When Shade came over with a frown on his face, the stranger waved and motioned Shade to sit down. Shade then noticed that on his right hand finger, which had loose skin and peeled skin as if it had been soaked in water for too long, he wore a white bone ring in the shape of a skull, with a small snake head sticking out of the skull's mouth.
"I've been waiting for you."
The stranger's eyes lit up, and although his voice was full of fatigue, his tone was lighter:
"Hurry up and sit down. It will be convenient for me to talk about things if the three of you are here."
He spoke with an unusually good Tobesk accent.
careful.
Hearing "her" voice in his ears, Xia De hesitated, looked at the two princesses, and then sat down opposite the strange man.
The man knocked on the table, looked into Shade's eyes and said to him:
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Victor Fanny."
Head tilted slightly to this side:
"I know you are investigating me, and you are investigating very quickly, so don't investigate me again in the future."
After a pause, he added softly:
"Or I will kill you."
Dorothy and Princess Margaret both looked unhappy. Shad stared into his pure black eyes:
"oh?"
He used a modal particle.
The man who called himself Victor Fanny nodded:
"If you are willing to do business with me, I will be happy to do so. If you dare to investigate me again, I will make everyone in this world forget your existence."
He was about to stand up, as if he didn't want to waste any more time here, but Xia De stopped him:
"Is your real name really Victor Fanny?"
The movement of half-standing up suddenly stopped, and the man who called himself "Victor Fanny" stared at Shade with those strange eyes:
"I am very good at manipulating people's emotions and usurping power from their proliferating desires."
He said softly, and then sat down again:
"Greed, seyu, immortality..."
His eyes were fixed on Xia De:
"But this doesn't mean that I have a good temper towards humans."
As the last sentence came out, the malice in his tone became more obvious. The light on the first floor of the bright Three Cats Inn suddenly dimmed. Dorothy and Princess Margaret were surprised and didn't believe that he dared to do this in public, but then they realized that only a few people at the table could notice the changes in their surroundings.
Neither Shad nor Victor Fanny spoke. As the light around the table grew dimmer, streams of black mud gushed out from the cracks in the bricks under their feet. Black muddy water dripped down from the cracks in the ceiling above their heads, as if the entire hotel was rotting.
Princess Margaret clearly saw the black muddy water, which even dripped into the broth on the table of the guest wearing a hat at the next table, splashing the soup, but he remained unaware.
A cold wind blew in the warm room, and it seemed that the whole environment was changing with Victor Fanny's mood. Some tiny sounds came into the ears of the three people. After careful listening, those slippery sounds seemed to arouse the most primitive desires in their hearts, but the tone was very similar to the sound that appeared after Shade burned the "Victor Box" with holy water in the morning.
The princess of the Southern Kingdom realized that they had provoked some terrifying existence. Her body trembled unconsciously in the darkness, and she looked at the blonde female writer.
The latter seemed to be in good condition, and turned to look at Shade with pursed lips. As she looked over, the young detective's surroundings had already completely fallen into darkness, as if a black quagmire had completely enveloped the space he was in.
But Shade was not swallowed by the bewitching darkness, and the not-bright but indeed brilliant holy silver light emanated from his body. Looking at the silver moonlight, Margaret Anjou felt an instinctive peace of mind, just like on a midsummer night, holding a wine glass and looking at the fullest silver moon in the night sky.
"It's amazing that you weren't devoured."
The standard Delarion language was severely echoed and distorted in the darkness. Victor Fanny was still sitting opposite Shade, but it seemed that he was not the one sitting there.
With just a quick glance, Princess Margaret suddenly saw a twisted, huge, dark shadow in the human figure. The huge mental shock in an instant caused blood to flow from the corner of her eyes. She closed her eyes and gasped, not daring to open them again. But the action of closing her eyes made her other senses more acute, allowing her to vaguely see something lurking in the darkness... ...
Fear, anger, lust, hunger, all kinds of strange emotions surged into her heart at the same time, and then exploded in her heart instantly. Margaret Anjou's eyes, which were slightly emitting red light, suddenly opened, but when she saw the silver moonlight on Shad's body, the inexplicable emotion gradually subsided.
She and the blonde writer looked at the light on Shade, which was the only source of comfort in the darkness. Everything in the Three Cats Inn seemed to have disappeared, but it seemed that only they had disappeared.
A wooden table, four benches, four "people", these are the only objects that exist in the darkness.
Black mud was gurgling in the darkness. Margaret Anjou, who was watching Shade, could hear someone lying behind her, whispering in her ear, urging her to fulfill her heart's desire.
Xia De, whose body was glowing, had a normal expression. He confirmed that his companions were fine for the time being. He looked at the guy opposite him who was gradually losing his human form. While enduring mental pollution, he nodded slightly, as if confirming something:
"We have no intention of going against you. In that case, why don't you give me a Victor Box so I can copy the coin and we'll be even. How about that?"
Princess Margaret knew that this was "surrendering" to the other party, but she understood this behavior. What they provoked this time was not a monster that humans could easily touch.
"Of course."
Victor Fanny was clearly sitting at the table, but the overlapping voices came from the dark distance.
A pair of hands appeared beside Shade, holding a wooden "Victor Box". Darkness engulfed the space behind the hands, as if a severed hand was floating in the air.
Xia De held the box in front of him, took out the coin of wisdom from his pocket and put it in. After closing the box and opening it again, there was still only one coin in the box:
"Look, what you made is totally useless. I really thought your creations could copy relics at will."
Xia De laughed in a relaxed tone. The man sitting opposite him, whose half body was integrated into the darkness, whispered:
“Wisdom is a power that even desire cannot replicate.”
“Are you very wise?”
Xia De laughed again:
"Answer me a question, and I can also leave as if nothing happened - why did the Cherubim stay?"
The hand with the white bone ring stretched out towards Shade like a long snake, and the soft arm was covered with a layer of creepy scales. But after a flash of brilliant silver moonlight, the hand was forced to retreat, and Victor Fanny disappeared into the darkness around the table.
"I was wondering why it looked familiar... Turns out it was a demon."
"demon?"
Even though she had a vague guess in her mind, Princess Margaret was still extremely surprised when she actually heard the answer.
"Don't worry, the opponent is not strong."
Xia De said that this time the demon was at least much weaker than the human pus.
The surging darkness was not only surging around, but it was still just darkness. However, with the disappearance of Victor Fanny, it seemed as if something had changed fundamentally.
The life rings behind Princess Margaret and Dorothy appeared at the same time, the princess had four rings and Dorothy had five rings. The burning of the parchment made the sleeping princess holding the spindle and the match girl carrying the basket appear, and the toy that was thrown out turned into the "Killer Jack" that Shad had seen once.
Three summons from the element of enlightenment wandered around the table, trying to dispel the things coming from the darkness. Instinctive fear made the ladies' life rings tremble with aura, and invisible tentacles stretched out from the sticky darkness, gradually surrounding the few people.
"Moonlight Greatsword!"
The great sword emitting holy moonlight became a new source of light. The princess couldn't help but look at the gorgeous sword, but Shade didn't use it to attack the enemy in the dark. Instead, he stood up with the sword in his hand and looked forward.
"Don't look up."
Xia De warned softly. He squinted his eyes and saw an indescribable huge and strange figure, whose entirety he couldn't even see, wriggling in the darkness above the three people, reaching out its "hand" to them from above.
It is difficult to say whether that organ can be defined as a "hand", but whether it is Shad, Dorothy or Princess Margaret, the scene of the three of them being caught by the giant creature and then completely disappearing from this world flashed through their minds.
"Don't worry, I'll naturally protect your safety by involving you in this matter. I'm really sorry, I didn't expect it to be a demon..."
Shad expressed his apologies softly, and tears of blood flowed from the eyes of normal Shad as he stared directly at the huge demon figure in the darkness.
As the "hand" that descended from the sky gradually lowered, the rotation of the girls' life rings became sluggish.
Shade took a deep breath, pulled out the "Witch Detection" badge from his neck, and pointed it at the creeping darkness:
"Praise the angels, praise death."
He said softly.
Margaret Anjou, who was trembling with fear, actually felt the blazing light at this moment. After her senses sensed the strange temperature, a soft white light appeared in her vision.
She looked up in surprise and saw a huge winged figure flashing above Shade's head. At the same time, the badge he held high emitted a sun-like white holy light, which instantly drove away the surrounding darkness, as if to melt the huge and terrifying black figure.