"Your father gave you something that represents the family, does that mean that he tacitly accepts that you will inherit everything from the William family?"
Hathaway asked tentatively while checking Jenkins' pendant.
"Why do you think so? I think my father entrusted them to me for safekeeping just because I found a second piece... Besides, the William family is just a commoner family, and there is no ancestral property and historical honor to inherit, even if my father really To such a degree of partiality, he just gave me his savings and the house on Privet Drive. You know, I am actually quite rich myself, so I don’t care about these.
Jenkins touched his cat as he spoke, and the cat meowed in cooperation to show that he was satisfied with Jenkins' stroking. It's a feedback mechanism, because Chocolate knows that without responding to Jenkins' actions, there's no way to let him know he's doing something right.
"you're right."
Hathaway didn't look into Jenkins' eyes, she lowered her head and replied, then handed the pendant to him, and solemnly asked:
"Keep this one safe, maybe it's something like a token."
"You mean that my ancestors once saved the mysterious man, and the mysterious man gave him this thing, saying that he would repay his favor hundreds of years later? Oh, this is a classic plot of knight novels, maybe I will know him because of it. Several princesses."
Jenkins joked.
"You know the princess now, and you're still living in her house."
Hathaway pointed this out with a straight face, and Jenkins didn't dare to continue joking.
Because she cared about her father, Hathaway secretly checked the documents in his study, and combined with the information from Britney and Marquis Mihail, she deduced that the Nolan Navy will be in the broken state within half a month. The archipelago launched a decisive battle to completely end the overseas war, and then invested in the battle against Cheslan.
This is quite a key force, and the Nolan navy is the most powerful among the naval forces of the Fidetic Tri Kingdom.
Hathaway even thought about going to the sea to see for herself to ensure her father's safety, but the situation overseas is complicated, and she still has some seasickness, so this can only be thought about.
"But it won't be too long. Even the Pirate King died in Nolan. The pirates in the open sea will not be opponents of the regular army."
Jenkins reassured, hoping all is well.
Hathaway is going to visit Britney who is confined at home in the afternoon, and talk to her about the war by the way. So after lunch with Jenkins, I told him not to forget to write to him, and the two separated. Jenkins routinely wandered around the clock tower until the evening before successfully entering the world of doomsday fantasy, and his feet were sore.
The Old Man of the Clocktower expressed surprise at Jenkins' reappearance, and was blunt about the surprise:
"People who are extremely compatible with the power of space can enter here with a very small chance before this world completely coincides with the real world. How do you manage to enter and exit every day?"
Jenkins couldn't answer this question either, just as he didn't know all his inexplicable talents, and he didn't know whether the so-called fitting space was related to his accidental transformation into Jenkins.
Things have to be done one by one. No matter how anxious you are, some things cannot be done overnight.
After dinner that day, Jenkins, who had just found a chance to rest, was brought into the city by Dolores, and together with her delivered a disaster relief speech at the finance department. Now almost all high-ranking nobles and officials know that Salci II is about to abdicate, so their attitudes towards these princes and princesses who interfere in government affairs are subtly different than before.
"I always feel that after I came to Ruen, my life was busier than that in Nolan. At least when I was in Nolan, I often spent half a day lying behind the counter in Papa's antique shop."
Jenkins spoke to Alexia, but the shorter lady said that was life.
Time was like being pushed and running, and Friday came like this. Jenkins still remembered that today was the game time of Hathaway's "Story of Stories", so he went to Nolan after breakfast.
After preparing the basement at home, I took my cat to the slums in the south of the city.
The early morning in the slums is much more lively than outside, not only because of the high population density here, but also because the people here have to work harder to survive.
The people living here had new topics to talk about because the war was coming. When looking for the address, Jenkins heard the people passing by and those squatting at the door having breakfast, expressing their opinions loudly on the war.
Nolan's poor people have little to do with the war, even if it is an emergency mobilization, they will only be found at the most critical moment. Therefore, using the life and death of a large number of strangers as a topic of conversation is one of the few entertainment activities at the beginning of a hard new day. It is difficult to say whether this life is more cruel, or war is more cruel.
The address provided by Hathaway was in a small three-story building in the middle of the slum. There were at least twenty families living in this building. All decorative walls that could be removed were removed, and then the landlord divided the house into sections one by one. The small cubicles are rented out, although the living environment is a little worse, but at least it is cheap enough.
The only thing that remains the same is the attic, which is not rented out, but some discarded furniture is shelved by the landlord. Hathaway didn't know under what circumstances she discovered the anomaly here, this kind of location is really hidden.
For the sake of safety, she has used some means to keep the people living downstairs from coming back for a day, so when Jenkins climbed the stairs, he didn't meet any strangers who looked at him.
All the way to the attic, standing at the door wearing a mask is Hathaway. She looked at Jenkins at White Cat Herb crouching on his shoulder before letting him in, when Mr. Hood and Mr. White Cat had arrived.
One of the triggering conditions for B-11-1-0299 [A Story Within a Story] is that there are 3 to 10 benefactors in the room, so Hathaway didn't enter the door.
"Anyone else coming?"
Jenkins pretended not to know the result on the sewer blackboard, and he stood at the door without going in.
"Mr. Magic is still coming, but Mr. Silver Flute is not coming. It is said that he has encountered some troubles and will not appear in the urban area in the near future."
Mr. Hood explained for Hathaway, he walked out, and then motioned for Jenkins to come in and sit down.
Mr. Hood and Mr. White Cat were sitting on the sofa on the side of the attic just now. It was a sofa made of rough fabric. At this time, only the left part of the fabric was left, and the right leg was broken, so the sofa was tilted, but it was barely possible to sit on.
The place is extremely crowded because it is full of similar discarded furniture. Hathaway had obviously cleaned it up in advance, otherwise there would have been a thick layer of dust on the floor.