Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Rose counted 2000 marks in cash at Hope’s house.

Rose searched carefully and found that Hope had no savings.

The 2000 yuan in cash was not a deposit, but working capital, used to recover the body.

To be honest, Hope is actually quite similar to Mason.

Hope also recognized her own position and had no desire to get married and have children.

He has a little quirk, and not only does it not cost him any money, but he can also make some money from the magician behind him.

Rose carefully rolled up the two thousand marks and stuffed them into his pocket; this money was enough for him to rent a place to stay in the slums.

It's not a good place to stay for long at Hope.

Rose thought for a moment, then gently nudged Tiana, who was still fast asleep.

The girl opened her eyes blankly and looked at him: "Luo Xin... what's wrong?"

Rose thought for a moment and said to her:

"We should go."

"Hmm...I understand, Luo Xin. Are you going to find your father?"

Tiana nodded obediently, her rubbing of her eyes still carrying a touch of childishness.

Rose looked at her, thought for a moment, and then coldly and directly uttered four words:

"Hans is dead."

Titiana's hand, which was rubbing her eyes, froze in mid-air.

Those once bright eyes quickly filled with incredulous terror.

The color drained from her face instantly.

She bit her lower lip hard, her voice trembling:

"Luo Xin... are you kidding? Dad might just be missing..."

Rose didn't waste any more words:

"Come with me."

He first went into the morgue, pulled out a black body bag, and draped it over his arm.

Only then did he lead Tiana step by step down into the dark and damp basement.

Tiana saw Hans's twisted, lifeless body on the operating table, and she stopped in her tracks.

Her gaze gradually became vacant, as if her soul had been emptied.

A broken, weak vibrato was squeezed out of his throat:

"This is... Dad...?"

"Yes, that's Hans."

Rose nodded.

This sentence became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Tiana's emotions collapsed instantly; she cried out in anguish and lunged at the operating table.

Without hesitation, he cupped Hans's face in his hands:

"Daddy! Daddy! What's wrong? It's me, Tiana! Please don't leave me, Daddy!"

"Waaaaah..."

Heart-wrenching cries echoed in the cramped basement.

Rose stood a few steps away, watching the scene in silence.

At this moment, Rose noticed that Hans seemed to be tightly gripping something in his left hand.

The hand, which had been clenched into a fist, began to loosen its stiff knuckles little by little as time passed and the body underwent deformities.

With a soft "thud," a small object slipped through her fingers and fell onto the floor tiles.

Rose stepped forward, bent down, and picked it up.

It was a cheap, rough metal pendant with a photograph embedded inside.

The woman on the left of the photo has a gentle face and her eyebrows and eyes bear a striking resemblance to Tiana. She is holding Tiana, who is still an infant, in her arms.

Hans on the right had a big smile on his face. He was quite strong then, not nearly as thin as Rose had been when they first met.

Because the deceased had clutched the photo tightly in his palm with all his might, the edges of the photo are now peeling and full of wrinkles.

Rose smoothed out the creases little by little with her thumb, then held it up to Tiana's tear-streaked face.

Tiana took the pendant with trembling hands.

When she suddenly looked up, the vulnerability in her eyes had been replaced by a fierce look:

"Luo Xin! Who killed Dad?!"

"It's Hope, the supervisor of the soup kitchen. You should know him."

Rose's tone remained calm.

"But I've already killed him, and his body is in the morgue upstairs."

Rose wanted to say we should go, but when her gaze met the girl's shattered eyes, she hesitated for a moment and said:

"Tiana, we can't just leave Hans's body like this. We should bury him."

Tiana clutched the pendant tightly, a sliver of reason still remaining in her eyes.

She looked at Rose and nodded vigorously.

Rose and Tiana put Hans's body into a body bag.

The reason for doing this was because Hans's body was rather grotesque.

In fact, it is common to see people carrying corpses on their backs in the streets of slums.

Some people were afraid that when they found the body, someone else would get there first.

Of course, such people are still a minority...

Are they really a minority?

It's quite common in slums; about half of the people who are capable of moving corpses do it.

However, a body like Hans's is relatively rare, so Rose had prepared a body bag beforehand.

However, a problem arose when putting him into the body bag: the deformity on Hans' body seemed to be hanging very fragilely on his body.

The abnormally growing extra organs on Hans's body seemed to have lost their activity as his life ended, and the connections between his flesh and blood became extremely fragile.

As soon as Rose and Tiana moved the body even a fraction of an inch, the deformed eyeballs and withered little hands fell off with a series of dull thuds, rolling all over the ground.

After Rose and Tiana put the main body of the corpse inside, they bent down and picked up the eyeballs and hands one by one, stuffing them into the body bag.

Zip up the zipper and seal the bag.

Rose hoisted the heavy body bag onto her shoulder and led Tiana up the stairs.

Using her WindNet perception, Rose chose a time when there weren't many people around and left Hope's house.

Afterwards, Rose took Tiana to the forest in the western district.

On the way, Tiana kept her head down and remained silent.

Rose led her to Kenneth's grave.

Rose didn't have a shovel, but he had the ability to "transform into a cloud."

An invisible, high-pressure airflow surrounded him, moving as easily as his own arms.

Under Rose's precise micro-management, the invisible wind turned over the soil like a shovel, quickly digging a deep pit in the ground.

I said that "transforming into cloud shape" is roughly equivalent to telekinesis. Does anyone understand?

Releasing reason's influence on reality through runes requires less concentration and is more effective than simply using telekinesis.

This is the source of magical power.

The two men gently lowered Hans's body bag into the pit and buried it properly.

Rose found a thick, long wooden stick nearby and made a simple tombstone just like Kenneth's. She then took out a small knife from her pocket and carved Hans's name on it.

In fact, Rose always carried a small knife with her. She had received it from three kind people on her first day in the slums.

Rose carried this knife not only because she needed it for self-defense in the early days, but also...

The reason he's using it now is because his magic system includes a first-level storm spell – [Storm Blade].

It can attach wind blades to sharp weapons, extending the attack range and releasing long-range wind blades.

The forest was quiet and still.

Tiana knelt before Hans's grave, still silent.

Her thin shoulders trembled slightly, and soft sobs could be heard.