Become a powerful shadow master in the new world

"Uh……"

Shirley opened her mouth, turned her head and looked around, fiddling with her fingers awkwardly.

"...Maybe all this was just an idiot's impulse, and there's no conspiracy like what you said, Sid-kun."

"Oh, interesting, Shirley, tell me what you think."

Sid narrowed his eyes and made a gesture of invitation, looking forward to Shirley's profound rebuttal.

"I'm just guessing..."

She spoke shyly, but it was obvious that after this exaggerated atmosphere, Shirley, who liked detective novels, was directly immersed in the story. Not only did the ugly expression on her face disappear, but she also started to talk about her speculations with great interest.

"According to what you said, Mr. Xide, you suspect that the real purpose of the mastermind behind this is not to spread the curse, but that the curse is just a cover to deceive people. Your guess makes sense, Mr. Xide.

Exposing this trick too early actually put the mastermind behind it at a disadvantage. He had a better way to use this one-time curse reasonably, rather than using it in public and allowing the curse's infectious mechanism to be discovered in the first place.

From this perspective, the curse does seem to be an eye-catching cover, a bait used by the masterminds to conceal their true purpose.

But, Mr. Xide, what do you think the mastermind behind this is trying to do?

The Sword of the King? No, now the focus of your investigation has indeed changed from the Sword of the King to the Black Spot Curse, but the people who stole the sword and used the curse are the same group of people. The focus of the investigation has changed, but the direction of the investigation has not changed.

If it was just a matter of stealing the sword, the church might have only sent a few people to investigate and search, but after this incident that nearly killed more than 100,000 people, one of the four great demons from the underworld came, and one of the Jokers from heaven came...

From the perspective of the mastermind, using the curse openly in the church would be a very stupid choice. Not only would the benefits be too little, but it would also destroy the concealment of the curse.

This is impossible, that is impossible, so the rest is the truth no matter how incredible it is. "

"Shirley what do you mean!"

Feeling that the atmosphere was reaching a climax, Sid cooperated very well and pretended to suddenly understand something and looked at Shirley, and Shirley also spoke in a decisive tone that was very consistent with the atmosphere.

"That's right. The target of that group of men in black is the Sword of Kings, and the Black Spot Curse is just the early exposure caused by the unscrupulous actions of that group of men in black!"

"Yes, if that's the case, then all the irrationalities can be explained. Shirley, you are amazing. You are worthy of being Dr. Shirley."

"Hehe, not as good as what Sid-kun said."

I just copied the answers.

Smiled sheepishly, knowing where her reasoning came from, Shirley blushed when Sid praised her like that.

"It's just that what role did the shadow that suddenly appeared last night play in all this? What role did he play in this?"

Frowning and thinking, Shirley still couldn't figure out what Shadow was here for.

"I don't think we need to discuss this issue. Let's just assume Shadow is a psychopath who suddenly went crazy and wanted to take the blame. Come on, Shirley, have some too."

All the meat slices had been eaten, so Sid could only pick up the side dishes and start eating. It must be said that eating the refreshing side dishes after eating the casserole was really a great way to relieve the greasiness.

"Sid, this joke is quite funny, hahaha."

"..."

Sid looked at Shirley in silence, who seemed to take his conclusion as a joke, but actually didn't take it to heart at all, and was just forcing a smile to save his dignity. Sid didn't explain anything, but just sighed.

"Forget it. I'll report your answer to the higher-ups later, Shirley. I hope they'll accept it this time."

After being reminded by Sid, Shirley seemed to have just reacted and immediately covered her mouth, her face becoming very ugly.

"Let's go, Shirley. After dinner, we need to go out for a walk to digest the food. This is the last bite. Open your mouth."

"what!"

After feeding Shirley the last piece of meat, Sid stood up and walked out the door.

"Wait for me, Sid-kun."

Seeing Sid was about to leave, Shirley hurriedly tidied herself up and followed Sid away.

"Check out, Victoria."

She shouted to Victoria who was standing in front of the front desk, and at the same time, she opened her handbag faster than anyone could see, took out several banknotes and placed them on the table.

"Um, Sid-kun, I remember you said you were a student? Why?"

Following Sid, Shirley saw a student running hurriedly by the side, and suddenly thought of this and asked casually.

"You mean that? Wasn't I appointed as an investigator? So I asked for leave on the pretext of an investigation."

Smiling at the students who were hurrying on their way next to him, Sid slowly explained to Shirley.

"Hey! In that case, why don't you accompany me now, Sid-kun..."

"Don't panic, Shirley. I've said before that I've completed my investigation. This is just a reasonable way to dawdle before the submission date."

What's more, she should hope that I would investigate more slowly.

Thinking of taking away Cang's sister, Xide curled his lips in dissatisfaction.

The information he tore off at that time was not a big deal, and the content inside was basically fine. But after Seraful returned it, he also understood that at least they didn't want to investigate the matter thoroughly now.

His situation is now stuck here. He has already investigated the ordinary demons, and only Rias and Shichigo Sora are left. Then he can run away, but Serafla is worried that he will find out something, so she asks him to investigate others first, before she finishes talking to the church, to investigate other demons first.

I can only say that thinking too much is like this. If Serafla hadn't thought so much, he would have found out the truth and put all the blame on Shadow.

Forget it, paid vacation is not bad either.

"How about some ice cream? I'm a little craving for it. Eating ice cream on a hot day can help relieve the heat."

After a few seconds of silence for Seraflor, he turned his head and saw a long line on the other side. He remembered what Shirley had said about the weather problem on Gengami Island, so he turned around and asked.

"Ice cream? Yes, I want some."

Muttering something, and finally looking at Sid, Shirley nodded.

"Okay, help me get the things, and I'll buy you one on the way. Wait for me here."

Leaving Shirley standing in the shade of the tree, Sid walked towards the ice cream shop.

Because Xian Shenqi Island is an artificial island, the land-forming materials are basically related to heat-absorbing materials, which makes the weather on the island very hot. Naturally, the popularity of industries such as ice cream shops is also very high due to the temperature.

"boom!"

When Sid finally waited for the person in front of him to get the ice cream and leave, and was in the process of making his own, there was a loud bang in the sky and then a series of sounds of rocks breaking and falling to the ground.

Subconsciously looking up, most people only saw a human figure in white armor entangled with a man holding a spear in the air. The sound just now was caused by the energy bullet in the white armor's hand hitting the building next to it, and the explosion instantly destroyed the wall.

"Ah!!! It's a magical attack!"

Although the people around did not have Sid's eyesight, they could still see the general idea and immediately started shouting. When the people around heard the sound, they immediately fled in all directions, fearing that they would be caught up in the fight between the two people above and die.

"Please give me my ice cream first, thank you. Just to wake you up, you'd better run away now instead of staying here and wondering whether to leave or not."

The battle between the two people above had nothing to do with Sid, he could only watch the fun from the sidelines.

With his excellent eyesight, Sid noticed that his ice cream was ready, so he naturally approached the panicked waiter, took the ice cream in his hand, and kindly reminded him.

He watched the fight above with his eyes, licked the ice cream with his tongue, and walked towards Shirley with Shirley's portion in his other hand.

"Tsk, unnecessary attack."

Seeing the white figure easily dodge an energy bullet, and the magic bullet that condensed a lot of energy just ran in front of him, Sid complained...

No, in front of me?

Suddenly realizing something, Sid looked along the trajectory of the magic ball in the sky and saw Shirley standing under the shade of the tree with the handbag in her hand...

Chapter 206: Shirley's Past Use Him to Deal with the God-Destroying Tool

It is said that people will recall their lives before they die, but looking at the white light so close in front of her, Shirley had another idea that went against common sense.

Being with Sid today is probably the happiest day I have had in the past few years.

……

For Shirley, she is a woman who is both lucky and unlucky.

She has few personal hobbies, and scientific research and ancient relics can barely be counted as half of them. The reason why it is only half of them is that her initial interest in these areas was actually influenced by her mother.

Her mother was a researcher, a scholar who was famous at a young age, but because the theories she mastered were too advanced, she was excluded by scholars in the entire academic community.

When she was young, she and her mother moved away from the academic city. Fortunately, their lives were not greatly affected by this. Her mother also met a partner who was willing to support her research, but she did not know who that partner was.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Perhaps because her mother's research touched someone's interests, one day she received the news of her mother's death. After her mother's death, she was adopted by her former adoptive father "Ruslan".

He was a kind-looking old man, the vice-president of a magic swordsman academy. She grew up studying in the academy of her adoptive father.

I don’t know why, even though she has been studying for several years, she doesn’t have any friends... It may be because of her introverted personality and she is unwilling to take the initiative to talk to others, and the fact that she is studying in a science major with a strong scientific research atmosphere.

Then, she met Sid.

To be honest, she was actually startled when she first met Sid. No matter which girl it was, if a boy suddenly appeared in front of her while she was walking, didn't say a word, just handed her a snack called "chocolate", and then left immediately, she would be startled.

Later I asked my adoptive father and found out that this is a way for a boy to confess his love to a girl. It was obviously the first time I met a boy, but he fell in love with her at first sight... I am so distressed. How should I respond?

I want to refuse, but I'm worried that doing so will hurt Sid's feelings, so I want to agree... Although I think Sid-kun is very handsome when he fights hard, I'm still a little too shy to become a couple with a man I've only met once.

Fortunately, Sid-kun was not an unreasonable man. After an intra-school competition, when I gave him cookies as a return gift and expressed my desire to start by being friends with him, Sid-kun agreed. That was great! I successfully made friends.

After becoming friends with Sid, Shirley felt like she was drifting away every day. She couldn't calm down without seeing Sid, and her desire to stay with Sid longer grew stronger.

Unfortunately, just when Shirley felt that her life was on the right track, her adoptive father's condition would improve, her relationship with Sid would grow warmer, and they would finally get married, tragedy struck.

A group of terrorists used an ancient relic to hold the entire campus hostage. They killed people wantonly on campus, and she and Sid analyzed and cooperated with each other like heroes in a novel. Finally, they acted separately and successfully destroyed the ancient relic and rescued the students.

Unfortunately, in that terrorist attack, the evil shadow killed her kind adoptive father, left a sentence "You don't need to know anything" in front of her, and then disappeared... She didn't understand what the evil shadow was saying!

In order to gain enough knowledge to take revenge on the Shadow, she accepted the invitation of the academic city "Lavargas", said goodbye to Sid briefly, agreed that she would explain after the matter was over, and left.

Don't ask why she didn't say a long goodbye. She had no confidence in her own ability to control herself.

After arriving at the academic city, it was just boring reading and doing experiments. No one was willing to communicate with her and make friends with her, which was also good.

The only exception was probably when an elf with long lavender hair came to her door after she published one of her research reports, and then they became pen pals for some unknown reason.

Although in a sense, she and the purple-haired elf are very good friends, their relationship is so good that they can drag each other towards death together for a common goal, but to be honest, the purple-haired elf is definitely a dangerous person.

She couldn't describe how dangerous it was, but from what she knew so far, ever since she sent a letter saying that the surveillance around her had been reduced and asking her to introduce some good ways to get research funding, a large amount of poison targeting extraordinary people had suddenly changed the world's situation.

Poisoning a sword is now a very ethical operation. Rich people can directly suppress it with poison gas, and then use magic to disrupt the barrier and add mental shock...

The purple-haired elf once complained to her in a letter, "Master always says that if he lets me go, I will bring disaster to the world. What a joke. I don't know what Master has secretly created..."

Thank you. She also wanted to complain about the purple-haired elf and her so-called Master. She knew that letting the purple-haired elf out would bring disaster to the world, but she still relaxed the surveillance. This Master was really careless.

After she had completed her studies in the Academic City, she received invitations from several forces. She first excluded all the forces that appeared to be decent, and then selectively attracted investments from several forces to start her game.

The Order of Disaster, led by the Infinite Dragon God, set their eyes on the light and dark imbalance curse given to her by the purple-haired elf as bait. The Diablo Cult, whose name is the same as the villain defeated in the fairy tale, set their eyes on the final experimental results. Netheril, who was known as the richest man, set his eyes on all the knowledge she possessed. The short-sighted fallen angels set their eyes on her...labor force.

The men of the Scourge, the technology of the Cult of Diablo, the money of Netheril, the precious materials, money and weapons of the Fallen Angels are all at once. As for whether these forces can get the rewards...it depends on their own ability.

Just like that, after running to meet her pen pal, Shirley met the person she most wanted to see, but also the person she least wanted to see.

……

It's really funny that the plan that I worked so hard to prepare ended just because of my death...

Looking at the white light that had already reached her, this thought popped up in Shirley's mind, but her body had no time to dodge. She could only watch the white light that brought death getting closer and closer to her.

"Get away quickly!"

A familiar voice reached Shirley's ears, and a huge force attacked her from the side. The powerful push caught Shirley off guard, and she, who had already given up resistance and was waiting to die, loosened her hands that were tightly holding the handbag.

"Gah!"

At the moment when the handbag was opened, Shirley saw clearly from the corner of her eye the face of Sid who saved her life at the critical moment. The look full of anxiety and tension could not be faked.

Maybe it was because Sid ran too fast, Shirley always felt that she seemed to see Sid's afterimage where the handbag was swallowed by the white light.

"Oh!"

Shirley's soft, boneless body was knocked to the ground by Sid. The severe pain was transmitted to Shirley's mind through the part that rubbed against the ground, but Shirley did not make any sound of pain. She just looked at Sid who was lying on her, covering her eyes with one hand, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"what!"

Shirley laughed for some unknown reason. She knew it was not appropriate for her to laugh at that moment, but she just wanted to laugh, a happy laugh.

After the terrorist attack, she heard from others that when she and Sid separated, Sid was stabbed through the heart by someone in order to save a woman.

She knew this shouldn't happen, but she had to admit that when she found out about it, she felt a little jealous or envious of the woman.

As for now? I feel relieved.

"Ha, ha, ha, it's gone again..."

There is a lack of communication between people. Listening to Shirley's laughter because she had escaped death, watching the two people fighting in the sky and the two groups of people fighting on the other side of the street, Sid just thought they were noisy.