Whispering Verse

Because he had already given a New Year's Day gift to Iluna early that morning, after returning to Tobesk at noon on Tuesday, where everyone was celebrating the New Year's Day, Shade went directly to Yodel Palace. Waiting for the king's summons.

Today's King Larus III seems busier than ever. Shade met the king on time at one o'clock, and then received very formulaic encouragement and rewards. Just like what Director Anlos said, Lesia's father hinted that Shade should maintain his relationship with Princess Margaret. Of course, this is just a hint, and there is no evidence to show that His Majesty the King gave such an order.

The award ceremony will be held publicly after the year, and a suitable reason will be given to explain Xia De's achievements. As for the bonus, His Majesty the King would certainly not give it to Shade personally, but after Shade left the king's study, the eunuch attendant in red who led him to the door handed Shade a money order:

"1,000 pounds? How generous."

Shade said with a smile in his heart, and collected the money order with an expressionless expression.

When the attendant led him out, he unexpectedly met Lecia and Agelina, who were all dressed up. The princesses and Shade did not walk in the same corridor, but Shade still heard their conversation with his extremely good hearing.

The little princess seemed to be asking Lesia why she looked younger and younger recently, and then was scolded by her sister:

"Agelina, didn't I look younger before?"

Even at the end of the year, Lesia is not afraid to show her majesty to her sister. What Shade was more curious about was how Lecia and Dorothy negotiated the time with Luvia.

No matter how much he thought about it, he could not imagine that Lecia would agree to waste even one hour of the precious 24 hours of Red Butterfly Day.

After leaving Yodel Palace, Shade first took a carriage to the cemetery outside the city and sent a bouquet of flowers to Detective Sparrow who was sleeping here. After mourning, we went to Miss Carina's manor to exchange happy holidays with the witch and the black-haired maid.

Miss Carina will spend the end of the year at the Yodel Palace, which is also a royal tradition. And tonight, Lesia obviously planned to sneak out after the family dinner.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to the city, and the festive atmosphere in the city was about to reach its peak. Shade first went to Old John's pawn shop and found that the old man had returned to the city. Father John still looked the same as before, as if he was really just on a long trip, and even brought Shad a Kasenrick rabbit fur hat as a gift.

The last stop this afternoon is the Dawn Church, which has a strong festive atmosphere. As one of the core believers of the diocese, although Shade was unable to participate in the full-day event, he at least had to participate in the end-of-year opera this afternoon with Bishop Owen as a representative of believers.

It is worth mentioning that Shade played himself in the opera that afternoon. The content of the opera is that Shade blocked a bullet for Queen Diana in the summer, and the "Holy Prayer Coin" blessed by the gods blocked the fatal blow for him.

The opera adapted from this legendary story was very attractive. A few weeks later, Shade even heard that the script had been purchased by a local opera company and wanted to adapt it into a large-scale opera in five acts. Shade himself also received the news. A rather generous "image fee".

Of course, that's all after the New Year's Day.

It was Tuesday night, the last night of 1853. Most of the shops in the city were not open at all today, and most of the shops and restaurants that were open closed in the afternoon.

People in this era prefer to spend this most important festival of the year at home with their loved ones. Sha De's home has also been decorated by the maids.

Miss Carina even considered Shad's end-of-year dinner. Although she could not accompany Shad herself, in order to prevent Shad from having nothing to eat during such an important festival, she asked the chef of Yodel Palace to prepare a sumptuous meal in advance. Dinner was served directly to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square.

The servants filing in and the dining car being pushed in could not hide it from others, but since the current owner of Yodel Palace, Larousse III, nephew of the Duchess, did not say anything, others would naturally not say anything. .

This sumptuous dinner was not only enjoyed by Shad and Mia. It was Luvia who had the last dinner with Shad at home in 1853. After all, Lesia and Dorothy both had families to keep company with. Of course there was no need to say more about Lecia. Although Dorothy had moved out of her home to live independently, she would still spend the New Year's Eve at her home with her parents and unmarried brothers and sisters.

The dinner was very sumptuous. Although she was just eating at home, Luvia did not dress up, but she also put on light makeup. It could be seen that she was in a particularly good mood tonight, and even tried to feed little Mia food.

Of course, that's all the cat didn't accept. It rarely eats food offered by anyone other than Shade.

As night falls, the sound of fireworks continues to be heard outside the window. Even though there was still gray fog lingering in the night sky, the lights of the Yodel Palace not far away could be seen almost lighting up the entire night sky even without being close to the window.

This was a night worth remembering. The purple-eyed girl sat across from Shade at the dining table, twirling a glass goblet, listening to the sound of fireworks and phonograph stones, laughing and sighing with him about the entire year of 1853. How difficult it is.

Amidst the sound of fireworks exploding outside the window, at the last supper time in 1853, Luvia and Shade clinked glasses together. Then both of them stood up slightly, stretched out their heads and kissed above the table.

The girl's lips are so soft.

Whether it was because of drinking or excessive excitement, Luvia's cheeks were quite rosy. After she put down the wine glass, she picked up the knife and fork again, and then looked at Shade's face under the light of the golden candlestick with a smile:

"Meeting you is truly the greatest luck in my life."

"If you say that, I will be shy."

Shade smiled and said while touching little Mia, tonight is a special day. He let go of the standard for the cat to eat every meal because he was worried about the orange cat's weight. Now the cat is eating happily.

It was only 7:30 in the evening after dinner. Luvia and Shade watched the fireworks from the Yodel Palace together from the window, and then gave each other year-end gifts.

What Shade gave was the "Book of Fools" written by an ancient fabler. Luvia did not give the gift immediately, but smiled and said that she would wait until the evening to give the gift.

Shade still doesn't know how Luvia negotiated the time with Dorothy and Lesia, but it seems that the purple-eyed fortune teller lady has made up her mind not to leave tonight.

The atmosphere was just right for the New Year's Eve. After watching the fireworks, Luvia smiled and said that she was going to the bathroom to wash up, so she went into the bathroom with a change of clothes.

Shade stood in the living room holding little Mia, lowering his head and looking at his cat. The cat once again stared at Shade with big eyes, obviously seeing what Shade was going to do.

It didn't try to escape. Instead, it huddled in Shade's arms and meekly called "meow~" a few times. Unfortunately, this did not arouse any sympathy from Shade.

However, before Shade could help the cat build a soft nest in the closet, he heard the sound of the door opening downstairs. There were only three girls who had the key to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square. When Shade arrived at the stairs, he saw Her Royal Highness happily walking up the stairs holding up her skirt and wearing white diamond-encrusted high heels.

She had probably just attended the dinner at the Jodel Palace and watched the fireworks with Larus III and Queen Diana. She did not even change out of the golden princess dress she was dressed in, nor did she take off the ruby-encrusted crown on her head. He came here excitedly.

I saw Sha De at the door of the second floor. Her Royal Highness the Red-haired Princess enthusiastically gave Sha De a hug and an even more passionate kiss:

"Oh, it's not easy to run out. Fortunately, Agelina helped me. Isn't Dorothy here yet?"

She smiled and hugged Shade, with blazing fire in her eyes:

"This is the first time that I have not spent the whole night of the New Year's Eve in the Yodel Palace. Even during the years when I studied at Zarath Academy of Literature, I would go home during the New Year's Day. I had long thought that I would sooner or later There is such a day, but even in the fantasy of an adolescent girl, I never thought that I would meet a handsome knight like you."

She kissed the side of Shade's face with her lipsticked lips, and then she and Shade held hands and entered the living room. Shade was surprised. She actually acted as if she couldn't hear the sound in the bathroom at all, and asked Shade to sit on the sofa:

"It's certainly worthwhile to postpone the Red Butterfly Day for nearly three weeks. Shade, don't arrange anything for me tomorrow. How about we go for a walk in the city together? I know you have no memory of the past, so I definitely don’t know about the Silver Cross Avenue float parade at the end of the year.”

This is an event sponsored by the royal family and is the most grand celebration on the first day of every year.

"I have never seen how the churches of the Five Gods Church are decorated for the New Year's Day. We can go to the church to listen to the New Year's choir's hymns!"

When he went to Dawn Church this afternoon, Shade saw some of the New Year decorations, and he could only say that the church was really rich.

“I didn’t even know how great the Opera House’s year-end performance was!”

Lesia's face flushed with excitement, and the fireworks exploding outside the window made her face even more beautiful. She had already arranged all the activities for tomorrow.

"But you won't show up at Yodel Palace all day tomorrow, is that really okay?"

Shade was worried about this, but Lecia pressed Shade on the sofa and said with a smile:

"I temporarily surrendered to Carina and asked her to help cover it up. She agreed probably because of the New Year's Day. I didn't expect that one day she would be willing to help me."