"Why? Why is the church unwilling to see Cheslan being annexed?"
asked Julia, who was bringing hot tea to Britney.
"Because the church is the party of justice."
said Jenkins, turning the newspaper to the next page:
"Of course, this matter has nothing to do with me."
It seemed that he was afraid that the girls would not believe him, so he emphasized again:
"It has nothing to do with me. It is said that believers who are lies reported Luther, who was originally qualified to compete for the throne, and got clues from Tarquin from him. But that unlucky Luther is also dead. , was killed by a group of cultists. Don’t ask too much about this matter, because it is deeply involved and the church is still investigating.”
"Are believers in lies good people?"
Britney, who didn't know anything about it, asked, and it was Hathaway who gave the answer:
"It's not a good person or a bad person, but in short, it's right not to provoke them. Those people have weird tempers."
She took another look at Jenkins, who was hiding behind the newspaper:
"And they love having cats, too."
Today is Thursday, and the joint meeting of the twelve churches is getting closer. The plan to invite the girls and Sigrid home was disrupted a few days ago, and these days are also very busy, so this matter can only be postponed until next week. But another thing that cannot be postponed is that the old man had something to discuss with Jenkins. This was supposed to be on Tuesday, but it was delayed because of Tarquin's sudden death. Because Luther's death and the report of the lie believers have nothing to do with Jenkins, so his plan today is to go to Dad.
After breakfast, Jenkins said goodbye to the girls at home. He didn't know what his father would come to him for, but he only knew that his father was in a bad mood recently, and he guessed that maybe his father happened to see Miss Stillwell in Nolan.
The shopkeepers on Fifth Queen's Road opened their doors very early. Although they don't expect to have customers so early, they must at least put on an appearance of hard work. Very rarely, Dad didn't open the door. Jenkins knocked on the door and got no response. He was about to go around to the door and open the back door to see if Dad was not there. Unexpectedly, someone called out his name in the thick fog. name.
Turning around, it turned out to be the dusty old Jack walking with a suitcase. Blinking his eyes, it was indeed my father's friend in Turin, the old man who was good at mixing medicine. The last time I met my father in the Evergreen Forest, I mentioned that Old Jack would also come to Nolan, but I didn’t expect it to appear so soon:
"Jenkins, I knew it was you."
He threw the suitcase to the door, and leaned against the door to breathe:
"This is really exhausting me. I haven't found the carriage for a long time, so I can only walk over here by myself. Didn't Oliver say that he would pick me up with you? Are you still on your way?"
"Huh? Is it today?"
Jenkins wondered:
"Dad said he'd come with me to pick you up at the station when you came, but he didn't write me a date. Is it today?"
"I know you've been very busy recently, but you don't have to pick me up."
Old Jack was understanding, but he looked at the antique shop again:
"But what happened to Oliver? I even wrote to him specifically to tell him the train number I took. Could it be that he has forgotten this matter too much?"
"I haven't seen my dad either."
Jenkins knocked again, but still no answer. So he went to the souvenir shop next to him and asked the owner, Aunt Sally. Dad opened the store normally yesterday, so it should be in the store now.
When the store is closed at night, the store is locked from the inside, so the two can only enter through the back door. Jenkins carried the suitcase for Old Jack, but before taking a few steps, someone stopped Jenkins again.
This time it was Miss Stillwell, and of course it was a real person. She came from a carriage stopped in the distance, wearing a blue summer skirt and a wide-brimmed white hat.
"Oh, Lena, it's been a long time."
Old Jack also saw her, and after being taken aback for a moment, he immediately recognized who it was:
"The last time I saw you was ten years ago."
He smiled enthusiastically, and even Jenkins was infected by that kind of joy from the heart.
"Old Mr. Jack?"
Sure enough, everyone would call him Old Jack.
Miss Stillwell also recognized who it was, she walked over quickly, and then hugged the old man:
"Old Uncle Jack, long time no see, really long time no see."
When Miss Stillwell was an apprentice at Papa's place, Old Jack was not the owner of a pharmacy in Turin, and he often walked around Papa's place, so Old Jack was very familiar with Papa's apprentices.
"How will you be here?"
After finishing the greeting, Old Jack asked again, straightened his collar with a smile, and then carried his suitcase by himself despite Jenkins' insistence.
"Jenkins sent me."
"I?"
Jenkins points to himself:
"No, I definitely haven't written to you. Last time we met, you said that you had an important mission in Nolan, so I don't want to contact you easily. I obeyed this entrustment."
Then, he looked at the cat on his shoulder again:
"Chocolate, have I written to this lady?"
The cat immediately shook its head.
"Look."
Jenkins said.
"Who would that be?"
Miss Stillwell frowned. She has a sensitive identity now, and she is on an important mission to undercover the believers of lies. No matter who sent her the letter, it meant that that person knew her identity.
Of course, both she and Jenkins believed that it was most likely written by the father. The father noticed that Miss Stillwell had returned to Nolan, so in the name of Jenkins, he invited her to return to the antique shop.
"Go and see Dad first."
Jenkins said, seeing Miss Stewell hesitate, and added:
"You're going to see Dad sooner or later. Don't you ever see him again? Even though it was a bit unpleasant when we separated back then, and it's not convenient to see him because of your work, I think it's okay this time."
When I was at the entrance of the antique shop, I observed the aura upstairs, and I was roughly sure that my father was in his room. But when Jenkins opened the back door with the key and let Miss Stewell and Old Jack come to the backyard together, Dad's aura disappeared.
Jenkins didn't point out what he saw, but went up the stairs with the two to the second floor. After stopping at the door of Dad's bedroom, turn the handle but the door won't open.
"Couldn't it be Oliver who locked the room and left? I don't remember him having the habit of locking the door."
As he spoke, Old Jack knocked on the door with his fingers, but still got no response. Jenkins frowned and looked at the yellow magic aura on the door, and made Old Jack and Miss Stillwell take a step back. After putting the chocolate on the floor, he took a deep breath and slammed his shoulders into the door. .
The loud bang startled the two of them, but the door remained motionless. Jenkins rubbed his shoulders, stood up straight, looked back, and wanted to say that he had a way, but Miss Stewell came up, took a hairpin out of her hair and poked it towards the keyhole, as if from the ear The click on the side made Jenkins look behind him nervously, and when he looked forward again, the door had already been pushed open.
The gap in the door continued to grow wider with Miss Stillwell's movements, but there was no light coming out of the door, and there was only thick, solid darkness inside.
Jenkins was startled and wanted to stop the door from opening, but he couldn't.
Just as he was about to reach out, he didn't expect the old Jack behind him to be even faster than him. But old Jack didn't try to stop Miss Stillwell, but pulled Jenkins violently away from the door.
Before the two parties even came to remember and communicate, the door was completely pushed open. As if there was a strong suction force coming from the darkness of the mouth of the abyss, Miss Stillwell, who was holding the doorknob stiffly, was the first to be sucked in like a shadow, and then Old Jack pushed Jenkins aside forcefully again, I was also drawn into the darkness inside the door.
Jenkins, who stared wide-eyed, didn't have time to think, picked up the cat that had been sucked into the air, and then jumped towards the other side of the corridor.
He obviously felt the suction force when he jumped, but there was nothing unusual when he landed. When I looked back, my father's bedroom door was closed, but Miss Stillwell and Old Jack were no longer in front of the door.
"What's the matter?"
Since returning to Nolan, these strange things have rarely visited Jenkins suddenly. What happened just now reminded him of how thrilling his life in Nolan was, but he didn't pull the door recklessly, but carved the holy emblem of the sage with a dagger on the floor of the second floor. Wrap the ritual matrix.
Simply write the situation on the triangular paper charm, and then put it into the ritual array. But the triangular paper bag did not burn, as if it was simply thrown to the ground.
"failed?"
Thinking suspiciously, he pushed back the curious cat that poked its head out of his arms, and then walked downstairs quickly. Sure enough, neither the front door nor the back door could be opened at this time, and the door seemed to be integrated with the wall.
Take out the key that Jenkins privately named [The Key of the Door], which is a key-type gift that can open enchantments and mythical locks found through Miss Magic's clues. Pushing against the door, a huge repulsive force directly flicked the key out of Jenkins' hand, and flew towards the counter in a whirl, and made a clattering sound when it landed on the counter.
It's not that the [Key of the Door] has failed, but that it didn't touch the door at all, so it couldn't work. Jenkins turned around and picked up his key, looking around suspiciously.
The first floor of the antique shop was so quiet that Jenkins could almost hear the heartbeat of the cat clinging to him. He pasted the [Door Key] with cylindrical key teeth and another exquisite silver [Silver Key] together, wanting to try the effect together, but the two immediately vibrated at the same time, and there was actually a fusion signs.