Whispering Verse

Shade and Iluna looked at each other, both of them felt strange:

"Miss Lassers, did you see the other person's face?"

"I haven't seen it, but I'm almost certain that that very young girl is definitely not a normal person."

Miss Lassers continued:

"There is no feeling of pain in that erased memory, which means that the lost girl was not harmed or tortured during the week of disappearance. In that memory, I smelled a faint scent of flowers, but I also smelled It smells like blood. The memory itself can’t explain anything. I’m sorry, I can probably only help you so far.”

"No, no, you can still help us. Since this is an opera house, there should be professional makeup artists and flower girls' clothes, right? I remember that in many operas, there are scenes of flower girls selling flowers on the street. .”

Iluna has not forgotten her plan. She knows that Shade does not want her to take risks, so she says to Shade again:

"Shade, please treat me as an independent individual, not an ordinary girl under your protection."

She looked at Shade, and then gradually looked away from Shade's eyes:

"I promise I will never take any risks. If there is any danger, I will call you as soon as possible."

In the end, Shade could only reluctantly agree to the plan. Miss Lassus found clothes suitable for Iluna, and then asked a professional makeup artist to make her into a girl selling flowers on the street.

The makeup artists of the Golden Dawn Opera Company were indeed professional. When Shade, who was waiting outside the dressing room, saw Iluna again, he almost thought she was the girl selling flowers on the street. Not only that, Iluna herself looks very young. After putting on makeup like this, except for being slightly taller, she looks like she is three or four years younger.

"You really look like you are about thirteen or fourteen now."

He also smiled and praised Iluna for being very young at this time. He thought that praising a girl for being young was the right thing to do, but unexpectedly, Iluna became a little unhappy.

Shade spent money to buy all the flowers from the flower seller he found near the opera house, even the flower basket, and asked Iluna to carry it, and continued to sell flowers in the area where the little girl who had sold out the flowers was originally active. .

Because she knew that every disappearance occurred in an alley, Iluna was also asked to frequently travel through nearby alleys.

In this afternoon, while waiting for the disappearance to happen again, Shade kept wandering around Iluna, and even bought a Lyonnaise and a Randall carnation from close to her.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Iluna, who was already feeling a little bored, walked into the alley next to the opera house again, while Shade was reading the newspaper at the entrance of the alley and waiting, planning to follow after two minutes.

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened this time, because the alley actually shone with the unique light of the sun gun.

Shade immediately dropped the newspaper and chased after him. Then he saw that there was no one in the alley, except for a small amount of fresh blood on the ground:

"Oh, I knew you couldn't use the bait Blood Echo!"

A scarlet halo immediately appeared in the air. Shade followed the direction of the halo. Then, near the exit at the other end of the alley, he saw that the halo entered directly into the sewer pipe with the cover opened.

Although the smell of the city's sewer pipes was terrible, Shade turned into a red butterfly and flew down. After gaining a foothold in the stinking and damp environment, I continued to chase forward in the darkness, following those scarlet halos.

After chasing him through the sewer pipes like an underground maze for five minutes, he finally heard the voice in front of him. Continuing to move forward, as the golden light of the light ball summoned by Iluna illuminated the sewer pipe, Shade finally saw the scene in front of him.

The current location is an underground room in the sewer pipe used to store construction equipment and facilitate maintenance personnel to rest. It is usually locked with an iron fence and is not allowed to enter and exit casually, but there are indeed chairs, cabinets and beds inside.

At this time, the four missing girls were lying on the two beds. The little girl, whom Shade had never seen before, stood in front of the bed, like an old hen protecting her chicks, spreading her arms to prevent Iluna from approaching them.

The flower girl looks very young, and her whole body is full of whispering elements. She is undoubtedly a humanoid relic. She was only about Shade's waist. In addition to the clothing characteristics described by Miss Lassers, she was also carrying a small basket covered with black cloth. From the gaps between the black cloth and the basket, five or six flowers of different colors emerged.

"Are you OK?"

Because he came after the blood trail, Shade was very concerned about Iluna's safety.

The girl with long brown hair shook her head:

"It's okay. I was accidentally injured at first. Other than that, I have always had the upper hand. You have to be careful. She looks young, but she is actually very powerful."

"I didn't hurt you!"

The little flower seller's voice was quite childish, but she was also quite angry when she spoke, and her brown eyes were about to burst out with anger:

"Obviously I was just asking you a question, but you suddenly attacked me and I was forced to fight back!"

After her description, Shade could almost imagine the scene at that time. Iluna, who was smiling and talking, suddenly threw out the sunshine gun.

"You are a human relic, and you have kidnapped so many girls. Of course I will attack you and keep you!"

Speaking of this, Iluna was also quite angry. She pointed behind the little flower seller, as if she wanted to prove her justice to Shade:

"Look, the missing girls are all here. Lying in the middle is the baron's daughter. I have seen her photo."

"Oh, you are an old woman who pretends to be an underage girl even though you are an adult! Where did I kidnap them? They obviously came to help me voluntarily."

The flower girl argued again, her childish voice echoing in the sewer pipes. But this time, she finally completely angered Iluna:

"I'm only seventeen years old, I just came of age! How dare you call me an old woman?!"

As he spoke, a golden ball of light as bright as the sun appeared in his hand, and the size of the ball continued to expand.

The flower seller trembled, then looked at Shade pitifully:

"You will help me, right, brother?"

The sweet tone made Shade couldn't help but shudder, but he still stopped Iluna:

"Don't rush to do it yet. What kind of relic is this?"

"Keeper-level relic [Flower Girl]. The name means everything. She is the collection of all flower girl concepts, resentment, joy, nostalgia for childhood, memories of the past, sadness for poverty, and nostalgia for suffering. Feelings. All these things came together to form her. Regardless of her young age, her formation is most likely to be traced directly back to the First Era. Decades ago, some people proposed that she be classified as an angel!"

Iluna gritted her teeth and said that she was actually quite well-behaved, but she got angry when she was called an "old woman" this time. In the past, she was the only one who said this to others:

"The danger level is only [Secret Keeper Level], which does not mean that she is not dangerous, because no one has ever been able to truly test the upper limit of the power of this relic. Fortunately, apart from her uncontrollable influence on the surroundings, she has no influence on humans. Too malicious, she just likes to do some strange things related to selling and growing flowers. I think she was also attracted by the twisted power of the earth."

"Yes! Big sister is right!"

The girl said in a rather childish voice, still showing an expression of fear of Iluna:

"The soil here is now very special, so it can grow flowers that would normally be difficult to bloom."

"So what do you want to do with these girls?"

Shade asked, and the girl looked up at him and replied:

"Cultivation of flowers requires not only soil, but also nutrients. I need blood to cultivate flowers, so I asked these pure girls who have the same profession as me to help. I asked their opinions, and they agreed! "

"That's because you have the ability to make all intelligent beings sympathize with you, pity you, and then agree to almost all your requests!"

Iluna gritted her teeth and said, and glanced at Shade after saying:

"Shade, don't be fooled."

"Do you have any misunderstanding about me?"

Shade said softly, while the girl continued to open her arms to stop Iluna:

"I didn't let them work for free. After they left after working for a week, I gave each of them a small white flower to decorate their souls. In this way, they would not be infected by the petrified plague you call it, and The fallen earth elemental spirits will not attack them. Even if they are far away from this area, that little white flower can enhance the strength of their souls."

"You see, this is why she is obviously very dangerous, but she is only rated as a secret keeper."

Iluna said to Shade, the light ball in her hand still did not disappear. This is a newly developed thaumaturgy by Iluna. Although it can only confine the power of the sun in its hands at present, it is enough to cause considerable damage.

"You've done a great job, but can you let these girls go?"

Shade asked, since Iluna said that the other party is very powerful, then they had better not attack casually.

The girl pouted and thought for a moment:

"Since you have made the request, of course you can let the four of them leave. After all, I am not a bad person. But after that, I will find new helpers in this city. After all, my flowers haven't bloomed yet."

In the deepest part of this small sewer room, there is a brown flowerpot on the table. There is a smell similar to blood wine in the flowerpot, which is a mixture of blood and wine. It smells good. However, there is currently only a short green bud in the soil of the flowerpot.

"This is not okay, leave this city now."

Iluna stared at her.

"But what about my flowers? It's better than this."

The girl thought for a while and made a condition to the two of them:

"You can help me find the nutrients that will make my flowers bloom now. Then I will leave this city immediately, and I can also give you a flower."

"What nourishment do you want?"

Iluna asked hesitantly, it would be great if this could solve the problem.

The young girl looked at her with a smile:

"The nourishment is in this city, and it is easy to get it. You can even get it now. This may be difficult for others, but it should be very simple for you. You just need to agree with me. If you ask, you can save many flower girls, which is a very cost-effective exchange."