The sound of yawning.

Ye Si didn't sleep well last night because of the nightmare, and was kicked out of the house by Yu Yi early in the morning. Now he can hardly open his eyes.

There is no better place to sleep in the world than a library.

"No clues... No clues, no clues, no clues..."

Ye Shi flipped through most of the files but still didn't find the clues he was looking for, and gradually became discouraged.

Just as she was about to fall asleep...

"...Winning this award isn't just my own achievement. I owe it to Xiao Ma who taught me a lot of painting techniques..."

A certain paragraph in the article attracted Ye Shi's attention.

"Xiao Ma"

This name, which was mentioned casually, seemed to have been heard somewhere.

"what!"

Ye Shi sat up straight as if he had received an electric shock. His previous sleepiness instantly disappeared and he quickly flipped through other information.

"Xiao Ma..."

"Xiao Ma..."

..........

found it.

Sueka has participated in many clubs, including the painting club, and the members of the painting club...

"Double Zero and Suka, ordinary members of the 47th Painting Club of Demon Academy"

"Florence Maria, the 47th Painting Department Director of Demon Academy"

...

Florence Maria.

That's the devil beside Zero who never smiles, and whose words are always cold and mechanical. Now he's the devil's personal bodyguard...

"Miss Maria."

Ye Shi was like a hunter who had caught his prey, and his red eyes regained their color.

Her judgment was correct, and she finally caught the target.

Maria and Mika have known each other since school and later became colleagues. Even after they separated, they still maintained a friendship.

Ye Shi originally thought that Miss Maria, who also became the Demon King's personal bodyguard, would be an outstanding student like Mohua during her school days, leaving many legends in the academy and standing out from the crowd.

But, this idea is wrong.

Miss Maria's student days were not impressive. There are very few records about her, one could even describe her as obscure. Even her file bag was much drier than that of an ordinary student.

"She was a very introverted student. I rarely saw her talk, and she didn't seem to have any friends. She lacked interaction with her classmates and spent all day drawing in the art room, which worried her teachers."

"Later, we suspected she was bullied by her classmates, but after investigation, we found that this was not the case."

"This child simply prefers to be alone and enjoys quiet environments. Under normal circumstances, he can communicate with students and doesn't appear to be mentally abnormal. He has excellent grades, especially a very high talent for drawing. Perhaps... this is what's called an unconventional genius."

The above is what the teachers said about her.

The Silent Genius...

It really fits Maria's impression.

However, what is even more surprising than these contents is...

"rustle"

Ye Shi untied the string on the file bag and took out the first photo at the top, which was Miss Maria's ID photo.

Double braids....

Round black frame glasses....

Braces....

She is the epitome of "rustic" and it's hard to believe that she is Miss Maria.

The girl in the picture has heavy black-framed glasses hanging on the tip of her nose, her eyes are covered by her flat bangs like a pot lid, there seem to be some pockmarks on her face, and her pigtails hang down to her thin shoulders. She looks gloomy and does not have any of the vitality that a student should have.

This is completely different from Ye Shi's impression of Miss Maria.

Maria now gives people the feeling of a flower on the mountain top. Every move of hers reveals her elegant beauty, rather than a rotten potato buried in the soil. When she was a student, she looked like she was about to sprout.

"It's completely opposite to Sueka's fate..."

Beads of sweat hung on Ye Si's face as he compared Mika and Maria in the picture and complained softly.

When she was a student, Mohua was a very influential person. Her legend was spread throughout the entire college, but now she has become an older leftover woman with a rotten soul.

Maria is just the opposite. When she was in college, she was so unfashionable that no one paid any attention to her. There are only a few records left of her. But now she has become a cool and beautiful adult woman with a very high status and appearance.

Good luck tricks people.

"This is..."

Ye Shi continued to look through the information of the two people and seemed to have discovered some insignificant details.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but there are very few photos of Maria left, but in many photos of Mika, you seem to see a figure similar to her.

The audience seats, behind street lights, on trees, on rooftops, next to chimneys, in the bushes, behind vending machines, and many more. If you look closely, it looks like a ghost photo.

Is it really a coincidence? If so, the probability is too low...

"and..."

Ye Shi held the photo of Mika when she was young in his hands, and carefully observed her face through the blurry pixels.

From the first time I saw the young Mika, I felt a strong sense of disorientation, as if I had seen her somewhere before.

"..."

Ye Shi's expression became solemn. He slowly stretched out his finger, and his fingertips brushed across the cold touch, then placed it on the edge of Mohua's mouth in the photo, covering her slightly upturned mouth corners.

"! 』

In an instant, Ye Si's pupils contracted violently, as if he saw something unbelievable, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

The "Mohua" who no longer smiles is surprisingly similar to Miss Maria today.

Whether it is makeup or hairstyle, Miss Maria today seems to be deliberately dressed up to imitate the last flower of that era. Apart from the difference in expression, there is basically nothing else.

Two people from different eras are extremely familiar with each other. Is this just a coincidence?

No, it's impossible...

From her high school photos, we can see that Miss Maria's original appearance and dress were not like this. She intentionally wanted to make herself more like her former self.

But why did she do this..?

Changing your appearance to resemble your friend's former appearance is creepy no matter how you look at it.

"..."

Ye Shi's original purpose was just to get to know Miss Maria better, so that he could get her consent more easily when discussing the plan of taking Yui to treat Zero.

Unexpectedly, during this investigation, Ye Shi seemed to have accidentally discovered something that should not be known and touched the dark side of the matter.

This is how to do...

Pretending to know nothing?

Just then...

"Flutter, flutter"

The sound of wings flapping.

A flying bird flew over the glass window above the library's dome, and its elongated shadow fluttered around Ye Shi. The portrait in the photo seemed to blink as the shadow flickered.

Then, a pitch-black feather floated down.

Like a baby's rocking cradle, it slowly fell down and finally landed on the photo, covering Mihua's face.

The temperature plummeted.

Ye Shi felt a chill on his spine, and a sharp murderous aura was coming towards him from the front.

(Oops...)

She swallowed, slowly raised her eyes, and looked towards the end of the maze where the sunlight could not reach.

Tick-tock

The crisp sound of high heels.

As the steps got closer, a tall figure passed through the shadows between the bookcases and gradually appeared in front of Ye Shi.

"Ms. Yoshito."

A cold voice devoid of emotion.

In the dim light, the black wings around its waist and its body formed the shadow of a cross on the ground.

"Your investigation ends here."

Florence Maria....

The gray-eyed demon gazed at this side calmly.

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Chapter 281 Game (4k)

"Ms. Maria..."

Facing the demon in front of him, Ye Shi instinctively took two steps back, his red eyes revealing complex emotions.

Maria's appearance was so sudden, as if she was born from the void. Ye Si didn't notice it at all. When he reacted, the other party had already appeared in front of him.

When did her surveillance begin?

Just now, yesterday, last week, a month... or even earlier?

How much information does she have...

Have our plans, and even the identities of the magical girls, been exposed?

Careless.

Ye Shi had recently relaxed her vigilance. When she thought she was a hunter and was concentrating on hunting prey, she didn't notice that her back was exposed and she was the prey being hunted.

Maria is the Demon King's personal bodyguard, and it is impossible for her to give up investigating the people around her. If the magical girl's identity is revealed, what will follow will be a full-scale war with the Demon King's army.

This is not good news.

Exposing your identity in the demon world is equivalent to death.

There will be a constant stream of troops attacking, and even if you try to escape, they will immediately pursue you, day and night, until you are exhausted and have no way to escape.

but...

Now, perhaps there is still room for Zou Xuan.

"Ms. Maria, why are you here?"

Ye Shi pretended to remain calm, suppressing the strong turmoil in his heart. Under the dim light, he replied in a surprisingly calm tone.

Maria did not take direct action, but chose to stand up and confront face to face, which means that she may not have obtained the key evidence and clues, and the intelligence she has may not be as much as she imagined.

Next, you must be careful in your conversation and not reveal any flaws under any circumstances.

"Thump...thump..."

The sound of high heels echoed in the library.

"I should be the one asking you this question, Miss Yoshito."

Maria walked forward step by step, and when she passed by the bookcase, she glanced at the books neatly arranged like guards.

She slowly stretched out her fingers and ran them across the surface of the bookshelf. Thick dust accumulated on her fingertips like grains of salt.

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