Knight Asylum

"..."

Kitaoka Hideichi hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and complained, "Generally speaking, testimony obtained through threats like this is not accepted in court."

"I didn't threaten her," Red crossed his arms and raised his head, "This was a deal. If it weren't for me, she would still be locked up now."

"Generally speaking... this is a threat."

"Eh? Really?! Medusa, I was threatening you!?"

Although her eyes were blocked and she couldn't see Red's expression, Medusa was almost furious at Red's pretended surprised tone.

"What do you think? You and that woman did this to me—"

Before Medusa could finish her words, the doll's open mouth snapped back with a sound, and the whole living room suddenly became extremely quiet.

Red put down the remote and let out a long sigh.

"That's the way it is."

"Hey, hey, hey, was this poor lady about to say something?" Kitaoka Hideichi stood up.

"Ahem - that's not the point right now. Can you take this lawsuit from Lawyer Kitaoka?" Reid coughed and looked at Kitaoka Hideichi with a serious face.

Kitaoka Hideichi sat back and crossed his legs.

"Impossible, impossible, I still want to live well, idiot, don't speak so quickly, don't forget what happened at Qingmingyuan University, the magician's matter this time is not comparable to what happened at Qingmingyuan University."

Shinji Shirodo, who had just stood up, sat down again, but his face was still full of confusion.

"If an ancient magician does not use...if he uses magic, how long will it take before he must kill phantoms to replenish his magic power?" Tezuka Umiyuki held his chin in thought for a moment, then raised his eyebrows.

"Unfortunately, this is something that cannot be calculated," Reid shook his head. "Ancient magicians... are like advanced consumption. The more you consume, the shorter the time to pay back, and the more you pay back."

Shinji Shiroto hesitated, thought for a while, and then asked tentatively, "Well, write some reports? The quality of magicians needs to be improved, and they can't use magic casually, etc."

Okubo Daisuke was surprised. "Great, Shinji. You've made progress. I thought you would insist on reporting the truth. If you insist, as your senior, I will definitely..."

Shinji Shirodo's pupils shrank.

[Shinji, I'll leave it to you from now on]

"What are you talking about, senior? Of course I intend to find out the truth, but...that's right, if lawyer Kitaoka's house is demolished because of us, we... can't afford the compensation," Shirodo Shinji scratched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly.

The corner of Okubo Daisuke's mouth twitched.

He really hadn't thought about this question.

Reid glanced at Shinji Shirodo, who was avoiding his gaze, and after thinking for a while, he raised his hands and clapped, "Now the phantoms in [S·L] are basically in the hands of Sylvie Tullia. They are trying to find a way to solve this problem. As for how to solve it..."

"Ancient magicians who provide phantoms to ordinary citizens to kill?" Kitaoka Hideichi laughed faintly, "So, are you going to treat [S·L] as an immersive game?"

"You, Selvi Tulia, are responsible for producing monsters, and the Sage's Tower is responsible for making equipment?"

After Kitaoka Hideichi said this, Reid also realized the new problem.

Cheap power can make people feel [floating].

Gaia Memory has proven this well.

The power of the ancient magician is cheaper than Gaia Memory and more fantastic. Can humans restrain themselves and not squander it?

The frequent incidents of Dopant injuring monsters are the best proof of this.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but a more troublesome factor made the matter more troublesome to a terrifying level.

Mirror Knight Odin, or more precisely, the Odins.

"Everyone from ORE newspaper, this is the story of the ancient magician. I hope you can help, but I don't want you to make the truth public, at least not until... we find a way to remove the belt without eating the souls of ordinary citizens," Reid took a deep breath, stood up, and stretched out his hand in the direction of Okubo Daisuke.

"I understand - leave it to us," Okubo Daisuke immediately stood up, stretched out his hands, held Reid's right hand and waved it up and down.

After letting go, Red glanced at Shiroto Shinji, who blinked and reacted, "I'll take you there!"

"Then it's almost time for me to leave. Everyone, I'll leave the logistics to you," Tezuka Umiyuki also stood up and straightened his clothes.

After the three of them and the doll left Kitaoka Hide's family, they walked for a while to make sure no one was following them. Then Red lowered his voice and asked, "How is the investigation of Odin's case going?"

Tezuka Umiyuki and Kido Shinji shook their heads at the same time.

"I went to the procuratorate, and the parents of those students are still in custody," Shiroto Shinji hesitated for a moment, scratched the back of his head, and laughed awkwardly, "Well, because they didn't cooperate very well, so I used a little bit of the power of the mirror world, sneaked in, and checked the surveillance."

"Ahem—and then," Red coughed.

"They have always been here and have never left," Shinji Shirodo's awkward smile gradually turned solemn.

"Are you sure?" Reid asked in surprise.

"Yes, I confirmed it several times. When we met those Odins, the parents were all in the procuratorate," Shinji Shirodo coughed a few times, then took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and handed it to Reid.

"I copied all the videos from this period."

Chapter 412 Mirror

After handing the video to Red, Shinji Shiroto ran back to Kitaoka Hide's family. Now the work of ORE newspaper is also very important. It is a rather troublesome task to improve the citizens' quality requirements for ancient magicians through reporting to prevent those ancient magicians from abusing magic.

"Red, I'm leaving now. Lian's matter...can't be left alone. If we're lucky, we can find clues about Odin from him."

"I understand Lian's matter. I'll leave it to you."

After watching Tezuka Umiyuki leave, Red came to the Zhinao Group Building with Medusa, holding the video given to him by Shirodo Shinji.

Considering that Red did not want to be too high-profile, Murakami Kyo did a good job of keeping it confidential, and most of the employees of Zhinao Group did not know Red.

However, in Murakami Kyoji's own words, if his president was stopped by the front desk, he would hang himself at the door of the president's office that afternoon.

So Murakami Kyo specially prepared a secret elevator that leads directly to the president's office.

Walking out of the secret elevator, Red found that neither Murakami Kyoji nor Takuma Itaro were there, and the spacious president's office was extremely quiet.

Red tossed the USB flash drive in his hand and sat on the chair. He connected the USB flash drive to the computer and waited for the video copied by Shinji Shirodo to be uploaded to the computer.

However, I don’t know whether it is because Shinji Shirodo copied too many videos, or the quality of the USB flash drive is not good enough, so the upload speed is a bit slow.

Because he was a little bored, Red thought that this was a rare opportunity, so he decided to have another chat with Medusa, trying to persuade her with both reason and emotion. Maybe Medusa would be convinced by him and tell him where the sage was.

Red took out the remote control of the doll costume given to him by the researcher and pressed it on the doll costume. The doll costume's mouth opened with a click, revealing Medusa's head.

"Want to chat?"

"Humph--"

"Sage."

"You——" Medusa was so angry that her teeth itched, "Do you think this is justice?"

"I just want to talk to you. I feel like you're not interested in anything other than sages, so I plan to please you," Reid fiddled with the remote control in his hand.

"You are just trying to get information from me. Do you think I will be fooled?" Medusa sneered.

"That's it..."

Red poked the screen of the remote control, spread his fingers, and rays of light swept out to form a holographic image of a doll's costume about 30 centimeters in size.

First of all, one thing is certain. This doll costume is filled with the researchers' selfish motives, and these bastards are going to use the excuse of "We just installed this function and never thought of using it" to put all the blame on him who is holding the remote control.

If you want to say why...

The researchers simply gave him the remote control without telling him what the buttons would do.

In other words, if he was a little more curious, this doll costume would become the embodiment of the researchers' selfishness and allow them to do whatever they want to Medusa.

"In fact, I'm planning to use provocation to pry information about the sage out of you," Reid raised his hand and turned off the holographic image with a snap, then put his hands behind his head.

"You can't stand my slander against the sage, right?"

"Did you say it yourself, or did you feel disgusted by me again and reveal the information?"

Medusa's eyes twitched violently.

"What do you want to know? But first, don't expect me to tell you everything!"

"I know, I know. Is the sage a phantom demon that has existed for a long time?" Reid nodded and glanced at the progress bar on the computer.

"Of course! The sage is the original phantom demon! He has always led us phantom demons to eliminate magicians!" Medusa raised her head with pride.

"The original... phantom demon? How did you know this for sure?" Reid thought of Medusa, or to be more precise, the information about Medusa's predecessor.

Inamori Misa, a student at Bocheng High School, disappeared mysteriously several years ago. When she reappeared, she was already Medusa, and coincidentally, she was on the missing persons list related to Xiaoxing.

Therefore, Misa Inamori’s age as a phantom demon is at most six years old.

According to U's description, magicians have been fighting against phantoms since ancient times. Magicians have the Kingdom of Magic and the Tower of Sages as their inheritance. Phantoms, which can only be born from magicians' despair, cannot reproduce like humans. According to the description of phantoms such as Hoshimiya Aoi, they were found by the sage, and among their group of phantoms, except for Reggie, the oldest one is Medusa. No one has ever seen or heard of any ancient phantom except the sage.

So there must have been a gap in between.

Humanity's knowledge of phantom demons all relies on the description in the Tower of Sages.

How do the newly born phantoms understand their own [mission]?

The first phantom demon - the sage.

The more Red thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

"What are you talking about? The sage is the original phantom demon, the great existence that guides us phantom demons. Does this need to be confirmed?" Medusa raised her head with great arrogance.

But Red saw only blindness.

"I understand."

Apart from where the sage is, there is no other information about the sage worth studying on Medusa.

It just so happened that all the videos copied by Shinji Shirodo had been uploaded to the computer. Reid immediately turned around and retrieved the video footage in the Zhinao Group Building, placed it side by side with the video footage copied by Shinji Shirodo, and moved the progress bar to the first ten minutes of Odin's attack.

Red folded his arms and stared at the screen. Seeing that Red suddenly ignored her, Medusa raised her hand and pulled down the mouth of the doll's headgear. Most of the time when Red didn't touch the remote control, she could still control her body, although very slowly.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Soon, Wright, Shinji Shirodo, and Umiyuki Tezuka appeared on the screen. Red held his breath and looked at the video on the prosecutor's office side. The parents of those students were still locked up in the cells inside the prosecutor's office. Each of them looked extremely decadent and depressed, as if their spines were broken.

Reid subconsciously clenched his fists.

He couldn't accept these people being locked up there. According to Kitaoka Hideichi, he was now trying to get the procuratorate to release them as soon as possible, but the procuratorate was still playing Tai Chi.

On the other side of decadence and dejection, the god-like Odins stretched out their hands from the mirror world, holding golden sabers and crushing the magicians to death with absolute overwhelming force.

There is no reason for people from the procuratorate to modify these surveillance videos.

But Shinji Kido and Umiyuki Tezuka also confirmed that those Odins were the students' parents, and what the Odins said in the surveillance video also proved this.

"What's going on? Could it be that the mirror world has other secrets?"

Red was puzzled.

Chapter 413: There are no real magicians in this world anymore

Red still hasn't figured out what the mirror world is, but there is one thing he is sure of: the mirror world is an extremely lonely world. Although it completely reflects the real world, it is empty.

If you want to defeat Kanzaki Shirou and truly end the Mirror World, Odin is an unavoidable obstacle.

The increase in the number of Odins is a big problem, but it is not without a solution, such as finding them in reality and OTKing them before they transform.

But now, who became those Odins has become a huge question.

Out of careful consideration, Red decided to contact the person who knew the mirror world best, Tojo Go.

After listening to Red's description, Tojo Go on the other end of the phone fell silent.

"This should be impossible. This is the rule of Mirror Knight. Even if it is Odin, he must be dressed as someone else to act. Maybe Odin said those words to mislead us, so that we would think that the parents of these students are Odin's incarnations."

"Maybe..." Reid sighed.

"But maybe there are still many secrets hidden in the mirror world that we don't know. I will try my best!"

"please."

Tojo Go hung up the phone, threw the phone on the table, rubbed his face with both hands and pulled it down, staring at the [S·L] map on the wall with a tired face.

There are a lot of crosses on it. If Reid was there, he would probably exclaim in surprise, because those places marked with crosses are the core locations of each mirror world in the previous timeline, including the Intelligent Brain Group.

"where is it?"

Tojo Go scratched his hair hard and murmured softly.

"Kanzaki Shirou, where is the core of your mirror world?"

Looking at the screen in his hand showing the end of the call, Reid pinched his nose, thought for a moment, then stood up and knocked on the belly of the doll costume with his fist.

"Let's go——"