Whispering Verse

"Chocobo's what?"

Miss Aurora blinked, seeing that Miss Carina and Megan had no intention of explaining, she just assumed that they were talking about privacy:

"It's so nice. It's like returning to the Fifth Age recorded in the book. The witches were having fun at salons and banquets, chatting about pleasant and interesting topics, or competing with each other to see who had cultivated a chocobo with a more peculiar color, or It’s a competition to see who has found a more beautiful, smarter and more talented apprentice.”

She leaned comfortably on the back of the sofa and watched Shade and Sirius dancing together. Audrey and Miss Carina also looked over together. Each of the three great witches had different ideas. After a while, Megan blinked and transformed into Audrey, put the wine glass on the coffee table, and said seriously:

"Carina, you seemed to have had different plans before?"

She and Carina Cavendish were not familiar with this topic before, so they had not discussed it. The red-haired duchess nodded:

"Yes, with the goal of independence of Saladir County, I want to establish a new Demon Kingdom in the Sixth Age. Or at least, find a piece of land for the Parliament that can be used as its headquarters."

"So has the goal changed now?"

Audrey asked again. Miss Aurora turned the ring on her right index finger with her left hand and looked at her with a smile:

"I think you have other ideas?"

The Duchess looked not far away, where Lecia, Agelina and Margaret were also unable to dance with Shade on this occasion. They were standing in front of the window with a group of aristocratic girls, talking about the rumors that Dorothy Louisa, the author of "Hamilton Detective Stories", was also in the local area.

His eyes moved to Shade again:

"Yes, other ideas. Maybe I was too conservative in the past, but now it seems that we can get much more than I thought in the past."

She moved every finger. Audrey and Miss Aurora looked at each other and raised the corners of their mouths.

The banquet lasted until very late that night. Although only a few people knew about the plan discussed between the church and the kingdom, the attitude of suspending negotiations was obvious to almost everyone. Even enemies at the negotiation table can still be friends who can have a good time over wine at the banquet. Everyone had a great time at what was almost certainly the final party.

As for Shade, he almost danced from the first dance song to the last one. The girls seemed to have agreed on the order of dancing. As long as someone came down, someone would be able to hold Shade's hand just right.

At the end, even Luvia couldn't help but dance with Shade. But Iluna cannot do this, because Luvia is not a particularly famous fortune teller, but she is a quite famous chosen one.

"Iluna's birthday is next week."

Shade hugged the purple-eyed girl and when they were dancing the last dance at the banquet, she looked at Iluna who was talking to Margaret on the sidelines and asked:

"Is the gift ready?"

"Of course, it is absolutely in line with Iluna's wishes. Speaking of which, if I remember correctly, her birthday is next week."

"Thursday, the 22nd of the Rain Moon. The day after the Edwards family dinner."

Luvia added softly:

"Remember, no matter what happens, you must wish Iluna a happy birthday."

"Yes, don't forget it either."

The two slowly hugged each other and spun around, their high heels and leather shoes stepping on the ground without making too much noise. It was already late at night, and after a relaxing night, there were still too many things waiting for them.

(Little Mia is running.)

At nine o'clock in the morning on Sunday, after several loud horn blasts, the gate of Rose Manor opened. Royal guards with guns in red uniforms and black hats slowly walked out in two rows, followed by citizens on the roadside. Amidst the cheers, the carriage with the Cavendish family crest, exquisite metal carvings, silver window rims, silk curtains and pure gold decorations carried Miss Carina and Princess Margaret. Driving slowly out of the manor.

Today is a special day. Grand Duchess Carina of Delrayon and Princess Margaret of Carsenlick will set off from Rose Manor to the City Hall to sign this document in the presence of the citizens. The greatest result achieved since the negotiations - the "Peace Agreement of 1854".

In this agreement, the two parties agreed not to be the first to use large-caliber steam cannons, not to export special alloy steel to surrounding principalities and archipelago kingdoms, and agreed on a vision to jointly develop the New World. Although the specific items are not yet clear, it is also the most significant outcome since the negotiations.

In order to facilitate citizens to participate in the activities, the royal family even specially selected Sunday. As for Green Lake City, which placed the location of the agreement on the Delarian side, the apparent reason was that Archduke Carina made a major contribution to the conclusion of the agreement. But in fact, while Delarion gained fame, he also secretly shouldered the responsibility of failing to protect Princess Margaret.

In short, the lively motorcade drove out of Rose Manor. In order to show the closeness of the two royal families to the people, the carriage drove very slowly. Miss Carina and Princess Margaret could frequently greet the people on both sides of the street. They waved.

On such an important occasion, almost all the people who gathered in Green Lake City because of this negotiation came to participate. The lively atmosphere broke away in one fell swoop the depressive atmosphere that had lingered over the city due to the unsmooth negotiations. If they didn't know the truth, some people might think that Delarion had completely overwhelmed Kasonrik at the negotiating table.

"Ha~"

A yawning Shade also appeared in the crowd. He was wearing a loose black thin coat. He pulled the collar to his nose and sniffed to make sure that he was not contaminated by the scent of the witch's perfume when he said goodbye in the morning. Then he continued. Staring at the carriage approaching not far away, after confirming that this section was safe, he retreated into the alley, then turned into a cat and jumped onto the roof, continuing to go further.

In order to ensure the safety of this matter and not cause trouble in the subsequent Battle of Green Lake, the church made an exception and dispatched quite sufficient manpower to monitor the people along the way to ensure that no ring warlocks would interfere, so Shade must also be careful Discreet not to be discovered.

Fortunately, his transformation skills are quite good.

Action early in the morning can indeed make people sleepy, especially for Shade who didn't sleep well last night. This had nothing to do with Carina, but that he had another strange dream. Although the content of the dream, according to Luvia's dream interpretation theory, can be attributed to what he was thinking during the day, the long river flowing in it collapsed, everything became extinct, and he flew out of the world after the collapse. The scene cannot be matched with reality no matter how you think about it.

"Now is not the time to think about that."

The assassin who was arranged by Director Anlos had a silver pen in his jacket pocket. Shade soon spotted him in the crowd. He was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties. He had a haggard face and a sloppy beard. He knew at a glance that he was living a very unfulfilled life.

He blended in with the crowd, his left hand hanging naturally and his right hand in his coat pocket. His eyes were fixed on the royal guards walking in the distance, and on his tired and haggard face, he forced himself to show the same excitement as others and the excitement of participating in an important event.

"Well, that's it. His acting skills are really good."

Above the man's head, a silver cat squatted on the railing of someone's second-floor terrace and looked down. Then the cat left. Soon after, Shade appeared in the crowd and looked around carefully.

The weather is quite good today, and the sunny day even makes the citizens on the street feel a little bit sunburned. Just looking carefully, it seems that there are dark clouds approaching from the north. But no one in the sun noticed this. People said hello to the Duke and the exotic princess in the carriage, or chatted with the people around them that the city had not been so lively for a long time.

Shade could even tell that his colleagues were scattered among the crowd and were paying attention to the situation. Looking up slightly, one can also observe that the church's ring wizards are vigilantly paying attention to traces of elements.

So far, everything was fine, but when Shade approached the guy with the silver pen in the crowd and "accidentally" touched his sleeve, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"I knew it."

Without contact, even Shade couldn't sense anything abnormal. But after contact, the traces of the whispering elements are unmistakable. Obviously, this man who didn't know where he found it is already under the control of the relic.

"Is there a way to undo it?"

[Wait a minute, maintain contact. He does not carry any relics, nor does he maintain control through specific items. However, your thaumaturgy, Puppetry, can override this control. This relic is not very controllable. 】

However, according to the caution of the [Tyranny Club] and the supporters behind them who are most likely to be the culprits, the effects of the relics will definitely disappear without a trace after the incident, and there will definitely be no evidence left to prove that the Ring Warlock was involved.

Therefore, although a sudden attack will exceed expectations, the impact will not be too great. What's more, since the church team is here, they will never watch Margaret or Miss Carina die here. Even if the church didn't even arrange for a therapist, Carina had her own arrangements.

"Speaking of which, the [Tyranny Club] is really happy to participate in this kind of thing. Is it so important to them to plunge the Old Continent into turmoil?"

The outsider sighed in his heart, and then thought that it is impossible for the [Tyranny Club] not to know how much the church attaches importance to this matter. There was no possibility that they could succeed in the assassination without directly using the power of the Ring Warlock, so maybe their purpose was something else.

【What could it be? 】

she asked with a smile.

"My guess is that during the assassination, they shouted something that was not conducive to unity. For example, Miss Carina wanted to split Delrayon, or Margaret actually wanted to rely on Delrayon to defeat her brothers. To sit on the throne, what happened in Randall Valley is the evidence.”

Shade sighed in his heart again and decided that he still had to intervene.