During this period of time, Wayne privately still assigned various tasks to Tasia in the name of his mentor to hone her magic power.
When he is free, he will also provide her with some psychological counseling to prevent her from accidentally "going astray."
All in all, the results are pretty good. Tasia obviously had a lot of trust in him, a teacher with unknown origins.
Suddenly something else occurred to him, and he asked: "By the way, Tasia... are you free after school today? I have something very important and I want to ask you for a favor."
The children who were rescued by him are still recovering, but some of them are seriously injured.
He wanted Tasia to help with the treatment.
As for the possibility of private residence being exposed, this is not a big problem. It is a short-term rental anyway, and we can just move the location after this incident is resolved.
Tasia was slightly stunned, "Are you going to the Duke's Mansion?"
"No, no..." He thought about what to say, but finally gave up.
"You'll know then."
…
Of course she couldn't tell Chris about meeting Tasia after school.
Even if Wayne didn't have any other ideas, Chris would definitely be suspicious if he knew that he had obtained a group of scarred children from nowhere.
She can handle this kind of thing without knowing it, so it's better to continue hiding it from her.
As for Tasia, she could use the shared experience of rescuing abducted children last time to fool her, and say that she has been paying attention to news in this area since then, and finally she rescued a batch more.
He wouldn't elaborate, and Tasia wouldn't get to the bottom of it.
Therefore, he found someone else to take the blame this time.
Of course it was——Lawrence, who had been talking to him lately.
"Chris, please go home today~ I have to discuss the final concert with Lawrence."
Chris frowned slightly and said in a nonchalant tone: "Wayne, it seems that you like to participate in various social activities outside recently."
"...Where is it?"
My real active time is basically at night.
However, the time spent with Chris has indeed decreased a bit on weekdays.
Feeling a little apologetic about this, Wayne could only comfort him: "Let's go out and have fun for a few days after the holiday? I will be with you every minute and every second."
"Hmph, who cares?"
Chris pursed her lips and turned away dissatisfied.
As he watched her leave, Wayne let out a long sigh.
Even if he can change his identity in front of different people according to different situations, in fact when both parties need him to appear, there will still be a huge conflict.
It would be nice if there was a clone technique.
Sure enough, people are always greedy.
When you have no power, you want power. When you have power, you want more power. There is no end.
Tasia's reaction was just as Wayne thought at first.
Tasia was shocked to see so many scarred children, but she agreed to treat them without saying a word.
In fact, these children have almost no memory of what happened that night. Most of them are still in panic. Although they know that they are safe now, they will be frightened whenever they hear the slightest noise outside.
In that dungeon, their "training" had already formed their conditioned reflexes.
Fortunately, in addition to being able to heal injuries, light magic also has an excellent calming effect, and Tasia can barely cope with it.
After leaving some money in this house, Wayne quietly withdrew.
He still had to go to the manor to inquire about it and see what Earl Chapman was doing behind the scenes.
Re-entering the "crime scene" is risky. Because from the perspective of criminal psychology, murderers generally like to return to the scene after the incident to observe their "works"; at the same time, the defenders will mostly concentrate their efforts on blocking the scene to avoid damaging the scene.
So this time, Wayne was still very vigilant, carefully disguised himself and put on a mask.
It was still early in the day, and as soon as Wayne approached this suburban manor, he sensed the presence of several powerful magicians nearby.
You know, the defense here was still very sparse yesterday.
After thinking about it, he took a detour to the outside of the tunnel he dug last night.
——There are indeed people here.
Next to the exit of the bare cave, two magicians were chatting rather boringly.
"Are you really not going to clean up the fallen rocks in the passage?" A person asked weakly.
"How many times have I asked? Didn't you understand Mr. Chapman's instructions?" Another taller man said in a less friendly tone.
"If you want to die, die on your own, don't drag me along."
"..."
It turned out that the man was speechless, and after a long time he said again: "After all, there are so many lives."
"Oh, you still pity them? If your child fell into their hands, you would see if they would pity you." The tall magician sneered, "Although technically speaking, they and I are accomplices, but even so , I also think it would be better if all those people died."
It looked like a quarrel was about to break out.
The short magician was also anxious.
"I'm not saying they don't deserve to die, but -"
He hesitated for a long time before speaking softly: "Just because they encountered such a completely uncontrollable loss, they concealed the secret at the cost of their lives. Have you ever thought about it... If one day in the future, we are the ones who fail the mission? Woolen cloth?"
Hearing this, the tall magician also fell silent.
Neither of them said anything else for a while.
I don't know how long it took before the tall magician said in a low voice: "Do we have any other choice?"
"... Make a day's money and be happy. As for the future, let's think about it later."
During their chat, Wayne was shocked to realize that Chapman was really not prepared to let them out.
Are you planning to bury all the civilian insiders alive?
……Too.
Those who can stay and work in such a place for a long time must have a bad background. Even if he died quietly in a corner, it probably wouldn't cause much of a splash.
Compared with the possibility of leaking the information and damaging Earl Chapman's reputation, it is of course easier to let them all die.
Wayne originally had no sympathy for these people, but now, he just wanted to cause some trouble for Mr. Chapman.
Since these people are locked up underground, they are destined to die.
So, let's do something to make their death more valuable.
