"Jalina, in order to tease me, you even let your niece, who is not even one year old, kiss your lover?"
Megan, who was shaking with anger, pointed her finger at the Duchess, who corrected her with a smile:
"Although little Ajelina is short and of pitiful build, she is already an adult. Besides, I didn't force her. She might even thank me."
"you... ... "
"Megan, there's no need for you to be so angry. You've been hiding your identity and thinking about my knight, so what's wrong with me giving you a surprise? By the way, this has nothing to do with Shade. He's been trying to get me to give up."
"I know this has nothing to do with him. Now that I think about it, his strange behavior all along can be explained. So, it's all because of you... We are all members of the parliament, so we are all sisters, right?"
Megan gasped to calm herself down, and Miss Carina smiled and said:
"Yes, that's how the sisters in our Cavendish family get along with each other. If you don't believe me, you can ask Ajelina later. In fact, the sisters in our family even do more extreme things when they get along with each other."
She blinked.
"You wouldn't be too embarrassed to accept this kind of joke, would you?"
Megan's mouth twitched, and she raised her hand and threw the wine glass at her. It seemed that the two of them were quite restrained. The red-haired witch had expected her to do this, and she flicked her finger, and with a ding~ sound, the wine glass flew back. Not a drop of wine was spilled in the glass, and at the same time, a layer of light that was not real or real was attached to the surface of the cup:
"You won't forget that I'm the twelfth ring and you're the eleventh ring, right?"
Megan reached out to catch the glass, but she didn't expect the glass to pass through her hand like a phantom. The red-haired witch was about to smile and turn the glass from virtual to real to end this little fight, but she saw a pure white translucent spirit arm stretched out from behind Megan and caught the glass.
Then, two spiritual arms hugged Megan's shoulders, and a spiritual head that looked exactly like Megan's appeared from behind her through Megan's brown hair.
Even though she had seen many strange scenes, the Duchess was still shocked by this scene:
"you... ... "
"Okay, the joke is over."
Xia De spoke up and asked the red-haired witch beside him seriously:
"Are you satisfied now?"
"Satisfied. This evening was really fun."
Miss Carina said with a smile, and then apologized to Megan:
"I know you're angry, so I apologize for this joke. Isn't this kind of welcome ceremony interesting? And you see, the result is pretty good now. You don't have to worry about me reporting Xia De. You should be happy."
She led Xia De to the sofa, and Xia De apologized again:
"Meghan, Audrey, I'm so sorry, I was also involved in this prank."
"You don't have to apologize to me. I know who to blame."
Audrey's spirit said, and then Megan's hand suddenly pulled Shad in front of them, and then in front of Miss Carina, the body and soul overlapped, and the two kissed Shad together.
The red-haired witch still had a smile on her face. She sat down gracefully, holding a glass of wine and watching the scene. After the two... ... three people separated, she motioned for them to sit down and talk:
"If you want to vent your dissatisfaction and anger in this way, I won't object. This joke is a bit too much, but I have to seek justice for myself. But today I have opened my eyes. It turns out that three people kissing is like this... Is this your perfect 'two-in-one' posture? It's really beautiful."
Her last words were not sarcasm, but meant from the bottom of her heart:
"But we've had enough of the noise. Let's sit down and talk. There's still a lot to talk about."
Then, she called out to the door again, asking Ajelina to take Tifa and the other maids back to the banquet hall to replace Miss Carina who was away temporarily to maintain order at the banquet. So Ajelina, who was eavesdropping on the door, took a step back before responding.
Inside the door, Audrey's upper soul returned to her body. She sat opposite Carina with a glass of wine, watching Shad sit on the sofa on the side, and then was pulled by the red-haired witch to sit next to her.
After the anger and shame, the great witch of wisdom and knowledge also reconsidered the current situation rationally. She quietly watched Jialina arrange Ajelina to return to the banquet hall. In fact, she was using this time to calm down and think about everything that had happened so far.
"Carina, you are really good at reading other people's emotions."
She stared at the red-haired witch opposite her, who toasted her with a glass of wine:
“Thanks to the family education.”
After raising his eyebrows, he took the initiative to explain:
"Calm down? It seems that you have accepted my apology. However, don't you admit that you are secretly happy in your heart now?"
"What's going on between you and Shad Hamilton?"
Megan asked, and Shade took the initiative to answer:
"Last summer, I met Karina in Tobesk. At first, she used many methods to test my gender identity, and then she agreed with me to explore the origin of my uniqueness together. Later..."
"I fell into the web of love woven by the knight."
The Duchess smiled and looked at Megan:
"Even though I teased you, you have to admit that we stand together."
"Since we are on the same side, you should have told me these things in advance. If the parliament knew about Shade because of your concealment, what would we do then?"
Megan asked in a stern tone, so the red-haired witch reached out to Shade's neck, hooked a thin line, and then took out the badge:
"Do you think Shade and I haven't prepared anything? Look at this. It's made according to the alchemical formula of the Fifth Era. It's a tool that can detect witches. But it's not very effective against you. You have to be within one meter of me for it to work."
She gently signaled Xia De to lower his head, then took off the pendant and threw it to Megan. After the latter took it, he really felt the amazing heat, and immediately understood why his chest was hot every time he hugged Xia De.
And when she saw the emblem of "The Duchess of Saladil" on the pendant, the corners of her mouth twitched again.
Shade also explained:
"Meghan, the first few times I saw you, I wasn't sure if you were a witch. It wasn't until we met the Mirror Man and you were forced to turn into a cat that I was sure you were a witch."
"Then I didn't let him tell you his identity."
Miss Carina took the initiative to speak. She really didn't make things difficult for Xia De. She leaned gently on Xia De and said in a somewhat sweet tone:
"I wasn't sure of your attitude towards Shade at that time. After all, this was the first time that an exception like Shade appeared. I think you should understand my worries, right? My thoughts at that time were exactly the same as yours just now."
"you... ... "
Megan took a deep breath, then took the initiative to switch to Audrey, letting her sister continue to deal with the matter at hand:
"You said it was for Xia De's safety, but I feel like you're deliberately taking revenge on me for seducing you..."
She paused abruptly, knowing that she could never admit this:
"Revenge for knowing Shade's identity and not sharing it with you."
"How could you even think that? That's ridiculous."
The Duchess lightly denied this, but she had no grudge against Audrey and Megan. She was satisfied with having achieved her goal tonight and did not want to sow discord between the two. So she restrained her expression a little and said seriously:
"I have good news for you. You don't have to worry about the council's attitude towards Shade. The number of witches who know about Shade's existence, including you, is exactly half, a total of six."
Audrey frowned slightly. This was indeed good news:
"There are so many of you who have kept this secret together, and you haven't let anyone know. You are really... great. Who else could it be, besides you and me? You know this is important."
Miss Carina motioned to Shad to speak, and she drank red wine while looking at Shad who was so close to her.
"The second person who knew me was Miss Xiwei Aurora. Then I met Mother-in-law Zina Cassandra at Midhill Castle. Later, when Princess Margaret visited Tobesk, I met Miss Emma Sylvia. After the year-end festival, at the beginning of this year, I met Miss Vanessa Benanis of the Golden Dawn in the Randall River Valley."
Shade said, and Audrey frowned deeply:
"How is your relationship with these witches? Do you just know them, or are you already friends? Witches are not all as easy to get along with as Carina and I. Take Xiwei for example. I am sure she is a traditional witch and there is no way she would like a man."
"Xiwei is very courageous. You have a very stereotyped impression of her. She and Xia De... Fortunately, I met Xia De first."
The Duchess said with a smile.
Audrey looked at Shade in surprise:
"Your abilities are greater than I thought. Xiwei can also... But what about others? For example, Granny Cassandra, don't tell me, Granny and Shade can also..."
"No, no, please don't let your imagination run wild."
Xia De quickly shook his head to deny her overly bold idea:
"I am just acquainted with Grandma's teachers, so Grandma Cassandra trusts me very much. You can assume that she will never do anything bad to me."
Audrey and Megan had also heard some rumors about the old witch's teachers, and since the wish-making demon said he had seen Shade a thousand years ago, they didn't investigate further.
"What about Sylvia? A young and independent girl like that, even if she met a special case like Shade, she wouldn't be easily attracted to him, right? The young girl is not us, she is a witch of the new era."
The Duchess, holding the wine glass, almost laughed out loud:
"Sylvia is the most extreme of us. She wants Shad to be her apprentice. Yes, an apprentice of that kind. She admires Shad very much and thinks that Shad is a rare person who shares the same ideals as her."
"Is there such a thing?"
Audrey accepted this fact only after seeing Shade nod:
"So, this gentleman in front of me, do you have a doctorate in mathematics or physics? Or are you a so-called folk scientist with many interesting inventions?"
Speaking of this topic, Xia De was really embarrassed:
"I... I am actually illiterate and have never been to school. Apart from not telling you that I knew you were a witch, I have never lied about anything else about myself. I was really a homeless person without any family or relatives."
Xia De shook his head slightly. Audrey showed an apologetic expression and finally asked:
"What about Vanessa? Isn't she a staunch celibate? Even if she regrets it, I think she's going to look for Miss Hillis Lathers. What does she think of Shade?"
"See... She performed solo for Shade."
The Duchess glanced at Shad, and Shad suddenly recalled Miss Benannis's passionate solo dance when they parted at Randall Valley... ... The spotlight on the stage that day was very bright and hot.
"Besides, neither Shade nor she would tell us what she performed. That opera singer knows more about performance and role-playing than you do, and she captured my knight without him noticing."
The Duchess said softly, summarizing the current situation:
"So far, more than half of the members of the parliament, except for the Speaker, have stood by Shade. Even if the Speaker finds him now, even if the parliament has to split into left and right to discuss how to deal with him, we still account for half of the number of members."