When Shade walked over with a frown on his face, the stranger waved to Shade to sit down. Only then did Shade notice that his skin was loose, and at the same time he seemed to have been soaked in water for too long and had peeled off his skin.
Wearing a white bone ring in the shape of a skull, there is a small snake head exposed from the skull's mouth.
"Just waiting for you."
The stranger's eyes lit up, and although his voice was full of exhaustion, his tone was lighter:
"Hurry up and sit down. The three of you are here so I can talk about things more easily."
He used an unusually standard Tobesk accent.
【careful.】
Hearing the voice of "her" in his ears, Shade hesitated and looked at the two princesses, then sat down opposite the strange man.
The man knocked on the table, looked into Shade's eyes and said to him:
"Introduce yourself, I am Victor Fannie."
The head is tilted slightly to this side:
"I know you are investigating me, and you do it very quickly, so don't do it again in the future."
Pause for a moment and add softly:
"Otherwise I will kill you."
Dorothy and Princess Margaret both showed displeasure, and Shade stared into his pure black eyes:
"oh?"
He used a modal particle.
The man who called himself Victor Fannie nodded:
"If you are willing to do business with me, I am very happy. If you dare to investigate me again, I will make everyone in this world forget your existence."
He was about to stand up as he spoke, as if he didn't want to waste more time here, but Shade stopped him:
"Is your real name really Victor Penny?"
The half-rising movement stopped abruptly, and the man who called himself "Victor Fannie" stared at Shade with his strange eyes:
"I'm very good at manipulating people's emotions and usurping power from the desire for self-aggrandizement."
He said softly, then sat down again:
"Greed, lust, immortality"
Staring at Shade with his eyes:
"But that doesn't mean I have a good temper towards humans."
As the last words were spoken, the malice in his tone became more and more obvious. The light on the first floor of the bright Three Cats Hotel suddenly dimmed. Both Dorothy and Princess Margaret were surprised by this, not believing that he actually dared to speak in public.
They did this on occasion, but then they realized that only a few people around the table could notice the changes in the surrounding environment.
Neither Shade nor Victor Fannie spoke. As the light around the table became darker and darker, streams of black mud poured out from the cracks in the bricks under their feet. From the cracks in the ceiling above their heads, they pattered downwards.
Black muddy water dripped, as if the entire hotel was rotting.
Princess Margaret clearly saw the dark muddy water, which even dripped into the broth on the table of the hat-wearing guest at the next table, splashing the soup, but he still didn't notice it.
A dark wind blew in the warm room, and it seemed that with the change of Victor Fannie's mood, the whole environment was changing. Some small sounds passed into the ears of the three people. After careful identification, those smooth sounds seemed to be hooking
The most primitive desire in his heart arose, but the tone was very similar to the voice that appeared after Shade burned the "Victor Box" with holy water that morning.
The princess of the southern kingdom realized that they had provoked some kind of terrifying existence. While her body was shaking unconsciously in the darkness, she looked at the blonde female writer.
The latter seemed to be in good condition. She turned around and looked at Shade with her lips pursed. As she looked over, the area around the young detective was completely plunged into darkness, as if a black quagmire had completely enveloped the space where he was.
.
But Shade was not swallowed up by the bewitching darkness. The not bright but indeed gorgeous holy silver light radiated from his body. Looking at the silver moonlight, Margaret Anjou felt an instinctive peace of mind, as if
On a midsummer night, holding a glass of wine and looking at the fullest silver moon in the night sky.
"It's amazing that you didn't get swallowed up."
The originally standard Delarian language had serious echoes and distortions in pronunciation in the darkness. Victor Fannie was still sitting opposite Shade, but it seemed that the person sitting there was not him.
With just a quick glance, Princess Margaret saw a twisted and huge dark shadow in the outline of the human figure. The huge mental shock in that moment caused blood to flow from the corners of her eyes. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She stood there and never dared to open her eyes again. But the action of closing her eyes made her other senses become more acute, making her vaguely seem to be able to glimpse something lurking in the darkness.
Fear, anger, lust, hunger, and all kinds of strange emotions surged into her heart at the same time, and then exploded instantly in her heart. Margaret Anjou's slightly red eyes opened suddenly, but she saw the silver on Shade's body.
In the moonlight, that inexplicable emotion gradually calmed down.
She and the blonde female writer looked at the light on Shade's body, which was the only source of light that could make people feel at ease in the completely dark surroundings. Everything in the Three Cats Hotel seemed to have disappeared, but it seemed that only they had disappeared.
A wooden table, four benches, and four "people", these are the only objects that exist in the darkness.
Black mud gurgled in the darkness, and Margaret Anjou, who was watching Shade, could hear someone lying behind her, whispering in her ear, urging her to realize her deepest desires.
Shade, whose body was glowing, had a normal expression, confirming that his companion was okay for the time being. He looked at the guy opposite who was gradually taking off his human form. While suffering from mental pollution, he nodded slightly, as if to confirm something:
"We have no intention of going against you. In this case, how about you give me a Victor box and let me copy the coins, and we'll settle the matter?"
Princess Margaret knew that this was "surrendering" to the other party, but she understood this behavior. The things they provoked this time were not monsters that humans could touch casually.
"Of course."
Victor Penny was obviously sitting at the table, but the overlapping voices came from a dark distance.
A pair of human hands appeared beside Shade, holding a wooden "Victor Box" in their hands. Darkness swallowed up the space behind the hands, as if the broken hands were floating in the air.
Shade held the box in front of him, took out the [Coin of Wisdom] from his pocket and put it in. After closing the box and opening it again, there was still only one coin in the box:
"Look, what you made doesn't work at all. I really thought your creation could copy relics at will."
Shade mocked in a relaxed tone, and the man sitting opposite him, half of his body integrated with the darkness, whispered:
"Wisdom is a power that even desire cannot replicate."
"Do you know much about wisdom?"
Shade smiled again and said:
"Answer me a question, I can also leave the angels as if nothing happened. Why did I stay?"
The hand wearing the white bone ring stretched out to Shade like a long snake, and the soft arm was covered with a layer of oozing scales. But after a brilliant silver moonlight flashed by, the hand was forced to retreat.
Together with Victor Fannie, they disappeared into the darkness around the table.
"I just said that it seemed a bit familiar and turned out to be a devil."
"demon?"
Even though she had a vague guess in her mind, Princess Margaret was still extremely surprised when she actually heard the answer.
"Don't worry, the other party is not strong."
Shade said that the demon this time was at least much weaker than human pus.
The surging darkness was not just surging around, it was obviously still just darkness, but with the disappearance of Victor Penny, something seemed to have fundamentally changed.
The life rings behind Princess Margaret and Dorothy appeared at the same time. The princess had four rings and Dorothy had five rings. The burning of the parchment revealed the sleeping princess holding the spindle and the match girl holding the basket.
appeared, and the thrown little doll turned into the "Killer Jack" that Shade had seen once.
Three summons summoned by the enlightenment elements were patrolling around the table, trying to drive away those things that came from the darkness. Instinct fear made the ladies’ life rings flicker with auras, and the unrestrained light stretched out from the sticky darkness.
Visible tentacles gradually surrounded several people.
"Moonlight Great Sword!"
The great sword exuding the holy moonlight became a brand new light source. The gorgeous sword made the princess couldn't help but look sideways, but Shade did not use the sword to attack the enemy in the darkness, but stood up with the sword. He raised his head and looked
Towards the front.
"Don't look up."
Shade warned softly. He squinted his eyes and saw an indescribable, huge and strange figure squirming above the three people in the darkness. He couldn't even see the whole picture. It stretched out its "hand" to them from a high place.
Whether that organ can be defined as a "hand" is very difficult to say, but whether it is Shade, Dorothy or Princess Margaret, they all have flashes in their minds of three people being grabbed by the giant thing and then completely disappearing in the
Pictures of this world.
"Don't worry, I involved you in this matter, and I will naturally protect your safety. I'm really sorry, I didn't expect it to be a devil."
Shade softly expressed his apology. Looking directly at the huge demonic figure in the darkness, Shade's eyes shed tears of blood.
As the "hand" descending from the sky gradually lowered, the rotation of the girls' life rings became stagnant.
Shade took a deep breath, pulled out the "Witch Detection" badge from his neck, and pointed it at the creeping darkness:
"Praise the angels, praise death."
he said softly.
Margaret Anjou, who couldn't help but tremble because of fear, actually felt a blazing light at this moment. After her senses sensed the strange temperature, a soft white light appeared in her vision.
She raised her head in surprise and saw a huge figure with wings flashing past Shade's head. At the same time, the white holy light like the sun emitted from the badge he held high, completely driving away the surrounding darkness in an instant.
, as if to melt the huge and terrifying black figure.