Funina, please let me steal your heart!

Once a day, no more, no less.

Linnet felt something cool and slightly moist against her cheek, and her cat ears trembled lightly.

"...I feel like you'll get so used to it that you'll forget about it afterwards." She said suddenly.

Then he becomes the type who wants to kiss a pretty girl as soon as he sees her.

"can you?"

“I feel like it.”

But there is no girl who has a particularly good relationship with Luna, except her.

The "father" is no longer a girl, but a mature woman. He cannot be counted among them.

Luna said with a little dissatisfaction: "Am I that kind of person?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

"Ugh......"

Linnet smiled slightly, then suddenly remembered something: "Ah, I almost forgot. My brother said he has something to show you. It's a magic trick we prepared. Come over here."

She took Luna's hand and walked all the way to the space below the mansion.

The space under the mansion had been there a long time ago, but it seemed to have been cleaned up by "Father" before they joined the Hearth House.

Nothing was left.

Now it has become a little world for children, where you can see some graffiti and paintings on the walls.

Of course, if Arlecchino found them, she would have to wash them.

"Thump, thump." Linnette's tone was flat.

".....box?"

At this time, Lini and Femini walked out of the box.

Linnie touched his head and said, "The device just now almost crushed my head."

"Sorry, it looks like it needs more debugging..." Femini looked apologetic.

"It's okay, magic is like this, it requires constant adjustment and preparation... Luna, you're here, take a look at our new props!"

It’s called a prop, but it’s actually just a big box.

After joining Hearth House, Linny and Linnet learned a lot of magic skills from a magician who taught them for more than ten days.

After all, what they had learned before was just the basics.

Sometimes the tasks of the Hearth House require children of some fame to perform, and they happen to have such qualifications. Being a famous magician is not a bad choice.

"What a big box." Luna said frankly.

"....What other thoughts do you have?"

“Good idea.”

Linnet deadpanned, "How can a box be called a box if it's not square?"

"There are round boxes too," Luna retorted.

"That's not important. What's important is that we want to carve out our own future on the path of magic, and my brother thinks so too." Linnet said softly.

Linnie nodded and said seriously: "We are 'father's' children, but that doesn't mean our thinking has to be fixed in the present."

"I think 'Father' hopes so too." Femini also whispered.

Their "father" has a gentleness that is unique to him.

Giving them cruel tasks does not mean asking them to become tools without any thinking.

"So what's the result?"

Linnie looked away in embarrassment.

Luna sighed and looked over the box carefully.

"There's another box inside." she said in surprise.

"That's right. The box inside will be the key to our magic." Linnie said confidently.

Linnett said softly, "The box can be lowered or raised. As long as it is concealed from others, the 'transfer' can be completed."

"We can put another device inside to play my voice or something. That way everyone will be fooled. Linnet and I look a lot alike, let's change clothes--"

Linnet immediately explained: "It means that my brother wants women's clothes."

"No! It's you, Linnet, pretending to be me!" Linnie said hurriedly.

Luna smiled and said, "I think Linnet's plan is also possible."

"No, no, no, let me refuse."

Femini covered his mouth and laughed, then said: "But the premise of this magic is 'channel'. As long as there is a channel connecting the two boxes, it can be done..."

Linnet added: "If it's a suspense novel, then something will happen in the passage..."

"Don't be such a phoenix."

"I'm Cat Mouth."

................

Memories of the past surfaced in her mind, causing Luna to pause slightly in her explanation.

She quickly adjusted her breath and continued, "That's it. This is the principle of magic. Mr. Linnie was at the ventilation vent of the tunnel at that time, preparing to return from the core room of the oracle machine."

"He had no idea what was going on in the tunnel."

The audience nodded in understanding.

So this is how the magic works.

It sounds simple, but it takes a lot of preparation to do it.

It's such a pity, it would have been nice if the performance could have gone on smoothly until the very end.

"Of course, Miss Linnet is exempt from suspicion because she has been staying in another wooden box."

Fu Nina asked in confusion: "Who is the real murderer? You don't want to say..."

"The murderer in this case is the deceased magic assistant Cowell! But the person who instructed him is the accused standing in front of everyone - Vash!"

"As a magic assistant, Cowell is fully capable of tampering with magic props."

"The mechanism of the number selector is fixed. It will definitely select number 73."

"Everyone who attends a performance needs to register at the opera house, and who sits where is decided at the beginning. Therefore, the murderer knew who No. 73 was, but still chose her."

"His purpose is simple: he wants to pin the blame for the 'serial disappearance of young girls' case on Mr. Linney and Miss Linnett!"

One sentence after another of truth burst out.

This is no longer a defense, but a one-sided attack and crushing.

The truth has become Luna's weapon, and all she has to do is deliver the final blow in this final judgment.

"Please search Cowell's luggage. There must be water from the original fetal sea in it."

After a while, the security team did find several test tubes.

Inside is the water of the original fetal sea.

"There was a balloon in the magic box, and when the inner magic box containing audience member No. 73 descended, Cowell punctured the balloon with a secretly installed iron hook, and the primordial fetal sea water fell down."

"The girl was dissolved - that's how it should have been."

Luna said softly, "Ms. Chavore, please look around the opera house. Audience No. 73 must still be there."

Frankly, this is not the job of the Special Patrol.

But Xiawolei did not refuse and nodded slightly.

She soon found audience number 73 in a room.

Although her name is registered as "Halsey", her real name is "Lillian".

That's right, she was the girl who replaced Halsey.

Lillian didn't expect to be caught so quickly, she shrank her head.

"I...I'm not actually Halsey. I stole the ticket to get in. My name is Lillian and I'm from Mondstadt..."

"After I entered the magic box, I was drenched with water for no apparent reason. I was so scared that I immediately rushed out the door. Then someone jumped out and tried to catch me."

"But don't look at me like this, I'm actually quite capable. He couldn't beat me, but I was the one who knocked him out and stuffed him back into the magic box." Lillian whispered.

What a lousy murderer! Furninna thought.

Even an ambush can still be counterattacked.

Navia looked subtle: "I was actually knocked unconscious by a thief. I think the guy you found is useless, Vash."

Vashie remained uncharacteristically silent, seemingly admitting defeat.

There is no point in refutation.

Luna smiled and said, "When Cowell was put into the magic box and the mechanism was activated and he ascended back to the stage, the rope he had arranged became a weapon to deal a fatal blow to himself."

"Apparently he was trying to cover up the dissolution as an 'accident', but he was crushed to pieces by the falling tank."

It was the witness Lillian who decided the outcome of this case.

With her testimony, everything Luna said was absolutely strongly supported.

Funina exhaled deeply: "Everything makes sense. It seems that Mr. Linney and Miss Linnet are indeed innocent. The real guilty ones are Cowell and Vash!"

She looked towards Villette.

"I think the trial is over. Mr. Villette, you should—"

"There is another person!" Luna said in a steady tone.

what?

besides! ?

Clorinde whispered, "It's really a complete annihilation."

"Anyone else? Who?" Funina looked confused.

Navia suddenly realized: "I understand!"

"If you want to put the blame on someone else, you have to let them find the 'evidence', and the one who can do that is——"

Xiawolei narrowed her eyes, and she understood.

It's a spy lurking in the security team!

Luna smiled and said, "Officer Vaughn, what is that in your arms?"

"Do it!" Vashie said suddenly.

So what if the true identity is exposed?

He can still bury these hateful Fontaine people!

Vaughn and another member of the security team immediately took out several tubes of primordial fetal sea water from their arms and threw them to the audience.

Finina's eyes were extremely shaken, and she shouted, "Danger!"

Everything happened so suddenly, and Xiawolei, Navia and Clorinde had already set off.

But they were too close to the audience seats. Even if they shot bullets at the test tubes, the bursting primordial fetal sea water would be enough to kill several spectators.

Villette narrowed his eyes and raised his hand...

But at this moment.

Click.

The flying test tube suddenly became extremely slow.

"What!?" Vash widened his eyes, and Vaughn was also surprised.