"Since last year, in this academy, there have been people disappearing every once in a while."
At the very beginning, Sigmund said such a thing.
"There is no connection between the missing people, let alone men and women. There is not even a trace of abnormality. Some people even laughed with their friends yesterday and disappeared the next day."
Hearing this, Rozen and Ye Ye looked at each other.
Then, Ye Ye said cautiously.
"Didn't they drop out of school? Ye Ye heard that the curriculum of this academy is not easy at all? "
Ye Ye raised such a possibility.
However, this was also what Rozen wanted to say.
Just like the Yin-Yang Private School, the difficulty of the courses in the second year would increase by several levels. This would cause students with insufficient aptitude to be unable to handle the burden and could only choose to drop out in the end. The Walpurgis Royal School of Mechanical Engineering was one of the top magic schools in the world. Almost all the puppeteers who graduated from this school were talents coveted by the armies of various countries. Therefore, the courses were naturally extremely difficult. There were definitely not many who could graduate successfully.
In view of this, even if some people chose to drop out and leave here, it was also a very normal thing.
As for not applying to drop out of school, but suddenly disappearing, it should be because of the tuition fee, right?
The tuition fee here was so expensive that it was basically impossible to rely on a family alone. If it was not a country's enterprise, a famous family, or even a government officer, it was simply impossible to afford such expensive tuition fees.
For example, Rozen, he was sponsored by Sharuko Karyuusai, who was the number one in the world of puppets. She provided the tuition fee, so he could successfully enter the academy. Otherwise, unless the Akabane family was still in this world, otherwise, Rozen might not be able to afford the fee.
And those enterprises, famous families, and the military who were extremely eager for excellent puppeteers would generally choose to become sponsors. They would find talented people through various channels and send them here for further study. They would bear the expensive expenses for them. When these students graduate from here, they must be loyal to them.
Under such circumstances, if they applied to drop out of school, the sponsors behind them would definitely not agree. They might even ask the students to return the expensive tuition fees. What's more, they might even ask for compensation or breach of contract. Worse still, they might even lose their lives.
Therefore, it was not strange for students who could not bear the burden and chose to quietly disappear and leave the academy in order not to be threatened by the sponsors behind them.
However …
"That's not impossible. In the past, there were often such cases. However, since the start of the new school year last year, the number of such people has increased significantly. Now, there are a total of twenty-six people."
Sigmund said solemnly.
"Moreover, what I said just now was referring to the students' backgrounds and identities. In fact, some of these missing people have something in common."
What do they have in common?
"Their automatons were all destroyed and left in the academy."
So Sigmund said.
"The automaton was damaged?"
Ye Ye was stunned.
"I see."
Rozen understood.
If the missing people really didn't want to be troubled by the sponsors behind them, so they chose to sneak away, they shouldn't have destroyed their automatons.
Automatons were the puppeteer's power and an important tool to make money. Even if they didn't want it, they could sell it. There was no reason to destroy it.
Not to mention, these students who chose to drop out would basically never be able to return to society after offending the sponsors behind them. They could only hide in the underground world and either earn money to survive or become criminals. These actions could only be accomplished with their own strength. Damaging the automaton was not worth it at all.
In other words, there was obviously something unusual behind this matter.
Coupled with the attack just now, Xia Lu blurted out the name of Magic Nibbler …
"Jack the Ripper appeared in this academy?"
Rozen muttered.
"That's an appropriate description."
Sigmund couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Jack the Ripper."
Within two months from August 31st, 1888, Jack the Ripper killed at least five prostitutes in London, England, and sent letters and organ fragments with his signature to the newspaper. Hence, he was known as the originator of theater-type crime.
He's the most famous Man Killer Fiend in the world, as well as a perfect criminal who didn't leave any evidence aside from his corpse. Even now, he still hasn't been found, both his race and gender are unknown, shrouded in mystery.
That was the reason why Rozen said Jack the Ripper appeared in the academy.
"Except for the damaged automatons left in the academy, there are no other traces or clues. Isn't that equivalent to being killed by Jack the Ripper?"
That was what Rozen said.
"And the Jack the Ripper that appeared in this academy should be the so-called Magic Nibbler, right?"
Exactly.
The so-called Magic Nibbler referred to the mysterious attacker who attacked students in the academy, causing their whereabouts to be unknown, and their automatons were damaged.
No one knew where those missing students ended up.
There were also different opinions on why the mysterious attacker would do such a thing.
There was only one thing that everyone knew at the same time.
"The mysterious attacker likes to eat automatons." Sigmund said in a deep voice: "Those damaged automatons will not only have traces of being eaten, but the magic circuit, including Eve's Heart, will also disappear, as if it was eaten by a beast."
As soon as she said that, not to mention Luo Zhenu, Yaya's whole body was stiff.
"Eating automatons …"
Ye Ye's expression was a little ugly.
Just like how humans felt uncomfortable when they heard that someone ate human flesh, as an automaton, knowing that other automatons were eaten must be quite uncomfortable, right?
"The mysterious attacker that ate all the magic circuit, is that why it's called the Magic Nibbler?" Rozen touched his chin, looked at Sigmund, and said: "In other words, do you think the so-called Magic Nibbler attacked me?"
That answer was correct.
"Although it's not surprising for you to be attacked by someone, if it's an attacker at the level of the Thirteen, the first thing that comes to mind is the Magic Nibbler." Sigmund nodded and said: "Even the disciplinary committee and the guards couldn't find any clues about the attacker, so it can be inferred that the attacker is quite powerful, at least at the level of the Thirteen."
If that was the case, it was a bit intriguing.
Rozen's mind was active.
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