"Chocobo's what?"
Miss Aurora blinked, and seeing that Miss Carina and Megan had no intention of explaining, she just assumed that they were talking about privacy:
"It's great, it's like going back to the Fifth Age as recorded in the book. The witches are having fun at salons and banquets, chatting about pleasant and interesting topics, or competing to see who has cultivated a more exotically colored chocobo, or who has found a prettier, smarter, more talented apprentice."
She leaned comfortably on the back of the sofa, watching Shade and Hillis dancing together. Audrey and Miss Carina also looked over, and the three witches had different ideas. After a while, Megan blinked and turned into Audrey. She put the wine glass on the coffee table and said seriously:
"Carina, you seemed to have some different plans before?"
She had never discussed this topic with Carina Cavendish before because she was not familiar with her. The red-haired Duchess nodded:
"Yes, with the goal of making Saradir County independent, I want to establish a new Demon Kingdom in the present day of the Sixth Epoch. Or at least, find a piece of land that can serve as the headquarters for the Council."
“So has the goal changed now?”
Audrey asked again. Miss Aurora turned the ring on her right index finger with her left hand and looked at her with a smile:
"I think you have other ideas, right?"
The Duchess looked at Leithia, Ajelina and Margaret who were also unable to dance with Shad in this occasion. They were standing in front of the window with a group of noble girls, talking about the rumor that Dorothy Louisa, the author of Hamilton's Detective Stories, was also in the local area.
His gaze shifted to Xia De again:
"Yes, other ideas. Maybe I was too conservative in the past. Now it seems that we can get much more than I thought in the past."
She moved each of her fingers, and Audrey and Miss Aurora looked at each other and raised the corners of their mouths.
The banquet lasted until late that night. Although only a few people knew about the plan discussed by the church and the kingdom, almost everyone could see the attitude of suspending the negotiations. Even enemies at the negotiation table could be friends who could drink and chat happily at the banquet. For this event that was almost certainly the last banquet, everyone had a great time.
As for Xia De, he danced almost from the first dance to the last. The girls seemed to have discussed the order of dancing. As long as someone came down, someone would definitely hold Xia De's hand at the right time.
At the end, even Luvia couldn't help but dance with Shade. But Yin Luna couldn't do that, because Luvia was not a particularly famous fortune teller, but she was a fairly famous chosen one.
"Yin Luna's birthday is next week."
As Xia De hugged the purple-eyed girl and danced the last dance at the banquet, she looked at Yin Luna who was talking to Margaret at the sidelines and asked:
"Is the gift ready?"
"Of course, it's definitely what Yin Luna wants. By the way, if I remember correctly, her birthday is next week..."
"Thursday, the 22nd of the Rainy Month. The day after the Edwards family dinner."
Luvia added softly:
"Remember, no matter what happens, wish Yin Luna a happy birthday."
"Yes, don't forget it either."
The two of them slowly spun together, their high heels and leather shoes stepped on the ground without making too much noise. It was already late at night, and after this relaxing night, there were still many things waiting for them.
(Little Mia is running...)
At nine o'clock on Sunday morning, after several loud trumpet sounds, the gate of Rose Manor opened, and the royal guards wearing red uniforms and black tall hats walked out slowly in two rows. Then, amid the cheers of the citizens on the roadside, the carriage with the Cavendish family crest, exquisite metal patterns, silver window trims, silk curtains and pure gold decorations, carrying Miss Carina and Princess Margaret, slowly drove out of the manor.
Today is a special day. Grand Duchess Carina of Delarion and Princess Margaret of Carsenrick will set out from Rose Manor and go to the City Hall to sign the greatest achievement of this negotiation - the 1854 Peace Agreement - under the witness of the citizens.
In this agreement, both parties agreed not to be the first to use large-caliber steam cannons, not to export special alloy steel to the surrounding principalities and island kingdoms, and agreed on the vision of jointly developing the New World. Although the specific items are still unclear, it is also the most significant achievement since the negotiations began.
In order to facilitate citizens to participate in the event, the royal family even specially chose Sunday. As for the location of the agreement in Green Lake City on the side of Delarion, the apparent reason was that Grand Duke Carina made a major contribution to the conclusion of the agreement. But in fact, while Delarion gained fame, he also secretly took the responsibility for not protecting Princess Margaret.
In short, the lively convoy drove out of Rose Manor. In order to show the closeness of the two royal families to the people, the carriages drove very slowly, so Miss Carina and Princess Margaret could frequently wave to the people on both sides of the street.
For such an important occasion, almost all the people who had gathered in Green Lake City for the negotiation came to participate. The lively atmosphere broke the oppressive atmosphere that had been lingering over the city because of the unsuccessful negotiations. If they didn't know the truth, some people might think that Delarion had completely overwhelmed Carsonrick at the negotiation table.
“Ha~”
Xia De, who was yawning, also appeared in the crowd. He was wearing a somewhat loose black thin coat. He pulled the collar to his nose and sniffed to make sure that it was not stained with the scent of the witch's perfume when he said goodbye in the morning. Then he continued to stare at the carriage approaching not far away. After making sure that this section was safe, he retreated back to the alley, then turned into a cat and jumped onto the roof, continuing to move to a farther location.
In order to ensure the safety of this matter and not cause trouble to the subsequent Battle of Green Lake, the church made an exception and dispatched a sufficient number of people to monitor the people along the way to ensure that no ring warlocks would interfere. Therefore, Shad must also be careful not to be discovered.
Fortunately, his Transfiguration skills were pretty good.
It was easy to make people sleepy when taking action early in the morning, especially for Shade who didn't sleep well last night. This had little to do with Carina, but he had another strange dream. Although the content of the dream, according to Luvia's dream interpretation theory, could be attributed to his thoughts during the day, the long river flowing in it collapsed, everything was annihilated, and he flew from the world after the collapse. The scene could not match reality no matter how hard he thought.
"Now is not the time to think about that."
The assassin that Director Anros mentioned had a silver fountain pen in his jacket pocket. Shade soon spotted him in the crowd. He was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties, with a haggard face and a scraggly beard. One could tell at a glance that he was not very successful in life.
He blended into the crowd, his left hand hanging naturally, his right hand in his coat pocket. His eyes were fixed on the royal guards approaching from a distance, and on his tired and haggard face, he forced himself to show the same excitement as everyone else, as if he had participated in an important event.
"Well, this is the person. His acting skills are really good."
Above the man's head, a silver cat crouched on the railing of a second-floor terrace of an unknown house, looking down, and then the cat left. Not long after, Shade appeared in the crowd and looked around carefully.
The weather was quite good today, and the sunshine even made the citizens on the street feel a little bit hot. But if you look carefully, it seems that dark clouds are coming from the north. But the people in the sunshine did not notice this. They greeted the duke and the foreign princess in the carriage, or chatted with the people around them about how the city had not been so lively for a long time.
Xia De could even distinguish that his colleagues were scattered among the crowd, paying attention to the situation. Looking up slightly, he could also observe that the church's ring warlocks were alertly paying attention to the traces of the elements.
Everything was fine so far, but when Xia De approached the guy with the silver pen in the crowd and "accidentally" touched his sleeve, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
"I knew it."
Without contact, even Shade could not sense anything abnormal. But after contact, the traces of the whispering element were clearly revealed. Obviously, this man who came from nowhere was already under the control of the relic.
"Is there any way to undo it?"
Wait, keep in touch... He doesn't carry a relic himself, nor does he maintain control through a specific object. However, your thaumaturgy - puppetry, can override this control. The control of this relic is not strong.
However, given the caution of the Tyranny Club, which is most likely the culprit, and the supporters behind them, the effect of the relic will definitely disappear without a trace after the incident, and there will be absolutely no evidence left to prove that the Ring Warlock was involved.
Therefore, although the attack in a while will be beyond expectations, the impact will not be too great. Moreover, since the church team is here, they will definitely not watch Margaret or Miss Carina die here. Even if the church does not even arrange for treatment personnel, Carina herself has her own arrangements.
"Come to think of it, the Tyranny Club is really happy to get involved in this kind of thing. Is it so important to them to plunge the Old World into turmoil?"
The stranger sighed inwardly, and then thought that the Tyranny Club could not be unaware of how much the church took this matter seriously. Without directly using the power of the ring sorcerer, there was no possibility of the assassination being successful, so perhaps their purpose was something else.
What could it be
she asked with a smile.
"I guess... probably during the assassination, she said something that was not conducive to unity, such as Miss Carina wanted to split Delarion, or Margaret actually wanted to rely on Delarion to defeat her brothers and sit on the throne. The incident in Randall Valley is evidence of this."
Xia De sighed in his heart again and decided that he should intervene.