Chapter 2227 [Footsteps in the middle of the night]
Chapter 2228 [Footsteps in the middle of the night]
Because early on Tuesday morning, Father John sent a letter telling Shade that he had helped Shade acquire a brand new time key, so Shade arrived at Yuewan a little late that morning.
In the evening, he would attend the King's birthday banquet in Tobesk, which was of course also an important red butterfly day, so Shade planned not to come over in the afternoon and visited Yuewan in the morning just to not miss the latest news.
I thought nothing would happen overnight, and at most it would just be another victim of "photochemical". Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the witch's manor, I found that something was wrong with the atmosphere. The maids and servants working in the manor were all confused.
He looked sleepy. Even the real ring magician girls looked like they hadn't woken up.
Although Miss Matilda who led Shade to the study worked hard, when they came to the third floor and walked through the corridor, they passed by the maid holding a quilt to dry it and yawned. The blonde maid
Chang couldn't help but yawn quietly.
She raised her hand to cover her mouth and then looked forward, determined not to look at Xia De's expression at this time. But Xia De, who was following her, could clearly see that half of her face and all of her ears were infected.
flush.
After entering the study, Shade did not greet him with "Why is it so cold in Yuewan today? It won't snow again?" because in the study, in addition to Miss Belindel, there were also a little unicorn curled up on the cushion and a lying figure.
Emilia sleeping on the unicorn.
Miss Matilda fetched a blanket and covered the elf girl with her. Emilia closed her eyes and rubbed the hair on the unicorn's back, then continued to sleep deeply. When the Silence Charm was placed on Emilia
Next to him, the witch who was also not in good spirits said to Shade:
"good morning."
"Good morning, what happened last night? You were partying until the wee hours of the morning?"
He walked to the countess, who forced a smile:
"It's a fun joke, but it's not a party."
Fatigue made this lady with a fat-red birthmark look even more lazy and haggard than usual. Her voice was very soft:
"I usually rest here at ten o'clock in the evening. Last night, after everyone in the house returned to their rooms, some strange footsteps appeared everywhere in the house. At first, they were just very light and slow, and even I couldn't
I was sure if it was an hallucination, but after midnight, the footsteps became more frequent and closer to the person trying to sleep."
She leaned her body against the back of the sofa, kicked off her high heels, put her legs and feet on the sofa, and looked at Shade in a curled-up position:
"Poet-level relic [Footsteps in the middle of the night], the one who brought the relic is Emilia. This thing is very dangerous, it just scares people and makes them unable to sleep at night. I have never encountered this kind of relic before, and I don't know about it.
The effect is so obvious. Oh~ In short, except for those girls who left the house to rest outside, the others, like me, only fell asleep after five o'clock when the sky outside started to turn white."
Seeing Shade looking at Emilia, he wanted to get up to check the situation, but was stopped by the witch:
"Don't disturb her rest.
The effect of the relic disappeared after dawn, but according to the records I have read, the relic will still appear after sunset. Emilia did not dare to sleep this morning after the series of footsteps disappeared. After we all took a short rest, she
She still waited alone with her eyes open, and waited until we got up before falling asleep. She is such a good girl, but she is just a little unlucky."
It's hard to hide the tiredness on her face. In fact, for a ring magician, it's totally fine to stay up all night, but this relic has the effect of exhausting people who can't sleep due to the sound of footsteps. Fortunately, it's also
It's just fatigue and sleepiness. As long as you resist being frightened, there will be no sequelae. Therefore, this relic is only the lowest "poet level".
"Please allow me to apologize to you on Emilia's behalf. If that relic appears again tonight, why don't I take her out to live?"
Shade suggested.
"What are you talking about?"
The witch said softly, waving to Shade and gesturing for him to sit next to her:
"When I agreed to let her stay temporarily, I guessed in advance that there would be an accident. This is just a poet-level relic. I will deal with it when I wake up. She is your friend, and she is my friend."
Shade sat down next to her, and the witch hugged his neck, then put her head on his chest as if listening to his heartbeat.
Shade waited for a while but saw no other movement from her. When he lowered his head, he realized that the countess had curled up in his arms and fell asleep deeply.
He felt funny about this, but he was worried that she would be uncomfortable sleeping like this, so he cast a look at Miss Matilda for help, but found that the head maid also looked very tired. The other maids could still be there
Take a little rest after dawn, she probably didn't get much rest.
So Shade made a gesture and asked her to go to sleep for a while instead of standing by the sofa waiting for the countess' order. The blonde maid showed a slight smile, and after hesitating for a moment, she came to the coffee table in front of the sofa and said
After sitting down with her skirt curled up, she also lay on the coffee table and closed her eyes.
No one dared to break into the study to disturb them, and it seemed that there was nothing that had to be dealt with personally by Miss Belindell on this Tuesday morning that would warrant the maids knocking on the door from the corridor.
So the elf slept, the witch slept, the maid slept, and even the little unicorn slept, except Shade, who had slept well last night, and was not sleepy at all.
He was worried about disturbing the girls' rest, so he sat stiffly on the sofa and did not dare to move. Later, when the witch was squirming in his arms to find a more comfortable leaning position, he took the opportunity to take out a bag from his pocket.
book.
So this gloomy morning was spent in this wonderful and peaceful atmosphere. Shade actually liked this kind of leisure time. When he was looking through the "Soul Compass" in his hand, he compared the interesting things with others.
The difference in rhythmic breathing sounds, and then I felt that this comparison seemed a bit offensive.
In short, the light sleep that the girls took to refresh themselves lasted until about eleven o'clock. Judging from the breathing rate, the first one to wake up was Emilia, who fell asleep the earliest. The sleepy elf girl did not wake up the second time.
She stood up immediately, but after realizing the current situation, she continued to pretend to sleep leaning on the little unicorn who almost woke up with her.
About five or six minutes later, the witch huddled in Shade's arms also woke up. Because the two were close to each other, Shade could easily tell that she was still pretending to sleep. She was probably as embarrassed as Emilia.
Awakening.
[Is it possible that she just doesn’t want to leave? 】
she asked with a smile.
The third person to wake up was Miss Matilda. After the maid opened her eyes, she met Shade who was looking at her over the book. Both of them blinked, and then the blonde maid sat down in front of the coffee table.
Straighten your body, then hold down your skirt and stand up.
She smoothly smoothed the wrinkles on her skirt, and when she saw Shade smiling at her, she turned away from looking at Shade. When she came to the window, she opened it to ventilate the study that had been stuffy all morning.
At that time, Emilia and Miss Belindel "woke up" almost at the same time when there was a sound from the window.
Shade found this scene more interesting.
The little unicorn, who had been pressed by Emilia's head all morning, was finally able to stand up and walk around the room quite lively. After Emilia got up and stretched, she remembered that Shade was still here.
, the half-stretched arm was immediately retracted.
As for Miss Belindel, although she woke up, she did not leave Shade's arms immediately. A little lazily, Miss Matilda opened the door and arranged for the maids to prepare lunch.
After arranging lunch, she still refused to get up. It wasn't until the little unicorn came to the sofa and kept poking her that she had to sit up so that Shade could reach out and touch it. She finally returned to her normal appearance.
.
The countess did not comment on her sleep in the morning, but went to the bathroom to wash up with Emilia. So everyone met in the restaurant half an hour later. Shade thought that the girls who had just woken up would
I have no appetite, but it doesn't seem like it will stop everyone from having lunch.
"Miss Belindel, where are your mother and sisters? Didn't what happened last night affect them?"
Shade asked curiously. The ladies and girls were still at the manor the day Amelia first arrived, but they didn't see the unicorn.
"They happened to be out of town last night, and our family also has a manor outside the city. I sent a letter this morning asking them to stay outside the city for a few more days."
The blonde witch said. Emilia on the side wanted to apologize for the trouble caused by her arrival, but the witch was still talking:
"This is not a big deal. There has been a lot of chaos in the city recently. It would be nice to let them stay outside the city for a while. After lunch, let's go deal with the [midnight footsteps] matter."
"You want to create a dark environment, simulating midnight conditions?"
Because when she was in Tobesk, Emilia came into contact with three kinds of relics called "urban legends" at one time, namely the sage-level [friendly neighbor] and the keeper-level [malicious serial curse].
Letter] and the clerk-level [Ghosts of Peripheral Light], so Shade still knows about the poet-level [Footsteps in the Midnight]. Although I don’t know why Emilia, who is targeted by the devil, only attracts such relics.
But the angel-level [corpse in the wall] that seems to be the most dangerous will probably appear later.
Miss Belindel nodded:
"Yes, the 'midnight' in the triggering condition of [Midnight Footsteps] is indeed related to time at night, but during the day it can trigger additional effects due to light. But even though it is only the lowest poet-level relic, we can't
Too careless."
She took a stack of fortune-telling cards from the maid behind her, shuffled them briefly and pulled out the first one.