When Claire is about to lose her patience and ask the lizard maid to go to the cemetery, the abominable little gardener with his corpse sewn together comes to the manor and delivers a letter from the gardener.
The wind blew away the rotten smell that lingered on the surface of the letter, and Claire unfolded the letter in front of Lu Li. The graceful and elegant handwriting seemed to be written by an aristocratic woman, rather than a sewn piece of hateful flesh.
Lu Li thought of the pale woman's arm holding a dagger he had seen before.
The letter said that the gardener discovered that the vicomte's servant bat monster was hanging upside down outside the tomb under surveillance. If they did not want to be discovered, they should not contact him for the time being.
"I never knew the gardener was so smart..." Claire inserted the letter into the gap between Lu Li's cat's paws: "I thought it would reveal the secret and expose us. Could it be that the gardener is like me?"
"have no idea."
Claire doesn't know more than Lu Li, and Lu Li doesn't know more than Claire.
Maybe the gardener also left an imprint similar to "The Head Maid and Little Remy" in advance, or maybe the gardener's chaotic thinking caused him to have some kind of illusion after reading "The Sunken Place".
"Little Leimi, can you restore your mother's memory?"
"have no idea."
Lu Li's answer remained unchanged.
Claire can leave a mark, and Chris should be able to do the same, but in the illusion of Midnight City, Lu Li had no chance to meet the Viscount played by Chris, and knew nothing about her.
"Think of a way quickly! Think of a way!"
Claire, who was lying on the bed, lifted up Lu Li and shook it vigorously. The letter paper between the cat's claws slipped and was torn into pieces by the wind. It floated towards the candlestick, where it touched the flame and spread a brief flame like a gauze curtain.
"I'm Lu Li...not a real cat." The nasal cavity structure of a cat is very different from that of humans, making Lu Li meow while being shaken.
"When you look like a cat and feel like a cat, then you are a cat." Claire grabbed the cat's paw and pinched the pads and said.
She is indeed gradually finding herself again - the cold head maid is not capable of such sophistry.
Lu Li allowed Claire to manipulate him, and his consciousness sank into his thoughts, thinking about Chris.
Just like Claire said, as the vice president of Giant Tree Academy, Chris should leave a similar mark.
Claire should not be a lone example.
And if Chrissy leaves her mark...will everyone else in Midnight City do the same?
There is no doubt that many beings in Midnight City have died, hoping that Lu Li can rest their souls in peace. But just like Claire, being buried with Midnight City is not their only option.
So what's the way to activate the imprint they left behind?
Perhaps when the gardener brings true-seeing eyes that can identify the soul deep in each strange body, he will be able to know their secrets.
"Crown of Knowledge."
Lu Li, who was being teased by Claire's imitation cat meow, suddenly said.
Claire paused as the information about the Crown of Memory and Knowledge flooded into her mind. She guessed what Lu Li was thinking: "Do you think this is Midnight City's self-rescue?"
This is indeed the reason why the illusion of Midnight City gave the crown of knowledge to Lu Li and allowed the cursed title to be fulfilled back to reality.
"You can try it."
Getting rid of the teasing, Lu Li sat across from Claire, who had her legs bent, and transformed some of his and Claire's shared memories into a ball of strength.
"Be patient, it might hurt a little."
Lu Li raised his right paw and touched Claire's outstretched palm.
The damage from the crown of knowledge only caused a brief sting like a needle to Claire - it was only a brief and unimportant memory after all.
"What did I forget?" The black gemstone cat's eyes reflected the pensive Claire.
"The Musketeer Theory... right?" Seeing Lu Li nod, she pointed to her head: "I just remembered the Musketeer Theory for no reason, and it was very impressive."
Lu Li, who recovered the memory of "Musketeer Theory" from elsewhere, almost confirmed that the Crown of Knowledge was their self-save.
The survivors of Midnight City may not only be the survivors, but also these souls...
But how to make Lu Li's memories become their memories still requires thinking and experimenting.
They require a willing presence to cooperate with the experiment.
A gardener is a suitable candidate.
Because of the surveillance, Claire wanted to imprison Lu Li and the lizard maid who had met him, but Lu Li stopped her. At this time, the more you do, the more loopholes you will have.
Therefore, Claire, who decided to keep things as usual, just asked the lizard maids to keep the secret, and then asked them to prepare hot water and carry Lu Li into the bathroom.
Lu Li took advantage of Claire to test the water temperature and quietly stepped out of the bathroom.
Bang——
Feng closed the bathroom door, lifted Lu Li up, and fell into Claire's arms.
"You're so dirty, little Remy."
The dusty Lu Li changed from a black cat to a gray cat.
"I can wash it myself." Lu Li tried to get rid of the shackles of the wind.
"Are you shy? Haven't you already experienced it?"
"At that time you thought I was a cat and I thought you were weird."
"But I'm still a weirdo, and it's hard for you to ask a weirdo to have a sense of shame." Claire felt Lu Li's resistance, put him down and walked out: "You can restore the human body. This can also help me restore my memory.
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"Um."
Lu Li did not refuse Claire's proposal. He sat at the bathroom door and asked Claire to get her clothes: "My clothes are in my stomach bag."
Claire grabbed the stomach bag on the desk and took out Lu Li's clothes.
The wind picked up the clothes and sent them to the bathroom, but when it was about to get closer, it suddenly and violently tore the clothes into pieces.
"Oh, the disobedient wind tore your clothes to pieces... It doesn't matter, I'll prepare a set for you." Claire's artificial voice drifted over.
Lu Li calmly watched Claire's poor acting, watching her ask the lizard maid to bring a folded maid outfit with a bow, and put it in front of the door: "You can change into it after washing."
Lu Li refused.
He asked Claire to summon the merchant to bring clothes, but then suddenly changed his mind - Claire might destroy the merchant's eyes as well.
The devil's daughter never wants to be called around as a servant again.
"The cat form is not easy to detect." Lu Li said, no longer returning to human form.
He jumped into the bathtub to wash away the dirt, and after being dried by the cool wind, his black hair became fluffy and soft. Claire hugged Lu Li and lay on the bed, asking for a story.
Lu Li talked like a child until late at night. When he was about to take a rest, the gardener unexpectedly brought something to him.
A treasure chest containing the Eye of True Seeing.
Claire inserted the Goldmerin Emperor's gold coin into the keyhole as a key and opened the treasure chest. The true-seeing eye lay peacefully inside, with no room for fraud.
Claire picked it up and saw Lu Li's soul curled up inside the black cat.
"What if I'm not Claire..."
Claire then hesitated and felt anxious, and was encouraged by Lu Li to stand in front of the dressing mirror. Then she saw with relief that Claire's soul was curled up inside her body like a baby.