Whispering Verse

Mr. Mark and President Stan are both friends of Shad. These two gentlemen seemed to have nothing to do today. They actually invited Shad to the office upstairs for an after-get off work drink and talk about the big city players this year.

Drinking is prohibited during working hours, but people like to decorate their offices with famous wines. Counting the time after get off work and having a drink with friends and colleagues is an elegant hobby of upper-class gentlemen sitting in offices in this era.

Shade had never been interested in drinking, but he was interested in big city players, so he followed the two gentlemen to the third floor.

The decoration of the president's office is relatively simple. It does not display antiques and other equipment as imagined. Even the oil paintings on the walls are ordinary landscape paintings. The wine in the wine cabinet in the room is the only expensive decoration. The most famous prophet in Tobesk talked with Shade enthusiastically about the origin and history of those drinks.

It seems that the vice-president of the association is a lover of Rhodes, while the president is a lover of fine wines. Fortunately, this is not an ordinary organization, otherwise the future of the Prophet Association will be really worrying.

The three of them sat down and talked about the Demon series of Rhodes cards that Shade had recently obtained, the latest decks, and the various card games in the city. Just as Vice President Mark was entertaining everyone with jokes about Rhodes and drunkards, there was a knock on the office door.

The cat on the shoulder meowed at the door. It had developed a habit at No. 6 Saint Teresa Square and would react naturally whenever someone knocked on the door.

But it was not the receptionist downstairs who informed Shadluvia that she was back, but the middle-aged fortune teller from the association who had something to do with President Stan. Something went wrong in the divination activity downstairs. A distinguished guest was slightly injured while doing divination with his companions in the association.

"Injured? Which room?"

Mr. Stein stood up and frowned.

The Tobesk local association has one president and three vice-presidents. Among them, Shad's friend Mark, the vice-president, is responsible for the Rhodes cards, and the other two gentlemen are responsible for the divination business and the logistics management of the association respectively. If a guest is injured in the association, no matter what, he should not go directly to President Stan to deal with the problem, so there is a high probability that the guest's identity is in trouble.

"Sir, it's the big divination room at the end of the second floor."

Upon hearing this answer, Vice President Shade and Mark also stood up. The room at the end of the second floor is the VIP room, which is usually used to receive guests with extremely distinguished status or strict privacy requirements. Luvia and Shade mentioned that room, and ordinary nobles were not qualified to use it.

"Which lady is here? The Rose Lady? The Raven Lady? The Loom Lady? Or the Thorn Lady?"

Vice President Mark asked, those women with distinguished status do not like to use their real names to participate in divination activities.

The female diviner wrapped in gauze glanced at Shade, and when there was no objection, she whispered:

"The loom lady."

Vice President Mark's face suddenly became serious, and even Mr. Stan was startled. The high-level warlock frowned:

"These are really in trouble."

With that said, he asked Vice President Mark to accompany Shade here, while he and the fortune teller left first.

However, after being disturbed by this incident, Shade and Mr. Mark were no longer interested in chatting. Shade was holding the cat and was curious about the identity of the "loom lady". Mr. Mark noticed his curiosity and hesitated for a while before revealing the other party's true identity:

"Generally speaking, this is not allowed to be said, but after all, you are related to Miss Carina, so it doesn't matter if you know the identity of that lady."

"A member of the royal family?"

Shade asked.

"Yes, it is Her Royal Highness Agelina Cavendish."

Seeing Shade's confused look, Mr. Mark added:

"The sixteen-year-old princess was given a ruby ​​the size of a pigeon egg as a birthday gift by His Majesty the King on her birthday this spring. This matter has been talked about for several months."

Of course Shade didn't know what Mr. Mark was talking about. He was not here this spring, and the original owner Shade had just been taken in and trained by Detective Sparrow at that time, so he didn't pay attention to such things. But he vaguely remembered the Princess Agelina Cavendish. Among all the children of Larrouse III, this princess was remembered as the one who was most loved by Larrouse III in recent years. The princess whom the third generation secretly loves.

Before Agelina Cavendish, the other princesses who were deeply loved by His Majesty the King all started their married lives in political marriages. On the contrary, those daughters who are not privately loved by His Majesty the King, such as Lesia, who is more likely to be regarded as a powerful minister by the King, are more likely to be able to marry relatively freely.

From this aspect, the royal family is really extremely realistic.

Seeing that Mr. Mark seemed to know a lot about the secrets of the nobility, Shade asked him about the other children of Larus III.

Mr. Mark's attitude is the same as that of most nobles today. They all believe that Larousse III's harsh attitude towards his children and his behavior of allowing many adult children to participate in politics without determining an heir are very likely to lead to the death of King Larousse in a few decades. The kingdom changes.

He didn't say what the "dramatic change" was, but Shade could guess that it was a change of throne.

Unlike Lesia, who was exposed to government affairs early and could even be sent to Carsonlik for visits, Princess Agelina Cavendish, who occasionally came to the Seer Association with her friends to participate in divination activities, was that A princess in the traditional sense that Shade could imagine.

Receives training in etiquette, dance, and literature courses, has no contact with the kingdom's government affairs, hangs out at banquets and noble salons, and likes to sneak out of Yodel Palace to have fun with friends... Considering that the Prophet's Association is about 100 meters away from Yodel Palace The distance is not far, and even a lazy cat being held by Shade can complete the transfer between the two places within ten minutes. Therefore, it is really hard to say whether such "escaping" is with the tacit approval of His Majesty the King.

But no matter how Larus III treats his children, if a princess is injured in the Prophet Association, it is not a good thing for the association after all.

President Addis Stan is the most outstanding prophet in the Tobesk area. Shade thought that if he handled this matter, he would soon know the whole story and deal with it appropriately. Unexpectedly, when Shade and Mr. Mark were chatting about the sudden rumor that "Prince Sacks broke into the Yodel Palace with a gun" in the city a few days ago, President Stan came back again, followed by a somewhat panicked person. maid.

Vice President Shade and Mark immediately pretended to be discussing Rhodes cards.

"Mr. Hamilton, I thought you were a detective?"

President Stan asked sheepishly.

"Yes."

Shade nodded and looked at the maid. The Prophet's Association only has employees and servants, and there is no maid wearing a maid skirt. This should be brought by a certain noble lady.

"Sorry, what happened below is a bit troublesome. I need your help to investigate. Please rest assured that no matter whether there are results or not, this is a commission given to you by the association, and you will be appropriately compensated."

He said again. Shade hesitated before standing up and nodded in surprise:

"Understood, I think it's okay."

In fact, the problem is huge. The princess sneaked out and was unfortunately injured. It should not be publicized. Instead of going to the police, she went to "Rejed's Hamilton" who happened to be in the association to investigate. Normally it is understandable.

But as Tobesk's best prophet, there is absolutely no way Mr. Stein could not discover the truth.

Even if it involves relics, the soothsayers cannot predict it, so as a ring magician, he has no reason to ask "ordinary person" Shade to handle this matter.

Therefore, thinking about it this way, the possible reason can only be that President Stan has discovered the truth, but it is not appropriate to tell the truth from his perspective, so he came to find Sha De, who has a suitable identity.

"But I am President Bistan, what status advantage can I have?"

As he walked along the corridor towards the stairs, Shade thought to himself:

"Could it be that there are some political factors involved, so President Stan doesn't want the association to get involved easily?"

But that's impossible. President Stan doesn't look like the kind of ring warlock who would leave his troubles to ordinary people.

Shade could refuse this commission, but the Prophet Association would take care of it no matter what, so he didn't have much to worry about.

Arriving at the second floor of the Prophet's Association, I immediately saw several female employees of the association standing at the end of the corridor, placing signs prohibiting advancement.

After Mr. Stein greeted them, he took Shade and continued walking forward.

Two burly middle-aged men guarded the door of the room at the end. Since they did not have the Ouroboros symbol of the Prophet's Association on their bodies, Shade guessed that they were the escorts that the princess took with her when she went out.

They took the initiative to help Shade and his party open the door. The area of ​​this VIP divination room was twice that of a normal room. It looked like the decorative wall between the two rooms was opened.

There were curtains hanging everywhere in the room, and the red carpet was embroidered with gold and silver threads to create strange and interesting patterns. The windows were closed, the curtains were all drawn, and the room was filled with a pungent smell of spices.

When the noble ladies perform divination, they probably deliberately create the atmosphere of a dark room, but now all the gas lamps on the walls are turned on, making the room very bright.

Shade first looked at the abstract landscape oil paintings hanging on the wall to create a divination atmosphere, and then looked at the stone round table placed in the center of the room.

Shade was curious as to how this thing was moved to the second floor.

There were a lot of people in the room. Young girls in skirts were sitting on the sofa set against the wall to rest. A rough count of them numbered about seven or eight people. The old doctor was leading his apprentice to bandage the red-haired girl who had her back turned to Shade. The two maids were standing by the sofa, looking warily at the stranger who entered the room.