Whispering Verse

After Shade finished his meeting with Miss Denister, Lesia's breakfast was already ready. But probably to thank Dorothy, she obviously made the breakfast, but during the meal, the writer lady had already returned:

"Really, I had already eaten breakfast, just five minutes ago. My soul told me that I was full, but my body was still hungry."

Dorothy looked at the breakfast on the table with a sad face, and while little Mia's eyes lit up, she said:

"However, since Lesia made it, I have to eat it no matter what. The worst thing I can do is walk a few more steps today to burn off all the calories."

So the cat obediently shrank back to Shade and waited for feeding.

The temperature in the Randall Valley seems to have always been cooler than in Tobesk. When Shade asked the local Miss Lassers this question, she just said that the weather this year was special.

This Wednesday, the only thing Shade had to do was to go to the elf lady outside the city in the evening to get "elf purified water". During the day, he originally planned to visit the old cemetery of the Granger family outside the city, but as soon as he arrived at the Wilde Opera House, he was summoned by Margaret, whom he had not seen for a week.

The princess of the Southern Kingdom didn't complain that Shade hadn't come to see her recently, because she herself was quite busy. This time, I went to the Wilde Opera House to explain to Miss Bernanice the progress of my recent task with the Stonemasons Guild. On the other hand, I also wanted to try my luck and see if I could meet Shade.

"The college has sent people to check out the overseas silver mine you mentioned."

When she pushed open the study door, Margaret, who was looking out the window, smiled and turned to him and said, then opened her arms and hugged him:

"Really, I've been so busy lately, and I don't have time to spend time with you."

Shade felt that this should be his line.

"I know you are very busy. I just went to see Earl Granger yesterday. From him, I know how busy you are recently. Speaking of which, are things going well with the Stonemasons Guild?"

"Fortunately, it went according to plan, so it wasn't smooth sailing."

She let go of Shade who was hugging her:

"Do you have time on Friday night? William and I held a banquet at the manor where we are temporarily staying. We hosted a banquet for the nobles involved in the Second Southern Shipyard of the United Kingdom Navy as the last gathering of the construction period. It was not a formal dinner, but each of us brought our family members. , it can be regarded as a rare time for William and I to come to the Randall Valley to win over the local nobles."

"Friday, right?"

I'm going to see Miss Elf tonight, and I'm going to visit the Night Temple for the second time tomorrow. Friday is fine for the time being:

"I'll attend."

Margaret smiled:

"So do you have time this afternoon? How about accompanying me to the Masons' Guild? It's not a public visit. I contacted the president of the Masons' Guild and there will be a private meeting this afternoon. I will hand you over to me then. Bring out the original share documents of the Masons. I know you have your own things to do, but this meeting is important. Very important."

"no problem."

Shade agreed again. Anyway, there was nothing else important today. Visiting the cemetery was not an urgent matter:

"I'll go back to Tobesk at noon to check the information. We'll meet in the afternoon. Speaking of which, over the weekend, I met Miss Sylvia in a special way. She looked very good, and she asked about you very caringly. What's going on?"

[How do I remember that she only asked a few questions after you reminded her? 】

"She" pointed out Shade's lies softly.

Margaret's face showed a smile:

"I know that the teacher has always cared about me. However, if I pass Miss Berenice's trial, I will have two teachers. Miss Sylvia will always be my teacher."

"Do you know her invention? I saw the finished product."

"Oh, has it been done?"

Her Royal Highness the Princess has also heard about this. When she left Willendale a month ago, Miss Sylvia did not come with her because the experiment was in its final stage:

"It should be very beautiful. When I had afternoon tea with the teacher, she showed me what the finished product would look like with water and ice."

Shade nodded:

"It's quite beautiful. Miss Sylvia should come to Randall Valley in a while, and you can take a look at it then."

Margaret kissed the side of Shade's face:

"I am looking forward."

Shade said he would go home at noon to check information. Of course he would go to MI6 to see if there was any new news about the Randall Valley recently.

He was unable to contact Director Anlos directly, so he went to the city garbage disposal center where he received his monthly salary and found Mr. Giles Johnson, who was responsible for communicating with him.

I don’t know what Director Anlos and Mr. Johnson said. When Shade expressed his desire to see the confidential documents, Mr. Johnson asked Shade to wait without even asking him why.

So before lunch, Shade got the document bag with the seal "Top Secret, Second Class". He could only read this document bag on the spot, not copy it, and he couldn't take it outside, so Shade looked through it on the spot in the equipment maintenance department of the garbage treatment center.

He raised his eyebrows as he looked:

"It really has something to do with us. This trip is not in vain. I haven't seen the director since Her Highness Agelina's birthday party. What has our director been busy with recently? If it is confidential, You don’t need to tell me.”

Shade sat outside the iron table and said while reading documents, while Mr. Johnson inside the iron table was holding a teacup and reading the newspaper. His daily job is this:

"It's not a secret. After spring, aren't we and Kassenrik preparing to renegotiate the new trade route in the Pantanal area and the border issue in the disputed area? The director is doing preliminary preparations. Every time we encounter For such a big event, we are the busiest.”

Mr. Johnson, who was drinking tea and flipping through the newspaper to read the latest news, said:

"The two countries are still negotiating the specific location of the negotiations, which will probably be in a certain border city. I don't see the director often recently. He is probably on a business trip."

As he said that, he turned the newspaper to the next page:

"Members like you who work in the field for a long time, and staff like me who work hard in the office, are the backbone of the Sixth Office. I just hope that I won't be transferred to a business trip by then. I had a hard time raising those two pots of spider plants. "

Shade looked at the table at the door. There were no windows in this room, but because of the layout of the steam pipes, the temperature was not low. Mr. Johnson must have put in a lot of effort during working hours to be able to raise those two pots of spider plants in this season.

"We must be worthy of our salary. Speaking of which, I heard rumors a year ago that our basic weekly salary would be raised? I thought this matter would be raised after the award season. As a result, the salaries of civil servants were raised. There is already news, and it is said that it will be announced next week, why don’t we have news yet?”

Shade asked casually again, and Mr. Johnson shook his head slightly:

"I remember you are now a lieutenant colonel? Your basic weekly salary is more than three times mine. Salary increases are never easy, and there are still discussions in the parliament. But don't worry, Director Anlos is not interested in collective salary increases. This kind of thing is always quite positive. I bet that no department in the kingdom has a salary increase as fast as ours."

Shade looked at the six recent arrangements in the Randall Valley written on the document in his hand, and couldn't help but smile:

"That's good, that's good. Spring is coming soon, and I'd like to add some good clothes."

Mr. Johnson did not move his hands, tilted his head, and looked at Shade from behind the newspaper:

"Knight, Miss Carina will leave you without good clothes to wear?"

This is not to ridicule Shade, but to express his curiosity.

"Of course the Duke is very kind to me, but if he only relies on women for clothes and food, then what kind of man is he?"

Shade's attention was on the document in his hand, so he just answered casually. Mr. Johnson asked curiously:

"I thought... I didn't mean anything else, but Miss Carina is so rich, I thought all your daily expenses were..."

"The Duke wanted to give it to me, but I didn't ask for it."

Shade shook his head and wrote down the contact information with the local spies in the Randall Valley:

"I asked her to stay out of my affairs. If I have something to do, I will tell her directly. She should not talk too much and just go and help me."

"You really are."

Mr. Johnson showed an expression of admiration:

"sharp."

I don’t know if it’s because Shade mentioned the affairs of Randall Valley City to Director Anlos last time, or maybe MI6 has actually been paying attention. In short, while Margaret was launching her plan in the Randall Valley, MI6 was also conducting a series of operations in the Randall Valley.

These top-secret plans should have been lying quietly in the archives, but during the boring discussion between two boring men about women and dignity, Shade read them in detail.

The Sixth Office moved faster than Shade thought, and had already noticed that Princess Margaret of Anjou seemed to want to solve the matter of the Stonemasons Guild. In fact, this was not difficult to detect. But in short, Shade got some key clues, which he believed should be able to help Margaret.

It was already noon when we came out of the garbage disposal center. Because Mia was taken by Dorothy, Shade did not stay in Tobesk for lunch. Instead, he went to Randall Valley and had lunch with the girls in the opera house.

It was not a serious banquet, but everyone had their own food box in the dressing room, and everyone chatted and ate at the same time. Miss Lassus and Miss Benanis were also there. This kind of luncheon had existed before Miss Benanis officially took over the Golden Dawn.

Therefore, although the Witch of the Earth is not as good at fighting as Miss Aurora, nor is she as majestic as Granny Cassandra, nor is she as powerful as Miss Carina, her followers are the most loyal. .