It is now three days after the Lakeview Manor incident. Miss Louisa has recovered quickly. When she and Shade strolled along the boulevard, there was no sign that she was still being kept alive by false immortality three days ago.
Maybe pretty girls like cute cats, Miss Louisa was very interested in Mia and thought it was a pet adopted by Shade. But even after explaining that it was fostered at home, the blonde girl still wanted to hug the small orange cat, but Mia refused to leave Shade.
"Detective, you're really good with cats."
"Speaking of which, can I take the cat with me? Should I send Mia back first?"
Shade asked again, he actually enjoyed "seeing the world" with high-level ring sorcerers.
"No need. This trip is safe. You can consider it as an opportunity to learn more. Detective, sooner or later you will go and retrieve relics on your own."
Miss Louisa said easily, and then guided Xia De to turn right into Tyon College Street at the next intersection with her.
Just as Shade guessed, Miss Louisa came here to retrieve a relic. The reason for this was that two months ago, an old writer who lived alone and was familiar with Miss Louisa passed away. When people familiar with the old man were helping him sort out his belongings, Miss Louisa found out from his diary that the writer had a very magical fountain pen.
“Can you write papers or reports automatically?”
Xia De guessed that half of the houses on this street were gray stone houses, with very similar styles and three floors. Stepping into this place is like returning from the steam age to medieval civilization. However, the steam pipes clinging to the stone walls, the clothes of the pedestrians walking on the street, and the ubiquitous hawking reminds us that this is the steam age all the time.
Tyon College Street should be the old neighborhood of Tobesk.
"Detective, how could such a good thing happen? Besides, relics cannot be used casually."
Miss Louisa said, walking forward side by side with Xia De. Xia De noticed that today Miss Louisa did not show the little action of frequently touching her earlobes.
"I secretly took the diary away and found that if the pen used the writer's blood as ink to draw any human image on the paper with letters, then the image drawn could enter the writer's dream, and then..."
She glanced at Shade, who blinked:
"Why don't you say anything?"
Hearing the woman's laughter in his head, he suddenly realized that he had not been thinking in this direction at all:
"No, no, no need to explain. I understand. But why is there such a relic?"
After passing Tyon College Street, the two continued to walk east, and after passing the Private Tyon Mechanical College, they turned into Cat Tail Lane where their destination was.
"This is not the strangest relic. I have seen stranger ones. But this relic is not weak. I found information from the library of the academy. It is the Dream Pen of Joy. According to the classification, it should be clerical grade (level 4). This pen will actively tempt the user to use it in the right way in dreams. Ordinary people will try to write with their own blood out of curiosity, which they think is normal, leading to tragedy. I suspect the death of its original owner is related to it."
Shade nodded, thinking about the possible use of this pen for the ring wizard. Then he found that at least this pen was useless to him. The dream pen absorbed the blood of the user, not the blood of the enemy, so it could not constitute the conditions for absorbing the power of the gods.
Miss Louisa continued to speak:
"After the old writer died, the pen mysteriously disappeared. I tracked it down for two months and found out that before the writer died, he sold the pen to an old professor named Tiris Manning who lived nearby. Professor Manning is a collector, and I want to visit him today."
Professor Manning lived in an apartment at No. 17 Cat Tail Lane. As they were looking for the house number, a little girl selling flowers in the lane came towards them.
Probably misunderstanding the relationship between Shad and Miss Louisa, the flower girl took the initiative to come forward to sell her goods. After being politely rejected by Shad, the flowers in the basket were almost bitten by the cat in Shad's arms.
Seeing that the little girl's clothes were patched and the shoes on her feet were obviously inappropriate, although he didn't buy her flowers, Shad still gave her three pence as compensation for her being scared by Mia.
"I didn't expect you to be so kind."
After the flower girl left, Miss Louisa joked that she knew Shad's financial situation was not very good.
"They are all poor people. Although I can't help everyone, I am happy to help those in front of me without affecting myself. Mia, three pence will be deducted from your dinner. Don't eat carelessly."
As Xia De spoke, he stroked the cat's head, and the orange cat squirmed in dissatisfaction.
Miss Louisa smiled gently:
"You are such a good person. If the poor girls in the fairy tales could meet you, there wouldn't be so many tragedies."
No. 17 Cattail Lane is a three-story apartment building with an attic, with a dark yellow exterior wall, and the wall is covered with moss along the bottom of the street. According to Miss Louisa's preliminary investigation, the entire building is owned by Professor Manning.
Because they had made an appointment in advance, after knocking on the door, the fat maid who opened the door confirmed the identity of the visitor and invited the two in. Miss Louisa was the buyer this time, and Shade was the follower hired by Miss Louisa to protect the weak lady who was carrying a large amount of cash.
No. 17 Cattail Lane is divided into two sides, one side is rented out, and Professor Manning lives in the right building. Led by the fat maid, they walked up the narrow stairs to the second floor, where the professor entertained the two in the crowded study on the second floor, which was piled with books.
The walls of the study were covered with photos of Professor Manning in various parts of the Old World. He seemed to be a professor of archaeology and had visited various places in the Old World when he was young. Even the books piled up in the study were mostly history books. Professional books in this era were still very expensive, so the professor must be quite wealthy.
Professor Manning was a tall, thin, bald old man wearing round-framed glasses. Probably because he had been teaching for too long, when he greeted Miss Louisa and Shade, his tone was like he was giving a lecture. But the old professor was kind and treated them with very good black tea.
He also has a pet cat at home, so he didn't blame the detective for bringing a cat to his house. However, the dark cat looked like an adult and was very interested in Mia. It hid behind the desk and poked its head out to look at the orange cat held by Shade.
But Mia acted like she didn't see it and looked like she didn't want to play with it.