Whispering Verse

So Shade held the sword in his right hand, touched the small silver lady's pocket watch in his pocket with his left hand, and looked directly at Amelia:

"Adele's time stands still!"

Click~

"Huh? Where did the sound come from?"

A sudden sound came from the wind in the night. Shade looked around in surprise. Just now he clearly heard the sound of the clock hands turning. This phenomenon did not happen when casting spells before.

At this time, Emilia was already frozen beside Shade like a living sculpture. Even if the power of "Time Standstill" is enhanced, time will still stand still. Therefore, the biggest effect of using this sword to cast spells is actually that the consumption of spirit is reduced.

Emilia is a genuine five-ring warlock, and because of her bloodline, she doesn’t know whether she has a certain degree of time resistance. But even so, Shade feels that he can persist even if he continues to stand still for one minute. Go down.

In a real battle, one minute is enough for Shade to release half of his thaumaturgy in turn, so this reduction in consumption is really amazing.

The face of the still elf girl looked more delicate. She lowered her head and looked at the letter in her hand, and her slightly frowned brow showed that she was a little nervous and uneasy.

Shade didn't have any other bad intentions. After admiring the special appearance under "Standing Time" for a few times, he released the spell on Emilia. She originally wanted to take the initiative to apologize and explain the situation, but unexpectedly, before he spoke, Emilia herself suddenly raised her head from the letter and looked around suspiciously:

"Shade, I feel something is wrong. Did we encounter some unknown enemy? Just now it seemed, well, how to describe it, it was a very strange feeling. I seemed to have been attacked by a 'slowness spell' or something like that. Time seemed to have become a little bit... It’s long, but something is definitely wrong!”

"You feel it?"

Shade asked in surprise. The girl with pointed ears stared at her big emerald eyes and asked in confusion:

"Feel something?"

"It's not the slowness spell. I'm sorry, it's me who is casting the spell. Time stands still. Do you feel that time has stopped flowing? Oh, yes, when you were on the clock tower, you also felt that the crow's time stopped."

"Time stands still?"

Shade felt as if stars were popping out of Emilia's eyes:

"Do you know how to stop time?"

When he first faced the demon, although Shade used "Adele's Time Stop" to gain an opportunity so that the "Chain of Sin" could wrap around the crow trying to escape at the last moment, he obviously did not shout out what he was doing at that time. Therefore, in the ever-changing battle situation, Emilia did not feel the power that was not given to her.

After all, the devil's time stasis is a range-based ability, and Shade can only cast the spell on a single individual.

"Yes, but the restrictions are huge."

"That's amazing! I've read in books that no matter how talented a person is, if they want to master the power of freezing time, they have to start at the twelfth level! This is time standing still. You used time on me. Still, right? This feels really weird."

Then he didn't know what he thought of, his face turned red and he didn't continue talking.

Now that they had obtained the [Ocarina of Time], the two of them did not stay here any longer and rode back to the city on horseback.

Shade first sent Amelia to Margaret Manor, but because it was already late, he just said hello to Margaret and Miss Sylvia and left. [Ocarina of Time] was also not taken away by him, but was left with Emilia. This sword was not needed yet, and it was enough for him to have [Night Watch] on him for now.

Then we went to the pier again, but we didn’t stop on Miss Elise’s boat. Instead, we informed Luvia that they successfully borrowed the [Ocarina of Time], then threw away the glass slippers and returned home.

No matter how rushed I was, it was already close to nine o'clock that night when I took little Mia home.

This time the glass slipper "dropped" on the stairs on the second floor. Shade walked up a few steps and arrived at the door of Room 1 on the second floor.

Upon hearing Shade's voice, Miss Carina and Dorothy, who were sitting in the living room talking, immediately stood up.

But Shade immediately realized that it was not Dorothy, but Lesia, because there was standard document paper from the Yodel Palace on the coffee table, and they were talking about political topics just now.

"Good evening, Lesia, why are you here? Do you really want to use Dorothy's body to eat those fresh cream scones?"

Shade asked, Lesia came over with a smile and gave him a slap:

"What are you talking about? Although those snacks are really delicious, I don't want to take the risk of making Dorothy gain weight, otherwise the next time you let her yaw on her body, let us and you."

"Ahem."

Shade immediately coughed loudly, and Miss Carina, who also came to greet Shade, asked suspiciously:

"Why are you coughing? It's not like you haven't let me do this with other girls before. Is there anything you can't say about this?"

He said and hugged Shade:

"Do you still have class so late?"

"Of course, we didn't have classes for the exam last week, so we can't delay it this week."

Lesia nodded with satisfaction:

"Xia De has the spirit of learning now. Let's go to the study."

"I won't participate, otherwise Lesia will blame me for disturbing your two-person world. Since you are going to the study, I will continue to read these documents in the living room. Tifa is not here, and some work is really difficult. Oh, if you guys If you want to do something in the study, don't avoid me, otherwise I will think that you don't treat me as a member of the family."

Of course, this is definitely not a complaint, but teasing Lesia.

The recent Saturday night classes have been based on the fairy tale "The Mermaid Princess" as the learning goal. After sitting down somewhat angrily, Lesia and Shade first recalled the content of the night class half a month ago, and then asked:

"Xia De, our study of this fairy tale has almost come to an end. There is not much I can do after that. So tell me, what did you see from this fairy tale? Say anything you want. It’s okay, but it must be your own feelings.”

This question is simple for Shade:

"Persistence."

He immediately replied:

"This is a standard tragedy. Although dying for love is a classic ending, I don't like it very much. But I admire the persistence of the little mermaid princess and her willingness to sacrifice in order to achieve a goal, even after discovering that the prince married a princess on land. In the end, knowing that I was going to have a tragic ending, I accepted the outcome alone."

He held the tea cup prepared by the maids:

"You also know about my experience in the 'Golden Sand Sea' this time. Grandma Siam Nord's persistence led to the illusion of bones. But even though she was deceived by the illusion and thought that the entire clan was destroyed, she was still persuaded by me to continue moving forward. "Because of the power of the devil and the desert, Miss Shelly Knight attracted strange visions that tested her morality and sense of justice, but her persistence kept her from being affected at all."

Shade shook his head slightly:

"When I think about it now, I'm still amazed. Even I would have hesitated in that situation, but she actually killed her companions directly and then cut out her own heart. Even by the standards of a ring wizard, her persistence is amazing. People sigh. In fact, I have always been worried that she would sacrifice herself with the 'power of the earth to protect all things', but fortunately she has not encountered any occasion that requires her to become a 'hero'."

Lesia held her face, sat behind the desk and looked at Shade in front of the desk:

"A good entry point. You know, my sublimation language in Central is 'Broken bubble/dream, also writing about the despair of the soul.' Dorothy and I can both understand the despair and pain after the dream is shattered . Perseverance. It really suits your character."

She turned the pen with her other hand:

"You can always get the power of mystery from these fairy tales. If your 'fairy tale town' extends to the ocean and harbor area because of this story, what kind of power do you think this story can bring to you?"

This time Shade failed to answer immediately. He held the steaming teacup in both hands and thought carefully:

"Perseverance always makes people think of perseverance. Maybe it is a special state of having power or an inexhaustible spirit within a certain period of time within the mystery lock? But this seems to have nothing to do with this fairy tale.

Persistence can also remind people of stubbornness, but this is considered a negative character trait. If combined with the story of the mermaid princess, let me think about it, could it be that the enemies in the mystery lock are forced to deform, so that even if the mystery lock disappears, it cannot be unlocked? "

"Although the story of the mermaid princess involves the transformation of the tail into legs, isn't this association a bit far-fetched?"

Lesia asked with a smile, and Shade thought about it again, but could not think of other possibilities.

Instead, Lesia asked again:

"Speaking of which, since the Miss Leah Sandel you are talking about is a mermaid, and according to you, her identity may even be very unusual. Maybe you can ask her what the story of "The Mermaid Princess" means."

"I mentioned this story, and Miss Sandel said she had never heard of it. Not only her, but the ordinary people Miss Knight and the old Siamese mother-in-law had never heard of it either."

"So, this story was widely circulated later than the year 4260 of the Fifth Era? Is this a story that only appeared in the late Fifth Era?"

Lesia asked with great interest.

"I've probably guessed something. But there are a lot of modern mermaids that I can see. I asked Miss Aurora to contact them a few days ago. Maybe I can see them in a few days and we want to go to Moon Bay to see them. ?"

"We'll talk about it then, but I thought of another thing. Next Wednesday, the sixth day of the Flower Moon, will be the Day of the Red Butterfly again."

She hummed slightly, and looked at Shade with Dorothy's green eyes with a moist feeling.