After saying goodbye to Miss Carina, Shad, holding the cat, led by Tifa, walked from the study on the second floor through the corridor to the guest room where Luvia lived. Along the way, he saw the servants who had woken up and were tidying up the manor that had not been cleaned up for a day. Everyone nodded and greeted Shad when they saw him.
It was already ten o'clock in the evening, but they still had to work for a while before they could rest. However, this was not because Miss Carina was harsh on her servants, but because everyone had slept almost the entire day, and now it was difficult to fall asleep even if they wanted to.
"The young lady has told the servants that from now on you will be the owner of this place, so please treat this place as your home."
Tifa explained softly, and continued to walk forward with Shad. In the end, she did not take Shad directly to see Luvia. Instead, she walked further and further away, even lighting the candlesticks and approaching an area with increasingly dim light.
Finally, they stopped in an unlit corridor, which, judging from its location, was a remote spot on the east side of the manor house.
Miss Carina certainly had enough gold pounds to pay for the gas lamps, so even at night, most of the corridors in the manor house were lit. The fact that there were no lights on here only meant that few people would come here normally, so Luvia could not have been arranged to live nearby.
Just as Shad was wondering, Tifa, who was holding the candlestick in front of him, turned around and looked at Shad, then bent down slightly, turned her body sideways and put the candlestick on the ground.
"Um... ... "
Xia De didn't know what was going on.
"Shad, there is one thing I need to clarify."
The girl in the maid's dress clasped her hands in front of her body and looked at Shade. There was no light here, only the candlelight at her feet was still swaying.
"If I agreed just now, it was definitely not just because of that. It was to thank you."
Her beautiful eyes turned to Xia De, who opened his mouth slightly to express his surprise, and it took him at least three seconds to understand what she wanted to express.
"Yes, I'm not ready yet. After becoming Miss Carina's maid, I never thought that I would have any intimate contact with a man again."
She said softly, then raised her hands and unbuttoned the shirt one by one. Xia De was even more surprised, he had always thought that the row of silver buttons extending from the neckline to the upper part of the chest was just a decoration, it seemed that this skirt was more complicated than he thought.
"Please don't think that I can only accept the lady's orders and have no opinions of my own."
The pair of dark brown eyes looked at Shade, and the corners of her red lips curled up, which was a smile. She unbuttoned the four buttons from the collar down, revealing a women's shirt. Because it was late summer, the shirt was very thin, and Shade could see the skin below her neck.
Then he unbuttoned the four buttons on his shirt:
"In order to avoid being discovered by others, we can stay here for three minutes. Although we can't let you taste the big meal, a small snack is still okay."
She said softly, exposing her neck to look at Xia De, who looked at the curve in front of him and said hesitantly:
"I still don't want you to do this just because you want to thank me. That gift was given to you by Miss Felena, not me."
The black-haired girl chuckled, a smile that contained shyness, charm, and a variety of complex emotions that Shade couldn't fully understand.
"As you would expect, I'll take this as an apology. I apologize for following the young lady's orders and forcing you to stay in prison."
She said softly, her dimples were obvious on her face.
"Um... ... "
"Two minutes and 49 seconds left."
Tifa walked up to Shad, puffed out her chest slightly, then placed her right hand on the back of Shad's head, trying to push it down.
"Um... ... "
Two minutes and 42 seconds left.
Xia De did not resist and his head was pressed down.
Tifa held the back of Shade's head with her right hand, biting her lower lip slightly, with a blush and a smile on her face. She pulled the side of her skirt up with her left hand, exposing her left foot, and kicked back with her left foot, knocking over the candlestick and extinguishing the candlelight:
"Maybe, it's okay to stay here for five minutes."
"Meow?"
The cat, who was dozing in Xia De's arms, was very surprised that the lights were suddenly turned off.
Then it was thrown to the ground by Shade because it was in the way.
(Mi Mia is running...)
"Why are you so red?"
Seeing Shade coming in, Luvia, who was lying on the bed, asked curiously. When he sat on the chair beside the bed, she frowned and twitched her nose:
"What's that smell on you? Why is it so... fragrant? Oh, it's the perfume of that beautiful maid."
"Can you smell it too? This is the perfume used by witches. Only a small number of people can smell it."
Xia De twitched his nose slightly, but he could not smell anything on himself.
"I can smell it. It smells really good. But what did you do just now? Why do you have such a strong fragrance on you?"
She asked with a smile, and seeing Xia De looking embarrassed and not knowing how to answer, she smiled even more happily:
"See, I knew that men like pretty girls with that kind of figure. Shad, I bet you were being dishonest just now. But it's not a gentleman's thing to do to harass someone else's maid in someone else's house."
It was difficult for Xia De to explain to her who was being harassed just now.
"Come out for a walk with me. It's boring to lie here all the time. Let's go for a walk in the courtyard. I saw it from the window. It's very beautiful here."
She suggested.
"Okay, it's good to go out and relax. But, have you had dinner? I just had dinner with Miss Carina, and you were still sleeping then."
"The servants have been sent here. This kind of aristocratic life is my first time to experience it."
"How do you feel?"
"Very good, don't worry about me, after all, I couldn't go with you..."
Shade knew that Luvia wanted to walk in the courtyard, but she didn't want to discuss sensitive issues in the mansion. Shade only said that she was someone who helped him, and didn't mention the relationship between Luvia and "Whispering Poems". Luvia herself didn't want the witch to know this secret.
So they walked from the second floor to the first floor together, and then walked in the courtyard. There were also many servants working in the courtyard at night. The darkness corroded the plants and caused most of them to wither. This was something that Felianna's witch light could not change, so the servants were pruning the flower beds.
Walking into the courtyard, under the gentle moonlight above his head, Shad recounted in detail what happened after he and Luvia parted at the manor.
When Luvia heard that the Human Pus used crystals to imprison high-level warlocks, she showed a little worry; when she heard that Shad was still knocked away with Iluna after spitting out the weak angel potion, she whispered about Shad's physical condition; when she heard that the Dark Box was out of control and Shad swallowed the darkness in the darkness, she grabbed Shad's arm tightly; when she heard that Mia took advantage of the chaos to steal the fish-training ring that could make demons speak, the purple-eyed girl smiled and looked at the cat standing on Shad's shoulder, bathing in the moonlight.
Mia looked up, her pink nose pointed to the sky, her amber eyes looking at the moon. Under the moonlight, the cat looked quite magical.
"Your cat is very abnormal."
The two turned beside the flower bed and walked along the path through the flowers.
"Last time, it was definitely not me who turned it from a doll back into a cat while I was unconscious. It was very likely that it absorbed a little bit of... my power."
Shade touched Mia's head from behind, and the cat immediately made a soft cry:
"However, this time it's all thanks to it. It crawled into the box at some point. Miss Carina checked it for me, and the cat is currently normal."
As he was talking, he saw the Huasheng Ring and the Fish Training Ring that the cat had strung on its tail:
"Mia is now 'two rings' and I am three rings too."
Shade said jokingly.
"Two and a half moons and three rings."
She sighed softly, and then heard Shade mention something about the Witch Council. After hesitating for a moment, he did not tell her about the physical examination by Miss Carina.
"What knowledge did Miss Felina leave you in the Witch's Reverberation?"
She was very curious about this, and Xia De shook his head:
"Some basic knowledge. Miss Feliana was there not long after she founded Saint Byrons. She gave me some basic knowledge of ring sorcerers, which I think can make up for my foundation."
He came to the Third Ring Road, but it was impossible for him to apply to the college to be promoted to the third grade because there was no exam week in the fall.
"However, the biggest gain this time, besides killing the second chosen one, is this."
Seeing that there was no one around, Shade took out the Rhodes deck from his pocket under the moonlight, and then took out the Origin of Darkness.
"Can you control Origin Darkness just like you control Origin Balance?"
Luvia wondered.
"No, not yet. But look at this."
Shade pointed at the card, and Luvia looked at it for a long time before she realized that this card had a special... texture.
It is different from all other Rhodes cards, even from Genesis Balance and Genesis Silver Moon. The card face is more three-dimensional, as if it really contains a whole scene.
"What's going on?"
Luvia asked.
"This is what I found when I returned to the manor. It should be related to the killing of Darkness. However, I have captured the information of the other one, and I roughly guessed what it is."
Xia De took out the pocket watch from his pocket, opened the cover and took out the Youth Eternal Leaf.
He had two leaves when he entered the Dark Realm, and later he completed the key mission and got two more. One was consumed by Iluna, one was in Luvia's hands, and the one that was breathed by time was just returned by Tifa.
"You just did this to me, and you said you would give me a very precious relic. This makes me think that we are doing some illegal transaction."
This is what the black-haired maid said when buttoning her clothes, and she insisted that Xia De take back the leaf.
So, now Shade has two leaves in his hand. The leaf in his hand at the moment contains a piece of real information - the leaf of the dark dungeon.
Looking up at the starry sky, Xia De placed the emerald green leaves in front of his eyes.