CH 143

When Azriel lifted her head, her friend was looking down at her with her hand on her waist.

“Now that I look at you, you have huge bags under your eyes. Are you sick? Or, did you stay up all night?” Maylie asked. She suddenly grabbed Azriel’s cheeks with her hands and turned her head to both sides. Azriel smiled, not resisting Maylie’s hands.

“It’s not something like that. I just have some things to figure out in a hurry,” Azriel said.

“What is it? Let me do it together. Now that I’m a cub reporter, I can investigate things even better than before!” Maylie said enthusiastically. Azriel took Maylie’s hands off of her and said. “I appreciate your thoughts, but that’s fine. This is related to magic, so I need to do it my…!”

Something suddenly came to her Azriel’s mind when she looked at Maylie’s face looking down at her worriedly.

‘Those missing incidents… Could Rhema be responsible for them? He said that he has been killing countless people since a thousand years ago. How many ‘wizards who approached God’s fence,’ including nameless wizards, could have been killed by him?’

Azriel’s mouth tasted awfully bitter. Forcing her agitation to calm down, she thought over and over again. The royal family was suspecting another force that was behind the missing incidents. Could they be investigating the wrong people, not noticing that it was Rhema’s doing?

‘But those incidents occurred recently. Did they suddenly notice what Rhema has been doing for nearly a thousand years? That’s strange.’

As far as she knew, there was no rumor or gossip that the Wizard of the Horizon was going around and killing people.

‘Then, is it possible that Rhema’s behavior recently changed all of a sudden, letting others notice it…?’

Another force that was causing missing incidents could really exist. Azriel was leaning towards the possibility of the latter. Pendelok, who was the director of magic, pointed out the Wizard of the Horizon as Azriel’s master. Charles had even met Rhema in person. It was true that the Wizard of the Horizon was an unfathomable being, but they were not fools. If they suspected him, they would have kept him in mind as a suspect.

‘There must be some grounds for pointing out another group as its behind force. Then, why is that unknown group targeting people with nameless mana? Would they have a similar purpose as Rhema? What meaning on earth does unnamable have?’

“…Azriel? Are you alright?” Maylie asked.

“Oh, yeah. I’m sorry,” Azriel thought for a moment and carefully asked. “Maylie, are you still helping your senior reporter investigate the missing incidents? Can I ask what kind of data you are asked to organize?”

“Why are you asking about them all of a sudden? They’re nothing special,” Maylie, who blinked her eyes curiously candidly explained. “When a new missing incident occurs, I search and organize any data in the newspaper company that’s even slightly related to the incident. Then my senior would look at the data that I’ve sorted out and pick out meaningful information. What I’m doing is just simple labor.”

“The data stored in the newspaper company? What kind are they?”

“You know, data in the newspaper company is quite predictable. They’re piled-up articles. I gather all the articles and the original data used to write the articles and give them to him. Any incidents occurred nearby, articles published around the similar time, a list of people who could be related to missing people, the news related to the occupations of the missing people or their family…,” Maylie who was mumbling as she counted with her fingers suddenly lowered her eyebrows. “Come to think of it, I had something to ask you if you attended the Night of May Flower… Umm, I don’t need it so badly anyway.”

“A favor? Did you want to find out about something at that ball?” Azriel asked.

“It’s not that I want to find out badly… Do you know about Lexina von Madriol?”

“The esteemed daughter of the Duke of Madriol? I don’t know her so well.”

The only person Azriel knew from the Duke of Madirol’s family was Ash von Madriol. The person who accompanied Charles as his guardian knight. Maylie nodded her head as if she had expected Azriel’s response and said. “Lady Madriol is called the best beauty of Modjankle. She’s also the one who’s most likely to become a queen.”