Whispering Verse

Anne Julian's figure standing at the door was transparent. She was not wearing that very beautiful wedding dress, nor was she wearing a veil, so the marks on her neck were very obvious.

"Soul?"

If the soul wants to stay, rather than continue on, it often requires some special conditions. A corpse affected by a relic is also a special case.

The lady at the door did not look at Shade and Iluna, but looked sadly at the decapitated body of Toby Julian on the ground. But unfortunately, this gentleman was only killed by the undead, and his soul did not stop.

Shade didn't know whether he continued walking or was absorbed by the relic. But in short, Toby Julian did not hesitate to commit so many crimes in order to see his sister again. But in the end, when the soul did return, he himself left.

"This is an ordinary soul."

Shade said that this kind of soul is similar to the soul he has seen dead in the attic with illegal magazines. Even if it is left alone, nothing will happen, and it will leave after a while.

But Iluna thought about it and walked over:

"Do you want to say something?"

The seventeen-year-old girl asked seriously. Miss Anne Julian's soul seemed to have some wisdom. She looked at Iluna, who was covering one eye:

"I'm...sorry for causing you so much trouble."

Her voice was very gentle, and she probably had a very gentle personality when she was alive.

"It's not your fault. Now, please keep going."

Iluna said, under the gaze of that strange eye, the soul is becoming transparent.

"I actually know that my brother has complicated feelings for me, but we can't be together..."

The intermittent voice seemed to be making the final addition to this tragedy. Shade didn't know what Iluna's expression was.

"this is not your fault."

Iluna said softly. This seventeen-year-old girl seemed to feel very deeply about this kind of thing:

"The past is over."

"Brother died because of me."

Miss Julian's soul seems to want to cry, but unfortunately, unless the soul power can be controlled, a normal soul does not have this function.

Iluna took a deep breath:

"The boundary between the dead and the living cannot be broken. This is the basic rule of this world. Now that it is over, this is his sin. Please leave, Miss Julian."

"Is it fate's fault? If we were not brother and sister, if he could tell me, he..."

Soul looked at Iluna, and Iluna shook her head:

"We have no ifs, we can only look forward. Leave, this story is over."

She seemed extremely mature when dealing with this kind of thing, at least more mature than Shade thought.

The girl with long brown hair stretched out her left hand to cover her eyes, wanting to touch the soul in front of her. The soul scattered into dots of light at her fingertips, and finally disappeared.

Iluna sighed and turned to look at Shade, who was standing between the two corpses. She seemed to be in a bad mood:

"Detective, whose fault do you think this is?"

"Of course it's Toby Julian's fault. Even without that relic, he would have done something else."

The outsider has a very clear view of this matter that has nothing to do with him, at least he thinks so:

“I’ve seen this kind of tragedy in stories a lot, isn’t that what tragedy is?

The wrong person does the wrong thing, the right person does the wrong thing, the wrong person does the right thing, or even the right person does the right thing, it may lead to tragedy. But what was done was wrong, and there is no doubt that Toby Julian caused this tragedy. "

"Fortunately, I didn't let you talk to Anne Julian just now, otherwise she would turn into an evil spirit."

Iluna said, looking at the two corpses on the ground with a slight smile on her face:

"But you're right, this is a tragedy..."

Then he looked down at the parchment roll held in his right hand and sighed softly;

"Death, tragedy, these things really affect the mood."

"Yes."

Shade was still thinking about telling this story to Dorothy as material for a novel.

Suddenly he heard the sound of a whistle, and Shade looked up. Behind Iluna, a golden life ring emerged on its own in the steam mist. The weak aura gathered in the life ring, and the black iron-colored aura finally formed a new spiritual rune [Tragedy]. Iluna Beas's third-level and four-level spiritual runes are complete, and she is ready to advance to the fourth level.

(Little Mia is running...)

"You look so lethargic. Is it because you haven't had any rest?"

This was what Miss Carina, who was sitting at No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, said to Shade with a smile on Wednesday morning.

Shade sat on the sofa opposite the coffee table and held Mia, Tifa stood behind Miss Carina, and the other two maids who came with the duchess were preparing tea.

"I had nightmares at night."

Shade yawned and touched the soft cat and said.

"I always thought you were very bold. What were you dreaming about?"

Miss Carina was very curious.

"Dreaming about the bride."

Although the adventure last night was not particularly dangerous, the scene of the corpse bride sliding out in the dark holding her head really left a big shadow on Shade.

"Oh? Bride?"

The witch raised her eyebrows:

"Did you dream that you were killed by several girls in wedding dresses at your wedding?"

Shade thought about the scene for a moment and immediately shook his head:

"You may have misunderstood. It's not me who wants to get married, but the corpse bride."

He yawned again:

"I dreamed that the Corpse Bride surrounded No. 6 Saint Teresa Square. I kept running and hiding in this big house, but I was eventually discovered. Then I woke up."

"Awakened by fright?"

Tifa took the saucer brought by the maid, poured tea for the two of them, and asked casually with a smile.

"No, it was woken up by Mia. It wants to have breakfast."

He told what happened last night, and then took out the letter Iluna sent this morning. Unfortunately, Iluna's vacation was ruined, and now their team needs to investigate the origins of the marriage contract.

"It's really amazing. Judging from the specific characteristics, this can be regarded as the most dangerous type of [Secretkeeper-level] relic."

There are records in the Church of Dawn about the secretkeeper-level relic "Groo Winston Marriage Contract". This is a contract that appeared in the Second Age. The church and the academy have great differences as to what its prototype is. The church believes that this is a contract of the ancient church of old gods, and the academy believes that this is the marriage code of the ancient kingdom.

Miss Carina looked at the letter and said with a smile:

"You see, writing the names of two living people on it can make them fall in love forever; writing the names of living people and dead people on it can break the boundary between life and death; and writing the names of humans and non-humans on it can make them fall in love forever. , can actually..."

"How about it?"

Shade asked curiously while holding little Mia. He had just read half of it when Miss Carina came, so he didn't read the second half of the letter.

"The information released by the church is definitely incomplete. I bet that this relic can be used as the core of the god-summoning ceremony."

Miss Carina closed the letter and returned it to Shade:

"Writing the names of humans and non-humans, writing the names of two deceased people, or writing the names of more than two people will cause the relic to get out of control. You are so lucky that you have not encountered a situation where it is out of control. But being out of control does not mean' The effect of "Together" will not work. It's really interesting. Could this item really be a contract signed by the priests of a certain god in the Third Age or the witches when they joined the church? "

Shade once again thought of Miss Feliana's words - never underestimate the role of a relic, and never be fooled by its superficial characteristics.

“What if I wrote ‘another me’?”

Shade came up with a bolder idea. Miss Carina looked at him in surprise, unable to understand how he came up with this question:

"'Another me' is not a real name. The real name of the other me is ourselves. Writing two of our own names has no effect."

Shade nodded clearly, and for some reason, the word "Su Lun" jumped out of his mind.

After talking about what happened last night, we talked about the purpose of Miss Carina's visit. She came specifically to give Shade a new time key.

Knowing that Shade could truly travel through time, she looked forward to Shade seeing Miss Feliana again.

The time key the duchess found this time corresponds to the time point of the fifth era, 3014, which is 12 years after Shade met Miss Feliana in the Forest of Thousand Trees. Miss Feliana was still young at that time, because St. Byrons Comprehensive College was established around 3050. According to records, the founder Myrna Feliana looked like she was twenty-three or four years old, so even though they were separated for 12 years, In 2008, the Miss Feliana that Shade saw should still be the same as before.

Miss Carina handed the key to Shade, and Shade took the key and held it in his hand:

"But I can't guarantee that I will be able to meet that lady again."

"It doesn't matter. If you try one by one, you will always have a chance to encounter it. The acquisition of the time key is not simple, and it is a key to a specific point in time. But as long as you have gold pounds, you can always find it. I can't guarantee it to you. The frequency of the key is provided, so hopefully you’ll have better luck.”

The Duchess said, looking at Shade, and then reminded:

"Don't rush this, just take your time, and you don't have to tire yourself."

"Safety first, I understand that. But how do I pay for these keys?"

Shade handed the key in his hand to the curious cat. The cat didn't see what Shade got and thought it was food. But when he saw the key, he lost interest. He had seen this kind of thing in Shade's hands.

"After you meet Miss Feliana, just ask me a question. You don't have to be so polite to me, you are different from others in my heart."

The red-haired duchess said lightly, looking at Shade with a teasing look. Tifa stood behind her and also smiled.

"That's not okay. It's easy to ask questions, but keys are very precious... I have a copy of Miss Feliana's handwriting here. You can copy a copy and take it away."

Shade has looked through the notebook almost twice, and there is nothing in it that only he knows.

"oh?"

Miss Carina narrowed her eyes slightly:

"You still have something like this? Detective, do you know how much this is worth?"

"Just don't show the contents of the notebook to anyone other than you and Tifa. You don't have to be so polite to me..."

Shade looked up at the witch and repeated her words:

"...You are different from others in my heart."

The witch touched her smooth chin and looked at Shade.

Time seemed to have stopped in this leisurely morning, the dust in the air solidified, the sun shone on the maids' skirts, the cat's eyes stared at the teacups on the table, and the fluff on its cheeks trembled evenly.

The young man opposite was sitting on the old-fashioned couch with a smile in his eyes, and she was reflected in his eyes.

The years are just right and life is comfortable. For a moment, Carina Cavendish, who thought she had experienced "love", actually thought that her heart was moved by a simple sentence.

"But that's what I said too."

She smiled back at Shade.

But no matter what, this vivid and real scalp-numbing scene will definitely become the most important memory in the witch's life.