Type-Moon: I! The Magic King! Am going to marry Tiamat!

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"Alright, let's keep investigating. If it doesn't work by tonight, we'll just have to try other methods."

Seeing this, Maren said no more. In fact, he knew that this kind of single-line investigation, which followed the clues, would basically reveal nothing.

He was just a little impatient and complaining.

Although Reines was curious about what other method Maren had mentioned, she didn't ask any further questions and continued to investigate with Maren.

Two hours passed after the investigation, and it was already dinner time. Finally, there was some progress.

"That person's reaction was a bit suspicious; he seemed to be feeling guilty."

Ma En rubbed his chin, recalling the expression of the last person he had questioned earlier, and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed.

He then looked at Reines and asked, "What do you think?"

Reines rolled her eyes. What do you mean, "how to look"? I'll look standing up!

However, she still offered her opinion.

“It is indeed a bit suspicious. His hands were open and closed and clenched as if he wanted to grab something, but he kept restraining himself, which shows that he was not calm.”

Ma En nodded: "Let's go, let's ask over there first."

Reines didn't object. The people here were obviously lying, and there was no point in questioning them further. They had to produce evidence.

So the two found another person, asked briefly, and the result pointed to yet another person, who, too, lied.

Ma En raised an eyebrow: "It seems they've already conspired."

The person from before, let's call him Suspect A for now, lied. Maren suspected that he might be the source.

It turns out that the suspect B he implicated was also lying.

This shows that things are not so simple; neither of them told the truth, and there is obvious suspicion of collusion.

"Let's see how this performance goes next."

Based on suspect B's testimony, Marne and Reines then found a third person.

Unsurprisingly, suspect C also lied, and he implicated suspect A.

Ma En rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on; the afternoon had really worn him out.

Not to mention the effort and words involved in running around.

But now things are much better. Three suspects have been identified, and now all we need to do is extract the truth from them.

However, when they went back to find suspect A, they encountered an unexpected situation.

"What?! Gone?! How could such a big person just disappear?!"

Yes, the person is gone.

Suspect A's colleague said helplessly, "I also want to know where he went. The work here is not finished yet, and he left. I'm going to be busy before the shift changes."

Ma En was also helpless, but he couldn't bother this colleague any longer. The colleague was already unlucky enough, and now he had to clean up the mess left behind by suspect A.

"Could it be that he fled to avoid punishment? But Chaldea is so small, where could he possibly run to? You can't hide forever, running away is just asking for trouble."

This is what Marx and Engels found most puzzling.

In the closed environment of Chaldea, where could someone so big hide? They still need to eat, drink, relieve themselves, and sleep, right? How would they solve that? If they wanted to solve that, they would inevitably leave traces, so it's impossible to completely hide them.

However, that wasn't the end of it. When they went back to look for the other two suspects, they discovered that they had also escaped!

Maren felt completely numb.

It's just a rumor, at most a public criticism, is it really that big of a deal?

Reines replied helplessly, "I can't help you now."

The person is gone; even a brilliant detective couldn't help.

Maren sighed and said, "Never mind, I'll go talk to Olga Marie about this. You've been following us all afternoon, you must be tired, so go back and rest. Leave the rest to me."

Seeing this, Reines didn't refuse. She left with the words, "Call me if you have any questions," and then turned and left.

Seeing this, Marne wasted no more time and went to the director's office, where he met Olga Marie.

Before the other party could say anything, Ma En explained the situation.

After Olga Marie understood, she asked, "So, what do you want to do?"

"I want to use exploratory magic to find them."

Chapter 204 To defeat magic with magic! Marne: ! I love you!

Actually, it would be quite easy for Ma En to find someone. With the space scanning full-map magic, it couldn't be simpler.

However, the problem is that Chaldea is different from the outside world. There are too many magic-related facilities here, some of which are very delicate and cannot withstand the slightest influence, otherwise something bad might happen.

Marne was also mindful of this, which is why he didn't use spatial scanning immediately, but instead came to Olga Marie to seek her consent.

Otherwise, let alone whether the rumors have been clarified, if something really goes wrong, it won't be as simple as just whether it's a rumor or not.

"no!"

Olga Marie immediately rejected Marne's description of spatial scanning upon hearing it was Marne's.

Just as Marne thought, this magic was really risky for Chaldea, and how could Olga Marie possibly risk Chaldea's facilities for something like this?

"I'll grant you the authority to access surveillance footage, but please don't bring up the use of magic tricks or anything like that again."

Ma En was not surprised by this. He nodded and turned to leave the director's office to continue trying to track down the three suspects.

Just before he was about to leave the office, Olga Marie didn't forget to give him a reminder.

"Remember, you must clarify the rumors by today, I don't care what method you use."

"I understand," En replied helplessly, then walked away without looking back.

I went to the monitoring room and checked the surveillance footage.

However, Chaldea is not under constant surveillance; there are always places to avoid, which gave the three suspects an opportunity.

Marne spent two hours looking, but still came up empty-handed; all three suspects had disappeared in various blind spots.

It was already past nine o'clock for dinner, and I felt that if I continued searching, I wouldn't be able to catch up with the food by today.

Maren had no choice but to compose himself and go to the control room, where he asked the staff for a broadcast channel.

"To all the people of Chaldea."

Suddenly, Marne's voice rang out throughout Chaldea, startling everyone who wondered what he was up to.

Upon hearing this, Marne continued, "A rumor has been circulating in Chaldea today, involving myself, Marne, and our Director, Miss Olga Marie."

If you say that, then we won't be sleepy anymore!

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but smile knowingly and listen silently, wanting to see what Marx and Engels had to say.

"I would like to clarify that it is just a rumor. Please do not believe it. It has already caused me a lot of trouble. Please do not spread rumors."

Olga Marie, who was in her office, nodded, seemingly satisfied with Marne's actions.

However, what she heard next left her completely stunned.

Maren continued, "I am very pleased that everyone thinks highly of me, but things are not as the rumors suggest. It was just a suitor who wanted to overthrow his superiors, and he was sternly rejected."

"oh!!!"

One sentence instantly caused an uproar among all the onlookers in Chaldea.

"That's right, it all started with my personal actions and has nothing to do with the director. I'm very grateful for everyone's support, and I will continue to work hard! Li! I love you!"

"OHHHHHH!!!" XN

As Marx and Engels made their final public statement, the onlookers immediately became excited and began to discuss it.

"I never expected it to be like this. Director Mary has finally ushered in her spring."

"Putting everything else aside, Advisor Mar and Eng are really bold, actually confessing their feelings in front of the entire Chaldea."

"So cool! How can you be so brave?"

"Who cares how they did it? I knew we were in for a good show."

"Yes, yes, this melon is huge, we'll have plenty to eat."

"Actually, this is quite good. The director came to Chaldea at such a young age and missed out on many things that she should have experienced at her age."

"Hey, do you think consultant Marx and Engels might actually succeed?"

"I don't know if he'll succeed or not, but he's definitely going to be in trouble later."

"Yes, he was just disciplined by the director this morning. I saw him with bandages on his face just now."

"Haha, after all, the director has never experienced anything like this before, so it's normal for him to react strongly."

The onlookers were buzzing with discussion, all ready to watch the drama unfold.

On the other side, Olga Marie, just as they expected, was completely furious!

···

She rushed to the control room and stopped Ma En, who was preparing to make his exit.

"I asked you to clarify the misunderstanding! Is this how you clarify it for me?!"

Olga Marie roared furiously, her little fists raining down on Marne.

However, her limited strength was merely tickling Maren.

Ma En said helplessly, "You said you wanted to get it done today, so I have no choice but to use this method to cover up the rumors with rumors."

This is the fastest way.

Humans are impression-driven creatures. The quickest and most effective way to erase an impression of something from people's minds is to replace it with something new and more memorable.

This is the legendary story of defeating magic with magic!

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"I understand the logic, but did you even consider my feelings when you did this? Did you even ask for my opinion?"

Olga Marie continued waving her little fists; she was so angry she wanted to beat that bastard Marne to death.