"It's Friday, the 30th of the month of praying for rain, and it's 6:13 in the morning."
Shade counted the time in his mind, then opened his arms, and amid Helen's laughter, the pair of red butterflies turned into girls wearing black and white skirts, and fell onto the bed.
Their weight is not very heavy, but the vibration of the bed when they fall still makes the squatting little Mia leave the bed and fly upwards. It can be seen that the cat is not in a good mood, but fortunately
This bed was replaced in a previous accident and is now strong and durable, and will not collapse again.
"Good morning, Grace."
The butterflies did not give Shade a chance to say hello. Helen put her arms around Shade's neck and kissed him. Grace on the other side asked her sister to be more reserved and invited Shade to go to Cassandra with her later.
Breakfast at the auction house:
"Good morning, sir. Dinner will be served at about eight o'clock. We arrived at the Middlebury Railway Station last night."
Helen also let go of Shade, with a full smile on her face:
"But sir, would you like some dessert before breakfast?"
Grace hugged her sister helplessly behind her, but also smiled and said to Shade:
"Is two butterfly-flavored desserts enough?"
The butterflies reunited after a "long separation" showed full enthusiasm. Therefore, Shade held the hands of Helen and Grace, carrying the unhappy cat on his shoulders, and arrived at Midhill at ten minutes past eight.
Kassandra Auction House in Fort, but they still made it in time for breakfast.
After breakfast, Shade talked with Granny Cassandra and the Red Butterfly sisters about meeting Miss Feliana on Wednesday, and asked them to help find the "Hope Diamond".
It takes time to find unknowable relics, but there are many antiques related to ancient stories at Cassandra Auction House. After breakfast, the young witch apprentice with flaxen hair took Shade to the warehouse to select. This time, they met
The number of correct antiques is more than all the antiques that Shade has tried so far combined.
But despite this, only one of the "Butterfly Solitaire" effects was finally triggered. This fully illustrates the meaning of "very few items that meet the requirements" mentioned in Laplace Klein's alchemy notes.
What a low probability.
The antique found in the warehouse is also an ancient alchemical item, and it is an alchemical item from the Fourth Age. It can be preserved to this day not only because of the superb skills of ancient alchemists, but also because this item was sealed in an ancient tomb.
, which was not discovered until more than ten years ago.
It is a hemp rope about 10 feet (about 3m) long. It can be controlled with a special technique to bind the enemy like a snake. But in general it is useless, like "living rope trick"
A spell can simply replace its effect.
The real value of this rope is that it was a prop used by the elf hero in the ancient heroic legend "Forest Wind Song". This has been proved by the ancient tomb - the owner of the tomb is the prototype of the protagonist of the story.
Best friend.
Therefore, Shade made a "Butterfly Card" in each of the six cities he could reach, except Tobesk.
"Does it mean that a city can only produce one card? What kind of strange rule is this?"
But the current five cards are enough for Dorothy and Lesia. Miss Writer and Her Royal Highness Princess are currently in the sixth ring, and the trend of mutual integration has been greatly slowed down by the Chosen One Ceremony. As long as Shade can still make them in the future
"Butterfly Card", they no longer need to worry about their problems.
Of course, now that he has arrived at Fort Midhill today, Shade has not forgotten to buy a train ticket to go to the town where Miss Gold is.
The lady's address can be found on the envelopes sent every month. And the coastal town adjacent to Lake Tees is indeed remote. The postman will not even come to the door in person, and the letter must be sent from the "Sark" next door every time.
Rivers Town" post.
There is no direct train from Fort Midhill to Miss Gold's family town. But Shade did not want to take this trip out of the blue, so he made travel plans in advance.
He bought a ticket from Fort Midhill to Astra, the "City of the Rising Sun" on the eastern coast of Delrayon, then changed to a train heading north and got off at the town of Sacrifice.
Then walk or take a carriage to the remote hometown of Miss God.
It was really difficult for Shade to find out the specific information about that small town. Apart from getting a small amount of information from Miss Gold's letters every month, he couldn't even find the location of the small town on most maps - maps
Human settlements that are not at the town level can be marked on it.
He was even prepared to get lost during this trip, and the departure time of the ticket purchased was Friday next week. Seeing that Sunday was the Sunshine Moon, which was June, he planned to meet Dr. Schneider and Ogu first.
Priest Si came back to give some advice to Durut Giles about his future life, and then received a letter from Miss Gauthe at the beginning of the month, and then dealt with matters at home at the beginning of the month before setting off.
"Anyway, I don't plan to do anything else in the next month. This trip should go smoothly, right?
If the road is broken, I can walk over it myself; I can also fly over earthquakes and landslides; if a large number of monsters appear due to unstable space or pollution on the earth and cause the church to block the road, I will find the big witch to join me.
Let’s set off. I don’t believe that this visit can be delayed.”
Naturally, he also told the girls around him about his travel plan, because this was not the first time that Shade said that he wanted to visit Miss Gold, so the girls had no objections. They just told Shade not to run around and go home after the visit.
, and don’t fight with others over the cat’s ownership rights.
When welcoming the returning priests and doctors at the train station on Saturday, Shade even informed them that he was going to travel again. Originally, the doctor wanted to warn Shade that the summer exam week was getting closer. But when
After he heard that Shade wanted to obtain custody of little Mia, the doctor immediately understood him when he thought of Shade's relationship with the domestic pet cat;
"Seeing that you are so determined, I can only wish you good luck. Leave early and come back early. Remember to bring us travel souvenirs."
As for Durut Giles and Rust Edwards, who also returned from Green Lake City, Shade sent them back to their apartment and made an agreement with him using thaumaturgy-oath binding:
"You will keep all the secrets you know in Green Lake City and not reveal anyone's identity. You will spend your life accompanying Rusty Edwards, and death will not be able to separate you."
The heavy oath represented a very profound meaning, but he still held Shade's hand and said the oath amidst the joy of the girl's soul.
From now on, he will stay in Tobesk and continue his career as a history lecturer. Maybe one day in the future, Shade will meet him again on the street when walking his cat. Shade hopes that this is them
The end of the story.
Although the doctor and the priest came back on Saturday morning, they still held a group meeting in the afternoon. Because everyone was out for many days and delayed a lot of things, the group meeting on this day also took a lot of time.
Of course, the doctor will not forget to remind others about the summer exams. Although it is the end of July and there are still nearly two months to go, in the doctor’s view, two months will pass in the blink of an eye:
"Since Shade joined our group, each of us has been improving smoothly, but we must not forget theoretical classes and cultural classes. We are not madmen who only know how to fight and kill. Although the summer exam week is not an upgrade exam, for
The winter exam week is coming soon, and everyone is asked to work hard in the past month."
"Doctor, can winter exam week also be called 'soon'?"
Miss Writer asked, and the doctor nodded seriously:
"For any exam, as long as we feel slack and open our eyes for a while, the exam will come. I even think that this is also the effect of some undiscovered relic."
The other four are just taking part in the summer exam week as normal, but Miss Denister has made arrangements for Shade to jump from the current fourth grade to the sixth grade even though he is actually already in the seventh grade.
As for the study session this Saturday night, it naturally went on as normal. Dorothy went home with Shad after the group meeting. After dinner, she sat on the sofa and talked with Shad about butterfly cards and "
"Mysterious Lock - Lovers in the Bell Tower", he put his right hand on Shade's leg.
"Didn't you say you want to take a break? Teacher Louisa is also giving you a holiday after a long time. We won't learn new stories this week. Shade, can you continue to call me 'Teacher Louisa' for a while?"
?”
The blonde girl asked with a smile, and then communicated with Lesia, and then a pair of small gold-rimmed glasses appeared in her hand:
"This new talent is really useful."
Once you decide to relax, life suddenly becomes extremely leisurely. Although there is still the task of going to Edwards's old house to look through research materials, reading can always kill time quickly. Sometimes when Shade is buried in front of the desk, waiting for
When I looked out the window again, it was already dusk.
The day after the doctors and priests returned, that is Sunday, was the Sunshine Moon, the first day of June in 1854, and the strangers came to this world at the end of this month last year.
But no matter how sad, life must continue smoothly. Dealing with the trivial matters of life, dating girls, reading books and studying, and going to St. Byrons to participate in Miss Danister's elective courses through the projection ceremony, this makes life still very fulfilling.
On the second day in June, Tifa took a convoy to deliver the furniture for Shad's new room on the third floor. Because the room could not be known to others, the maids spent a day decorating it for Shad.
The room was equipped with compressed gas tanks, gas lamps and curtains, oil paintings were hung, and the walls were painted with help.
They even helped Shade move the potion and alchemy workshop in the basement to the upper floors without letting Shade do it himself. And all they asked for in return was that the eight maids and Shade sat around together that night.
Had dinner at the table in the new room.
After dinner, the beautiful black-haired maid went to Shade's bedroom on the second floor alone, supposedly to check the "luminous pocket watch" that Mr. Detective took out of the gift box this morning.