"Someone's coming! Quick!"
Megan lifted her skirt almost subconsciously, and then Shad immediately put Mia on the table behind him, transformed into a silver cat, and crawled under her skirt.
Little Mia wanted to follow, but Miss Sylvia quickly picked up the dice, black key, perfume bottle and two rings that fell on the ground, which attracted her attention to the fish training ring and the immortality ring. When Miss Sylvia straightened up, she saw the red-haired Carina Cavendish walk in:
"Huh? Where's Shad?"
She asked curiously:
"Didn't the girls at the hotel say that Shade was with you?"
She looked at the two people with frozen expressions suspiciously, looked around the study room where there was obviously no third person, and saw Xiaomia on the table:
"You wouldn't say this is your cat, would you?"
They didn't realize that it was impossible for an ordinary cat to get in here. At this moment, Megan's skirt moved, and then the cat with its head down came out.
The Duchess had a strange expression on her face, then she suppressed her smile as she watched Shade return to his human form in the light:
"So you thought it was someone else who came back. What should I say... Xia De, is the view under the girl's skirt nice?"
"Carina!"
Megan, whose face was flushed red, had forced Audrey to exchange with her, and Audrey, whose face was also flushed red, made a dissatisfied sound.
When the group left the parliament and Miss Sylvia brought Miss Benanis to the Shade Room in the Green Lake Hotel, the beautiful red-haired Duchess was still smiling.
Miss Benanis was of course curious about what she was laughing at, but neither Miss Sylvia nor Audrey or Shad would explain it to her.
In order to prevent Miss Benannis from being overly concerned about what happened just now, after the witches sat down, Shade couldn't wait to ask:
"What on earth is it that's worthy of your being so nervous? You won't tell me until everyone is fully prepared."
"This matter is not complicated, but it may have an impact on you."
Miss Benanis said:
"Her Excellency Speaker Yin Shabella is preparing to come to Green Lake City."
Time seemed to stand still for a second.
"The Great Witch of Time? Wait... But if you think about it carefully, this is not difficult to think of."
Xia De was only surprised for a moment before he understood. Audrey nodded:
"Yes, Mr. Speaker is worried about my situation. No matter who the chosen one of the space is, the parliament cannot lose the Great Witch here. Now is the time when the parliament needs people. Even if we don't consider our friendship, but only from a purely utilitarian point of view, I can't die here."
Xia De was a little anxious. He didn't know how strong the thirteenth-level witch was, but at least he was not ready to meet her.
So when will we be ready
"At least I have to wait until I get to know all the other twelve witches, and then tell Miss Yin Shabella: Mr. Speaker, you don't want to... ahem."
If Yin Luna was here, Shade would immediately know that even in the Sixth Epoch without Shade, Megan and Audrey still escaped from the ceremony of unity, and it was most likely because the Great Witch of Time rescued them. However, the current situation is very different from the past. Not to mention the degree of unity, at least in terms of the strength of the witches, the Witch Council has become very different:
"When will Ms. Yinsabella arrive?"
This is what Xia De is most concerned about. He feels a little restless while holding Xiaomia in his arms.
It was Miss Benanis who gave him the answer:
"Originally, the Speaker said that she wanted to come now and familiarize herself with the situation here in advance, but we persuaded her not to."
She looked at the other three witches, and everyone had the same attitude:
"It's hard for us to tell what the Speaker's attitude towards you is. So if it's not necessary, you'd better ask her to stay away from you. But the Speaker is not not coming. She said that since we think we can handle the situation here, she will give us a week. If there is no major progress within a week, she will definitely come."
Miss Sylvia added:
"The speaker doesn't plan to bring her own followers, so if she flies here by herself, it won't take too long."
Now Shade understood what they meant:
"We must deal with the Green Lake incident as soon as possible. We must not let Miss Insabella see me now... Mother-in-law Cassandra will be here tomorrow, and Miss Aurora will probably be here by the weekend..."
That night, in order to discuss how to resolve the Green Lake incident as quickly as possible and to prevent the Great Witch of Time from really discovering the little actions of Shad and the six witches surrounding him, the lights in Shad's room on the third floor of the hotel were kept on until midnight.
In order to have enough energy to conduct further investigation on Friday, Shade asked the witches to go back and rest after midnight, and then discuss the final plan after Grandma Cassandra and Miss Aurora arrived.
Miss Benanis gave Shade a kiss on the side of his face first, and then she and Miss Sylvia opened the portal to go back. The rain outside had stopped, and Shade sent Miss Carina and Megan downstairs. He watched the two witches leave in the carriage, and then he hugged Little Mia, who could no longer open her eyes, and prepared to rest:
"Go home and sleep."
Dorothy was probably still writing furiously, and she was still in a special physiological stage, so Shad probably couldn't knock on the door. In this case, it would be better to return home.
But before Xia De reached the stairs of the hotel, the carriage that had just left came back.
The door opened, and Miss Carina waved to Shade, then winked. Shade understood what she meant, so he gave up the idea of going home and boarded the carriage to Rose Manor with his cat.
(Little Mia is running...)
"So, this is why you're here so early in the morning?"
In the Rose Manor restaurant on Friday morning, when Lesia and Ajelina walked in together, they saw Shad sitting on the left side of Miss Carina.
Leicia naturally sat next to Shad, so Ajelina had to sit opposite Shad.
Mia, who was sitting at the table with her head down licking goat's milk, didn't care who sat down. Tifa smiled and arranged for the servants to bring breakfast to the two princesses.
The drizzle that had lasted for a week finally stopped on Friday. Because of the rain, when the sky cleared up, there was not even the usual gray haze in the city. The bright sunshine poured into the room through the windows on the east side of the restaurant.
This not only made the hair on the cat's back shine as it enjoyed its breakfast, but also made Carina Cavendish look even better.
Ajelina pursed her lips, trying not to imagine what happened last night. Leicia took a look at Miss Carina's complexion and mental state, and knew what happened last night:
"Shad has to do so many things every day, you won't let him go even at night?"
As soon as she opened her mouth, Shade, who was chewing bread, started to cough. Ajelina looked at her sister quietly, and the Duchess took her complaints as praise for herself:
"Little Lecia, since I came to Green Lake City, Shade has stayed at my place no more than three times. One of those times, he even stayed the night with you."
Although she was talking to Leicia, she was actually looking at Xia De:
"Do you know how difficult it is to get Shad to give up going home and rest? Oh, Leixia, sometimes you should have some sympathy... Besides, I saw that Shad was very energetic last night."
"Ajelina is still here, don't say such things."
Leicia said with a straight face, slowly manipulating the knife and fork in her hands to cut the sausages on the plate.
Mia smelled the food and looked back at the food on her plate, but she didn't take the sausage slices that Leicia handed to her. Instead, she reached for Shad's hand. Leicia smiled and used a fork to put a small piece of sausage on Shad's plate, and Shad fed it to the cat.
"Ajelina is already seventeen years old, do you really think she knows nothing?"
The Duchess was still talking, but the little princess, who was dragged into the conversation, had already blushed.
"You see, she really knows everything. She didn't use the books you took from her to prop up the table legs."
Miss Carina commented casually, and since Ajelina was mentioned, she asked one more question:
“Ajelina, have the voices in your ears been clear lately?”
"It only appeared clearly once, and then it appeared as a mirage in my dreams."
Ajelina replied, and Leisia gave advice very carefully:
"Based on past experience, your full awakening will occur within one or two weeks. If you experience extreme mental fluctuations or special mental stimulation during this period, it may even come earlier."
According to the agreed plan, once Ajelina awakens, she will be enrolled in the Zalas Academy of Arts and become a ring wizard through the awakening ceremony there. But Miss Carina will also give her some of the power of a witch at the same time. As for whether she will become a witch apprentice in the future, it depends on Ajelina's core spirit rune and her own talent.
Ajelina's talent is quite amazing, especially her sixth sense talent, which is acknowledged by Shade, Resia and Miss Carina. According to Ajelina's own wishes, it is certain that she will become a witch apprentice, but it depends on which witch can appreciate her. Although Miss Carina can teach her, she has no interest in recent years and has spent all her energy to train people other than Tifa and Yin Luna.
Ajelina listened to the discussion between her sister and great-aunt, and then quietly looked across the table at Shade who was feeding the cat. She woke up from her dream last night, and somehow she didn't ask her maid to go to the kitchen downstairs to get hot tea. When she passed by the master bedroom of the manor, which was supposed to be completely soundproof, she heard a strange sound.
No one knew how long she stood outside the door, but Ajelina knew very well that when the shameful excitement, the joyful hatred, and the twisted mood of pleasure were intertwined together, "she" was only one step away from her.