Whispering Verse

"What kind of thaumaturgy are you doing? Can one ring have such an effect?"

Even Miss Louisa was surprised by this. She asked for some water to taste, and then asked Shade to continue feeding the professor.

Miss Louisa is indeed a fourth-ring warlock. She can easily analyze things that Shade has not analyzed:

"Is this really the magic of [Gluttony]? It can actually transform emotions to replenish life energy. I see, treatment is achieved by replenishing life force. The increased feeling of fullness in the body is not an illusion, but actually makes the body full. Status. You can learn it in one step, and it can actually be used by others. At present, the side effect is just that the desire to eat will decline significantly in a short period of time. This is really... burp~"

Shade turned to look at her in surprise and even stopped feeding the professor water. Miss Louisa's face turned red visibly, she closed her mouth tightly and raised her shoulders, and forcefully suppressed the second urge to hiccup:

"What's wrong? Have you never seen a lady hiccup?"

Inexplicably, Shade thought from her attitude that Mia kept burping after drinking water yesterday, which made her angry with herself.

"Wake up Professor Manning quickly, I...go to the bathroom to touch up my makeup, so that the maid downstairs doesn't have to panic. You should also be careful here."

After saying that, he stood up with a blushing face and walked out of the bedroom without looking back.

Listening to Miss Louisa's footsteps retreating, Shade looked at the small water bottle in his hand:

"This is probably a side effect."

It took Miss Louisa a long time to come back from downstairs, and Shade consciously did not discuss the hiccups just now.

Shade stopped after confirming that Professor Manning could no longer drink water. From the outside, his body no longer looked so scary, but the professor still did not wake up.

"Why don't you wake up? Could it be that the mental damage caused by the pen is too serious? Yes, my thaumaturgy cannot cure mental damage."

Shade said, stuffing the bottle back into his pocket.

"I don't think this has anything to do with mental damage. Detective, do you know who you can't wake up?"

Miss Louisa took one look at the professor's condition and roughly understood the reason.

"You can't wake up someone who pretends to be asleep... Oh, I see!"

But Miss Louisa shook her head:

"No, you can't wake up the dead. Since the professor can't wake up, let's let him..."

"Okay, okay, Louisa, stop joking, I'm awake. Young people, can't you leave the last bit of dignity to the elderly... burp!"

The professor suddenly opened his eyes and hiccupped. He got up from the floor with a pale complexion. His legs went weak and he almost fell. Shade reached out to help him:

"Your body has not fully recovered yet, professor. I'm afraid you will have to stay in bed for a long time. You must also be abstinent and not engage in mental work for a long time."

Professor Manning covered his face with one hand. He pretended to be unconscious just because he didn't want to ask this kind of question. He was almost choked to death by Shade's water just now.

"Young man, can you take that pen and leave? You can even ransack my house. Just pretend this never happened and I'm still unconscious."

The old professor's current painful expression should have nothing to do with his physical weakness:

"Why do you have to wake me up? Oh, can't you leave the last bit of dignity to me, an old man?"

His face, which was originally pale due to physical weakness, turned red. Shade glanced at Miss Louisa, who motioned for him to speak:

"Actually, we didn't know you were with a black cat in your dream..."

"Oh, okay, what do you want to extort from me? Take it all, take it all, as long as you don't tell me about it, take whatever you want. I just want the last bit of dignity."

"No, no, that's not what I meant."

Shade explained:

"I want to say that what happened today..."

"Nothing happened. Everything I saw will follow me to the grave! No one should ever want to know what happened today! Absolutely not."

Judging from Professor Manning's current state of excitement, his physical condition and mental state are much better than Shade thought.

"That's good, then this pen..."

Shade shook the [Relic]. The professor glanced at it reluctantly, then gritted his teeth and said:

"Take it, take it quickly! This is yours."

Shade nodded with satisfaction, and then handed the pen to Miss Louisa, who was playing with the clerical relic [Happy Dream Pen] and looked very happy.

He helped Professor Manning sit down on the chair, and at the same time opened the curtains to let in the bright afternoon sunlight. The frail old man squinted his eyes while looking at the sunshine, his expression relaxed a lot.

"Actually, we also want to know, besides you, does anyone else know about this pen?"

Shade asked again. Professor Manning stared at the sunshine in a daze, and it took him a long time to say:

"How can you tell others such a thing?"

"Then how do you know how to use this pen? Did the old writer tell you?"

Shade wanted to make sure there was nothing weird about this.

"Of course not, it was a dream. I suddenly dreamed of it on the third day after I got the pen. I wanted to try it for some reason..."

He was suddenly startled:

"So, the death of the previous owner of this pen...is because of this?"

"If you continue to hold it, you may end up worse than death."

Miss Louisa said, but her tone was completely opposite to the gentle tone when speaking to Shade:

"You should be glad that you fainted just now and didn't see what happened. You are also a professor at the university, how could you not realize how weird this thing is?"

"It's not that I... couldn't resist the temptation."

The professor lowered his head, and Shade coughed to summarize the matter:

"Professor, since we saved your life, this pen will be given to us as a thank you. At the same time, today's incident will be treated as if it never happened, and no one can tell it."

"I have no problem."

Miss Louisa said after getting the [Relic].

"I have a question!"

The professor raised his head and suddenly said:

"Luisa won't tell, but what if you tell?"

Shade said in surprise:

"Why should I go out? You can probably guess that we are not ordinary people, how can we risk exposing our identities..."

"I've seen a lot of things in my life, and you don't have to explain it. How about I give you some benefits, which can be regarded as hush money?"

He probably thought that Miss Louisa had received the "hush money" but the detective had not, and that she might hold a grudge because of it. Shade wanted to be polite, but unexpectedly, the professor directly called the fat maid on the second floor and asked the maid to fetch something and give it to Shade.

It was actually a Rhodes card, and it was a Rhodes card with special rules.

[Northern City·Lengshui Port City], Flower Moon 7. After drawing this card and actively displaying it, if the number of cards in the deck that has been used exceeds one-half, choose one of your cards and shuffle it into your opponent's deck.