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Chapter 196: Lanchi Only Attended One Public Lecture
Chapter 196: Lanchi Only Attended One Public Lecture
As the wind blew, the wooden-framed windows creaked, and the cloth hanging over the small window trembled. Occasionally, a few raindrops fell through the gaps in the fabric.
In the center of the dimly lit room, the Great Lover, with her frivolous voice, was speaking about Phoenix.
"Phoenix, your sister, Phyllis, is currently in the school hospital."
"..."
The powerful demon race beside him filled Phoenix with fear, and she seemed to amplify his emotions, making his fear infinite.
Phoenix naturally understood what the Great Lover was talking about.
Phyllis must have accidentally seen Lanchi facing off against Adams on the screen and mistook him for the principal of Inferno Corridor Academy, frightening her into a seizure.
In fact, it was no coincidence that they had run into Lanchi's team on the first day of school at Ichthys Academy. He had just received a message that he could go and intercept the hunting target, so he joined the match.
After returning, in order to ensure that his identity and mission were foolproof in the present world, he would remain in a hypnotized state before receiving the awakening instruction, completely forgetting everything related to the Resurrection Church.
He had no opportunity to tell his sister about the information the church had obtained.
"Do whatever you want with her."
Phoenix said flatly and coldly, as if he didn't care whether she lived or died.
"Hmm."
The Great Lover sat on Lanchi's desk and hooked her finger.
Without words, Lanchi understood what she meant and took out a stack of translucent cards with different glowing auras from his soul space for her to choose from.
But he didn't know which magic card the Great Lover wanted.
The Great Lover browsed for a while and pulled out a [Transformation Technique: Demon] for Lanchi to use.
Lanchi reverted to his former appearance as the Radiant Demon at Inferno Corridor Academy.
The Great Lover then knocked on the table in front of Hyperion, indicating that she should drop her disguise and return to her original half-demon appearance.
At this moment, the warehouse seemed to have turned into a demon-controlled territory in an instant.
"Which one of us is the summoner, really?"
Lanchi put away the magic cards with a wry smile, feeling exasperated.
He even felt that the Great Lover was the true perfect being. As long as he, the host, didn't die, the Great Lover was also immortal. Even if she was defeated, as long as the summoning cooldown period passed, she could be summoned again.
"Heh, if I were a card maker and had your soul material, I would definitely make you into some kind of poet, as my signature card."
The Great Lover turned her head and hummed proudly.
Her card-making talent was far superior to Lanchi's, but unfortunately, she was restricted to the first tier and could only assist him.
Immediately, the Great Lover turned her gaze to Phoenix.
"Phoenix, imagine a scenario. Suppose later, I take Lanchi to the hospital to visit your sister. She has just woken up from the nightmare of being scared into a coma and feels a little relieved, thinking that she has returned to reality... Then, on this dark and stormy day with rolling thunder, she sees that the renowned Ichthys Academy, known for its safety, actually has me, a living demon, walking into her ward without any hindrance. And the next person to enter the ward is the Radiant Demon principal. What would she do then?"
The Great Lover painted a picture as she spoke, a delighted smile on her face.
"She'll break, won't she? She absolutely will?"
The Great Lover's eager expression made it seem like she was extremely excited to give it a try.
She watched Phoenix's expression, which was becoming increasingly difficult to control, and his face, which was already turning purple with rage. Finally, the Great Lover pointed at him and burst into raucous laughter.
"Aren't you completely indifferent to your sister? Didn't you say, 'Do whatever you want with her'?"
"Why, you seem so fidgety now?"
The Great Lover mockingly imitated Phoenix's earlier tone, taunting him.
With his emotions amplified, Phoenix's intentions were laid bare.
Earlier, he had merely been pretending not to care about his sister.
With the slightest sign, the Great Lover could easily find the chink in his psychological defenses.
"No! You can't touch my sister; she has nothing to do with the Resurrection Church! Don't hurt her!"
Phoenix shouted, almost on the verge of a breakdown.
These demons might not harm a single hair on his sister's head, but they could essentially destroy her!
"I guess you now think that upright people like us wouldn't really do something like threatening you with your family... and that if we confirm your sister's innocence, we won't do anything to her..."
The Great Lover shrugged and raised an eyebrow meaningfully, speaking slowly to Phoenix,
"But take a good look now, are we even human?"
The Great Lover smiled widely and stepped aside.
Behind her were two demons.
Their expressions were indifferent, as if they didn't care about what was going on. This kind of evil and cold-heartedness was unique to the demon race.
"..."
In an instant, Phoenix had a terrible thought—
This place no longer seemed like Ichthys, the capital of the Kingdom of Houghton.
It had become the demon race's base.
Phoenix even suspected that this country had been infiltrated and corrupted by the demons...
"How about this, or later, let's have the student council organize a campus activity where everyone dresses up as demons and holds a carnival. When your sister wakes up and leaves the hospital, she'll find that the whole academy is full of demons, and everyone is acting like they've gone crazy. What do you think? Let her run away first in this real-life demon game, and when she thinks she's about to escape the nightmare, then have Principal Radiant Demon Lanchi appear..."
The Great Lover continued to enthusiastically paint a picture for Phoenix, like a director describing a beautiful scene.
After a while...
"No, stop talking!"
Under the Great Lover's relentless interrogation, Phoenix's mental defenses finally crumbled, and he broke down in tears,
"I'll agree to whatever you say... just don't hurt Phyllis..."
"... "
Not far away, at a table.
Hyperion turned her head silently to look at Lanchi.
Lanchi was still drinking tea, listening intently to the Great Lover's interrogation process, his face filled with the relieved expression of seeing a prodigal son return.
He was like a school leader sitting at the back of the classroom, listening to a public lecture on morals and ethics.
"We've saved another misguided youth, full of merit."
Lanchi noticed Hyperion's gaze and turned to look at her, a smile on his face.
"... "
Hyperion couldn't respond to that.
She didn't want to spend another second in this room with these two 'chosen' demons. She just wanted to find Tata and heal her troubled mind.
If Lanchi was a pseudo-human, then the Great Lover was the real deal.
The Great Lover didn't even bother to pretend.
However, there was a difference between the Great Lover and Lanchi. At least the Great Lover was aware of her cruel preferences, and she had a clear self-awareness of her inhumane nature.
Lanchi, on the other hand, didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with him at all.
Hyperion could no longer distinguish which side of the room was the good guy and which was the evil cultist.
She dared not imagine how Dean Loren would view them tomorrow when they handed over the reformed and renewed Phoenix, and how he would guess what cruel methods they had used to reform this elite cultist.
(End of Chapter)
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