Princess Margaret nodded slightly and looked at Shade in front of her:
"How should I thank you? Shade, you probably can't understand what this means to me."
Shade really wanted to bring up the matter of meeting Sir Prisha right now, but after thinking about it, he decided to wrap up this little matter first:
"Tell me first how to deal with Miss Brown. She is probably waiting for the news anxiously. Let me tell you first, I will not kill anyone. Although she is a spy to you, to me,
She was one of the country's finest agents...a defected agent."
Thinking about it this way, whether as an active ace agent of MI6 or as the Grey-Headed Eagle, the ace spy in Gray Gloves, Shade had a reason to kill Miss Brown.
"What are you talking about? Who wants you to kill him?"
The princess shook her head slightly:
"If I had known about this a few years ago, I would have taught her a lesson. But now...she has defected to MI6, so she is no longer Kasenrik's enemy. Although she probably knows
Something about MI6..."
"You don't want to punish her."
Shade used an affirmative sentence, and the princess with long light blond hair glanced at him:
"This is what you said, not me."
"Then the next letter, do you ask me to write it, or do you write it yourself."
For a moment, Shade felt that he really saw the princess smiling at him, but if he looked closely, it seemed to be an illusion:
"I'll write it myself, and I'll bother you to deliver the letter to her."
She stretched out her hand to Shade, and Shade stretched out his hand, letting the princess put her hand in his, and stood up from the sofa.
Margaret Anjou looked out at the silver-white manor courtyard:
"Anyway, the guilt I felt for eight years is finally gone..."
She asked Xiang Xia De softly:
"If I use bad words in an unladylike way, will you tell anyone else?"
Shade looked at her suspiciously and took out his ears:
"Sorry, what did you say? I didn't hear it."
The princess smiled and said through gritted teeth:
"Joia Nicklaus, you bitch already has a fiancé, right? He will betray you sooner or later, just like you are disloyal to my family."
After saying that, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The princess's "dirty words" were much more civilized than the slang that Shade had imagined.
She opened her eyes and looked at Shade:
"Knight, do you want to have lunch together?"
"it's here?"
Although Shade has visited Canary Manor more than once, having lunch here with an exotic princess is no small matter.
"Yes, you've helped me so much, wouldn't it be harsh if I kicked you out during lunch?"
As he spoke, he walked towards the door to inform the maid to prepare extra lunch, but there was clearly a faint blush on his cheeks.
Coincidentally, Shade originally thought about seeing Miss Sylvia at the lunch table at Canary Manor, but the Witch did not come back until Princess Margaret and Shade had finished lunch together.
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During the period, Shade also inquired about Miss Sylvia's whereabouts today, and unexpectedly learned from the princess who was enjoying the dessert, a small cake decorated with strawberries, that Miss Sylvia had something of her own.
"My math teacher also has his own life."
She plucked the top strawberry with a fork:
"She has often received invitations from Duchess Carina recently."
The princess of Carsonric speaks Delarian, and members of the royal families of both countries are proficient in both languages. When I mentioned Carina Cavendish, I thought of the relationship between the detective in front of me and the duchess.
The princess witch felt a little uncomfortable:
"I'll tell you a secret, but don't tell anyone else."
She pretended to look around the restaurant cautiously, but in fact there were only two of her most trusted personal maids, one of whom was a first-level warlock:
"Miss Sylvia, she actually likes pretty girls."
She saw the tangled expression on Shade's face with satisfaction:
"Oh, detective, so don't get too involved with Miss Sylvia. This teacher of mine has a somewhat unique personality."
She actually wanted to protect Shade and prevent him from getting too close to the big witch, but for some reason the next sentence came out:
"So you must keep an eye on your duchess and don't be deceived by my teacher."
After lunch, Princess Margaret had other plans, while Shade went to deliver a letter. The two made an appointment to meet at Canary Manor in the evening.
So Shade still set off in the carriage. He thought he would not encounter any trouble in sending the reply this time. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the door of the second-hand bookstore, he found that the neighbors were standing at the door and looking inside:
"What's going on?"
He also blended into the crowd and learned the truth from the busy discussion. Around one o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of gunshots suddenly came from inside the second-hand bookstore, followed by a very dense sound of gunfire.
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After a sound that sounded like a steam bomb exploding, only half a minute later, a man covering his shoulder as if he had been shot escaped from the bookstore.
Shortly after he left, a large number of police surrounded the place and took away Mr. Brown, the owner of the second-hand bookstore who had just returned from collecting debts and seemed unaware of what had happened. Neighbors who were familiar with the situation in the second-hand bookstore all discovered that Bella Brown
The lady did not appear, and the police also set up a cordon at the door of the second-hand bookstore and were searching inside the bookstore.
"Is there something going on here about selling illegal guns?"
Shade first guessed this, but soon overturned his idea because he actually saw his boss, Director Anlos.
The middle-aged man did not see Shade, who was wearing a hat in the crowd. He followed a group of policemen into the second-hand bookstore and whispered something to his companions. Ordinary defections should not require the director's attention.
His appearance must have been due to the "grey-headed eagle" suspected to have appeared in the recent Princess Bomb attack, which made this gentleman smell something.
"Miss Bella Brown was exposed. I had just left when someone from MI6 came. How could there be such a coincidence?"
It seemed that the lady had not been caught yet. A gunfight broke out between her and others in the bookstore. After forcing away the man who had an injured shoulder and was suspected to be an MI6 agent, she herself escaped in another direction.
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Thinking of this, Shade took a detour to the alley behind the bookstore, and sure enough he found that there were police officers here as well. But probably because there weren't many clues here, the police simply sealed off the place, but it wasn't as tight as the front door.
Relying on the red butterfly illusion, Shade quietly slipped into the alley and found bloody scratches on the wall behind the second-hand bookstore. Later he realized that these were not just bloodstains from scratches. Miss Brown was also injured when she was fighting with a gun.
Already.
While the police in the alley were not paying attention, he took out the red wine bottle, sucked the blood into the bottle and made blood wine, and then used illusions to deceive the police again and left here.
In a remote alley, he raised his head and dropped the blood stains into his eyes. The thaumaturgy [Echo of Blood] was activated, because the blood stains were very fresh, so when Shade returned to the alley where the incident occurred, Bella...
Miss Brown's blushing figure clearly appeared in Shade's field of vision:
"She was indeed injured. Was she shot in the leg? Oh, it doesn't look like the bones were injured."
The injured former agent did not dare to enter the main road. Instead, he got into a nearby alley and headed north of Tobesk, away from Regent's Park. Shade followed the figure, and on this sunny winter afternoon,
After passing through alleys, I watched Miss Brown limping around.
She first used the key to open the door of an old apartment building in the east of the city. She treated her wounds in the suspected safe house, took some daily necessities and banknotes, and changed her clothes.
He climbed through the window with difficulty and left.
She even used silk thread and gear mechanisms to make a simple trigger-type steam bomb trap at the door. But Shade entered through the window, so it was not triggered at all. In order to protect her colleagues and thieves who might break in,
Shade dismantled those things very considerately.
After leaving the safe house, the injured Miss Brown walked around in a circle, and then continued north until she entered the slums in the north of the city. There are alleys extending in all directions here, and even a stranger with a good sense of direction can easily get lost.
Miss Bella Brown didn't know whether she was lost, or simply to confuse possible pursuers. After taking the wrong road three times, she entered a narrow street with a rusty metal street sign "Long Ear Lane".
After the key opened the door of No. 7 Long Er Lane, a coherent figure entered the house, but there was no figure coming out around him:
"Hide here?"
Long Ear Lane is an unremarkable alley in the northern slums of Tobesk. Strictly speaking, this is not a slum, but a neighborhood where poor people with a little money live. The streetscape here is fairly well maintained, and the towering houses along the
They walked forward along the street. Although the snow was not cleared in front of each house, at least the street was cleared for people to pass.
In order not to scare Miss Brown, Shade did not knock on the door, but directly opened the door lock with the "door key" and entered the house.
Since there is no one living there all year round, the house is cold and damp, and it looks even more gloomy in winter. Probably to save money, although Miss Brown rented this place, she did not pay the gas bill, so all the lights in the house were unavailable. Entering the house
, it was like entering a damp and cold coffin, the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Following Miss Brown's translucent red figure, Shade climbed the creaking wooden stairs all the way to the second floor. As soon as he turned into the corridor, someone put a gun to his head.
"Pointing the gun at me is not a good idea."
Shade said to the lady who looked very unhappy. Although she did not recognize Shade who was wearing eye shadow at first, she recognized his calm tone.
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