"It's impossible for my nephew to leave Tobesk City easily. Maybe the negotiations will allow me to bring Lesia's brothers to represent the royal family. If that's the case, I really won't have anything to do this spring.
It’s time to rest.”
"Won't Lesia be sent?"
Shade asked curiously. Her Royal Highness the Princess, who was holding his hand, finally leaned gently on his shoulder. Since Miss Carina was on the other side, of course she couldn't see what Shade's hand was doing, but
Agelina next to Lesia could clearly see Shade's hands dancing on those beautiful stockings.
"Father will definitely not send me there. Since I was the one who visited Willondale last summer, I will definitely not be there this time."
"I understand, for balance."
Shade nodded.
"You really know everything. Sometimes I wonder where you got such knowledge."
The witch took Shade's other hand, and then kissed the side of Shade's face gently. Shade thought Lesia would be angry, but Miss Carina stood up after kissing, and then greeted the people in the room.
The maids went to the side room with her to rest:
"I won't interrupt your date. If we wait a little longer, I'm afraid Lesiya will take the initiative to drive us away. That would be too disrespectful."
With golden eyes, he winked playfully at his grandniece:
"The knight's hands are very warm, right?"
Lesia ignored her at all. She was the one who took advantage anyway.
"Agelina, what are you doing sitting here?"
The princess curiously asked her sister again. The little princess stood up belatedly, then turned back step by step, and left the room following Miss Carina.
After everyone left and the doors leading to the side rooms and corridors were locked, Her Royal Highness kicked off her high heels briskly, then put her arms around Shade's neck and sat in his arms.
"You must win the riding competition around the city."
Beautiful eyes in the darkness looked at Shade:
"Not for Delrayon, not for any honor, just for me and Dorothy. Dorothy and I have already agreed that at the dinner after the game, if you want to have a fun time, just
Don't let us down, knight."
She grabbed Shade's tie and pulled Shade down to kiss her. Her Royal Highness the Princess's mood seemed to be particularly high tonight, so much so that when the kiss ended, Shade even suspected that his lips were bitten.
Already.
Tonight's opera "Lovers in the Bell Tower" lasted for two and a half hours. Because of the success of this performance, after the last scene, when the actors took the stage to take a curtain call, they bowed five times to appease the audience.
Excited emotions.
The lights above the auditorium were turned on again, and the people who had recovered from the opera were bathed in the light again, feeling that they had experienced a new and strange life.
The lights in the private box above the auditorium have also been turned on at this time. In the central room, the maids filed in to clean up the traces and help the princess tidy up her clothes. Agelina was obediently sitting in Lesia's room.
Help her arrange her hair behind her.
Shade buttoned his coat and when he stood up, he saw Miss Carina standing at the door waving to him:
"Young people are really angry... Come with me, we have other things to do tonight."
"whats the matter?"
"An uncontained relic appeared in the Opera House. I only got the news this morning. Fortunately, I have a good relationship with the Queen Maria Opera House. To be precise, I own 27% of it.
The shares. That relic is still behind, come with me to see what it is."
Since she said this, Shade had no reason to refuse. However, he thought that as a ring warlock, the probability of encountering an unowned relic by himself was really very small. Not to mention the likes of Yin Luna who visited her almost every day.
Compared with the chosen one who has to face challenges, even compared with ordinary ring magicians, his probability of encountering relics is too low.
Since he was leaving with Miss Carina, Shade naturally had to explain his whereabouts to Lesia. The already satisfied Princess seemed a little lazy at the moment, and she waved to Shade:
"Since it is a relic, you go and see it with her. I won't say goodbye to you. Agelina and I will go back to Yodel Palace in a while. Knight, tonight is a good night."
This gave Shade the illusion that he was abandoned after he had played a role. But fortunately, Lesia remembered to get up and give him a kiss to say goodbye. The wet kiss from Her Highness the Princess was very pleasant.
The structure of the Maria Opera House in Torbesk is very similar to that of the Wilde Opera House in the Randall Valley. The performance hall of the opera house can connect the auditorium and the backstage. Otherwise, only guarded passages can directly lead from
The front of the opera house provides access to backstage to prevent actors from being harassed during performances.
Although Miss Carina did not place her followers in the opera house to monitor them at any time, she did have her own spies and intelligence network in the local area, and the news of the relics was passed to her because of this.
"Speaking of which, I wonder if your teacher, Miss Denister from Thirteen Rings, has ever mentioned this to you."
As the servants passed through the side door at the end of the corridor and entered the backstage, Miss Carina lowered her voice and said to Shade:
"Since last spring, relics in the material world have gone out of control, ring warlocks have gone out of control, and the frequency of natural disasters has increased significantly. The church discovered this when it summarized its work over the past year at the end of last year. Grassroots ring warlock teams like Yin Luna,
We have already noticed that the accident rate throughout last year was not right."
On the walls on both sides of the backstage corridor of the opera house, there are all photos of the curtain calls of performances, with golden nameplates marking the time and repertoire. Shade glanced at them with his peripheral vision:
"Miss Denister didn't mention it, but I heard Yin Luna complain. She was transferred from the Holy See to work last spring. According to her, her friends in other dioceses also thought that there were strange things throughout the last year.
It happens a little too frequently."
Shade replied that this should also belong to the influence of the beginning of the Sixth Age epic. This is the real world, not the stage of an opera. It is impossible for problems to occur in just one place while other places are calm.
However, the story of the chosen one clearly started after the arrival of the outsiders last summer, which Luvia can confirm. However, Miss Carina said that the frequency of various events has increased significantly since the spring of 1853.
Already.
"It's the spring of 1853 again. A lot of things happened in this season a year ago..."
The news of the Duchess's arrival backstage had been notified to the theater, and the theater manager who heard the news trotted over wiping his sweat when they entered the backstage corridor.
He was a plump gentleman, wearing a black formal suit over a fashionable checkered shirt. A silver watch chain extended from the chest pocket and was tied to the third button from the top. He had a monocle on his right eye, with the frame on the right.
A small chain hangs down from the side. On her head is a tall black silk hat that can hide a rabbit. It looks like a magician's outfit.
He obviously knew that Duke Carina Cavendish did not like the approach of strange men, so he stopped against the wall at a relatively far distance:
"Duke, welcome to your arrival, please forgive us for our poor hospitality. Please tell me, do you want to..."
The fat manager, who could not guess what Miss Carina was thinking, bowed slightly.
Miss Carina said nothing, Tifa smiled and explained:
"Mr. Neser, good evening. Mr. Shade Hamilton is very interested in the heroine of tonight's opera and wants to meet the beautiful girl backstage, so Miss Carina came with him.
."
"Um?"
Shade raised his eyebrows, but did not object.
The theater manager Mr. Neser was also very surprised. Of course he knew about the relationship between Shade and Miss Carina. Almost everyone in the city didn't know about it now, but he was still shocked by the Duke's doting on his "lover":
"Okay, no problem. The 'Alice Opera Company' that is performing tonight will also be very happy to be chosen by 'Hamilton by Ray Jade'. Oh, which heroine does Mr. Hamilton want to meet?"
The fat man asked while wiping his sweat. In the "Lovers at the Bell Tower" just now, the role of the male knight was also played by a woman, so there are indeed two female actors who can be called the protagonists.
"He wants it all."
Tifa said with a decent smile without changing her expression:
"We are waiting in the dressing room No. 5. As long as the two of them are wearing makeup and costumes, they will be exactly the same as they were on the stage. I only give you twenty minutes to prepare. Mr. Hamilton has no more patience."
Shade felt that his reputation in Tobesk City would become much worse after today.
"Besides, no matter what happens tonight, the Duke doesn't want anyone else to know."
Tifa added.
To Shade, this sentence sounded like he was trying to prevent more noise during the collection of the relics, but to the people in the theater, it sounded like something unspeakable would happen here soon.
"Is that so? Okay, okay, I understand."
The manager, Mr. Neser, wiped his sweat and nodded, and then watched them enter the dressing room No. 5. Miss Carina's two female attendants stood at the door, prohibiting others from entering, and the twenty-minute countdown had already begun.
.
"This is it."
There are many dressing rooms in the Queen Maria Opera House. Dressing Room No. 5 is a large room that can accommodate at least twenty people putting on makeup. The tables with mirrors are arranged in three rows, with seven tables in each row.
The reason why there are twenty tables instead of twenty-one is because the vanity mirror on the corner table has been broken and was placed in the corner as a utility table before it was replaced with a new one.