When Shade walked out of the room, she turned around and saw Leisia walking briskly with a group of maids. When she saw Shade standing in the corridor, she thought Shade was waiting for her:
"I brought 'Summer Night Collection'."
Her Royal Highness the Princess smiled and waved the book in her hand. Although Xia De had seen this book many times, he had never really read the contents inside.
"It's good that you brought it. I'm really looking forward to what's inside."
Xia De said, and Leixia blushed and asked again:
"Did you bring that?"
This was something that Lesia had specifically asked Dorothy to remind Shad not to forget in the morning.
"Yes, I brought it."
He shook the small crown pendant on his wrist, and the red-haired princess showed a satisfied expression:
"I hope this reading club will go as smoothly as last time. Come in with me."
She pretended to use the key to open the door of the lounge at the end of the corridor, turned around and saw Tifa standing in front of the door diagonally opposite, looking at them.
"Good evening, Miss Servet. How is Saradir County?"
Resia said hello, and Shad turned around and wanted to say something to Tifa, but was pulled into the room by Resia:
"No one is allowed to come in without my permission."
The princess wearing the crown spoke seriously to the maids she brought with her, and the maids stood at the door. Finally, Resia smiled at the black-haired maid across the room. Tifa saw her in the door, turned around and hugged Shad warmly. Shad's left eye was covered by Resia, and his right eye looked at Tifa through the door.
The two looked at each other through Leicia, and with a slight push of Leicia's spell, the door behind her closed. The gap in the door was getting smaller and smaller, Shad was still looking at Tifa, and Tifa was also looking at Shad, and she even saw the blonde girl coming over.
The door quickly blocked the two people's sight, one was inside the door and the other was outside. Leisia's maids quickly found their respective positions at the door, but they also seemed to be very interested in what was happening inside the door.
“This feeling…”
Tifa blinked her beautiful eyes:
“That’s really interesting.”
There is a big difference between the princess' silver crown and the king's crown, and with both present, many interesting games can be played. Even Dorothy, who behaves very reserved, still shows her enthusiasm tonight when the "Red Butterfly Day" is held again after more than a month.
No one knows what is happening inside the door, but the girls who know about this special event can't help but imagine what the hot scene is like inside.
Around 8:30 that evening, hurried footsteps disturbed the tranquility of the rest area. The protagonist of the birthday party, the little princess Ajelina, came here with her maid anxiously, holding up her skirt. She wanted to get closer to the door closest to the inside, but she was a little afraid of her sister, so she knocked on Miss Carina's door.
At this time, the Duchess was in the room, chatting with Princess Camille, Leisia's married sister. Seeing Ajelina rushing in, the princess, who was already a mother of two children, said with some dissatisfaction:
"Ajelina, you are now a 17-year-old girl, why are you still so reckless? Where are your ladylike manners?"
"If you have any problem, go find Aunt Carina."
She said timidly, so Miss Carina nodded, and Princess Camille ended the visit with regret. After Tifa closed the door, Ajelina said nervously:
"I need to see Shade, now. Something's happened, and he needs to show up."
She briefly explained what was happening in the banquet hall. Miss Carina put down the book in her hand and frowned slightly:
"Is there such a thing? Tifa, take Ajelina and knock on the door. Even if it's Leicia, Shade must show up at this time. No, no, I'll go knock on the door, otherwise you might be torn to pieces by the angry eaters."
After saying that, she stood up from the sofa, and the group walked into the corridor and towards the closed door. The maids wanted to stop them, but when they saw Miss Carina, they had to give up their seats.
The witch knocked on the door herself. Although she didn't hear any sound from inside after knocking twice, she knew that they must have heard it. So the people in the corridor waited for a while, and soon, the door was opened. Shade, wearing only a white shirt, appeared at the door and used his body to block the ladies outside from peeking into the door:
"What's wrong?"
Seeing that Ajelina and Miss Carina were there, he realized that something might have happened.
Smelling the scent of Shade, the witch blushed slightly:
"Wipe off the lipstick marks on your body first. Really, what are you guys playing at... Ajelina, you tell me."
Xia De just hurriedly put on his clothes and came to open the door, without even fastening the top two buttons of his shirt. Her Royal Highness stole a glance at Xia De's neck, touched the inside of her lips with the tip of her tongue, and then spoke quickly:
"A homicide has occurred."
"Murder? Here? Yodel Palace?"
"Yes, my father already knows about this. There are about twelve people who know about the body now, and they are all under control of MI6, so most of the guests don't know what happened yet. My father instructed that the murderer must be found before the end of the banquet. He asked you to investigate and solve the case as a detective instead of letting the police handle the case with great fanfare. You must try to minimize the impact of the incident and not attract too much attention when investigating the case."
"There's such a thing? I mean, I understand. I'll go now."
As he was talking, Leisia's voice came from the room behind Shade:
"Shad, have the damned Kasenrick people reached the city of Tobesk?"
"Of course not."
"What's that?"
Shad explained what happened to Resia and Dorothy. Although they were reluctant to let Shad leave, they were forced to admit that he was needed to deal with the matter. So the three of them had to change their clothes in a hurry. Shad followed Ajelina to the crime scene, while Resia and Dorothy went to the banquet hall together, so that people would not wonder what Resia did all night.
However, before Shad left, Leisia asked him to come back within an hour and threatened Ajelina. Although Leisia's tone was relatively calm, the little princess could also understand how dissatisfied Leisia Cavendish was at the moment.
Miss Carina was not suitable to participate in this matter, so she asked Tifa to follow Shad and act as a temporary detective assistant. When walking towards the scene of the incident with Ajelina, Shad asked for more details:
"By the way, how many people were dead? Were they people I knew?"
"The deceased is a person you just saw more than an hour ago."
"who?"
"Daniel Philip. The eldest son of Marquis Philip, the one who had a conflict with you at the door of the banquet hall."
In this way, without Shad taking any action personally, there would be one less marriage partner that Larus III had chosen for Ajelina.
The murder took place not in the banquet hall in public, but in the room at the end of the long corridor where the banquet hall was located, which was used to temporarily store gifts. The rooms in the Yodel Palace were generally large, and the gifts at the murder scene were piled up like a mountain. When Shad entered the room, he saw Daniel Philip lying on the ground at a glance.
Just like when I saw him more than an hour ago, the young man was wearing a red Royal Army uniform and black boots. He was lying on the carpet with an obvious impact wound on the back of his head. Next to the body, there was a bloodstained bronze swan statue thrown casually. This was also a gift brought by the guests. There was even a pink ribbon hanging around the swan's neck, but most of the ribbon was stained black by the dirty blood.
The servants and guests who knew about this were "resting" in the next room. Princess Ajelina could not stay with the body, so she went to the next room. At this time, standing at the scene of the crime were the butler of Yodel Palace, the royal attendant, Deputy Director Morris of MI6 who was in charge of Yodel Palace affairs, and Mr. Johnson, the senior superintendent of Redwich Field, who rushed over like Shad, which could be seen from the epaulettes with a crown and a star on his shoulders.
Among all the people present, only Deputy Director Morris of MI6 knew that Shad was also from MI6. Others only knew that he was a very famous detective from Tobesk.
Therefore, before Shad arrived at the scene and was about to start investigating, the serious-looking senior superintendent asked a question:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Hamilton, I don't doubt you. But before the investigation, can you tell me clearly about your personal schedule from 7 o'clock to when Her Highness Ajelina saw you just now?"
His suspicion was correct. After all, hundreds of people had seen the conflict between Shade and the deceased. Shade naturally couldn't say what he was doing just now. Fortunately, Tifa took the initiative to speak:
"Hamilton was with Miss Carina just now."
She introduced herself as a maid:
"They have been in the lounge upstairs the whole time. As for what they are doing, I'm sorry, this is the privacy of the young lady and Mr. Hamilton."
People immediately expressed their understanding, and their suspicion of Shade was easily dispelled:
"Since it is the Duchess of Saradir who testified, Lord Hamilton is certainly not a suspect. Then, please start the investigation."
People retreated to the wall, leaving only Tifa behind Shad. Shad squatted beside the body and put on white gloves to check the wounds. He pretended to be so professional because he had almost seen the "answer". The next step was just to find the process through the answer.
He hoped that he could be faster and not let Leicia and Dorothy wait too long. But at the same time, he was also very curious about who killed Daniel Philip and helped him so much. If possible, Shade really wanted to shake the other person's hand to thank him, and then punch him to retaliate for wasting the time of the Red Butterfly Day.