After discussing the meeting between Shade and Miss Benannis, the witches left, and Shade returned to Midhill Castle with Grandma Cassandra. The old witch was quite experienced in the ways of the world, and she also suggested that Shade bring a gift when he went to see Miss Benannis tomorrow.
She had intended to prepare a gift for Shade, but the harmonica that Shade had taken out of the gift box this week was still gathering dust at home, so she could give it to the witch of Randall Valley. As for the Secret Art of Immortality, this gift was too valuable and could not be given out for the time being.
After saying goodbye to the witch and the apprentice, Helen and Grace personally sent Shade to the abandoned tower in the mountain of Xikar Mountain. When saying goodbye at the door of the abandoned tower in the forest, Shade asked another question:
"Grace, do you know the old god - the butterfly god Thousand Eyes Illusion Butterfly?"
Xia De asked the older sister in the white dress. The girl, who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, exchanged glances with her younger sister:
"Sir, did you meet that god in the past?"
"Yes."
Xia De nodded:
"Because you have a close connection with butterflies, I want to know your relationship with that god..."
Grace reached out and took her sister's hand, and in the scarlet butterflies, the two became one. The more mature girl had a stronger power:
"Yes, the shape of the butterfly is not only related to the red butterfly pendant given by the blood-sucking god, but also to the butterfly god."
She looked at Shade walking through the woods in the moonlight, the quiet moonlight illuminating that handsome face:
"Although the old gods, the twin gods, are the basis of our power, the great one also gave us power. However, we lost that part of our memory, not because it was consumed as a price when you saved us, but because it was lost during the transition between the Sixth and Fifth Epochs."
Xia De nodded to show his understanding:
"So what do you know about this god?"
“She loves ballads.”
The Red Butterfly girl said with certainty, looking at Xia De with eyes that glowed with strange red light:
"If we can recover that part of our memory, maybe we can sing for you a ballad dedicated to the Butterfly God."
"How do I restore my memory?"
Shade asked, even though he already had a way to obtain the singing voice, it would be nice to have a second option.
The girl in front of me blushed slightly:
"Dream with us, in the dream woven by butterflies... ... touch our souls deeply and open the closed door of memory."
Xia De suspected that he had misunderstood, so he just nodded in contemplation:
"I see. I'll leave now, and I'll ask for help if I need it."
There was a look of regret on the face of Miss Red Butterfly:
"Good night then, Shade..."
She hugged Shade gently, and then kissed Shade's lips like a bird wetting its feathers on the lake:
"Sweet dreams."
When Shade returned home with a lot of thoughts in his mind, it was already 9:30 in the evening. The blonde girl was holding the cat and reading a magazine on the sofa in front of the fireplace. Seeing Shade coming downstairs, she stood up and said with a smile:
"Have you dealt with the witch? Are you going out tonight?"
"I'm not going out. I went to the abandoned manor outside the city before dinner, but the power of the earth and the healing aura there are not effective. We have to wait until the problem of that land erupts again to determine whether it is the same trouble as the Randall Valley."
He hugged the blonde, then realized it was the princess:
"Lecia, assist me in the ritual. I want to learn the sound of thaumaturgical music."
"No problem, but it's little Ajelina's birthday next month. Have you prepared a birthday present?"
Leicia took off his coat, her nose flaring and her brows slightly frowning, but she said nothing.
Xia De shook his head in distress:
"I'm not good at choosing gifts. My current idea is to look for rare or precious souvenirs in the Randall River Valley. The local specialty is actually clay figurines, but they are too ugly to be suitable as gifts."
"If you haven't prepared anything yet, you can just give her a piece of jeweled jewelry. Pick one out of your jewel box, and I'll find a qualified jeweler to process it for you."
Leicia suggested with a smile, and gently kissed the side of Shade's face:
"Or, you can give yourself as a gift to Ajelina, she will probably be very happy."
She is testing.
"Lecia, stop joking."
The learning ceremony of the Sound of Thaumaturgy Music is not complicated, but it requires the surroundings to be as quiet as possible, so Shad chose to hold the ceremony in the basement at night.
The ritual did not require a ritual array, the most important thing was actually the potion. The potion, made from the three precious echo grasses, had been made by priest Augustus in 20 minutes this evening.
After everything was ready, Shade stood in the basement and drank the bottle of light purple potion. The life ring called from behind, and the divine echoing spirit runes flashed with dazzling golden light.
Xia De stretched out his right hand to cover his right ear:
"do♫~"
He sang the notes, trying to get them as intonation as possible.
"re♫~"
Lecia sang softly on the side. As for the cat, it was locked upstairs at the moment to prevent its meowing from disrupting Shad's ceremony.
"mi♫~"
"She" sang gently in Shad's ear, and her voice was more beautiful than Shad's and Lecia's.
"fa♫~"
Xia De closed his eyes and continued to sing. Faintly, he could hear the echoes of three different voices overlapping in his ears.
"sol♫~"
This was the sound of Dorothy's body again. Her Royal Highness had received professional vocal training, and the ladies of the royal family were all very good at singing.
"lai♫~"
"She" continued to sing that if "her" voice could be heard by others, then Shad would not have to make special preparations at the God's banquet.
"ti♫~"
Shade spoke for the third time, and now all three voices overlapped in his ears. This was the auditory hallucination caused by drinking the potion, probably similar to eating poisonous mushrooms. At this time, the spiritual light of the spiritual rune was still flickering, indicating that everything was normal in the ceremony.
Then, Shad, Lecia and "she" sang the final high note together:
"do↑♫~"
Mixed sounds appeared in Xia De's ears, and the overlapping sounds disappeared at this moment. Then, from the low "do" to the high "do", eight notes echoed in his ears, and Xia De instinctively sang them out with his own voice, with unusually standard pronunciation.
"Very good, I have mastered this magic!"
After the voice that repeated over and over again in his ears stopped, Shade smiled and said to Leicia:
"Next, Your Highness, please sing a song for me and let me record it. This way, I can continue to attend the banquet of the god and sing songs for the god."
"Shad, you know you have someone else who is more suitable."
Her Royal Highness the Princess said gently:
"Go to Randall Valley and seek help from Miss Vanessa Benanis, whom you mentioned today that you had met."
Shade did not take the initiative to reveal that Miss Benannis was a witch. After all, this was someone else's privacy, but Lecia could guess it.
"Don't make that expression, I'm serious. Although I'm confident in my singing voice, it's obviously not as good as those professional artists. I'm so envious that you can hear her sing, which is an opportunity I don't even have. In order to explore your time, you naturally have to choose the most suitable person, right?"
She said with a smile, then took Xia De's hand and looked at him with a smile. Her Royal Highness the Princess was really considerate.
"Also, I took away a batch of bad books from little Ajelina a few days ago... Do you want to try it with me?"
(Little Mia is running...)
In the blue winter sky, cotton candy-like clouds floated in the air. Under this rare winter scenery, white doves were released from the Randall Valley Railway Station amid people's cheers, and the cheers almost dispersed the few clouds.
Crowds of people were crammed into the train station on Friday morning. On both sides of the platform, they took off their hats to salute the steam locomotive that was still emitting black smoke but was slowly entering the platform with a harsh sound, or waved to the carriages with closed curtains.
At the stop between carriages 1 and 2, local police tried to clear a space with a human wall. Even though the train had just stopped, reporters who had already set up their cameras had already started flashing their spotlights.
The burning magnesium strips created large clouds of smoke and dust, and the cold breeze blew them toward the crowd behind, causing people to cough loudly, laugh indecently, curse and complain.
After confirming that the surroundings were safe, the carriage of the stopped train was finally opened from the inside.
First, the royal guards filed out and formed a thicker human wall together with the local police. Then the attendant came out and laid wooden boards on the gap between the train car and the platform.
As local nobles including Earl Granger, whom Shad had met, and the mayor of Randall City and others went to greet him, Prince William of Anjou, whom Shad had only seen in newspapers, came out of the carriage wearing a red formal suit and several glittering medals on his right chest.
There were continuous cheers, applause and the sound of camera flashes, and the Princess of the United Kingdom, Margaret of Anjou, followed her brother out of the carriage.
She was also wearing a very formal long dress. Of course, since it was still deep winter, it was a thick style, and she also had a white cashmere shawl on her shoulders.
The princess and prince of the kingdom stood side by side, waving to the public under the camera. When Margaret glanced at the crowd, she unexpectedly caught a ray of pleasant orange color:
"What a beautiful color! As bright as the sun."
She thought to herself, and when she looked at the color again, she realized that it was a small orange and white cat squatting on the man's shoulder:
"Such a beautiful cat..."
Eyes slightly widened:
"Mia?"