Nothing new happened in the Duke's Manor on Friday night, but probably because of Lesia's kiss that tasted like tears, Shade had a strange dream, and when he woke up, he felt that it was exaggerated compared to the room in the manor's guest room.
bed, he still prefers his own bed.
On Saturday morning, Shade and Lesia said goodbye to Miss Carina and returned to the city in a carriage. In the afternoon, Shade went to Dr. Schneider's clinic on time and participated in the group study meeting.
Things in the city of Fort Midhill are in a commotion, and the news of the arrival of the two gods in the Sikal Mountain area has naturally spread to Tobesk. Although on the surface, this incident has nothing to do with the correspondence teaching environment in Tobesk.
There is no relationship with the Warlock Group, but during this week's study meeting, the four of them still spent most of their time discussing the issue of Middleburg.
Although Shade is very sure that whoever gets into trouble will not get into trouble with the old priest, the most important thing is still to care about the safety of Priest Augustus. Another thing worth mentioning is that Dr. Schneider is happy to say that Tobesk does not seem to be in trouble.
Not the unluckiest city this year:
"Oh, friends, I am not gloating, I am also sorry for what happened in the mountain city in the east of the old continent. But this at least shows that bad things can happen anytime, anywhere, and the city we live in is only the first
It's just unlucky, not unlucky all the time."
Dr. Schneider was very optimistic about this, and then changed the topic and asked Shade to find a way to go to Fort Midhill in the near future to check on the current situation of Priest Augustus. After all, he was the only one who could travel between the two cities conveniently.
shuttle.
The study meeting ended at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and Luvia hurried to the Prophet's Association. Shade made an appointment with Dr. Schneider, asking the doctor to go to his place at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and then went to Röntgen Avenue with Dorothy.
Get ready to take the carriage on the corner.
The weather in Tobesk is nice today, and people are wearing more clothes in late autumn. The blonde girl is wearing a red scarf, which looks like pure wool.
"Lecia is acting strange today."
The two of them walked side by side on the bustling streets of the east side of the city. The buildings around them were covered with metal pipes and shone brightly in the autumn afternoon sun.
Dorothy whispered to Shade:
"She suddenly communicated with me this morning, but it only lasted a few dozen minutes. She left a very strange sentence in my diary."
Passing by the fat woman holding a bread bag walking from the opposite side, the writer lady whispered:
"It says - [Dear Dorothy, you are me and I am you.]"
She added troubledly:
"It's strange that there is only this one paragraph, and it was written after it was scrawled over and over. There are wet marks next to it. I think it might be tears. I'm a little worried, Shade, are you able to contact me about it?
The channel of Del Palace?”
"Speaking of which, there's something I haven't said yet."
Shade, who had Mia standing on his shoulder, said immediately, slowed down and took out a folded envelope from his pocket and handed it over:
"In the morning, Lesia's maid sent me a letter, asking me to give it to you after the study meeting this afternoon."
Mia on her shoulder barked several times into the alley beside her, startling the wild cats looking for food in the alley and quickly fled into the depths of the alley.
"Letter? Lesia needs to write a letter for something. Wouldn't it be more convenient to exchange it directly and then write a diary? And why should it be delivered through you?"
Dorothy became even more suspicious and opened the letter as she walked without stopping.
She first found a few petals from the envelope:
"What does this mean? However, it is indeed Lecia's handwriting, and the letter paper is also commonly used by Lecia. Shade, you know how expensive this kind of letter paper is."
She saw the content on the letter and was suddenly stunned. Seeing Dorothy stop, Shade and little Mia stretched their heads to read the content on the letter, which read:
[You and I are like the front and back of a mirror. Although we will never be able to meet each other, I feel complete just by relying on you. 】
"Look, it looks like a love letter."
Shade joked, and stopped together with the blonde writer lady, waiting for the workers in patched clothes carrying heavy objects to cross, and they nodded to Shade to express their thanks.
Dorothy looked a little unhappy:
"She must have encountered something. Normally Lecia would not say such things."
He held Shade with one hand, put all the weight of his body on it, and then closed his eyes. When he opened it again, the cat on Shade's shoulder did not make a sound to remind him, it was still Dorothy:
"Lecia rejected my exchange!"
Dorothy looked very ugly and spoke faster:
"She has never rejected me before. I can't remember how many times we have exchanged identities. She came to experience an ordinary day of a common girl, and I experienced the troublesome life of a princess. Finally, I recorded our respective experiences in my diary.
We were complaining to each other and enjoying each other's lives. But now, she actually rejected me."
Holding Shade's arm tightly with his right hand:
"Did something happen to Lesia?"
Shade frowned and walked forward with Dorothy. He also showed a worried expression:
"Maybe it's something else. Come on, let's go to Mary Jane's Flower Shop on Silver Cross Avenue now, where we can contact the Yodel Palace."
Dorothy was really worried, and Shade was also walking in a hurry. The two of them rode a carriage from the east city of Tobesk to the city center.
After pushing open the wooden door of "Mary Jane's Flower Shop", Dorothy was shocked. The entire flower shop was filled with bunches of red, pink, white, yellow and blue bouquets. Those
Bouquets filled almost every corner of the flower shop, and there were even flowers in hanging baskets in the sky.
"Is this someone having a wedding at a flower shop?"
Shade asked in surprise, but still did not forget to walk quickly to the counter. Dorothy lagged behind and looked at the flowers, while Shade went to talk to Princess Agelina's maid in the flower shop.
Not long after, Xia De came back worriedly:
"The maids at the flower shop can't deliver messages to me. Last night, Agelina told the maids at the flower shop that if I came today, I would only hear one question: What is my sister's favorite flower?"
Dorothy said almost immediately:
"Her favorite was white lilies. I still remember that after we got to know each other, she insisted that I change the plants in the flower pots on the window sill of the apartment to lilies. We argued about this for several days, and finally she agreed to help me.
I only agreed to it after writing the manuscript.”
When Dorothy said this, she showed a nostalgic expression:
"She's really good. Let's look for Bai Lily here."
The servants in the flower shop received the news in advance and could not help the two of them search. Therefore, Shade and Dorothy could only search in this "prosperous flower field" by themselves. Although there were many flowers, Bai Baihe only had one bouquet.
There is a note:
[Blonde girl, do you still remember the first time we met?]"
"What does it mean?"
Shade was very confused and left the flower shop with Dorothy.
"This is our first exchange."
Dorothy stood on the side of the road, looking across the bustling crowd of people in autumn clothes on Silver Cross Avenue, towards the Yodel Palace:
"I was very panicked that time, thinking that I had lost control and fell into hallucinations, or that I had accidentally been mentally affected by the properties of some relic. That night, I used Lesia's body to run out of Yodel Palace and helped me on the roadside.
I looked at the street lamp pole with my scalp numb and looked at the Silver Cross Avenue in the dark night. Even after a long time, Lesiya would still laugh at my ridiculous look when I mentioned this incident. Later, in order to apologize to me, she looked at the street lamp
There was a letter written behind the advertising paper of the pole, asking me to use my body to get it."
Dorothy's expression softened a lot:
"That's very little real contact we have."
"What was written in the letter?"
Shade asked with great interest. Dorothy shook her head:
"Shadow, that's the girls' secret."
"Okay then, lamppost? Which one is it?"
Dorothy clearly remembers the lamppost, just opposite the Yodel Palace.
But there were quite a lot of things posted on the lampposts. While Shade was looking for them in auction house advertisements, steam company advertisements, and city hall wanted posters, Dorothy stood aside and waited with her lips pursed.
Suddenly, a group of teenage children ran over with a smile, half of them wearing patched clothes, and the other half wearing very new clothes. They held hands together, sang nursery rhymes, and played in front of Dorothy.
As they passed by, the blonde girl watched them go away, feeling many emotions for a moment.
"Ha, found it!"
Shade stood in front of the street light pole and pointed to the small advertisement "Retired Royal Draion Army Doctor, Specializing in Treating Various Intractable and Miscellaneous Diseases":
"Dorothy, what are you looking at? Look, it must be this. The city hall cleans the advertisements on the lampposts every day and will not allow such advertisements to appear on Silver Cross Avenue."
As he spoke, he tore it off, and sure enough, new sentences were written on the back in familiar cursive letters. Shade and Dorothy looked at it together, and it read:
【In this late autumn, looking at the fallen leaves, I want to kiss the side of your face.】
"Lecia wants to kiss you?"
Shade was stunned for a moment, then looked at the blonde girl in surprise:
"You, I, you, I thought, I, wasn't it?"
He was a little incoherent, and Dorothy looked at him angrily:
"Don't worry, Lesia and I only like men. Although we have a handkerchief relationship, we are not crazy women from the Witch Council. After kissing us so many times, you still doubt this?"
"Then what does this sentence mean?"
Shade pointed to the back of the leaflet "Retired Royal Dralion Army Surgeon", Dorothy fell into memories, and then bit her lip:
"I probably understand. This happened three weeks ago. You frequently went to Fort Midhill at that time. I asked Lesia in my diary what you were doing recently, and then we talked about kissing you.
.”
Her face was slightly red, and she lowered her head and walked west along Silver Cross Avenue with Shade:
"Lecia jokingly said in the diary that although we are both willing to kiss you, we will probably never be able to kiss you at the same time. When I returned to my body, I saw that she left a leaf in the diary. On the leaf
It's a red lipstick mark, she said."
Shade looked at him curiously. He really didn't know this part, but the blonde girl suddenly turned her head and walked towards the street:
"Detective, don't pry into the girls' privacy. I know that you are still thinking about reading our diaries."
Of course Shade was thinking about this matter. Their diaries are definitely more interesting than most popular novels of this era.
"Go to my apartment. I made a specimen of that leaf and hung it on the wall. If I guessed correctly, when Lesia used my body this morning, she left a message behind the specimen. What happened to her?
Why do we need to be so cautious in delivering news?”
Miss Writer was worried, but Mia was not anxious at all. The cat could see that Shade was not anxious or worried at all. The cat just wanted to know what time tonight's dinner would start.
The two of them and the cat got on the carriage again on Silver Cross Avenue and headed to Quill Street in the University District. Dorothy rented in Building B, No. 211 Quill Street, and she rented the third floor alone.
The blonde girl took out the key and opened the door downstairs, and met the landlady wearing a hairnet who came down from upstairs. The landlady frowned at Shade's arrival again, and then said to Dorothy:
"Luisa, everything you ordered has arrived. Are you very loose recently? Oh, a young girl should save some money on her own, otherwise she will have to be a miserable person who depends on men for food in the future. I have seen this kind of thing too many times.
Already."
Shade thought she was probably warning him.
"What did I order?"
Dorothy frowned slightly and went to the third floor with Shade. When she opened the door, she immediately saw the brass-colored metal floor-standing clothes hanger placed in the center of the living room, as well as the red dress on the hanger.
Not only the skirt itself, but also the waistband, stockings, black leather shoes, hair accessories, hats, and cosmetics are all available. Even for attending the most formal occasions, this outfit is more than enough:
"What exactly is Lesia going to do?"
If I was worried at first, now I am a little angry.
The blonde girl entered the bedroom and stood on tiptoe to remove the leaf specimen hanging on the wall on the side of the desk. She turned to the back and saw no letter or note, but after opening the back cover of the photo frame, a slender note slipped out.
.As expected, it was still Lesia’s cursive handwriting.
Dorothy turned around and wanted to watch it with Shad, but saw Shad looking at the photo frame standing on the desk with Mia who was looking around:
"It's really rude."
Dorothy reached out and slammed the photo frame down on the table, but that did not prevent Shade from recognizing that it was a black and white photo of Lesia, cut from a newspaper.
The new note contained the same inexplicable words:
[It will be an eternal regret not being able to dance together at the Haggis dinner in midsummer.]