Chapter 63 Too Many Doubts
Edith breathed a sigh of relief.
Getting the token from Meili was one thing, getting the principal to acknowledge it was another. If the principal could come, her plan would be halfway done.
The negotiator narrowed his eyes and looked the visitor up and down. A strange sense of familiarity hovered in his mind.
However, he was dressed so roughly, and didn't look like the one I remembered...
"Please move aside. We are going to force the blast. We have fulfilled our duty of notification. If anyone is injured, the City Hall will not pay any compensation." He pretended to be intimidating to drive away the intruders and glanced at Edith.
Under the current circumstances, no one can stop him from completing his mission.
"Carnegie Dale, graduated from Beaujolais College seven years ago, majoring in Magicology." Instead of leaving, the middle-aged man reported all the man's information expressionlessly, "The second son of Viscount Dale, entered the City Hall with the help of his father - I hope I remember correctly."
The negotiator's expression was frozen on his face.
"......Who are you?"
"Idiot, I'm your principal."
The man rubbed his messy hair in annoyance, raised his cane, and hit the negotiator's head quickly and accurately. The other party screamed, but the man was too lazy to pay attention. He turned around and quickly put his clothes in place, coughed twice, and pretended to be calm as he walked in front of Edith: "That, is that the thing you sent?"
Although I had heard Mary's instructions in advance, I was still surprised when I saw it with my own eyes.
Edith bowed and replied, "Yes."
It was a good decision not to refuse what Mary forced upon her.
The principal nodded, his curiosity almost overflowing, but now was not the right time to ask questions: "Okay, then, what exactly is happening to you now?"
Edith quickly put the story across in simple terms.
The negotiator recovered from the beating, still trembling. His grades in the academy were not good, and he was able to enter the city hall mainly because of his father's connections. This was not a big deal, but judging from the recent trend, the queen seemed to be interested in exposing all these "connected nobles".
It is best not to offend the principal as he is the person who has the power to check his grades.
After listening to Edith's story, he couldn't help but interrupt and explained the task he had received. "I have a formal search warrant!" He became more and more confident as he spoke, and gradually straightened his chest. "Everything I did was legal and compliant. Even if you are the principal, you cannot protect students."
"Where's the search warrant?"
After listening to the two's explanation, the principal frowned slightly, as if he was confused about something. He took the item from the negotiator and observed it carefully for a while, and the confusion on his face deepened, "...There are problems with the seal and signature on your search warrant."
Edith narrowed her eyes.
The search warrant is actually a rolled-up parchment. To prevent it from being used by someone with ulterior motives, the time, personnel and location of the search are written on it. The lower right corner of the scroll usually has the signature and seal of the person in charge, and this one is no exception.
But the words above are wrong.
The negotiator's face changed and he immediately pulled the thing back, staring at the lower right corner and checking each character one by one.
It’s actually true.
The seal and name of the person in charge who signed for him had a letter wrong - if it was the name, it could be explained, it was possible that the mistake was made because of haste. But the seal needed to be engraved in advance, so it couldn't be a temporary mistake.
Person in charge...was there also such a typo in the search warrant that you helped to sign before?
The negotiators dared not confirm.
There is something wrong with the characters, and the principal's doubts are reasonable. If it were these students who discovered the problem, he could just pretend that there was no problem and finish the task first, but the one who pointed out the problem was the principal of Bo Yunis College, who has a very high social status...
"...Let's go."
He finally gritted his teeth and gave the order to retreat.
Writing the wrong name is the person in charge's problem. Failure to complete the task has nothing to do with him. At most he will be scolded, which is much better than being fired directly because of the problem.
The rest of the injured people were overjoyed to hear this and immediately packed up and left the scene. The negotiator stayed behind to finish the work. He lowered his head and walked quickly past the principal, and suddenly heard a few words in a low voice.
"Be careful and don't let anyone use you as a magic wand again."
He suddenly looked up, but saw the principal tilting his head and looking into the distance, as if the words just now did not come from his mouth. The negotiator withdrew his gaze and walked out, suddenly feeling that his back was soaked with cold sweat.
...Did the person in charge do it on purpose?
......
Edith thanked the principal again, and everyone who finally dared to come out of the protective shield saluted together. They seemed to want to say a few words to Edith, but they were restricted by the principal standing aside, so they could only step back a few steps, leaving enough space, and watch with their mouths closed.
Edith looked up at the other person.
The principal also stared at her. After a while, he opened his mouth and asked, "What is your relationship with Meili?"
Edith replied immediately: "My sister is an apprentice there."
The principal narrowed his eyes.
"I didn't know that Meili still planned to take in students. When I invited her to join the Beaujolais Academy, I was told that she only planned to teach one last student for the rest of her life. But then something unexpected happened, and I thought she would never look for a new apprentice in her life."
Edith looked confused, showing the stereotypical civilian look very well: "Really? What happened to that student?"
"She's dead."
The two fell silent at the same time.
"I sensed that you were confused after hearing about the search warrant." Edith broke the silence, "Why?"
The principal was stunned, as if he had not expected Edith to observe so carefully. "First of all, I want to emphasize one point." He thought for a while and said, "I remember Carnegie not because of my good memory, but because his father found me when he was helping him get into the city hall and hoped that I could write a letter of introduction."
"That conversation gave me a clear understanding of the Dahler family - stupid, arrogant, and short-sighted. Carnegie entered City Hall with a less powerful relationship and could not have been promoted.
It is impossible for him to take on such an easy and rewarding mission that clearly identifies the fugitive's gender, characteristics and location."
The principal stopped there. Edith lowered her head to think for a while, then thanked him and said, "Thank you for coming out so late. Let's go back with you."
"No need. Since I'm out of school, I might as well go home and stay for a night." The man yawned and patted Edith's shoulder. "You guys go back by yourselves."
Edith nodded.
The principal smiled and said, "Don't forget to hand in twenty copies of the school rules within this week."
He turned to look at the stunned crowd and raised his eyebrows: "Twenty times per person."
…
2:30 in the middle of the night, in the dormitory.
Heda was too sleepy to bear it and fell headfirst into her bed. Bell was also exhausted from consuming magic power, and after Edith repeatedly emphasized that he didn't need help, he also got back into bed and fell asleep quickly.
Edith pulled the still dazed Mulin to sit in front of the fireplace, but she didn't light a fire, just lit a lamp: "What exactly happened tonight?"
Mu Lin took two sips of water to calm down.
She explained the whole thing in a concise way. It was nearly eleven o'clock when they arrived at the inn. Her parents didn't have the habit of running the tavern all night, so they had already closed the door. She secretly unlocked it and led everyone in.
The hotel was very small and we finished the tour in less than half an hour. We thought we would leave now and get back to school at exactly 12 o'clock, which would not violate school rules. However, we were blocked by the city hall before we even left the house.
"As you can see, I sensed that the other party was looking for me, so I hid. My parents had all the guests at the hotel checked, thinking that the other party could leave if they couldn't find me. Who knew that we would face each other like this."
Edith sat up slowly.
There were too many doubts tonight, and her mind was a little confused. She could only grasp the most important points first: "Have you ever stored any form of your magic fluctuations?"
Generally speaking, people can sense the fluctuations of a person's magic power when she manipulates it, which is as unique as a person's face. But it is easy to sense, but difficult to store, and it needs to be refilled with a special box within five seconds after a person releases magic power - usually only used when seeing a doctor.
Mu Lin thought for a while: "If it's the kind in the hospital, no."
"But - doesn't everyone store their own magic fluctuations in a magic lock now?"
Edith was stunned.
Magic lock?
As a person who had only used the magic lock in her life, she didn't have a strong sense of this thing.
"Wait, didn't you say that the city hall would replace the locks of your parents' hotel with the latest models?" Edith suddenly remembered the conversation when they first moved into this dormitory, and looked up and asked, "What is the specific frequency?"
"I've changed every year since I was five." Mu Lin also noticed something was wrong, "... Is there any problem?"
"The magic lock has been passed down for five generations." Edith clasped her hands together and tapped the back of her hands with her fingers. "But the city hall changed the lock on your house ten years ago."
"Why the extra five times?"
…
"Mr. David."
The principal was tiptoeing home when he was stopped by a voice, "What are you doing out so late?"
The headmaster cursed inwardly, turned around and saw the new Potions teacher he had just recruited this year, and asked, "Professor Scott, it's so late, why don't you stay in the academy to mark the papers? What are you doing here?"
Xie Li raised the bottle in his hand and said, "Buy some experimental equipment."
In fact, I went to the potion shop in the Tulip Market again to take a look, but still didn't wait for the owner, so I could only buy some things on the way.
What a legitimate reason.
The principal gritted his teeth and could only reveal the purpose of tonight to show that he was not being lazy: "A few students had some problems, so I went to help them."
"What kind of student could ask you to do this?" Shelly frowned. The familiar feeling of being watched returned, so he called the principal to test whether he was the person behind the scenes.
It feels very possible to give such a strange reason.
"Merry's request." The principal thought of the relationship between Shelly and Merry and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he didn't have to introduce Merry. "By the way, did you know that Merry found a new apprentice?"
Shelly said expressionlessly: "I know."
"That's great. The new apprentice's sister is studying in our college. Meili asked me to help look after her, so I ran out in the middle of the night." The principal was very confident, "I'm not lazy, I'm not lazy."
"Her sister?"
"Yes, I don't know if you know her, her name is Edith Griffin, the most popular first grader this year." The principal said with emotion, "Sure enough, the sister of such a person is also a powerful character, and she was able to convince Mary to accept her as her apprentice."
He didn't notice Shelly's gradually stiffening body, and continued to mutter, "Her name is actually Edith. Oh, I remember there are seven Ediths among the freshmen this year alone. This name is really everywhere in the capital—"
"Edith has a sister who is an apprentice to Mellie," Shelly interrupted the headmaster and repeated, "That's right, isn't it?"
The principal was confused: "...right? Don't ask me, you are more familiar with Meili."
He didn't get a reply. After getting the answer, the man said nothing, and walked away from the principal's sight into the night.
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