You call this a black hand?

Someone over there is secretly plotting to start a riot.

Here, the host of the banquet, Jim, is hiding in a utility room filled with old items, looking down at a crystal ball.

The crystal ball was placed on a stone pillar. In silence, dynamic pictures emerged one after another inside.

That was the scene in the banquet hall at this time.

After Jim and his friend Kevin noticed that their father was participating in the party, they did not dare to go over and join in the fun.

But they are not willing to completely give up this plan to suppress illegitimate children.

So I had to use this magical item called the Eye of Peeping to indirectly control the situation.

It doesn't count to say that it controls the overall situation, because this thing looks magical, but its actual function is not strong.

This kind of crystal ball was invented by wizards, and its original intention was to peek into the private lives of ordinary people. Some wizards are very interested in this matter, just like ordinary people like to observe the survival and reproduction of wild animals.

Later, it was redesigned by other wizards and had certain enhancements, which can even be observed by apprentices who have just entered the wizarding threshold.

Unfortunately, it is only limited to an area that has been "set" in advance.

However, although the function is very limited, it is still no problem to use it to find people.

"It's just...where is the illegitimate child?"

Jim, who used this crystal ball to stare at the hall, was secretly confused.

In his understanding, the bastard was unfamiliar with everyone here, and as a mixed-blood, he must be very restrained in this banquet hall full of pure blood.

So he constantly monitored the hall and even the remote corners of the manor, hoping to find an isolated figure.

As a result, nothing was found at all!

I did see a familiar figure with a relatively strong figure appear in my field of vision before.

But it didn't take long for the man to leave the hall with another lady who looked very beautiful from the back.

Jim thought it might be Arthur, but intellectually he thought it was impossible -

How could that guy have the courage to come to Ernest Manor after being suppressed so badly by him?

"I didn't see my dad either. It's really strange... Could it be that his disguise skills are so good that no trace of him can be seen at all?"

Jim has a headache.

The entire manor is really too big, and the crystal ball's field of view is very narrow and belongs to the bird's-eye perspective, which makes this kind of search very difficult.

Staying alone in this utility room and observing the situation boredly, he would inevitably become restless as time went by.

Especially when the two primary targets, the illegitimate son and the father, are both missing.

So Jim couldn't help but become dissatisfied with his good friend Kevin.

Kevin originally asked him for help with this matter, but since last night, for some unknown reason, that guy has never had a good look on him.

She even roughly grabbed his arm in the corridor and asked him what the hell he was doing... He just didn't understand, how could Kevin be so embarrassed?

As for the current matter, it would have required two people to take turns monitoring it, with Kevin taking the lead.

But as soon as the guy heard that his fiancée, who was from the Chelsea family, was coming, he couldn't wait to leave the utility room.

He said he was going to greet him, but it had been half an hour and he still hadn't come back to take his place.

"What's this?"

"Does he regard me as one of his family dogs?"

Smart people always pay more attention to details, but because of this, they can also detect the existence of a certain attitude from some details.

The Ernest family is not a top family. Jim's ability to become friends with Kevin depends on the friendship between the elders and the same single parent experience.

But in fact, the gap between families still exists obviously.

When the relationship is close, two young teenagers may ignore this point.

But now, when there is a rift in the relationship between the two parties, the sense of class that was originally ignored, intentionally or unintentionally, immediately emerges.

This made Jim squint his eyes, think more and more, and a certain emotion kept accumulating in his heart.

However, this sentiment did not brew forever.

After a while, a waiter came to report, claiming to have discovered the location of the illegitimate child.

"Finally found it!"

Jim perked up and hurried towards the hall.

He needs to find his friend Kevin first before he can officially start his plan.

…

"The piano is not an instrument suitable for playing with a third hand. Let me tell you, only by touching its keys with your real hands can you play the most exciting music."

On the second floor of the banquet hall, Kevin, who was sitting on the east side of a round table facing the fence, was speaking professionally to the two girls wearing ghost masks opposite:

"For example, Ms. Jennifer from Cole County, although she is a high-level wizard, she always uses her own hands to play. It is because of this that she can be called the first musician in the Blackthorn Kingdom."

"Jennifer? It is said that on the day when school starts at Fort St. Grant, that lady will perform a friendly appearance?"

The pale white ghost masks with long faces looked exactly the same, and the two girls were also dressed similarly, so they could only tell who was who by their voices.

The voice of the person speaking at this time seemed a little crisp, and it sounded very pleasant, and you could even feel the lively atmosphere in it instantly.

However, when Kevin heard this voice, a flash of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

"Maybe."

He smiled gracefully.

"Every time Fort St. Grant holds an opening ceremony, it brings surprises to the students. I think it would not be a surprise if Ms. Jennifer participated in the performance."

"But it is said that she was attacked by a Scarlet Cross wizard last month and was seriously injured."

"Is there such a thing?"

Kevin was obviously a fan of the lady she mentioned. He immediately frowned when he heard this, "Where did you hear about it?"

"Mentioned in the Wizard's Daily Morning News."

"Then the credibility of this news shouldn't be very high,"

Kevin breathed a sigh of relief, "That newspaper always likes to spread rumors. It's basically..."

Their chat sounded very pleasant, and there was no silence.

However, as long as you observe for a moment, you will find that the person sitting next to the lively girl has never spoken, but just listened so quietly, occasionally turning his head to look down at the hall, looking a little bored.

But in fact, she is not really boring.

Alyssa was just using this attitude to express her dissatisfaction with her friends around her.

Yes, dissatisfied.

Because her mother initially reached a marriage agreement with Kevin's Felix family without considering her opinion, Alyssa hated Kevin very much.

However, knowing this attitude of hers, her friends continued to respond to each other's words, and from time to time, they even turned to ask her what she thought of certain things.

Obviously trying to smooth things over for Kevin.

However, she is his good friend, why should she help an outsider whom she is not very familiar with?

"I shouldn't be here."

Alyssa secretly felt regretful.

I will go to school soon, but my character has obvious flaws.

Alyssa actually knew this very well, so when she received an invitation from a friend next to her, she thought that maybe it would be good to come in advance to adapt to the crowded environment, so as not to make any jokes after the official enrollment——

It is said that in that wizarding school, any student needs to live with three other roommates.

However, after arriving here, she didn't feel that there was anything to adapt to.

The friends around her catered to Kevin blindly, which even made her feel a little strange.

Then, as if her only pillar of support had been taken away, Alyssa became increasingly uncomfortable with the noisy environment around her.

However, what made her relieved was that the conversation between the two parties did not last long.

As a waiter hurriedly walked over and whispered something in Kevin's ear, the expression of this "fiancé" who was quite annoying to Alyssa changed, and then he finally got up and left here.

So the familiar friend next to me came back again.

"Why didn't you speak just now, Alyssa?"

She chirped and asked, "He is your fiancé after all. Why are you so cold?"

"I won't marry him."

Alyssa said dissatisfied.

She has said this to different people no less than ten times.

It's a pity that no one seems to care about her thoughts.

"Since your mother has decided that it is Kevin, it will be difficult for you to resist."

The friend said nonchalantly: "Let me tell you, Kevin is not bad. Although he looks a bit ugly, he has a good personality."

"Otherwise, look at those guys with the same background as him, which one doesn't look arrogant and domineering?"

Well, I had been chatting with this person for so long, and now I’m calling him ugly...

Alyssa felt a little speechless towards her friend.

Although she disliked Kevin, she felt that the guy's appearance was actually within the range of normal people, so he couldn't be considered ugly by any means, right?

"Winnie's father doesn't approve of Winnie dating that magician either."

What she was thinking in her heart was one thing, but what she was saying on the surface was another, so she heard Alyssa say: "Didn't you compromise in the end?"

"Winnie, that's different."

The friend sneered: "She is ten times uglier than Kevin. Normally she wouldn't be able to marry a wizard, so she can only marry an ordinary person."

"She's so impulsive. She doesn't even think about it. If she really has a mixed-race child in the future, won't she be bullied to death? Her whole family will also be humiliated."

Alyssa frowned when she heard this.

I haven’t seen this friend in front of me for about three months. It’s not a short time, but it’s not a long time either...

Why didn't she realize that this friend in front of her looked like this before?

She felt a little confused when she thought that when she was a child, her friend would cry sadly when she saw an injured kitten on the roadside, but now he was speaking ill of another friend without any scruples.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the girl wearing the ghost mask asked in confusion, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

"nothing."

Alyssa shook her head, "I just-"

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a sudden noise in the hall below.

There was something wrong with the sound. The two of them looked sideways and found that there seemed to be a conflict between two people below.

On one side is a black-haired figure with an outstanding temperament, but because he is wearing a cat-face mask, it is difficult to see his specific image.

The person who had the conflict with him was a tall brown-haired boy. He didn't know what was going on. He was pointing at the other person and yelling something loudly.

Not far away from the two of them, there was a girl in a sky blue dress. She was eagerly wiping some spilled wine on her dress with a handkerchief, looking panicked and looking like she was about to cry.

There were a few people nearby who were whispering comforting words.

"That person was walking carelessly and hit Evelin."

After looking carefully for a while, they understood what was going on, and their friends laughed.

"But I dare say that bitch must have leaned on that unlucky guy on purpose."

"Why?"

Alyssa was very surprised when she heard this, "Do they have any grudge?"

"Of course not, Evelin is just taking the opportunity to show how popular she is."

The friend said sarcastically: "Look, aren't there several men standing up to defend her now? When others see it, oh, Evelin is so popular, she must be a good girl with good character and academics, right?"

"A bunch of idiots, they're so damn funny..."

"Is this too much?"

Alyssa was surprised when she heard this, "Can you just make trouble for others just to show that you are popular?"

"What's this?"

The friend said disdainfully: "In the wizarding world, there are many more extreme things than this. If you even have this - oh, my God..."

She suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and then she seemed to have seen something extraordinary. She leaned sideways on the fence and looked down carefully.

Seeing this, Alyssa turned around and saw that the two men below were entangled and had already begun to fight with fists and kicks.

Or it can't be considered a fist fight. The tall, muscular brown-haired boy just grabbed the collar of the black-haired boy's chest with his hands, and was suddenly punched to the ground by the other party. He covered his cheeks and wailed in pain, and couldn't get up for a long time.

However, perhaps because of too much force, the mask on the black-haired boy's face accidentally fell off.

"Yes, it's really too much!"

My friend who had looked disdainful before suddenly became filled with indignation.

"I've never seen them bully others like this! Never!"