Chapter 124

Chapter 124 “Projection Of The Fragment”

In the prayer room, where they’re being watched by the goddess’s statue, the two longtime friends fell into silence after the shocking scene.

“What exactly is that I saw?” Heidi asks after being the first to come out of that shock.

Vanna hesitated briefly before speaking softly: “Perhaps... that was exactly what the sun heretics had been looking for.”

“What the sun heretics have been looking for?” Heidi froze for a moment, “You mean...”

“Sun fragment, a shard from their god...” Vanna nodded lightly without waiting for Heidi to finish, “Perhaps only the sun fragment is worthy of the power in your vision.”

While saying this, Vanna slowly raised her head and stared at the icon of the storm goddess: “After all... the heretics claimed that the fragments came from their real sun...”

Heidi was stunned, and her expression suddenly changed for the worse: “If something like that really appeared in the real world, then Pland would be in immense danger. There’s no way it can be as it is now...”

“My theory is that it’s been sealed,” Vanna nodded in agreement, “intel from the church indicates the sun fragment appeared eleven years ago. But now, it appears the event back then is nothing more than a leak from the real thing. The actual relic is still slumbering somewhere inside the city...”

“And now those sun heretics want to wake that thing up?!” Heidi looked horrified, “Are they trying to destroy Pland entirely?!”

“This is not the first day you’ve dealt with those crazy nutcases,” Vanna shot a sideway glance at her friend, “you should know about their mental state better than anyone. For those suntists, anything is worth it to resurrect their black sun. What are a few city-states in their eye? If they can use the entire world as timber to fuel their god’s revival, I’m sure they would do it!”

Heidi gawked her mouth for the longest time before gurgling out an incoherent mess as the frustration gripped the doctor’s mind.

“The most crucial question now is what happened when you saw that vision. What happened to you, what happened to those around you, and what happened to the museum itself. Only by understanding this will we understand where the sun fragment is sleeping.”

“...... No, I can’t remember the details,” Heidi tapped her forehead lightly, “but now I’m sure I saw its projection when I was unconscious. That’s when I performed the emergency hypnosis on myself to preserve important clues... Let me think about it. At that time, I was rescued and temporarily placed in a certain room on the museum’s first floor... According to what they told me after coming out, that room is close to the main exhibition area...”

In the middle of the counter was the Ai the dove, who was pacing leisurely around the table happily while enjoying her dish full of fries – Duncan promised, and so shall it be done!

Ai got her precious fries, and Nina returned home safely, what more could Duncan ask for today aside from further mastering of his flame? Oh wait, he did learn something new, so he got everything he wanted!

The only one that’s not happy was Shirley though. The gothic girl was about to cry again, that’s several times in one day.

“So... Shirley, you’re not actually my classmate... You’re just using some kind of... ‘detective skills’ to sneak into the school to investigate something.” Nina looked at her hard-earned friend with a complicated expression, “You don’t like steam and machinery either...”

“I can’t even read those textbooks...” Shirley spoke cautiously, answering Nina’s question while making sure to sneak a glance at Duncan for his reaction, “I’m sorry, I... I’m sorry.”

Nina didn’t seem to notice Shirley’s apology and continued to frown in confusion: “But how did you do it? I... looking back now, you always did appear in my classroom out of the blue, and then often next to me without anyone noticing you...”

Shirley quickly glanced at Duncan again. After confirming that the other party’s expression was still calm, she muttered in a low voice: “It’s actually a little supernatural ability of mine...”

“Ability?” Nina’s eyes widened in surprise, “Could it be that you are an investigator for the church?”

“No, no, I’m not from the church, I...” Shirley glanced at Duncan again for the third time already, recalling what those priests like to call people like herself: “I’m what you would call a wild transcendent...”

Nina looked surprised: “... Transcendents in the wild?!”

“If we’re not registered...” Shirley spoke as if she’s given up on something and lashed out when the topic was brought up, “Those dogs from the church are always acting so high and mighty. Just because people like me don’t want to be monitored, they give us these derogatory titles.”

Nina listened to Shirley’s explanation with an astonished face and eyed the gothic girl repeatedly. Finally, the gesture left the more petite girl uncomfortable: “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“You’re amazing!” Nina suddenly exclaims.

Shirley was immediately overwhelmed by that remark: “... That’s all you have to say?”

“Yes!”