The Whispering Verses Chapter 109: Professor’s hush money

"What kind of thaumaturgy are you doing? Can one ring have such an effect?"

Even Miss Louisa was surprised by this. She asked for some water to taste, and then asked Shade to continue feeding the professor.

Miss Louisa is worthy of being a fourth-ring warlock. She can easily analyze things that Shade has not analyzed:

"Is this really the thaumaturgy of [Gluttony]? It can actually transform emotions to replenish life energy. I see, treatment is achieved by replenishing life force. The increased feeling of fullness in the body is not an illusion, but a real lethargy to the body. Achieve fullness. You can learn it in one step, and it can actually be used by others. At present, the side effect is just that the desire to eat will decrease significantly in a short period of time. This is really true... burp~"

Xia De turned to look at her in surprise, and even stopped feeding the professor water. Miss Louisa's face turned red visibly, she closed her mouth tightly and shrugged her shoulders upwards, forcefully suppressing the urge to burp for the second time:

"What's wrong? Have you never seen a lady burping?"

Inexplicably, from her attitude, Shade thought of the way Mia kept burping after drinking water yesterday, which made her angry with herself.

"Wake up Professor Manning quickly, I...go to the bathroom to touch up my makeup, so that the maid downstairs doesn't have to panic, and you should be careful here."

As he said that, he stood up with a blushing face and walked out of the bedroom without looking back.

Listening to the footsteps of Miss Louisa walking away, Shade looked at the small water bottle in his hand:

"This is probably a side effect."

It took a long time for Miss Louisa to come back from downstairs. Shade consciously did not discuss the hiccups just now.

Xia De stopped after confirming that Professor Manning could no longer drink water. From the outside, his body no longer looked so scary, but the professor still did not wake up.

"Why don't you wake up? Could it be that the mental damage caused by the pen is too serious? Yes, my thaumaturgy cannot cure mental damage."

Shad said, stuffing the bottle back into his pocket.

"I don't think this has anything to do with mental damage. Detective, do you know anyone who can't be woken up?"

Miss Louisa took a look at the professor's situation and roughly understood the reason.

"You can't wake up those who pretend to be asleep... Oh, I understand!"

Miss Louisa shook her head:

"No, dead people cannot be awakened. Since the professor cannot wake up, then we will let him..."

"Okay, okay, Louisa, stop joking, I'm awake. Young people, can't you leave the last dignity to the elderly...burp!"

The professor suddenly opened his eyes and hiccupped. He got up from the floor with a pale complexion. His legs went weak and he almost fell. Shade stretched out his hand to support him:

"Your body has not fully recovered yet, professor. I'm afraid you will have to stay in bed for a long time, and you must be abstinent and not engage in mental work for a long time."

Professor Manning covered his face with one hand. He pretended to be unconscious just because he didn't want to ask this kind of question. Just now he almost died from Shade's water.

"Young man, can you take that pen and leave? You can even ransack my house, just pretend this never happened and I'm still unconscious."

The old professor’s painful expression should have nothing to do with his physical weakness:

"Why do you have to wake me up? Oh, can't you leave the last dignity to me, an old man?"

His face, which was originally pale due to physical weakness, turned red. Shade glanced at Miss Louisa, who motioned for him to speak:

"Actually, we didn't know you were with a black cat in your dream..."

"Oh, okay, what do you want to extort from me? Take it all, take it all, as long as you don't tell me about it, take whatever you want. I only want the last Decent."

"No, no, that's not what I meant."

Xia De explained:

"What I want to say is, what happened today..."

"Nothing happened, everything I saw will follow me to the grave! No one should ever want to know what happened today! Never even think about it."

Judging from Professor Manning's current state of excitement, his physical condition and mental state are much better than Shade thought.

"Okay, then this pen..."

Xia De shook the [relic], the professor looked at it reluctantly, then gritted his teeth and said:

"Take it, take it quickly! This is yours."

Shad nodded with satisfaction, and then handed the pen to Miss Louisa, who was playing with the clerical relic [Happy Dream Pen] and looked very happy.

He helped Professor Manning sit down on the chair, and at the same time opened the curtains to let in the bright afternoon sunlight. The frail old man squinted his eyes while looking at the sunshine, his expression relaxed a lot.

"Actually, we also want to know, besides you, does anyone else know about this pen?"

Xia De asked again. Professor Manning looked at the sunshine and was stunned for a long time before saying:

"How can you tell others such a thing?"

"So how do you know how to use this pen? The old writer told you?"

Shad wanted to make sure there was nothing weird about this.

"Of course not, I dreamed about it. I suddenly dreamed about it on the third day after I got the pen. I wanted to try it for some reason..."

He was suddenly startled:

"So, the death of the previous owner of this pen...is because of this?"

"If you continue to hold it, you may end up worse than death."

Miss Louisa said, but her tone was completely opposite to the gentle tone when she spoke to Shade:

"You should be glad that you fainted just now and didn't see what happened. You are also a professor at the university, how could you not realize how weird this thing is?"

"I didn't...fail to resist temptation."

The professor lowered his head, and Shade coughed to summarize the matter:

"Professor, since we saved your life, this pen is given to us as a thank you. At the same time, today's incident will be treated as if it never happened, and no one can tell it."

"I have no problem."

Miss Louisa said after getting the [Relic].

"I have a problem!"

The professor raised his head and suddenly said:

"Lucasa won't tell anyone, but what if you tell her?"

Xia De said in surprise:

"Why should I go out? You can probably guess that we are not ordinary people, how can we risk exposing our identities..."

"I've seen a lot of things in my life, and you don't have to explain it. How about I give you some benefits, which can be regarded as hush money?"

He probably thought that Miss Louisa had received the "hush money" but the detective had not, and that she might hold a grudge because of it. Shade wanted to be polite, but unexpectedly, the professor directly called the fat maid on the second floor and asked the maid to fetch something and give it to Shade.

That was actually a Rhodes card, and it was a Rhodes card with special rules.

[Northern City・Lengshui Port City], Flower Moon 7. After drawing this card and actively displaying it, if the number of cards in the deck that has been used exceeds one-half, choose one of your cards and shuffle it into your opponent's deck.