3-20: Same as Ever (2/4)

3-20: Same as Ever (2/4)

He hadnt really intended to say that to anyone, but Youko reacted and immediately rejected the idea.

At the same time, she also advised him honestly and expressed her shock.

Probably. Those screams she was making after I showered her with Divine Ki belonged to a woman. It could be an effeminate man, but its most likely a woman What are you sighing for?

Nothing. I just pray that her hearts recovered now and that seeing Masquerade hadnt traumatized her.

Again? Youko seemed to be implying in the way she spoke. Shinichi couldnt really refute her, though.

Shinichi frowned and tacitly asked her with his eyes Are you saying its my fault, but she ignored him.

Enough of that. Have you found out what Nameless main objective is yet? Youve been looking at nothing but unrelated information.

I already found it after investigating another matter, so I was just playing around.

Youko smoothly brought back the conversation in track and Shinichi readily replied.

Not expecting him to say that, her eyes twinkled with surprise.

Huh? You found it already? And from a different case? But didnt you say there were too many candidates, so you couldnt figure it out?

Shinichi had already gotten used to Mana Hacking. Not only has he infiltrated the Countermeasure Departments database without leaving a trace, hes even infiltrated the schools host computer.

In fact, it was him who was most scared of what hed easily accomplished.

But Shinichi was someone who would use anything to accomplish his goals, as long as he didnt have any issues with said method.

He was already in the system, so he took this opportunity to investigate the things he was curious about, and see how they differed from the official story.

It was then that he managed to uncover some important information from a different case.

Its true that theres too many candidates if I just base the candidates off the newspapers and the TV.

Since he already knew that the department store incident was nothing more than a diversion, he immediately investigated the other incidents that occurred on the same day.

These are Garesto jewelries. The stones being used all came from their world, so because of their rarity, theyre rather popular among the wealthy. Right now, though, its one of the methods used to acquire foreign currency from Garesto. But one of the jewels commonly used in these jewelries those pink-colored jewels in particular were found to have a special characteristic just a few years ago. Youll be surprised to know that the person who discovered said special characteristic was none other than our Teacher Frank.

That man openly jealous of his younger sister?

The one and only.

Despite his behavior, he was actually trying to hide that fact. Fortunately, since no one really had any interest in him, only Shinichi and Youko aside from the person in question were aware of his jealousy.

Well, I cant exactly talk about other families situation. Anyway, these stones turn white when exposed to electromagnetic waves of certain frequencies. In that state, they are apparently able to neutralize photon energy.

Neutralize photon energy?

Behind the scenes theyve come to be known as Anfotonium. For people like us, though, wed refer to them as Anti-Magic Material. Does that make more sense?

You mean those things used in the golems that sometimes come out in the old ruins?

Yeah, those. My nemeses that can repel any kind of spell or magic attack.

The ancient ruins of Falandia. Particularly, the ones with the word real attached to them have golems of all sizes to repel intruders.

Their armor uses anti-magic material, which repels all magic, including things that are clad in mana.

For someone like Shinichi who uses various spells along with the Magic Raiment Battle Law to fight, they are troublesome opponents.

But when Youko heard Shinichi say that, she just made a fed up face.

What~ do you mean, nemesis, Master? Just who was it who used the Form of Gentleness to knock those things out and caused even the ruins to collapse, then took advantage of the fact that their armor repelled all magic by pushing a dense lump of mana onto them to send them flying, and then cut them down with Orol Crystal Claw, looking as invincible as ever, and leaving Lilishas group picking up their jaws?

Ha ha ha I was really young back then.

It was like 3 or 4 months ago!

At the time, Shinichi didnt think there was anything strange with what he did.

But after some time and after people pointed it out to him, he realized just how absurd he was being.