Turning their heads and looking outside from the window, they saw Iluna, whom they hadn't seen for more than a week, at the end of the crowd.
All the members of her ring warlock team came to the station to pick her up. The men helped with the luggage, while the girl with long brown hair smiled and chatted with the lady next to her who had her lips painted purple.
"She's back."
I haven't seen her for over a week, and apart from being tired from the journey, Iluna doesn't seem to have changed much.
Xiade and Luvia sat in the restaurant without moving, waiting for a full twenty minutes before they saw Iluna walking hurriedly along the street.
The two also walked out of the restaurant to greet them:
“Oh, I’m back!”
After all, she is only seventeen years old. Although she has experienced a lot, she still looks immature.
On the street, Iluna first gave Luvia a warm hug, and then looked at Shade with a bright smile:
"Good morning, Shad, how are you doing?"
The smile on her face was brighter than this foggy morning.
Xia De really wanted to say that he had a very leisurely life recently, with a lot of income and not much to do. But whether it was the exam week a week ago or the recent cold water port mermaids, Xia De couldn't say such words.
"Did anything happen to you while I was away?"
The young girl smiled and said with an understanding look:
"Things will always be waiting for us, but we can solve them together. Shade, Luvia, now that I'm back, leave everything to me!"
I don't know what happened in the Vatican, but Iluna is quite confident:
"I got more information and secrets from my identity as the chosen one, some things I didn't even tell the Vatican. But I don't have time today. I have to go to the church to take leave and deal with some delayed work. How about we meet tomorrow?"
"no problem."
Shade and Luvia both said this, so Iluna took out two more items from her pocket and handed them to the two of them:
“A souvenir from my trip.”
The purple-eyed fortune teller received a string of bookmarks made from leaf specimens, nine in total, each made from a different leaf.
As for Shade, he got a book with cats surrounded by balls of yarn printed on the cover. The title of the book was "Rimt's Guide to Raising Cats". He flipped through the catalog and found the content about bathing cats in the third chapter.
Shade smiled:
"What a great gift, this is exactly what I needed!"
The three of them didn't stand on the street for too long, because Iluna was in a hurry to return to the church to end her vacation, so they parted ways quickly. They agreed to meet at Shade's house tomorrow morning to exchange information.
Luvia still had work to do at the Prophet's Association, so she didn't stay long. After Shade separated from the two girls, he went straight back to Saint Teresa's Square.
He had agreed with Father Augustus to meet at ten o'clock this morning, but when Shad returned home it was not yet nine o'clock, and the priest was already standing at the door of number six St. Teresa's Square.
On Wednesday morning, the misty square was dotted with vendors selling spices and trinkets. On the side away from Shad's house, a group of citizens were watching two middle-aged gentlemen in formal suits demonstrating their major invention, "a color bubble making machine based on the principle of the third-generation civilian steam engine."
The square was fairly clean, with not much garbage to be seen. Between calls, the newspaper boy would stand by the fountain in the center of the square and watch the pigeons lazily walking around.
It was a very ordinary Wednesday. The priest standing at the door of Shade's house almost grabbed the young detective who walked out of the carriage with his head lowered after Shade's carriage stopped:
"Wait, priest, I haven't paid the driver yet!"
The old priest pulled Shade to talk, but waited for him to pay the fare first. The priest was holding a paper bag, sweating profusely and looked very hot, but because it rained yesterday, the temperature was obviously not very high.
"Priest, let's go in and talk. What's wrong with you?"
The old man seemed to have encountered some serious accident, panting and saying nothing. After Xia De opened the door with the key, he entered the house, slammed the door, and then grabbed his wrist, his eyes widened:
"That potion! Where did you get the potion you asked me to identify for you on Tuesday?"
"Meow~"
The sound of Mia running downstairs could be heard from upstairs. Shad did not react at first, but when he saw the priest take out the bottle of purple liquid from the paper bag containing the Holy Prayer Festival souvenirs, he realized that he had got it from the Fishbone Pirate Ship.
"I won this playing Rhodes with someone in the tavern not long ago..."
This is the most reasonable answer that will not arouse doubt. Of course, Xia De did not forget to add:
"... ... I didn't want to gamble, but the other party insisted on betting with my special cards. His bet was this bottle of magic potion, but the other party only knew that it was related to the elixir of life..."
Putting the key in his pocket into the biscuit box on the shoe cabinet, Shad bent down and picked up the cat that had already run downstairs, then signaled the priest to let him go upstairs:
"Priest, is there something wrong with that potion?"
Because the spirit rune greed and the ten coins were too important, Shade didn't pay much attention to the bottle of potion. Now seeing the attitude of the priest, he realized that the potion taken out of the captain's stomach during the second gambling game was not an ordinary thing.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, if it is an ordinary thing, it is impossible for it to be preserved by its own body.
"It's a magic potion - the elixir of life for mermaids!"
On the stairs, the priest lowered his voice and looked at Shade with wide eyes. But there was no one else in the house, so there was no need to lower his voice.
"I know the elixir of life."
Xia De nodded:
"Isn't that the name I told you?"
"Oh, Shade, your first-year course 'Basic Alchemy' doesn't cover this kind of thing, but this is the real elixir of life. No one in the Sixth Era can make this thing. Even in the Fifth Era, only the most powerful witches can obtain such a potion from the alien mermaids as an offering. In other words, this is a precious potion that can only be used by people at the level of the Witch Emperor."
Shade turned slightly to look at the old priest. The professor shook the potion in his hand, and the purple liquid swayed slightly in it:
"This is a true master-level potion. Even a thirteen-ring warlock can't make it. And do you know what the most precious thing about this potion is?"
Father Augustus asked. Shade hesitated for a moment and answered while holding the cat:
"It's... not expired?"
"Yes! This bottle of potion has not expired! Oh, Mr. Dawn, this is simply a miracle! Could it be that someone in the Sixth Era is still able to make this thing? Or is this bottle of potion preserved in a special way?"
The priest became more and more excited as he spoke, and the two of them had already reached the second floor. After pushing open the door, Shade put the cat down and prepared to hang up his coat:
"Priest, is it possible to use this bottle of potion to rediscover the lost potion preparation technology?"