Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 361 Planning and Silencing

"But, she...there is no problem with divination. How did you find out?"

Servilia asked rhetorically, tongue-tied.

"Believing in divination will only harm you." Desperate lady Panatia's face gradually turned cold, and she looked at the corner of the stone room, which is the direction of the exit of the ruins. "Yes, my question to her just now passed. The divination confirmed the answer as true, but because of this, her perfect answer made me doubt it.”

"While I was away from Backlund, even you hid a lot of things from me. Although I didn't care about it, it doesn't mean I didn't know about it.

"And Erin Watson... huh, this name should be fake too. Her answer just now was not 'concealed' at all. It was exactly the same as what I saw in the divination. Unless she is a fool, she will face it for the first time. How could the person she met completely open her heart? Such a divination result means that there are anti-divination measures in her body that are above the level of a demigod, and it is undoubtedly the work of an official extraordinary person."

Under the scolding and explanation of Ms. Despair, Servilia, who was chatting and laughing with the "ghost" a few hours ago, already had sweat on her face and her eyes were a little wandering, as if she was thinking of something bad. After a while, , she asked hesitantly:
  "Then why did you let her go just now? When she returns to Backlund, won't this ruins be completely exposed?"

"If you don't let her go, do you have to kill her on the spot? This has a half chance of solving the problem, but the other possibility is to immediately expose our location. If she dares to go deep here alone, there must be some way to transmit information. Rather than alarming the demigod behind her, it is better to let her go and delay time."

"So you just said that you won't start taking action until next month..."

"Yes, this will make her relax her vigilance and even delay the reporting time, which will give us a valuable period of time. You should leave through another channel immediately. Do not go back to the city. Go directly to Edsac. Take Triss away and we will start the 'plan' immediately."

When Servilia heard this, her eyes widened slightly and she seemed a little surprised, but she immediately lowered her head under the gaze of Ms. Despair and replied:
  "Yes, I'll leave right away."

"Don't be greedy for your current identity. No matter what the outcome is, your exposure is inevitable. It's time to leave Backlund."

After Ms. Despair finished speaking, she turned around and stroked the full-length mirror. She didn't see any medicine applied on it, but the mirror was filled with mist and became pitch black.

After a moment, she said softly:

"It's me. The plan has been advanced. Please come to the altar immediately, Mr. A."

The person in the mirror who was wearing a hood and only showing her female-like lips and chin smiled strangely when she heard this.

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After returning to the ground along the original path, Angel climbed up a nearby hill that was not too high, took note of the surrounding terrain, and then walked towards the town where the carriage stopped.

Now that she decided to report it, she had to take note of the location here. Even if "Ms. Desperation" could escape, the ruins themselves could not escape. At least it could destroy the secret plan of the Witch Sect.

Angel had just left the underground stone chamber and returned to the surface. He had already discovered several passages leading to different directions. It is likely that there are other underground facilities, such as the residences of members of other sects, or the detention of kidnapped people. , a prison for abducted civilians.

But she didn't dare to investigate carefully under the eyes of a demigod.

"Trischik... I didn't expect that she would be chosen as the vessel for the arrival of the 'Original Witch'. I just don't know whether she will be conceived in her body like the 'True Creator', or whether she will directly occupy her body... Based on Triss's weird state, I'm afraid the latter is more likely, and Prince Edsac, who sleeps with her every day, may be different from what I guessed, and is just a pawn pushed out by the royal family."

After thinking about it, Angel returned to the town. Most of the residents here worked in the East District of Backlund during the day, so there were not many pedestrians on the street. She quickly found the four-wheeled carriage parked on the side of the road, and the witch was the driver. The peripheral members of the sect recognized the witch who had put on the "Ring of Madness" again, and at her command drove the carriage towards the city of Backlund.

After carefully closing the curtains, Angel clasped his hands against his forehead in the swaying car, put his elbows on his knees, and recited the honorable name of Mr. Fool in a low voice.

"...Dear Mr. Fool, in the conversation with 'Ms. Despair' just now, I learned that the 'Triss' next to Prince Edsac is called 'Triss Chik' by the higher-ups of the Witch Cult. , she may have been selected as the vessel for the ‘Original Witch’ to descend from, please tell Sherlock Moriarty to be careful not to come into contact with Triss!”

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"Thanks, but I already know..."

In the palace above the gray fog, Klein replied with a wry smile. Unfortunately, this sentence could not be conveyed to Angel in any case, because at this time he was the "Fool", not "Sherlock".

Quickly dragging his "prayer image" that said similar words into the crimson star that symbolized "justice", he made a thought, let the thick fog cover his appearance, and whispered in a critical tone:
  "Heh, 'Original Witch' Chick isn't restless either..."

This should arouse the vigilance of Miss Justice. Angel has entrusted her to communicate with the upper-class nobles and report Edsac's anomalies. With this weight, the faction in the royal family that does not belong to Edsac should He will take action soon, and if Earl Hall, whose whole family is a believer in the goddess, knows about it, it means that the "Nighthawk" also knows...

As for me, it’s time to think about how to escape Red Rose Manor. Just now Triss entrusted me to report to the official Beyonders. This will definitely lead to me entering the sight of "0-08" and entering the silence list, just like Tully Same as Mu...

Klein thought as he returned to the real world from the gray fog space, opened his eyes, and looked around.

He is now located in a small forest not far from the road. The carriage that originally carried him is leisurely going down the mountain along the road, returning to Backlund. The Red Rose Manor on the other side is unusually quiet, and it seems that he has not noticed his movements.

"How will 0-08 deal with me? Judging from the experience in Tingen, it will try to kill me using reasonable methods, such as encountering some dangerous high-sequence extraordinary beings, being sentenced to death by an angry prince, or …”

His eyes suddenly lit up, and the leaves around him were illuminated red by some kind of light.

"The sun is getting stronger? No, this is..." Klein subconsciously looked up, and several flaming meteorites in the sky cut through the clouds and fell straight towards him.

Looking at the meteorites that were getting bigger and bigger, even covering the sun, he felt helpless in his heart.

Actually used meteorites to silence them?

……

"Detective Sherlock Moriarty sensed the danger in Triss. He left the carriage, trying to avoid possible murder, and took a small road to leave.

“But the once-in-a-century Dalesco meteor shower arrived on the planet early for unknown reasons, and a small part of it happened to be on the path it left. Yes, it happened!

"This poor detective who inadvertently intervened in the royal family's internal affairs died in the explosion of a falling meteorite, and everything he knew will be buried in ashes."

A slightly pale hand held a quill and wrote quickly, then paused for a moment, as if being pulled by the pen, roughly crossed out the previous sentence, and added below:
  "Azik Eggers, who miraculously rushed to the scene, rescued the poor detective, pulled him into the spirit world, and avoided the shock wave of the meteorite. But unfortunately, this mysterious extraordinary person has not yet recovered his full strength , there was a slight error in controlling the spirit world travel, which caused him and Sherlock Moriarty to fall into the nearby ruins and appear next to Ince Zangwill and his friends!"

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"Trischik...the original witch...Prince Edsac..."

"Justice" Audrey, who was reading psychology books in her study, suddenly had a blurry image in her mind, causing her hand to turn the book to freeze in mid-air.

"What's wrong, Audrey?"

Susie, the extraordinary dog ​​who sensed something was wrong with her, asked curiously. There was no third party present in the room, so it was able to communicate with humans in Rune language.

"Sorry, I remembered something that I must do right away..."

Without bothering to explain to her pet dog, Audrey quickly left the study and came to the living room on the first floor. Her father, Earl Hall, was not at home at this time, so she could only discuss it with her mother, Caitlin.

After the screen faded, this woman who was over fifty but well-maintained and looked a bit like Audrey's eldest sister looked at her daughter with a smile.

"Audrey, what's the matter?"

"Mom, I have something to hide from you and my father," she said very quickly, "I am actually already an extraordinary person, just by taking..."

"we know."

"Ah?" Audrey, who had already made countless drafts, forgot about her "audience" instinct and opened her mouth in surprise.

"I really want to spend an afternoon talking about how your father and I found out through various clues that you secretly took the potion, but now you have more important things, right?"

Mrs. Caitlin's warm smile quickly calmed Audrey down. She nodded and began to relay the valuable information provided by Mr. Fool.

Of course, she used a clever method to avoid revealing everything about the Tarot Society, but instead linked the news with her new psychological alchemy society, so that even if she was examined afterwards, it would be difficult to find out the truth through divination. lie.

You have begun to lie to your parents, Audrey...

She thought sadly.

"An evil god?"

Caitlin's face became serious. Even though her little understanding of the occult came from her secret concern for her daughter, she still understood the meaning of the word.

"Yes, mother."

Audrey was also a little anxious. She didn't know how long it would take for the "Original Witch" to come, whether it was a month, a day, or an hour, but she knew that once the evil god came to Backlund, the number of people who would die would be immeasurable.

At this moment, she finally caught up with the other members of the Tarot Club.

"We must report it to the Goddess Church immediately!"

She looked at her mother with burning eyes.

　Thank you to the leader of "Snow Flower Mandarin"!

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)