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"For example, the golden grasslands where the grass is as tall as a person, and the cattle and sheep can only be seen when the wind blows through; for example, islands floating in the sky; or a floating city where all the buildings are on the water, and even leaving the house requires a boat..."

Amys lifted the hem of her skirt and twirled briskly: "So, Rust, can you promise me?"

“If there are such sights in another world, please go there and see them.”

"Then, tell me about that world's countless mountains and rivers, floating islands, water cities, and golden grasslands..."

Looking at the girl in front of him with hope in her eyes, Last nodded slightly.

"Yes, I promise you."

Compared to those big cities with bright lights all night long, night falls very early in border towns.

Not long after night fell, Rust and Amys said good night to each other and returned to their rooms.

Luster lay on his bed, staring at the dark sky outside the window.

This time he did not use mental suggestion to force himself to fall asleep, but just closed his eyes quietly, waiting for sleepiness to come over him little by little.

……

When Last regained consciousness, he saw a completely different scene.

Beside him was a pitch-black illusory door, shrouded in the night, and ripples like water waves were constantly rippling out of the door.

As Rast appeared, the illusory door slowly disappeared into the night.

Then he heard hurried footsteps and saw figures in uniforms appearing around him, all with the same school badge on their collars.

The school emblem is engraved with twinkling stars.

Chapter 33 If it weren’t for Hiltyna, I would still be a gigolo

"Name."

"Last."

"age."

"I can't remember exactly, but I'd guess I'm around two or three hundred years old. Of course, I wouldn't mind if you wrote me I was seventeen."

"gender."

"It shouldn't be an attack helicopter?"

Behind the one-way mirror, Ishtar paused in her questioning words. The academy uniform with the star emblem outlined a tight arc, rising and falling with her breathing.

She looked through the one-way mirror at Last, who looked harmless in the inquiry room. She took a deep breath, took out a handful of bear biscuits from the jar on the table and stuffed them into her mouth. Only then did the ups and downs of her movements stabilize.

Ishtar glanced at Rust's name on the paper in her hand: "Rust... Is that your real name? No last name?"

"I don't know. Why do you think someone who has been wandering aimlessly in the night world for hundreds of years can still remember what their real name was hundreds of years ago?"

"But since someone calls me that, it's my name."

"Ok?"

The hair on Ishtar's head twitched. "Who called you that name? When and where did you hear that name?"

"In a dream."

"..." Ishtar was silent, then reached out and grabbed a handful of bear biscuits from the tin can.

"Come to think of it, I'm not being interrogated as a suspect right now, am I? I see you haven't put handcuffs on me either."

Luster adjusted his sitting position in the chair, leaning back as comfortably as possible. "Although I was completely devoid of conscience and committed all sorts of evil in the night world, even being shot a hundred times wouldn't be excessive, and even blew up half the city before leaving, I was forced to do so."

"And Hiltina did it too. If you want to convict me of this, then she's the mastermind, and I'm just an accomplice."

"If I hadn't met Hiltina, I might still be working as a gigolo in a nightlife hotel... Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a gigolo, but being a night traveler gives me a much wider range of opportunities."

"You and Vice President Hiltina are certainly not suspects," Ishtar interrupted Rast's rambling. "This is just a routine inquiry and registration."

"You should know that because of the Sequence Abilities and Night Blades, every Night Traveler possesses extremely powerful destructive power."

"Also, because of the extremely oppressive and suffocating atmosphere within the remnants of the Night World's history, night travelers who have been in and out of the Night World for a long time tend to be somewhat mentally extreme, becoming a significant destabilizing factor."

"In addition, the Night World maintains confidentiality for civilians. Therefore, according to Granville's laws, every night traveler within the country must be registered, tracked, and have their mental state regularly monitored."

She took out something that looked like a tablet from the table and flicked it.

The next moment, an illusory light screen appeared in front of Ishtar's eyes. As she flicked her fingers, the content on the tablet kept changing.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Ishtar."

"A third-year student at Starry University, ranked seventy-eighth in the Obelisk, a third-tier hermit, currently serving as a psychometrician in the Starry Student Council."

Ishtar took a bite of the cookie, and the bear on the cookie immediately lost its head. "Next, I will perform a psychometric profile on you to assess your mental state and stability."

"Use the position that's most comfortable for you. Please relax your body and mind as much as possible and cooperate with my measurements."

"Yeah." Luster nodded obediently.

He adjusted his sitting position and stretched.

While stretching, Last calmly made his right hand look like a gun and pointed it at his temple.

Click.

……

In the narrow interrogation room, a brief psychological test was underway.

Ishtar asked questions and Lust answered, and occasionally the headset-wearing psychometer would pause to write something down on his tablet.

It looked exactly like the scene where Rast went to see a psychiatrist in his previous life.

But in fact this is just Ishtar's disguise.

Conventional test questions and various test scales can indeed measure the psychological state of most ordinary people, but it is not easy to apply them to night travelers.

Sequence abilities, Night Blades... they have too many that could disrupt the results of psychometry.

It is for this reason that Ishtar, who works as a psychometrician at Star University and specializes in conducting psychological assessments on night travelers, naturally relies not only on the psychologists' measurement forms and question-and-answer techniques, but also on her Night Blade.

While using common inquiries and notes to help Rast gradually relax his mind and body, Ishtar quietly activated her Night Blade.

Her spirit suddenly rose to a higher level. She no longer used the perspective of the material world, but observed the world in front of her with spiritual perception.

Night Blade "Eye of Secrets".

It can open up the spiritual vision, directly observe the other party's spirituality, observe the symbolic objects after the target's spirit is materialized, and even read the target's memory fragments to a certain extent.

Of course, there are many restrictions on the Eye of Secrets in order to achieve the effect of reading minds and reading memories... Therefore, the effect of this Night Blade in actual combat is not outstanding. Unless there is a rank gap between the two sides, it generally cannot be used against the enemy in battle.

Ishtar felt a third eye opening between her eyebrows, which was her spiritual eye.

She had already prepared herself mentally. The symbols of the Night Travelers' spiritual manifestations were varied and varied.

For example, someone may appear to be a dashing young nobleman, but his spiritual manifestation is a transparent slug; someone else may appear to be a muscular man with a bold personality, but his inner manifestation is a delicate little chrysanthemum.

As for some night travelers who are in poor mental state and more extreme, their spiritual symbols can only be described as indescribable, and they include all kinds of strange creatures.

However, when Ishtar looked at Rast's spiritual symbol with her spiritual eyes, she was suddenly stunned.

It was a pitch-black kitten with soft fur as delicate as silk and eyes as blue as the sea.

It shook its slender and elegant tail, yawned, glanced at Ishtar, and then let out a delicate "meow".

so cute!

Ishtar felt her heart melt.

The heart that had been scarred by observing the indescribable manifestations of other night travelers was healed in an instant.

After seeing so many monsters and ghosts, I didn’t expect that there would be such a cute creature among the spiritual manifestations of the Night Traveler.

Almost subconsciously, she let her spiritual clone move closer, wanting to pet the kitten.

Immediately afterwards, Ishtar saw the cute black kitten in front of her suddenly open its bloody mouth, with countless black tentacles extending from it, swallowing the head and upper body of her spiritual clone.

Ishtar suddenly became Ishtar, following in the footsteps of the bear biscuit.

Chapter 34: People’s dark history will always be exposed in their lives

"Hmmmmmm~"

Ishtar couldn't help but scream.

As a hermit of the third level, the spiritual energy she consumed when activating her clone was not that much. The collapse of the entire spiritual clone just now only consumed some of her mental power and did not cause much harm to her.

But the damage is not great, but the insult is extremely strong.

As an incarnation mixed with her own spirituality, the clone is no different from Ishtar herself. She can feel everything the clone feels in real time.

Because of this, she experienced the entire process of the clone being swallowed by the tentacle ball in detail.

The feeling is not so much painful...it's even a little bit pleasurable.

So much so that Ishtar's original screams turned into moans later on.

Fortunately, the sound insulation on both sides of the interrogation room and the one-way mirror was good enough, and Ishtar cleverly turned off the microphone used for interrogation when she activated the Night Blade just now, otherwise she would have probably been socially dead in front of Rast.

Ishtar's cheeks were flushed, her hair was messy, and she was breathing heavily. It took her a long time to recover.

She gripped the corner of the table with her fingers and stared at the other side of the one-way mirror. Luster, who was a little bored because of the psychometer's sudden silence,

"very good."

"Man, you managed to get my attention."

The blush on Ishtar's fair face became even more intense, and even her thighs began to tremble unconsciously with excitement.

"As a reward for attracting my attention... I will dig out all the darkest, dirtiest secrets in your heart that cannot be seen in the light—"

"Then, you'll feel the helplessness of having your most hidden secrets exposed to the light of day, leaving you powerless and furious."

Just as Hiltina had said before—every night traveler who lived with madness and pollution was considered a paranoid and alien by outsiders, and was more or less mentally distorted.

This is true even for Ishtar, who is a top-ranked third-level psychometrician at Star University.

Her biggest hobby is voyeurism.

Of course, it wasn't the kind of stalking pervert peeping at other people's bodies... As the only daughter of Count Julian, Ishtar hated that kind of perverted and hooligan behavior from the bottom of her heart.

What Ishtar pursues is a glimpse into the spiritual level.

Dig up other people's dirt, get hold of their most deadly secrets, and leave them with no place to display their strength and power, forcing them to obey your orders obediently... that unparalleled, intoxicating sense of control.

Night Blade's "Eye of Secrets" is the embodiment of Ishtar's distorted mental image.

The reason why she chose to take on the thankless and potentially offensive position of psychometrician was so that she could openly satisfy her hobby of prying into secrets in the capacity of an official of the academy.

Of course, in front of Ishtar's "Eye of Secrets", ordinary people's little thoughts can be seen through with just a casual glance.

For example, there was a handsome, wealthy, single viscount in the royal capital who would sneak into the dormitory of a burly military instructor every night.

For example, she was ranked ninth in the list of "Girls Most Wanted to Date" in the 97th issue of the Star Daily. She was a female student who received countless love letters every day, but in private she was a girl who longed to roll around and breathe with girls.

There was also a certain official from the Kingdom of Granville who was having an affair with an enemy country, a young master from a certain noble family had an affair with his young and beautiful stepmother, and a certain seemingly elegant and refined pastor would cover his face and run naked in the streets every midnight...

In Ishtar's eyes, these common negative news were too low-level and too easy to obtain. She was too lazy to pay attention to them even if they were laid out in front of her without any cover.

Only those who are truly strong, possessing an impeccable and strong mind, who cannot be easily seen through even by the eyes of prying eyes...the dark materials and secrets in their hearts are the most worthy of being peeped at.

It was not the first time that she had encountered a situation where her Eye of Prying Secrets was blocked and she was unable to see through it, but that was mostly because of the gap in status between her and the other party, and the level of suppression she suffered.

It was the first time for Ishtar to suffer such humiliation, being humiliated in front of a newcomer who was obviously lower in rank than her, and even having her entire spiritual incarnation swallowed by Maru.

Ishtar's thighs unconsciously clamped together, and her face flushed unnaturally.

According to her past experience, the greater the obstruction and difficulty encountered during the spying process, the more valuable the secret in the heart is... Such secrets are to Ishtar like gems and gold coins to a dragon, and they have an irresistible attraction to her.

Without even waiting for a second, the moment she felt that the spiritual energy she had previously consumed had recovered, Ishtar immediately activated the "Eye of Secrets" again.

Her spiritual incarnation suddenly condensed again and she was immersed in the spiritual ocean constructed by the collective subconscious.

This time, Ishtar carefully hid aside and did not provoke the harmless and even cute black kitten. Instead, she directly used the second level of the Eye of Secrets.

Memory Reading

She felt her mental strength being rapidly consumed and was on the verge of exhaustion in an instant.

At the same time, countless fragmented lights and shadows appeared in her mind, and scenes flickered in and out.