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Oh my god!

Who would do such a horrible thing?!

Although they don't have any pronounced external injuries...

Sure enough...

Their vitality has been sucked up.

It bears a great resemblance to whatever the student from our school was preyed upon by.

Melida.

Let's see what your private tutor has to say about this.

Th-the thing is...

I haven't been able to find him since I woke up this morning.

There's no doubt that young man is a key person of interest in relation to this incident!

Track him down and bring him before me!

If that's what you ask of us, Blossom!

Yeah, right on!

Hey, Lita.

There's something I want to tell you about.

Sorry, Elli.

I want to be alone right now.

Lita...

The Last Testament of a Certain Skeleton

Why would Instructor Kufa do that?

Did he really?

Attention everyone!

We may have experienced a heartbreaking event

but try not to let it get to you.

Let's press on and continue our studies and training here.

Can't say I'm impressed.

To think a top student like yourself is trying to escape!

I bet you were thinking

"If no one is going to believe him

then I need to take my instructor's side and stand by him."

Am I right?

W-well...

Pretty foolish, aren't you?

I'm seeing you in a new light.

Maybe you have the right idea.

Seems a lot more worthwhile than some boring investigation of historic ruins.

In the first place, Angel...

Have you started to get an idea of what it is we should be investigating?

I don't know.

But I can't just stand around and do nothing.

The mystery spots.

Kufa was talking about them.

He said in recent years there's been an unnatural surge in the number of mystery spots in town.

Instructor Kufa said that?

He asked a favor of me.

He said, "If anything should happen to me, I'd like you to watch over Lady Melida."

Jeez, he goes and asks me of all people...

My instructor did such a thing?

We're gonna go around town and ask some questions now.

But, I stand out too much.

Being an instructor at my age and all...

Ah, so that's why you're disguising yourself as a student?

What do you think?

Does it suit me?

Oh...?

You're still inside the hotel?

Shouldn't you be attending to your studies?

My little sister left something behind in the room!

She was being a big baby saying, "I can't go back unless my big sis is with me,"

which is why we're here together!

I-I love my kindhearted big sister!

Oh my, the two of you certainly are close.

Here's some chocolate for you.

Y-yay!

Hey, Angel, I'll get even with you for that.

In any case, let's start gathering some information.

Okay, I'll give it a shot!

Hey now, Angel!

Excuse me!

Oh, a cute little schoolgirl.

Something I can help you with?

Actually, there's something I'd like to ask people from this town about...

What is it?

You see, I'm looking into this town's mystery spots.

They scolded me harshly, saying, "Don't go near them on a lark."

I did get a piece of candy, though.

I award you zero points.

I'll show you how it's done.

Big Sis, buy me some flowers!

Huh?

S-sure.

What an unusual scent and shape...

Big Sis, what's this flower called?

Uh, let me see...

Well, you see...

It's a selectively-bred variety that might as well be called a Shangarta brand, young ladies.

Amazing!

Being able to enjoy colorful flowers in an arid land like this

is one of the many things that's all thanks to Blossom.

Ma'am, as a matter of fact, we're doing some research.

Oh, about what?

About the great achievements of Marquis Blossom Pricket!

Well that's just wonderful, isn't it?!

Yes!

Speaking of Marquis Blossom's achievements, there's the development of new crop varieties...

and also - let's see...

The identification of mystery spots, right?!

Thanks to which there are far fewer people who end up getting injured these days!

What's a "mystery spot"?!

I've heard they're dangerous places...

Well done indeed, Instructor Laque!

What can I say?

Although for now I've resigned myself to the position I temporarily hold...

The true me is...

Pretty amazing like that, you know!

Extracting intel during the course of a spontaneous conversation...

is only the beginning of what I can do.

The mystery spots that old lady mentioned were...

"The Whirlpool Forest,"

"The Zero-Gravity Cave,"

and...

The most suspicious of all was "The Crooked House."

That must be it!

Blossom Pricket was especially strict about forbidding anyone from entering this area.

There's nothing here.

Just as I suspected.

This place isn't a mystery spot.

Huh?

This log cabin didn't become crooked over time...

It was built that way from the start.

But why?!

By hiding something within another "product of nature,"

the aim was probably to make sure people and their prying eyes kept their distance.

There it is.

Hey, Angel.

There's no telling what might happen down there.

Stay close by at all times.

I bet this is meant to prevent intruders.

If it was just an ordinary cellar

there'd be no need to construct it so deep underground.

And not putting on lamps on the stairway is also quite absurd.

By instilling a sense of fear and anxiety

the aim is to deter people from heading further inside, you see.

To put it the other way around

it speaks to the fact that venturing inside is unadvisable.

Seems we've arrived.

A dungeon?

Instructor Laque, who are those people?

Judging from their clothing, they're likely residents of Shangarta.

Moreover, those aren't regular old corpses.

Huh?

Loup-garous...

Humans affected by the "night gene-factor" who weren't able to fully transform

would-be lancanthropes...

Those corpses are failed loup-garous.

Look at that man's arm.

That's the man who...

"Rare illness"? Yeah, right!

The thing raging around this town is no disease.

The residents are being used for some sort of experiment.

The Marquis is starting to look pretty suspicious.

Marquis Blossom?

The specimens he collected that he professed as diseased

were likely carried to this place that's hidden from public view and then used in his experiments.

And I suppose that's why he deliberately increased the number of mystery spots.

How half-hearted!

It's not enough...

Blood! Show me some blood!

Kill them! Go on and kill them!

Hey, Angel, are you listening to me?

That voice...

There's going to be another incident!

Hey! Angel?!

Why...

Do I know where the next incident is going to take place?

They say someone's been attacked again.

This time it was a school kid...

She's dead... DEAD!

Headmistress!

Miss Angel, where have you been?

Why...?

Why did this happen?!

Elli?!

Hang in there, Elli!

She's breathing...

What a relief.

Elli isn't wounded...

So, where's this blood from?

Rosetti, why did you die?

Why was it that you had to be murdered?!

Instructor Rosetti...

Is dead?

Headmistress?

When we rushed over here after being notified, we arrived to the same scene you did.

Miss Angel.

You didn't take part in the training session either, right?

C-correct.

It would seem Elise noticed your absence, became concerned, and then headed back here.

Elli did that?

It's probable that Instructor Rosetti then accompanied her...

So long as she went along with her, I gave my tacit approval

but it turned out to be most careless of me.

There are signs that Instructor Rosetti put up a fight.

Assuming she was overpowered and wrestled to the floor

the culprit is no average joe.

Must be that man!

I bet he's a soldier!

Hail the town folk for me!

It's that man with the military uniform and the black hair!

He's the guy who killed Rosetti!

Drag him before me ASAP!

Ah, Marquis Blossom...

My daughter's soul is still here with us!

I'll attempt to bring her back to life!

Marquis, is it right to handle Lady Rosetti so roughly?

What the hell would a school kid know?!

I'm a man who's been called a sage!

I shall overcome even the state between life and death!

Soundly defeating a Paladin and the Carrier Marquis at the same time, huh?

There aren't too many people capable of pulling that off.

Excuse me, Instructor Laque.

Could you please give me a little time alone with Elli?

In any case...

We're not going to be able to leave this town until the lightning outside subsides.

There can be no more jumping the gun and acting rashly.

I'm sorry, Elli.

If I hadn't gone off on my own like that...

You never would have gotten wrapped up in that incident, you know?

Hey, Lita...

There's something I want to tell you about.

Elli...

Back then...

What was it you wanted to tell me?

Elli...

I'm weak, so lend me your strength.

Get that student!

The pupil of that uniform-clad man!

Hurry up!

What?!

Avenge Rosetti! What?!

Avenge Rosetti! Melida!

You need to get out of here right away!

Shenfa, did something happen?

This time Marquis Blossom was attacked!

Apparently, the culprit wounded the Marquis and then made off with Rosetti's corpse.

At the scene of crime, there were some flames of blue mana left behind.

Even the academy director is no longer capable of standing up for your instructor.

She in there?!

That blond student!

Open up!

Wh-what's going on?

The townspeople have become aware of your connection to Instructor Kufa.

They're saying that if they take you hostage they'll be able to lure out the culprit.

Let's break down the door!

Yeah!

Make a run for it, Melida!

Hurry!

Okay!

I'm sorry.

Shenfa.

Elli.

Headmistress.

Instructor Laque.

Instructor Kufa.

I'm going to get to the bottom of this!

For the sake of Elli and Instructor Rosetti.

And, above all, in order to save Instructor Kufa!

Sure enough, I can hear it...

The sound of water.

Milady, have you grown tired of the lecture?

Instructor...

No!

Stay away from there!

This area is a mystery spot!

It's a world in which conventional wisdom does not apply!

I now know based on my investigation with Instructor Laque...

Mystery spots include more than just places affected by magnetic fields.

Besides...

Instructor Kufa was also trying to keep me away from this boulder for some reason.

"Mystery spot"? I think not!

There's definitely some trickery at play here.

A spiderweb?

Is that...

Marquis Blossom's signature?

And here, too... and here... and here...

The writing in all of them regards research on the "night gene-factor"

and its extraction and transplantation?

"From lancanthropes, the basis of the curse

the night gene-factor, must first be extracted."

Then, infect humans with it.

In theory, it should be possible.

However, there can be no expectation that such a dreadful experiment will succeed.

In fact, seven years ago I failed to control the night gene-factor.

I can sense it.

Someone has crept inside my old haunt.

I currently lack the sense of sight...

Who the hell are you?

I-I'm a young Paladin girl named Melida Angel!

Now, what about you?

Show yourself!

A Paladin...?

I see.

You'll make for a very useful specimen in the experiments.

A bright idea just occurred to me.

What...?

Instructor Rosetti?!

So you're still alive, then!

I want it...

I want...

Blood.

Give me your blood!

Blue... mana?

This is the mana of the culprit!

Lita!

Someone has been attacked again!

By that blue-flamed criminal!

Instructor Rosetti, did you...

Was all of this your doing, Instructor Rosetti?!

Now, drink!

This time, suck the very life out of your prey!

Present me with the sweet smell of blood!

His pupil shall be the first one sacrificed!

Instructor...?!

Snap out of it, Rose!

So you've shown yourself, Ice King!

Rose!

You're not an inhabitant of the darkness!

Your memories of the time you spent as a human should act to constrain you now!

Remember!

Remember all the people who love you!

It's futile.

There's no defying seven years' worth of thirst.

Just sit back and watch the repulsive sight of that woman fall under my control.

Instructor...

What's with your appearance?

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