God-level Demon Hunter

On her face covered with fine lines and sagging skin, she sometimes grinned with joy, sometimes her eyes were wide open, her face was sullen and extremely angry, and sometimes her eyebrows and eyes were downcast, showing sadness.

Roy was dazzled for a while.

"Little Lori... the jewel in my palm, I haven't seen you for a week, why have you lost weight again? Is it because the school work is too hard? I cooked you your favorite dish, eat more." The woman straight Googoo stared at the left side for a while, grinning to reveal a mouthful of fine teeth, and told the air with a gentle expression, then scooped out a few tablespoons of steaming vegetable soup from the iron pot in the center of the round table, poured it into the plate on the left. "Lady should eat slowly, otherwise how will you get married in the future?"

Little Lowry?Roy thought it might be Vivien's nickname.

The woman suddenly put her hands on her hips, and stared at the air on the right, "Old Bob, what did you do? You look stupid with a bruised nose and a swollen face? You went out drinking again yesterday, fooling around and fighting with people? It stinks like a pile of dung, today Don't try to climb into my old lady's bed. Next time, you will get out of this house!"

"Hmph!" She took another spoonful of thick soup into the plate on the right, and began to eat on her own, while there was an empty plate with a spoon on the opposite side of her.

Roy watched a few scenes in silence, and after the woman finished drinking the soup, he tried to call her several times, but there was no response.

Really unable to communicate, Roy had no choice but to leave the house, walked around a few nearby houses, found two or three old men who were leisurely smoking tobacco in the yard, and asked about the situation at Vivien's house, and the answer was no. As expected, they all believed that there were only three people in Vivien's family.

Roy thought it was impossible for everyone to lie, right?

Chapter 24 No such person found

It was still a long time before noon.

Roy left the downtown area and quickly returned to Cadell's house. He hid outside the classroom and looked inside. The students were listening attentively to Cadell's history lesson on the podium.

Vivien sat alone in the last row.

The time card was just right, and now the entire school, except for him and the fat cook who had been in the kitchen, everyone was in the classroom.

Roy then sneaked into the principal's office room on the second floor. Seeing that the door was locked, he ran to the far left of the corridor and leaned half his body out of the guardrail to observe the windows on the second floor on the side of the house.

The window was wide open, not far from the corridor, and not too high from the ground. Roy took a deep breath, squatted halfway on the guardrail, estimated the distance and did a few squats, and then the tense springs on his legs loosened instantly. Open, the whole person is like a big bird swooping over, stretching his arms, and successfully clasped the window sill.

With some strength in his waist, he flipped into the room nimbly like a cat. For him whose physical fitness is not weaker than that of an adult, this set of movements is not difficult.

The room was still exactly the same as when Roy came the first day. He went straight to the desk behind the bookshelf and pulled out a few drawers and cabinets.

Too bad it's all locked.But he was unwilling to let him leave like this, so he searched everywhere in the room, bookshelf, sofa, pen holder...

Half an hour later, Roy pleasantly took out a copper key from a book of poems called "Moon Age" in the corner of the bookshelf.Insert it into the keyhole of the cabinet near the corner of the table.

With a crisp sound of "card", the cuboid-shaped cabinet under the desk was opened, revealing several neat stacks of papers.

Roy came to school on the first day, and the personal information registration form he left was in it.According to Kadell at the time, every new student was required to register for the same registration. The registration information included the specific date of admission, name, gender, age, home address, relative relationship, and simple appearance descriptions, such as hair and eye color. , Birthmarks or scars on the body.

According to Roy's thinking, if Vivien's younger brother was real and had gone to school at the Cadell House, then there must be such a record.

Anyone who walks will leave traces.

Even if no one remembers the "he", words will never lie by themselves.

The registration form has been sorted by Kadell according to the year of enrollment, and the year of enrollment will be placed in that pile.According to Roy's rough count, there are actually 13 thin piles, which means that the Cadell House has existed for at least so many years.

Beginning in 1248, there were only two or three registration forms in the first year, and then increased year by year. In the last three or four years, it has become stable, with almost thirty new students every year.

Every year, the vast majority of new students enroll, and old students graduate and leave school around May Day, and there are very few people like Roy who jump in line halfway.

He sighed slightly, the piles of inconspicuous papers in front of him were the history of Kadel House, recording how a school serving poor children based on faith, how in a chaotic era, where gangsters and revolutionary armies were rampant , and grew step by step to the scale it is today.

Thin and light paper has another unspeakable weight.

Roy carefully flipped through the pages one by one. He didn't read every word carefully. It was too slow, and he didn't know some words.He only looked at the year of enrollment, name, and kinship, and it was within six or seven years, because the Cadell House allowed students to stay for up to five years.

"Hill...not right."

"Frick...the relatives are wrong."

"Kalz...the home address is wrong."

It took more than 200 registration forms to browse through in a quarter of an hour, and some piles were mixed with empty forms, perhaps used by Kadel to comfort himself, and then he checked it a second time and a third time.

After three times, Roy sighed, folded the registration form neatly with a complex expression, and locked it in the cabinet again.

Roy couldn't find any information about Vivien's brother.This conclusion made him feel that most of the investigation had been completed, and the result was as expected, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Does Vivien really have some kind of mental illness?

Among the dozen or so stacks of records, there are still some that are very familiar to Roy, and they are the children who are still in school.

Two of them left a deep impression on him, each recording a boy who appeared in Vivien's diary—Miffin who had fought with "him".

And the boy with the scar under the eye, Helheim, the excellent graduate whom Cadel had painted.

Roy glanced at the wall clock. There was still one hour to 1 o'clock. After lunch later, he was going to ask Miffin and add some evidence at the end.

Roy hesitated before leaving the room. Out of curiosity, he opened another drawer with a copper key.

"Well, books, quills, ink..."

"Cosmetics? I can't tell that Teacher Kadel, who has a rigid and serious face, is also a beauty-loving woman."

"Well, this is?" Surprisingly, Roy found a crumpled notice in the third corner drawer...

"Vernon Ryan, the great revolutionary leader of Edsberg, ran for the benefit of the people, but was captured and imprisoned by the cruel Baron Tavik for three months. The righteous people who went to protest were violently suppressed by the baron ! But the revolution is uncompromising, and new ranks are gathering..."

A bright light dispelled the fog in his mind.

Roy finally remembered the identity of that outstanding graduate, Helheim.Isn't the boy with the scar under his eyes the man in the cloak who passed out the revolutionary notice when he left the dwarf's mansion, a member of the revolutionary army?

There was such a notice clearly hidden in the drawer of Kadel, and he kept saying that he sent outstanding graduates to work in other places.

So obviously, this respected lady principal must be inextricably linked with the Revolutionary Army.Thinking about it, Roy even felt that Kadel played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary Army, and the entire school was founded by her to train the elites of the Revolutionary Army.

Yes...he still remembered the history lesson he had overheard from Cadel when he came to school on the first day.

At that time, he had a strange feeling that the headmaster seemed to be more inclined to the position of the revolutionary army, criticizing Edsberg and even the upper echelons of the Kingdom of Aden.

Then everything makes sense, the supporters behind this Cadell House are the Revolutionary Army!According to his own performance, if he stays for a few more years, maybe Kadel will show his cards to him.

Roy took a deep breath, feeling quite complicated.Obviously, he just came to check the information of Vivien's brother, but he didn't expect to catch Cadell by mistake.

So Vivien's brother, is he related to Kadel and was secretly brought into the revolutionary ranks by the other party, just like Helheim?

Roy quickly vetoed this idea. No matter how high Kadel was in the Revolutionary Army, she was a human being, and it was unlikely that Vivien, her family, and neighbors would all lose their memory.Even Helheim left a portrait and a registration form, but that "he" did not.

Old Bob's testimony, together with the missing registration form, is enough to prove that the "he" in the diary does not exist. If the Miffin in the diary denies it, then...

Chapter 25 The Forgotten Ones

After restoring all the things in the room, Roy sneaked into the classroom on the first floor as if nothing had happened, and "observed" all the more than 60 people in the school, including Vivien and Cadel, who stayed on the respected principal for the longest time , everyone's data belongs to the category of normal people, including Kadel, who is not an expert or mysterious existence in the world of game mortals.

However, what surprised Roy a little was that Cadell, a human woman over 40 years old, had a higher physical fitness than an adult man, with an average attribute of 7, and she also possessed "well-trained" and "dagger specialization" , Two skills.Now that she has nothing to do with the Revolutionary Army, Roy doesn't even believe it.

……

After lunch, Roy found Miffin among a bunch of rowdy boys on the playground.

This burly boy with pimples all over his face, who was about to graduate next year, ignored him at first, with his chin raised, his face full of disdain, and the word disgust was evident on his face.

He has always been jealous of the beautiful female teacher's "love" for Roy.

Until Roy gave him two crowns, Miffin immediately put on a smiling face and became ready to answer questions.

"Teacher Vivien's younger brother?" Miffin listened to Roy's question, every pimple on his face was full of surprise, "Do you know, I have been in school for four years, and I am now one of the more than 60 students Senior among the students, I also secretly followed Teacher Vivien for four years. I can guarantee that she doesn’t have any messy brothers and sisters. There are quite a few admirers like me. Here, the three over there are all oily. Did you see the stinky boy? They are all of the same kind. Don't lie, you also have a crush on her, right?"

"Fight? Roy, you don't have a fever and your brain burns out, don't you think it's ridiculous? I haven't seen Teacher Vivien's brother, so how can I fight with him? I can't stand her alcoholic father It's true, if I have the chance, I might really cover his head and beat him into a pig's head."

Miffin's answer was in line with Roy's expectations. He randomly selected a few students who were less than ten years old from the group of laughing and playing students in the yard, and found an excuse to call aside, and asked about Teacher Vivien Regarding the situation of the family, I still got the same answer.

Are any of them lying?Roy didn't know, he didn't have the Axii sign of the witcher, which made people tell the truth.

But it's impossible to let such a young child lie without changing his face.Their words still have a lot of credibility.

Roy glanced under the hornbeam tree in the yard, smiled sweetly, and felt sorry for Vivien, who was playing with a group of boys and girls. See if there are any other clues.

……

Roy and Vivien stood outside the living room on the third floor of the school, blowing the cold wind, watching the pairs of students and parents who left happily organized by Principal Kadel,

"Sister Vivien, I already have a clue about your 'brother'."

"Have you found any clues about him?" Vivien held his hand nervously with expectant eyes, and pulled him into the room, "Is there any important discovery?"

"Well..." Roy squeezed his temples, feeling really uncomfortable to speak directly. "About 'him', students at school, have you asked them all?"

"Of course I asked." Vivien Liu frowned slightly, and replied helplessly, "Didn't I tell you before that no one acknowledged the existence of 'him'."

"Then what do you think?" Roy tried his best to soften his tone, "If 'he' really exists, why doesn't everyone in the school remember 'him'? Not even your biological parents Remember there was a 'he'."

"This phenomenon is completely unreasonable...but I have been investigating it privately for two years." Vivien clenched her hands together and anxiously walked around the room a few times. The light from the window fell on her fair and flawless pretty face. Creates a strange sense of sacredness, "every possibility is ruled out, and now it seems to me that there is only one reason for this phenomenon-the memory in all of us, the memory of 'him' is erased."

"That's why I turned to you. Haven't the witchers seen all kinds of twists and turns? Isn't there something similar-some mysterious thing took my poor brother and then erased all The memory of 'him' in a person's mind."

"It's all been erased?" Roy's pupils shrank when he heard it. This was the last answer he wanted to consider, but he couldn't completely deny it, but he had evidence to the contrary. "But have you ever thought that even if people's memories are erased, some things will not disappear."

"What do you mean?" Vivien's expression froze.

"That enrollment registration form..." Roy stared into Vivien's eyes and said in a deep voice, "According to your diary, 'he' used to go to school at Cadale House. And every student will leave Make such a record."

"I'm not going to hide it from you, Sister Vivien. I have gone to Principal Kadel's office to investigate, and I found a total of more than 290 registration forms in the past ten years, including the more than 60 students in the school today. But there is no one from you. Kiss brother! That 'his' record. Do you know what that means?"

"The registration form you mentioned," Vivien shook her head lightly, her pretty face hard to hide her disappointment, "It doesn't mean anything... Roy, I'm Principal Kadel's assistant, and I can get access to that pile of papers casually. I knew there was no one that belonged to 'him'. But so what?"

Vivien asked back, "Since even human memory can be erased, is it difficult to erase a simple record?"

Roy was speechless, this lady was more stubborn than he imagined.Convincing her was laborious and thankless business.

If you say erase it, erase it, you thought it was the goddess Melitelli and the prophet Lebioda?

Where is the evidence?

Vivien continued to state her thoughts, "Roy, have you forgotten? In the few diaries you have read, those strange places, the name 'him' disappeared for no reason. Did it come out? Obviously, the name of 'his' was erased together with the memory it brought to others. Only when it is erased will the diary become empty..."

"Isn't this nonsense? What made you think this way?" Roy opened his mouth, and was stunned for a moment. A flash of lightning struck his mind, "If it is erased, it will be empty?"

He pondered this sentence and fell into a trance.

When browsing the registration form - he clearly remembered that among the piles of detailed records, there were a few blank forms interspersed.At that time, he didn't think much about it. He thought it was used by Principal Kadell to enrich the number of students, and he skipped it for self-consolation.

But now hearing what Vivien said——

"Eradicated, it will be empty."

So is it possible that the blank form was originally recorded, but these records were all erased along with the missing students and their memories.

In the end, it became a piece of plain white paper that no one cares about.

"Will the memories about the missing person and the words directly describing the missing person be erased?" Blessed to his heart, a picture suddenly flashed back in Roy's mind——

"Roy, who drew a five-pointed star on your sleeve, and it's only half drawn?" Toya asked curiously.

"I don't remember...Probably, some naughty brat from Kadel House painted it on me while I wasn't paying attention."

……

Roy glanced at the left sleeve. The ridiculously childish half-pointed star drawn with charcoal had almost completely disappeared now, leaving only a faint sharp corner.The other places seemed to have been cleaned countless times without leaving a single black spot.Daily touch and friction can not do this level.

"No, that's not right! This star shouldn't be half in the first place, but complete."

In just two or three days, this crude mark was about to disappear, which was a kind of evidence that he never thought of.

"The traces left by the missing person will also be erased, no wonder there is no clue." It was as if an invisible palm was pinching his heart, and his breathing was short of breath.

"This also means that since I entered the Cadell House, I have unknowingly forgotten a person - the student who left a mark on my sleeve."

"And now even that one trace is almost gone."

Chapter 26 The real murderer

On the second floor of the school, Roy and Vivien quickly flipped through the materials.

And Kadel stood behind the two with his arms folded and stared at him coldly.She wanted to figure out what kind of tricks these two guys who had to look at the registration form for no reason could play.

“1256年、1257、1258、1259、1260……”两人一共从十三摞资料里找到了五张空白的登记表，正是最近这五年，每年一张。

"So, there are five missing persons in total, and one person disappears every year." Roy whispered to Vivien. "The unique law shows that it is by no means a coincidence."

"What did you two discover? Shouldn't you explain it to me?"

"Ms. Kadel, you have been responsible for keeping the enrollment information, so have you seen these blank registration forms?"

The middle-aged woman took a piece of paper and checked it twice, her eyebrows almost twisted into a rope, "These papers are specially made, and the price is not cheap. I don't waste that much. But I can't completely rule out that I was not careful. stuffed in."

"They were not blank..." Roy explained, "the information of a certain student was recorded, but unfortunately these words were erased, and the student he described was also missing. To be precise, it was The murderer was taken away."