Shade squinted his eyes and watched as the ship finally turned into an invisible black spot under the moonlight, but then the black spot turned back, returning in the direction of the thousands of souls moving silently on the water.
On the returning boat sat a soul who was obviously an adult, and the boat seemed to be covered with a layer of moonlight.
When the boat got closer, Shade saw clearly that the person sitting on it was the fourth generation's youngest daughter, Maria Edwards, who had been hiding in the lavender field.
But it's not that the soul has chosen the wrong person when it returns. The little figure in the arms of a mature lady is the target this time. The soul of Rust Edwards is falling into a deep sleep, lying in the bed of his brother's granddaughter.
There was no sound in his arms.
The boat touched the shoal, swayed slightly, and then ran aground again. Maria Edwards stood up from the boat, smiled and shook her head at Shade to signal him to stop talking, then stepped out of the boat and handed the girl in her arms to him.
"Meow~"
The cat on Shade's shoulder immediately meowed in protest, so Shade had no choice but to turn his head and look at Sister Devlin, who then came over and took the girl from Maria Edwards's arms.
Maria remained silent, nodded gently to the two of them, and then got on the boat again that had turned around at some point. The boat carried her and once again sailed towards the half-sunken underworld that seemed like the end of the world.
moon.
Thousands of souls shine dimly like pearls, making the black lake under the moonlight not dark at all. So quiet, so still, this is the end of everything.
Neither Shade nor Sister Devlin turned around and left immediately, but watched the boat move away until it finally disappeared.
[Outlander, you have undergone a complete change of life and death. You have sent away a sinful soul, and you have welcomed a pure white soul. 】
"She" paused.
[Your soul strength has been slightly increased.]
"I remember that my profession is a detective, not a mourner. Why does this kind of behavior increase the strength of my soul?"
Shade was thinking suspiciously, Sister Devlin said from the side:
"I'm glad you understand the balance between life and death."
"Of course I do. Isn't Joey Barton the best example? I remember all the mistakes others have made."
The two of them turned and walked towards the tall stone gate standing behind the shoal. The stone gate was connected to the towering cliff behind them. Shade didn't care what was behind the cliff. This place itself was a conceptual place, and there was no point in discussing the terrain.
"What's that look in your eyes?"
After the three people exited the [Soul Cemetery], Shade asked Megan. The great witch of wisdom and knowledge had not yet come out of the shocking scene just now:
"I feel like I'm watching some fairy tale. One person is sent away from death and another person is welcomed. Even if we are magicians, what you just did is a bit too much, isn't it?"
"This is all the result of Sister Devlin. She is the chosen one of death and has this power."
If Sister Devlin hadn't been wearing an eyepatch, Shade was sure that she would have given him a look that was very inconsistent with her temperament.
Little Mia continued to stay at home, and the three of Shade passed through the space maze in the basement, returned to Green Lake City, and then arrived at Green Island.
The nun did not continue to follow the two of them, so Shade and Megan returned to the old Edwards house. After knocking on the door of the bedroom on the third floor that originally belonged to Rust Edwards, the haggard man walked out of the room.
After reaching the girl in Megan's arms, she froze there as if she had been struck by thunder.
The girl who had been sleeping along the way felt that she had finally returned home. In her soul state, she opened her eyes sleepily, looked around suspiciously, and then saw Durut Giles:
"Giles! Giles! Are you really dead too? Father is really amazing!"
She smiled and floated towards the man, and the two hugged each other tightly, and Durut Giles was already crying:
"thanks, thanks."
Shade knew that he was talking to himself:
"I only helped you for the sake of Professor Manning. Remember to visit the professor often in the future. I didn't help you wrong. Next, two of my friends will also take the train back to Tobesk City. You
Pack your luggage and go back with us. From now on, I will be your history lecturer and strive to become a professor before you retire. When you leave this world, you have to take her with you, do you understand?"
The latter nodded while holding the girl in his arms. Shade breathed a sigh of relief and did not continue to disturb them, but left here with Megan.
When going down the stairs, the witch looked at Shade with curious eyes:
"You are really a kind person. In order to see the best outcome, you even have to take care of this kind of thing. That heart that seems to have played a major role in this matter, but you used the 'God Caller'
I asked for favors from the church, but I actually did this for others."
She flipped her hair and smiled at Shade:
"Is it really what my father said downstairs in the morning, that this is all for me?"
"Both reasons."
"I would be happier if you directly admitted that it was all because of me, but I also know that you are such a person, interesting but boring. What kind of relationship should Rust and Durut Giles have?"
"We don't discuss sensitive topics like this."
Shade said cautiously, Megan smiled again, looked at him and asked the next question:
"Then what kind of relationship do you and I have? Is our relationship considered a sensitive topic?"
Shade stopped going down the stairs, and Megan stopped too. Her expression was natural, and her golden eyes looked at Shade. Shade also responded to the hidden expectation:
"What I said this morning is all true. I became a ring magician last summer, and it took me less than a year to reach the seventh ring. I think if nothing happens, within a year or two, that is, before the end of 1856, I will
It seems a bit arrogant to say that it should be okay to become the Thirteenth Ring. But when that time comes, I will be responsible for all of you."
The witch was satisfied and hugged Shade's arm with a smile:
"The Edwards family has become a thing of the past, and Green Island will belong to the Hamilton family from now on."
"I still don't like this title, family."
The foreigner who came here alone didn't know what to say for a moment. Although the "God Caller" did not have his own power, unknowingly, there were already so many people around him
.
Shade went home first to pick up the cat who was unwilling to follow him out, and then had lunch with the big witches at the Green Lake Hotel.
Mother-in-law Cassandra is expected to leave in the afternoon, and this meal can be regarded as a farewell to the old witch. Grace, Helen, and Miss Rita Swift will also leave together, but when they return to Fort Midhill, summer
If De wanted to see them again, it would only be more than twenty minutes away.
After lunch, the witch apprentice with flaxen hair pulled Shade's sleeve alone and asked him to go for a walk outside the hotel. No one knew what they said, but some people saw Rita coming back with a red face.
, and Shade had a hand-knitted scarf in his hand. It was very novel to receive such a gift this season, but considering it snowed a few days ago, maybe this scarf could also come in handy.
Shade was originally prepared to say goodbye to the Hongdie sisters seriously, after all, their relationship had developed further. But Grace and Helen let Shade do his own thing:
"Compared with the past events we have experienced, this kind of separation of a few days is not worth saying goodbye to. Sir, we hate saying goodbye, because saying goodbye means waiting for 21 years. So, can you not say goodbye to us?"
Helen said softly, her tone making Shade feel guilty. So Grace tugged on his sleeve and looked at him with blue eyes from bottom to top:
"Sir, we won't be able to come out after we return to Middleburg. You have to visit us often."
"Yes, come visit us often."
Helen also grabbed Shade's sleeve and looked up at him from bottom to top:
"We can continue to play games, three-person games!"
Shade blinked, Grace smiled and merged with Helen again, and the eighteen-year-old girl kissed him:
"Don't forget your butterflies, sir."
Since I got the key to the hidden area in the basement of Edwards' old house in the morning, I naturally went to see what the famous fortune teller left behind in the afternoon.
However, Shade still chose to go to the Green Lake Railway Station with the other great witches first to say goodbye to Granny Cassandra and her group, and then went to check her harvest.
He was not alone, but invited Meghan, Miss Sylvia, Miss Bernice and Sirius.
Miss Aurora did not come with her. She had to deal with a hidden cave that had just been discovered in the west of the island. Shade naturally invited so many people because he was worried that there might be a trap inside.
"Are you too cautious?"
After Durute Giles moved Rust back to the Green Lake Hotel, no one is living in the old Edwards house. Megan and Audrey will naturally not live here in the future, so this place will be completely occupied in the future.
It was blocked and only a few people, including Shade, were allowed to enter.
They entered the basement together. Shade called out the trap door on the ground in the same way as Sloth Edwards did in the morning, and then inserted the key card in his hand into the slender gap in the center of the metal door.
Steam mist suddenly spurted out from the gap, followed by a series of rhythmic gear rotations, piston push and pull, bearing friction sounds from the ground, and then with a crisp click, the door opened.
"The steam mist is an illusion, and the sounds underground are also illusions. In fact, this is a ritual door opened with a specific secret key."
Miss Benenice said, shaking her head slightly:
"Megan, that ancestor of yours is really interesting."
"It's the romance of steam technology, and I can understand his idea of doing that."
Megan responded, and Shade felt like he could understand.