"Yes, do you have any special plans for Wednesday?"
Shade asked, and when he looked up, he saw little Mia lying on the back of the sofa looking at them. Shade then remembered that he was "forced" by the princess to come to the warm and soft firelight in front of the fireplace last night, so he had no time to lock Mia in the house.
"Was it in the living room last night?"
Yes.
"Um... ... "
Although Mia was just a cat, Shad still felt a strange sense of shame.
"Lecia doesn't have any special plans. She said she'll decide when the time comes. If there's nothing else, she can spend the whole day and come to St. Teresa's Square for a three-person date."
Dorothy blushed a little when she talked about this topic, but she was also looking forward to the day when the three of them would meet:
“It’s late winter, and it’s so cold, and there’s nowhere else to go.”
"Yes, then I'll keep Wednesday afternoon and Thursday free."
Shade nodded, and the girl's smooth legs appeared under the quilt in front of the fireplace. Seeing Shade's gaze, the blonde girl pushed him in a rather reproachful manner, and then carefully retracted her legs:
"How could Leicia think of making the bed in front of the fireplace... I'll make breakfast for you before I leave. Although the landlady must have helped me clean the apartment on time, I still have to meet with the Carsonrick Company Publishing House today to discuss the royalties for the second edition of Hamilton's Detective Stories in the South."
She gently kissed Xia De's cheek:
"See you on Wednesday then."
As expected, Dorothy left after breakfast, but she only took her books, notebooks and some clothes with her. The remaining small amount of clothes was left at the Shard's place. After all, the Shard had no shortage of space to store clothes.
Dorothy left in the snow at 8:30 in the morning, and Luvia knocked on the door of the Shade family at 8:50 - if it was not necessary, the girls with keys would still knock on the door when they came.
“It tastes strange.”
After following Shad to the room on the second floor, the purple-eyed girl twitched her nose a few times, looked around and didn't see Dorothy:
"It seems that your 'farewell' last night was not in the bedroom, but here."
She walked to the window with a smile and opened it a crack:
"Since Dorothy has left, Knight, I will come to exorcise the demon for you tonight. I paid the deposit a week ago, you won't regret it, will you?"
Yin Luna arrived at No. 6 Saint Teresa Square ten minutes later than Luvia, around nine o'clock. Luvia went downstairs to help her open the door, and when she reached the second floor, the seventeen-year-old girl muttered something about why she opened the window on a snowy day.
At this time, Xia De was sitting on the sofa, looking at the "God's gift box" in front of him. He greeted Yin Luna, who seemed to be in a good mood, and then reached into the box.
The two girls and the cat all looked at Shade's hand. Shade felt around the bottom of the box before he touched the small object:
"coin?"
This is the first reaction.
"Relic?"
This is the second reaction.
What followed was ecstasy. After the master key, he finally got the second relic from God's gift box. Since he got this sage-level relic in midsummer, the weekly gift finally gave Shade another surprise:
“It’s a special coin!”
He smiled and said to the two girls, and after taking out the coin, he found that the sky blue coin looked very familiar:
"Coin of wisdom?"
Before this, Shad had the Coin of Wisdom and the Coins of Cats and Dogs in his hands. Even earlier, the Truth Society and the cultists had used these coins to "cheat" in the game of Dice Story Collection.
"Looks like you're lucky again."
Luvia took the coin and checked whether the "copied" coin could be used for her special divination. The answer was of course yes.
Yin Luna asked curiously:
"So what's the assignment this week?"
"Keep accounts."
Xia De pulled the cat out of the box, and the cat was quite dissatisfied:
"It's not difficult to keep track of your income and expenses for at least three days in a row."
The three of them gathered at Shad's house today, naturally for the matter of the Chosen One. At present, they have confirmed the identity of the fourth Chosen One, the Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom, who is Sir Lekins Prisha from Carsenrick, and Shad and Luvia have reached a fairly complete conclusion about the special features of that Sir.
"His talent as a chosen one is to be able to transform books into spiritual runes, which is indeed amazing. However, the bloodline of the Cherubim is what we should pay attention to. After all, no matter how special the previous chosen ones were, their specialness only came from the Ringwitch's talent itself."
Luvia points this out:
"Even if Yin Fan Darkness coexists with the devil, it is because of his dark talent that he can do this. But the ancient power inherited from Sir Prisha's family seems to have nothing to do with his chosen one's talent. His specialness lies in these two points."
"At least so far, apart from what Luvia saw last night, we haven't discovered that the power of the Cherubim can help him in any way."
Xia De frowned slightly and said, while Yin Luna was a little confused:
"So, is the ability to transform books into spiritual runes a gift from the chosen one, or is it the blood of angels?"
"The Talent of the Chosen One."
Luvia replied:
"If he has angel blood, then the demons would never dare to approach him. At least for now, the ancient power in his blood has not awakened. He can only use part of the power by using the Wise Pyroxene to forcibly use the sublimation words that do not belong to him."
"In fact, even after all this talk, we still haven't decided how to treat this chosen one."
Shade pointed this out and placed the two pyroxenes he owned on the table:
"Sir Kings Prisha now has three pyroxenes in his hand, and Yin Luna and I have three together, which makes six pieces in total. If we are willing to give these pyroxenes to Sir Prisha, he can now hold the ceremony of the chosen one."
"Yes, but of course we can't do that. Shad learned something from the devil, and I have a very strange feeling about this person... this person gives me a very strange feeling."
Luvia shook her head.
"Besides, don't you also suspect that there is something wrong with him?"
"Yes, but we also need to know that there is no such thing as an absolutely good person or a bad person. I still need to find time to talk to him in detail."
Xia De nodded in agreement, and Luvia looked at Yin Luna:
"You need to learn more about the situation in the Truth Society from the church. Now that the ceremony for the chosen ones of knowledge and wisdom is getting closer and closer, I don't believe they will do nothing."
After that, he asked Xiang Xiade:
"We should also pay attention to the matter of the 'Secret Keeper' bard you mentioned. It would be best if we could control the five pyroxenes ourselves. This way, we will be safer no matter what situation we face."
"But this test is really unpredictable. How can we obtain the moon?"
Yin Luna asked doubtfully, and Luvia thought about it:
"It should be a metaphor, perhaps some kind of ancient relic. Because it points to the yellow moon, it can't be the Silver Moon of Shade. The possibility that the keeper asked us to find a living thing is very small, so it should not refer to special talents or core spiritual runes. I think it means that there is an object hidden in this city that can directly represent this yellow moon."
"Oh, if there really is such a relic, I think it is either Unknowable Level (Level 0) or Angel Level (Level 1)."
Yin Luna sighed softly, and promised to get the information from the church as soon as possible, and Luvia would also get the information about the relics from the Prophet Association. Although the coins in the hands of the three people can directly obtain the answer, after all, the ceremony of the chosen one is getting closer, and obtaining new pyroxene is not the most important task, so those coins are temporarily left in Xia De's hands, waiting to play a greater role.
For the whole morning, Shade talked with Luvia and Yin Luna at home to prepare for the upcoming Chosen Ceremony. At present, the full picture of the Chosen Ceremony is still unclear. To be safe, Luvia consumed the cat and dog coin for divination.
Since we already know that "five Wise Pyroxenes are needed" and "the location is the island in the middle of the lake", one coin is enough to divine the remaining ritual conditions:
"On the island in the middle of the lake, with five Wise Pyroxenes as the medium, you will learn the unique secrets of the world. Because we know more details in advance, my divination shows that the place where the ceremony of the chosen one will be held this time seems to be... not Tobesk?"
Luvia said to the two of them.
"I think I can roughly guess where it is. Tobesk can't always be so unlucky. I guess it's probably further south, but I need evidence."
Xia De said, and Yin Luna concluded:
"The chosen one's ritual also requires one to understand the meaning of their identity, which means they must have a deep understanding of wisdom and knowledge. They also need an artifact that has the power of an ancient god."
She glanced at Shade:
"The Arrow of Knowledge from Aikenora meets the requirements."
"So, except for the insufficient number of Wise Pyroxene, we now actually have enough conditions to allow the chosen one to complete the ceremony."
Xia De said, he knew a lot of "secrets of the world", such as the fact that this is not the sixth era in the true sense, and that the power of the old gods was inherited from the ancient gods.
"Don't forget, the ritual itself will enlighten all mortals nearby. The truth will most likely come for this purpose, so we can't relax."
Luvia narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at the last two coins on the table:
"This time it was a little too smooth, which makes me feel a little ominous... While Xia De is contacting the chosen one, I will go to find the second and third candidates. Yin Luna, the church..."
"The church is currently negotiating with the Apna Library. I have already reported what Shade said, that the library is hiding intelligence."
The seventeen-year-old girl said:
"The church believes that the ceremony for the chosen ones will most likely begin before the end of this year. This is the prophecy in the poem - wisdom will come before the end of the year."
Yin Luna took a half-day leave today and had to return to Blackstone Security Company in the afternoon. So at 11:00 noon, Xia De went out to order food at the restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue. At 11:30, the waiters who came in the snow brought lunch to the three of them.
Of course, eating out like this is quite expensive, especially on snowy days, the delivery fee is even more staggering. But the three of them haven't been together for a long time, so Xia De doesn't care about this expense.
Although he was short of money now, he was still a rich man if he only had enough to pay for daily expenses. In addition to his savings, he also had the 1,000 pounds that Princess Margaret had promised to "Grey Eagle" at Midhill Castle in the fall.
Shad planned to get the note after the princess returned to Carsenrick to prevent himself from being involved in the Grey Eagle's mission again. Last week's bombing of the princess had caused MI6 to search for the person who sent the note, and Shad could not take any more risks.
After finishing lunch together, Yin Luna returned to Blackstone Security Company, Luvia returned to the Prophet Association, and Xia De put away the plates and notified the restaurant to pick them up. Then he left the cat at home for its usual nap, and he rode a carriage in the snow alone to Dr. Schneider's clinic.
Yin Luna and Luvia left Saint Teresa Square on the same road. Walking in the snow, the young chosen one looked back in the direction of the Xia De family and finally asked the question she had been holding back for the whole morning:
"Luvia, do you know the relationship between Shad and Princess Leithia Cavendish? I was at the concert hall last night... The relationship between that princess and Shad..."
The girl with purple eyes raised her eyebrows:
"I know. She is Shad's lover."
"Um?"
Yin Luna looked at Luvia in surprise. She knew that the relationship between Shade and Luvia was very special, so she couldn't believe that Luvia knew about Shade and the princess.
"Where do you think Shade gets all his information? In addition to the Duchess, he sometimes needs help from other secular forces. The princess is a student at the Zaras Academy of Literature. Not only can she facilitate his activities in various places, she is also a good source of information."
Luvia looked at her, the lady's short boots leaving clear footprints on the snow:
"The road to pursue the thirteen chosen ones is difficult. The price Shade paid is beyond your imagination."
The seventeen-year-old girl pursed her lips:
"Yes, among the three of us, he has given the most... ... lover... That's right, only someone of the princess' status is worthy of him."
This sentence immediately made Luvia unhappy. The female fortune teller said to the immature girl with a cold face:
"Oh, Yin Luna, don't think like that. Leicia Cavendish is just a lover."
This sentence made Yin Luna happy. She took two quick steps forward, then turned around and looked at Luvia:
"Shad, you and I, we will definitely make it to the end, right?"
Luvia smiled and nodded:
"Yes, this is what we agreed on."
The Chosen Lady smiled and her steps became lighter immediately. Her annoyance about the relationship between Shade and Lecia completely disappeared because of these words:
"We're just lovers. A handsome gentleman like Shade who has status, position, wealth and ability... He is just a princess, but I am the chosen one. Since Luvia, who has a better relationship with Shade, has no objection, Shade and I..."
His face turned slightly red as he said this in his heart.
But Luvia felt inexplicably sad in her heart, not because of Shade's chaotic relationship with others, but because of the words "until the end".
She didn't understand, didn't understand where this sadness came from. She stopped, amid the hustle and bustle of the Steam City, and looked up at the sky covered with gray fog and falling snow.
In the distant past, it seemed that countless people had said such words to her.