"Club activities? Could we observe?" After confirming that these two girls were indeed talking about the legendary club activities, Leticia immediately asked.
Bai Ya's eyes also sparkled with excitement—she really wanted to know what kind of club activities demon girls would engage in.
Were they like human students' chess or sports? Or magical battles?
No matter which, Bai Ya thought it would be great.
But this request made Teresa's expression become strained. "Um, our club is a tiny bit, uh, abnormal."
"What's abnormal about it? We're the three-person group that's going to become Demon King City's great detectives!" Aileen waved her fist in dissatisfaction and grabbed Leticia's hand, excitedly introducing their club.
According to Aileen, their club gathered the three most brilliant minds in the Magic Academy (Leticia had doubts about this), and they had already solved many problems for teachers and students at the school, making them quite a famous big club in the academy.
"Our name is Young Detectives..."
"You're mixing up shows!" Teresa punched Aileen on the head, interrupting the girl's chanting. "I told you to stop reading those manga from the human side!"
"High school detectives are super cool!" Aileen covered her head with teary eyes. "Even Little Luo thinks it's super cool."
The corner of Leticia's eye began twitching. She roughly guessed what manga these two girls were talking about.
That elementary school grim reaper's counterpart in this world was considered a national-level manga in the Human World.
"Could it be that you two have also read 'Detective Nannan'?" Bai Ya instinctively asked.
As soon as this question was asked, both struggling girls turned their gazes over.
Teresa's eyes showed surprise, while Aileen's showed delight.
"I didn't expect little sister to have read that masterpiece too! I've decided—you're now an honorary member of our detective club!" Aileen grabbed Bai Ya's hand with an expression of finally finding a kindred spirit.
This left Bai Ya unsure how to react. Were all demon girls this enthusiastic and airheaded?
Finally, under Teresa's forceful suppression, Aileen didn't pull Bai Ya into her club, but they did agree to Leticia's request to observe.
"As long as you like that manga, we're sisters from different parents!" That's what Aileen said.
The Magic Academy's management of students was unusually lax. The only hard requirement was to settle personal grudges in the arena—no fighting on academy grounds.
As for non-personal grudges, those also had to be settled in the arena, though such situations were rare, only occurring between a few clubs with very long traditions.
"The Student Council and Self-Discipline Committee fight small battles every three days and big ones every five days. The arena basically has members from those two clubs fighting every day." On the way to the detective club, Teresa introduced the daily life of academy students to Leticia and Bai Ya.
Generally speaking, students had a lot of free time, especially honor students. As long as they attended classes and completed assignments, all other time belonged to the students themselves.
With so much spare time, students had to find something to vent their excess energy, and thus the academy's clubs were born.
First were the two largest clubs—the Student Council and Self-Discipline Committee. They sounded like official school organizations and were indeed something like that.
These two clubs had existed since the academy's founding and were eternal rivals. Members of the two clubs frequently exchanged opinions through rather intense means in the arena. Every day, academy students could watch spectacular battles contributed by members of these two clubs in the arena.
Below these two major clubs were countless smaller clubs—larger ones had nearly a hundred members, while smaller ones had only single-digit membership.
For example, Teresa and Aileen's club had only three official members, which in human daily manga would basically be in a club dissolution crisis.
Fortunately, the rules here were different. Even if your club had only one person, as long as you could prove you were seriously conducting activities, the academy would allocate you a space for activities.
"So I completely don't understand why anyone would join meaningless clubs like the Afternoon Tea Society." Aileen said indignantly. "I heard their club activities are just gathering to drink afternoon tea. What a waste of life."
Leticia held a different opinion—this kind of club exclusive to slackers was very much to her liking.
But today was about accompanying Little Ya on a tour, so they should go to these two lively girls' club. Looking at their personalities, the third member of this club should also be an optimist.
"By the way, Little Luo might have a bad temper. Please be mentally prepared." Then Teresa spoke up to warn them.
"Ah, this."
After walking for about half an hour, Leticia followed Teresa and company to a small wooden house in a field of light purple flowers.
A wooden board was stuck in front of the house with a few crooked small characters carved on it: Detective Club, No Idle Persons.
This board was probably carved by Aileen, right?
Leticia felt Teresa wouldn't carve characters so ugly, and the other unseen member, according to Teresa and Aileen's description, seemed to be a more steady type.
"This is my masterpiece—beautiful, right!" Sure enough, Aileen started showing off when she saw the board.
"Aileen, could you keep your voice down... who are you?" Apparently hearing Aileen's voice, a black-haired girl irritably pushed open the wooden house door and stuck her head out to speak to Aileen.
She had only said half her sentence when she noticed strangers and abruptly cut off the rest, beginning to ask about Leticia and company's origins.
"They're visiting our academy, then got intercepted by Aileen halfway." Teresa briefly explained what had just happened to the black-haired girl.
"I see. That's indeed something this idiot would do." The black-haired girl pulled open the wooden door and said to Leticia and Bai Ya, "Since you're guests, please come in. But I'll say this upfront—our place isn't as interesting as you might imagine."
"It's super interesting!"
"Shut up, you moron!" The black-haired girl glared fiercely at Aileen.
The space inside the wooden house wasn't small—it still seemed quite spacious even after two guests arrived.
However, the interior of the house appeared rather messy. This wasn't to say it was dirty, but simply chaotic.
There was no dirt, but the papers scattered throughout the room clearly separated this place from the word 'tidy.'
"It's a bit messy because we're still in the preliminary investigation stage. There's too much information of all kinds, so we can only categorize it this way." Little Luo pressed her temples as she explained.
Leticia bent down to pick up a photo from the floor. She actually recognized the black-haired girl in the photo.
That girl called Mo Zili.
"It's her?"
"Hm? Miss, do you know the girl in this photo?" Little Luo didn't miss Leticia's murmur.
This wasn't anything that couldn't be discussed. Leticia naturally nodded. "I met her once at a dance a few days ago. What, are you investigating her?"
It was Aileen who answered Leticia: "That's right! A demon calling a human 'teacher'—that's way too weird."
"But how do you know her teacher is human?" Leticia pressed further. They clearly hadn't recognized that Little Ya was also human.
She could distinguish humans from demons at a glance because Leticia was powerful, just like how Bai Ling could also distinguish demons from humans at a glance.
People without much ability couldn't distinguish humans from demons at a glance... unless that demon's hair color was too vivid.
And by coincidence, both Mo Zili and her teacher had black hair. Since Mo Zili was a demon, normally no one would think her teacher was human, right?
"I have special intelligence channels." Little Luo raised her head proudly.
"Little Luo is the youngest daughter of Marquis Oz..." Teresa quietly explained to Leticia.
Leticia understood—she had connections at home. That made sense.
While Leticia and Teresa were whispering here, Bai Ya was standing on tiptoe looking at photos pinned to a wooden board.
This board had many photos taken at various locations, with the only common point being that the protagonist in all the photos was that black-haired girl.
"Are these all secretly taken?" The innocent little girl asked a question that made everyone present fall silent.
How could they not be secretly taken? Could the detective club members openly follow Mo Zili around recording her daily life?
They were investigating—of course they had to be as covert as possible.
To avoid the magic power leakage from recording stones attracting Mo Zili's attention, Little Luo had specially obtained a camera from the human side from her collection.
"This is called necessary investigative means. Children don't understand, so don't talk nonsense." Little Luo replied dryly.
But this rebuttal seemed too weak—even Bai Ya didn't believe what this girl said.
"But..." Bai Ya wanted to say more, but Leticia gently patted her shoulder. "What's wrong, Sister Qianqian?"
"There's nothing wrong with investigating suspicious people appearing in the academy." Leticia smiled, waving the photo. "This girl is obviously not an academy student, yet she keeps wandering around the academy. As academy members, isn't it normal for Little Luo and the others to be suspicious of this girl?"
"Right, right, exactly!" Little Luo immediately took the lifeline Leticia offered. "This young lady is absolutely right. As part of the academy, how can we let a suspicious person wander around the academy?"
Teresa looked at Leticia with surprise, not expecting this young lady to be so skilled at lying with her eyes open. Was this a noble's natural talent?
How frightening.
Oh, you ask how she knew Leticia was a noble?
Wasn't it obvious? Where did Leticia not act like a noble?
Being able to bring people to tour the academy, having met Mo Zili at a noble dance—how could she not be a noble young lady?
This person might even be a noble of considerable status.
"But if you want to know the answer, couldn't you just go ask her directly?" Bai Ya raised another question.
This question didn't need Leticia to smooth over—Little Luo could come up with a whole theory herself to prove why this method was necessary.
"People lie. Going to ask her—forget about what reason to use, even if she's willing to answer our questions, how do we know if she's lying?"
"Words from a suspicious person's mouth are less credible than what we investigate ourselves. At least these things have evidence."
Aileen on the side also started helping: "Right, right! We're just following behind her to see if she has any suspicious actions. As long as we're not discovered, who knows she's being watched by us?"
But this help was worse than no help.
"Anyway, to solve this mystery, these things cannot be avoided. For the day when the truth comes to light, someone must bear this profound darkness." Little Luo put the khaki beret from the table on her head. "This is our duty. If you young ladies can't stand us, then please move to the neighboring Afternoon Tea Society. We're about to begin our battle."
A powerful conviction seemed to burst from Little Luo's petite body, even surprising Leticia a bit.
Bai Ya was even more dumbfounded. She felt like she was now the villain, while Little Luo was the misunderstood protagonist from a hot-blooded manga.
This aura of 'though thousands oppose me, I will go' truly shocked Bai Ya, a girl of only sixteen or seventeen.
Um, speaking of which, Little Luo seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen too?
"Sister Qianqian, maybe we should go look at the Afternoon Tea Society instead." Bai Ya said quietly with her head down. She felt very embarrassed about earlier. "If we follow Miss Little Luo and the others, we'll be very conspicuous and attract a lot of attention, right?"
"You're right. Although I really wanted to participate in club activities with you all, having us get involved now would actually cause trouble." Although Leticia could use magic to make herself less noticeable, that would be pointless.
"Miss Little Luo, will you continue this activity later? If so, we'd like to participate too."