Her Royal Highness the Princess recognized such a beautiful cat almost immediately. She thought that no one would be able to misidentify this cat. And the appearance of this cat meant that
The young man in a black coat was holding up his black top hat and cheering and saluting the successors of the United Kingdom together with others around him. Although the face looked a little different, no matter in terms of height, expression or meters,
Ya, no doubt no longer proves who it is:
"Welcome to the City of Randall Valley!"
Shade in the crowd shouted loudly to Her Royal Highness the Princess. Although the voice was quickly drowned in the noisy background, Margaret still heard it completely.
She looked away and waved to the people with a formulaic smile trained by the royal family. However, no one could know the joy in her heart. Her Highness the Princess knew that during her short visit to the Randall Valley,
It will probably be more interesting than imagined:
"What's even more interesting is that Teacher Sylvia is not with me now."
Although he wanted to meet Margaret immediately, Shade also knew that she came to the local area with a mission, and this visit was not just about her. Therefore, although he met at the train station on Friday morning
Margaret, but Shade did not go to her alone.
After all, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, and Margaret currently doesn’t have time to spend a long time with Shade.
The most critical task today is to meet with the local witch Miss Benanis in the afternoon. Shade had already anticipated many possibilities, but for safety, he still met with the local witch at noon.
When Luvia had lunch together, he asked Luvia to help him with divination.
The purple-eyed girl has a lot of work to do locally. While the Prophet Association is in contact with the local secret sect that owns the Book of Ascension, she also shoulders the task of observing the local stars given by the Astronomy Academy, and the Prophet Association asked her to
Come and process the paperwork locally.
Even if she takes time to have dinner with Sha De at noon, she must return to the association as soon as possible. Upon hearing Sha De's request, she shook her head slightly:
"You are someone outside of fate. Most of the results obtained by divination for you are completely unbelievable, otherwise the church would have found you long ago. Shade, don't use divination as a tool to peek into the future. We must respect fate."
In fact, what she meant was that there was no need to divination every trivial matter. From Luvia's point of view, there was no possibility of failure in the communication and negotiation between Shade and the witch.
Seeing that Shade wanted to say something else, Luvia, who was controlling the knife and fork, asked again:
"Why did you bring little Mia here?"
"Meow?"
When the well-behaved cat heard someone mention its name, it raised its head and looked at Luvia.
"Dorothy is going to the publisher to discuss the royalties issue with the editor of Steambird Daily and her lawyer during the day today. She can't help me take care of it."
Shade patted the soft cat:
"You are not in Tobesk, so I can't entrust it to you. Miss Carina and Tifa are still in Saladir County. Although there are maids in the manor, there are no acquaintances to take care of them. I am still worried, so
I just brought it here. After all, today is just a meeting with the witch. No matter how much she hates me, she will not do anything to little Mia. This will only increase my winning rate."
Luvia smiled:
"You still meet at the Wilde Opera House? I heard in the association that there have been some minor problems at the opera house in the city recently."
"what is the problem?"
At this moment, Shade remembered that Miss Aurora also mentioned yesterday that the witch in Randall Valley City was tracking down a sage relic related to the opera house.
"Someone was turned into a puppet. I don't know the specific circumstances, but it is said to be related to the uncontained relics."
Luvia shrugged:
"Who knows, the Keeper-level relic [Clown King's Magic Handkerchief] or the infectious Keeper-level relic [Puppet Syndrome]? The local Creation Church is responsible for solving this matter, but it is said that it may also be a sage.
Level. Oh, my dear Mr. Detective, every city has its troubles, and it is obviously impossible for us to solve every problem."
After lunch, Luvia said goodbye to Shade and returned to the Prophet's Association. It was still some time before three o'clock in the afternoon, and Shade originally wanted to pay a visit. Priest August mentioned during the exam week that he
Bet owed 10 pence to the old priest, but at this time little Mia was too sleepy to stand it, and Shade was worried that he would not be able to find the priest in a short time, so he returned to the Church of the Forgotten and went home to take a nap.
When he returned to Randall Valley City at 2:30, Shade still took the cat with him. At this time, a layer of white mist of unknown origin appeared in the city, and the cat was wearing [Metamorphosis] on its tail.
Ring] and [Fish Training Ring], this is a reward for being so obedient today.
The distance from Cherry Leaf Street to the Wilde Opera House was not far. Shade counted the time and it was two-fifty when he got off the carriage at the door of the Opera House.
Of course, pets are not allowed in the opera house, but after Shade showed the ticket for the box, no one stopped him. When Shade followed the waiter of the opera house to the stairs, he didn't feel the badge on his chest heating up.
, which means that Miss Benenice has not come yet.
"Speaking of which, since His Royal Highness the Prince and the Princess are visiting this city, will they watch the opera in this opera house?"
Shade asked the waiter who was leading the way. The latter said proudly:
"Sir, you are not from Kasenlik at first glance. In fact, every time members of the royal family from this country visit this city, they will watch the Golden Dawn Opera's performance at our opera house. Although I don't know the specific time,
But the opera house has already begun arranging security work. Did you know that Ms. Bernanice of the Golden Dawn Opera Company is planning to acquire our opera house recently? This is really a great honor."
After carrying little Mia into the box, it was the final waiting time. Shade kept thinking about what he should say when he saw the witch later, and what time would be more appropriate to send the harmonica out. He even thought about it.
Take the initiative to offer your wrist to Miss Bernice to hold. Witches always like this.
As for Mia, the cat lay down on Shade's lap quite lazily and took a nap. Three o'clock in the afternoon was her usual nap time.
There were actually not many guests in the opera house during the afternoon session. At three o'clock sharp, as the soaring soprano sounded from below, Shade knew that the time had come.
"Why haven't you come yet? You're in trouble. Did I remember the time correctly?"
【I remember correctly.】
He got up and walked around suspiciously, while little Mia was left on the sofa. The cat opened one eye and saw that Shade had not left, so it shook its tail, squirmed and found a more comfortable position to sleep.
"Is it because I refused to meet immediately yesterday, so the witch was angry and deliberately late today?"
He thought about it in his mind, but felt that the other party was not that naive. So he used thaumaturgy to confirm the time again and confirmed that it was already past three o'clock.
"Strange"
In a meeting between strange ring warlocks, once someone misses the meeting time, the other party will usually leave immediately, because this often means unpredictable danger. But this meeting is not a complete meeting of strangers, and if the eleventh level
Miss Benenice, who is not good at fighting, is really in trouble. Even if Shade can't solve it, he still has to find a way to figure it out.
"I hope I'm just late."
He waited for another five minutes, but there was no response from the badge on his chest. Knowing that he could not wait any longer, he turned around to pick up little Mia and go outside to check the situation.
At this time, there was a very slight knock on the door. But Shade had been standing at the door just now, and he was very sure that there were absolutely no footsteps outside:
"What's going on?"
He vaguely sensed that he might be involved in some trouble.
"Mia, lie down here and wait for me. Don't wander around."
After giving instructions to the cat, Xia De took off the [Fish Training Ring] from its tail and put it on his finger. He pulled out the scarlet "Moonlight Sword" in the style of a short knife and held it with his left hand behind his back.
De leaned against the door and felt it for a moment. After confirming that there was no reaction, he gently opened the door.
The curtains on the other side of the corridor opposite the door were all pulled up to cover the windows at some point. Those scarlet velvet curtains completely blocked the sunlight in the foggy city, and the entire corridor looked gloomy. Not only gloomy,
Everything feels normal indoors, but when you open the door, you immediately notice the whispering element.
"We really encountered an accident."
Shade remembered clearly that opposite his door, on the wall between the two window sills, there was originally an oil painting of an old man in white robes sowing seeds to the earth, but now it turned into hands.
Portrait of lady-like puppets sitting together.
The portrait was extremely lifelike, even showing the wood texture on the puppet, as well as some cracks in the material and uneven color patches in the paint.
Then he looked up at his feet and saw a puppet floating in mid-air. The limbs and head were connected with five thin threads, and the thin threads were connected to the inner cross disk floating above. This was a standard puppet show.
String puppets. The workmanship of the puppets is extremely fine. Not only can the limb joints move freely, but the details of the hair and clothes are also extremely realistic.
The dress is a very common maid dress, and the puppet's face has been carefully designed. Even an outsider like Shade can easily see that this is definitely not a mass product produced using molds.
The puppet "pinched" the letter in his hand and handed it to Shade while he lowered his head.
"This letter is for me?"
He asked hesitantly, reaching out to take the letter, and then he saw the brown wooden inner cross disk floating above the puppet swaying gently, as if it was being manipulated by invisible hands. Thin wires controlled the movement of the limbs, and the puppet
Then he staggered away under control.
Shade looked at it, watched it go to the door of the next room, and then "walked" in through the crack in the door.