Originally, Shad just wanted to have a quick chat with Miss Sylvia and then return to the banquet. After all, Mr. Bernhardt was still waiting for him, and he also intended to get more local news from the "local bats".
But once they talked about their respective incomes, the topic seemed to be unstoppable. Although Miss Sylvia was an upper-class and elegant lady, she, like Shade, was also troubled by the lack of a stable income that could be used normally.
As ring sorcerers, the two often have large unexpected incomes, but they both prefer the kind of income that is small but very stable every week.
During the conversation, Miss Sylvia also confirmed again that Shade came to the city for the "Lady of the Lake", so the young witch proposed to help Shade with divination. She was not a witch who was good at divination, but she had a certain ability in divination.
The divination cards that Shad was more familiar with were still used, but Miss Sylvia's divination process was to ask Shad to write out three two-digit numbers at random, take the average of the three numbers, discard the decimals, and then count the cards represented by the numbers from the top of the divination cards.
Take out this card and the four cards above and below it, a total of nine cards, and calculate according to today's date and the current time, and finally only three cards are left. Xia De randomly selects one of the last three cards, and this complex but interesting divination method also makes Xia De very interested, so he curiously chooses the middle one.
Miss Sylvia turned over the card, and on the card was a red-nosed clown holding a red paper box wrapped in a ribbon. Shade blinked and looked at the clown's hat, feeling a lot of emotions.
"Ouija cards - unexpected gift, good omen."
The witch smiled and said to Shade:
"The meaning of this card is that the answer to the result you are pursuing may not be found in the direction you are looking for. But when you turn around by chance, you find that the answer has appeared beside you without knowing when. The card corresponds to the moon phases of the full silver moon, the waning yellow moon, and the waning red moon. In the astrology, it belongs to the 23rd point of the spring of the Joker constellation. Diviners believe that it is a relatively good divination result."
"Beside me?"
Shade looked around, but of course he didn't find divinity under the soft sofa cushions:
"Then I hope I can find the answer as soon as possible, although I don't have much hope..."
Dong Dong Dong~
As they were talking, there was a knock on the door. Shade immediately shut up, and Miss Sylvia frowned and looked at the door:
"It's Margaret. It looks like the speech is over. Time flies."
She was somewhat unhappy about being interrupted:
"Margaret has to stay in the banquet hall before she boards the airship tonight. After all, this is her farewell dinner. She came to me now, probably to discuss the departure time. Xia De, you step aside for the time being."
"OK."
Xia De turned his head and looked around the room, then he set his sights on the wardrobe in the corner. Hiding in the bathroom was risky, but Xia De was sure that no one would open the wardrobe.
He stood up and was about to walk over, but after thinking for a moment, he took out the prank note from Leicia that said "purple cabbage" and threw it on the red carpet between the sofa and the coffee table:
"Please help explain later. This note was there before you entered the room."
"no problem."
Miss Sylvia didn't ask any more questions, and then watched Xia De hurried to the closet. After confirming that the closet door was closed, she signaled her maid to open the door.
Outside the door, it was indeed Princess Margaret, dressed in gorgeous attire and wearing a silver crown:
"teacher."
She stood at the door and greeted him, then walked in with her servants. When she walked to the sofa, the first thing she saw was the fortune-telling cards on the table and the half-drunk cup of black tea:
"Teacher, did you have a guest just now?"
She asked curiously, and Miss Sylvia nodded:
"Yes, a very important guest."
The princess sat down and blinked. She could clearly feel the temperature on the sofa, which meant that the so-called guest had not left when she knocked on the door. She looked into the room very secretly and felt that the bathroom and the closet were both possible places. However, even the guest that Miss Sylvia valued was most likely in the bathroom.
"I hope I'm not disturbing you."
Margaret Anjou said softly, and was relieved when Miss Sylvia shook her head. She knew how great her nominal governess was.
Just as he was about to talk about taking a carriage to the steam-powered airship after the banquet, he found a note lying at his feet:
"Huh? What is this?"
The maid picked up the note with the back facing up for the princess, and Miss Sylvia said:
"After I entered this room, I didn't sit where you are now. The guest just now probably saw it, but she didn't pick it up. I think it was something unimportant."
Princess Margaret took the note curiously, but her expression changed drastically after just one look.
"What's wrong?"
Miss Sylvia asked curiously. The princess pursed her lips tightly and put the note away.
"nothing."
Her face looked very unhappy, but she was still unwilling to say more to Miss Sylvia, in order to prevent the events of many years ago from destroying the impression she had in Miss Sylvia's mind.
"Teacher, can you tell my fortune for me? I'm going to tell the origin of this piece of paper. I think it was left by the servant who cleaned the room."
The princess said in a low voice, and Miss Sylvia nodded:
"There are two cards on the table that have not been turned over. Please turn them over."
The princess with long light blonde hair carefully opened the first card, and the number six was on it.
"Divination Cards - Number 6?"
Miss Sylvia became interested:
"I'm best at deciphering numbers, Margaret. Please wait a moment and let me calculate it for you."
"No, sir, you mean... does this represent MI6?"
Margaret Anjou asked with an unpleasant expression. Miss Sylvia wanted to laugh but had to hold it back.
"Yes, that's possible. After all, the agents of Delarion are really excellent... Turn over the other one as well."
The princess nodded and opened another one, which showed an eagle standing high on a cliff.
“The eagle on the top of the mountain indicates that your ambitions will continue to expand, but this will not lead to bad results.”
Miss Sylvia interpreted it again, but Princess Margaret of Anjou stared at the cards anxiously, and only let out a long breath after at least half a minute:
"Teacher, the card shows a gray-headed eagle."
"Yes, in this edition of the divination cards, the mountaintop eagle card has a gray-headed eagle. The one I used before had twin bald eagles..."
The witch looked at her student curiously:
"You don't think that this card means that the note appeared here and is related to our legendary agent?"
Princess Margaret nodded with difficulty:
"I ventured to Midhill Castle in the fall and actually met Mr. Gray Eagle. Yes, I am sure it was him. He completed that difficult mission and even helped me divert MI6. I tried to win him over, but he has not contacted my people in Tobesk. This gentleman does not seem to be so easy to win over."
"Actually, I just don't need money at the moment, so I didn't collect the 1,000 pounds."
In the closet, Shade thought to himself, sincerely admiring Miss Sylvia's divination ability. The fortune tellers in this world can always get extremely accurate results, but the problem is that most of the time the interpretation of those results is wrong. But this time, Princess Margaret actually interpreted it completely correctly.
"I think I understand."
The princess held the note tightly in her hand:
"Before this banquet, Mr. Grey Eagle had definitely come to Huntington. He and MI6 had fought many battles in the dark that I didn't even know about. While I was resting, reading, and socializing, he was carrying out tasks related to the visiting delegation."
She unfolded the crumpled paper:
"This note appears right now, right in front of me. I can't imagine how many complicated and dangerous stories are involved."
It wasn't complicated, Shade just dropped it on the carpet.
"It's hard for me to imagine how many conspiracies there were around this piece of paper."
In fact, there was no conspiracy. It was just that Leicia was dissatisfied with her date time being occupied and wanted to "retaliate" against the princess of the Kingdom of Carsenrick.
"What you said makes sense. It sounds like the Gray Eagle of the Gray Gloves organization is really capable."
Shade in the closet admired Miss Sylvia for not laughing at the moment she was speaking.
"Teacher, I believe my judgment is correct. I have already planned to win over this ace agent, and even asked my father to order the Gray Gloves to let the Gray Eagle, which had originally entered a dormant period, secretly protect me during this visit."
"How come I don't know?"
Xia De thought in the darkness of the closet, and then realized that the order would not arrive so soon, but he would probably receive that strange letter again soon.
"Since that gentleman was able to show up in front of me at Midhill Castle, I believe he will also show up in Tobesk. By then, we will be able to determine whether there is a struggle between him and MI6 behind this note."
Princess Margaret said this in a firm tone, confident that her judgment was correct. Moreover, she was going to hand the note to the gray-gloved gentlemen accompanying the delegation, who might have been planted by MI6 personnel in the delegation.
Because of their discussion, Shade immediately knew that the Baron Lewis, who was nominally the accompanying secretary in the delegation, was actually the leader of the Gray Gloves Team. So, even before the delegation arrived in Tobesk, Shade had already made a contribution to Director Anros, who appreciated him very much.
Of course, Shad would not tell MI6 this news directly, at least not yet, after all, he was not really from Delarion. Although he was paid by MI6, he also received the favor of Detective Sparrow.
Therefore, this time he still wanted to achieve a "win-win" situation similar to the transmission of information among players in the big city.
You want to win twice
I heard "her" laughter.
"Of course not, the grey gloves and MI6 will win."
Xia De hid in the darkness, muttering quietly in his heart.