allonlinenovel Chapter 360 Rita: Just wait to get beaten up!
Chapter 360 Rita: Just wait to get beaten up!
Theresa doesn't want to deal with Rita, but for various reasons, she now has no choice but to.
Specifically, after Kiana's failure, she took a series of actions that would cause the headmaster's prestige to be disgraced if others saw them... In short, through a combination of coaxing and deception, Rita did not directly order a thorough search of the academy but instead went into her office alone.
"Excuse me, Lady Theresa"
Rita Rossweisse followed Theresa in with an impeccable smile.
"You specifically summoned me here because there's something you need Rita to tell His Holiness the Bishop? Or is it...?"
Rita's voice was gentle and pleasant, but Theresa felt her palms sweating—this seemingly submissive maid was influencing the budget approvals for the next few quarters…
What's even more terrifying is that this guy who calls himself a maid is an incurable lolicon!
Although she claimed she was there to arrest people, she wouldn't let herself off the hook if given the chance!
"Um... please have a seat!"
Theresa cleared her throat and sat down in her usual chair, trying to hide the slight trembling in her body.
"Rita, just a moment! Himeko will bring in the coffee soon. Let's talk business first! About Yae Sakura..."
"His Holiness the Bishop has ordered that Miss Yae Sakura's mental state is unstable and she should be taken to headquarters for special treatment. Furthermore..."
Rita smiled as she replied, but her tone left no room for argument. At the same time, she pushed a strangely angled photo onto the table—in the photo, Princess Qiongzheng was holding the pink-haired March 7, with a black-haired man in blue robes holding a gun following behind.
"This is……"
Theresa's gaze swept over the photo, her pupils contracting slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.
"Wait! Where did you get this photo?!"
Theresa suddenly stood up on the stool and slapped her little hand on the photo.
"That child, Qiong, has absolutely nothing to do with the person you're trying to take! This is a fake photo! Rita, you can't rely on a photo from who-knows-where—"
“Lady Theresa, Rita never said that the person in this photo is the one I’m going to take.”
Oh no, have we been exposed?
Theresa suddenly realized she had overreacted and sat back down sheepishly.
"It's not what you think! This photo... uh, no, it's fake! It's absolutely fake! Qiong has a girlfriend! He would never do something like that, carrying another girl in a princess carry!"
Rita's smile deepened as she lightly touched the photograph with her fingertips.
"Lady Theresa, you don't seem to deny knowing these unfamiliar 'friends'?"
"No, that's not how it is!"
Theresa, who had intended to help protect the younger generation, was tricked into revealing information by the wicked maid. Faced with the maid's mischievous grin, she could only frantically wave her hands and frantically rack her brains.
"Ahem... How about we talk about Yae Sakura first? Rita, you should know very well that Grandpa has a prejudice against Yae Sakura! Her mental state has been very stable during her time at St. Freya..."
But it was no use! Rita completely ignored her. She just stared at the photo on the table that anyone would find ambiguous, a cunning smile on her face—who knows if she was going to arrest someone or do something else.
Rita poked at the photo, her fingertips brushing lightly against Theresa's hand.
"Lady Theresa, we have reason to believe they are Anti-Entropy people, and given the potential danger of Anti-Entropy infiltration within the Far East Branch, His Holiness the Bishop has authorized Rita to conduct a certain degree of investigation of the Far East Branch. For the sake of efficiency, as long as you agree, I will immediately begin an indiscriminate search of all areas of St. Freya Academy. Rita will act immediately, so please do me the favor and sign the permission order."
"Impossible! Give up! There is absolutely no way I would agree to such a request!"
Theresa's forehead veins bulged, and she almost jumped out of her chair, but considering the future financial crisis if she got into a fight with Rita, she forcibly restrained herself...
"Rita, things... don't need to escalate to that point."
"Oh?"
Rita tilted her head slightly, revealing a perfectly timed expression of confusion.
"What does Lady Theresa mean?"
Theresa's little brain was nearly shut down, but she still couldn't think of a better solution while preserving the funds... Did she really have to sell her body to Rita to buy her time?
With that thought in mind, she forced a smile (which she considered to be extremely friendly and persuasive) and moved closer to Rita.
"Rita, you see, St. Freya is an academy after all. Why don't we just let it go after such a large-scale search? Okay?"
Walter, this isn't over until you produce fifty comic books!
Seeing Theresa's reaction, Rita felt a burning sensation on her nose—this was unfair, so unfair! Lady Theresa, are you trying to use your cuteness to seduce Rita into committing a crime?!
This is really... amazing!
Rita's smile deepened, and unconsciously, she reached out her maid's loving hand towards Theresa's white-haired little head...
Bang bang bang!
Just as Theresa was giving up and planning to buy time by offering herself up, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Qiong barged in with a cup of coffee.
"Headmaster! Teacher Himeko is still collecting crystals. Here's your concentrated bitter melon juice coffee—huh?"
As soon as Qiong entered, she saw Theresa, her face ashen, standing on tiptoe and leaning close to Rita on the other side of the table. Rita, with a smile that seemed to reach the sky, was cupping Theresa's face in her hands, their noses less than five centimeters apart...
"Qiong? What are you doing here? I told you... not to look! Whatever you do, don't look!"
Theresa's pupils dilated slightly, and her blood-red face instantly turned deathly pale.
Oh no, her image! Her authority as the headmistress!
"Qiong-kun?"
The entire office suddenly fell silent, except for the clattering of the coffee cup tray in Qiong's hand as he laughed.
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Far East Branch, St. Freya, Principal's Office.
An elegant maid exuding a chilling aura was "interrogating" a grinning gray-haired boy alongside a white-haired boy—a civilized "interrogation," of course. Rita, as an elegant lady, disdained using methods like memory restoration in public.
"Qiong-kun..."
Rita looked at Qiong meaningfully.
"You just came like that? Aren't you scared at all?"
Qiong remained smiling in response to Rita's question.
"So what if I'm here? I haven't committed any crime, so why should I be afraid?"
Rita: ? ? ?
Seriously, you're incredibly shameless! Colluding with Anti-Entropy is practically irrefutable evidence; that's a serious crime in Destiny!
It's alright, the evidence is conclusive, Rita doesn't mind playing cat and mouse with Qiong.
With a maid's smile, Rita picked up her shorthand pen—don't ask why she can take shorthand notes; it's a necessity, whether as a perfect maid or the lieutenant of the Undying Blade.
"Although I'm already very familiar with it, there's no way to skip the procedures... Sora, your name."
"Danheng".
“Okay, Qiongtong—hmm? Dan…”
Rita's eyelids twitched. The familiar yet unfamiliar name gave her a bad feeling—shouldn't Qiong be making excuses for herself now? What, isn't she afraid of being arrested at all?
"You...aren't you called Qiong?"
"I have many code names! At home, I'm called Qiong. If something happens, you can call me Dan Heng, Bai Shu, or Zhe Ge, just don't call me Qiong."
Rita: ...
"Qiong, answer Rita's question seriously!"
Theresa had to admit that Sora had a really good attitude. She didn't panic at all when she stumbled on Rita's "good deed," and even had the mindset of accepting "interrogation." This was something that Theresa should learn from!
"Age... never mind, Qiong-kun, let's get down to business."
Realizing that Sora might be trying to get away with it by catching her in the act and making jokes, Rita decisively skipped the routine information registration and went straight to the interrogation stage.
"Friendly reminder: His Holiness the Bishop is always magnanimous. As long as you are willing to confess honestly, you will not only be spared punishment but may even be rewarded... Take a look at this, and you have nothing to say?"
Rita pushed over the photo of Princess Qiong carrying March 7th, along with a blurry photo of five people taken by Destiny's surveillance cameras that she hadn't shown Theresa.
"let me see……"
Qiong leaned closer to the two photos, squinting her eyes until her nose almost touched them.
"The quality is really bad."
He offered his own judgment.
"This photo is blurry, but luckily I recognize them. The propaganda department at Destiny needs to upgrade their cameras. As for the other one… she and I are friends. A friend of mine who came to St. Freya got injured, and I took her to the infirmary to get her wound checked. Sounds reasonable, right? But Rita, how did you determine they were the same person?"
What a load of nonsense! The headmaster and everyone else went to great lengths to help you get away with this, and you just betrayed yourself? Are you out of your mind?!
Theresa's teacup suddenly cracked open, and the concentrated bitter melon juice coffee almost spilled out.
"Naturally, it's about the details. As a maid, being observant of details is a basic quality."
Rita casually skipped over this part—it was impossible for her to reveal information about Fu Hua, St. Freya's biggest, last, and most reliable mole, to Qiong and Theresa.
However, Qiong cooperated too much, so much so that a hint of excitement flashed in her eyes. Once she figured out the names of these people and their locations in the academy, that would be the time to open the door! The Undying Blade Brings Warmth!
"Qiong-kun, please rest assured. I personally guarantee the safety of your... friends. However, if dangerous individuals like them clash with other team members during the 'invitation' to headquarters... Now, please point out their names or code names one by one. We will handle the matter properly once we arrive."
"A satisfactory solution? Hahahaha!"
Qiong suddenly laughed, as if he had heard a particularly funny joke. He picked up a quill pen from somewhere and started fiddling with it.
If Qiong could still find Danheng and the others now, he would still be worried for a while—worried that Rita might have been accidentally killed by them. But now, after he and Lao Yang had been searching for a long time, they couldn't find Danheng on March 7th, who had gotten on the bus, or even Koch, who hadn't been taken on the bus by the Silver Wolf… He could roughly guess the reason, but he didn't dare to verify it—whether it was contacting Vita or using the node bound by the "spell" to descend, it might attract… In short, it was probably true.
"I can tell you, but please don't disrupt the normal teaching order."
But isn't today a holiday?
Rita, who was silently complaining, didn't say it aloud. Instead, she looked at the five blurry figures pointing the pen at them.
"This one's Ajax, nicknamed 'The Young Master,' a complete battle maniac; this one's Himeko, known as 'Big Sister Monster'; this guy's Asaba Yuuma, a lazy monster who loves taking sick leave; and these two are the quiet Lynette and the dutiful Miss Yuki. Okay, that's all... Oh, by the way, they're my friends. They came to see me before, but left yesterday! So, the search..."
Qiong cleared his throat, feigning seriousness.
“Ms. Rita, there are some special circumstances at St. Freya Academy that are inconvenient to investigate, and it's not as you imagine, that it's been infiltrated by Anti-Entropy. These friends of mine are mercenaries for World Serpent—don't ask me what World Serpent is, look it up yourself, it's a huge, ruthless organization. We at St. Freya are loyal and impregnable! We've fought Anti-Entropy several times and won every battle. Your headquarters accusing us of treason is going too far!”