Chapter Eighty-Four: A Thousand Faces of Ehuas

Ivas quickly adapted to campus life at the University of Law.

It's Thursday afternoon.

It has been two days since Ewass appeared on the "Glass Steps" for the second time.

It was a completely different situation than the last time he was at the Pelican Bar - when Ivas was in the newspaper, not many people knew about him at school.

Because there are basically not many students who buy an expensive and serious newspaper like the "Glass Steps".

The Glass Steps is too serious, and most of the stories are very brief – such as the death of a major figure, a change in the top of a department, a thriving or crisis in an industry, changes to laws and taxes, explanations of key policies this year or next, and important events happening in other countries.

There was no gossip or fun, no serials, short poems, jokes, or interesting advertisements that were often found in other newspapers. Even the details of many news stories are incomplete, and many major events are only a short sentence.

The most frequent words in the Glass Staircase are all kinds of "personal names" – and for the students, they basically don't know most of these names, and it only hurts their brains to look at them. The only attraction is probably the "magic painting" of Master Yanis.

So the average student wouldn't buy this kind of thing at all. It has nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge...... If someone suddenly bought the "Glass Steps", then most likely it was not for the knowledge or information above, because they couldn't read it. It's either a request from the parents, or it's just to pretend to be able to understand.

To the students of the University of Law, Ivas at that time was just a "strange young man who suddenly made the front page of the Glass Steps", a hostile "other man's child".

After all, whether it's the Pelican Bar or the Demon Scholar, for these students living in the Red Queen, it's a distant thing.

But the murder that happened at the White Shoes Club on Monday afternoon, and the killer who attempted to murder Princess Isabel was different.

This is what happened to them, and many students even saw it with their own eyes.

Secretary Raff fell from the second floor and smashed to their feet, killing him in front of the students; A steady stream of supervisors and inspectors from all over the city lined up at the door of the club; Dressed in silver-white armor and dragonhead helmets, the air cavalry rode tall and majestic white griffons through the air at high speed......

- If Avalon goes to war one day, this will probably be the scene! The students thought with some excitement.

In complete contrast to the generally conservative Hall of Round Tables and the Hall of Silver and Tin, the students' enthusiasm for war was high. Their ever-cyclical routines were too comfortable and boring, and the students were desperate for something exciting.

And for now, it's exciting enough.

The beautiful female killer emerged from the shadow of Her Royal Highness, and the old knight in armor and armed with a two-handed greatsword launched a hunt for her. The two men fought fiercely in the streets, the roads in the city were sealed off by law, the heavenly cavalry attacked, crackling lightning strikes and hurricanes as sharp as blades swept through the streets, and the rolling thunder could be heard in the clouds from the very edge of the glass island.

The old knight chased her from the Red Queen to the White Queen, and from the White Queen to Lloyd. His ability to burst out was so limited that he was almost lost two streets away—but thankfully, there were griffon knights in the sky, and Director Gordon had summoned his own.

But when they arrived in the sky, it was even more difficult to track.

The clue they can see is "a shadow on the ground that is clear that there is no obstruction, but it flashes on the ground." As the distance gets higher, it becomes more difficult to identify.

Not to mention, the streets and alleys of the glass island are so narrow. It's really tied.

The inhabitants of the Red and White Queens include a large number of knightly families, priests, elves, wealthy merchants, scholars, and officials. There are also some distinguished guests who have come from foreign countries.

The cunning killer also led them through churches, museums, art galleries, government buildings, courts, orphanages, schools, hospitals, research institutes, ...... Her path was not even straight, but deliberately went around these places, into the crowd, and led the knights to attack her.

But none of these old knights are reckless warriors with high blood. They have access to the round table and are generally older than forty years old. They are past that reckless age, and they are all calm.

- If they force their move, the high-level killers who adapt to the path don't know if they will be fine, but the passers-by will definitely die. And they will die one by one.

Then you might as well let the killer go!

After all, the killer had only assassinated the lowest-ranking officer. Although she once fled into the shadow of Her Royal Highness the Princess...... But she didn't really assassinate the royal family after all.

The killer obviously knew what they were afraid of, so he deliberately took them around in circles. Relying on his skillful doppelganger, stealth, and vision deception techniques, he was chased down by the inspectorate before it got dark. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the subject entered the Lloyd's Zone before disappearing.

- Lloyd's and the Red and White Queens are not the same.

As a result, Lloyd's was completely banned. The port was temporarily suspended, and even the navy, which was resting at the shore, was alarmed for a while. The supervision of the whole six brigades was mixed with a large number of inspectors from Lloyd's district street by street, and swept until dawn, and finally the killer was still not caught.

The Inspectorate simply pretended that it was not chasing the Assassins, but rectifying the law and order in the royal capital—so they took down a whole thirteen illegal organizations and arrested more than 400 people involved in the case. It's quite a big event.

Anyway, it's all here, so you can't go back empty-handed.

In the eyes of the public who did not know about this, this was a special operation carried out by the Inspectorate. But for the few who knew the inside story, the Inspectorate even became a joke.

The Inspectorate, which was almost fully deployed, could not catch a single person - the Inspectorate's overly serious attitude was more likely to provoke ridicule than the incident of "failing to catch the killer".

But on the contrary, Director Gordon, who was the first to catch up, was not only not punished, but was commended.

Because what he did in the first place was exactly right: instead of launching a powerful attack on the assassin, he pushed him away from the princess's side first.

Even though this push helped the other party escape safely, Gordon's primary purpose had been achieved. That is to protect Princess Isabel.

- Again, if the killer is let go, then it will only be the private secretary of a minister who will die. And if the killer is trapped in the club, she kills all sides, and I don't know how many students will be killed and injured. Releasing a prisoner is a more acceptable consequence than their safety.

Of course, his commendation will not be issued immediately. But Iwass had heard from Isabel that Director Gordon was to be transferred to the Inspectorate as a senior inspector who would be responsible for managing and overseeing the discipline of all the District Inspectorates of Glass Island.

From the director to the senior inspector, it looks like he has been demoted by half a level. But in fact, it is actually a level and a half - and even happens to be able to continue to manage his previous department.

Compared to the Inspectorate, who tossed the big movement that the whole city knew, Ivus, who was motionless in a wheelchair, was even more powerful. After all, anyone could see how much damage Eivers's shot had done to her. To exaggerate a bit, maybe the damage caused by Ivas is all the damage.

The students who witnessed the "big event" were extremely excited, and even bragged about it with other students who had not seen this scene.

Because there were so many students present, but none of them really saw the whole picture—at least eighty percent of them didn't notice that Secretary Raff had a thin knife the size of a little thumb stuck in his back; The only people around him who heard Ivus shouting Director Gordon were those around him.

Although the newspaper praised Ivace fiercely, Ivas was also interviewed with the mysticism of "I don't say, you guess for yourself".

Because of this, they rely on their imagination and understanding to try to make up for this seemingly happy event.

In a situation where students can only guess on their own, almost everyone tells a story with nuanced differences. And those who hear the story feel compelled to share it with others. So they went to someone to talk about the second round, and relied on their own memories to add fuel and vinegar......

- By the time of the lunch break the next day, there were more than 70 versions of the story.

At lunchtime, almost every table in the cafeteria tells this story. And the stories on each table are different, as if they all come from different timelines.

There are versions that sound a little more normal, such as "Ivas is the female Assassin's ex-boyfriend" and "The Assassin is Evas's stepmother"; There are also subtle speculations such as "Ivas is the secret guard of Her Royal Highness the Princess" and "Ivas is a prophet".

In the end, there are even stories with legendary plots and ups and downs such as "the target of the assassin is actually Queen Sophia", "the assassin is the daughter of the former dynasty who takes revenge", and "the assassin is a demon in human form".

Nowadays, there seems to be a plan for students to use Ivas as the protagonist to carry out a second creation......

Now Iwass is really a celebrity.

As he originally planned, he received the kindness and recognition of his classmates, but in a different way than he thought.

Today, he has become an urban legend with a thousand faces. Ivas believed that even if a professional spy came to the university to inquire about him, he would probably have to listen to him.

How can everyone give a different answer?

Is Ivus so mysterious?

In the end, Ivas gained fame, Director Gordon was promoted, the students present were given something to talk about, and the students who were not present were entertained.

Although the other departments were verbally criticized, no one really accepted the punishment - the knights had judged the matter completely correctly, and the assassin was not really prepared to assassinate Her Royal Highness after all, so Her Majesty would not be too attached to the slippery and difficult killer.

Although there was a lot of commotion, they caused the largest amount of damage in this incident, probably destroying the walls of some buildings in Lloyd's district. And these losses can be fully included in the operation funds of the "end of thirteen illegal organizations", and there is even a lot of redundancy.

The only people who felt sad were probably Aiden and Isabel.

Isabel was simply sad that she couldn't go to the White Shoes Club.

In this incident, the White Shoes Club was temporarily closed.

Although Isabel listened to Aaron's words, it would definitely be unblocked after that. But after more than two months of enrollment, I finally joined the first student organization. As a result, before they could make friends or even say a word to strangers, the organization closed.

Aiden was unlucky.

As a student who had been in contact with the Assassin, he was transferred to the Inspectorate for interrogation twice. Even that copy of Dracula was taken away.

Even when he was in class, Aiden didn't listen much; But after missing two classes in one breath, he missed class a little bit again.

The main thing is that Aiden feels a little anxious: Now that the final exam is approaching, how can I make up for the classes I missed!

"-Can't you just come two weeks late?!" He whined.

In that case, if I don't do well in the exam this semester, I can go home and push the pot directly to you!

Now there is nearly a month before the final exam, and it is uncomfortable to be in the village or in the back.

And what made Aiden even more sad was that his budding first love ended before it began.

The "mysterious lady in the white dress, who may have a crush on her", turned out to be a ruthless bad woman - and this devastated him.

Ivas heard his complaints, but smiled silently.

It's okay, bro. Calm......

- Sooner or later, you'll get used to it.

(End of chapter)