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The surprise about Chuxue in the courtyard has spread, and the people by the window of the banquet hall have also spread the news. People poured out of the buildings, or stood at the windows, marveling at the first snow of the year.
For the princess' wedding, this is probably a very good gift.
Seeing that there were too many people seeing snow, Xia De planned to find his own cat, and let the cat who had never seen snow since its birth see what snow looks like.
But before turning around, the whispering voice in the ear reminded:
[Your dance partner has arrived. 】
"Shad!"
The right shoulder was patted from behind, and Xia De turned from the right to look behind him, but he didn't see anyone. Only then did she look to the left again, Iluna smiled and stood in the crowd looking at him with her hands behind her back.
Although she appeared at this banquet, her clothes were clearly not for the banquet. The clothes are very close-fitting, and the whispering elements brought by the various relics can be easily detected, and there are also bulging spell-casting materials in the waist pocket.
"Xia De, I knew it was you."
The seventeen-year-old girl said with a smile in the dimly lit place.
"Iluna? Why are you here?"
Xia De asked unexpectedly, but there was also a smile on his face, and he was very happy to see Iluna here at the moment.
"Oh, it's not about Schluchsee. I was planning to rest at home, but I was urgently notified by the church to leave. After I came here with the captain, Mr. Robinson, in a carriage, everything was over."
She lowered her voice and pointed to the direction of Schluchsee behind the manor, but people were all looking at the snow, but no one cared about them:
"'Sunshine Great Sword' Mr. Randall arrived tens of minutes earlier than me. Besides him, Miss Green, the ten-ring magician of the church, has also arrived, so I don't need me by the lake.
She still had her hands behind her back, her shoes were rubbing against the ground, she dodged her gaze at Xia De, her face was slightly red:
"I knew you were here. Since I don't need me by the lake, I wondered if I could find you."
She pointed to the first floor of the mansion where dance music was being played:
"It's really lively here. I can't enter the house in this kind of dress, so I just thought about walking around in the courtyard and garden. It just snowed, and I guess you will come out to see the snow. Look, I really met You... the dance music is really good, I thought you would dance in it with other people."
When he said the second half of the sentence, his eyes moved aside, as if he was interested in the masked children who were holding a windmill and running in the snow.
[Look, I just said that your dance partner has arrived. 】
"She" reminded again.
Although Iluna didn't say it, Xia De already knew what he was going to do.
He stretched out his hand and asked softly:
"Ma'am, would you like to dance together?"
"Of course, yes, I happen to have time."
Iluna said, hiding her smile, but shaking her head suddenly:
"I still don't want to go to the banquet hall, my clothes don't fit, and I'm here to perform a mission after all."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Xia De expectantly, Xia De nodded:
"Then change the place, let me think about it... Let's go to the Hedge Maze, there are few people there. We can pick a location close to the mansion, and we should be able to hear the music."
"OK."
Iruna nodded immediately.
So in the fine snow, they walked from the front courtyard of Lake View Manor to the rear garden along the courtyard path. At this time, the night was getting darker, because there was no activity in the garden, and the lake was temporarily blocked by the church unreasonably, so most of the guests gathered in the mansion and the front courtyard, and there were no people in the garden.
Entering the hedge maze, between the tall hedges on both sides, they found a position that was just illuminated by the moonlight, and the tiny snowflakes were particularly conspicuous in the light.
"Look, it's like the center of the stage!"
Iluna said with a smile.
"Wait a minute."
He stopped holding Iluna's hand, and raised his right index finger in a place where the lights were not lit:
"Look!"
A red butterfly flew out from the fingertips, and while flying around Iluna, a bright red silk thread was drawn behind her. As the butterfly fluttered, the light blue ball gown was woven on Iluna's body inch by inch until the butterfly flew to her head and turned into a red hair ornament.
"It's so beautiful! You can dance like this!"
Xia De sighed in admiration, quite satisfied with his [Red Butterfly Illusion Technique]. Although this kind of illusion can be easily seen through, it is not very meaningful for camouflage in crowded places, but it is suitable for the current occasion.
Iluna bit her lip and looked at the skirt on her body, and then touched the hair accessories on her hair, regretting that she didn't make up before going out.
"Speaking of which, my illusion has never been used like this...and this."
Xia De's right index finger moved slightly again, densely packed red butterflies flew out from his sleeve, and flew towards the snow-falling moonlight.
"I still have great confidence in illusion."
Xia De said with a smile, then bowed slightly to Iluna, stretched out his right hand, and the seventeen-year-old girl stretched out her hand to reach it.
The two came together under the quiet moonlight of falling snow, and the chosen one and the outsider were ready to dance to the faint dance music.
Iluna looked at the face of Xia De who was close at hand, and reminded with a reddish face:
"Don't tell Luvia about this."
"Why?"
"She might think that I took this task specially to come to you to dance."
Iluna argued, looked at the dark hedges around her, and signaled Shad to start.
But Xia De did not take a step immediately, but thought for a while and said:
"I got in touch with the power again tonight, so maybe I can try to activate the illusion with all my strength. You see, this place is really too small."
"You want to rearrange the stage?"
Iruna asked.
"Yes, rearrange. Now, Iruna, please close your eyes and spin with me~"
He hugged the seventeen-year-old girl, who also closed her eyes with a smile, only feeling the cold snow touch her forehead. When the two spun around for three weeks, she heard Xia De whispering:
"Please open your eyes."
"oh!"
What came into my eyes was the endless wilderness under the moon, and above Luoxue's head was the huge moon disk that looked like it was about to fall. The two were standing on the ridge of the field at this time, surrounded by red butterflies under the moon, and the red light spots added more brilliant colors to the quiet wilderness under the moon.
This is Xia De using the spell [Red Butterfly Illusion] with all his strength, because the illusion only works on him and Iluna, so there is no need to worry about being discovered. Of course, this scene can be so real because it is a dream scene that Xia De will never forget.
He no longer knows how many nights he watched this scene alone in his dreams.
"Shad..."
Iluna blushed and looked at everything around her, Xia De asked:
"its not bad, right?"
With a sudden force with his right hand, Iluna walked out of his arms. Then, accompanied by the dance music, the two began to dance with the red butterfly on the field ridge under the moonlight in the snow-falling wilderness.
During this period, Iluna blushed all the time, as if she was afraid to look into Xia De's eyes. At the end of the song, the lingering rhyme of the piano sound had not dissipated, and the two looked up together to see the group of red butterflies flying towards the silver moon in the sky, casting their last brilliance in the snow.
"How about it?"
Xia De intentionally wanted to show off that his dancing skills had also improved, but Iluna probably got it wrong, and suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed Xia De's side face.
She kissed Shad's left cheek, not the right cheek that Tifa had kissed.
Iluna jumped back blushing, separated from Shad, then put her hands behind her back, turned her back to Shad and looked at the scene of the hedge maze of reality gradually fading in the distance:
"Very well, knight."
She said softly, and then turned her head to look at Xia De:
"Don't tell Luvia about this... If there is a 'Prom Queen' for this ball, you will definitely be elected. Although I was not invited, this is the most perfect ball I have ever experienced .”
After finishing speaking, she touched her pocket, but couldn't find anything suitable, so she took off the silk scarf she was wearing and threw it to Xia De:
"It's a pity I don't need garters for this dress."
He lowered his head and watched regretfully that the illusion dress on his body was also disappearing, then waved to Xia De, and then briskly left from the edge of the illusion, disappearing at the corner of the hedge maze.
"Prom Queen, isn't that what girls are called?"
The field under the moon in Shad's vision collapsed, and the scene of the hedge maze in the garden appeared. The snow falls on the shoulders and melts quickly, it is not yet the season for snow to form.
[Outlander~www.mtlnovel.com~ You successfully proved your charm at the banquet. 】
"She" reminded softly.
Xia De looked suspiciously at the silk scarf in his hand:
"Why? I invited beautiful girls to dance together in front of so many people, but I didn't prove my charm, but I danced with Iluna alone, just..."
[Because you invited the real protagonist on the most gorgeous stage. 】
"The main character?"
Xia De nodded, folded the silk scarf and put it in his pocket, and put it together with the pink silk scarf thrown by Miss Galina just now.
Looking up at the moon, sighing and shaking his head, he walked towards the lake view manor house in the light.
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ps: There is one more chapter to end this banquet. Although the banquet is very long, it basically describes the style of the noble banquet in this era, the main and branch lines, the changes in the favorability of the girls, and Xia De's gains. Although there are many chapters occupying this volume, they are all worthwhile.