Chapter 367 Observation
Delphinium does not make decisions alone.
It wasn't because she couldn't make the decision on this matter, but because she felt that it would be more appropriate to discuss this matter with the "allies" of the Magic Academy and the Research Institute, so as to avoid any conflicts in the cooperative relationship between them.
The information provided by Bohe is undoubtedly valuable, and its request that the research institute not close the net immediately is actually completely acceptable.
Rather, even if she hadn't made this request, the people from the Research Institute and the Institute of Magical Affairs had no intention of taking action immediately.
After all, if we eliminate the Black Dawn's undercover agent now, who will cause trouble next? Can we rely solely on those claw marks, which still haven't been found? If no one causes trouble, then where is the credit for the Institute? How can the Institute of Demonic Affairs regain their jeweled scepter?
The previous situation was that the enemy was in the dark and we were in the open, so the research institute naturally had to do everything it could to uncover any hidden players. But with Bohe's surrender, the position was reversed. The enemy was in the open and we were in the dark, so we could naturally take the initiative to control the situation.
A list identifying the Black Dawn beasts is enough to significantly improve the stability of the subsequent security plan, and the research institute has also gained a starting point for tracing back the Black Dawn personnel.
As long as the authenticity of this list and the reliability of Bohe's surrender can be verified, then keeping these people on the list is far more valuable than arresting them immediately.
As for the treatment of Bohe himself, it depends on the results of the investigation.
If a subsequent investigation reveals that the other party has committed heinous crimes and harmed innocent people while colluding with Black Dawn, the Demonic Affairs Bureau will likely show no mercy and send them directly to the Investigation Bureau. At best, they will consider their voluntary surrender and meritorious service, and give them a relatively lenient treatment.
But if what she said was true, and she had indeed done nothing wrong, then Delphinium and Emerald would naturally not trouble a child. Providing a guarantee so that she could continue her activities as a magical girl, providing security for her family in the material world, or even giving her a certain reward were all promises that could be fulfilled.
Of course, these are things that will be considered after the assessment is completed. At present, the institute will not take any action against Mint.
She could, and should, continue to take the qualification certification, and even if she succeeded, her test scores could be retained. All she had to do was pretend nothing had happened, take the test normally, and not alert the enemy.
It can be said that after Mint got in touch with Delphinium, although many things changed secretly, on the surface, Mint just went out for a meal with his teammates and nothing happened.
In addition to asking Delphinium for the Magic Mirror's contact information, she also got an autograph.
Delphinium didn't pursue the strange screams he made on the phone. Although she muttered in her heart that she couldn't understand the young people of today, she maintained the tolerance of a senior and elder. Not only did she not criticize him, but she chose to praise him first, praising his spirit of "abandoning darkness and joining the light."
So when Bo He asked her for an autograph, she thought about it and gave it to him.
However, for safety reasons, even when signing her name, she proactively eliminated any residual magical fluctuations when channeling her magic power through the magic mirror. Furthermore, she signed her name as Delphinium, not "Cornflower."
The former is to prevent some special spells that can find the enemy by relying solely on the name and magic fluctuations, and the latter is to prevent the name of "Cornflower" from being misused.
As for how to verify the authenticity of the list and what adjustments to make to the plan with Emerald, there is no need to discuss this with the children.
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After a short day's rest, the second part of the practical assessment began as usual.
The Magic Armor Test didn't require teams to take place; candidates entered the exam room in batches according to their test number. Because of this, those with lower test numbers could actually come to the exam room later without any problems.
But the delphinium arrived early anyway.
After arriving at the examination room, Delphinium did not immediately go to meet up with Dogtail Grass, Osmanthus fragrans and others. Instead, it pretended to be strolling in the Silver Corridor, blending in with the crowd and secretly observing some magical girls.
Arrowroot potato, Buddaria japonica, Sheep's azalea, Snakeweed.
These were the code names of the other four beastmen who participated in the assessment, besides Bohe. Interestingly, including Bohe, all five of them were ranked on the so-called "big brother list."
To some extent, when Bohe was making this list, it was indeed completely unconcerned.
In addition, according to Mint, there may be some sacrifices among the magical girls present, but the sacrifices of Black Dawn change very quickly. After entering Black Dawn, the sacrifices only have a short training period of one or two years. After that, they either survive the food sacrifice and become beast children, or die for various reasons, so she cannot recognize them all.
However, Delphinium does not need to look for those so-called sacrificial children.
Black Dawn wouldn't hand over such high-risk missions as infiltrating the National Assessment and causing trouble to immature Sacrificial Children. Ultimately, these Beast Children would be the leaders, and the Sacrificial Children would only need to follow their lead and perform minor actions. Therefore, simply keeping a close eye on these Beast Children would be enough to follow the clues and uncover the full story.
Judging from the appearance of these beasts, there is indeed no sign that they possess any residual beast magic power.
In this respect, they were like Bohe and even Bai Jingxuan. If they didn't use the magic of the remnant beast, they would normally look like just ordinary magical girls. Unlike the people in Claw Mark, as long as they used their magic, the magic fluctuations of the remnant beast could not be concealed.
Perhaps it was because of this trait that Black Cinder Dawn dared to let him sneak into the examination room as a hidden player.
However, although they were able to conceal their identities through the fluctuations of their magical power, the personalities, or rather, the behavior, of these beast-children were indeed different from those of ordinary magical girls. Although they were mixed in with the other candidates, one could still sense the difference in their temperaments after observing them for a while.
Not to mention the arrowroot potato that looks like a crane standing out among chickens, extremely confident, as if it is the best in the world; and the Buddleja sempervivum that is like a wolf among sheep, which can make other candidates retreat even if it sits there alone; even the Azalea and Snakewort that don’t look so unusual have a faint, invisible barrier with the candidates next to them.
Specifically, although they were standing in the crowd, they seemed to have no desire to integrate into the crowd or communicate with it.
To be honest, this reminded Cuiqiao of what Lin Xiaolu told her yesterday, about Bohe saying that Lin Xiaolu was also a "sacrificial child".
If everyone in the world can take this sentence as a joke, then Delphinium is the only one who cannot laugh it off.
Because she remembered that last summer, during the Black Embers Dawn attack on the Fangting City Welfare Home, a member of the Black Embers Army who escaped from the welfare home had said something similar.
Although the man was just talking to himself at the time, Delphinium, which was not far away from him and kept approaching, actually heard what he said - "two sacrifices."
Delphinium did not tell this matter to anyone else.
At the time, she had no idea what the "sacrificial child" meant, and she had always assumed it was just a term similar to "deviationist." However, she now understood that the term "sacrificial child" specifically referred to someone who was naturally more compatible with the magical powers of the remnant beasts.
Cuiqiao never thought of Lin Xiaolu as the cause of this matter.
Rather, although she always remembered the saying of "two sacrificial sons" and even considered whether it was referring to Xiaotian, her subordinate in the Strategy Bureau, she never thought that the second "sacrificial son" might be referring to Lin Xiaolu.
So, as his own daughter, is it really possible that Lin Xiaolu is the so-called "sacrificial child"?
Although she didn't want to think about it too deeply, Delphinium knew deep down that this was actually possible.
It's not surprising that her child, or her and Anya's child, has any unique talent in magic.
But she didn't tell Lin Xiaolu about this. Rather, she chose to play dumb about it.
(End of this chapter)
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