I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

The more Roland thought about it, the more a chill ran down his spine.

After seeing Joan, one question kept popping into Roland's mind—when did Joan change her clothes?
Roland was certain that the person who had spoken to him earlier was Joan himself, but why was Joan wearing a priest's robe?
She was clearly wearing knight's attire before!
Indeed, Joan's knight's outfit was a bit dirty and didn't fit her well.

She hadn't brought any luggage with her to the revolutionary army these days; her clothes were borrowed from the Dawn Angels who came later.

No one is as tall as her, so it's definitely uncomfortable for them to wear it.

If a thoughtful older sister prepares a more suitable outfit for her, she certainly has a reason to change.

But isn't Joan very averse to changing clothes in front of Olivia?

Didn't she say that Olivia was after her?
If Olivia really had designs on Joan, would Joan be changing clothes in this older sister's room?
Unless Olivia never had any romantic feelings for Joan from the beginning, nor did she intend to take her to the bath—Olivia was acting the whole time, and Joan suddenly began to trust Olivia in the hours after Olivia left.

After realizing that the person in front of her was not mentally ill, but a caring older sister, Joan turned against her.

So she helped her future second sister treat her future husband's illness. And while they were conning each other, the two were also exchanging scripts on a spiritual level.
But this guess is completely illogical.

Everyone knows that Olivia is a mentally ill person. Even if Joan isn't his "good brother," he wouldn't betray him and trick him into taking the drugs, would he?
Roland shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

He took care of his personal needs, then left the restroom and walked toward carriage number 2.

On the way, Roland looked at the quiet corridor in carriage number 1, which was empty, and couldn't help but frown again.

'Olivia clearly cherishes those old scriptures so much, yet she suddenly stopped the priests from continuing to organize them. It's as if she's making room for me.'

Roland, lost in thought, entered carriage number 2.

Inside the carriage, Helena sat alone on a small sofa, dozing off with her chin resting on her hand. Theresa and the others were nowhere to be seen.

Puzzled, Roland's gaze fell on Helena's finger, and upon seeing the snake ring on it, Roland's expression suddenly became clear.

Roland's footsteps woke Helena, who rubbed her eyes and said, "Senior, you're here? Sister Theresa and the others are setting up the lab inside."

Helena pointed to the ring on her finger and said, "Why don't you leave your scarecrow here and we go in together?"

"Not urgent."

Roland didn't rush into the Serpent Ring. He sat down next to Helena and asked, "What did Olivia do this afternoon? Tell me all the details."

When Olivia was mentioned, Helena raised her eyebrows and started talking.

"Senior, you don't know, that guy has gone crazy again."

According to Helena, Olivia went back to her room in the afternoon and collapsed to rest.

Maria had previously stated that Olivia wouldn't react to anything while sleeping. Therefore, Helena and Joan stole Olivia's Book of Rest.

Maria seemed to be telling the truth, but Joan and Helena didn't expect that although Olivia was sleeping soundly, she would suddenly wake up not long after she fell asleep.

The two were caught red-handed.

When they saw Olivia staring at them with her eyes wide open, Helena and Joan were nearly scared to death.

Olivia responded with, "Little child, don't be so curious about other people's diaries."

Olivia took the Book of Rest back from the two women and then chased them out of the room.

Before leaving, Helena glanced inside through the window by the door and saw that Olivia had stopped sleeping and was sitting in a chair reading a book.

"Joan and I went to your room, and then Maria came over and said that Olivia wanted the three of us to stay together again!"

As she spoke, Helena reached into the dimensional pouch (Roland's) at her waist and took out several sets of male sun priest and sun knight robes.

"She also prepared several sets of clothes for the three of us, saying that it would be too high-profile to wear wizards' clothes after we arrived at the Holy Court."

She also said that if we want to be more assertive, it is indeed acceptable to wear our own clothes.

But if we want to extend an olive branch to the Orbis and feign an attitude of submission to the gods, we should wear the Sun Cloth—this represents that we are people of Oviria, and also represents the favor and support of the Sun God.

We tried on the clothes in the room to see if they fit, and then Maria came to call us over.”

Upon hearing this, Roland's expression became somewhat embarrassed.

He had just suspected his good friend Joan of betraying him because of a piece of clothing. It turned out that Joan had indeed changed clothes, but she changed them in another room.

Roland rubbed his forehead, thinking to himself, 'Joan's right, I'm a bit too paranoid. Ever since I was frightened by Olivia, my paranoia has only gotten worse.'

Roland was indeed frightened by Olivia once—he had always thought Isabella was Heracles.

It turned out that Olivia, who could never have been Heracles, was the real goddess Heracles.

Coming to his senses, Roland asked, "What happened next?"

Remembering what happened next, Helena couldn't help but roll her eyes. She said, "That girl said she was going to take a nap in the afternoon, but when the two of us got there, she was arranging for someone to make her hot water."

When Joan and I entered the room, the priests were boiling water for the large bathtub. Olivia had also changed her clothes.

She was probably bored waiting there, so she called us over to chat.

Roland frowned: "Chatting with you?"

Helena nodded and said, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Roland asked, "She doesn't just want to chat with Joan, but wants to chat with both of you?"

Helena nodded and said, "Yes."

Roland asked, somewhat puzzled, "What did you guys talk about?"

“We didn’t talk about much.” Helena’s gaze was somewhat evasive. “It was all just useless nonsense.”

Seeing Helena's guilty look, Roland's heart skipped a beat.

Roland nodded deeply, then said with great disappointment, "Fine, fine, Helena. Even you've learned to keep things from me now."

"It's just a bunch of messy stuff."

Helena's face turned as red as an apple, and her voice grew softer and softer: "It's all just stuff between women."

Roland paused for a moment, then asked, "She called you over just to talk about women's topics?"

Helena nodded, seemingly unwilling to say more. But under Roland's persistent questioning, the junior student finally confessed.

Olivia inquired about the two women's menstrual cycles and the date of their last sexual encounter with Roland. She also asked about Catherine and Anna's pregnancies, their sexual encounters with Roland, and so on.

He clearly looked like an elder worrying about the family life of his juniors.

Throughout the entire process, Helena told a lot of lies—she did not admit to having a relationship with Roland.

Ovilia did not expose it on the spot.

After asking all these questions, Olivia scolded Helena, saying, "You're an adult now, stop acting like a little kid. Especially, you shouldn't get into trouble with that brat Roland."

She also arranged for Maria to give Helena etiquette lessons later on—as a wizard princess, Helena, though mischievous, was impeccable in manners.

However, she has bad habits. For example, she likes to express her contempt for others by rolling her eyes, which is very unladylike.

After that, Olivia drove Helena away.

Upon hearing this, Roland's expression turned strange.

After a moment, he frowned and asked, "So, Your Highness left Qiong alone in the room?"

Roland changed his title here.

Helena said, "No, the priests are here too."

Roland pressed further, "Do you know what they were talking about?"

Helena's expression was rather interesting. She hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Roland with a slightly flushed face. She said, "When I left, she seemed to have asked the priests to find a set of erotic pictures."

Roland: “???”

"However, they must have talked about other things as well."

Helena said, "I had discussed it with Joan beforehand, and we didn't want her to be alone with Olivia. So I timed it perfectly and found an excuse to barge in again."

According to Helena, when she burst into the house, Maria and the others were kneeling on the ground, trembling, their faces filled with fear and tears.

Joan sat to one side with a complicated expression, flipping through the Book of Rest, seemingly lost in thought.

Helena said, "Something must have happened in the middle, because I noticed that the embers in the fire pit had all gone out. The priests must have been so frightened from kneeling there that they forgot to add more firewood."

Olivia didn't seem to be in the mood for a bath anymore, so she asked Joan to accompany her for a walk on the roof of the train.

I originally wanted to go with her, but I realized that she didn't seem to care whether I came with her or not. She didn't seem to be planning to avoid me.

So I decided not to go with them and stayed inside.

I asked Maria and the others what had happened, but they wouldn't say a word. They just knelt there, whispering their confessions, as if they wouldn't get up until Olivia told them herself.

However, I guess.

Helena looked at Roland and said, "Senior, do you think Olivia has guessed that Maria conspired with us to drug her?"

"do not know."

Roland shook his head with a strange expression and said, "Logically speaking, these things are not recorded in the Book of Rest. Unless someone tells her in person, she wouldn't know."

Helena's expression also turned strange. She said, "But only you and Maria know about this. Maria couldn't possibly tell anyone. She's a priestess; drugging a god is no small matter. How could she possibly reveal it?"

Roland rubbed his face in disappointment and said, "Helena, Joan knows too."

Helena was stunned for a moment, and said, "Senior, are you stupid? How could Joan know? Only you and Maria know about this. If Theresa and the others hadn't told me about the potion, I wouldn't have known either!"

Roland was suddenly stunned. He began to peruse the Book of Alaye and then discovered that the matter of the potion was something he and Maria had only discussed at the very end.

At that time, Joan, Olivia, and Helena had already gone to room 10.

So neither Joan nor Helena knew about this.

Roland told Helena about meeting Joan in carriage number 1 that afternoon.

After listening, Helena thought for a moment and said, "Senior, do you think it's possible that Olivia wanted to take the medicine, but Maria and the others couldn't give it to her? And then she suspected that we were trying to drug her?"

Roland shook his head, then suddenly asked, "You said before that Olivia had Maria give us some clothes, and what were her instructions?"

Helena said, "She told Maria to tell us that if we wanted to extend an olive branch to the Orbis and pretend to be subservient to the gods, we should wear the Sun Cloth—this represents that we are Olivia's people, and also represents the Sun God's favor and support for us."

After hearing this, Roland's face turned extremely ugly.

Roland said, "Olivia knows everything I've talked about with Richard and the others."

Helena suddenly realized, "Oh no, senior! Olivia didn't take a nap this afternoon! Maria and the others were boiling water in their room the whole time and didn't use the Book of Heaven. So, Olivia heard everything when you were discussing the potion with Theresa and the others!"

Roland said, "It should be said that she 'saw' it. She saw it in the Book of Rest. Joan probably learned about these things from the Book of Rest."

Helena said, "Joan also lied and hid the fact that she had read the Book of Rest. Why would she do that?"

Roland said, "Do you think Joan simply concealed the fact that she had read the Book of Rest?"

"if not?"

Helena looked at her senior with a strange gaze and said, "Senior, do you think that with Lady Heracles' methods, if she thought you should take the medicine, she would need to persuade Joan to lie to you?"

Roland: "."

Helena is absolutely right. At that time, Olivia wasn't Olivia, but rather Lady Heracles. The Lady Heracles was far more powerful than Olivia, and acted without any scruples.

She wouldn't resort to scheming against the prince just because of his status as 'Prince Alaye'. She would simply call Roland over and watch him drink the medicine bit by bit.

Roland said, "Then why did Joan conceal the matter of the Book of Rest? And why did she urge me to quickly drug Olivia?"

Helena said, "Senior, Lady Heracles doesn't need to take medicine because she knows who she is and she has ways to deceive anyone."

But 'Olivia (the unstable entity)' needs to eat. Because she doesn't know who she is, and doesn't have the Empress's methods, she can't hide it from others.

So naturally, the medicine has to be forced down her throat. As for what exactly is written in the Book of Rest, we'll have to see for ourselves.”

Helena felt it was best not to read the book. She believed Joan must have had a reason for concealing its contents.

She inexplicably recalled something Joan had later whispered to her—someone wants to deceive God, but the one who wants to deceive others cannot know exactly how to do it. Because he must first deceive himself, otherwise the deception cannot continue. (End of Chapter)