Xia De smiled apologetically, and the woman behind the veil asked softly:
"Was I indifferent to everything when you first met me?"
"Yes, because of the influence of the heart of stone."
Later, when she gave the heart to Xia De, Xia De almost cried just by touching the "winter flower" growing on the stone.
"So, do you remember the last question you asked me?"
"Of course I remember asking you then - are you still in love with Stone Oxenfurt, even now?"
Shade repeated, and Hela nodded. The profiles of the two were illuminated by the dark moon, and their eyes were serious. The departing soul turned its back to them, flashing with light, while the August priest at the door watched the scene quietly.
"My answer: Yes. I hate him. I no longer have a passionate heart. I no longer care about anything in the world, but I still love him. Mr. Hamilton, whether your heart is cold and empty has nothing to do with whether you love someone."
Shade was a little confused and opened his mouth slightly, not knowing what to say. Hela Osenfurt continued:
"If you love her, you will love her at all times, even if you just remember to love her. I am not a supernatural being, so I cannot discuss the impact of 'love' on the soul, but simple indifference cannot change love and romance. I am sure of this. If I really no longer love Stone, I would not entrust you to solve the problem of him being trapped in the world."
"So this is what your commission means... Simple indifference cannot change it..."
"Mr. Hamilton, will you forget the mistakes of those you love?"
The woman asked again, and Shad shook his head immediately. Last Saturday, Dorothy and Lesia did something so risky and irrational, and he just made them promise that it wouldn't happen again.
"Of course not."
"Then don't doubt your feelings."
She looked at Shad through the veil, and Shad felt that compared to when Hela Osenfurt was alive, the gaze of Hela Osenfurt after her death had the power to penetrate people's hearts:
"You said that you are indifferent to the world like me, and I don't disagree with this view. But you are also like me, always thinking about the people you love until the very end. There is no need to worry, no need to question, may you be able to get all the love, may all your love be able to stay with you. Even if everything comes to an end, as long as you remember that you still love them..."
She clasped her hands together and pressed them against her chest. The soul glowed slightly, and then all the light gathered in her hands on her chest.
Hela Oxenfurt held the light in her hand towards Shad, and the cold blue light jumped into Shad's body, and under the gaze of the cat on Shad's shoulder, it touched his soul.
Outsider, you have acquired the magic "Passionate Ice". Using positive emotions, ice and snow have high heat and explosive effects. Positive emotions will make the explosion more intense. Corresponding to the "Indifference" spirit rune.
This seems to be a magical method of making bombs with bare hands.
By the time Shad came back to his senses from the daze of gaining power, Hela Oxenfurt's figure had returned to the surface of the water, and she and the souls whose faces could not be seen were walking towards the Dark Moon with their backs to him.
Xia De wanted to wave and thank her loudly, but he was afraid of disturbing the peace here, so he just said "thank you" in a low voice, turned around and took Mia back to Priest Augustus.
The old priest heard the entire conversation and said to Shade with a smile:
"Do you understand now?"
"Yes, those confusions are really ridiculous. What does my indifference to the world have to do with whether I love everything around me?"
He covered his chest, feeling the powerful beating of his heart. All the sequelae caused by the strange hollow power of the angel-level relic, the Nameless One, were completely eliminated at this moment. This incident only brought him strength, the power to help him protect everything.
"Priest, let's go back... Speaking of which, there is one thing I don't quite understand."
He and the priest passed through the crack in the door one after another and returned to the Cemetery of Souls. The stone door automatically disappeared in the thick fog.
"What don't you understand?"
the priest asked, standing in the fog.
"How come these dead souls are so powerful? Joeyne Barton's lover, Ms. Marilyn Hendel, actually absorbed the curse imposed by death itself after Barton lost to me in the waters of death; although Hela Oxenfurt was resurrected by the power of the devil, she is indeed just an ordinary person, but she can help me learn magic."
When Shade asked his doubts, the priest smiled and left the cemetery with Shade and returned to the corridor of his home:
“Death, isn’t it wonderful?”
Of course, the truth is that departed souls have become part of the world, and emotionally controlled spirits therefore have magical powers equivalent to death itself. These powers can only be manifested due to various miraculous events, and once the souls return to the world of the living from real death, these powers no longer belong to them.
The door can only be opened by sacrificing a drop of divinity or the heart of a living dead, just to obtain this precious miracle.
It was not until after lunch that Shad separated from Father Augustus. Although he did not travel far that morning, Shad gained more than any adventure.
Regardless of Mia's habit of taking a nap after a meal, he forced herself to take the cat with her and went to the Prophet's Association to find Luvia during lunch break.
When she saw Shade in the fortune-telling room, Luvia thought something bad had happened again. She panicked and took three ghost iron coins to tell fortunes for Shade, but Shade hugged her directly:
"No, I came here this time just to give you a hug."
The girl with purple eyes was a little surprised at first, but she quickly reacted and hugged Xia De.
"That's great, you're back to normal."
She felt the warmth of the embrace, and was satisfied that Xia De was as determined as she thought:
"The man I chose is really good."
Shad did not stay in the Prophet's Society for too long. He took a carriage to Quill Street in the university district and found Dorothy in her apartment.
This afternoon, the writer invited other famous local female writers to have a tea party in her apartment. When she heard the landlady say that Shade was looking for her downstairs, Dorothy thought something had happened, just like Luvia:
"Shad!"
She hurried down the stairs, but was greeted with a warm hug in the hallway. The writer blinked in confusion, then reached out and hugged him as well, smiling and reminding him in his ear:
"Your cat looks like he's about to close his eyes. If you have something else to do later, how about leaving him here with me for a nap?"
So Xiaomia could finally take a peaceful nap.
The next stop is to find Miss Lecia and Miss Carina. Although Shad doesn't know whether Lecia is in the Yodel Palace, he is very sure that Miss Carina must be in the Yodel Palace.
The newspapers have published the news that the second negotiation delegation led by Grand Duchess Carina will set off for the Green Lake area this Saturday evening, so she still has a lot of things to deal with at the Yodel Palace before she leaves.
As the residence of the royal family and the administrative center of the entire kingdom, the defense of the Yodel Palace was second only to the various cathedrals that were convenient for ceremonies. But for Shade, it was not difficult to break in.
After turning into a cat, it jumped onto the wall and into the garden of the Yodel Palace, then walked towards the direction of Leicia's room. No one who saw the cat on the road thought it was strange.
This time, his luck was a bit bad, and no one was in Resia's room. So the silver cat jumped down from the third-floor window sill again. Just as he was thinking about whether to rely on the induction of the "Witch Detection Medal" to find Miss Carina first, he saw Ajelina in the back garden.
The little princess had nothing to do, so she took advantage of the good weather in the city today to have afternoon tea with her two sisters in the back garden. The three young princesses sat together at the white round table in the pavilion, and the maids served them in the pavilion.
The other two princesses looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, and were also dressed in princess dresses and black leather shoes. Shad knew Alice Cavendish, and the other younger princess could not be matched with the huge list of princesses in the Cavendish royal family:
"Kate? Elena? Belinda?"
He thought about possible names, and then decisively gave up thinking about meaningless things. If he walked over directly in the form of a cat, it would definitely scare others, so Shade maintained the form of a cat and stopped in front of Ajelina's maid. Ajelina's maid had also seen this silver-white cat when Shade broke into the Yodel Palace last Saturday night, so after confirming that this was the cat, she went to tell Ajelina.
A few minutes later, under the grape trellis in the back garden of the Yodel Palace, Ajelina saw Shad the Cat standing on the stone table:
"Oh, why are you here?"
She was a little surprised and wanted to touch the cat, but Xia De, who was prepared, dodged it immediately:
"Good afternoon, Ajelina. Is Resia here? And Miss Carina here?"
"It is a pity that my mother and my sister are away visiting the Duchess of Cabor. But Aunt Carina is here. I saw her only half an hour ago."
Ajelina said, looking at Xia De eagerly:
"Do you want me to take you to find her?"
"No, no, I can go by myself."
"But my aunt is indoors. The palace guards won't care if a cat appears outdoors, but they certainly won't let a cat in casually."
"this... ... "
So Ajelina reached out and hugged the silver-white cat, and tried hard to hide her smile.
She then said to her maid:
"Tell Alice and Elena that I have something to do with Great Aunt Carina and will be back in an hour."
"Yes, your highness."
Then the little princess happily left with the cat in her arms.