Whispering Verse

Shade glanced at the noble lady who was talking to Miss Belindel again:

"Watch what she does? I don't even know her."

"Her reputation locally is not very good."

Mr. Bernhardt said softly:

"I'm not the kind of person who likes to speak ill of people behind their backs, but her personal life is really messy."

"Don't worry, although I am, I am not that kind of playboy."

Shade promised, but unexpectedly Mr. Bernhardt shook his head:

"I'm not asking you to care about yourself, I'm asking you to care about Earl Belindel. That Miss Angora Rice likes girls."

Shade suddenly realized, and the Vampire Seed Lord raised his eyebrows:

"It's not uncommon for nobles to have special hobbies. If she only likes one, no one will say anything. But she is not a dedicated person, and Earl Rice has troubled his brain a lot about this."

"I will be careful, but your relatives are really good. The captain is a gambler, Lady Jude is addicted to food, Baron Chandler is greedy, and Miss Rice is obsessed with lust. Can you remind me in advance what the shortcomings of Marquis Morson are? ?”

Mr. Bernhard thought about it carefully:

"The Marquis is a relatively normal person. He doesn't like to play cards. His family is harmonious and there are no rumors of having a lover. He is not keen on luxury goods and does not have the same hobbies as Mrs. Jude."

"But what?"

Shade said, Mr. Bernhardt shook his head slightly:

"Yes, but this Marquis loves hunting."

"That sounds normal."

"Hunting is normal, but it is said that he likes to kill his prey with the cruelest means. The specimens and heads hanging in his home were all made by him.

Relatively speaking this is nothing, just heard, yes, heard, I am not from Yuewan after all, I heard that anyone who hunted with the Marquis and saw him handling prey would never dare to go with him again. Went hunting. "

"The Marquis is murderous."

Schade then came to the conclusion that Herr Bernhardt did not disagree with him.

It was not until half past eight that Marquis Molson finally appeared in the banquet hall.

However, as Mr. Bernhardt, it was difficult to take the initiative to strike up a conversation with him, so Shade first introduced Miss Belindel to Mr. Bernhardt. Then, when Marquis Molson came to see the Countess, Bernhardt The gentleman shook hands with Marquis Molson and came to a surprising conclusion.

"Not him either."

Standing by the window, the panicked Armand Bernhardt's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, which was a manifestation of his inner panic:

"How is it possible? I have checked all the local people with higher bloodlines, and only these five are the most suspect. How is it possible that there are no suspects?"

"Either there are people of the same race locally that you don't know about, or your detection method is not trustworthy."

Shade and him looked out the window at the night view of the manor. It had not rained or snowed in Yuewan City in recent days, and the temperature at night had become much more normal. At this time, many people were walking in the courtyard of the manor:

"As for what to do, try another method. Please wait for me. I'll be back in a few minutes."

With that said, he walked towards the corridor and quickly returned to the banquet hall as his "cousin". Amid the ambiguous smiles of the ladies, he called Miss Belinder away alone. Ten minutes later, he changed back to the stranger's costume at the banquet and found Mr. Bernhardt again.

The two of them were still standing in front of the window looking at the night view of the manor courtyard:

"Among the five people, one has a very strong anti-divination method. Although the method you use to detect the source of blood is not divination, but since there are anti-divination methods, there should also be anti-blood tracing methods, right?"

Shade asked. Mr. Bernhardt did not ask how Shade came to the conclusion, but nodded in agreement:

"Who is it, then? Captain Rudolph or Baron Chandler?"

Shade looked at him in surprise:

"You are really sharp. It's not Captain Rudolph, he is really afraid of getting involved in trouble. It's Baron Chandler. The fortune teller who helped me divine said that the anti-divination rituals on his body were definitely not to hide his tax evasion. Set up to keep tax evasion secrets.

Besides, you don't have to rush to find him now. I heard from the maid at the manor that he had left the manor twenty minutes ago. "

"Did we disturb him?"

"No, we successfully fooled him, and he should be very proud now.

He left because of personal matters. His factory was on fire. The person who came to report said that it was related to the "Eternal Light". It was probably because the organized workers finally couldn't bear it anymore. I don’t think this was something he did on his own to escape. Look to the southwest. Your dark vision should be no worse than mine. Did you see the fire? "

Mr. Bernhardt squinted his eyes for a while, then slowly exhaled and drank the red wine in the glass in his hand:

"It turns out it's him. I'll take people to find him tomorrow. No, I don't need your help. Counting Ptolemy, there are quite a few local people who want to find this guy who broke the rules, and now I have members of the religious order. There is absolutely no shortage of warrants and manpower.

This is our own matter, we resolve it ourselves. Of course, the information you need will be obtained for you. "

The lively banquet should have been a very attractive place, but Mr. Bernhardt left in a hurry after drinking the glass of red wine. Shade thought that he probably wouldn't have to sleep tonight. It was definitely not an easy task to contact the vampires across Moon Bay and prepare for a possible battle with the [Dragon Eater Order].

Of course, although Mr. Bernhardt did not intend to let him participate, Shade still wanted to join in the fun. Since the attack is tomorrow morning, it will most likely happen near Baron Chandler's manor or factory.

Although Xia De didn't know the specific time, it would be no problem to rush there in advance.

Mr. Bernhardt's departure means that Shade has completed one of his tasks at this banquet. After bidding farewell to Mr. Bernhardt, he changed back to his "cousin" attire and found Miss Belindel again.

Walking between the ladies in formal dresses and the gentlemen in crisp suits, Shade didn't feel at all the fear and uneasiness about "dragons and disasters" that was spreading throughout the city. The soothing music of the piano has been echoing throughout the banquet hall. It seems that even if Yuewan is really destroyed by disaster, the people here will be the first to escape.

At this time, the countess was sitting with Margaret in the seating area of ​​the banquet hall and chatting, surrounded by ladies and a few noble girls as usual.

Such a welcome banquet is not a formal political banquet, so Margaret will sit down, otherwise she usually has to keep smiling and standing for hours to deal with those boring conversations.

Of course, Lesia rarely has such troubles, after all, she has too many brothers and sisters.

"It took you a really long time to go to the bathroom."

When Shade sat down next to her female companion, she covered her mouth with a fan and said with a smile. The married women around him all laughed, and Shade explained:

"I just met a friend and had a few words. Ladies, what are you talking about? Do you mind if I join in?"

Of course they are not talking about this summer's dressing style. Most of the people who are qualified to sit next to Margaret at this banquet are ladies like Miss Belindel who are involved in politics or at least represent certain figures.

Just now, Margaret was listening to the eldest daughter of Earl Hawthorne talking about the current construction progress of the Moon Bay Bridge. If everything goes well, the bridge should be completed before this winter, and then the royal family will be invited to attend the completion ceremony.

After Shade sat down, he actually had no chance to speak. He just held the wine glass and looked at the people in the banquet hall with his peripheral vision.

And before the dance started at nine o'clock, a manor maid finally came to Shade with a letter:

"Sir, there is a young lady with black hair who asked me to give you a letter."

There was no text on the white envelope, just a red lipstick where the wax seal should have been. After opening it, there was only one line of writing on the letter:

【I'll wait for you in the garden. 】

Shade held his breath for a moment, then tilted his body slightly to the side and showed the contents of the letter to Miss Belindel. The latter slapped him angrily:

"If you want to go, can I still stop you? Men know how to fool around. Don't say anything too hurtful when rejecting that girl."

So amidst another laughter from the ladies, Shade took the letter and left.

Pass through the crowds lingering at the banquet, walk out from the gate and follow the gravel path illuminated by gas lights around to the back of the manor. He was careful not to disturb the men and women having a tryst among the flowers, and also avoided the men who were obviously having secret conversations.

Finally, in front of the angel-shaped fountain statue in the back garden of Margaret Manor, Shade slowed down and saw the black-haired girl with her hands behind her back and her back to him.

She didn't tie her hair in a complicated style like most of the ladies at the party today, but just tied it up with a headband. The relatively ungorgeous blue and white dress on her body seemed to complement each other among the summer flowers, and the posture of looking up at the moon made Shade feel a little sad for no reason.

He gradually stopped, and he knew that she felt his arrival. Shade just looked at Miss Elise's back, and she let his eyes stay behind her.

The moonlight cast a little light on the black-haired girl from above the fog and clouds. Shade sometimes wonders whether the moon that Chloe, Miss Feliana, and Miss Violet saw in the fifth era was the same as the moon that he saw in the sixth era.

In the past, only Grace and Helen could answer this question, but now, there is another girl who can answer Shade's question.