Next, Shad and Osenfurt did not act with Prince William. The prince had achieved his purpose of coming to this lively banquet, so he left early on the pretext that he had to attend an important meeting the next day.
Shad watched as Osenfurt and the groom, Mr. Enriquez, escorted the royal heir to the carriage at the gate of the manor. Then the two men said goodbye to the groom, Mr. Enriquez, and the burly man motioned for Shad to follow him.
Entering the building along the cobblestone path on the central axis of the courtyard, in the banquet hall on the second floor, one happens to see the bride, Miss Mason, or Mrs. Enriquez, walking from the side door of the banquet hall to the remote corridor of the mansion.
"Follow her."
Stone Oxenfurt said, as if he had known that the lady was here.
At this time, most of the guests were outside, and there were few people in the banquet hall, and the corridor was even more deserted. Shade and Ossenfort slowed down their pace, and then heard the bride, Miss Mason, talking to someone on the other side of the corridor, and she was a little excited:
"I'm married! Yes, today is the wedding!"
Based on this sentence alone, Shad had already thought of many stories, but he didn't think that Osenfurt had asked him to come along specifically to see this kind of thing.
The two of them quietly peeked around the corner, and Shade raised his eyebrows. The person talking to Miss Mason was not a person at all, but a transparent spirit. It looked like a young man in his twenties, about the same height as Shade, but a little thin.
The color of the spirit is normal, and it is not very strong in terms of its solidity. It only does not leave after death because of its obsession and strong emotions.
There was some malevolent force in the soul, but it was too far away to be determined.
"She" reminded softly.
Normal people cannot see ordinary souls, but since the bride can see it, it means that this soul has a great relationship with her.
"Is this the soul you asked me to see?"
Shad asked Stone Oxenfurt softly, but Miss Mason, who was so excited, didn't even notice that there was someone in the corner.
As expected, Stone Oxenfurt could also see the soul. This was not a very special ability. Ordinary people like Princess Ajelina Cavendish could now also see some souls. Otherwise, all the ghost stories from ancient times to the present would have become false.
"Since arriving at this manor, I've discovered that this spirit is haunting Maggie Mason. It's going to be a good show to watch."
Osenfurt said, while the conversation on the other side continued.
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
Miss Mason's tone was already a little hysterical, but unfortunately the soul did not communicate with her by vibrating the air to form sound, so Shad did not know what the man's soul was expressing.
"I can't let you do this. I'm married. Yes, today is my wedding. And you're already dead. Leave. I'm sorry, but it's really impossible."
Miss Mason was still arguing fiercely. This lady had a good appearance to begin with, and her bridal outfit today made her the most beautiful woman present. But her excited expression at this moment made her makeup look particularly strange.
The soul ignored her, turned and moved towards the wall, then went straight through the wall and into the courtyard of the manor.
“Oh, God!”
The bride, Miss Mason, immediately ran after him, lifting up her skirt. Of course, she couldn't walk through the wall, nor could she climb through the window in her skirt at her wedding, so she ran to the other side of the corridor and wanted to enter the garden directly from the back door of the house.
Shad and Oxenfurt followed. Miss Mason was lucky. Although her panicked run into the courtyard made the guests a little confused, she still found the man's soul quickly.
At this time, the spirit was approaching the groom, Mr. Enriquez, who was talking to his guests. The latter did not react to the appearance of the dead spirit.
The soul, which was not powerful but definitely not weak, looked at him quietly, while Miss Mason was entangled by a group of ladies who suddenly appeared and could not get close for the time being.
Suddenly, an old lady with a white poodle passed by, so the soul walked towards the dog and suddenly made a threatening gesture.
“Woof woof woof!”
The barking was not very loud, but the dog's eyes were red. It broke free from the rope around its neck, jumped onto the table, opened its mouth and bit the groom's neck.
Fortunately, the dog was just a puppy. Although everyone was frightened, Mr. Enriquez still bent down to avoid the attack. Then the servants hurriedly subdued the mad puppy and temporarily calmed the small commotion.
The bride, Miss Mason, was already anxious at this time. She squeezed out from the ladies around her and walked quickly towards her husband. At this time, the soul floated to the side of the ladder, where the servants on the ladder were trimming the tangled ribbons hanging on the tree.
The spirit made a pushing gesture, and two seconds later, the ladder fell towards the groom without any warning. Amid the panicked shouts of the people, the five or six friends around the groom not only did not run away, but helped to hold the ladder together.
With so many people sharing the pressure, no one was injured. The servant who was originally on the ladder was so frightened that he apologized to the owner of the manor repeatedly, and the groom was generous enough not to care about his mistake, but to care whether he was injured.
Miss Mason finally came over at this time, and when she stood with her husband, the undead did not attack again, otherwise they might have accidentally hurt Miss Mason.
But even so, the undead itself still underwent some changes. Its own malice would cause the soul to show different states, and it tried to hurt people many times, making the originally normal spirit body have a strange green color. This is a typical precursor to evil spiritization, and once this process starts, it is basically irreversible.
However, this sign of transformation into an evil spirit also made Shad see more things. This soul had already been polluted, and his degeneration was inevitable.
Among all the people present, except Shad and Stone Oxenfurt, only the bride, Miss Mason, could see the strange changes in the soul. She did not have Shad's knowledge, but at least she could feel that something was wrong. Her delicate makeup showed a panic expression. She nervously grabbed her husband's arm, and then she used the excuse of feeling unwell to return to the mansion with the groom.
As for the soul, of course it still followed them.
"Is this what you asked me to see?"
Shade and Stone Oxenfurt stood in the crowd, watching the two men and the ghost leave along the garden path. Oxenfurt asked Shade:
"Would you like to make a bet with me? What will be the ending of this story?"
Xia De shook his head:
"You said it yourself, you always win. Although I have beaten you three times, I don't want to risk losing again. Besides, I hate gambling the most."
Thinking of Shade's superb Rhodes card skills and superb shuffling techniques, Osenfurt showed a mocking smile on his face, but at least he didn't laugh out loud:
"I think you know how to cast an illusion of invisibility, so cast the illusion for us."
The groom, Mr. Enriquez, who was helping his wife, who claimed to be dizzy, back to the mansion, met many guests on the way who greeted and congratulated them, but he did not stop. Instead, he sent his wife directly back to the master bedroom on the third floor.
To celebrate the wedding, the room was also decorated. Although the manor is a bit old, the room has been renovated as a whole, and a photo of the couple was placed on the bedside table.
Miss Mason was helped to bed, and Mr. Enriquez asked the servants to bring hot tea. But there had to be a host present for this banquet, so he wanted to go downstairs to entertain the guests. But Miss Mason, knowing that there was a malicious soul staring at Mr. Enriquez, did not dare to let her husband leave alone, so she covered her forehead and said with a little panic:
"Can you stay with me for a while? I'm still a little dizzy."
"Of course. Is it because the wind is too cold tonight? Oh, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have insisted on opening the outdoor venue."
Mr. Enriquez said with concern, sitting down beside the bed. The servants retreated one after another. Of course, the room that seemed to have only two people was actually filled with four people and a ghost. Mr. Shad and Mr. Osenfurt had already entered the room and were standing at the door watching them.
The couple, who were completely unaware of this, held each other's hands, and Mr. Enriquez smiled softly:
"We are finally getting married. After going through so many things, we have finally come to this day. In the future, we will still walk a long way together."
He kissed his wife's forehead, which made Miss Mason even more nervous. The wandering ghost became more agitated because of Enriquez's action.
Miss Mason obviously wanted to remind her husband not to do such intimate actions now, but she didn't know how to say it. Enriquez obviously misunderstood his wife's meaning, so he gently hugged her and tried to kiss her further, but was pushed away by the more panicked Miss Mason:
"Oh, sorry, I'm not feeling well."
She lowered her head and said this, but Mr. Enriquez didn't care. Instead, he took the initiative to express his apology. He asked Miss Mason to lie down on the bed, then held her hand and began to imagine her married life:
"We will live in this manor for many years to come. Maybe after the wedding, we will completely renovate the house."
"As you wish."
Miss Mason nervously observed the undead out of the corner of her eye.
"Especially the other rooms on the third floor. When we have children in the future, we will also need to prepare separate baby rooms and mother-and-child rooms. Oh, and there is also a smoking room. When we have children, we can't smoke casually in the house."
Mr. Enriquez seemed to have seen the bright future:
"How many nurseries should we decorate first? Maggie, I plan to have two children, preferably a boy and a girl. Of course, we can't force it, God will bless us according to fate. What about you? How many children do you want?"
The undead became more unstable because of this sentence. Miss Mason swallowed her saliva and grabbed the quilt with her knuckles white. It seemed that she was looking at the curtains of the four-poster bed that were shaking for some reason, but in fact, she was watching the undead undergo further changes:
"I have some headaches and don't want to discuss them right now."
"Sorry, sorry, I forgot again. At the wedding this afternoon, I promised to take care of you for the rest of my life."
Mr. Enriquez spoke kindly, looking at his wife with tender eyes.