Greetings, Mister Principal: Hug
At night, after Leiner walked around the nearby shopping mall, he returned to the hotel. The decoration here was only halfway done but stopped abruptly. The hall was empty, and there was a different kind of loneliness.
As soon as he stepped onto the stairs, Reiner saw two people on the other side preparing to check out.
He vaguely felt that the two of them looked familiar. After taking a closer look, he realized that they were the same two people who met West for the first time at Olmsted Airport. Reiner remembered that they received West's little letter. piece of paper, and then I believed it, but I didn’t expect to come to the Windermere Hotel.
"Has he been silently helping the family?"
Reiner shook his head, walked up the stairs, and first went to Claire's room to take a look.
Claire has already had dinner and is sitting on the bed obediently playing with Mrs. Freya. She has no doubts about why the cat from Crescent Academy is in Olmsted. It may be that she has not yet realized what happened. .
"Meow meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow!"
Claire bent one hand and simulated a claw to tease the kitten, but Mrs. Freya obviously didn't care much. She just moved her ears slightly to show that she heard it and was too lazy to pay attention to Claire.
"Meow meow meow? Meow meow!"
Claire pretended to speak cat language and kept harassing Mrs. Freya, but she remained indifferent.
I wonder what Claire would think about what she had just done if she knew that Mrs. Freya could actually speak human language.
I once heard someone say that when you play with a cat, you are not teasing the cat, but the cat is teasing you. When you look at it, you feel that the cat is stupid and does not react no matter what it encounters. In fact, Cats know everything, the only difference is whether they are in the mood to care about you.
Reluctantly, Claire could only take out her secret cat-teasing stick.
As soon as the bell rang, Mrs. Freya immediately turned her head. As the cat-catching rod with the hair ball and the bell was pulled by the rope, her eyes swayed, and then her head swayed because the amplitude was too large. It also started to rotate.
Finally, she couldn't control herself anymore, so she jumped up and tried to grab the cat teasing stick.
However, the little ball with the bell tied to it flew flexibly to the other side, and along with the clear ringing of the bell, it seduced Mrs. Freya's heartstrings.
She immediately rushed over again, but it was still in vain.
Claire was very happy and kept swinging the cat teaser, making Mrs. Freya overwhelmed.
Finally, I don’t know whether it was Claire’s negligence or she felt that she had had enough fun, and finally slowed down the action of the cat teasing stick. Mrs. Freya pounced on it with a roar, and bit the fur ball fiercely. He grabbed it with his claws, as if he wanted to use it to relieve his anger.
"Is it fun?"
Watching the one-person-one-cat game, Reiner's originally slightly heavy mood relaxed a lot. He asked, making Claire jump, who was unaware of it.
"You, you, when did you come back?"
Her cheeks were slightly red, probably because she was wondering if she had done anything indecent just now.
"It probably started when you took out the cat teasing stick. Where did you get it?"
Reiner smiled slightly and looked at Mrs. Freya who was fighting against the hair ball.
"I bought it on the roadside. There are often vendors selling things on the road there. I was woken up by this cat this morning, and I wanted to buy a cat tea stick to play with while eating lunch."
Claire allowed the cat teaser in her hand to be destroyed by Mrs. Freya. She focused all her attention on Reiner and kept rubbing the end of the cat teaser with her fingers.
"Reiner, what happened today?"
Seeing that Reiner's smile was a little forced, she asked. Even Uncle Mason and Aunt Gwen in the hotel looked a little depressed today. Even Claire noticed something was wrong.
Claire put down the cat teaser, stood up, walked to Reiner, then opened her arms and hugged Reiner.
The fragrance of the girl's hair came through the hug, which made Reiner feel at ease a lot. Claire's soft body was close to Reiner, and her nose gently rubbed against Reiner's chest, like a kitten seeking comfort. , but surprisingly, in the face of such close contact, Reiner had no evil thoughts. He gently hugged Claire back and felt the other person's heartbeat.
This short moment seemed like an eternity. About thirty seconds later, Claire shyly left Reiner's arms, and he looked away as usual.
"This is a special service that is not available normally."
She said with a red face, her expression was pitiful and even more uncontrollable.
"Thanks, Claire, I feel a little better."
Reiner, who was close to sage mode, touched Claire's head, and then turned his attention to the kitten who was battling wits with the fur ball.
"I want to borrow this cat for a while."
As he spoke, he lifted Mrs. Freya with both hands, ignored her persistence in the cat-teasing stick, and left the room.
"Okay, okay."
Claire was still immersed in Reiner's breath just now, feeling extremely hot, and could only watch the other person leave silently.
Reiner took Mrs. Freya back to his room, closed the door, and then put her on the bed.
"Do you know that Macon is a member of the Serpents of Chaos?"
Reiner asked. Although he believed Mrs. Freya, he still wanted to confirm. At the same time, he sprinkled a handful of catnip, making Mrs. Freya's eyes become blurred.
"Meow, meow, meow??? Snake of Chaos? What kind of meow is that?"
Mrs. Freya, who was intoxicated in catnip, looked puzzled. The name Reiner mentioned confused her. It seemed that she was not lying.
"Okay, when did you know Macon lived in Olmsted?"
Reiner asked again, Macon has become a wanted criminal many years ago, living in seclusion in Olmsted and no one knows about it~IndoMTL.com~ But Mrs. Freya knows where Macon is, isn't he afraid? Did Lady Freya leak it?
"That was more than ten years ago, meow. We had a class reunion, and Macon mentioned meow once at that time."
Lady Freya replied, licking her paw.
"What is your school and graduation time for your class reunion?"
Reiner asked hurriedly, and soon Mrs. Freya gave the answer.
After writing a letter to the local magic association, Reiner looked at Mrs. Freya who was lying on the bed with her feet up.
"Can you still recognize Macon now, or pick out his scent?"
"Don't underestimate Mona's sense of smell, as long as you give me the things the other person has been in contact with recently, I can find him!"
Mrs. Freya raised her head proudly and squinted her eyes, as if she wanted Reiner to pat her head as a reward.
"Then I'll leave it to you tomorrow."
Reiner said that he needed to investigate the fire scene because his intuition told him that Macon's secrets were hidden there.
Late at night, Reiner left Mrs. Freya to Claire and continued to play with her. While he stayed in the room, an owl quietly flew into the window and dropped a letter.
This was Reiner's reply to the letter he just sent to the Magic Association. He opened the envelope and read the contents carefully.
There are several death records here.
After Reiner heard what Mrs. Freya said just now, he wrote to the nearest Magic Association branch and retrieved the information of other students in the same class as Mrs. Freya and Macon.
When the results came back, Reiner discovered that among the people in the same class of the magic school, except for Macon and Mrs. Freya, all the other mages had died due to accidents or diseases!
As for Mrs. Freya, she probably escaped because she accidentally turned into a cat and kept hiding her identity!