091 After hearing Dekan’s explanation, he fell silent.
The three of them were almost about to leave the campus.
Now, at Dekan’s suggestion, they made their way to the Mage Dormitory.
Although Dekan wasn’t sure if Trecia was home, it was certainly right to look for her.
“Knock, knock.”
“Trecia, are you there?”
“Is that Dekan? Wait a moment.”
A response came from inside the door.
Soon, accompanied by quick footsteps, she approached and opened it.
“Eh?”
However, Trecia was surprised to see two other girls standing outside the door.
Even if Cornelia didn’t know Trecia, Trecia was very familiar with Cornelia.
Or rather, it was pretty rare for students in this school not to have heard of the Dekan & Cornelia duo.
Except for Flora, who hardly ever came to school and never cared about gossip.
Before Trecia could greet them, Flora had already hugged her and pulled her inside.
“Sis Trecia!”
Flora called out cheerfully.
She clearly had a close relationship with Trecia.
“Please come in.”
Though Trecia was surprised, she quickly invited Dekan and the others to come in and sit down.
“Dekan? Why are you together with Flora? And Cornelia, it’s nice to meet you!”
“You, you too!”
“Today, I ran into Flora. The three of us wanted to ask you about some information regarding Morion.”
“Right! The dumb trio’s going to bring back my brother!”
“Hold on, hold on. You’re looking for Morion… and what’s this ‘dumb trio’ nonsense?”
Trecia looked at Flora, then at Dekan, full of confusion.
In an instant, she understood.
There Dekan goes pretending again!
Wasn’t tormenting Alice enough last time?
“Flora, you’d better not think of Dekan as an idiot, he and your brother are cut from the same cloth…”
Trecia said earnestly while placing her hand on Flora’s shoulder.
She was thoroughly terrified of Dekan’s antics.
Alice, at least, being a princess, Dekan wouldn’t dare to mess around with her.
But Flora could easily be duped by Dekan, disappearing without a trace in no time!
“What? Is Dekan really smart?”
Flora, full of shock, turned her head to look at Dekan.
She couldn’t understand why a smart person would need tutoring, nor that the Knight Academy could have someone as smart as her brother.
“He, he’s here for tutoring with me.”
Cornelia explained.
Flora’s mouth opened, her red lips trembling slightly, as if undergoing a kind of faith collapse.
“The dumb trio… has disbanded…”
Then she blankly sat on the sofa, muttering.
As if her system had crashed.
Dekan helplessly shook his head.
Actually, he hadn’t planned to fool Flora.
Trecia was simply judging others by her own noble intentions.
“So, why are you looking for Morion?”
Trecia asked Dekan, her tone tense.
“Flora misses her brother, we just want to help her fulfill this little wish, arranging a touching reunion for the siblings.”
“You… are you sure?”
As far as Trecia knew, although Flora and Morion, this brother-sister pair had a good relationship, Flora wasn’t the type to be overly attached to her brother.
This girl usually lacked heart and mind.
Dekan lightly coughed.
Flora quickly came back to her senses and said:
“Flora misses her brother, Sister Trecia, please help me.” (spoken in an overly exaggerated tone)
“You guys…”
Trecia looked at Dekan and Flora with disdain.
Dekan’s expression also seemed a bit awkward.
Flora’s acting skills were indeed too clumsy.
Previously, during rehearsals, Flora’s touching performance had even made Dekan feel that the brother-sister bond was deeply moving.
“I did actually meet him several months ago in the Capital City.”
Trecia helplessly said. She knew she couldn’t deceive Dekan.
But she couldn’t continue either.
Morion trusted her, and that’s why he trusted her.
When she asked for information on card makers, Morion didn’t hesitate to tell her.
Out of moral obligation, she shouldn’t reveal Morion’s information to anyone.
Even her friend Dekan.
“Dekan, surely you’re planning to capture Morion and claim the Hannover family’s bounty, right?”
“What do you mean by claiming a bounty? Helping an Earl reclaim his heir isn’t an act of kindness?”
“But…”
“As Morion’s close friend, I can’t just stand by and watch him continue down this corrupt path.”
“How did you become such a close friend to my brother…”
Flora distinctly remembered that initially, Dekan had shown a hint of resentment when he mentioned her brother.
“Dekan: Flora, don’t ruin my plans!”
“Trecia: But… if Morion really gets caught, he’ll be beaten to death by our uncle…”
Hearing this, Dekan furrowed his brow.
“What kind of heinous act has this guy done to be hated so much by his father?”
Even if Morion shirks his duties as heir and goes off wandering, it shouldn’t come to this, right?
Could it be that Flora wasn’t joking?
If Morion were caught and brought back, would the Earl really get so emotional that he’d force Flora to marry him?
Trecia remained silent, as if she had something to say but couldn’t.
Meanwhile, Flora seemed to have completely rebooted from her system crash state.
“He just sold our family’s inherited epic card to the Rebirth Church, then used the money to buy back an ailing powerful elf slave from the big slave merchant…”
She explained with an indifferent shrug.
The elf’s body was full of complex toxins and curses that were hard to purify and lift, causing the originally priceless slave to have a price attached to them.
After hearing Flora’s explanation, Dekan nodded while dragging his chin.
Stealing family heirlooms was indeed pretty nasty.
And doing business with the Rebirth Church was already a pretty bad move.
“But no way would this cause his dad to want to beat him to death, right? After all, he’s the firstborn.”
Flora shook her head: “In fact, my brother had already bribed several members of the Rebirth Church and helped them steal that epic card back.”
“So wasn’t that actually a great thing he did?”
Tricking the Rebirth Church out of their loot, what an act of virtue!
“No no no, it’s not over.”
“There’s more?”
Dekan slowly felt a sense of foreboding.
“Brother found a wondrous healer who treated the mysterious illness of the elf. He then gave the epic card to the elf, boosting her combat strength astronomically. He took her to raid the slave merchant’s headquarters and reclaimed the money spent on buying the elf…”
“…”
This time even Dekan was speechless.
Even bandits and tycoons would cry upon hearing such a tale.
So it turns out you got an ultra-powerful elf, an epic card, and a large sum of money without spending a penny?
Moreover, the mysterious healer mentioned in the story, how could one fail to notice a strong sense of deja vu?
“Which ultimately infuriated the Rebirth Church and some of the powerful people within the fiefdom, triggering a series of civil unrest in the region.”
Flora finished telling Morion’s glorious deeds.
The entire living room.
Fell silent.
