Chapter 23. Cornelia Learns Memory Erasing Magic

In the cooking classroom.

"Report! One hundred repetitions completed!" Baron Bach shouted energetically.

"Very good. Next, tell me the information you know about this school," I said, standing by the window and looking at the scenery outside.

Just now, I had been wandering around the cooking classroom, inspecting everything.

I discovered that outside the window was a bottomless abyss.

The entire school seemed to be a small, isolated island floating above purgatory.

It seemed there was no way to run outside the map.

"May I ask what kind of information you would like to know?"

Baron Bach asked, his voice trembling slightly.

He was afraid of spouting a bunch of nonsense and angering me.

I thought for a moment and walked over to Cornelia, who was stepping on Baron Bach.

I took out the red demon ticket from Cornelia's pocket, then dangled it in front of Baron Bach's eyes.

"What's this for?" I asked.

"This is a Demon Pass, a reward from a teacher to an outstanding student. With it, even if you encounter the Dean in the corridor during class time, you can hand it to the Dean—to be exempted from one attack, and the Dean won't attack you again for half an hour."

Baron Bach replied.

"Do you have a Demon Pass?"

"I have one."

"Where is it?"

"In my jacket pocket."

"Okay, I understand."

I did not intend to release Baron Bach now to let him take out the pass.

Although Baron Bach had been subdued by me, this kind of scummy demon who bullied the weak and feared the strong could still not be trusted too much.

My body was very fragile. As long as Baron Bach was given one chance, he could kill me.

Although I was already wearing the Crown of Agony, I was also afraid of pain now.

I said: "Next, tell me the location of every facility in this school, as well as the characteristics of the teachers."

Baron Bach hesitated for a moment and replied: "...Other teachers, I don't fully understand them, because the teachers at this school change frequently."

It seemed the casualty rate for teachers at this school was also quite high.

"Then do you know who the strongest teacher in the school is?" I asked.

"Without a doubt, it's the principal, but the principal isn't necessarily at the school. He only appears at the school at certain random times, so it's also possible for a teacher who is pushed to the brink to take risks and not follow the rules. And the principal only hunts down teachers who violate the rules." Baron Bach replied.

I nodded.

This meant that rules could be used to counter the teachers, but it would be difficult to use the rules to force a teacher to their death.

In a situation where it was death either way, they would definitely choose to fight to the death.

However, I also felt a little strange.

The principal hunted teachers and did not threaten students, so he shouldn't be the boss.

If the principal wasn't the boss, could there be other dangerous teachers?

"Besides the principal and the dean, are there any other particularly dangerous, or exceptionally powerful school staff?"

Although I had already completed Mission Objective 2, I was still very concerned about information on the boss.

If I was confident, I would try to clear the boss room.

The rewards for clearing a Shadow World were related to the final evaluation one received. And it would be related to the enemies defeated, deeds accomplished, and spoils obtained in the Shadow World.

If I didn't clear the boss room, even if I cleared the world, the rewards would be a tier lower.

If it were a Shadow World with another theme, I would definitely not be greedy for more rewards.

But this was a demon-themed Shadow World.

If I got an SSS rank and cleared the boss room, there was a high probability that I could get extremely precious demon-type materials or items.

It might be very useful for repairing 【Shijiang】.

Only for Shijiang would I possibly risk my life.

Of course, Shijiang definitely wouldn't want me to risk my life either.

If it was very dangerous, I would still rationally give up on the boss room.

Baron Bach thought for a while and said: "I've heard... of Miss Olive in the Demon Laboratory. She's always doing some terrifying experiments, and there are even rumors that she often disregards the school rules, but to this day, the principal has never caught her with any evidence."

Laboratory?

Terrifying experiments?

Doesn't this fit perfectly?

This demon named Olive was most likely the demon mentioned in the mission who tortured humans!

The humans to be rescued were probably in her laboratory as well.

If there were no surprises, this would be the boss room.

"Continue."

"That's all. The Demon Laboratory is very far from the cooking classroom. We almost have no contact."

"...Then next, describe the school map, classroom information, and the teacher intelligence you know to me."

...

Baron Bach gave me a full half-hour of intelligence.

During this time, I sat at the long table, recording and organizing the intelligence based on Baron Bach's confession.

I roughly drew a map, which was covered with annotations.

"This is absurd. It's the first time I've seen a school where you have to interrogate the teacher to learn knowledge. So tiring."

After confirming that there was no more valuable intelligence to be had from Baron Bach.

I put down my pen, leaned back in my chair, and stretched.

Hearing my sigh, Cornelia wanted to say something but held back.

Even in the Demon Academy, something like "a student learning by interrogating a teacher" shouldn't normally happen.

I looked at Cornelia, a smile on my face: "Cornelia, thank you for your hard work."

From the moment she captured Baron Bach, Cornelia had been suppressing him, and she had maintained this for almost an hour.

"Easy peasy."

Cornelia replied.

She didn't feel tired at all.

As long as she didn't have to use her brain, she felt it was a leisure activity.

"Finally, I'll have to trouble you to help him lose his memory," I said to Cornelia.

"How do you make a demon lose its memory?"

Cornelia asked, a little confused.

She had never learned about mental or spiritual magic.

I smiled without saying a word, and in Baron Bach's terrified gaze, I summoned the Ruined Poet.

Cornelia frowned slightly, deep in thought.

She blinked her eyes.

Suddenly, it seemed as if she had a great realization.

Immediately after, Cornelia gripped the handle of her hammer with both hands and, without hesitation, smashed it down on Baron Bach's head.

"BOOM!!!"

A huge sound, as if the ground was about to collapse, echoed throughout the classroom.

Baron Bach's head was smashed into the ground, and spiderweb-like cracks spread out from it as the center.

This blow didn't smash Baron Bach's head to pieces, but it did break the warhammer.

The entire handle was bent, and it turned back into an unusable card.

Cornelia placed the tip of her foot against the prone Baron Bach and lightly flicked her foot to flip him over.

He was seen with the whites of his eyes showing, completely passed out.

"Is he still breathing?" I asked.

"Yes, he just passed out."

Cornelia could still feel Baron Bach's living presence.

The body of this at least Tier 5 demon was still very sturdy, and his life force was also very strong. However, after taking a full-power headshot from Cornelia, multiplied by 20 times the pain, even if he didn't lose his memory, he should be close to becoming an idiot.

"Good. My Buddha is merciful."

I lightly raised a single hand in a palm gesture and sighed.

Baron Bach was still useful; he couldn't just be written off like this.

"Where to next?"

Cornelia asked, no longer paying attention to Baron Bach on the floor.

I looked at the time. About two hours and four minutes had passed since the instance began.

There were still twenty-six minutes until the next bell for the end of class.

"Let's rest for half an hour first. You should also eat something," I said to Cornelia.

There was no need for us to go out adventuring now.

And we did indeed need to rest a bit.

After all, when coming out to experience life, one still had to pay attention to a balance between work and rest.

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