The Whispering Verses Chapter 424: Cats, sunsets and banknotes

Although she was surprised by Her Highness the Princess's active cooperation, she still carried the cat to Agelina Cavendish, bent down and put the cat that was grabbed by the back of the neck into her hand.

Little Mia didn't have the habit of biting, so she didn't open her mouth to bite the beautiful hand stretched out in front of her. It adheres to the principle of sniffing anything it encounters to determine whether it is food, and it really made a light sniffing action. The cat is now curling up slightly, and coupled with its good appearance, this appearance is really... Very attractive.

The sixteen-year-old young princess actually touched the cat with her uninjured hand, but was directly rejected by the cat's claws. Instead of making Agelina angry, it made her and the girls around her laugh.

"Very good, it seems that Her Royal Highness the Princess has no problem, then the next one."

Xia De is very satisfied with little Mia's obedience.

With the princess being the first to try to be sniffed by a cat, the other noble girls also laughed and asked Shade to hold the cat to sniff their hands. Shade always emphasizes that his cat will never miss anyone with a special smell on his hands, but in fact Shade doesn't care about what Mia will smell at all, but carefully observes everyone expression.

When the cat was two-thirds of the way through sniffing hands, Shade finally discovered that the girl who had been sitting on the sofa silently, wearing a long blue dress dotted with lace, was quietly sitting on the sofa. Rubbing her hands on her skirt.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence, but..."

When it was the other party's turn, Shade came to her with the cat in hand, bent down and put the cat down:

"Madam, please extend your hand."

The silent brown-haired girl obviously didn't want to stretch out her hands, but now that everyone was looking at her, she could only hesitantly stretch out her hands, but half of her palms were hidden in her beautifully patterned sleeves. .

Mia's height was lowered by Shade, but she was tired of sniffing her hand.

"Meow~"

The cat actually meowed... because Shade's left hand quietly patted its tail.

"Oh?"

The detective frowned, as if he had encountered some trouble that was difficult to solve. And his exclamation was also captured by the noble ladies who were watching.

Xia De looked at the girl in front of him cautiously, looking at her outfit with inquiring eyes. The girl in the gauze skirt looked at him timidly, and then asked cautiously:

"Excuse me, detective, why did you stop suddenly."

"This..."

Xia De looked embarrassed because he didn't know if he had found the right person.

But he knew that someone knew the answer, so he glanced at President Stan who had come back. The middle-aged man, who was slightly thin, with a high nose bridge and deep-set eyes, stood aside and looked at Shade in surprise, with a faint smile on his face.

Shad knew he had found the right person.

"Madam, may I ask, what have you ever had on your hands?"

He asked softly, lifting the cat back onto his shoulder, and then gently stroked its little head. A look of horror flashed across the face of the girl in front of her for a moment. She had not received any special training, and all her emotions were reflected on her face.

So Shade cautiously said nothing, but looked at Princess Agelina Cavendish. The sixteen-year-old princess looked at the girl in front of Shade with a stern expression, and the latter moved her lips:

"Ajili..."

She lowered her head.

Now, the girls who had just laughed and watched Xia De holding the cat and sniffing everyone's hands stopped talking, and the originally lively atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

Shad glanced at President Stan again, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he knew that he had truly found the right person. So he held the cat in his arms and stroked it again, thanking it for its small help, and then bowed slightly to Agelina Cavendish:

"Then Your Highness, I think this investigation commission is over."

"Rejed's Hamilton, you did a great job."

The red-haired girl said softly, her expression at this time made her look more like Lesia.

The princess stood up and prepared to leave. The two maids followed the girl who was "discovered by the cat" on the left and the right. The other friends of the princess closed their mouths and followed behind.

"The reward for the investigation will be given to you later."

With that said, he walked out of the door. Shade looked at President Stan, who was also standing aside. The middle-aged man made a gesture of silence and followed the crowd with Shade.

The group of people returned to the first floor from the second floor, and then came outside from the foyer on the first floor. It was approaching dusk, and the sky was gradually getting dark. Three carriages approaching from a distance stopped in front of the Prophet's Association. The girls got on the carriages one after another and drove towards the Yodel Palace.

Whether they are going to Yodel Palace or what will happen to the girl who was caught has nothing to do with Shade.

He and President Stan stood in front of the Prophet Association and watched the motorcade leave.

The prophet asked Xiang Xia De softly:

"Do you feel a little strange?"

"Indeed, even if you want to hurt others, you shouldn't use such a minor method. If it was an accident, then why not apologize immediately."

Xia De was the only one who couldn't understand this.

"This matter is very complicated... Although the association is very close to the Yodel Palace, we should not discuss too much about what happened there."

President Stan sighed slightly:

"Politics has always been the most troublesome thing."

The sunset broke through the mist and reflected the sky of Tobesk red. The two men stood together on the ever-flowing Silver Cross Avenue, and stood together at the door of the Prophet's Association where people were coming and going.

The carriage passed in front of them, and the wheels made a rhythmic sound as they rolled against the road. The metal pipes attached to the walls reflected light under the afterglow of the setting sun, making the street look particularly bright. Together they looked towards the Yodel Palace under the fiery sunset. In the hazy distance, there was the steam-era street scene of Tobesk, the pearl of the north.

The setting sun made Mia's cat fur on her shoulders seem to glow. The cat opened its mouth and yawned. I don't know if it was hungry or sleepy, but it suddenly became interested in the bird flying overhead.

The bird flew over the Silver Cross Avenue, flew over the skyline of the densely packed city, flew over the chimneys spewing black smoke, flew over the heads of barefoot workers carrying sacks, and Well-dressed gentlemen flew overhead, passing thousands of houses in Tobesk.

The middle of August is coming, the hottest days of the year are coming to an end, and autumn is coming.

(Iluna is praying...)

When Luvia returned to the association and saw Shade in the divination room on the second floor, Shade was facing the window and counting a stack of 1-shilling bills in his hand through the setting sun outside the window, while Xiaomi Ya squatted beside him, looking at his hands intently, counting the banknotes skillfully.

Luvia even saw an afterimage of Shade's hand. He was really good at counting banknotes.

"What are you doing? Even if you want to show that you are rich, you must at least count 1 gold pound banknotes, right?"

The purple-eyed fortune teller said curiously, turned on the gas lamp on the wall, put his handbag on the table, then pulled out a chair and sat across from Shade. But neither Shade nor the cat raised their eyes to look at her. Each one looked at the bills intently.

"Wait a moment...Okay, good afternoon, Luvia, you are still so beautiful. This is what your president, Mr. Stan, gave me. It is the fee for the investigation commission. These are 10 pounds. , a total of two hundred, the association is really generous, but they are all small change, I have been counting them for a while."

Shad smiled, put the money into an envelope on the side, covered it with a handkerchief and threw it into his chest pocket. Little Mia looked up and looked very happy. This cat understood the meaning of "coins".

"The association's Rhodes brand appraisal business will get a large amount of change. Therefore, if there is an opportunity, the cashiers are more inclined to spend the change that is difficult to keep."

Luvia understood this quite well. Seeing Shade put the money away, she did not ask what happened just now, but asked nervously:

"I've heard that things at Coldwater Harbor ended yesterday morning, but what you said about Darkness..."

"He ran away."

Xia De replied lightly, and the purple-eyed girl showed a true expression:

"Look, Shade, the first candidate for the Chosen One, still has some skills."

"I used words to ask a twelve-level sorceress to catch him, but Darkness was still able to run away. The only thing that caused effective damage to him was when I threw Iluna's alchemy item [Sunshine Gun], I think he will probably recover from his injuries on the way to Tobesk.”

Avoiding the details of Sylvie Aurora's identity and the relationship between Dorothy and Lesia, Shade briefly described his experience in Coldwater Harbor. He even told about the level 0 relic [Desire] he encountered, and showed Luvia the [Chain of Sin] extracted from that piece of flesh.

As expected, Luvia was really worried about Shade. She had never heard of anyone daring to eat part of a level 0 relic. He took Shade's hand to check him, but just like Shade's own feelings, in addition to his increased desire, all he got were benefits.

"A gift from fate..."

"...the price has already been marked secretly."

Shad caught Luvia’s words. She used the language of the Fifth Age, and Shad happened to have learned some in the textbook:

"It was the [Blood Spirit School] that gave the price, and it was the [Puppet Operator's Notebook] that led me to the dark room behind the damp chapel and helped me gain strength."

"But how do I feel that even without that relic, you can still gain power?"

Luvia is a little troubled:

"What happened to you is absolutely abnormal. Think about it carefully, Shade, how many things have you gone through in the two months since we met you?"

"But aren't the accidents I experienced all related to the chosen one? It was because of Iluna in Tobesk, and it was because of Ivan Darkness in Coldwater Port. This is not my bad luck."

Xia De is quite open to this.