Chapter 107: An Old Friend and a Bold Gamble

“Ha! What did you just say?”

Hearing such inappropriate words from Nanaya, who looked like a loli, Menglinna couldn’t help but widen her eyes.

My god, was her pure Nanaya turning bad too?

Ah, even if her hands had been restless before, she didn’t expect her mind to be so twisted now.

“Nothing,” Nanaya crossed her hands, as if it were just a harmless joke. “Just testing your obedience to your superior.”

“No normal person would test it this way! And our church isn’t some shady company!”

Nanaya looked at her with some surprise: “It isn’t?”

“Slandering the church like this, I really don’t know how you became a saint candidate,” Menglinna showed a helpless expression. “Anyway, I’m not in the mood for jokes. I’ve submitted the report, and now I’m leaving.”

With that, Menglinna turned and walked away.

Nanaya said nothing, just let her leave.

After all, it was her personal business. She had no reason to follow, and more importantly, since Menglinna was gone, didn’t she have time to let the Flame Evil God forge the juvenile remains?

It’s just a visit to the doctor. What could go wrong, right?

Leaving the church, Menglinna headed straight for the hospital.

As she walked, she recalled what Nanaya had said.

Words like pure harassment, calling it an obedience test—who would believe that!

But then again, Nanaya used to be a good kid. Why had she become like this?

It couldn’t be that she learned it from me!

Even if Nanaya was no longer the junior she needed to discipline, for the sake of her future workplace environment, she at least had to correct that wrong perception.

Crossing the road, watching a store clerk power up a street sign, Menglinna suddenly had a bold idea—

Could it be that the system made her do it?

So-called systems, they give quests and rewards. Those weird, lewd systems even more so.

It felt like getting points just by making someone blush.

Was she now just a tool for Nanaya to accumulate points?

The more she thought, the more irritated she became. Menglinna quickened her pace toward the hospital.

“About the treatment plan I mentioned earlier, I’ve found some clues.”

“Clues?”

Menglinna frowned, sensing the situation might not be good.

Yushi tapped the table. “Come in.”

The office door opened, and a white-haired little loli walked in. Judging by her appearance…

Menglinna asked in doubt, “Peiji? Why are you here?”

The little loli, dressed in formal wear, looked very much like Peiji, but she seemed quite accustomed to the name, just tilting her head with a subtle expression: “This… miss, are you mistaking me for someone else? I’m Pem, the prosecutor from Yana City!”

At this moment, Yushi also stood up and walked over to them: “Let me introduce you. This is the patient I mentioned earlier, the real developer of the healing potion, Sister Menglinna.”

“Hello.”

The prosecutor calling herself Pem nodded politely, her demeanor completely unlike someone who knew Menglinna.

Though similar, it probably wasn’t Peiji.

Menglinna returned the greeting. “Hello, Prosecutor.”

After all, she was an official; respect was due.

“Alright, since everyone knows each other’s names, let me briefly introduce the matter!”

Yushi clapped her hands, signaling them to sit on the side. Once they were seated, she turned on the slideshow in the room.

“A quick intro. Recently, a vampire has been using Prosecutor Pem’s appearance to commit crimes, seducing innocent young girls, causing great trouble for the prosecutor herself!”

On the screen appeared a girl identical to the prosecutor, seemingly luring some naive girl.

On this matter, Prosecutor Pem couldn’t help but speak: “Actually, this impostor has been using my appearance to seduce innocent girls for a long time. It only blew up recently, and then I found out.”

Menglinna turned to look at the prosecutor. Honestly, she still couldn’t tell any difference between her and Peiji.

“So…” Menglinna chose her words carefully, “could you tell me how it blew up?”

The prosecutor answered lightly: “Just playing multiple sides and eventually falling into the water.”

I see.

Though the answer was brief, Menglinna didn’t feel comfortable asking for details.

Their Q&A ended, and Yushi continued: “Currently known details: based on blood analysis at the scene, the impostor is a vampire and good at hiding vampire traits…”

Listening from her seat, Menglinna felt a cold sweat on her back. This sounded too much like her former teammate, Peiji.

“…Above all, we’ve decided to hunt her down.”

After a bunch of rambling, Menglinna didn’t catch much except the final conclusion.

“Hunt?” Menglinna couldn’t believe it. “Just the three of us?”

“Well, actually, the original plan was four…”

“Who else?”

Yushi twisted her little braid sheepishly: “Your girlfriend.”

Nanaya? No, she didn’t have a girlfriend.

Menglinna said awkwardly, “I’m currently single.”

“Then let’s change the term,” Yushi adjusted her approach. “Your love interest.”

“That’s not right either. She…”

“Enough!” Pem interrupted their conversation. “Forget the title—wife, lover, toilet, or flesh toy, it doesn’t matter. Everyone knows who she is. Let me ask: can she join? I mean for this matter.”

Ah, despite being a prosecutor, her language was surprisingly vulgar. On one hand, it felt like a disaster; on the other, Menglinna was certain this person wasn’t Peiji.

Peiji wouldn’t say such vulgar things… at least not in this setting, and these terms were very specific, as if their relationship was already locked.

She really wanted her to join.

But she had already said it was a personal matter, and going back to ask Nana for help was hard to bring up.

Their relationship wasn’t so close that she could just ask for help without hesitation, right?

Pem spread her hands: “One less person is fine. At least we know earlier that we’re one short.”

Menglinna looked at Pem with curiosity: “Impersonating someone is illegal, isn’t it? Why not use the guards to catch her, but instead have the three of us go?”

“Miss, listen. Having only us three go after her is beneficial for us,” Pem stared into Menglinna’s eyes seriously. “That impostor used my name to swindle. If I used my position as prosecutor to deploy the guards, it’s of course possible, but the problem is that it would expand the impact. Then the whole city would know that there’s a face identical to the prosecutor’s seducing girls everywhere.”

Menglinna nodded: “So you want to handle it privately?”

“Yes.”

“But is that legal?” Menglinna hesitated. “No trial, no charges—this is outright murder, isn’t it?”

Pem suddenly chuckled lightly and then said, “So you nuns just can’t fit into Yana. I’m the prosecutor; I know if it’s murder or not.”

Menglinna knew about the prosecutor’s power to manipulate these things, but here she was rootless; she had to be cautious.

She had recorded all of that just now.

“Moreover,” Pem continued, “as I said, killing her benefits all three of us. I need to eliminate her discreetly, and she’s a vampire. The corpse can be used for the linguistics professor’s research, and the heart can treat Sister Menglinna. That’s good for everyone, right?”

Yushi smiled slightly and nodded: “Of course.”

Menglinna also nodded in agreement.

“It seems we’ve reached a preliminary consensus,” Pem took out a pocket watch from her pocket and glanced at it. “Unfortunately, I don’t have her whereabouts yet, but I’ll secretly monitor the residences of those girls. I’ll notify you when I have something.”

“Mm.”

They agreed on specific arrangements and ended the meeting.

“I’ll go back first.”

Feeling the discussion was unproductive, Menglinna stood up to leave.

Though there seemed to be some news, it still required waiting, and she would have to contribute effort. Honestly, Menglinna was a bit disappointed.

Seeing her stand, Pem also stood and followed her out of the room.

“Can I have a word, Big Dream?”

Passing by the restroom, Prosecutor Pem stopped Menglinna.

Hearing the sudden nickname, Menglinna instinctively became alert: “What’s wrong?”

Sensing the other had something important to say, Menglinna stepped into the restroom, turned on the tap, and washed her face.

She didn’t like the smell of disinfectant in the hospital; it always reminded her of phlegm, germs, and plague.

The prosecutor calling herself Pem smiled: “You recognized me just now, didn’t you? Or was my acting so good that it fooled you?”

Menglinna looked at her in disbelief: “So you’re Peiji?”

The prosecutor nodded: “Of course, the real deal!”

Facing her long-lost teammate, Menglinna couldn’t help but hug her.

Though Peiji was skinny and bony, the hug was a bit uncomfortable, but her subconscious remark of “You smell nice” confirmed her identity.

Peiji had always wanted to bite her before.

“So why are you a prosecutor here?” Even though she confirmed it was her former teammate, she still had to ask. “I thought you went back to take over the family business. I imagined you standing in front of a window holding red wine.”

“Haha, logically speaking, yes,” Peiji showed a embarrassed smile. “But doing business, just having capital isn’t enough. You need channels—both black and white—so I changed my name…”

Menglinna shook her head: “Let’s not talk about it. You know I don’t like this.”

Better to know as little as possible about such matters.

Peiji nodded: “Of course. So you’ll still help me, right?”

“Of course. But that situation you mentioned earlier—the woman who looks like you—is that true?”

“Of course. That impostor seems to be trying to oust me,” Peiji also washed her hands. “This is what they call business war.”

They had unconsciously drifted into strange topics again. Menglinna turned off the tap, ready to leave. “Got it. I’ll come help you later.”

“I’ll be waiting for you, Big Dream.”

“Mm!”

While Menglinna was settling the cooperation, Nanaya was undergoing a test of trust.

Handing over almost full control of her body to the Flame Evil God was undoubtedly a gamble, with the reward being a holy mark forged by the God of Forging himself.

Considering she still had the ability to take the Flame Evil God down with her, Nanaya chose to gamble.

“The human body is way too uncomfortable for me!”

Compared to giants, humans not only had short arms and legs but also low resistance, unable to withstand the furnace flames for long.

Since the Flame Evil God was the God of Forging, one eye had long been blinded by the smoke. He was used to one eye, so naturally, he could only keep one open and one closed.

Alas, Nanaya, with her four limbs intact and facial features regular, was too high-spec for a mere human; it made even the Flame Evil God a bit uncomfortable.

“Just try to adapt!”

Anyway, under Nanaya’s strict commands, the Flame Evil God finally managed to understand the gap between the human body and the giant body.

“The human body isn’t so bad after all,” the Flame Evil God raised his right hand, and a flame appeared in Nanaya’s palm. “Now I’ll get serious.”

With just one glance, he had constructed the final product in his mind—that was the basic skill of the God of Forging.

Before starting, the Flame Evil God chose to confirm the client’s request one more time: “I’ll ask one last time: are you sure you want to forge this material into a holy mark? Honestly, this material would be more suitable for a staff!”

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