Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 435

2021-10-31

Chapter 434 The cat in training
Dressing up the maids behind the sofa, and going after Mr. Stein Just like Shade's maid, this means that the three maids were all brought out by Princess from the Yodell Palace.

Mr. Stein motioned for Shade to tidy up his clothes, when Shade touched his collar, he bumped into a furry paw. He was startled, and then realized that Mia was still standing on his shoulders.

The cat was so well-behaved just now that Shade completely forgot it was still there.

"Isn't it a little rude to bring a cat to entrust?"

Thinking in my heart, Shade turned his head and looked towards his shoulders. Mia's amber eyes are really beautiful.

"You must be good."

After tidying up his collars, President Stan introduced Shade to these "VIPs".

Looking at Ajelena Cavendish head-on, you can easily catch the traces belonging to Lazia and Miss Galina from the face of a 16-year-old young girl. It's just that the charm of Demoness is really more than that of normal people, while Laixia is more determined and decisive, and the Princess in front of her is very different from their temperament.

Agelina Cavendish is the girl who was unfortunately injured in the divination, and the back of her right hand is now being bandaged. It's just that naked eyes can't catch the blood leaching under the carpet or gauze, which means it's just a small wound, not serious.

Agelina Princess wore a blue dress, her hair simply tied up behind her back. Light makeup was painted on her face, and there was not much jewelry on her body. Only the waistband of the skirt was embellished with some broken gems, which was nothing compared to her identity.

She was relatively cool to Shade, just nodding in greeting. On the contrary, her friends are more enthusiastic about the detective with the cat on the shoulder, and someone actually mentions Miss Galina jokingly, seemingly recognizing Shade's identity.

Mr. Stein signaled Shade to investigate at will, so Shade asked about what had just happened from the maid and these noble girls.

It's not complicated, the girls gathered together, playing a divination game at the apparently old stone table. However, they did not use the standard equipment provided by the Prophet Association, but brought their own divination supplies.

Today, they chose Huobu, which is to use a brazier to burn the tortoise shell. After the tortoise shell cracked due to heat, they tried to obtain the so-called "instruction of destiny" by interpreting the cracks on the tortoise shell.

This isn't the first time they've done this kind of activity, but this time the tortoise shell just "exploded" when it was heated. It wasn't an accident of the magnitude of a steam bomb explosion, but the bone fragments on the edge of the tortoise shell splattered after the detonation, and then unfortunately scratched the back of Agelina Cavendish Princess's hand.

"Sounds like an accident caused by uneven heating of the bone fragments."

Shade thought, then asked:

"Ladies, may I ask Who proposed the 'fire divination' this time, and which lady brought the tortoiseshell and charcoal?"

The girls who laughed gave Shade the answer, and the proposer and brought something The people are Princess herself.

"In addition to the fire divination, we originally planned to play the Ouija board that was said to be dug out from the cemetery, and the small ceremony on the ancient book bought from the old book stand."

Enthusiastic black Ms. Hair introduced to Shade that this is the second daughter of Solar Count, who looked towards Shade with very charming eyes. If Shade intended to do something with each other, it would probably be easy.

It's not that Shade's appearance is so good that he can easily capture the goodwill of girls. This should be related to the rumors about him and Miss Jialina.

"Although it has nothing to do with this accident, it's best not to try such an exciting game."

Shade persuaded, but seeing that no one paid attention to him, he went to the stone again. Look at the table for the brazier that hasn't been taken away.

The brazier is also made of stone, the mouth of the basin is hexagonal, and there are obvious collision marks, and there are some symbols on the outer surface that look like ancient characters, but Shade can't decipher them. There is a high probability that this is also an old thing. After Shade touched it with his hands, he judged that all the items here are ordinary goods.

He put on the gloves he carried with him, made sure that the cat on his shoulders was squatting there and glanced around, calculating that the time was still far from Mia's feeding time, so he safely burned the blackened cat with his hands. The bone fragments are taken out of the stone basin.

The bone fragment still had residual warmth, Shade wiped the black ashes and looked at it, then put it in front of his nose and sniffed lightly, but found nothing unusual.

"Is it really an accident? President Stan's divination was just an accident, and he was worried that no one would believe what he said, so he came to me to investigate?"

Shade was suspicious. Thinking about it, he turned to look at President Stan, but saw that the other party turned his back to him, talking to two middle age persons who were suspected of being Princess guards outside the door.

"I didn't pay attention to me for a while, the echo of the good past!"

Mystic Art launched, and the girls' voices came into my ears. As Shade thought, this room is easily closed, so the vocals within 48 hours are only the aristocratic young girls who come to entertain today.

It was just those voices that didn't give Shade any further clues. He heard the laughter of the girls in the burning tortoise shell, then heard a clear explosion, followed by exclamations.

"The accident happened exactly as they said. If it wasn't an accident, it could only be someone who did something to the tortoise shell during the divination."

But Shade is nothing after all. A highly professional detective, he has no way to deal with the blackened tortoise shell in his hand.

I took the tortoise shell to my nose and sniffed it again, but there was still no smell. Just thinking about trying his luck with "Echo of Blood", the well-behaved cat who didn't expect to squat on his shoulders suddenly stretched out his head like Shade and sniffed with his pink little nose.

It was probably imitating Shade's movements, and then because of its keen sense of smell, it was choked by the pungent burnt smell on the tortoise shell.

“Meow~”

Although Shade doesn't understand cat language, he can hear this dissatisfied meow.

Shade couldn't help but smile, and raised her hand to touch the cat to comfort it, but Mia actually pushed Shade's hand away with her paw. Shade's gloved hands are now black and gray, and touching the orange cat's head directly will stain its beautiful fur.

"You're getting smarter."

Complimenting Mia in a low voice, Shade put the tortoiseshell back into the stone basin.

Turning around and wanting to go to Mr. Stan to announce his findings, but turned his head and looked towards the orange cat on his shoulders each minding their own business licking his paws, Shade went back to the stone table again to take the tortoise shell Get up:

"Does it have any special smell?"

He wanted to bring the tortoise shell to Mia's nose again, but the cat's small paws pushed Shade's hand away directly .

"Is there any special smell? Except for the mush smell."

Even though the cat is very smart, Shade realizes halfway through saying that he wants it to understand humans language is still difficult. After all, when Shade was talking, the cat was still licking its paws, not caring what Shade meant.

Both cats and dogs have a very sensitive sense of smell and can detect odors that humans cannot. A qualified detective should have a more obedient dog as a detective partner, and Shade thinks Mia is good enough for such a task as a detective partner.

Although she failed to make Mia know what she meant, Shade had a new inspiration.

He walked back to the sofa, stood to one side and coughed:
"Ladies, I think I can give you the answer after a little test."

"Hamilton Detective, what do you want to do?"

The girl with the long hair in the cape asked with a smile. They didn't think detective activity was any serious business.

"That's right, since the tortoise shells and charcoal were brought by His Highness himself, then even if someone can do something, they must have done it here. And things like the black gunpowder that caused the explosion, It leaves a lingering smell on your hands. Nice, I noticed you're not wearing gloves, which is nice."

"Detective, do you want to sniff our hands one by one?"

The daring girl asked, and then actually extended her white hand to Shade, which caused a lot of laughter:

"Mr. Knight, this is really not a gentleman."

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Shade coughed, indicating that he was serious:
"No, my nose is not sensitive enough. I want my cat to sniff."

He pointed to his shoulder, Mia immediately stretched out her claws to touch Shade's fingers, but because the claws were too short to touch, she could only sullenly there.

“Both cats and dogs have a good enough sense of smell, and my cat has been standardized and rigorously trained to perform tasks that his brethren cannot.”

says With that, Shade took the cat off his shoulders. The right hand grabbed the back of the cat's neck, and the left hand was held under it to prevent Mia from falling off due to dishonest tumbling.

And Mia stared at the amber eyes, called out to the human women on the sofa, struggled to find that Shade wouldn't let it go, and then tried to turn her head to express her dissatisfaction with Shade's meow~.

This look made the aristocratic young girls smile happily again.

"Ladies, please come to me in order, and put your hands under my cat's nose. If anyone's hands smell wrong, professionally trained cats, they must be You'll find out."

The "professional training" cat's tail was curled up and its body swayed, seemingly finding pleasure in it.

"Hamilton Detective, I've only heard that dogs have a developed sense of smell, but I've never heard that cats have a developed sense of smell."

On the single sofa on the left hand side, wearing gold wire said the blonde girl with glasses. This is the eldest daughter of the current Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Kingdom, Sir Lewis Ludwig, and is the most quiet looking of these noble girls.

Shade explained without panic, that is, nonsense:
"One theory is that cats have a good enough sense of smell. However, because this cute little creature is not very obedient, So people don't like to train them. But I have professional cat training skills, and I have professionally trained this domestic orange cat. Ladies, please reach out your hands, as long as there is an abnormal smell that matches the tortoise shell, Mia must be able to sniff it out."

These noble girls actually laughed again, noisily commenting on Shade's words.

Shade was worried that no one would answer his call, but Agelina Cavendish Princess, who didn't expect to speak, actually took the initiative to say:

“ Then I'll do it first."

She extends the hand to Shade, and the laughter ends immediately. Shade also understood that Ajelena Cavendish was the absolute leader of this small group. After all, she is Laccia's younger sister, and Agelina Princess doesn't seem to know anything like Shade imagined.

(end of this chapter)