Whispering Verse

Shade didn't know why the atmosphere of afternoon tea suddenly became strange. He looked at Luvia, only to find that the purple-eyed girl was watching Shade interact with the witches with great interest.

So Shade hesitated for a moment and looked at the ladies at the table:

"I actually have a request. Maybe it's very abrupt, but please agree to it."

"You tell me, as long as it's not too much, even if it's too much, I believe we will agree."

Miss Sylvia said with a smile, and everyone at the table looked at Shade.

Shade coughed:

"Oh, please be serious. What I want to say is that if the crazy guardian appears before I come back from Oxenfurt Manor, then you must delay him as much as possible. All arrangements and plans must be heard. Luvia’s, she knows how to do it.”

The purple-eyed girl was a little surprised when she heard Shade's words, and the other four witches nodded together:

"No problem, but we still hope you can come back as soon as possible."

"It's not up to me when I come back. But you don't have to worry about me, I have many methods."

He also has a last chance time key, is ready to summon [Desire], and even has a drop of divinity. Of course, before you get the divinity of the Heart of the Earth, you should try to avoid using the remaining divinity.

"You take our jewelry."

Miss Benanis said as she took off her gold ring (first from the right). Miss Aurora and Miss Sylvia also had rings, first and second from the left respectively, while Miss Carina had a necklace. . However, Shade refused:

"That's no need. You guys need this too. Besides, when facing the devil, it's better for me to be as weak as possible."

Because there is no need for him to fight the demon, what he needs is to summon the doctor at the right time.

The witches still had to deal with some things in the basement, while Shade and Luvia went to the office on the third floor to wait for Miss Swift and Sirius to return.

After sitting down on the sofa, Luvia took out the only remaining relic [Thunder God's Wrath] coin:

"You should have only the last [Emperor's Banquet Copper Coin] left there. So, since the war is right around the corner, don't leave them behind."

"Keep the one in my hand. It might be useful when I come back from Oxenfurt Manor."

Shade said, Luvia nodded:

"Okay. So with this one in my hand, do you need to divine anything now? What about the true location of the chosen one's ceremony? Last time, I didn't completely divine it, but this time there are enough clues. It's clear what the true location is. With the location, many things can be arranged tonight.”

"No, knowing the location doesn't mean much now."

Shade shook his head:

"I hope you are divining other things, and clarifying other things is actually more important - first, whether we need to deal with the guardians tonight, and how powerful they are after going crazy; second, the first Randall flower The exact time of blooming, what exactly.”

"Don't you need the location but the time? This is indeed important, but I probably can't get the answers to both questions at the same time. Choose the more important one."

Luvia tossed the coin, and Mia, who woke up, looked at it with interest.

"protector."

"no problem."

She closed her eyes and threw the silver coin high while Shade and Mia watched. The divination went smoothly, because the coin showed mottled rust after reaching its highest point, and then quickly rusted as it fell, until it completely turned into fly ash.

"Yes, we need to fight against the guardian. The power that the latter can show is stronger than the normal state, in other words, far beyond the ordinary thirteen rings. Even because he has the authority to control the earth, he has the power of the chosen one. Destiny, dealing with him is no easier than dealing with any enemy in the past."

Luvia opened her eyes, and Shade liked the purple in her eyes:

"He now has two unique characteristics: first, as long as his feet stand on the ground, his strength is inexhaustible; second, the entire land of the Randall Valley will help him. You can think that this It means that his luck has been greatly improved, and as long as he is in the crazy land, he can almost be regarded as being in his own mystery lock."

Shade frowned, and Luvia continued:

"Because this answer is too simple, I also divined other things. The area where the guardian appears is not certain, but it will not be in the city. The time of appearance is the time of complete madness, after the first Randall flower this spring. After about the first half hour of blooming. The time when the first Randall flower blooms can only be roughly estimated to be after one o'clock in the morning on Saturday."

"So, I will try my best to resolve the matters at Oxenfurt Manor and rush back here before one o'clock in the morning. After all, the blooming of flowers means total turmoil on the earth."

He turned his head slightly and looked out the foggy window. The eerie gray snow is still falling, and it will most likely last until tonight, and become the first spring snow in the Randall Valley in the year 1854 of the Sixth Era.

"Long-haired Luvia, did you also see this kind of scenery when you made that difficult decision?"

Shade asked softly in his heart, but no one could answer his question. Luvia didn't know what Shade was thinking about at the moment, let alone that Shade was thinking about another one of her. Luvia just had a very bad feeling.

This kind of premonition was not present when Shade participated in major events several times before.

"Just like always, draw a card."

So Luvia took out her own pair of divination cards, arranged them and switched their positions, and handed them to Shade:

"Draw three."

This time, Shade did not draw the top three cards, but chose the third card from the top, the fifth card from the top, and the first card from the bottom.

Luvia arranged the three cards and placed them in front of her in parallel:

"About the enemies you will face."

Turning over the divination card, the card showed a poisonous snake. There is nothing wrong with this, it can only mean that Shade's enemies are insidious and cunning.

"About the danger you're about to face."

Turning over the divination card, there are two crossed swords on the card. This divination card is generally called "Duel", and Luvia believes that this means that Shade has the power to fight against danger.

"About your ending."

Luvia turned over the last card, and then saw the pattern of the divination card. It was a man holding a dagger. Under a stage-like spotlight, he stabbed the dagger into his heart, surrounded by people who fell to the ground. War horses and knights.

Luvia, who was originally relieved when she saw this pattern, turned pale:

"Sacrifice?! How could it be? The results of the first two cards are obviously not bad, Shade, you."

"You also said, don't rely too much on divination, otherwise you will be led astray in your destiny."

Shade said, putting the last card back into the pile of divination cards, then spreading the cards out on the coffee table, grabbing Mia's waist and picking up the cat:

"Here, choose one."

Although the cat may not understand what Shade means, it is very willing to stretch out its paws and pat unfamiliar things. So Cat Claw took a card, and Shade turned it over:

"A feast. This represents a huge, risk-free gain."

He showed the cards to Luvia:

"I will be with Mia tonight. Since its result is positive, there is a high probability that nothing bad will happen to me. The feast may mean that tonight's operation went smoothly, so I rewarded this cat with a A feast. And sacrifice can be interpreted in other ways. You should only be worried if this card is drawn, Siris."

Luvia smiled very reluctantly, and before she could say anything else, there was a knock on the door outside.

Shade stood up to open the door, and then saw Sirius standing at the door:

"Back from the parliament? We were still discussing you just now."

Shade said with a smile, and the blonde girl walked in:

"I just came back. Miss Swift went to the basement to report to the big witches. What were you talking about me just now?"

"It's about divination, come on, draw a card."

The young girl didn't know the content of their previous conversation, so she took a divination card casually:

"Let me see the broken rope."

Among the one hundred and eight divination cards, the probability of this card appearing is very small. Shade looked at Luvia, who explained softly:

"It means that you will cut off some important relationship or lose someone important in the near future."

"As long as it's not a sacrifice."

Shade said, and then encouraged Luvia to do a divination for herself. The somewhat distraught purple-eyed girl also drew a card, and her result was "Spectator." Shade understood Luvia's mood. The previous few times she faced the chosen ones for decisive battles, she showed much more worry than this time.

He knew that this was concern for him. Although he was also a little worried, he still promised Luvia:

"I'll be back safely tomorrow morning."

It was getting late, and Shade promised to accompany Sirius to the Church of the Forgotten again today. Now that she was back, the two planned to set off, while Mia was left to take care of Luvia.

In fact, in addition to accompanying Sirius to the Church of the Forgotten, Shade can also choose to use the remaining time before evening to accompany Miss Aurora to activate the ritual left by the Speaker of the Witch Council and help Luvia in The Wilde Opera House arranges more detailed divination rituals, goes to the local black market to find out new information, or does nothing but chats with the girls to boost morale.

Unfortunately, he could only choose one thing to do, and agreeing to accompany Sirius was something he had agreed to do from the beginning.

There were two very small earthquakes in the city today during the day. Coupled with heavy fog and strange gray snow throughout the city, there were still few people on the streets in the afternoon.

The snow on the road made the carriage very slow, so Shade and Siris did not take the carriage, but chose to walk to the church without following anyone else.