Chapter 717

【Reines: "I hope you don't misunderstand, I don't mean that supporting Heartless is wrong. Depending on the situation, there should be a possibility that yielding to Heartless counts as a victory for El-Melloi."】

【El-Melloi II: "... Sorry, I don't intend to do that."】

Waver: "Yielding to Heartless... to think she dares to think of such bold assumptions."】

Kayneth: "Hmph, otherwise how could she have saved El-Melloi in danger."】

【Reines: "Very well, then what is your intention, my Lord?"】

【"It's about what Touko Aozaki mentioned, the corpse in the Department of Sealing Designation."】

【El-Melloi II lit a cigar and said: "Now three of Heartless's five students are missing, one died in the Department of Sealing Designation, and the last one, Ashila, is also missing."】

【"From the timing, the possibility of her taking the initiative to escape is very high, we have also seen her in the Department of Sealing Designation before. Like the dead Karlg, it seems she has already realized that Heartless is the culprit of the disappearance case."】

【Gray nodded and said: "Indeed, thinking about it now, she gave people that feeling at the time."】

【El-Melloi II: "Because when we talked about the disappearance of Heartless's students, she didn't say anything. Considering that Karlg probably collected Albion's monsters to deal with Heartless, I think she also conceived some countermeasures."】

【"Of course, it may also be purely that Heartless is one step ahead and has already kidnapped her."】

Kayneth: "Ashila... from the performance in the previous video, this woman is very shrewd, and must know something."】

Waver: "Heartless has already entered the maze, if Ashila really escaped a disaster, then she is probably the last key to figuring out the truth."】

Kairi Sisigou: "After all, Heartless didn't bring anyone else when he entered the maze. Unless Ashila has already been solved by him first."】

【El-Melloi II: "Regarding magic, I consider myself to have some knowledge, but this matter is based on the conspiracies that are always present in the Zhong Ta, so I want to borrow your wisdom."】

【Reines: "Oh my, don't talk about your cute sister like a little sister-in-law who loves to make trouble."】

【El-Melloi II: "The important thing is, the significance of Touko Aozaki deliberately leaving words for that corpse, that is, why did Karlg die there?"】

【Gray: "What why?"】

【El-Melloi II: "... Karlg said he had a brother, right?"】

【Gray: "Uh, I remember it seems to be called Jorek Kurudes."】

【El-Melloi II: "Exactly, Karlg said his brother changed his surname after being adopted. However, what if the truth is the opposite?"】

【Gray: "Opposite?"】

【El-Melloi II: "One is in the Department of Sealing Designation, one becomes the adopted son of a local mage and changes his surname. What if they took different paths because they had this need?"】

【Gray still didn't understand: "What's going on with this?"】

【El-Melloi II: "According to what I heard, Jorek and Karlg seem to be brothers of similar age. What if they often swapped identities?"】

【"What!"】

【Gray was even more confused, saying: "But, what is the purpose of them doing that?"】

【El-Melloi II: "Intelligence from the Department of Sealing Designation cannot be obtained elsewhere. To prevent internal personnel from easily leaking intelligence, there are various defensive measures. So, they brothers entered Albion for mining to establish actual achievements sufficient to infiltrate the Department of Sealing Designation."】

【"At first glance, it looks like a detour, but since the Department of Sealing Designation is responsible for managing Albion, the most easily recruited candidates from the outside are the survivors of Albion."】

【"The reason why one of the brothers, Jorek, became an adopted son and changed his surname is also for this reason, so that their relationship will not be easily exposed."】

【"If two brothers use the same kind of magic, even the defensive measures of the Zhong Ta will have difficulty distinguishing them. Moreover, the transformation technique to the extent of making the two brothers look similar is something even freshmen can use."】

Kairi Sisigou: "Oh, another quite bold speculation, and it's very reasonable."】

Kayneth: "If it's true, these two brothers took such a big risk, and spent so many years, I'm afraid they have a big plan."】

Waver: "Could it be that Heartless let them do this?"】

Kayneth: "Very likely. In other words, is it now killing the donkey after the mill is finished?"】

【"I see, it's a common technique in mystery novels."】

【Reines looked at Gray and smiled: "Haven't we seen this kind of trick once?"】

【"Ah! At Izulma..."】

【Gray immediately thought of what happened at the Twin Towers, and then wondered: "But, does doing that have any meaning?"】

【El-Melloi II: "There are as many meanings as you want."】

【"The Department of Sealing Designation is very strict about whether traitors appear internally, because the benefits that can be obtained from smuggling or bribery are too many. Therefore, it is full of surveillance, but if a bureau member with a certain status can prepare another person's body and an alibi, they can use various means to break through the surveillance."】

【"Hmm, that can explain the reason why Heartless entered the Department of Sealing Designation without triggering any barriers."】

【Reines nodded: "If that pair of brothers often swapped identities, they should have also designed a mechanism to avoid defensive measures. Heartless has already kidnapped one of the brothers, and it is simple to use that mechanism."】

【"Haven't we seen it, Heartless's brilliant transformation technique."】

【She was talking about Heartless turning into Caules and lurking beside El-Melloi II on the Rail Zeppelin.】

Waver: "Heartless, that transformation technique is indeed hard to guard against."】

Kairi Sisigou: "So, strong fortresses are often destroyed from the inside."】

【El-Melloi II: "Heroic Spirits can follow in as long as they are in spirit form, but the barrier will of course react to such spirits, but they will repeatedly materialize and dematerialize, after all, dangerous familiars that surpass the vast majority of modern mages are not within the expectations."】

【"The loopholes that Karlg opened over the years should not be difficult to follow."】

【"Then, Karlg probably resisted with Albion's monsters. Probably realized Heartless's danger from his brother's disappearance. But unfortunately, those monsters are not Faker's opponents."】

【"No, maybe the one who died there was not Karlg, but Jorek."】

【Reines: "Oh, you mean..."】

【El-Melloi II: "That corpse in the Department of Sealing Designation. What if someone finds out that the person who died at the scene is not Karlg?"】

【"Eh! Is the person who died at the scene not Mr. Karlg?"】

【Gray was surprised: "What if the one who died was the younger brother Jorek?"】

【El-Melloi II: "If this is found out, the Department of Sealing Designation will of course also realize that the beginning of the case occurred a long time ago. Of course, just having a murder case in the bureau is a big event, and the result is that the dead person is not a bureau member, the direction of the investigation will fall on who this victim is."】

【"If this is an unforgivable mistake for Heartless?"】

【Gray: "..."】

【The content El-Melloi II said was too complicated, and she understood less and less.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Good guy, now even the identity of the deceased is in doubt."】

Kairi Sisigou: "Mistaking people... I don't think that man would make such a mistake."】

Waver: "Indeed, this probability is too small."】

Kayneth: "If the one who died was really Jorek, I'm afraid the entire Department of Sealing Designation would explode."】

As a confidentiality agency with the strictest management, such a thing actually happened, and it was not a matter of one or two days, can it not explode.】

【El-Melloi II: "So, Heartless completely destroyed the corpse to avoid the exposure of the corpse's identity. It would be easy if he could take the corpse away, but the facilities of the Department of Sealing Designation should not have left him with spare energy to do so."】

【Gray: "Mr. Karlg and Mr. Jorek may have secretly swapped identities. But, when did they start conceiving this kind of thing?"】

【"Yes, when did it start?"】

【Reines pondered for a long time, her eyes lit up: "I see, I finally understand what you mean by finding me to discuss. So that's how it is, my brother?"】

【El-Melloi II: "That's how it is."】

【Gray: "???"】

Waver: "I understand too."】

Kayneth: "This question is too simple."】

Rin Tohsaka: "Hmm? What do you understand?"】

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Very simple, the planning of this kind of thing was clearly before becoming a maze survivor, Karlg joining the Department of Sealing Designation was also for this purpose. In this way, things are extra simple."】

Rin Tohsaka: "???"】

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Heartless, it was just a guess before, but now it can be determined that they did all this, it must be Heartless's plan."】

Waver: "Exactly, not just Karlg, I'm afraid the other four are the same, becoming maze survivors is their action to achieve their goals."】

Kayneth: "However, it seems there was a mistake."】

Waver: "Hmm, Heartless's little student who escaped from the maze, Kuro."】