Chapter 855. Super Ribbon

Chapter 855. Super Ribbon

Bang!! Bang!!

A heavy sound echoed.

How did it come to this?

Although she didn't do anything too wrong, Rinne currently couldn’t control her trembling body. She couldn’t help but feel ridiculous, crouching in a corner of the castle’s laboratory trying to hide.

“Rinne evaluates her current situation lowly...”

She wanted to step forward confidently, but she had essentially opened up Pandora's box.

“Tee-hee!”

Evangeline, the little child in her arms, looked up with bright eyes and innocently stretched out her small white hand, but Rinne just broke out in a cold sweat.

“E-Evangeline, Rinne evaluates your quietness highly...”

“Tee-hee!”

“Shh, shh!”

“Shhh.”

The sight of Evangeline simply covering her mouth with her hand rather than mimicking Rinne placing her finger over her mouth to be quiet was extremely innocent and cute.

It had already been six months since Evangeline was born. A lot of time had already passed.

Were children somehow destined to like specific people? Evangeline and Darian liked Rinne from the moment they opened their eyes.

She had enjoyed boasting proudly about them liking her at one point, but things were different now. Their affection and preference for her had become somewhat of a double-edged sword, resulting in the current situation.

“R-Rinne determines that children are very dangerous.”

Thud!! Thud!!

The loud noise rang out again.

Not long after, the noise stopped in front of the door to the laboratory where Rinne was hiding.

The Deus Ex Machina, the god of machinery, had been running like crazy.

‘Please just pass by,’ Rinne hoped to herself.

She silenced the children who were bursting out in pure laughter.

The breathtaking situation went on for a while.

Soon after, thudding sounds faded into the distance.

“Rinne determines that the footsteps have become distant. Changing the alert level to green...”

Thud! Crack!!

“Gaaa!”

Everything happened in an instant. Although Rinne had an expressionless face, she froze on the spot with her mouth wide open. The sound just now was none other than the sound of a solid wooden door being torn apart by a huge ax.

Creak!! Squeak!!

Then someone twisted the ax and yanked it free.

Rinne nervously peered through the gap just big enough for a human face. After a moment of silence, a face suddenly appeared through the crack in the door. She saw a maniacal smile poking through the gap. The eyes rolled around and soon made eye contact with Rinne, who was tightly hugging Evangeline to her chest.

“Here’s Davey...!”

“Kyahaha!”

“Hmph!”

Rinne collapsed to the floor. Despite having an expressionless face, anyone could sense her extreme shock. The person she saw through the crack was none other than her owner, Davey O’Rowane.

“You were hiding here, huh? Just wait.”

Then his face disappeared from the hole.

Crack!!

He then broke down the door with his strong arm.

“Hiccup!”

Rinne hiccuped involuntarily. It was surprising for a biological golem to hiccup from shock.

Clunk! Clunk!!

Rinne, frozen on the spot, watched Davey slowly unlock the door with his arm.

Crack!!

And as soon as he pulled out his arm, he kicked the door in and smashed it.

‘If he was going to smash the door, why’d he even bother to unlock it?’

Rinne trembled, forgetting all plans to run away.

“Thank you, Rinne.”

Gnash, gnash...

Although Davey was smiling, Rinne knew that there was a 99.8 percent chance that he was currently in a state of extreme anger, based on the data she had accumulated so far.

“R-Rinne appeals strongly to force majeure! Rinne was just following orders...!”

He instantly grabbed her face as she screamed at the top of her lungs. She remembered the name of this technique from Davey’s memory she downloaded from him.

Wrestling technique, Iron Claw!

“Gyaaa!”

Rinne screamed and struggled. As he lifted her head up and smiled slyly, Evangeline burst out laughing. But despite dangling by her head, Rinne hugged Evangeline tightly, preventing her from falling.

“Rinne, what are you going to do about this? What should I do, now that you’ve ruined the hobby I worked so hard for two months to build?”

She then added that they didn’t manage to exorcize the ghost. They had disappeared without a trace, and Archbishop Alice got caught in the barrier Davey set up and had a troublesome time getting out. Hearing this, Davey figured the ghost wasn’t just some run-of-the-mill apparition.

“What are its characteristics?”

“They couldn’t see it clearly because they saw it at night, but it seemed like it was a girl around the same age as me,” Illyna added.

“So is it like a ghost? Are there even ghosts in Tionis?”

Davey figured if there was a vengeful spirit in the first place, he would’ve found it right away.

And above all—

“Ghosts can’t penetrate my barrier.”

This was natural, as ghosts were ultimately beings that could interfere with devil mana.

“Surprisingly, a ghost has very little interfering power. If you ask who’s more dangerous between humans and ghosts, the former are overwhelmingly more dangerous.”

“Ugh... Well, it’s still a little creepy despite knowing so.”

‘Whoever you are, you better not get Heins Territory into a frenzy by spreading unnecessary rumors.’

Davey then looked at Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon, who were sleeping soundly in bed hugging each other tightly.

He noticed how the two had been sleeping more than they used to these days.

* * *

Every night at Heins Academy, a strict barrier was activated.

No matter who broke in, it was difficult to accomplish anything between all the restrictions. In fact, it was impossible to walk around without breaking the barrier at night unless they were a mage of at least the same level as Davey.

Davey knew that Odin, the God of Mages, was a likely candidate—she was probably gnashing her teeth at him from the Saint’s Sanctuary. Death Lord Rho Aias also seemed a likely suspect, but he knew that they couldn’t leave the sanctuary on account of being too powerful.

He couldn’t think of who it could possibly be. But he did know there were countless people on the continent, and there must be plenty of talented individuals he wasn’t aware of.

* * *

“It’s probably around here.”

Archbishop Alice.

In the past, she had competed with Saint Lena as a candidate for sainthood. However, she let go of all her burdens and desires to save herself when Goddess Freyja performed a miracle.

She then resigned her candidacy for sainthood and worked as an Archbishop, currently working as a professor teaching theology and holy magic to war orphans, which some considered to be the lowest of the low in society.

There had been a lot of talk about her staying in the Kingdom of Rowane, since she was originally from the Holy Empire, but Archbishop Alice was a very pragmatic woman—to the extent that she easily ignored any politics that interfered with her own goals.

“Archbishop Alice. Are you scared?”

“W-Who are you calling scared?”

Seeing her snap, Davey could clearly tell how scared she was. He couldn’t help but think how interesting it’d be if others knew that an Archbishop who worshiped God was afraid of ghosts.

“I find this situation funny.”

"F-Funny...?! To be frank, I have no clue what’s going on, which makes it even creepier. It’s not because I’m afraid...”

"Boo!"

“Aaah!!”

Tears welled up in her eyes as she collapsed and screamed. It seemed like she wanted to immediately hide behind Davey.

“Professor Alice, please get up. They don’t have any spiritual power—it’s likely just a simple intruder.”

The reason the priests of the Holy Empire weren’t afraid of ghosts was not only because of their strong faith, but also because they were familiar with spirits through entities like necromancers.

However, Davey understood her fear—after all, a bizarre phenomenon beyond their common sense had occurred.

“A simple break-in? What kind of crazy person could go around the barrier you set up so casually? That’d be impossible even for a Great Sage.”

The Great Sage Hellison Valestia was Illyna’s teacher, Winley’s husband, and the direct teacher of Central Elder Yulis, a close friend of Davey’s.

He was called the Great Sage, and his magical skills were practically unmatched by anyone except Davey. But even he couldn’t manage to get through the barrier and move around so easily. What was even more absurd was that the ghost was said to be a girl of similar age to Illyna.

“Whoever they are, we’ll know once we see them.”

With that, Davey used Silence to completely block off his sound and slowly opened the door to the library.

He then saw a girl sitting by a window reading a book, three moons and starlight shining brightly in the night sky.

“I had thought there was no one but Odin and Rho Aias who could walk around ignoring the barrier. I forgot there was one more person.”

The girl with unique sparkling red and blue eyes was very beautiful. As she was quietly reading a book, she took out a wand and waved it in the air as if she had finally had an epiphany.

She was waving a magic practice wand from the lab.

“W-Wingardium Lev...”

Boom!

Mana exploded and she stumbled.

Then, while coughing slightly and waving his hands, she finally met eyes with Davey.

“...”

The girl who was looking at Davey blankly immediately widened her eyes, broke the window, and ran out.

“...”

"That... That girl that just...”

“She must be the one who caused the ghost commotion. But this is a bit of an absurd turn of events.”

Davey glanced down at Blue Ribbon and Red Ribbon strapped to his belt and walked out the window where she disappeared.

“I’m going to scold you if you run away.”

The girl who was running away flinched at his words and stopped.

“Super Ribbon. What were you doing here?”

Davey quietly asked her a question without asking about the other details. With her back facing him, her shoulders began to tremble.