1496 True Nature (1/2)

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

Mo Fan did not finish his explanation. He asked everyone to follow him to the Roia Garden.

The group moved to the secluded garden. The place remained sealed off. A few parts of the tall fence were dilapidated, but no one had bothered to fix them. There was a small herb patch beside the Roia Garden, but it was covered in weeds, abandoned after the misfortune.

”Let's head inside,” Mo Fan said.

”Mo Fan, just tell us the answer here. It's unnecessary to go inside,” Brianca spoke up, after taking Ceylan and Headmistress Perry's feelings into consideration.

”Fine, that will do,” Mo Fan went to the fence around Roia Garden and pointed at the soil, ”Do you know the reason why the Roia Flowers didn't blossom when Yuria's blood permeated the soil?”

”She was lying. She was a traitor. It was that simple,” Edith said.

Mo Fan smiled. He glanced at Mu Bai.

Mu Bai stared at Mo Fan blankly. He did not expect Mo Fan to be acting like a detective. The guy had seriously watched too much TV!

”It was quite a coincidence. Zhao Manyan's stomach was acting weird the first few days, so Mu Bai who knows a little about herbs, tried mixing medicine for him. However, the medicine didn't work, even though it was very basic,” Mo Fan said.

Zhao Manyan was utterly confused. Since when was his stomach acting weird?

He was about to explain himself when Mo Fan glared at him and said with a soft voice that only the two of them could hear, ”Do you seriously want them to know that we were trying to drug Brianca with an aphrodisiac?”

”Oh, I remember now!” Zhao Manyan quickly agreed with Mo Fan.

”Mu Bai, can you explain why the medicine didn't work?” Mo Fan said.

Mu Bai finally realized what Mo Fan was up to. He pointed at the abandoned herb patch beside Roia Garden and said, ”I came here to pluck a stalk of Eupatorium. I didn't understand why the medicine failed in the first place, so I came back here and plucked some other herbs to experiment on them. I discovered that the herbs here either have extremely low or zero efficacy.”

”Why does it matter? The place is abandoned in the first place. It's normal if the herbs aren't working as intended. Perhaps it's because of the weeds,” Edith said impatiently.

”If you still don't understand what I'm trying to say, you either have no brain, or you're trying to hide something,” Mo Fan harrumphed coldly while staring at Edith.

Edith was startled. She immediately looked confused.

The others remained silent with stern faces, especially Headmistresses Perry and Ceylan.

What Mo Fan was trying to say was very obvious to them!

”Aren't we supposed to be discussing Amelia? Why would you bring what happened in the past up again!?” Sheryl said angrily.

”Are you a pig?” Mo Fan grunted.

Sheryl was enraged. She almost started a fight with Mo Fan, but Brianca rebuked Sheryl right away.

”Things are actually a lot simpler once you link them up. Amelia always wanted to complete her work perfectly. Even though the Roia Garden is off-limits, she would still sneak in here at night. However, she soon figured out that something was wrong with the soil here. How could the person that set Yuria up allow Amelia to tell the others the truth? As a result, Amelia suffered the same fate as Yuria!” Mo Fan went on.

At first, Mo Fan assumed the person that had killed the little creatures on the mountain had a strong hatred of the Alps Institute, but when Li Yu'e became a suspect, someone mentioned that she had purposely killed the little creatures to inflict fear on the others, so she could get rid of her competitor Amelia without attracting too much attention.

The saying was only half correct; the act of killing the little creatures to blaspheme the spirits of the Alps was indeed a cover-up. When Amelia died, no one would suspect it had anything to do with the Roia Garden!

Mo Fan knew he was an unreliable Hunter. His thought processes were not as thorough as Lingling's, and he was almost led astray by the cunning culprit. However, when Li Yu'e described Amelia's brilliant work to him, when Mu Bai found out why the aphrodisiac did not work, and when the culprit poisoned Herr Casa and placed him under a Curse, Mo Fan finally had an idea what was going on.

When Ceylan and Headmistress Perry explained the incident that Yuria was involved in, everything became obvious!

”Is that really the case, Miss Brianca?” Headmistress Perry turned around and looked at Brianca.