Xia De lowered his head and continued to deal with the steak on the plate, then asked:
"So, you are sure that the pharmacist is Audrey Edwards?"
"Yes, it is most likely that psychopath. The Great Witch and the Great Witch are fatefully connected. I quite agree with my sixth sense on this matter."
She also did not forget to warn Xia De:
"Although she may be normal sometimes, no one knows what she will do when she goes crazy. Although the Speaker said two years ago that she was completely cured, she never acts with us. I can't even remember the last time I saw her in real life. Don't forget, her wanted warrant was lifted some time ago. Audrey Edwards is completely different from the well-educated, beautiful, and virtuous witches you have come into contact with."
"But the witch detection badge didn't respond."
"When did you start to trust alchemical items so much?"
Miss Carina asked back, gently scooping up the cream mushroom soup with a white porcelain spoon, and then handed the spoon to Shad across the table.
Xia De then stood up slightly and tasted the soup in the spoon, then frowned:
“This tastes really weird.”
"When you asked me to taste that, you didn't care whether I accepted the taste or not."
The red-haired witch said lightly. Xia De blushed and didn't know what to say. The witch smiled ambiguously:
"Before I asked you to find five treasures for me that day, I had no idea that a cautious, modest, low-key and calm knight would have so many tricks. Should I thank Annette, Louisa and little Leicia?"
"Oh, let's not talk about this topic. Let's continue talking about Green Lake... In other words, the witch detection badge is useless? That's right. There are so many witches in the Fifth Era, there must be ways to avoid mutual detection. Moreover, I was never able to get within one meter of her, so the badge and my perception could not work better."
Xia De seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly asked:
"Are you sure Miss Audrey Edwards didn't mention any brothers or sisters?"
"No. Not only did she not mention it, I can even be sure that she really didn't. Shade, you have to know that twin brothers and sisters have special connections in the mystical sense, so if you have such relatives, you need to tell each other."
The witch said with certainty.
"Then it's quite interesting."
Xia De raised his hand and touched Mia, who was squatting on the high stool beside him. He had already thought of quite a few possibilities, but these all needed to be verified. If the pharmacist was really a witch, then the possibility that she was the chosen one could not be ruled out.
The red-haired Duchess watched him pet the cat, and saw his serious face divided into light and dark sides by light and shadow. She admired her own ability to choose a lover:
"Speaking of which, are you the chosen one of space?"
She asked again:
"Yin Luna also informed me of the results of the church's interrogation. The fragments of poems from the Mirror Association also include you as a suspect. In addition, your time and space spirit runes, and Sylvia's praise for your spatial talent. Have you ever doubted yourself? In fact, the parliament also preserves some fragments of poems about the chosen ones of space. Although the information on them is not as specific as the information from the Mirror Association, it at least does not rule out your suspicion."
"If I didn't know my own situation, I would probably doubt myself first. But I'm not the chosen one. I can't be anyone's chosen one."
"Is it related to Luvia Anat?"
The witch raised her eyebrows. Shade did not answer, so she did not ask further questions:
"Tifa."
The Duchess waved her hand to the side, and Tifa brought a heart-shaped glass bottle and dripped the liquid into Shade's glass.
"What's the meaning?"
Xia De was puzzled.
“It makes our nightlife more interesting.”
The Duchess said with a smile, while she was looking at her lover with her face in her hands.
Xia De touched Mia and frowned slightly:
"Ma'am, are you looking down on me?"
"No, of course not. I've learned my lesson. This is just a potion to enhance the mood."
As she spoke, Tifa also dripped the liquid into her glass. This potion was probably similar to the essence in Shade's pink bottle, but the effect was extremely weakened.
The two of them raised their glasses and clinked them on the candlelight dinner table. Because of their movements, the candlelight flickered, flickering with ambiguous light and shadow. The beautiful witch smiled as she looked at the young man stroking the cat across the table, probably looking forward to the passion of tonight.
(Little Mia is running...)
On Thursday morning, because the maids helped prepare breakfast, little Mia did not wake up Shad, which allowed Shad to get up later.
Speaking of which, Shade originally thought that real princesses like Resia and Carina would be like the "Princess and the Pea" in the fairy tale of their hometown, sleeping on a bed like this one, and would not be able to rest well because of discomfort. So when he opened his eyes that morning and thought about this, he asked the witch in his arms what she thought of this bed.
The confused lady misunderstood and whispered:
"I have asked my maids to remove the hair of different colors as much as possible every time they clean. Otherwise, do you want me to change the bed every time I come?"
She was taller than Luvia, Dorothy, and Leicia, and the feeling of Shad hugging her was very different from that of other girls. The Duchess, who rarely got up early unless there was a special situation, was not very willing to let Shad leave the bed at seven o'clock, so she pulled Shad's arm and asked him to sleep a little longer.
That lazy, coquettish voice would never appear in any other occasion. Even a foreigner who prided himself on being resolute and strong-willed was inevitably influenced by the witch. So much so that when he sat down at the dining table on this sunny morning, he was still marveling at the witch's power.
"The weather is really nice today. There is no fog in the city."
"Tobesk, it's not like it's foggy every day."
Xia De actually hadn't decided whether to go to Green Lake today. He had caused trouble in Green Lake yesterday, so it would be better to avoid the limelight today. Although today was the day when the Carsonrick negotiation delegation officially arrived in Green Lake, the first day of the negotiation would not begin until tomorrow.
Apart from the fact that he was still missing some fish bones, he didn't think of any important things to do there for the time being, so after having breakfast and seeing Miss Carina off, he hesitated and didn't go out immediately, considering whether he should write the report on the Edwards family first.
Around nine o'clock, a strange light flickered in the study. It was Miss Danister who informed Shad that they could meet through the manuscript paper. She seemed to think that Shad might not bring the relic with him, so she also said that if Shad saw the message a few hours later, then they would meet again tonight.
"Luckily I didn't go out."
More than ten minutes later, Shade's projection appeared again in the St. Byrons Library in the far north.
With the arrival of spring, the librarian's attire has also changed. Miss Danister sat on the soft sofa across the coffee table:
"Good morning, Xia De. I'm glad you still remember that I asked you to report to me about your studies every once in a while. So, do you have any good news to tell me recently? For example, have you been promoted to the seventh ring?"
She smiled and joked, putting down the book "Moon Ring: Lunar Eclipse" written in ancient language. The two young students who helped to arrange the ceremony also left here, and Shade's eyes swept over one of the girls with horns on her head and a thin black tail.
"He is a half-blood demon descendant. He is not an evil spirit demon from the Third Age, but a real demon. This is a rare student, but it is not uncommon to see him in St. Byron's."
Miss Danister explained, and Shade nodded:
"I am still only at the sixth ring for now... It will only take a month for me to be promoted to the sixth ring, it won't be that fast. This time I came here because of Edwards's matter, I found out a lot of useful information."
In fact, it was about how to use the unicorn's power, but this kind of request for help can be left to the end. This is also a conversation skill summed up by Xia De.
"Oh? I didn't expect it to be so soon. Did you get the news from the nobles of Drarion or from Carsenrick?"
The thirteenth-ring sorceress was a little surprised. She sat up straight on the sofa and prepared to listen to Shade's narration.
"Neither. I went to Green Lake and landed on the island covered in fog."
When they were in the Randall River Valley, Miss Danister knew that Shad could move long distances, so Shad did not hide the source of his information.
"I'm surprised. Please continue."
"I found out there were four Edwards who left Green Lake 128 years ago. They were..."
He first recounted the news about Hohenheim and the other four that he had received from Mr. Edmund, then mentioned the Forlan brothers whom he unexpectedly met during the Ring City Equestrian Competition, and finally talked about the family tree on the island that resembled the roots of a large tree.
"There are six Edwards in the sixth generation, five in the fifth generation, and the four who escaped from the island in the fourth generation. As for the third generation, in addition to the father of the four brothers, Pride Edwards, there is a boy and a girl, Envy Edwards and Gratoni Edwards, but the former died young and the latter never got married and had no offspring. The second generation is a sister and a brother. The eldest sister, Rast, also died young, and her younger brother, Sloss, gave birth to the third generation. The first generation, the origin of the root map, is a man named Klein Edwards."
When Xia De mentioned the picture, he did not say that it was a clue given by the pharmacist, but said that he just discovered the picture by accident.