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Professor Silver and several other old professors sent a joint letter to inquire about her, but Bright Gawd didn't give them the desired answer.
He neither said that she was dead, nor did he say that she was alive. He only said that he failed to find her!
Since he couldn't find her, there was nothing else they could do.
However, all the professors knew that Bright Gawd was a mischievous troublemaker when he was a student. During that time, he wasn't as upright as his current reputation said. On the contrary, he was a noble boy who was very good at lying.
And yet, his reply letter was full of mistakes and omissions, which was very unlike him.
The professors reached a general consensus.
Ophelia Bullard was most probably still alive, but she was unable to appear in public for some reason.Bright was protecting her!
……
Under such circumstances, the professors would certainly not be so stupid as to reveal this information. They immediately decided to stop pursuing this matter.
Now that the times had changed, there was no longer any meaning in keeping the secret of that time, and thus, Professor Silver was willing to take out this file.
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Seeing that Dark had finished looking through the file, Professor Silver put down her teacup and sighed, "Our general consensus at that time was the same as what you're currently thinking. It's very likely that after Ophelia was captured, she was given the Embrace and became a low-level Thrall."
"After human beings are transformed into Thralls, their rational side will temporarily collapse and they'll become extremely bloodthirsty."
"Moreover, they'll have many weaknesses."
"Garlic, crosses, holy water, silverwork... even sunlight can burn their skin."
"For humans, vampirization is irreversible."
"In the situation at that time, once the news that Ophelia became a Thrall was exposed, she would've been executed on the spot."
"In the blink of an eye, so many years have already passed. Because Bright died in the final battle against the demon king, we also lost the clue to search for Ophelia."
"I don't even know whether she's still alive now..."
"If she is, then in what form is she living?"
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Her voice gradually ceased.
After raptly listening until the end, Dark had more or less come to his own understanding of what went down at that time.
He then took out the wanted notice, put it on the table, and turned his head.
"What's this?" Professor Silver spontaneously looked down at it.
Dark said, "Take a look at it. She's one of the fugitives who escaped from Bastille Prison on Christmas Day and was reported in the newspaper after someone recognised her."
Professor Silver didn't seem to have the habit of reading the 《Daily Sage》.
But this was normal.
Elves had a phlegmatic disposition and preferred the quiet.
Furthermore, Professor Silver was an elemental spirit envoy favoured by the wind spirit. She would most likely prefer to stroll around in the forest than walk amidst the busy streets.
Her apathy towards worldly habits made it so that she wasn't very interested in the ups and downs of the outside world.
Guarding this turf and living a peaceful and meaningful life might be all that she wanted.
As the deputy Headmistress of Saint Marian Academy, Professor Silver was in charge of internal affairs, while all the external affairs basically fell under Headmistress Arte's responsibility.
Of course, she wasn't overly complacent and conservative, as she certainly also had her own channels to procure information.
Upon seeing the wanted notice, she asked with some surprise, "I know that some convicts escaped from the prison, but is there anything special about her? Wait, is she a vampire?"
Dark said, "I checked the records and it's written that she's a half-blood vampire. It's a very unusual term."
"Half-blood vampire?"
Professor Silver picked up the wanted notice cutout and observed it in detail.
Then, unable to hold back her frown, she said, "Olivia Copernicus, the half-blood vampire who escaped from Bastille Prison… does she have anything to do with Ophelia Bullard?"
Dark pulled out his own notebook, flipped it open and handed it over. "This is the information I had collected for my History of Magic homework."
Professor Silver took the notebook and read it carefully.
Merely halfway through, her expression had already started to change.
After she finished reading, Dark could even see anger on her face!
This was probably the first time he saw her showing such an intense emotion!
Bang!
Professor Silver struck the table and jumped up in anger!
Dark mournfully stared at his notebook that was slammed onto the table, the corners of his eyes twitching.
Professor Silver glanced at him, then slowly let out her breath and sat back down again.
"How did you manage to find so much information?"
Dark thought for a moment and answered, "The library."
Professor Silver couldn't help leaning back on her chair. "The library, is it? It's thanks to you that we can connect these two together."
Dark asked, "Then what's the relationship between the two of them, professor?"
Professor Silver answered with a calm voice, "I can't say for sure, but since you're able to put them together, you probably don't need me to spell it out, right?"
"Is it really as I thought?" Dark murmured to himself.
Then he raised his head and said, "Supposing that these two are the same person, then the person Robert saw in the mist was her! What's the reason behind this matter?"
"Divination." Professor Silver slowly said, "The only reason I can think of is divination."
Dark: "But Professor Medea said that it wasn't a divination."
Professor Silver looked into his eyes and asked word by word, "Then how credible do you think her words are?"
Dark was stumped into silence.
Professor Medea's credibility…
Honestly speaking, it was pretty low.
All fortune-tellers were excellent actors.
The more famous the fortune-teller, the better their acting skills were.
A fortune-teller of Professor Medea's calibre would probably find lying as easy as breathing.
Amongst all the things that Professor Medea said on the top floor of the Spiral Clock Tower last night, Dark had no way to judge how much of it was true and how much of it was false.
……
Seeing him in thought, Professor Silver continued, "According to what you said, Robert does have a talent for divination. If so, it's very normal for him to trigger his first divination because of this. For the time being, we can treat this as a basis for further speculations. Robert is very likely to encounter Ophelia in the future, so where's the place with the highest probability of this encounter happening?"
Dark said in a low voice, "Right here."
Professor Silver: "There's a high probability that Ophelia is already inside the academy!"
Dark: "Could she be that invisible person?"
Professor Silver: "It's possible."
But she immediately relaxed her tone, "Of course, this is just a speculation without evidence. Even if Ophelia wanted to infiltrate the academy, she wouldn't be able to do it without a sound."
Dark seriously pondered it over. "It's indeed possible, but we can't take mere assumptions as a certainty. If Professor Medea didn't lie and it wasn't Robert's divination, then it's very strange that he was able to see the Blood Princess in the mist. Professor, I read in a book that a vampire can only disintegrate and revive through infesting bats. Is this condition 100% absolute?"
Professor Silver's eyes gradually turned cold, "Not at all."
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