The Hero Kicked Me Out of His Party, So I Turned Him into My Maid - Chapter 17

“Because the disciplinary committee members don’t handle investigations.”

Luna shook her head, revealing a sense of helplessness:

“Disciplinary committee members have always been understaffed and unable to function as a trial court in investigating cases. Only when Otto presents evidence that raises reasonable doubt will the disciplinary committee members begin their work.”

Otto nodded. As a fourth-year student at the academy and an old acquaintance of Luna, he naturally knew this, and also had other considerations.

His grey-green eyes glanced at Luna:

“Therefore, Luna’s talk club can definitely play a role in conducting prior investigations. After the investigation, it can be seamlessly connected with the disciplinary committee members under Luna’s leadership. That’s what I think, and I think Luna thinks so too.”

“So the president had this in mind!”

Mira suddenly understood and looked on with admiration.

Luna closed her eyes and shook her head, her black ponytail swaying with each movement.

“I don’t want to confuse club activities with student council work. Otto, you should know the importance of separating public and private matters.”

Otto stood up and patted the silver dust left on his fingers from alchemy.

“Luna is right, we must keep public and private matters separate.”

“Then I’ll take you guys to stake out the club tonight and take a look.”

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It’s night again.

The cabinets in the alchemy shop’s warehouse were neatly stacked with various metal ingots, ranging from solid iron ingots to unknown metals that emitted a faint rainbow glow.

In stark contrast to the neatness of the cabinets, the floor was littered with various raw metal objects, unfinished magical artifact parts, and other debris, making it difficult to find a place to step. Piles of unprocessed metal formed small mountains, emitting a strong metallic odor.

If you shine light on a pile of metal, you’ll see three pairs of eyes peering out through a gap.

Those are the eyes of Ariel, Mira, and Otto.

As the de facto leader, Luna naturally wouldn’t do such a thing herself.

My nights have been quite eventful lately.

Before being kicked out of the party by the hero, his nightlife consisted of staying in his dormitory studying magic and recipes for tomorrow.

After being kicked out of the party by the hero, on the first night, she met the hero and the demon king and embraced each other. She also trained with Lise for the first time and met the demon king and Luna in the back mountain.

The following night, he conducted his first study on fellow practitioners with Luna.

Tonight, I’ll be staking out the alchemy guild’s warehouse, enduring the unpleasant metallic smell.

I feel like if I keep squatting like this, my body will smell like metal, which is really unpleasant and I won’t be able to face anyone. So I have to take a shower when I get back.

Mira had just returned from special training and looked exhausted, as if she had lost all her strength.

I don’t know what kind of magic Mira is using in her training, but it’s like this every night.

The three remained silent, squatting there in silence.

Today, Otto ordered everyone in the Alchemy Club not to come to the club that evening. Therefore, the Alchemy Club was silent, unlike its usual bustling and noisy atmosphere.

After an unknown amount of time, Mira’s initially excited and expectant gaze gradually became dull and dim.

So she lowered her voice and said:

“Wow, this is so boring! There isn’t even a mouse!”

Otto replied:

“Miss Mila, because rats don’t eat metal. They’ll only starve to death if they try to find food here.”

“The Alchemy Club originally had magical tools specifically for catching rats, but they were later sold to the Cooking Club.”

“The cooking club really needs this… Speaking of cooking, I’m getting a little hungry…”

Mira touched her tummy, and she could faintly hear a gurgling sound.

Ariel forced herself to stay awake, her eyes unfocused, her thoughts already drifting to the matter of being fired.

During the day, I asked Luna and confirmed that the expulsion was indeed due to Karina personally pressuring the headmaster in the name of the Tafflin family.

It was also confirmed that the headmaster, wielding the power of the Tafflin family, slightly modified the rules, adding a condition of being “top three in the grade” for expulsion. Otherwise, expulsion would be as Karina demanded.

While the hero was the instigator, Karina’s actions were even more despicable.

She was the one who said she was leaving the team.

She was the one who confiscated the wand and robe that she had painstakingly saved up to buy.

It wasn’t enough to exclude the Hero Squad; now they want to exclude themselves from the academy too?

Karina, Karina, what deep-seated hatred do we have that makes you so ruthless in your pursuit of extermination?

That assassination attempt that night, you weren’t the one who did it, were you…?

Therefore, he couldn’t afford to be expelled from the academy. He couldn’t go along with Karina’s wishes.

He knew Karina very well; a single act of resistance would enrage her, while a single act of backing down would only invite more opportunistic attacks and relentless persecution.

This time she’s been expelled from the academy, and next time Karina might plot to make her parents suffer…

To prevent Karina from succeeding, a magic crystal is essential.

The Alchemy Society’s anomaly, please appear quickly! That way I can focus my energy on refining the energy-storing magic crystals as soon as possible.

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“Senior Otto, what’s your relationship with Senior Luna?”

Before they knew it, Mira and Otto had become quite familiar with each other.

To relieve her boredom, Mira kept asking Otto about “adult matters”.

Mira did indeed look like a child, so Otto answered all her questions, chatting with her slowly as if he were coaxing a child.

“I was once Luna’s father’s student. That’s why we met back then and can talk to each other regularly.”

“Does the senior like Luna?”

Mira abruptly changed the subject, the abrupt shift leaving Otto and Ariel somewhat bewildered.

“Impossible.”

Otto said firmly:

“In fact, Luna and I are cousins.”

“I learned from my teacher that our mothers were sisters. Luna’s mother married my teacher, and my mother married a commoner alchemist in the countryside.”

“Luna and I are related by blood, so we can’t be lovers.”

For some reason, Ariel let out a long sigh of relief.

It turns out Luna and Otto weren’t a couple…

Wait, why should I care about something like this?

“Wait a minute, why do I feel a chill down my back…”

Mira reached behind her back and suddenly shouted:

“Oh no! My clothes are gone from my back!”

Seeing this, Otto reached out and grabbed at the air, taking out a magical item called “Magnetic Heart” from the magic circle.

By manipulating the magnetic force released by the magnet, Otto moved large clumps of metal to the side until there was no metal to block the way, and all three of them were completely exposed to the air.

Mila was a little scared, and tears almost welled up in her eyes:

“Ariel, am I hurt in my back…?”

Ariel quickly checked Mila’s back.

The first thing that catches the eye is a series of tiny, still slightly red and swollen wounds.

Secondly, the clothes from the neck to the waist at the back looked like they had been swallowed whole by something, with very neat cuts.

A large chunk of metal was also eaten away from Mira’s back, leaving a very obvious gap with a smooth, mirror-like cross-section.

Otto also noticed the missing piece of metal and exclaimed in surprise:

“That was a large piece of rare gold metal, and it just vanished into thin air!”