A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 974 Interfering Factors Lin Wuming

“I think this is better,” said Right Flame, closing his book as Bishop Piagogi and the Pope disagreed. “The ‘Queen of the Adriatic’ is a large-scale artifact, and the unsealing and activation rituals require a considerable amount of time. During this time, other measures can be implemented simultaneously. If all other options fail, it’s not too late to activate the ‘Queen of the Adriatic’ as a last resort.”

“Good idea, Lord Fire of the Right,” Bishop Piagogi immediately expressed his support.

The Pope nodded silently; this was the best outcome he could achieve. Hopefully, the problem of Academy City could be resolved through other, more peaceful means.

After the meeting ended, Bishop Piagogi immediately took his leave and then walked out with great interest—having obtained authorization, he was preparing to head straight to the location of the "Queen of the Adriatic" to prepare for the unsealing of the spirit armor.

"Bishop." Suddenly, a familiar voice called out to him from behind.

Bishop Piagogi paused, immediately adjusted his facial expression, revealing a perfect smile, and then turned around.

"Lord Right Fire, is there anything I can do for you?"

“There is indeed something I need your help with.” Right Fire walked up to Bishop Piagogi and patted him on the shoulder. “Don’t worry, it’s not a difficult matter. It’s just right for you to handle it.”

"Please give your orders."

“I need you to find a way,” said Right Fire, “to test out Touma Kamijou’s true strength.”

"Touma Kamijou?" Bishop Piaget paused for a moment, then looked on with sudden realization. "The current administrator of 'Index Prohibited'?"

Upon hearing this, Right Fire couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Bishop Piagogi was puzzled and didn't know how to react, so he could only stand there awkwardly and look at him.

“Just as I thought, just as I thought.” After laughing enough, Right Fire continued, “Have you ever heard of ‘Imagine Breaker’?”

Bishop Piaget reacted much faster this time: "I've heard of him... Ah, so it's Touma Kamijou!"

"Heh, what a clever trick, Mr. Chairman." Right Fire looked out the window into the distance. "He actually managed to hide such an important and related right hand."

During the meeting just now, except for the very end, Right Fire basically showed no interest in the content of the meeting.

Indeed, this was the case; the fire on the right was indulging Bishop Piagogi, allowing him to escalate the conflict.

Because the purpose of Right Fire is to provoke war—he needs a powerful enemy, the more powerful the better.

It now seems that, looking around the world, only Academy City has this qualification.

Therefore, it doesn't matter how much Bishop Piaget provokes and provokes Academy City. The worst outcome would be World War III—which is exactly what Right Flame wants.

Besides a sufficiently powerful enemy, the Right Flame has another target: "Fantasy Killer".

Once he learned of the existence of "Imagine Breaker," he immediately set his sights on it.

However, being on the other side of the world, Touma's intelligence resources are extremely limited. It's not that Touma Kamijou isn't active; in fact, since summer vacation, he's been involved in almost every incident in Academy City related to magic.

However, in most of these incidents, Lin Wuming always seems to get involved for some reason.

At those times, information about Touma Kamijou and Imagine Breaker would be overshadowed by Lin Wuming's brilliance.

Regardless of which intelligence agency it was, it seemed that all the agents focused their attention on Lin Wuming, meticulously recording his actions during the incident.

As for Touma Kamijou, who was acting alongside them, he seemed to have very little presence.

This result displeased Right Flame. Although he also valued Lin Wuming's strength—after all, even Rear Water had been defeated by him, how could he not take him seriously?
“But compared to saving the world, Lin Wuming’s power is still far too weak!” Right Flame said.

"Save the world?" Bishop Piagogi couldn't help but repeat.

"Isn't our doctrine to redeem everything in the world?" After a casual explanation, Right Fire continued, "Remember, Lin Wuming is a huge distraction. We need to find a way to eliminate him and test Kamijou Touma alone."

“This…” Bishop Piagogi was somewhat troubled. He was already very clear about Lin Wuming’s strength. Although he also believed that he was quite strong, he was worried about facing Lin Wuming…

"Wait, the one we need to test is Touma Kamijou?" Bishop Piaget suddenly realized that if that was the case, there was no need to clash with Lin Wuming.

This is indeed something that Bishop Piagogi excels at—he used similar methods during yesterday's riots in Academy City.

There's no need for them to personally intervene, or even for anyone connected to the Roman Catholic Church to do so; they simply need to go with the flow, release certain information at the opportune moment, and give it a subtle push...

As luck would have it, Bishop Piagogi really knew where to start—the information about Lin Wuming was simply too abundant.

Although it has nothing to do with superpowers or combat strength, Lin Wuming has one notable characteristic that is not hard to spot—his romantic luck, or rather, his romantic troubles, are very obvious.

There are even rumors that the girls who are in love with Lin Wuming have started a war in private and have fought each other several times!

While the accuracy of such gossip is generally unreliable, the general trends it reflects are usually accurate.

For Bishop Piagogi, this was a convenient and easy entry point. With his abilities and the resources at his disposal, he could easily stir up trouble naturally without attracting anyone's attention.

Even if Misaki Shokuhou herself took action, she couldn't find a flaw—you have to understand, almost everyone who can climb to the level of a bishop is a master of psychology.

However, doing so requires a great deal of time and effort, and often ends up being counterproductive. Therefore, Bishop Piagogi usually adopts a simpler and more direct approach to improve efficiency, without caring if others notice his flaws.

After all, there are only a few people and forces in this world who can pose a threat to a Roman Catholic bishop.

"But this is something Lord Right Flame personally entrusted to us, so we must do our utmost and handle it carefully," Bishop Piagogi muttered to himself. "To achieve perfection, the preparation time will be a bit long..."

(End of this chapter)