But no matter what, now that the first floor of St. Teresa Square has been opened, the house suddenly has such a large space, and Shade still needs to consider how to use it.
Returning to the first floor from the basement, looking at the open space, Shade, who knew the new secret, was in a very good mood:
"The statue of the ancient god is underground. Based on hundreds of years of experience, this will affect the ordinary people upstairs, so if you want to rent it out, you can't rent it to ordinary people hastily."
There is no need to worry about renting to a ring warlock, but Shade doesn't know a ring warlock with whom he can live together. Among the other four people in the group, except for Miss Louisa, everyone else has a good place to live. And
Shade is not reckless enough to invite a single, unmarried blonde to live with him.
But thinking about it carefully, he is not very short of money now. If he wants to buy expensive relics and knowledge, renting is not enough, so renting out a house is not a must.
Thinking of this, Xia De temporarily gave up his plan to rent out the first floor.
He walked along the stairs to the second floor, making plans for his future:
"When you have money, you can consider hiring a maid to help clean like Professor Manning. Now it is a waste of time to clean the house by yourself... For the time being, use the first floor and basement as a space for storing debris, Xiaomi
Ya would probably like to have a place to walk... But even so, it will cost a lot of money to reconnect the steam pipes and gas pipes..."
While he was thinking about the trivial matters in his life, he went up the curved stairs. He felt that the expenses he needed to spend seemed to be greater when the first floor was reopened.
When I opened the door to the second floor, I looked up and thought about the time. It was only eight o'clock in the evening. There were still two hours before the time agreed with Miss Louisa to visit the girl Sophie.
So I took advantage of the time I had to write a report on applying for access to the "Code of Ascension" and sent it to the academy through the manuscript pages in my hand. Then I opened and turned over the story pages borrowed from Miss Louisa's friend.
look.
Mia, who was locked in the room by Shade, wanted to play with Shade for a while, but Shade, who was looking forward to the manuscript of the translated version of the first draft of the story, could only refuse the orange cat's request, but still
I found a ball of wool and let it play by itself.
After washing his hands, he solemnly sat down at the desk, and then opened the cloth wrapping the pages.
It seems that books that describe mysterious powers don't like to use ordinary paper as a carrier. The book that Miss Louisa lent to Shade uses an unknown leather material as the pages, which feels very smooth.
At the top of the page numbered 1, the name of this story is clearly written in ancient language——
"The Little Match Girl".
"This is it!"
He looked at the first page with anticipation and carefully read the strange words that were densely packed like dancing matchsticks. Then he spent about ten minutes carefully retelling the story of the poor match girl on the snowy night from the beginning.
Read it to the end.
Nothing happened.
Even though this is a page with special power, the feeling after reading it completely is not even as good as telling the story to three children in the past time.
"This is a bit troublesome... Do I really need to find the original manuscript in order for me to gain great power?"
He looked at the moonlit night outside and thought worriedly, then looked down at the letters on the page. He admitted that this was a good story, but Shade didn't like stories with sad endings.
Miss Louisa knocked on the door downstairs at ten o'clock, and Shade, who had been prepared for a long time, set off directly with her. By the way, he also returned the story pages to her:
"Is this all used up? Can you really understand the words on this? Are the [Time and Space] runes so powerful?"
As Miss Louisa spoke, she rolled up the page and stuffed it into her pocket. A magician needs spellcasting materials to cast a spell, so even in summer, most people avoid wearing clothes without pockets. This is also what Shade does in summer.
Also the reason for wearing a coat.
In this world, there are no convenient items such as "space rings".
The steam bomb explosion happened last night, and the alley is still blocked. Although the fishman was blown to pieces by Miss Louisa, the traces left behind still attracted the attention of the church.
Therefore, when going to the little girl Sophie's home, they deliberately chose a detour to avoid the alley.
The girl Sophie Dyess came from a poor family, otherwise there would be no need for such a young child to sell flowers. The Dyess family lived in a slum on the bank of the Terrarel River, with a family of five people crowded into one house.
The house is about the same size as Shard's basement.
Last night, the two of them delivered the girl to the door of their house and watched her enter the house before leaving. But today they had to see the girl with their own eyes to confirm whether she was healthy, so they had to think of another way.
When we set off with the blonde writer, we could still see the stars when we looked up, but halfway through, thick fog came in, causing Miss Louisa to complain about the factories in the city.
It was around 10:20 in the evening when we arrived near the slums on the banks of the Terrariel River. At night like this, even idlers would not go out and wander around.
Miss Louisa had already made a very complete plan, so after entering the dark alley where the Dais house was located, the two of them went directly to knock on the door.
There were no lights in the alley, and poor families usually went to bed very early at night, so there were no lights. The sound of knocking on the door seemed to wake up everyone nearby, at least the Dais family was woken up.
The light of candles lit up in the room, and after at least two minutes, a nervous man's voice came from the door:
"who is it?"
Even where Captain Rades lives, there will be gunshots from gangsters from time to time. The slums where the girl Sophie Deiss and her family live are even worse. Shade can completely imagine asking questions behind the door.
The man was nervously holding a weapon such as a kitchen knife.
Miss Louisa glanced at Shade, then took out a one-shilling coin from her pocket and stuffed it through the crack of the door.
"It doesn't matter who it is. You don't have to open the door. Now let all the women in the house stand in front of the door one after another for ten seconds each. If you can do it, you still have money. If you can't do it, you have a gun."
This is what Xia De said in a choked voice. In this situation, men's speeches are more intimidating than women's.
There was a commotion immediately inside the door, and the whispers of the family with strong accents were mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish who said what.
"OK."
It took a long time before the middle-aged man's voice came. So Miss Louisa motioned to Shade to get out of the way, and she leaned against the crack in the door and looked in. For such dangerous actions, it would be better for a high-level ring warlock to do it.
"Now the first one."
Shade said outside the door, looking at both ends of the alley to prevent anyone from appearing. After waiting for a while, he looked at Miss Louisa again. The blonde girl waved her hand to indicate that it was okay.
"On a foggy night, in a lightless slum alley, looking through the cracks in the door to see if there is anything strange inside...a good subject for horror stories."
He thought for amusement, and wanted to open his mouth to speak, but the reminder of the whispering voice in his ear made him stunned. He looked at the back of the sorceress in disbelief, and then said:
"Then the second one."
The light and shadow inside the door crack changed. It seemed that there was a different person in front of the door crack.
After a while, Miss Louisa waved her hand again. Shade squinted at her back and said to the door:
"the last one."
Yesterday, they had already asked little Sophie about the composition of her family.
There was no problem with the third person. The blonde girl left the crack of the door, lowered her head and nodded slightly to Shade, hiding her face in the shadow. She stuffed two coins into the crack of the door again. Shade watched this scene without saying a word.
.
After doing all this, the two people outside the door left the alley in the night. The exit of the alley faced the Terrareal River. Under the thick fog, the river bank could hardly be seen, and only the ships moored in the river could be vaguely seen.
.
The two slowed down at the entrance of the alley, and Miss Louisa stopped first, still with her head lowered. This block could only be illuminated by moonlight, and on a foggy night, Shade couldn't see her clearly.
face.
The clothes on her body became wet at some point, and her body was hidden in the deepest shadow at the entrance of the alley. Standing downwind, Shade could smell an unusual smell of seafood.
"Detective, please go first, I still have something to do."
Her voice was a little hoarse.
Shade pursed his lips and looked at his friend up and down:
"I see."
He looked down at his hands, and then stretched out his hands to the girl in front of him:
"Miss Louisa, what do you think this is?"
The blond girl with her head lowered stretched out her head to look at Shade's hand. Shade whispered:
"Silver Moon."
The holy silver moonlight suddenly burst out from the fingertips. Even though Shade deliberately controlled the output power, seeing the light of the silver moon at such a close distance still made Miss Louisa scream in surprise.
She covered her eyes and backed away, and when she raised her head, Shade finally saw that half of Miss Louisa's face was covered with fish scales.
He did not run away, but followed two steps closely and pressed his entire right palm on Miss Louisa's face. The latter wanted to scream, but Shade's other hand also reached over and covered her.
into her mouth.
She struggled hard, but was still firmly pinned to the ground by Shade. Her covered mouth made a "wuwu~" sound, and her blond hair fell to the ground in a mess.
Shade's two hands radiated soft silvery moonlight. He squatted next to the blonde girl, and no matter how hard Miss Louisa struggled, her fingers kept scratching his wrist and she would never let go.
Gradually, Miss Louisa's resistance became weak, until she stopped completely.
There was thick fog all around, completely covering the starry sky and the three-wheeled moon. The wind also stopped, as if everything was still at this moment.