Miss Galina briefly introduced, and then saw Xia De still looking at her.
"What's wrong?"
the Duchess asked curiously.
"Is it just tutors and personal doctors? I thought that the great witches all have very prominent secular identities."
Shad cites:
"You are the duke with a fief in De La Rion. The Aurora family is famous for their marine business, and the Cassandra Auction House is known to almost everyone in the Old Continent. That Miss Sylvia is just the tutor of the royal family. That's all? Then how does she afford the daily expenses? Will the council also reimburse the witches for their research and study expenses?"
Miss Galina was amused by Xia De:
"Sylvia is a girl from a commoner background. Her teacher, the witch who passed away due to an experimental accident three years ago, left her a wealth of property, enough to support her expenses for nearly ten years. As for the future, adult People have to be responsible for themselves, and the parliament does not pay living expenses."
Xia De is very curious about this great witch who is at the bottom of the parliament, but it will take half a month before the foreign delegation visits. As for the fact that the princess I met in Mibao also has witch power, Ms. Galina has investigated, but to no avail:
"We don't have the right to ask other people's followers, oh, Your Excellency the Speaker has the power. But that princess can't be Sylvia's apprentice, Sylvia is still too young, before she masters her own power , the speaker forbade her to have her own apprentice. Besides, do you think it is so easy to find a ring warlock who has space talent and is also suitable for witch power?"
The red-haired duchess said before Shad spoke:
"Of course, you don't count. Besides, you also said that the princess of the Anjou family has very little witch power. I think Sylvia just developed her into a follower. As for whether this has other deep meanings , I don’t know for now.”
As he spoke, he signaled Xia De to follow her to the stables to choose some horses. Miss Galina once said that she would teach Xia De how to ride a horse. Seeing that the time has come to late autumn, if you don't learn it, you will have no chance this year.
Of course, Xia De not only wants to learn horse riding from the Duchess, but also plans to learn simple knitting skills from Tifa. For this week's gift box assignment, he plans to make a scarf himself. If it fails, or if you can't finish it in a week, you can sew the finished product into a cat litter, and the cat may like it.
The time came to Friday, officially entering the penultimate month of the year, the first day of the Frost Moon.
There are many things to deal with at the beginning of a new month, such as steam bills, gas bills, taxes, newspaper advertising fees, and so on.
When Shad went to the "Urban Garbage Disposal Management Center" in the West District of Tobesque to collect the salary of MI6 and made a reasonable expense reimbursement, Mr. Johnson, who was in charge of receiving Shad, also revealed that Margaret Anjou was about to Visiting news.
Of course, he didn't know as much as Miss Galina, he just heard that Xia De would be entrusted with an important task.
Shade spent the whole morning of Friday running around the city, and went to Coldwater Harbor in the afternoon, combining the legends he heard from Sister Devlin, and asked Mr. Edmund about the stories about gods and saints. Of course, Shad did not forget that the knowledge about time perception left by the old **** [Grey Robe Sage] may now be in St. Mr. Mond was looking for information about the disciples of [Grey Robe Sage] and time perception in the monastery.
After dealing with these matters, Xia De has no other important matters in his hands until the next time key is opened.
He returned home with this thought, and then met a long-lost client to visit.
Obviously Xia De is just an ordinary detective, but the old Mr. Hank who lives in the southern part of Tobesk who came to ask for help after seeing a detective advertisement in the newspaper, wants to entrust Shade to investigate the haunting of his home.
Mr Hank is a retired accountant who used to do the small job of accounting for City Hall. He has been going on for a week, and every night when he closes his eyes, he can hear faint breaths and hoarse, indistinguishable whispers in his ears. After I couldn't stand it anymore, I decided to find a detective to solve it:
"I always thought that insomnia was just a mental illness of idlers, but now I know, it's really tormenting."
Old Mr. Hank was in a very exhausted state of mind.
The strange voice in his ear is not that he is going to become a Ring Warlock, Shade is sure of that. If the haunting is true, Xia De would like to introduce him to Priest Augustus, because he is only responsible for the cases of living people; The problem.
The other party is not even considered an evil spirit, even if it is left alone for a few weeks, it will disappear. Borrowing the ability of [Soul Echo], Xia De obtained part of the memory of the soul by touching the soul, and thus learned that the soul was a friend of Mr. Hank during his lifetime. After death, he worried that Mr. Hank who lived alone would be just like himself, lonely The dead body was not collected at home, so it appeared here.
"It turns out that this era also has the problem of elderly people living alone."
Xia De in the bedroom looked at Mr. Hank who was preparing tea for himself in the kitchen, and couldn't help sighing in his heart.
The next thing was much simpler. Shade asked more detailed information about the so-called "haunted" incident, and then pretended to search around the house, asking Mr. Hank if he had been to the cemetery recently. Before leaving, he got a The identities of old Mr. Hank's acquaintances.
"Detective, do you really think this is... haunted?"
The old man looked like he wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.
"It's not sure yet, but I really think you need to go to church and say your prayers, it will at least put you in a better mood."
On Saturday morning, Shade visited Mr. Hank's acquaintances one by one as planned, and was "surprised" to find that Mr. Kant, who lived in the University District of Tobesk, died at home.
Because the weather has turned cold recently, and Mr. Kant lived alone, the neighbors did not find that the old man had died. It was still Detective Hamilton's cat with a keen sense of smell. When Detective Hamilton was about to give up knocking on the door, it suddenly barked. The witty and brave Detective Hamilton realized that there might be a problem in the house.
The police from Ridwich Field arrived soon, and Shade's client, Mr. Hanke, also came after hearing the news. He was not able to enter the apartment, nor was he able to see the body. The police let Mr. Hank know something about the case for the sake of "Hamilton of Reggie".
Xia De's client, with a pale face, roughly guessed the truth about the haunting in the house, with some rough lips trembling slightly, and left there together with Xia De:
"To be crushed to death by a collapsing bookshelf at home, and to be buried among books is such a tragedy."
He muttered to himself, and Shad offered advice again:
"Mr. Hank, I think this entrustment is probably over. If you need it, you can go to the Church of Dawn for help. The clergy there are very professional."
Xia De still remembered that he was a believer of Dawn in name, and he pretended to draw a holy emblem on his chest.
Mr. Hank sighed and nodded:
"Detective, I will remit the final payment to you tomorrow. I really didn't expect such a thing... Tell me, are there really ghosts in this world?"
Mr. Hank said softly, devastated by the death of his best friend. Of course, the old man had doubts about the existence of ghosts, otherwise he would not have entrusted Xia De in the first place. But now seeing the dead body and thinking about the experience every night, the idea that I have been holding on to in my heart has finally been shaken.
"I don't know either."
Xia De shook his head slightly, and a chuckle immediately sounded in his ears, but he ignored it.
Although the long-lost entrustment didn't make Shade earn too many gold pounds, at least the story was good. During a meeting at Dr. Schneider's that afternoon, Shade told Dorothy about the commission.
Because Priest Augustus will probably come back tomorrow ~www.mtlnovel.com~ So there are still only four people in the meeting today.
Dorothy and Luvia sat on the couch, and Shad and Dr. Schneider sat on the short sofas on either side. Shade didn't know if Dorothy had talked to Luvia in private, but at least they seemed to get along very well today.
Even after the day's study session ended with Dr. Schneider repeatedly emphasizing the importance of the next month's upgrade exam, the blond-haired female writer actually went to the city to buy clothes with the purple-eyed female fortune-teller. Winter is just around the corner, and decent ladies should think ahead about their winter outfits. In the past, Luvia and Dorothy often shopped for clothes together, but since what happened last Saturday, every time the two of them appeared together, the guilt and worry in Xia De's heart would emerge together.
Luvia already knew Shade's greed and accepted this fact. But what Dorothy and Rezia think, and what attitude they have towards Luvia, Xia De wants to find out as soon as possible.
But this Saturday at least, Shade was rarely able to spend time with Dorothy. He originally wanted to inquire about the next step of the Saturday night class, the promotion to the fourth ring, and the [Power] spirit rune has become the key now. But at least it is not difficult to obtain this spirit rune, because almost two-thirds of the ring magicians have this spirit rune, and [Power] can be associated with a large number of thaumaturgy, such as the [Here] in Xia De's hand. Dun Fayin].