"I can't find it directly now. I am a character in the story now. I don't have subjective initiative. Moreover, if I open the cabinet or lift up the bed to face the thief, he will choose to escape. When facing a strong opponent, he will become stronger. Even if I can exert my own strength, I may not be able to catch him."
So what are you going to do
"I want it to come to me, and then I'll launch a shameless sneak attack."
"She" chuckled and didn't ask Xia De how to do it.
Xia De tore off the page from the notebook, then tore it into three pieces, writing on each piece who it was for.
He stood up from the sofa and said in an exaggerated tone:
"Oh, looks like I'll have to go ask the police gentlemen for help, it's just too dangerous to stay in a burglarized home."
As he spoke, he raised his right hand towards the door, and three notes flew silently towards the stairs. Dr. Schneider didn't even use a spell, the powerful mental power of the six-ring warlock directly pulled the three notes to fly over. He saw the names written on the folded notes, so he divided the notes among them. After the three people read them separately, they took action.
"I'm going to go to the bedroom and change my clothes. It's too cold tonight."
With that, Shade walked into his master bedroom and closed the door.
The living room, which was lit with gas lights, returned to silence, while in the master bedroom, there was the sound of a wardrobe being opened, followed by the dull thud of hangers colliding with each other and clothes being thrown onto the bed.
The kitchen cupboard was opened silently at this time, and a short man of medium height in a black windbreaker came out without making any sound. He was wearing a hat, and his face was covered by shadows from any angle. After landing, he listened carefully and confirmed that the owner of the house in the bedroom was still changing clothes. Then he came to the living room with Shade's antique knight sword, and took a look at the closed master bedroom, and then held his breath and walked out of the room.
It entered the corridor on the second floor and did not walk down the stairs, but went to the third floor instead, apparently thinking it was unsafe to leave through the main entrance. But it stopped abruptly just after stepping on the fifth step. It raised its head and clearly saw an old man standing in the darkness with his charred wings spread out behind him at the corner of the staircase leading to the third floor.
Although "Thief Jack" becomes stronger when facing a strong enemy, he also has his own limits, otherwise he would not have been pulled into the story by the Angel-level Relic Dice Story Collection. When it encounters a strong enemy, it usually does not tend to attack but to flee, so after seeing the Augustus priest, it turned around and fled back to the second floor.
Still not choosing to flee to the first floor, he tried to go to Room 2 on the second floor along the corridor. But just as he passed the door of Room 1, he saw a man standing at the end of the corridor with his hands behind his back. Dr. Schneider stood at the boundary of light and shadow, and his eyes, half of his face illuminated by the gas lamp, revealed a strange scarlet light.
The darkness was crawling behind the doctor, as if something even scarier was lurking in the thick darkness. Thief Jack turned around again, unable to move on the second floor, unable to go to the third floor, and this time he finally chose to go to the first floor.
There was no sound coming down the stairs, but there were still people on the downward stairs.
Lecia's life ring was spinning rapidly behind her. On her left stood the match girl holding a bamboo basket, and on her right stood the sleeping princess holding a spindle.
Mia stood on the blonde girl's shoulder. The princess held the night watchman in both hands and looked at the strange humanoid creature coming down the stairs as if facing a great enemy.
Even though she had anticipated the horror of the sage-level humanoid relic, when this thing that clearly looked like a human but whose intuition kept reminding her that it was definitely not a human appeared before her eyes, Lecia still took a step back cautiously.
The Night Watcher in her hand did not glow, which proved that it could not be judged as an evil creature. Leicia bit her lip and pointed her sword at it, trying to force it to retreat back to the second floor.
But unlike the previous time when he was forced back by Father Augustus and Dr. Schneider, this time the thief did not turn around directly, but hesitated at the top of the stairs.
"As expected, we still need to show strength to force it back."
Carrying Shade's cat, the Cavendish princess prepared to face the sage-level humanoid relic head-on. The flow of spirit made the bodies of the fairy tale characters summoned around her more solid. She took a step up, and with the angel-level relic in her hand, she made the sage-level relic in front of her retreat one step, but she still did not turn around and return to the second floor.
At this moment, Leixia actually heard footsteps behind her. Before she turned around to confirm who was coming, a hand reached out from behind Leixia, and then shook the night watchman together with her:
"My heart is clear, and my sword slays the devil."
Luvia spoke the standard Fourth Era common language, and the purple-eyed girl with brown shoulder-length hair came to Leicia's side. The silver sword light shone on the surface of the silver sword, and the runes on the sword were lit up in a clear yellow color.
Luvia and Resia stood side by side. As the sharp light seemed to be slashing upwards, Thief Jack was finally forced back to the second floor.
"Luvia, you... Oh, thank you so much, I'm not in good condition, otherwise I can do it myself."
The princess made the Sleeping Princess and the Match Girl disappear, and was supported by Luvia while gasping for breath. The female fortune teller glanced at Mia on her shoulder:
"Don't be so stubborn. What did you do just now? Why did you lose so much mental strength? I have a potion here... And do you really need to thank me? In this house, we can be considered sisters."
Leicia's face turned red, and she didn't know what she was thinking about. She took the mint-flavored potion and drank it in small sips. Luvia said again:
"Has Shade not finished this yet? I've been waiting at the Prophet's Association for quite a while, so I hurried over here."
She went up with the blonde, and at the top of the stairs they met Father Augustus and Doctor Schneider, who were coming down the stairs and on the other side of the corridor.
The old priest and the middle-aged doctor were both surprised by Luvia's appearance, but then they didn't feel particularly surprised. After all, theoretically, no one here should be here tonight.
The thief Jack, who was wearing a black windbreaker, was originally standing at the door of Room No. 1. Seeing the four people surrounding him, he decisively retreated back to Room No. 1 on the second floor. His footsteps still made no sound.
But when it re-entered the room and turned to look at the window, it was greeted by a fist and an angry rebuke:
"Oh, you damn thief! How dare you show up on your own initiative!"
The mortal's lucky Shad Hamilton enters the final stage of the battle.
"Mortal Lucky Shad Hamilton returned home and immediately discovered the theft in his home. Roll the dice to determine whether the stolen items were found. If the points are over 90, you will get a 20-point bonus for any subsequent judgments related to Jack the Thief."
"I want to make a statement!"
In the Prophet Association, Yin Luna looked at the parchment in her hand under the light:
"Due to Hamilton's trait of I Love My Home, any judgment made in Six Saint Teresa's Place will receive a 1.2 times coefficient on the total value."
The people around took a breath and thought of the rumors about the house.
Clang clang ~
Yin Luna read out the numbers:
"55 points. Symbol points added 20 points..."
Since the coefficient of enjoyment at this time is 1.2, there are still eight points left. Yin Luna's eyes quickly swept over the contents of the parchment. After Shade returned to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, she had more than half the information in her hands. For example, the trait of "I love my home" only appeared after Shade entered the house. The 17-year-old girl thus understood what Luvia often said about Shade's obsession with the house:
"Special scene bonus - Hamilton Detective Agency, because it is doing detective-like work, it provides an additional inspiration bonus of 20 points. The total points are 95×1.2=114."
Although they knew that such a simple judgment could not fail, people still breathed a sigh of relief. After all, someone just rolled three 1s in a row, which showed that everything was possible in the story.
"The detective who returned home keenly discovered that the stolen item was the knight's sword of 'Hamilton of Rejade'. Although the detective was angry about being robbed, this anger did not make him more sensitive to find the top criminal hiding in his home. What will Shad Hamilton do next?"
Yin Luna frowned and thought for a moment:
"Don't give any instructions, just let him act randomly according to his own ideas."
After saying this, he added, fearing that he might be suspected:
"The thief must be in the house, but Hamilton can't find him with his detective skills. Rather than giving him ineffective instructions, it's better to wait for the thief to take the initiative. I don't believe he can hide all night."
After that, he waited for a while, and didn't hear his companions behind him questioning this decision, so he breathed a sigh of relief. The voice in the darkness continued to tell the story of the detective and the thief, and the story was about to come to an end:
"Looking around, pacing constantly, suppressing his complex emotions of panic, guilt, anger and uneasiness, the lucky mortal Shad Hamilton could not understand his bad luck, and was even more angry about losing his precious symbol of identity. He suppressed his inner thoughts, sat on the sofa and tried to calm himself down. After writing and drawing, he finally decided to go to Redwich Field to call the police by himself."
Everyone was looking at the table setting. After Shad entered Six St. Teresa's Square, the original large area setting disappeared, and now the table blocks were piled up to look like Shad's home.
"The detective entered the bedroom and closed the door behind him, which increased his sense of security. He made an additional lucky roll, above 350 points, and heard the sound of the thief walking in the living room."
Clang clang ~
"Judgment successful. The detective, who was changing his clothes, keenly noticed the footsteps outside the door. He decided to go out of the bedroom to take a look. Please note that since the gun bag was thrown on the desk, this weapon cannot be used in the next step."
A sigh was heard behind Yin Luna, but the seventeen-year-old girl knew that Xia De had deliberately not taken it.
"The night was chilly, and panic gripped the young detective's heart. He didn't know if the faint footsteps outside were just his own hallucinations, or if they were the criminals who had not yet left. At this moment, the image of a strange and evil monster that had been heard of in the past and haunted the city on winter nights seemed to flash behind that door."
Yin Luna thinks this kind of psychological description is very funny.
"He reached out and pushed open the bedroom door. The familiar and warm home seemed extremely strange at this moment. Even though the light of the gas lamp illuminated the place, he still had a hard time convincing himself that everything was normal when he took the first step."
"Have you found Jack the Thief? Should we make a judgment?"
Yin Luna asked, and the hoarse voice telling the story responded:
"Shad Hamilton came to the living room and checked the living room, which actually did not have any clues. He found nothing and then carefully came to the door of Room 1 on the second floor."
The voice paused for a moment, then immediately said:
"Shad Hamilton and Jack the Thief face off. The battle begins."
Almost everyone held their breath, only Yin Luna let out a long sigh, and the story finally came to an end.