The princess smiled and said to the astonished Shade, and then motioned to Shade to sit down and talk:
"We happen to meet here, do you want to watch the opera together?"
Apart from her, there were only the maids in the box. This time Agelina Cavendish came out to the opera alone.
But she probably didn't know that Shade was waiting for her sister, but really wanted to invite Shade to watch the opera together, otherwise she would never invite Shade to stay.
Shade himself did not want to be related to more Cavendish, which would cause a lot of trouble. He deliberately found an excuse to refuse the other party's invitation, but perhaps seeing Shade's intention, Princess Agelina again
said:
"Knight, do you have any other companions? Or are you waiting for someone? Oh, it doesn't matter, you can invite them together."
Agelina Cavendish's attitude was very sincere. Seeing this, Shade couldn't refuse anymore, but thinking of the news that Lesia had just sent that she would not arrive for at least half an hour, he said:
"Okay, Your Highness, but I can only stay here for half an hour. I have other things to do later. I came to watch the opera today because I received a commission."
"No problem, but you must come to my salon next time. My friends are very interested in you..."
The sixteen-year-old princess said happily, then motioned for Shade to sit down and talk, and asked her maid to pour tea and bring new biscuits.
Compared to watching the opera, the conversation between the two was what really interested Shade.
Although in the eyes of outsiders, Princess Agelina is the kind of princess who is favored by the king, hangs out at banquets and salons, and is just waiting to be promised a political marriage by Larus III, but when it comes to domestic politics and the recent Carson Rick
She can easily give her own opinions and opinions on the news, which is no worse than Shade imagined.
She even knows something about the New World. Although Her Royal Highness herself doesn't like remote places where even cake shops don't exist, she talks about the gains that the Kingdom has gained from the New World.
Of course, it was only a very simple explanation, and more of it was the strange things she heard from the people around her. For example, she told Shade very excitedly that there was a cat in the New World that was smaller than an ordinary mouse, and it was very special.
She is cute and docile, does not shed hair, has a small appetite, and defecates at 8 a.m. every day.
However, the diet of this idealized pet is limited to fresh leaves of the plant "cat's tail" that can only grow in the New World. Therefore, the strange creature called "mouse cat" by the expedition team was not brought to the princess.
"When that kind of grass can be transplanted to the Old World, I will definitely raise one."
The princess said to Shade, but Shade couldn't imagine adding a new pet.
He could simply imagine the orange cat Mia squatting on the highest cabinet in the house, the whole cat hidden in the darkness, looking gloomily at the terrifying scene of Shade interacting with his new pet under the gas light.
The two of them chatted and watched the opera at the same time. The half hour passed very quickly.
Princess Agelina let Shade leave as promised, but before leaving, she once again invited Shade to attend her salon if she had time:
"When I first saw you in the courtyard on the second floor terrace of Lakeview Manor, I felt that you were different from everyone else."
The little princess praised:
"Don't refuse your invitation next time, knight, I have a crush on you."
Shade smiled and agreed, but he also said that he was very busy recently and would not have time for a few months.
Saying goodbye to the princess at the door of the box, Shade walked along the corridor to the stairs, planning to return to the box and continue waiting for Lesia.
At the corner of the corridor, he met three strange men in black windbreakers who were walking in a hurry. Shade stepped forward and let them pass first. The tall man in the black hat, who was leading the way, nodded to Shade to thank him. Shade was very happy.
I was curious that these three gentlemen were wearing regular clothes to watch the opera.
"Probably the guard of a certain great noble."
He was thinking in his mind, thinking about what he was going to say when he saw Lesia later, and kept walking forward with his head lowered. Because he had his head lowered, his eyes were unconsciously looking at the floor under his feet.
Therefore, he saw a series of not dense red halos on the red carpet under his feet.
"Um?"
His steps didn't stop, but his eyes blinked twice and he immediately figured out what this was:
"Is this the echo of blood? Can it still be displayed passively now?"
Shade was surprised to think that these red haloes were indeed the manifestation of the [Echo of Blood] effect. However, he did not activate the thaumaturgy, which showed that this thaumaturgy could actively display fresher blood stains at close range.
As soon as his mind moved, these haloes disappeared immediately. It seemed that once the passive state was noticed and became active, Shade could still cancel it at any time.
"But where did the blood come from? Was it on the bottom of the shoes of the three people just now?"
Anyway, he had nothing to do now, so Shade stopped and walked back to the corner of the corridor, tilting his head back and looking at the three men.
The three of them stopped in front of Agelina's box. After knocking on the door, the person at the front seemed to reach out and cover the mouth of the person inside. The three of them rushed in and closed the door.
The corridor returned to calm, with only the sound of the opera still echoing. The three men did not notice Shade's head sticking out from the corner, and naturally they did not know that Shade had seen this scene.
"what's the situation?"
Shade raised his eyebrows and straightened his sloping body.
When they passed each other just now, the voices in their ears did not indicate that the three of them were ring warlocks, so this should not be Shade's unlucky encounter with another mysterious incident.
But something was obviously wrong with the three of them, so Shade restored the revolver that had been turned into a toy to its original state. Since this kind of thing happened, it was natural to take care of it, not to mention that Princess Agelina was Lesia's younger sister.
He returned to the door, knocked on the door and said loudly:
"Your Highness, I'm sorry, I will."
He wanted to say that he had left something behind, but he thought that once the three men discovered that the items that Shade said he had left behind were not in the room, then the other men would know that Shade had come prepared.
So Shade said:
"Your Highness, I left the garter you gave me with you."
There were 5 women in the room, and Shade couldn't believe that he couldn't even find a garter. And the princess didn't say that she wanted to give Shade a garter just now, so they knew at this time that Shade had noticed something was wrong.
The sound insulation of this private room for nobles is very good. Shade should be able to hear what he said loudly, but he couldn't hear the sound inside. After a while, the door was opened a crack, and the shivering maid blocked the crack.
In front of me, I kept my mouth closed, as if I wanted to speak but didn't dare.
She actually handed Shade a garter.
It was decorated with white lace and a light pink bow fixed with pearls. When Shade got it, he even felt the body temperature on it.
"Your Highness!"
He held the door open, not giving anyone a chance to close the door, but he also had no intention of pushing the door open:
"I know I made you angry just now, so you don't want to see me, but please believe that what I did just now was definitely not an offensive move."
He blinked at the maid blocking the door in front of him, who bit her lip and looked at him.
"Please forgive me, otherwise I will not leave today!"
He said this.
After a few seconds, Agelina's voice came from behind the door:
"Yes, detective, I forgive you."
The tone of her words was also wrong. Shade was curious about who could be so bold, so he continued:
"Your Highness, your eyes are as bright as stars, and your lips are more moving than delicate roses. I beg your forgiveness. Please see me one last time. If you refuse me face to face, I will definitely give up this time.
.”
Of course, Shade did not make up such words. He heard them when he was listening to the opera just now. And the three men who had just arrived obviously did not hear the actors reading this line just now.
"You really want to leave after seeing me once?"
Agelina behind the door said intermittently, and Shade immediately replied:
"Oh, yes, Your Highness, please believe me."
The room was quiet again for a while. After at least half a minute, the maid blocking the door was suddenly pulled back. Then Agelina seemed to be pushed out from the side and blocked the door again.
.
The little princess pursed her lips and looked at Shade. Her body blocked the view from the outside to the inside, but also blocked the view from the inside to the outside. Shade didn't know if Agelina Cavendish looked like
Like her sister, she always carries steam bombs with her when she goes out and has a good habit of giving steam bombs to others, so she has no fighting ability by default.
After pressing the hammer down on the gun in his hand, he shook it in front of the princess:
"careful."
He made such a mouth shape, and then continued to speak the opera lines he just heard, regardless of whether Agelina understood it or not:
"Even the shining stars in the night sky are not enough for you."
Agelina blinked at Shade, and her right hand suddenly moved, pointing her index fingers in three different directions. In the direction behind the door, faint breathing could be heard, which indicated that she was trying to tell Shade the location of the enemy.
"It seems she is not completely useless."
As he was thinking about things in his mind, Xia De didn't realize what was coming out of his mouth. But he knew very well that he couldn't delay it, otherwise no matter how stupid the people inside were, they would understand that Xia De was stalling for time.
"Ordinary people are present, so I can't use the power of the Ring Warlock rashly. Even if I use it, I can only use it that won't easily arouse suspicion. It's a pity that the doctor hasn't obtained the [Psychic Crystal] yet. The one distributed by MI6
Although the Ruger revolver has six cylinders, it cannot be fired continuously. In the first moment, I could only kill one person with a gun."
Thinking about it in his mind, Shade had already made a decision. He held a gun in his right hand and took out four Rhodes cards from his pocket with his left hand, holding them between his fingers.