Whispering Verse

The Rhodes game in Lakeview Manor was one of the most important games at the banquet, especially since Shade, who was the 1853 champion of Big City Players, had promised in advance that he would definitely participate.

The Rhodes tournament will be held at ten o'clock in the evening, so the three people in the room reading together only lasted until about half past nine.

After everything was done, the door to the room, which had been closed for more than an hour, was opened, and a blushing Dorothy took a book under her arm and left the room.

She bumped into Tifa head-on, but because she was shy and walked with her head lowered, she didn't even look at who was wearing the maid skirt.

Miss Writer passed Tifa in the corridor, and the black-haired maid stopped curiously and looked at Dorothy's back. When he turned around again, the door that had been closed just now was opened again, and Lesia, who was full of energy and with fair skin as shiny as milk, walked out.

The maids waiting at the door nodded to Lesia. Lesia straightened the silver crown on her head and thanked her personal maids with a smile. As soon as he turned around, he saw Tifa looking here. The latter greeted respectfully:

"Good evening, Your Highness Lesiya."

She noticed that Lesia's hairstyle had changed.

"Oh, it's Miss Servit, what are you doing? Didn't Miss Carina let you go to the banquet?"

It was obvious that Lesia was in a good mood. Normally she would not take the initiative to talk to Tifa.

"Your Highness, the lady asked me to come to Mr. Hamilton and tell him something important."

A smile appeared on Lecia's lips, and she pointed to the room she just walked out of:

"He's inside, just go in."

After saying that, he was about to leave the third floor with his maids, but after taking two steps, he turned to Tifa and asked:

"How do I look now? Do my clothes and expressions look normal?"

Tifa's expression remained unchanged:

"Your Highness, you look radiant. Although you are not wearing makeup, you are even more charming than the ladies who wear makeup."

"is that so?"

Lecia smiled and touched her face before actually leaving the third floor. Tifa stood there watching the princess leave and then entered the room.

"Meow~"

In Lesia's lounge, the man's shadow covered the black coat thrown on the carpet. Then a hand reached out, picked up the coat, patted it slightly, and put it on the chair.

Shade, who only wore a white shirt on his upper body, straightened his collar, then opened the door of the bedroom closet and released little Mia from the closet.

As soon as the closet door opened, the cat jumped out. It screamed in grievance, and after being picked up by Shade, it expressed its dissatisfaction with its voice.

However, before Shade could comfort his cat, he heard laughter coming from the bedroom door.

Turning around, I saw the black-haired maid standing at the door of the bedroom with a smile on her face. Although she was just a maid, she accompanied her hostess to the banquet. She also put on a little makeup, her lips with lipstick were extra full, and her eyes under the black eyelashes were full of smiles.

The bedroom window was open, and the night breeze blew between the two of them. Tifa smiled and looked at Shade, who looked embarrassed:

"Miss and Miss Sylvia have something to ask you."

"Well you met Lesia in the corridor?"

"Yes, Your Highness seems to be in a good mood."

Tifa said with a smile, as if she didn't think much about it at all, but Shade didn't believe that she couldn't guess anything:

"The three of us were reading together just now."

"Yes, reading is hard, right? The two sorceresses..."

The smile on Tifa's face grew stronger, and seeing Shade looking embarrassed, she said:

"Miss and Sylvia are waiting for you. Don't worry, I won't tell you where I found you."

After saying that, he took out a small metal bottle about the thickness of his thumb from his skirt pocket. Because it was stored close to his body, the bottle still had the warmth of his body temperature:

"Perfume. I think it would be better for you to smell my perfume than for the lady to smell the perfume of His Highness Lesia and another lady on you."

She handed the small bottle to Shade, and when Shade took it, she scratched his palm.

Shade didn't know what to say:

"Tifa, are you really"

The maid suddenly stretched out her hand, put her right index finger against his lips, then used her left hand to brush the black hair beside her ear, and winked at Shade with her left eye. The two were very close at this time, and Shade could see the smile in her eyes and his reflection in her eyes:

"You don't have to say thank you to me."

[She is the most capable witch around you, right? 】

"Her" voice always sounds at the most appropriate time.

When Tifa knocked on the door and led Shade into Miss Carina's lounge, the two witches sitting on the sofa were talking about the chosen one.

Miss Carina sat on the fabric couch, and Miss Sylvia sat on the short sofa facing away from the window, so Shade sat opposite Miss Sylvia. The lights in the room were bright, Shade handed little Mia to Tifa, and then looked at Miss Carina's expression.

The duchess suddenly sniffed, then turned to look at her maid:

"Tifa, I asked you to find Shade. It seems that you really made full use of your time."

The black-haired maid lowered her head and said nothing, gently put Mia on the back of the sofa, then prepared a teacup for Shade and poured tea.

Miss Carina was just teasing, so she didn't pursue the matter. However, when Miss Sylvia looked at Shade, the young detective defended:

"Everyone has the freedom to enjoy the party."

Tifa's hand pouring tea shook, and the dashing maid almost couldn't hold back the smile on her lips.

"Yes, a young gentleman and an affair maid. If you spread the perfume more evenly, I might really believe it."

Miss Carina smiled at Shade and shook her head, seeing the surprised expression on his face with satisfaction. She did not answer Miss Sylvia's curiosity at this time, but said to Shade:

"Let's get back to the topic. Sylvia and I just contacted the parliament and asked if there could be a reasonable explanation for the abnormal phenomenon in Lakeview Manor tonight. The situation is very interesting. Your Excellency the Speaker conducted a divination and believed that this matter has something to do with Ah. Pune library related.”

The "Apna Library" is a small group of ring magicians who have good relations with the Five Gods Church. Because they and the three major colleges are suspicious of each other that the other party is snooping on their own collection of knowledge, the relationship with the three major colleges is actually very bad. Shade had heard about them in the Natural Church in the narrow room during the Battle of Fort Midhill, and he also suspected that one-third of the "Time Perception" tablet that was divided into three parts was in their hands.

"What does this have to do with the Apna Library?"

Shade asked suspiciously.

At this time, most of the maids in the room had left, leaving only Tifa and Miss Sylvia's servants.

Miss Carina considered her words:

"Your Excellency the Speaker used some special means to confirm that the Apuna Library has the fragments of the chosen one's poem about 'knowledge and wisdom', and it is a very important fragment of the poem. What happened tonight has nothing to do with the fragment of the poem. It’s related to a certain ritual corresponding to the chapter.”

"Chosen One Ceremony?"

Xia De's eyes suddenly widened. He didn't expect that someone had already reached the last step before he met the chosen one.

"Of course it's not the final ceremony. What's about to happen tonight is related to the 'Secret Keeper' who gave out the five tests recorded in the 'Secret of Immortality'."

Miss Sylvia said.

Shade frowned slightly, never expecting that the wedding banquet at Lakeview Manor would be related to this kind of thing.

"This is the only information that the Parliament currently has. Your Excellency, the Speaker, allows the two of us to decide our next actions."

Miss Carina also said that she grew up in Tobesk as a child and knew the neighborhood very well:

"Schluch Lake does not have an island in the middle of the lake, but I think there will be one soon. Since it is related to the chosen one, when the relic officially appears in the center of the lake later, Sylvia and I will go and see it in person. "

"Did the Apuna Library inform the church of the information? They are just a small group of ring magicians. Do they want to control the chosen ones themselves?"

"Absolutely no prior notification was given to the Five Gods Church regarding the operation of the Apna Library."

Miss Sylvia is sure of this:

"So far, although there is a team of church ring warlocks in Lakeview Manor, they are here to protect Margaret. There are only two high ring warlocks among them. If the church knows that something related to the chosen one is about to happen here, it will definitely They won't be the only ones. But since the Speaker can get the current information, there may be other people who can get it. I think there may have been a lot of dangerous people mixed in at the banquet."

Shade resisted the urge to nod, because Dr. Schneider was obviously a "dangerous guy":

"What do I need to do?"

"This matter has nothing to do with you, just enjoy the banquet."

Miss Carina said, then pointed to Miss Sylvia:

"Emma and I are here, there's no reason to let you solve everything. You don't need to do anything, just keep yourself safe."

"Do you really don't need me to do anything?"

Shade confirmed again, and the witch nodded:

"You have done most of the things in the past. Sometimes I feel that I am too harsh on you. I will tell you what happened in the center of the lake later. Just wait in the manor."

After speaking, he looked at Tifa:

"Tifa, you go to play Rhodes with the knight. He was right just now. Everyone has the right to enjoy the banquet, but don't say that I am too harsh on you. There is no need to refuse, I will talk to Sylvia later Let’s go to the center of Schluch Lake to investigate, I don’t need you to follow.”

Tifa only hesitated for a moment, then nodded:

"Yes, miss."

So Shade also stood up to say goodbye and left here with Tifa.

After the door was closed, Miss Sylvia asked:

"What do you mean, Mr. Hamilton has always played a big role in the past events of the Chosen One?"

"Big?"

Miss Carina raised her eyebrows.

On the night of the Battle of Fort Midhill, after meeting Luvia at No. 6 St. Teresa Square, she learned that when Yin Luna held a ceremony to kill the "Silver Boy", it was Shade who used the moonlight sword to suck blood. A word of sublimation; after the Dark Chosen Darkness broke into the dark realm, she witnessed Shade's long-distance attack, fighting all the way from the city into the relic, and finally somehow managed to kill the demigod from the previous era. The witch invited her out; in the battle of Fort Midhill last month, Shade opened the door to death with one sword, and faced the special state of the chosen one, Qiao Yin Barton, under the dark moon.

"His story?"

Even the great witch finds these stories incredible every time she thinks about them. After all, when she first met Shade at the Lucky Southern Cross Club on a midsummer night, he was a genuine one-ring warlock.