Guild Boss's Ambition

She asked confidently, "The demon who knows how to deceive the most? Is he as good as our big goblin?"

"Sister Heloise, why do you like teasing our Mr. Green Willow so much?"

"And your current setting is a high-level goblin! Not some damn big goblin!"

I secretly criticized Heloise for her nonsense, and Midori gave a wry smile.

Mr. Detective explained helplessly: "Leia is the weakest demon among the forty-two demon kings. He only has legendary combat power, but he is very smart and cunning. He knows the weakest and stupidest side of human hearts. Twenty years ago, he constantly created conflicts between people to expand his power. He even almost became our Pope."

A demon king becomes the Pope of the Church of Light?

Is this some kind of international joke? No no no! Is this a secret that can be told? !

Mr. Green Willow! Are you harming us?! Are you definitely harming us?!

I was so frightened that I couldn't help but stare with my eyes wide open. From the corner of my eye, I saw Miss Sora writing her notes in a serious manner. When I saw her doing this, I quickly reached out and snatched her quill, and shouted in panic: "Idiot! Idiot! Can these church secrets be written down with paper and pen? Just remember them in your head! Don't tell anyone!"

Because I was so anxious, I accidentally emphasized my words.

If the person I scolded was the president, she might have come to hug me, saying how cute she was, but the Sora in front of me was not that big pervert Meng'er. After being criticized, she immediately pursed her lips in grievance, then covered her cheeks with her wide wings, and retreated to the corner of the room step by step, as if she wanted to isolate herself──

Seeing that Miss Sora was about to enter hedgehog mode, I had no choice but to pull her to the evidence room and say a lot of nice things to make her understand that my words were just a temporary emotion. After a long private conversation with her, this slender winged lady finally regained her spirit and returned to her normal working state.

At the same time, Mr. Green Willow had just finished his sandwich dinner.

He casually brushed off the crumbs on his hands outside the window, then turned around and began to explain his discovery to us: "There is indeed a very tall peach tree in the recreational park, and above the peach tree, I found a hole dug by humans. Weeds have grown in the hole, and it is estimated that it was dug about ten days ago."

I responded, "The timing is quite consistent with the disappearance of the Saint."

Mr. Green Willow frowned and said, "But the problem is, other than this, I didn't find any more clues at the peach tree."

I said bluntly, "Mr. Detective—are you really a detective?"

Hearing this, Mr. Green Willow scratched his messy hair and complained, "Please - a detective is not a fortune teller. Without any clues, I can't find out the truth of the case out of thin air. Besides, our opponent is very likely the fraud demon Leia. With his level of crime, I am not 100% confident that I can defeat him."

I rolled my eyes in annoyance: "So, what should we do now?"

Mr. Green Willow looked away awkwardly: "So, I hope you can go to the scene and take a look."

Heloise immediately spoke up: "So that's what it is, you came back to get help!"

After Heloise said this, Mr. Green Willow's face suddenly became even redder.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Lvliu seems to be unexpectedly thin-skinned?

This is probably one of the main reasons why Heloise likes to tease Mr. Green Willow so much?

However, getting back to the point, I don't think now is the right time to go to the peach tree to search for evidence.

I rubbed my temples and said tactfully, "Mr. Lvliu, I think you need a proper rest right now compared to collecting evidence. Besides, it's getting late now..."

Suddenly, Mr. Green Willow interrupted my advice.

He put on a social smile and said apologetically, "Indeed, this is my fault. Miss Lannong and you need adequate rest and sleep. I will ask someone to prepare a dormitory for you in the monastery. Before we go to the Peach Tree to investigate, let's sort out the clues in this evidence room first, shall we?"

"Ok."

I nodded in agreement on behalf of everyone, and then Sora asked a question: "Excuse me, could you please tell me more about the Demon King Leia? What kind of demon king is he? What is his purpose in coming to this world from the demon world? Why did he become an enemy of your Church of Light?"

Although there should be no malicious intent, Sora did seem a bit aggressive during the questioning.

Fortunately, Mr. Green Willow is not one of those old-fashioned believers of the Light. He answered in a relaxed tone: "The Demon King is a creature that acts according to his instincts. Leia's instinct is to deceive. Successfully deceiving others will bring him great joy. And things like replacing the Pope to fool believers are simply opium drugs that make him happy."

I questioned, "Is it just such a simple reason? And why must it be your Church of Light?"

Mr. Green Willow scratched his hair and shrugged as he replied, "Deceiving others to gain benefits is one of the reasons for his actions, but from our current observations, the reason why Leia is targeting our Church of Light is still unclear."

At this point, Sora was flipping through his notes and asked, "According to the nuns, Demon Lord Leia is under the command of Lust, the Seven Deadly Sins. Can we assume that his actions are in the service of other higher demons?"

"What did the nuns say?"

"When did Sora go to investigate the nun? When Heloise and I were in the bathroom together?"

I was secretly amazed at Sora's ability to investigate, and Mr. Midoriya, who represented the church, seemed to have considered this factor a long time ago: "Our Church of Light has always been an important force in fighting demons, but if Leia really wanted to destroy our Church of Light, he would have succeeded twenty years ago."

Mr. Green Willow put on a very troubled expression and said, "At that time, Leia had already climbed to the position of Cardinal of the Holy Cloth. The function of the Cardinal of the Holy Cloth can touch the Gate of Heaven, which means that he actually has a way to completely destroy our connection with the God of Light. However, he did not do so. Instead, he challenged and pretended to be our bishop."

Listening to Mr. Green Willow's narration, I couldn't help but think of the blue-haired fox in our stone house.

I smiled bitterly and leaned weakly on the back of the chair.

"If Leia is just a pleasure-seeker, then his mental state cannot be analyzed at all—"

Green Willow frowned and said, "Demon Lord Leia is an expert in deception. The more we try to track his thoughts, the easier it is for us to fall into his misleading. The more we try to guess him, the easier it is for us to be deceived. Wisdom is of no help in solving problems. To solve this demon, we need absolute power. The incident twenty years ago has proved this."

"Then why are we still looking for clues in this evidence room, Mr. Detective?"

Heloise gave a playful smile and put a jewel ring that did not belong to her on the middle finger of her right hand.

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20. The Weakness of Reason (Xiao Lan)

(Ulu-Lannon)

yes……

Since Demon Lord Leia is so awesome, why should we continue looking for clues here?

In response to Heloise's question, Mr. Green Willow's usually smooth response paused. After a while, he finally gave us a suitable answer: "Because the Saint Lady could also disappear by her own will. Even if we don't have the ability to track down Demon King Leia, we may have enough wisdom to find the Saint Lady."

Mr. Green Willow's answer to this question was obviously reluctant, so Heloise continued, "Aren't you afraid that we will fall into the trap of Demon King Leia without knowing it while investigating Saint Agatha? On the one hand, you describe your enemy as invincible in wisdom and intelligence, and on the other hand, you are willing to take the risk to join the game and fight him. What is your mentality?"

"I……"

I thought Mr. Lvliu would have some rebuttal, but I saw that he just stood there speechless.

Seeing Lvliu's reaction, Heloise smiled softly: "In your heart, you actually despise that liar named Leia, right? That's why you have the confidence to challenge him. You think you have the ability to solve the case. You believe that there is no perfect lie in the world, and honest things are always more powerful than false appearances."

Mr. Green Willow laughed at himself.

He took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off his face, then asked with a wry smile, "Are you really an ordinary half-blood goblin?"

Heloise answered firmly: "I am Chunchun's eldest brother Brin!"

"Hehe, Big Goblin..."

After hearing Heloise's half-truthful joke, Mr. Green Willow's expression became even more bitter: "Forget it, I should really let go of the insecurity brought about by those rumors. Although it sounds incredible for an ordinary detective to fight against a famous devil, correct reasoning is correct reasoning..."

At this time, Miss Sora, who was silently studying her notes, raised her hand again.

"Excuse me, how did you catch Leia twenty years ago?" the girl asked with a frown.

Hearing Sora's question, Mr. Midoriya came back to his senses from the gloomy atmosphere.

He smiled and asked, "Do you know Wallace Nasnon?"

Sora and Heloise both looked confused at this unfamiliar name.

But if you have been in the upper echelons of the business world, Nasnon is a surname you must know.

To get Sora and the others into the mood, I coughed lightly and began to show off my knowledge: "Wallace Nasnon is the owner of the strongest chamber of commerce in the Bright Alliance - the Nasnon Chamber of Commerce. If there is anything special about her, it is that she is an old monster who has lived for more than 400 years and is a woman who has married two wives."

Listening to my narration, the detective also laughed: "That's right, and this damn winner in life is exactly the key person to solve the problem of Demon King Leia. During the ceremony of Demon King Leia's succession to the Pope, she stabbed Leia with the holy sword alone, causing him to reveal his magic field on the spot. Then Saint Agatha appeared and sacrificed herself to seal the immortal Leia."

This time, without us having to speak, Mr. Green Willow took the initiative to point out the doubts about the matter: "However, even though the Demon King Leia has been sealed, the appearance of Wallace is also a mystery. No one knows how she saw Leia's true identity. She simply appeared as a savior, prepared the sealing ceremony, and exposed the Demon King's lies at the last minute."

I asked curiously, "Is there any way for your company to contact this Miss Nasnon now?"

Mr. Green Willow shook his head and said, "I have asked the Bishop to help find Wallace's whereabouts through the president, but she is always a mysterious person, and I don't think we can find her easily -"

"Oh okay."

In our spare time, we sorted out the evidence in the room one by one, but the result was not ideal. At least we did not find any clues about Saint Agatha among these messy objects.

In this hopeless situation, the peach trees indicated by the oil paintings became our only hope.

At 10:30 that night, we stopped the tidying up work and rested overnight in the monastery.

The time to get up and gather was 6:00 a.m., and after washing, getting ready and having breakfast, we officially set out for the peach tree at 6:30 a.m. Due to confidentiality restrictions, Lvliu did not take us to use the space legend formation map, but just took a horse to the recreation park. The journey took us one hour and ten minutes.

For the city of Mopolis, spring came too early this year, and the summer flowers bloomed very late. Although it was already late March, spring flowers were still blooming everywhere, and those in the summer flowering period were still in bud. Occasionally, one or two dwarf snow wheels could be seen, but they were not very beautiful, and were small and ugly.

The recreation park is actually quite large, but the peach tree marked on the oil painting map is very easy to find. It is the only tall and mature peach tree in the entire park. Just as Mr. Green Willow said, there are indeed traces of digging under the peach tree. The weeds grow very fast in spring, and because of the irrigation of rainwater, the dug holes have already shown some lovely green spots.

A peach tree in full bloom...

A small earth pit dug by someone...

Apart from the above two points, there was nothing else on the scene.

The first question is: Who dug this pit?

The second question is: Why dig this pit with a radius of 15 miles and a depth of half a meter?

The third question is: How was the pit dug?

I once tried to use the identification spell on the pit, but the only answer I got was "This is a pit."

That's right. Unless it's a really bad role-playing game, ordinary identification techniques will not be able to directly reflect the answer to the plot in the prop introduction. It seems that if I want to pass this side story smoothly, I still have to collect evidence step by step and slowly deduce the truth like a detective.

At this time, Heloise brought us a broken branch.

Because there was heavy snow in the winter a while ago, there were naturally many dead branches in the park as no one was responsible for taking care of it.

The branch was a very ordinary branch - at least that's what I thought.

But as a darling of nature, Heloise, who is a high elf, has a different view on it.

She said bluntly: "This is a tool for digging holes."

I immediately asked, "Why are you so sure?"

In response to my question, Heloise gestured respectfully at the branch in her hand and explained, "As a branch that was broken by the snow, the degree of curvature of this branch is unusually S-shaped. It feels like something else is exerting pressure on it, causing it to change its original curvature. In addition, its fracture is also very strange──"

Heloise bent down and picked up another broken branch, breaking it into two pieces with force. She then explained, "If it was broken, the fracture would look like this, hairy with many forks, but this branch is different. Its crack is relatively smooth and shows signs of abrasion. It feels like it has been rubbed against a hard object."

At this time, Lvliu stood up and agreed, "The tool used to dig the pit was indeed a branch, and the branch in Heloise's hand corresponds to the texture of the soil in the pit. That is, Miss Heloise, can I borrow the branch in your hand to take a look? Maybe I can find more clues."

For some reason, Heloise suddenly looked unhappy.

"Don't act like you're so smart. Without us, you wouldn't have been able to find this branch."

"Yes, yes, this is all thanks to Miss Heloise."

"You just understand."

Faced with the half-blood goblin who was always picky about him, Mr. Green Willow decisively adopted a strategy of retreating in order to advance. He took the branch from the magic swordsman with a helpless smile in an ingratiating way, then put on a focused expression and observed it carefully.

After a while, he raised his eyebrows and smiled slightly.

"Oh? Did you find anything?" I asked.

"The one who used this branch to dig the pit was either the Saint Lady, or Leia who controlled the Saint Lady."

He pointed to a sharp scratch somewhere in the middle of the branch and explained slowly, "Look! Aren't there some scratches here? They are scratches left by the ring. Because the Saint wears the ring on her ring finger, it is easy to scrape off the bark when she holds the branch hard. This means that the Saint has been here in the past ten days."

Heloise said tartly, "But she's not here now, is she?"

Miss Sora, who was a bit naive, also wrote down her notes and said, "And we haven't found out why Saint Agatha came to dig under this peach tree, and why did she leave a map with the peach tree marked on it on the painting?"

Just when we solved two problems, new ones emerged.

It's like playing a whack-a-mole game, just wasting energy endlessly.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but admire Mr. Luliu, a detective. After all, reality is not the famous detective series written by storytellers. There will always be some cases where the investigation has to be suspended due to insufficient evidence. But the most difficult and painful thing is how to judge the time to terminate the investigation?

Maybe……

If we find one more clue, the truth will emerge before our eyes?

Maybe……

No matter how hard we investigate, the truth will always be buried somewhere unknown?

The so-called detective is a profession that constantly uses the known to explore the unknown.

Exploring the unknown always requires courage, the courage to gain nothing, and even the awareness of being shattered to pieces.

However, exploring the unknown is such a thrilling and exciting thing──

Mr. Green Willow showed a confident smile: "Wait and see! Wait until the clock points to nine o'clock in the morning."

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