Extraordinary Puppet Master

Seeing Charlotte dressed in a standard detective style, Carlin felt angry in his heart for some reason.

He said directly and forcefully: "Our great detective, what questions do you want to ask me today?"

Elena's face looked awkward, and she looked at Charlotte, warning him not to talk nonsense with her eyes.

Charlotte showed an apologetic expression and said, "I didn't know that the matter involved your genre yesterday, and I'm deeply sorry for that."

Only then did Karin's expression soften: "As long as you know, come in, I'm about to make breakfast, let's eat together later."

After saying that, he turned around and walked into the house, followed by Elena and Charlotte.

When Carlin entered the kitchen to cook, the two guests sat at the dining table and waited.

Charlotte glanced at the kitchen and asked Alina curiously: "Cousin, is he usually like this?"

"you mean?"

"Getting up so early, stocking food by himself, cooking by himself, doing everything by himself, without hiring anyone, if he continues to live on Vanilla Street, I can only imagine how bad his reputation will be."

Carlin's daily habits were quite undignified by the standards of this era, and he had no sense of being a member of the upper class at all.

If you are not decent, you will be ostracized by the entire circle.

Elena shrugged after hearing this: "You may not know that his family was not like this six months ago. Because Mr. Westmin's condition worsened, he became irritable and fired all the servants in the family.

Afterwards, Carlin had to drop out of school and go home to take care of him, but he himself didn't like wasting time on making himself more 'respectable'.

I even suspect that he moved to the college because he didn't want to listen to other people's opinions that would affect his practice. At least it's impossible for anyone to criticize a student's independent living habits. "

After hearing this, Charlotte couldn't help but sigh: "Listening to what you told about his schedule, even some of the ascetic monks from the Clande Glow Church are far inferior to him."

At this time, Elena suddenly looked at him sideways: "Speaking of which, if Karin hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known you were back. Why didn't you come to the academy to find me as soon as you got off the ship?"

"Okay, okay, it's my fault," Charlotte smiled helplessly after hearing this, "It's just that I encountered a murder case as soon as I got off the boat, which aroused my curiosity, and I forgot about other things for a while. That’s all”

"You still haven't changed. When you were a child, you were very withdrawn and didn't like to play with children of the same age. It's the same when you grow up. It's not good to just be immersed in your own world."

"Haha, it's much better than before. I just want to see my mother when I come back this time and take some time to relax."

The two siblings just chatted about home life, and before they knew it, Karin brought one delicious dish after another to the table.

When the last dish was served, Karin sat directly at the main seat.

Charlotte couldn't help but admired: "I didn't expect you, Carlin, to have such skills."

"It's just a matter of personal taste. If you don't want to be particular, just use your own brain."

After finishing speaking, the three of them began to eat.

Because of the presence of Charlotte, an outsider, Carlin and Elena became quiet while eating, not even showing their teeth, looking very gentlemanly and ladylike.

The meal time passed in this quiet atmosphere.

After the food was emptied, Carlin said to Charlotte: "I am also very sorry about Rooney's death. He was an honest and responsible worker and should not have ended up like this."

When Charlotte saw Karin speaking, she immediately listened attentively.

Carlin continued: "If you want to investigate his case, I am not qualified to object, but for this case, I can only tell you that I gave Rooney 1 gold pound that day and asked him to help me handle something without any Dangerous things.

As for why he died, I don't know, but I have reason to suspect that he may have accidentally uncovered some people's secrets in Xiacheng District without being silenced. If you want to continue the investigation, you can start in this direction. "

After hearing this, Charlotte immediately thanked: "Thank you for the clue, it is very important.

After Rooney finished your work and left the academy that day, he did not immediately return to the dock with his coworkers to continue taking over the work. Instead, he went to other places alone. There was about an hour's gap in between. It turned out that he had gone Passing through Xiacheng District”

After chatting for a few more words, Charlotte said goodbye to Carlin.

"Thank you for your hospitality."

Watching the other person leave, Elena smiled and said: "I'm right, he is actually very easy to get along with."

Carlin nodded noncommittally and asked another question: "I remember Mrs. Wally passed away twelve years ago, right?"

"Yeah, why are you asking about this suddenly?"

"Oh, it's nothing, just asking casually."

Karin glanced at Charlotte's retreating figure again, and thought silently: 'The resuscitation ceremony was also arranged twelve years ago. I don't know if there is any connection between the two events. ’

After sending Charlotte away, Karin and Elena started today's class.

Charlotte, who left St. Wayne College, took a carriage to the upper town of Wayne City.

The entire city of Wayne is run through by a river, the Main River, which runs from northwest to southeast, and finally flows into the sea.

The upper city is located in the upper reaches of the northwest of the Main River.

This is actually not difficult to understand, because more and more factories and chimneys appear, the Main River cannot escape pollution, and rich people do not like to live in places with poor environment.

Therefore, the unpolluted upstream area has naturally become the preferred residence of the powerful people in Wayne City.

Charlotte strolled along the tree-lined avenue paved with stone slabs in an elegant environment with fresh air.

When he walked to a very old-looking iron gate of the manor, he hesitated. He only felt a swelling pain in his head. Charlotte couldn't help but press her temples and knead them gently before she felt a little relieved.

Look at the mottled walls, the rusty gates, and the green ivy.

It was as if there were a lot of memories that wanted to flow out and return to his mind, but they were bound by an invisible barrier and Charlotte couldn't remember anything.

The iron door in front of him was not locked, but in Charlotte's field of vision, there seemed to be an illusory chain made of thick dust that locked the iron door tightly.

Charlotte wanted to step forward and push the iron door open, but a strong resistance suddenly emerged in his heart to prevent him from doing so.

The outstretched hands fell down, and Charlotte was dejected for a while, and slumped down on the roadside, not caring that the dirt on the ground made her expensive clothes dirty.

‘Why, why do I resist instinctively? This is my home, why don’t you let me go home!

What happened before my mother died twelve years ago? Why does my subconscious resist so strongly to recall all memories about this place? ’

Squeak——

There was a harsh sound. Suddenly Charlotte raised her head in shock and looked at the opened door, feeling a sudden pain in her head.

As if the seal of memory had been broken, a large amount of information flowed into his mind, and Charlotte recalled scenes of carefree childhood memories.

He didn't know how long he sat there in silence before he came back to his senses.

Immediately I remembered that a man with a ponytail had appeared at some point and easily pushed open the large rusty iron door.

The man has a face that looks a bit decadent. Although it is a bit slovenly, it gives people a clean and refreshing feeling. The melancholy temperament contained in the decadence shows a special charm.

He looked at Charlotte, who had a gloomy expression, and showed two rows of white teeth when he spoke.

"Hello, little Charlotte, like you, I came back to Wayne from Kland to visit Wally."

Charlotte asked vigilantly: "Who are you? This is my home. It is not the behavior of a gentleman to open the door of other people's homes without permission!"

"Haha, I just saw you were in trouble and couldn't help but help you."

"Who the hell are you?!"

"I am a painter, Will Vog, your mother's best friend. After your mother got married, I left the sad place of Wayne and went to Kland to start a new life."