Become a powerful shadow master in the new world

There was no answer, but Shirley's beautiful eyes, looking away guiltily, undoubtedly told Sid the answer.

"...No, Shirley, it's already noon, don't you feel hungry?"

After blinking, Shirley finally reacted after hearing what Sid said and looked down at her stomach.

"Goo-"

Her stomach made a sound very appropriate to the situation, but Shirley's face suddenly turned red, and she wished she could dig a hole in the ground and hide in it.

"Hey, let's go. The fragrance comes from this direction. I'll take you to have a good meal."

After teasing Shirley, Sid naturally took over the initiative of the team!

Let me say here that although Sid looks like a miser type of man, he actually has some requirements when it comes to enjoying life.

After all, he saves money for his life before he dies, not for dying with a pile of useless gold and silver.

Therefore, as long as he judged that something could help the great cause of the Shadow Power, he would buy it without hesitation.

In this regard, it is not just about the various antiques and artworks, but also about the high-end cuisine made from high-end ingredients.

"so."

After placing the order, a clay pot was brought up by the staff of the Mitsukoshi branch restaurant. 559 sat there and let him open the lid. A fragrant aroma filled the air.

The magic bear paw, cooked in rich broth and absorbing the essence of the broth, looks crystal clear, with chewy meat and thick broth. It can only be said that it is worthy of being one of the eight delicacies of ancient mountains. Although it is too expensive, he has hardly come here many times.

"Ah, thanks, Victoria-chan."

He cut the meat into pieces and put them into the Victoria sauce in his bowl, thanked her, and Sid picked up the chopsticks and reached for the meat in the bowl, but stopped in mid-air.

"that……"

Looking at Shirley's empty white porcelain bowl and embarrassed face in front of him, and then looking at Victoria who was standing beside him like a guard after serving him, Sid hesitated to speak.

"...Understood, No. 711, come here!"

Seeing what Sid meant, Victoria glanced at Shirley with her gray-blue eyes, and then gave orders to the employee who brought the casserole.

Employee No. 711, who had been keeping his head down since the moment he came in, heard Victoria's order, took small steps forward and started cutting slices of meat.

"I'm so sorry to disappoint you, but this is the best we can do to let her go."

"No, it's okay, this is good enough."

Listening to Victoria's low apology and feeling the magic in the two people in front of him, which was obviously different from the magic of other Mitsukoshi Chamber of Commerce employees, although he didn't know why Victoria wanted to apologize, Sid still shook his head and praised Victoria.

I don't think I've introduced them yet. The two in front of him were both demon possessions that he treated personally. He picked up Victoria while taking a walk, and No. 711... He remembered that he picked it up from an experimental jar when he was ransacking an evil science base, and it went crazy and attacked him when he released it.

I heard that the evil base was funded by an organization called Shisan Ye Jian. Those who could fund such an evil base should not be good people. I will kill them when I go back one day.

“Delicious~~”

During the brief moment of recollection, No. 771 had already sliced ​​the meat and stepped aside, allowing Shirley to exclaim after tasting the delicious food.

"Hey, Sid-kun, try it too."

Looking at the piece of meat that Shirley was holding in front of him, Sid shrugged and ate it in one bite. The rich protein awakened his taste buds like spring rain moistening the earth.

"Well, it is indeed delicious."

He nodded with satisfaction. It must be said that with the addition of more advanced ingredients, this already famous dish became even more delicious.

Seeing that Sid liked it very much, Shirley smiled subconsciously, but when she looked at Victoria and 771 who were serving on the side, she pursed her lips again.

"Well, thank you for your service. You may leave now."

Hearing Shirley's words, Victoria's body paused slightly. She squinted her eyes, looked at the smiling Shirley and said "yes".

"By the way, Shirley, what brings you to Genshin Island?"

Sid picked up the piece of meat and put it in his mouth, looking at Shirley in front of him while moving his mouth continuously but making clear syllables.

"Me? I should say I came to meet one of my pen pals...right?"

When asked suddenly, Shirley thought for a moment and gave a very vague reason. Even at the end, she herself sounded a little doubtful.

"pen pal?"

"Well, it was a pen pal who sent me a letter out of the blue after a press conference. We got to know each other because we both had the same interests."

"Wow! Press conference! Shirley, you are amazing... Should I call you Dr. Shirley now?"

Sid spoke half in admiration and half in jest. He had always known that Shirley was very talented in this area, but he had not expected that Shirley could already hold a press conference in the academic city "Lavagas". Is this a genius?

"No, Sid-kun, I'd be shy if you praised me like that. It's just a small breakthrough."

Scratching her head sheepishly, Shirley looked away due to the compliment.

"But this is really amazing. What happens next? Sulli, aren't you here for an offline meeting? Why are you here alone?"

"Well, we've already met."

"So what kind of person is she?"

"A person who is not a bad person, but not a good person either."

"?"

"Well, she's a very good friend to me, so good that she's almost my only friend, but if I find her around someone I care about, I will kill her without hesitation."

"???"

Seeing that Sid still looked confused, Shirley did not continue to explain, but just smiled and shook her head.

"Don't talk about her. If you want to know about my affairs, you can do so later. I want to know more about you, Xide."

The chopsticks that were picking up the meat slices stopped, and facing Shirley's expectant gaze, Sid thought about the things that had happened to him recently that he could still tell others.

"My job is boring."

Sid tried to laugh it off.

"If it's Sid-kun, I'd like to know even the most boring things."

Sister, she is so good at it, she is teasing me!

Looking at Shirley's sparkling eyes, Sid amused himself inwardly.

"Uh... have you heard about the city lockdown in Europe a few days ago due to a large-scale curse?"

After thinking for a long time, Sid found that this seemed to be the only thing he could come up with in the past few days.

"Ah... I've heard of it."

As Sid spoke, Shirley blinked and nodded hesitantly.

"Shirley, it's easy since you've heard about it. Although the church hasn't given us any information yet, I can tell you for sure that this is true. Do you know why?"

"Why, why?"

Although this was in a private room, for the sake of atmosphere, Sid waved his hand to signal Shirley to come over.

"I am the party involved."

"what!"

Sid's voice was very low, but Shirley was still frightened and screamed. She stood up all of a sudden and opened her backpack with one hand to frantically look for something.

"Keep your voice down. I'm not saying I'm the one who's being cursed. I'm the one being attacked."

"oh oh."

After listening to Sid's explanation, Shirley sat down reluctantly, but she did not stop looking for something with her hands.

"According to the church's investigation, the person who cast the curse is related to the devil, so the church sent someone to contact the devil without authorization. After some friendly exchanges, both sides decided to send their own people to investigate, and I am the investigator for the devil."

"Wow, that's awesome, Sid-kun!"

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Shirley smiled and praised Sid.

"It's nothing special. It's just that I suddenly became a detective... I remember that you, Shirley, also seem to like reading detective novels. How about you join me in the investigation, and I'll be your ordinary assistant?"

At this point, Sid raised an eyebrow at Shirley and joked.

"This this……"

I thought Shirley would agree with a smile, but Shirley just stuttered and her eyes suddenly wandered.

Chapter 205: Scoring twice

The food on the plate was decreasing little by little, but Sid's eyes were fixed on Shirley.

"That's roughly the situation. The result is that I have inexplicably become the investigator responsible for investigating this incident. I need to find the murderer hiding among the demons. Who do you think the murderer is?"

After biting off the last piece of meat, Sid told Shirley what had happened to him in the past few days, and at the end he looked at Shirley with a questioning look.

"Uh... well, Sid-kun, is it really okay for you to tell me something so important? Shouldn't things like this be kept secret?"

Instead of answering directly, Shirley shifted her gaze and asked back with an awkward expression on her face.

"Well, it's okay. Anyway, I'm almost done with the investigation. All the demons who came to seek asylum have alibis, so either Shadow is crazy and making up stories, or the murderer is hiding among Rias and the others. I'm more inclined to believe that Shadow is crazy and making false accusations."

Waving his hands, Sid didn't care at all about what Shirley said about confidentiality. Although confidentiality was indeed important, he was the one who gave perjury. Others might not know the truth, but didn't he know it?

"Hide-kun, you trust your friend too much. Maybe the murderer is really in there?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, except for Sairaorg and his followers whom I am not familiar with, I am familiar with the rest of Rias and Shichirō Sona.

My brother, Yuto Kiba, is upright and believes in the code of chivalry, while Shirou Keimoto is kind-hearted and wants to be a partner of justice.

My best friend..."

He flatly denied this possibility. After more than a year of getting along with them, Sid admitted that many of them had some psychological problems, but they would not do such outrageous things.

"How should I put it? Compared to what you said, Xide-kun, I am more concerned about those girlfriends you mentioned..."

Her eyes were dull and her mouth twitched. As she listened to Sid praising his so-called brother and best friend, the smile on Shirley's face gradually disappeared.

"It's normal to have a male best friend. Compared to this, during my investigation, I discovered another more important thing..."

"But I still care about those female friends you mentioned, Sid..."

"Don't interrupt!"

"Oh."

After giving Shirley an unhappy look and receiving her aggrieved reply, Sid coughed a few times and spoke in a tone of telling a horror story.

"I suspect that this so-called curse may just be an appetizer. The mastermind behind this may want to make a bigger move. The so-called curse is just a cover. His ultimate goal is..."

Having said this, Sid deliberately lengthened his tone, intensifying the mysterious atmosphere.

"I don't know either. Hahahaha, sorry, sorry, I just can't keep going... Shirley, what's with that expression on your face?"

Sid tilted his head as he looked at Shirley's suddenly very ugly face, her hand that kept wiping her forehead with a handkerchief and patting her chest.

"Nothing, Sid-kun, just a little hot. I thought I heard something incredible."

It was a forced smile, and Shirley's mental state was unexpectedly not good.

"Sorry, it seems that my joke is not very good, but I did find something wrong."

He apologized embarrassedly, but halfway through, Sid suddenly changed his words, which immediately caught Shirley's attention again.

"I did some research on the place where the curse first appeared and found that a group of men in black were intercepted when they went to the church to steal the Sword of the King. They used this curse to escape. Don't you think it's wrong?"

"What's wrong?"

She blinked and was stared at by Sid. The nervousness in her heart made Shirley unable to think for a moment, and she asked back subconsciously.

"This is a contagious curse that can be described as a mechanism. It turned out that a group of people in black appeared in the world in order to escape the pursuit of the church. The reason why they were hunted by the church was to snatch the sword of the king!?"

This is what Sid really couldn't understand. The reason for the appearance of this curse was as outrageous as a group of Jinyiwei catching a thief, and then the thief turned around and threw out a world-destroying virus.

Although saying this may be a bit insulting to Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, compared with the Black Spot Curse, Excalibur is indeed not worth mentioning.

Before it was broken, the Sword of Kings was only at the level of a relatively strong divine weapon. After it was broken, the Sword of Kings alone was not even as good as a relatively strong divine weapon.

This is why both Serafla, one of the four devil kings from the underworld, and the joker from the heaven focused their attention on the black spot curse. Compared with the curse that infected hundreds of thousands of people in one day, the stolen Sword of the King was nothing.

"As long as a war is launched, this curse against human special attacks will be an absolute killer. Isn't it like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons to expose such a powerful curse for a few king swords?

So I guess there is some conspiracy, and the real purpose of the mastermind is to use the curse to attract everyone's attention and conceal the truth. What do you think, Shirley?"