Artoria wants to read people's hearts

But at this moment, Onimi Tsuji's indifferent voice suddenly sounded.

"Enough, stop it for me."

So for a moment, everything seemed to have suddenly hit the pause button.

Sho Potian's body was stiff, but Sick Ye had a smile on his face.

"Big, my lord..."

A trembling voice resounded, and the boy Ban Tiangou, who was carrying several Thunder Gods on his back, seemed to want to say something, but he was directly glared at by Guiwu Tsuji.

The effect was outstanding, and the dog's whole ghost immediately wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.

"Very well, you have proven your strength."

He glanced lightly at Bing Ye who was kneeling in front of him, a hypocritical and cruel smile appeared on his face.

"But that's not enough, you also need to prove your loyalty."

The result of this experiment, Morgan has just told him, although the strength of the lower string three has greatly increased, and the strength is close to that of the upper string four, but they have not overcome the weakness of the sun.

Well, with a semi-finished product like this, there is still a last bit of use for him to keep.

So in front of Morgan and Mordred, he deliberately raised his voice and gave his order.

"Go, find that woman named Artoria Pendragon, and then try to kill her as best you can."

Xia Xiansan lowered his head, and replied respectfully.

"Sick leaf, please obey your lord's will."

Nodding in satisfaction, he turned around and looked at Ban Tiangou who had returned to normal and was shivering at the moment.

"And as for you—" Ghost Mai Tsuji sneered, "—you can cooperate with Miss Morgan's next treatment here."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and nodded slightly to Morgan and Mordred, then turned and left without looking back.

I don't know what kind of surprises they can bring to themselves in the next experiment?

Regarding this matter, he was really looking forward to it.

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Artoria feels that something is not quite right recently.

During this period of time, when I went out to do tasks, some ghosts with words engraved in their eyes would suddenly pop out from the grass.

While shouting "Demacia", while waving his fists, he ran over to give away the head (big mistake).

After solving an old ghost with 'winding' engraved on his left eye and '四' engraved on his right eye, Artoria finally couldn't bear the confusion in her heart, and told herself everything that happened during this period the Master.

"It's really weird what they're doing."

Stuffing a piece of Western biscuit into her mouth, she said seriously while eating.

"I've also told them some words. Judging from the meaning revealed between the lines, the appearance of these twelve ghost moons is not accidental but inevitable. Ghost Wu Tsuji gave them a special order, and its purpose is to come and kill them. I."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head and quickly ate three biscuits.

When she raised her head again, she puffed her mouth, her delicate face was full of seriousness, "Shin, you should know that this is already the fourth twelve ghost moons I have killed."

"But to be honest, Xiaxian San is much better than Si and Lu, and Shangxian Si, he is the most powerful ghost I have seen in the past few months." She paused and swallowed. A biscuit already chewed in the mouth.

"Well, after all, the ranking of numbers represents the level of strength. By analogy, the upper string must be much stronger than the lower string."

Butterfly Shinobu didn't pay much attention to Artoria's words just now.

"So that's why they are so powerful."

After a while, the blond king who knew little about ghosts quickly accepted this setting.

"Having said that, I don't know which link has the problem, but it is obvious that I was targeted by Oni Wu Tsuji, and information about me is gradually spreading inside the oni."

Looking at the blond girl in front of her like a cute hamster, quickly destroying the western biscuits in front of her, Butterfly blinked and forced her attention to the conversation between them.

"Pendragon, do you mean that there are ghosts in our ghost killing team?"

"No, although there is indeed such a guess, I actually don't think it is very likely."

"After all, you see—" she took another biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth, "—only you and Mr. Miyashiki know about me, and the other pillars' knowledge of me is only at the level of More than 'this guy is awesome'."

"Even Mr. Purgatory, he doesn't know that I have other abilities besides breathing."

After eating this piece of biscuit, Artoria leaned over and took the cup full of hot tea next to her in her hand, and drank it in one gulp.

As if it was not too hot at all, she picked up the teapot and poured herself a full cup.

"Shinobu, do you want some tea too?"

She looked at the black-haired girl's teacup and asked.

"Ah, thank you, I'll trouble you then."

With a shallow smile, Butterfly Shinobi handed her empty teacup to Artoria.

"You're welcome, it's an honor to serve a beautiful lady like you."

Knocking on her chest with her right hand, she performed a standard knight's salute.

"Ah, that's really reliable."

The smile on his face widened a bit, and Butterfly Ninja reached out to take the tea cup handed over by Artoria.

"Of course it's reliable, after all, I'm your exclusive servant."

After saying this, as if to show her reliability, she gave half of her biscuit to the black-haired girl.

"Yes, thank you, Miss Pendragon."

Not to shirk, Butterfly Shino happily picked up a small biscuit and ate it.

Seeing this, the curled hair on the top of Artoria's head unconsciously shook twice, and then brought back the topic that had strayed a bit.

"As I said just now, the only people who know about my situation are you and Mr. Ubayashiki, so in the final analysis, the possibility of an insider is almost impossible."

Originally meant to say zero, but she ended up using the word 'nearly nothing'.

Well, after all, don't talk too much, because no one knows whether there will be a possibility of face slap in the future.

"Since the inner ghost and the possibility are very low, we can now analyze it from other aspects."

Arturia looked down at the small biscuits in front of her, and was disappointed to find that there were less than five of them left.

"exactly."

Butterfly nodded, raised her glass very gracefully and took a sip of the tea in her hand.

"Since we have ruled out the possibility of inner ghosts for the time being, can we consider that they discovered the problem themselves?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Arturia's expression was thoughtful, "Excuse me, is there some strange way for ghosts to transmit information to each other?"

"Why do you ask?"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Butterfly Ninja looked at the blonde girl with his purple eyes.

"I remember very clearly." Artoria said, "In the small village when we first met, I used the sword of vowed victory for the first time in front of ghosts in order to kill Xia Xiansi. .”

"That was the first time, and it was also the last time."

She shook her head and sighed leisurely while holding her teacup.

"Since then, I have never used that sword in front of a ghost again."

"So that's how it is." Butterfly Shinobu now understood what she wanted to express, "So you think it was at that time that Xia Xiansi conveyed the news to Guiwu Tsuji Wumi before he died?"

Reaching out for another small biscuit, Artoria ate it quickly and said.

"That's right, if my information came out from the inside of the ghost, then that's the only time I've thought about it."

"There is nothing wrong with your thinking." The black-haired girl first expressed her agreement, then suddenly changed the topic, "However, I don't think this possibility is very great."

"Why do you say that?"

Facing the blonde girl's inquiry, Butterfly Shinobu explained.

"According to the intelligence of our ghost killing team for so many years, although Oni Wu Tsuji can read the thoughts of other ghosts, it can only be done in a face-to-face situation."

"As for an ordinary ghost, even if he is a member of the Twelve Ghost Moons, unless he reads the name of Oni Wu Tsuji in his heart or mouth, he will not get the name of Oni Wu Tsuji at all. watch."

Frowning, the girl looked at Artoria with full eyes.

"According to your previous description, the battle between you and Xiaxian Si progressed very quickly. Even after his head was beheaded, Xiaxiansi didn't realize that the sword in your hand was extraordinary."

"Presumably by the time he realizes something is wrong, everything has become a foregone conclusion and cannot be undone."

Heaving a sigh of relief, Butterfly endured Arturia's gaze, and ate another small biscuit given to her by the other party.

"I think under the circumstances at that time, Xiaxian Si had already lost the conditions to deliver news."

"Then you mean that under the premise of excluding the ghosts in the ghost killing team, the transmission of information between ghosts can also be ignored, is that true?"

"I think so."

The gentle and moving eyes blinked, and the black-haired girl finally added something as if she had thought of something.

"However, it cannot be ruled out that a miracle happened. Maybe it was the other party who passed on the news before he died...not necessarily."

She didn't choose to speak out, but the "not necessarily" in her mouth, both of them knew very well that the possibility was close to zero.

"However, after removing the two options, what else can we analyze from the existing intelligence?"

Artoria touched her chin subconsciously with her hands, her expression slightly distressed.

"It's true..." Butterfly smiled bitterly, "...I always feel that we have analyzed and analyzed, as if we have not come to any conclusion."

"No, there may be other possibilities."

She stared at the black-haired girl in front of her with gentle eyes.

"If we think beyond the existing thinking dilemma, can we suspect that there is a third-party force joining?"

"Third party forces?"

Butterfly opened her eyes wide and let out a small exclamation.

"Yes, when all roads are blocked, we have to think from other places."

"Another way?"

"Yes, that's what I meant."

The blond girl put her hands on her knees and said in an extremely solemn tone, "Is there any third-party forces joining, and they knew my information, so they disclosed my information to Ghost Fang? Woolen cloth?"

"...how likely do you think this is?"

Speechlessly glanced at each other, Butterfly sighed softly and reached out to pick up a small biscuit and put it in his mouth.

"Hmm... one percent?"

Seemingly feeling that this guess was unreliable, Arturia scratched her cheek with her hand a little embarrassedly.

"Close to nothing?" the girl asked back.

"Well... about the same."

After she finished speaking, she was silent for a moment, then coughed lightly and ate two of the three remaining biscuits.

"So, we actually didn't discuss anything."

The black-haired girl made a final conclusion on this matter.

"...Indeed it is."

Taking a sip of tea in a concealed manner, Artoria smiled mischievously.

Butterfly tilted his head and thought for a while, and then said this sentence, "In this case, let's put the truth of this matter on the fact that Xia Xiansi passed the news in a special way before he died. let's go."

"is this OK?"

"I can't help it. After all, among the three options, I think this is the most likely thing to happen." Spreading her hands, she smiled helplessly.

"...Well, before we really get the truth, let's do this for now."

The two of them finalized the matter one by one, and unanimously decided not to report the content of their conversation just now to Yoya Miyayashiki.

Because...it's really embarrassing that nothing was discussed, isn't it?

"Just tell Mr. Ubayashiki my current situation." Artoria swallowed the last biscuit, "And about what we just analyzed...don't say anything more."