A Game Of Chess With A Vampire - Chapter 20: Chess?

Mo Ran felt that taking Chu Wanning as his master was a mistake.

Haruka, consulted by a friend who ran into a ghost at school, goes to the Movie Research Circle to see a man with mysterious powers. However, the person who meets her there is an affected young man with terrible bed hair and sleepy eyes. What does Haruka consult him about? A confinement and murder case at a women’s university, a false suicide case… The great detective who can see the spirits of the dead, Saitou Yakumo, takes these cases on in this astoundingly high-speed spiritual mystery!

Love between a girl living a lie and the girl who can turn lies into truth.Lin Roen was just another broke, burned-out job applicant - until a simple error landed her in the CEO’s office of the most powerful corporation in the country. Now, the world believes she’s the heiress of the Roen Group.As Lin stumbles through a world of luxury, manipulation, and corporate worship, she is relentlessly pampered by those who believe she’s their salvation. Everyone bows. Everyone obeys.But nothing is what it seems.Lin soon starts to feel that there is something sinister behind the mirrors of lies.Trapped and revered in the corporate world that blends religious fervor and heartless capitalism, there is only one person she can trust - Luc, her perfect assistant.* A slow-burn psychological drama wrapped in corporate satire, mistaken identity, and a love story between two girls on the edge of lies and truth.

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”“Oh!!!!”The audience erupted into thunderous applause.“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.The applause grew even more fervent...(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)