Ch.143143. Arrest

Owen began playing the melodica again, breathing life into it.

Before he could fully immerse himself in the performance, the Dark Spiritmaster appeared, arms crossed, looking down at the three of them.

“You came out?”

“This is like some ghost summoning ritual from an academy horror story.”

In response to Aria and Elenoa’s questions, the Dark Spiritmaster openly displayed her displeasure.

The two girls couldn’t see it, but Owen knew how annoyed the Dark Spiritmaster was right now, so he hoped they would be careful.

[So why are you being held captive here?]

At the Dark Spiritmaster’s question, Owen hastily removed his mouth from the melodica and answered.

“Ah, actually…”

Owen began explaining how he ended up here. Naturally, Aria and Elenoa, who were standing beside him, heard the story as well, and their expressions subtly changed.

After the story was finished.

Aria immediately looked at Elenoa with a disgusted expression.

“Hey, you didn’t…”

“I didn’t!”

Elenoa immediately denied it. But since Owen, the Dark Spiritmaster, and Aria were all looking at her suspiciously.

The wise Elenoa knew the fastest way to clear her name.

“I only draw Deus! If I were drawing those adult magazines, I would have drawn various men!”

“Ah, I guess that’s true.”

Aria nodded in agreement.

In truth, she knew all along.

Elenoa felt the urge to punch Aria’s smug face.

“Well, Elenoa is innocent. But we should catch that guy.”

Aria crossed her arms, taking the matter seriously. Elenoa also changed her demeanor, nodding gravely.

“Right, it’s not just distributing obscene material, but if he’s creating it himself, there could be student victims.”

“As expected, you catch on quickly. You’re wise because you’re a princess.”

Since he was creating the material himself, he could potentially be using people around him to make obscene content.

If that were the case, there could indeed be student victims.

Whether male or female, finding out your face was used in obscene material would be quite shocking.

[Excuse me, but shouldn’t these two be locked up as well?]

The Dark Spiritmaster’s words accurately pierced through the two shameless individuals. Owen thought that they must have been the first to think of such malicious uses because they had done similar things themselves.

‘I’ll have to tell the Spiritmaster later.’

Owen was determined to report this matter to him, whether alive or as a spirit if he died.

“If it’s a student who draws, should we check art clubs or similar groups?”

Suddenly, it felt like they had become security officers conducting an investigation. Not just the two girls, but Owen too felt a sense of excitement from this similar feeling.

“Ah, I found out something. I heard there’s a book on a certain shelf in the library where you can insert request notes.”

“Taking obscene material requests through notes?”

“Why is that unnecessarily romantic?”

Despite their grumbling, Aria and Elenoa immediately set off. It was late evening, so the library doors would be closed, but that wouldn’t stop those two.

[…Owen, follow those two.]

“Ah, yes! Understood!”

Owen immediately followed them at the Dark Spiritmaster’s instruction. The Dark Spiritmaster also went along, wearing a subtle expression.

When they arrived at the library.

The door was locked, but Aria took out a lockpick from her pocket and opened it in 0.7 seconds.

“…Why do you have that?”

“It’s essential for adventures.”

Her hand movements were so clean that if this were a game, it would show she had mastered the lockpicking skill.

Although Aria had decided to return to being an ordinary schoolgirl, she hadn’t completely forgotten what she had learned back then.

The inside of the library was, of course, dark and filled with silence.

Even for Owen, who had seen various monsters, a late-night library was a bit scary.

“Looks like there might be a treasure chest.”

“This would be good for studying alone. Maybe I should get a key from the manager later.”

Aria and Elenoa showed nonchalant reactions. Especially Aria, whose eyes lit up as if exploring a dungeon, made Owen more afraid of the two women than the library itself.

[What are you afraid of?]

The Dark Spiritmaster passed by Owen and entered. Well, that was true.

The only thing that might appear in a place like this would be a ghost, and wasn’t one right beside him now?

With unexpected courage, Owen took a deep breath and entered.

“They say if you put a letter in book number 666, they’ll draw the related book and place it next to it.”

“What a sense for choosing numbers.”

Elenoa clicked her tongue at the obvious number. Aria quickly ran between the desks, found the book, and returned.

“Here.”

As soon as she opened the book, letters poured out.

Judging by the large quantity, it seemed genuinely popular among students.

“Wow, what’s this?”

“I guess they choose one from here and draw it?”

Aria and Elenoa each picked up a letter and opened it.

Peeking at someone else’s sexual fantasies was more interesting than expected.

[Hmm, can you feel it too, Owen?]

“Huh! What?”

Owen, who had been curious about the letters, was startled by the Dark Spiritmaster’s call and answered nervously.

[Still far away.]

Owen tilted his head, wondering what she meant. At that moment, the two girls handed each other the letters they were reading.

“Hey, this one’s about you.”

“Here, a gift.”

They had intended to play a prank on each other, but ended up exchanging counterpunches.

“What?”

“Me?”

They both jumped in surprise as they read the notes, which indeed had each other’s names written on them.

– Please draw Aria with puppy ears and tail in a submissive pose.

– Please draw Elenoa being disciplined with a collar and getting spanked!

“What kind of crazy person…!”

“How dare they be so disrespectful!”

Both were genuinely angry.

[This is also self-inflicted, isn’t it?]

“…I suppose so.”

Owen wasn’t sure what kind of drawings they had made of Deus, but he suspected they had done something similar.

Anyway, looking at the request contents, Owen thought this crossed a line.

Even if the requester was anonymous and couldn’t be identified, it would be difficult to let it slide if someone tried to draw such pictures of the nation’s princess, even if they were a student.

At that moment.

The Dark Spiritmaster spoke to Owen again.

[You still don’t feel anything?]

“Sh-should I play again?”

[Hmm, no, it’s fine. He’s here.]

The Dark Spiritmaster pointed with her chin toward the distant darkness. There was a gaunt man wearing glasses, holding paper and pen, trudging toward them.

“A ghost?”

A semi-transparent appearance.

Obviously a ghost.

[That man seems to be the author of the forbidden books.]

The Dark Spiritmaster crossed her arms and shrugged, indicating it was trivial. Just a brief entertainment while Deus was away.

[Sigh, he seems to have some lingering attachment. Since it’s difficult for you, I’ll hold him for now. When he comes, put him to sleep.]

“Ah, yes! Understood!”

The Dark Spiritmaster approached the man. Upon seeing her, he opened his mouth wide, drooling, and began drawing something frantically.

[Y-you’re such a beautiful woman! Please be my model…!]

Crack!

The Dark Spiritmaster’s mana coiled around his body like a snake, restraining him. Normally she wouldn’t have been so aggressive, but.

[Don’t ask for mercy when he’s not around. It only irritates me.]

After curtly subduing the author of the forbidden books, the Dark Spiritmaster glanced briefly at Owen before departing.

The sight of the man struggling and rolling on the floor seemed somewhat pitiful.

“There’s even someone who put in a request for a professor! I’ll definitely find that bitch.”

“Wow, can these thoughts really come from the minds of students at an academy supported by the royal family? Should I tell my brother to cut off support?”

The two clicked their tongues in amazement at the students’ sexual creativity. Owen still thought the two weren’t much different, but he chose not to voice that opinion.

“Um, the case is solved.”

The two were startled by Owen’s words. When they asked what he meant, Owen scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

“It was a ghost drawing them. The Dark Spiritmaster caught and subdued him, so there’s nothing to worry about now.”

The two were disappointed that the case ended so anticlimactically.

They seemed quite disappointed that they couldn’t deliver justice with their own hands since the creator was a ghost.

Now that the ghost was caught, wouldn’t all the forbidden books he drew disappear as well?

‘But how deep must his resentment have been for even ordinary people to see the forbidden books…’

Owen clicked his tongue, sensing the obsession of a man who had put his heart into creating forbidden books visible even to ordinary students.

And so, a few days later.

Although the case seemed to have ended cleanly without major issues.

After Deus Verdi returned, Aria Rius and Elenoa Luden Griffin received a kind of notification.

– Bring all the drawings you’ve made so far to my research room.

“Waaah!”

“Aaaaargh!”

Owen had successfully apprehended the last criminals.