[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel":3,"chapter-after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-chapter-156":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After Turning into a Girl, I Gained a Game Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1657659,2122,"Chapter 156 : Chapter 156","after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-chapter-156",156,"\u003Cp>Chapter 156. A False Accusation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I want to accuse Caleb, the Administrator of Ged Town, of being involved in the murder of a mage of the Alliance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he heard that, Dante’s heart sank with a thud, and he thought to himself that he was finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, those three high-tier mages had already made a great many demands regarding his actions, and quite a few of those demands even contradicted one another, which had given him a terrible headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, yet another problem had appeared: the disciple of a Fourth-Tier Mage, whose every word, both direct and indirect, was hinting that he should arrest Caleb outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head was pounding so badly that he nearly wanted to stop caring about everything and simply follow Fulan’s suggestion exactly as she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the critical moment, reason surged back into his mind and forced him to calm down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante spoke slowly, as though seeking Fulan’s opinion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, Mage Fulan, Caleb is an Administrator personally appointed by the Alliance. I don’t think he would do something like that, would he?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alliance’s Administrators were personally appointed by the Alliance and, to a certain extent, represented the Alliance’s dignity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were not absolutely necessary, Dante did not want to point the spear at an Administrator in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew perfectly well that the forces backing Administrators across the Alliance all ran very deep. Once he aimed at one of them, even his own superior might step in to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, a First-Tier Mage could not be convicted so casually just because someone happened to suspect him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Alliance was a power built by mages. For every mage, it provided the strongest protection possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless the Fourth-Tier Mage backing Fulan came in person, a minor investigator like him truly had no authority to arrest Caleb directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh! But I have evidence.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, Dante immediately focused himself again and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What evidence?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At the dinner banquet hosted by Caleb that I attended, he proposed an entertainment activity after the banquet ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At that time, he suggested a duel between knights and promised that the winner would receive a reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That reward was a token. He said he didn’t know exactly what it was either, only that it was definitely some kind of token, perhaps something that could be used to open a certain door...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And that is exactly where the problem lies. I won, and I took the token away, but I suspect that thing was originally meant for Zeno. I only got it by chance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante frowned and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do you say that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile touched the corners of Fulan’s lips as she said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The problem started after I obtained that token. When I wanted to leave town and head to the Northern Frontier, a group blocked my path, and they specifically demanded the thing in my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had no choice but to hand it over to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Their leader was dressed in black armor, and on his shoulder was a wolf-head emblem...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Dante heard that, his pupils contracted slightly, and it was as though a flash of insight had suddenly sparked in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They even wanted to kill me outright to make sure information about that token would not leak out, and only after I invoked my mentor did they abandon that thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And when I asked them what exactly was going on, this was what they told me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They said they urgently needed that thing because it was a key item, and that was why they came to intercept and kill me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They had originally assumed it was in Zeno’s hands, but when they discovered it was not, they got information from Caleb and learned that it was actually with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think poor Mage Zeno was betrayed by the very colleague he trusted and died for nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is why I accuse Caleb of murdering a colleague. He is simply unworthy of being the Administrator of Ged Town.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fulan finished saying all of this with a smile on her face, though in truth, she did not actually know whether Caleb had really done such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she was thinking was that Caleb had handed that object to her, and then, not long afterward, Zeno had just so happened to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, in the knightly duel Caleb had proposed, Zeno had quite obviously had the highest chance of victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That made it impossible for her not to suspect that the item had been specifically meant for Zeno, so that Zeno would be killed by those knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she did not know the details, she still directly bit down on Caleb as the murderer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her thinking was that if she and the investigator before her went together to search Caleb’s residence, then if luck was on their side, they might find some clues in his home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They might also be able to force Caleb to explain what that thing really was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, Fulan still did not know what that object was, but from the looks of it, those knights were absolutely determined to obtain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she suspected that Caleb actually knew what it was, which was why he had deliberately used it as the prize for that knightly duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, she was desperately eager to learn exactly what that thing was. She did not want to keep fighting those knights without understanding anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the worst-case scenario—namely, if Caleb truly had never harbored the slightest intention of harming her, and everything had simply been a coincidence—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she would still lose nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she invoked Mentor Habos’s name, she could make the entire matter disappear as though it had never happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, after hearing Fulan’s words, Dante felt as though he had been struck by lightning and remained unable to recover for a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought of an extraordinarily bold idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Caleb truly was the mastermind behind all of this, then Dante could make a slight adjustment to the investigation record.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could pin Zeno’s death at the hands of the Bloodwolf Knights onto Caleb instead, explaining that Caleb had done it with a greatsword forged from the bones of a Frost Giant Wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That way, he would be able to perfectly satisfy all sides, and no one would raise any objections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that would avoid conflicting with the wishes of the Lorenbu family by not convicting the Bloodwolf Knights; at the same time, it would also satisfy Professor Elliot of the Skull Society by proving that the victim really had died that way and that his device truly was effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if Caleb had truly plotted Zeno’s murder, then during the spell interrogation afterward, he would certainly admit with his own mouth that he had orchestrated it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All Dante had to do was modify the wording of the interrogation record slightly, and he would be able to direct everything toward Caleb and fulfill everyone’s demands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, he fervently hoped that Caleb had truly plotted to kill Zeno.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caleb’s residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a basement, Caleb covered his nose as he opened the door, and a foul stench immediately drifted out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the only table in the basement. On top of it lay a somewhat rotten head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zeno had not been from the Modification School, so at best, his head could only resist decay for a little longer before rotting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Caleb looked at the head, he nearly laughed out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this is what they call a genius? A genius fit to join one of the major societies...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not placed the head here to indulge some twisted hobby and come down every now and then to amuse himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had done it for safety. He intended to move the head elsewhere after finding a secure location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more than once, he had also been tempted to simply leave the head here forever, buy some anti-decay potions, soak it inside them, and come down to look at it from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, his unusually keen mental perception as a formal mage allowed him to hear a sentence from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Magic Alliance investigators. We are here to search this house.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1373,"2026-06-06T12:21:11.535Z",1,"novelbin.me","98bf5601a394f8a5cdaff027c4055c8158603850f1f7b12c3f78e941e550162b","after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-chapter-157","after-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-chapter-155",178,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-turning-into-a-girl-i-gained-a-game-panel-cover.jpg"]