hall, and yet this brave teacher couldn't handle losing one of his students so he decided to join the missing student, rest in peace professor minsium" brave? Yeah like my ass. there's things in this world that don't belong together, and the word brave can't be said about someone like minsium, other than this, the academy news paper doesn't say much about the case, well, it was written by a students after all, there's still three other files than this one.
[File number two: detective's note]
John: "in the professor's office, There were no fingerprints of anyone other than minsium himself, No signs of any resistance or fighting, other than this, Some eyewitnesses said they saw the professor go to the lake in the forest behind the academy, after checking on the lake we didn't find anything other than footsteps of minsium, there's no evidence To prove the theory that someone killed minsium, Final result of the investigation: suicide" hmmm, it wasn't that useful, but at least I have something to start with, everything in the detective's note points to minsium killing himself, something about this doesn't feel right, at least for me.
[File number three: Eyewitness' statements]
John: "student 1: since the summoning hall explosion, professor minsium started to be quieter and less talkative with everyone, even in class, he'll just write everything on the board." "Student 2: in the past week, I've seen the professor going to the lake many times, I tried to follow him but the only thing he was doing was just sitting besides the lake and gazing onto the horizon." "Teacher: I really don't know if this will be useful or not, but in the past week, minsium has been trying to make as less physical contact with people as much as he can."
the rest of the statements are pretty much like these,hmmm?, I can't tell what ties these together, maybe the last file has the answer.
[File number four: rumors]
John: "rumor 1: the professor minsium that we saw in the last week wasn't the real minsium but just a puppet" this is actually a good theory, but it's missing one important thing, to use a puppet or illusion the user must stay in a nearby place and stay focused, the only way for minsium to do something like that is being as strong as Elesa or having a huge amount of mana in his mana veins,
"rumor 2: someone brainwashed professor minsium and made him commit suicide" this doesn't seem right, minsium didn't get the professor title by hard work, that's a fact, but he still has a high resistance to any mind magic,"rumor 3: some people in cargo village Saw someone digging in the professor's grave at night" hmm? Cargo village? Isn't that the nearest village to the academy? so his "dead body" is buried there, the rest of the rumors aren't that useful.
John leaves his chair He stretches his arms and yawns, he then notices Elesa sleeping in a bunch of books on the couch.
John: *yawn* huh? How can she sleep on books? To this moment I still can't believe she's the demon queen.
John grabs Elesa and puts her on the bed as he also prepares to go to bed, laying on his back, John looks at the ceiling and starts gathering his thoughts.
John: (I have a lot of information about minsium's case, but most of them aren't connected *sigh* I should go to the lake tomorrow and see myself, but now I should get some rest).
[The next day At noon]
Behind the academy John tries to go to the lake, but a guard stops him.
Guard: students are not allowed to go to the lake.
John: huh? Is there a reason for that?
Guard: this is the consul's order.
John leaves the guard's field of vision and uses arcane arts to conceal his presence so he can go to the lake.
John: (the consul's order huh? We'll see about that).
With quick steps, John goes between the woods, and when he reaches the lake, to his surprise no one is there.
John: huh? No one is here, usually some students come here to study, but this place is empty, hmmm, I'm going to wait for a while and see what's really going on.
After two hours nothing happened.
John: we've been here for almost two hours and nothing out of ordinary has happened, Elesa you can use the arcane arts better than me, can you see or feel something in this lake.
Elesa closes her eyes, focusing on the lake, every bug, every falling leaf is Captured in her surroundings, but even with the demon queen's power there's still nothing.
Elesa: hmmm, there's no sign of unusual activity in this place, are you sure that minsium wasn't drunk or something because this place looks normal.
John: I was sure that something is wrong with this place, and the consul's order of not allowing students to come here made me more suspicious, but even you couldn't manage to find any, then I guess this will be a dead end, let's go for now, I'll try to think of something else later.
As he returned, Days go by and days turned into weeks.
[Three weeks later, at 11:30 pm]
In his room sitting on his desk, John gathered his thoughts, and he might have an Initial plan for the current situation.
John: (three weeks has passed and I didn't make any progress on minsium's case, all of that because of the consul, I felt like the past weeks were Gray, and just like the gray color, nothing too much to say about it, I avoided any contact with Aldric and the others, I already came with a plan to know what's happening inside the consul, but for that, I need to know how the guards move, When does their shift end, with guards everywhere that wasn't easy, but what really made it harder is that there was someone following me, not a guard, but a student, he acts like a normal student, talking to his friends, studying, but I'm not a fool to fall for this, he keeps a safe distance between us so he can put his eyes on me without exposing himself, heh unfortunately for him, I'm already going to start my plan, every day at 12:00 in the middle of the night, The guards' shift ends and the second shift guards come, Between the departure of the first shift and the arrival of the second shift, there will be a few minutes where the corridor in front of my room will be empty. To be precise, there will be exactly three minutes, in this little time Elesa will disguise as a female guard so she can go inside the consul and gather all information I need) Elesa I want you to disguise as a guard and make your way inside the consul and-. . . . Elesa? . . Elesa are you listening?
Elesa seems to be floating in her imagination while she reads a book on the bed.
Elesa: "then he pushed me to the wall And he held my wrist with his strong hand then he bites my neck sucking a little of my blood, licking his lips and A sly smile spread across his face, then he said: I want to taste more than your blood. And then. . . ."
Before she could even turn the page, a hand grabbed her by the neck and threw her to the corridor out of the room.
With an angry expression, she starts screaming at him.
Elesa: HEY!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, I WAS READING THAT!!
John: I'm sure you heard what I said, and don't think of coming back empty handed.
With those words, John slams the door shut, leaving Elesa alone in the corridor, without any choice, Elesa transformers into a female guard with her human form.
Elesa: *Tsk* stupid master, just as the best part of the novel is about to happen, he decided to start his plan, well I should keep up with the leaving shift.
As Elesa leaves the corridor, she noticed a group of guards rushing out of the building, then she followed them and blended in, the group started walking behind the academy in a similar path to Elesa.
Elesa: (huh? Isn't this the way to the lake? Did something happened there?).
Just when the guards group reached the lake one of them raised his hand forward and casts a spell even Elesa didn't know, just when the guard finished, a hidden door in the ground appears on the edge of the lake.
Elesa, stunned in her place, her eyes are wide open, the demon queen Elesa already checked this place but she didn't see this door when she used her power, it's like a new type of magic appeared out of nowhere.
Elesa: (what the hell is this?!!).