Leaving Elaine in the castle to receive maid education, Snow turned around and returned to Backlund. At this time, Backlund was obviously much more deserted than a month ago, not only because no one was on strike in the streets, but also because
The aristocratic class that had the most leisure time was already empty.
Although the social season and hunting season are just customs evolved from tradition, the Loen nobles are willing to maintain the tradition to show the uniqueness of the nobles.
Even if many nobles are struggling to repair their family residences and find it difficult to pay for travel expenses, if their units are involved in this circle, they still have to maintain their "respect", hire a sufficient number of servants, and spend far more than usual.
Travel expenses for vacation, traveling back and forth between the family base and Backlund.
Snow was walking on a street where the air quality had improved significantly, and a boy holding a doll came towards him...
Oh, no, it’s Hugh!
"Mr. Panredax, have you returned to Backlund?"
Xio, who was holding the [Gluttony] doll and preparing to go home, suddenly noticed the face that was too handsome to look like a human being. He immediately stopped and said hello nervously and happily.
"Well, it seems like you've been doing well recently?" Snow's eyes swept over the [Gluttony] doll, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. Xio nodded slightly, and then said impatiently:
"That, arrow..."
"This is not the place to talk. Go to my house to talk."
Snow shook his head slightly, interrupted Xio's action of taking out arrows, and led the girl, who was clearly twenty-four years old but looked like fourteen or fifteen, towards her home.
"..." Xio originally wanted to say something, but he forced himself to endure it and followed Snow through the West District to the valuable mansion.
"Little...meow!" The door opened, and Lily couldn't wait to rush out. However, she seemed to have noticed Xio's presence, and immediately changed the "little dried fish" that had come to her mouth to "meow".
"Give."
Snow didn't waste any time. He took out a small dried fish from the paper bag in his hand and threw it to Lily. He then used his spiritual power to seal the rest and put it in a cupboard that Lily could easily open.
Lily took the dried fish in her mouth and turned into a black lightning, disappearing into the depths of the room, while Snow took Xio all the way to the familiar living room.
Xio carefully placed the doll on the sofa, and then sat down. While watching Mr. Penridax brewing black tea, he said:
"Mr. Penredax, Viscount Gray Lint gave me the arrow, but you were not at home when I came several times before, and your messenger refused to carry the arrow..."
"I know, you can just take that one." Snow waved his hand indifferently, pushed the black tea in front of Xio, and said directly before she could speak again:
"Have you watched "Diamonds Are Forever"?"
"Well, although it is still being serialized, I have read every issue." Xio nodded affirmatively, with a hint of "Sure enough" expression on his face, and took out a handkerchief wrapped in it from his pocket.
arrow--
"Could it be that the arrowhead given to me by Viscount Gray Lint is the kind of arrow in Jojo that can activate a substitute?"
"Absolutely." Snow nodded slightly and said:
"The so-called stand-in is actually a special kind of magic. Because it is very difficult to learn and master, it is burned into extraordinary items. As long as you use arrows and use specific meditation methods, you can get a stand-in.
Because extraordinary people have sufficient spirituality and powerful spiritual bodies, they can obtain substitutes faster."
"So what Mr. Panredax means is to let me use it to get a substitute?" There was obviously some emotion in Xio's eyes, but her understanding of occultism and common sense told her that this kind of good thing like pie in the sky is usually poisonous.
"It's up to you whether you want to use it or not. I just need the ability of a substitute to spread. Whether you use it or give it to someone who desires power, it's the same to me. As for why... I just
I can tell you that this involves a promotion ceremony."
"Promotion ceremony..." Although Xiu is only a Sequence 8 person, her father is a strong man of mid-to-high Sequence, so he knows to some extent that after the Sequence is promoted to a certain stage, taking medicine needs to be completed in conjunction with specific rituals.
"So Mr. Penridacus wrote JoJo's novels and made these arrows, all for promotion? No wonder JoJo's update speed is so much faster than normal newspaper serial novels."
Xiu sighed secretly, but continued to ask:
"After the ceremony is over, will the substitute disappear? Are there any side effects from using arrows?"
"No, I actually use it myself. The avatar is the 'potential' that every life has. Just like every life may become an evil spirit after death, the role of the arrow is only to stimulate this potential. If you
If you don’t plan to use it, then help me spread its power. If you don’t create a substitute, I will give you a mission. Well, I believe you won’t just create a substitute just to increase the number of missions.”
Snow shook his head slightly, and the trust in his eyes gave Xio the idea of "cannot live up to this trust."
Taking a deep breath, Xio nodded, accepting the commission, but Snow noticed that she seemed to be hesitant to speak...
"Do you have anything else to do?"
Snow refilled Xio's cup of black tea and watched as her expression gradually softened under the aroma of tea. After a moment, Xio seemed to have made up her mind and said seriously:
"Mr. Panredax, please assign some tasks to Forsi!"
"Um?" Snow thought that Xio wanted to ask more about her father, but she didn't expect that it was such a request.
As if noticing Snow's puzzled eyes, Xio's cheeks blushed slightly, but she still explained immediately:
"Forsi has been eating and sleeping these days. I'm afraid that if she continues like this, she will get lazy..."
"I remember she just became the magic master? Doesn't she need to act?" Snow was quite surprised by this, because in his impression, after Forsi became the magic master, he went to the circus to perform.
…
"It's a performance, but something happened to the circus she made an appointment with. Anyway, the circus in the heart won't arrive in Backlund until next month..." Xio was quite helpless about this matter. She always felt that,
If Forsi is allowed to lie down like this again, when the circus comes, what he will see is not the magic master, but the ball that the clown stepped on...
…
"Sneeze!" Forsi, who was lying on the sofa reading a book, sneezed suddenly. He almost felt like his brain was going to be spit out. He scratched his philtrum lazily and yawned.
Then he slowly turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall——
"Why hasn't Xio come back yet..."
Modern humans really cannot live without electricity!
