3-25: The Mask Watches! (1/2)

3-25: The Mask Watches! (1/2)

Masquerade!

Once the mask is donned and the black cloth is clad, the figure behind it can no longer be ascertained.

An exception to that rule would be to see him the moment he dons the mask or if he himself chooses to reveal his identity.

One could use a video camera, but then only a black mist would appear, making it seem as if the camera is broken.

Moreover, the boy known as Nakamura Shinichi, who was the current Masquerade, already knew where all the cameras were. So long as mana (photon) was being used, and so long as he could feel it, being hidden was irrelevant.

If anything hed be more careful to avoid accidentally photobombing someone taking a picture or recording a video.

Another way to put it is that if hes being considerate of even that, then the moment he dons the mask, then there really is no one capable of noticing him.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

He was being monitored and the time he could move was limited, but Youko could just easily use her illusion spells to fool his observers; hence, for all intents and purposes, he truly could move as he pleased.

When you add even mana hacking on top of all that, then there truly was nothing in the city that he couldnt investigate.

Try as people might to hide their secrets and confidential meetings from him, so long as it was in this city, nothing could escape him.

But then again many of those stories werent really of value anyway. Just like the next part.



As usual, he gets so many complaints The month is already almost over, and yet

In the dead of the night, the man handling the complaints and petitions of the students was the student council president, Amamiya.

He grumbled, fed-up, as he glanced at the sleeping boy projected on the floating screen.

It has already been a month since his transfer to this school.

Although it wasnt as frequent as before, his continued snubbing of people save for a few exceptions and boycotting of classes has resulted in teachers and students complaining about him to no end.

Doesnt seem like hes planning on adapting either. But when put so bluntly, dont you think hes actually quite impressive?

The vice president, Riltina, naturally handed him a cup of coffee.

Amamiya thanked her, then wryly smiled after relishing in the taste and smell of the coffee.

Hmm, hes fitting in plenty well in a different sense

Deep inside he felt like praising him for being able to act like that inside the school.

Said praise would be the unpleasant or sarcastic sort, however. After all, it was his fault that his workload had increased.

And yet he was not hiding behind any shadow or object, he was standing brazenly at the center, watching them work.

The target to be observed was observing his observers as they observed the fake video he gave them.

It was a laughable situation when put like that, but it was actually quite grim within the student council.

These two were executives of their respective factions, and they often worked late into the night like this.

Because of that some of the students have even begun unjustly suspecting their relationship, but they couldnt be further from the truth.

On the surface, they were good coworkers, but deep inside, they couldnt be more estranged, and they kept an eye on each other like hawks.

The reason the president acted like he was smelling the cup of coffee the vice-president handed him was actually to analyze its contents.

Shinichi could see the movement of mana (photon), so he was immediately able to tell that.

Of course, the president judged that there were no problems, so he drank it, but Shinichi had been watching the whole time.

Slipping in drugs like an expert Well, it wasnt anything bad, though.

He checked the drug the girl slipped in just in case she was slipping in something bad, but it seemed to just be an odorless and tasteless nutritional supplement that couldnt be detected by a machine.

Hence, one could argue that she was just being considerate, but it still makes one wonder why she had to keep quiet about it.

In the first place, why in the world was she even carrying that on her? It was a rather terrifying topic.

Was she trying to work him like a horse? Was this practice for the real thing?

Of course, it was wholly possible that she meant well, but Shinichi leaned toward the more malicious possibilities.

Well, whatever, good luck, you two.

Although the student council had the wrong idea and was suspicious of him, he didnt really have much of an interest in them.

Bluntly speaking, he knew what they were doing and for what end, and he already had a countermeasure in place.

As such, the student council could be said to have already been neutralized and was no longer any threat or trouble to him.

That didnt change even if he knew that they were agents dispatched by governments from either worlds.

He would use their surveillance system for his own ends, and have them be his alibis who recognized him only as a weird student.

He would also use them as a convenient source of information regarding matters of security. To the boy known as Nakamura Shinichi, that was the kind of place the student council was.