Whispering Verse

Shade squinted and watched as the ship finally turned into an invisible black spot under the moonlight, but then the black spot turned back, returning in the direction of the thousands of souls moving silently on the water.

Sitting on the returning boat was a soul that was obviously an adult, and the boat seemed to be covered with a layer of moonlight.

When the boat got closer, Shade saw clearly that the person sitting on it was the fourth generation's youngest daughter, Maria Edwards, who had been hiding in the lavender field.

But it's not that the soul returned and chose the wrong partner. The little figure held in the arms of a mature lady was the target this time. The soul of Rusty Edwards was falling into a deep sleep, lying silently in the arms of his brother's granddaughter.

The boat hit the shallows, rocked slightly and ran aground again. Maria Edwards stood up from the boat, smiled and shook her head at Shade to signal him to stop talking, then walked off the boat and handed the girl in her arms to him.

"Meow~"

The cat on Shade's shoulder immediately meowed in protest, so Shade had no choice but to turn his head and look at Sister Devlin, who then came over and took the girl from Maria Edwards's arms.

Maria remained silent, nodded slightly to the two of them, and then got on the boat again that had turned around at some point. The boat carried her and once again sailed towards the half-sunken moon that seemed like the end of the world.

The dim pearl-like light shining from thousands of souls made the black lake surface under the moonlight not dark at all. So quiet, so still, this is the end of everything.

Neither Shade nor Sister Devlin turned around and left immediately, but watched the boat move away until it finally disappeared.

[Outlander, you have undergone a complete change of life and death. You have sent away a sinful soul, and you have welcomed a pure white soul. 】

"She" paused.

[Your soul strength has been slightly increased. 】

"I remember that my profession is a detective, not a mourner. Why does this kind of behavior increase the strength of my soul?"

Shade thought suspiciously, Sister Devlin said from the side:

"I'm glad you understand the balance between life and death."

"Of course I understand. Isn't Joey Barton the best example? I remember all the mistakes others have made."

The two of them turned and walked towards the tall stone gate standing behind the shoal. The stone gate was connected to the towering cliff behind them. Shade didn't care about what was behind the cliff. This place itself was a conceptual place, and there was no point in discussing the terrain.

"What's that look in your face?"

After the three of them exited the [Soul Cemetery], Shade asked Megan. The great witch of wisdom and knowledge has not yet emerged from the shocking scene just now:

"I feel like I'm watching some fairy tale. One person is sent away from death and another person is welcomed. Even if we are magicians, what you just did is a bit too much, isn't it?"

"This is all the work of Sister Devlin. She is the chosen one of death and has this power."

If Sister Devlin hadn't been wearing an eyepatch, Shade was sure that she would have given him a look that was very unsuitable for her temperament.

Little Mia continued to stay at home, and the three of Shade passed through the space maze in the basement and returned to Green Lake City and then to Green Island.

The nun did not continue to follow the two of them, so Shade and Megan returned to the old Edwards house. After knocking on the door of the bedroom on the third floor that originally belonged to Rust Edwards, the haggard man walked out of the room. After reaching the girl in Megan's arms, she stood there stunned as if she had been struck by thunder.

The girl who had been sleeping along the way felt that she had finally returned home. In her soul state, she opened her eyes sleepily, looked around suspiciously, and then saw Durut Giles:

"Giles! Giles! Are you really dead too? Father is really amazing!"

She smiled and floated towards the man, and the two hugged each other tightly, and Durut Gilles was already crying:

"thanks, thanks."

Shade knew that he was talking to himself:

"I only helped you for the sake of Professor Manning. Remember to visit the professor often in the future. I didn't help you wrong. Next, two of my friends will also take the train back to Tobesk City. You Pack your luggage and go back with us. From now on, I will be your history lecturer and strive to become a professor before you retire. When you leave this world, you have to take her with you, do you understand?"

The latter nodded while holding the girl in his arms. Shade breathed a sigh of relief and did not continue to disturb them, but left here with Megan.

When going down the stairs, the witch looked at Shade with curious eyes:

"You are really a kind person. In order to see the best outcome, you even have to take care of this kind of thing. That heart that seems to have played a major role in this matter, but you used the 'God Caller' I asked for favors from the church, but I actually did this for others."

She flipped her hair and smiled at Shade:

"Is it really what my father said downstairs in the morning, that this is all for me?"

"Both reasons."

"I would be happier if you directly admitted that it was all because of me, but I also know that you are such a person, interesting but boring. What kind of relationship should Rust and Durut Giles have?"

"We don't discuss sensitive topics like this."

Shade said cautiously, Megan smiled again, looked at him and asked the next question:

"So tell me, what is your relationship with me? Is our relationship a sensitive topic?"

Shade stopped going down the stairs, and Megan stopped as well. Her expression was natural, and her golden eyes looked at Shade. Shade also responded to the hidden expectation:

"What I said this morning is all true. I became a ring wizard last summer, and it took me less than a year to reach the seventh ring. I think if nothing happens, within a year or two, that is, before the end of 1856, I will It seems arrogant to say that it should be okay to become the Thirteenth Ring. But when that time comes, I will be responsible for all of you."

The witch was satisfied and hugged Shade's arm with a smile:

"The Edwards family is a thing of the past, and Green Island belongs to the Hamilton family from now on."

"I still don't like it, family."

The foreigner who came here alone didn't know what to say for a while. Although the "God Summoner" does not have his own power, without realizing it, there are already so many people around him.

Shade went home first to pick up the cat who was unwilling to follow him out, and then had lunch with the big witches at the Green Lake Hotel.

Mother-in-law Cassandra is expected to leave in the afternoon, so this meal can be regarded as a farewell to the old witch. Miss Grace, Helen, and Rita Swift will also leave together, but when they return to Fort Midhill, Shade will only be more than twenty minutes away if he wants to see them again.

After lunch, the witch apprentice with flaxen hair pulled Shade's sleeve alone and asked him to go for a walk outside the hotel. No one knew what they said, but some people saw that Rita's face was red when she came back, and Shade had a hand-knitted scarf in his hand. It was very novel to receive such a gift this season, but considering it snowed a few days ago, said Maybe this scarf will come in handy too.

Shade was originally prepared to bid a serious farewell to the Hongdie sisters. After all, their relationship had developed further. But Grace and Helen let Shad do his own thing:

"Compared with the past events we have experienced, this kind of separation of a few days is not worth saying goodbye. Sir, we hate saying goodbye, because saying goodbye means waiting for 21 years. So, can you not say goodbye to us?"

Helen said softly, her tone making Shade feel guilty. So Grace tugged on his sleeves and looked at him with blue eyes from bottom to top:

"Sir, we won't be able to come out after we return to Middleburg. You have to visit us often."

"Yes, come visit us often."

Helen also grabbed Shade's sleeve and looked up at him from bottom to top:

"We can keep playing games, games for three of us!"

Shade blinked, Grace smiled and merged with Helen again, and the eighteen-year-old girl kissed him:

"Don't forget your butterflies, sir."

Since I got the key to the hidden area in the basement of Edwards' old house in the morning, I naturally went to see what the famous fortune teller left behind in the afternoon.

However, Shade still chose to go to the Green Lake Railway Station with the other great witches first to say goodbye to Granny Cassandra and her group, and then went to check her harvest.

He was not alone, but invited Meghan, Miss Sylvia, Miss Benanith, and Hillis.

Miss Aurora didn't come along; she had to deal with a newly discovered hidden cave in the west of the island. And Xia De invited so many people, naturally because he was worried about traps inside.

"Are you too cautious?"

After Durut Giles moved Rust back to the Green Lake Hotel, no one lives in the old Edwards house. Megan and Audrey will naturally not live here in the future, so this place will be completely blocked in the future, and only a few people such as Shade will be allowed to enter.

They entered the basement together. Shade called out the trap door on the ground the same way Sloth Edwards did in the morning, and then inserted the key card in his hand into the slender gap in the center of the metal door.

Steam mist suddenly spurted out from the gap, followed by a series of rhythmic sounds of gear rotation, piston pushing and pulling, and bearing friction coming from the ground. Then with a crisp click, the door opened.

"The steam mist is an illusion, and the sounds underground are also illusions. In fact, this is a ritual door opened with a specific secret key."

Miss Benenice said, shaking her head slightly:

"Megan, that ancestor of yours is really interesting."

"It's the romance of steam technology, and I can understand his thinking in doing that."

Megan responded, and Shade felt like he could understand.