Regarding the multiple versions of "The Lovers of the Bell Tower", Shade has learned a lot from Dorothy and Lesia during his studies every Saturday. The piece performed by the "Golden Dawn Opera" this time is
It is closer to the original version of this fairy tale recorded in ancient documents unearthed in the fifth era.
Most of the original versions of fairy tales had nothing to do with descriptions such as "innocent and kind". On the contrary, they were extremely realistic and even had some elements of terror. Probably the young witches of the Fifth Age were considered to need to be exposed to such stories from an early age.
Although this kind of story is not suitable for children in today's sixth era, it is indeed very suitable for adults.
In the box with the lights out, while Shade and the blonde princess were cozying up, the grand performance downstairs had already attracted waves of applause. The reputation of the "Golden Dawn Opera Company" is not only due to Bernani, who has not performed on the stage for many years.
Miss Silk supported her. When Shade hugged Margaret and thought about this ancient fairy tale, he really felt that every great witch must have other strengths besides their own strength.
.
"Hold the snow on the top of the snow mountain and watch the sun in the depths of the desert."
"If you can meet us, dear girl~~"
"Please call our names softly and ask your questions."
"Where the lilies are blooming, or, where the sunflowers are to the west."
Margaret didn't care about the performance downstairs, but hugged Shade's neck and softly hummed the songs of the witches. When Shade looked at her, she smiled and said to him:
"It's such a wonderful life like this. Why don't you open a detective agency in Willondale?"
"Judging from my experience, wherever I go, big trouble will happen, and the people of Willondale will not welcome me."
Shade said cautiously, then lowered his head and gave the squinting Princess another kiss. The latter became even happier:
"My decision was indeed right. Becoming a witch's apprentice is what I want. I can get it."
Biting her lower lip with her white teeth, her eyes were roughly at the same level as Shade's nose, so she had to speak from a bottom-up angle:
"Everything. Shade, come to Willendale City as soon as possible. I made a promise to you. As long as you see me in Willendale, I will definitely give you a gift."
As he said that, he held Shade's neck and wanted to change his sitting position, but suddenly he saw Shade turning his head and looking out the door:
"There were a lot of footsteps and a lot of heartbeats. There were a lot of people coming, and the heartbeats were very fast."
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door was knocked from outside, and the knock was quite urgent:
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
"what happened?"
Margaret then stood up, smoothed the wrinkles on her skirt, made sure her upper body was fully dressed, and finally moved her long hair behind her shoulders. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to let go of the dizziness on her face.
The redness faded, the thaumaturgy activated a calm mind, and then the door was opened.
Outside the door, in addition to her maids, there were also several royal attendants who were originally at the stairs. In addition to the people who were here, among the strangers, Margaret recognized Michaela, whom she had only met twice.
The chief of the Blast Furnace City Police Department, and the Gray Glove agents who secretly protected her. Margaret looked directly at the tall and thin man among them. The latter looked ordinary, but he was a member of this special operations team.
Team leader:
"Your Highness, there was a shooting in the alley on the north side of the Opera House. It was a shot fired with a silencer, at least twenty minutes ago. The deceased were cleaners of the theater, and their clothes were stolen. We suspect that at least three gunmen entered
Here it is.”
Margaret's face darkened. She just opened the door of the private room a crack to ensure that people outside the door could not see the sofa due to the angle. She looked back at this moment, but she did not see Shade, only saw a
A silver cat stood on the back of the sofa, looking at her with bright silver eyes.
Although she had not seen Shade's transformation technique with her own eyes, she had heard about it from Miss Sylvia - the latter heard it from Audrey Edwards. So she immediately understood what Shade meant and was nervous outside the door.
people said:
"Don't panic, I need to leave now, right?"
"Yes, Your Highness. I'm sorry to disturb your interest, but according to our security regulations, you'd better leave here now. Your Highness, the carriage is ready, and the streets are quiet now."
The tall and thin man said, Margaret made a sigh, but still said helplessly:
"Okay, I won't make things difficult for you. But wait a moment, I have to pack my things."
"Okay Your Highness, for the sake of safety, please do it as soon as possible."
No one asked Margaret what she wanted to pack in the box at the Opera House. After the princess called her two maids in, she asked them to clean up the traces on the sofa while she herself put away Shade's belongings.
, then picked up the silver cat and put it on his shoulders. Shade released the illusion and hid himself. The cat form's spellcasting ability was weakened a lot. Fortunately, the cat was smaller, so others could not see it.
I am still very relaxed.
After getting ready, Margaret left the box and, under the nervous escort of a group of people, came to the side entrance of the opera house from the hidden stairs. The guards who had already gone downstairs in advance guarded the two carriages parked in the alley outside the side entrance.
inside.
Surrounded by a crowd of people, Margaret and her two maids boarded the first carriage, and two of the remaining maids boarded the rear carriage. The two carriages drove out of the alley one after another,
But it went in a different direction.
Among them, the carriage carrying Margaret drove eastward in the silent night along the Glass Bottle Avenue in front of the "Glass Bottle Opera House". But within five or six minutes, it suddenly drove into a side alley.
inside.
The alley was specially widened to facilitate the passage of water trucks from the City Hall Fire Department, and it was not narrow at all when the carriages drove in.
The streets and alleys were indeed very quiet. There was only a gas street lamp every few hundred meters in the alley, but the coachman suddenly stepped out of the carriage in the dark area between the two lights before the people on the carriage could react.
Jumped down.
He rolled quickly on the ground and picked up the pistol that had been placed in advance from the trash can. The horse was still moving forward, and in front of the alley, from the roof, behind the garbage pile and even the sewer entrance, dozens of people came together
Emerged, under the cover of night, he aimed at the carriage that was still rushing forward due to inertia and pulled the trigger.
Because each gun was equipped with a silencer, and it was a specially selected pistol with low kinetic energy, the continuous sound of gunfire did not disturb this silent night. The flames lit up one by one and then disappeared, and the muffled sound made everyone watch.
Everyone watching this scene felt that their hearts were getting more and more depressed.
Originally, the royal family should ride in an all-metal carriage, and the carriage should also be made of metal, but this time the carriage was made of wood. Holes were punched in the wooden walls. After the first round of shooting, the alley
It was full of the smell of gunpowder smoke. The assassins skillfully changed their magazines and prepared for the second round of attacks. However, at this time, a harsh squeaking sound sounded in the silent alley, and everyone saw the carriage door being pushed open.
In the carriage that was supposed to be filled with only the princess and two maids, a man actually walked out:
"Where did you find this broken carriage? The metal shaft of the door can be used as a weapon for tetanus infection."
Shade frowned and said, jumping down from the carriage. He opened his clenched right hand and let the metal bullet fall to the ground with a crash. The speed of the bullet passing through the wooden board of the carriage was really slow.
Looking around, even though there was no light around him, his eyes could still clearly see the positions of all the gunmen and confirmed that they were all ordinary people.
The gunmen were speechless. Suddenly, the driver next to the trash can pointed at his head and pulled the trigger. Shade didn't even turn his head, but quickly raised his right hand and clenched it in front of his shoulder.
He maintained this posture, then turned his head and looked at the coachman who couldn't believe what he was seeing, and then spread his palms.
Although there was no light in this specially selected alley, somehow the gunmen could still see a bullet-shaped object lying in the palm of the young man. As the palm of his hand tilted, the object fell to the ground, the same as before.
Those warheads collided together and made a clanging sound.
This was Shade's first time to catch a bullet with his hands. The outsider's thinking made him think that this was a very difficult thing, but when he actually did it, he found that it was very simple. With his current physical fitness, such a small-caliber pistol bullet
The flight trajectory can be seen quite clearly, and it is much easier to catch a bullet that cannot turn than to catch a lively Mia.
"That's why I say that only low-level magicians are afraid of weapons in the hands of ordinary people."
As he thought in his mind, the dark chain in his sleeve fell to the ground——
call out!
After raising his hand next time, the sound of broken chains suddenly exploded in the alley. But the chains were quickly taken back by Shade. He turned around and spoke to Margaret in the car. Behind him, a trash can stood upright.
The metal pipes stuck in the alley and the cabinets abandoned on the roadside were neatly divided into two, and the bodies of the twelve living people hidden in every corner of the alley were quickly wrapped in pink crystals. After their whole bodies turned into clusters of pink crystals,
, they exploded into crystal fragments one after another. The crystal fragments quickly and quietly disappeared on the ground.
"Solved, but how to explain this matter? Does the church know that you are a student of Serkeses Higher Medical School? You should have this tacit understanding."
Shade asked Margaret in the carriage, while the two maids beside her had fallen asleep.
"Don't worry about this. After you dispose of the body, it's my own business to explain it."
Her Royal Highness the Princess said, and then they all heard a slight explosion behind them. When they turned around, they saw a spinning black and golden vortex appearing out of thin air in the alley. Miss Sylvia, Miss Bernice and Megan, three
The big witch wearing high heels walked out together.