"You said Miss Carina is from the Witch Council?"
During the day, he learned about this organization in detail from Miss Anat. Not long ago, the maid Tifa directly admitted it. Unexpectedly, Miss Louisa also knew about this organization.
"Not only Carina Cavendish, but also her personal maid Tifa Servet. The witches claim to have inherited the legacy of the last thirteen witch emperors of the Fifth Epoch. The council is composed of thirteen great witches as the core, and all other members are women."
Miss Louisa smiled:
"For those in the know, the Witch Council has another 'elegant name'."
"What?"
Shade asked curiously.
"Handkerchief Lovers' Association."
"Um?"
Shade was stunned, and quickly "flipped through" the "Dlarion Common Language Encyclopedia" in his head, only then did he realize that "handkerchief communication" also refers to impure communication between women.
"Oh~"
He uttered such an exclamation.
Miss Louisa's information once again verified the statement that "the witches of the Witch Council don't like men."
After finishing the discussion about Xia De's employer, the two officially began to talk about what was going to happen tonight.
First of all, of course, Shade was curious. He asked with an expression of awe:
"Ms. Louisa, you're carrying a steam bomb with you when you go out?"
Of course, he agrees with this approach. If he has money, he would also like to take it.
"Safety first. I bought them on the black market for 10 pounds each. I'm not sure if they'll work. Are you interested?"
The female writer asked, and Shade immediately shook his head. This money was enough for Miss Gold to ask Detective Hamilton to find the cat again. Even if he earned money from Miss Carina, found Detective Sparrow's wallet, and even had an income from the Prophet Association in the fall, there was no need to waste it like this.
"But I only have one, and the effect of the steam bomb on the mysterious incident is not very significant. If I hadn't known that thing's weakness was cold and frozen it, I bet that even if I stuffed the bomb into the mouth of that disgusting thing, I might not be able to kill it."
As she spoke, Miss Louisa placed the small bottle of fish scales on Shade's coffee table.
The orange cat's eyes lit up, and then Shade grabbed its neck and put it on his lap to pet it. The cat called lazily, resting its chin on Shade's lap, and while accepting the petting, it turned its head and looked curiously at the small bottle on the table with its big amber eyes.
The small ears trembled as Shad stroked her, so Mia didn't run away in the end.
"Are you interested in using this relic? To study ichthyosis, or simply as a swimming tool?"
the writer asked.
Xia De thought about himself turning into a fishman, and then thought about the scene of himself being chased by Mia, and shook his head decisively:
"I'm not interested. We don't live in a coastal city like Lengshui Port. We might have to go out to sea. I don't want to become something weird."
"I'm not interested in keeping it. It's so ugly... Then after a while, I'll sell it to Father John, or donate it directly to the academy. We'll split the money. I defeated the monster, but it was you who found it, so we split it in half."
That's only fair, Goldilocks suggested.
The reason why she didn't sell it to Father John now was because the incident had just happened, and Miss Louisa thought that Father John would lower the price by saying that "it was involved in the case and it was difficult to sell it." She didn't hand it over to the college immediately because she wanted to find out what Father John's price was.
After all, Miss Louisa and Xia De are not in a hurry to use the money at the moment.
Of course, Shad would not rashly let a young girl stay overnight at his home. Although his house was indeed large and Detective Sparrow's spare room could be used, the relationship between the two was not good enough for her to stay overnight at his home, and he himself respected ladies very much.
Therefore, Miss Louisa changed into a warm coat, drank a cup of hot tea with Shade on the sofa and left. Before leaving, Miss Louisa also mentioned that although her friend, the ring wizard whose identity was not convenient to reveal, was not in Tobesk for the time being, she had still borrowed the handwritten translation of the original version of the fairy tale book "The Little Match Girl" and would bring it to him tomorrow, which was Saturday afternoon's study session.
"Do I need to thank you? And about the Steambird Daily ad."
The detective holding the cat asked this as the two said goodbye in the hallway downstairs.
"If you want to thank me, then please tell me your detective story when you have time. After the exam season is over in July, "The Mystery of Scarlet" will be officially serialized in the "Steambird Daily"."
She said this while standing on the stone steps at the door. She looked around to see that there was no one in the square, and then asked again:
"Tomorrow night, I plan to go check on the girl, Little Sophie, to make sure she isn't too affected by the ichthyosis. I'll go quietly to take a look, probably around 10 o'clock tomorrow night. Are you interested in coming with me?"
Xia De held the door and thought about his schedule:
"We can go together. I'm reading at home anyway, so why not go out for a walk... Since we're talking about this topic, Miss Louisa, what are you going to do the day after tomorrow, which is the weekend night?"
Miss Louisa looked at Xia De:
"Why, do you want to date me? I'm sorry, Luvia has asked me out to the opera."
The answer was very calm and if Shad really wanted to date the blonde, he would probably be disappointed.
But the young stranger obviously didn't mean that. He explained:
"No, no, no, I'm just making sure you don't want to go to the card game. Let's go to the opera. I hope you have a good time."
He said thankfully. The blond writer frowned and looked at him in doubt. Seeing that Shade was not going to explain, he waved his hand at him.
"See you tomorrow afternoon, then. Detective, I'll return the clothes to you after I wash them. Good night."
After saying that, he wrapped himself in his coat, turned around and walked into the dark night, leaving the detective and the cat at his feet, watching the quiet night.
The lights in the lobby made their shadows stretch out long across the streets around the square. The swaying shadows seemed to foreshadow what was about to happen.
(Mi Mia is running...)
The strangers in the story often have lofty goals to achieve when they come to different worlds. And Shade's goal is naturally to ascend to the path of the twelve divine natures, but because the upgrade speed of the ring wizard system is too slow, all he can do now is to take care of his daily life first.
A week after the Lake View Manor incident, he came into contact with two relics, the Joyful Dream Pen and the Drowned Murloc's Scales, which broadened his horizons. However, in order to complete the tasks at hand as much as possible, on the following Saturday morning, Shade did not go out to the city for "exploration", but worked hard to complete the translation of "The Four Elements of Chase: Wind and Fire" commissioned by Miss Louisa. Moreover, he strictly followed her requirements and only translated the general idea without going into detail.
This is much more difficult than direct translation.
If it weren't for the "Divine Afterglow" state, which could shield the mind from the pollution of abnormal knowledge, Shade might have to spend another half a week.
After waking up on Saturday morning, he prepared food for himself and the cat, and then started working immediately. In the past, Mr. Sparrow also ordered milk from Silver Parrot Milk Delivery Company, but Shad didn't have time to go there for the time being, and milk was not a necessity, so he thought about waiting until the end of the month to renew Mia's goat milk.
His hard work even made the other temporary member of the family, the small orange cat, a little worried about Shad's health. Shad believed that if there were mice in the house, Mia would probably get a dead mouse to supplement his nutrition.
"Speaking of which, why do I feel like you're getting smarter lately? Is it because I've used too many elements around you?"
He asked while taking a break while holding the cat, but the ignorant cat just leaned lazily in Shade's arms and rested.
"Is Mia a normal cat?"
Since I thought of this question, I asked it in my heart. This kind of plot is very common in the stories Xia De has read.
A normal cat, with no trace of elementals or spirits.
Although "she" could not be omnipotent, if a saint or something like that was deliberately hiding itself, "she" probably wouldn't be able to sense it. But the cat in front of him acting coquettishly didn't look like a strange thing in disguise, so Shade thought that Mia had become smarter recently, and it was probably just his illusion.
Because of his special ability to understand words, it was not difficult to help Miss Louisa translate the book. On the contrary, after the complete translation, Xia De felt that he had understood something from the story of the book.
"The Four Elements of Chase: Wind and Fire" already has the possibility of obtaining spiritual runes related to "wind" and "fire", and combined with the sudden improvement in the spell "Ignition" after Shade told the story not long ago -
He squinted his eyes and looked at the flames jumping on his fingertips, but nothing happened. It seemed that the enlightenment he gained from translating books was not enough to promote transformation. This accumulation would settle down until it was completely sublimated.
"However, translating ancient mystical books seems to have deepened my understanding of the elements more than reading them... Well, that's a good idea."
After having lunch at 11:30 in the morning and playing with Mia for a while, he sorted out his recent financial situation and added a record in the diary left by the detective, "Nothing to do today, savings decreased", before setting off.
That afternoon, in the doctor's bedroom on the third floor of Schneider's Psychological Clinic, when Shade handed the "Four Elements of Chase: Wind and Fire" and his handwritten translation to the blonde writer, Miss Louisa, who had not seen him for a long time, was quite surprised:
"Detective, I thought you would be very busy. You wouldn't spend your whole week translating this book, would you?"
"Exam week is at the end of this month. Since I've been paid, I won't delay your work."
Xia De said this reservedly, without revealing any smug expression.
Miss Louisa looked down at Shade's handwritten manuscript and whispered that his handwriting was a little ugly. But there was nothing she could do about it, as Shade was not very used to writing alphabetic characters.
Professors from St. Byron's will be present at today's study session, but before that, the five of them still have to follow the normal process.
Everyone arrived on time, but with only three days until the meeting on Tuesday, the others didn't have much to share, except that most were worried about the exam week at the end of the month, which made Shad feel like he had gone back in time.
The windows of the bedroom were open, and the warm summer sunlight shone into the room through the windows, extending to the bed, making the metal pillars of the four-poster bed shine, making the still weak Dr. Schneider look a little more energetic.
Although there is still fog in the city, at least it is good weather now.