Whispering Poems

Chapter 2616: Reversed Tree
"I won't deny that I did it, but there was a reason for it! I'm used to Mia standing on my shoulders!"

Shade defended himself somewhat embarrassedly, which made the girls laugh.

But at least Luvia didn't embarrass the "head of the family" for too long:
"Carina, have you talked to Bella? How did you tell her to respond to the witch of death?"

"Of course they have. Maybe they have met now."

So the family dinner at No. 6 St. Teresa's Square continued in a joyful and harmonious atmosphere. At the same time, in the empty and deserted Witch Council -

"Bella, can you tell fortunes?"

There were a total of four people in the council at this time. In addition to the two great witches who had already taken their seats, their respective apprentices, Miss Matilda and Miss Charlotte Bell, were also present.

The blonde countess complained in her heart that Shade had not visited her these days, and said to her colleagues:
"Flora, why do you suddenly want me to divine a man? Although our curse will not work on individual hairs, I still don't want to touch this."

Flora Winslet said apologetically:

"I'm really sorry to bother you today. There's no need to do a detailed divination. I just want to know what happened before he was twenty years old."

She was also worried that if Bella Belindel divined too carefully, she would discover Shad's secret.

So the Countess of Moon Bay resisted the urge to make a strange expression. It was not like she had not tried to predict Shad's past before, but just like Luvia had said, she could not predict anything.

"Okay, but I'll only do this once."

As she spoke, she signaled the maid behind her to make preparations for divination. Miss Matilda took out the divination cards from the pocket of her white apron, rinsed them a few times, and then handed them to her master.

The Great Witch of Fate, who had a beautiful birthmark between her eyebrows, did not waste any time and quickly spread a whole deck of divination cards on the table.

She was chatting with Miss Winslet while performing the actions in her hands. In fact, she wanted to tease her. After all, she was "teased" by Carina and Vanessa when she was in Moon Bay, and this time it was finally her turn:

"Tell me, Flora, what is your relationship with this man? Don't call me an enemy. I heard from Emma that the Speaker visited you earlier and said that everything was fine with you."

"It's just someone I know. Don't be so curious."

The witch of death waved her hand nonchalantly.

"If I hadn't known this was a man, I might have thought you had found yourself a lover."

The Countess continued to tease, while Matilda beside her lowered her head to hide the smile that was about to appear on her lips. As for the witch apprentice Miss Bell on the other side, she looked at her teacher worriedly.

Miss Winslet raised her head slightly:

"Then let's do a gender divination first to see if he is a boy or a girl."

"This lady has also had divination done."

The maid thought to herself and quietly retreated behind the countess. Then she remembered the "teaching" of the northern maid:
"And I've confirmed it myself."

Her hands were twisted together in the darkness, and she missed Xia De a little.

"You still need me to divine for things like gender? Don't you know whether our curse has been triggered?"

The Countess asked unhappily, rejecting the proposal and continuing with the divination:

"If you want to predict the course of life, water divination or crystal ball is more convenient, after all, the amount of information given by the cards is limited. But I know too little about the man you want to predict, so water divination and crystal ball may not be able to give any conclusions.

Next, I will turn over five cards and use them to describe the other person's early life. If you can't interpret it, don't blame me. I'm just a fortune teller, not a wish fulfillment master."

"I know, let's get started."

Miss Belindel put away Shade's hair, pretended to recite a few spells, and then went straight to turn over the cards.

The previous few times I conducted similar divinations, even with the help of Luvia, I only got two correct cards in the end: "Reversed Tower" and "Upright Moon".

But they alone don’t mean anything. Luvia even went to see Shad about this, and Shad said in surprise, “Your divination is really amazing. The reversed Tower and the upright Moon are correct, but I already knew this.”

Therefore, the Countess felt that she could only draw these two cards again this time, so the divination steps were extremely simple, even unprofessional. After all, she just wanted to fool around.

As expected, the first two cards turned over were "Freedom" and "Treasure", which had unclear meanings. Her intuition told her that these two cards had nothing to do with Shad's past.

"The third card: The reversed tower."

She nodded and made an unfathomable expression. She was a professional fortune teller and was very skilled at this.

"The fourth one: the upright moon."

She put the two cards together and was surprised. After all, she and Luvia had prepared carefully for a whole day to get these two cards accurately last time after the Battle of Moon Bay.

He reached for the last card and said:

"It seems to have worked out. Yes, I feel that the parliamentary venue has strengthened the guidance of fate for me."

As she said this, she placed her hand on the fifth card, and then frowned for a moment, because she really had an unusual feeling. Although she hadn't turned over the card yet, she knew that the result this time was correct:

"But why? Is it because I have been promoted to the twelfth level?"

After an imperceptible pause, she turned over the last card:

"This is the reversed tree. The reversed tree usually represents curses and diseases. We are fortune-telling about someone's past, so he..."

The three cards were arranged together. Although Bella Belindel was extremely confused, she still shook her head at her colleague:
"This divination method requires five valid divination cards to proceed to the next round of story divination. Now there are only three, which does not meet the conditions for the next round."

"Is that so? Well then, it seems that he does have an anti-divination relic. She is really kind to her students. Thank you, Bella, for disturbing you tonight."

The dark grey haired witch thanked him again, looking disappointed but not too surprised.

The Countess smiled and said it was nothing, but unexpectedly Miss Winslet folded her hands together and placed them on the table under the skylight, and suddenly asked her:
"Come to think of it, everyone seems to have been promoted in the past year. Carina, the Megan sisters, Vanessa, and you have all become level 12, and Emma has also become level 11. Have you found any tricks?"

She complained a little:

"I feel like if this continues, even Emma will advance to the twelfth level before me. Oh, Bella, how did you feel when you were promoted?"

"It's nothing."

She couldn't say that she had guessed something remarkable through Xia De's reminder:
"I feel like you'll be able to advance to the twelfth level soon. Believe me, that's what fate says."

After all, Shade is now with the great witch of death.

Miss Winslet didn't understand what she meant. She thanked her again and stood up to leave.

But the countess, who had nothing to do tonight and wanted to have some fun, said:
"I've been really bored lately. The reconstruction of Moon Bay City is gradually getting on track. I also want to go to Tobesk like Vanessa. I haven't been to Tobesk yet, so I don't know how it compares to Moon Bay."

She glanced at Miss Winslet, who stood up and was listening to her.
"Speaking of Tobesk, wasn't there a rumor a while ago that Carina found a handsome lover there? It seemed to be Hamilton or something. I wonder if it was played by her maid with a nice figure.

Fortunately, Hamilton covered it up, otherwise the church would have suspected whether she was a witch at the beginning of this year.

Flora, how about we ask Vanessa to quietly observe what is going on with Hamilton in Tobesk the next time we see her in Parliament?

She was pleased to see the unnatural look on Miss Winslet's face:
"Let Vanessa investigate quietly, such as following Carina, and then suddenly jump out from behind the curtains or the closet when they are dating. Carina always says that she and Miss Servet are just apprentices, but I don't think they are that simple. Vanessa might find a surprise."

Miss Matilda continued to try to control her expression and not think about the erotic story of "the Duchess and the cheating knight and maid". Fortunately, no one was paying attention to her now.

Because Miss Winslet was thinking that if Vanessa really did this, the people she would see hugging each other might not be the duke and the maid, but the beautiful witch and the handsome knight.

Just thinking of this scene in her mind, a feeling of anger that something beautiful was defiled surged in her heart. The one who was defiled was of course Shad, who had an almost "natural body". As for Karina, witches were not rare. She knew twelve of them, and could even see one when she looked in the mirror every day.

"It's better not to suggest this to Vanessa. After all, this is Karina's privacy."

The Great Witch of Death said so, hiding her thoughts and planning to remind Carina to beware of Vanessa next time. The Countess, who was holding back her smile, probably knew how Carina and Vanessa felt last time:
“It’s really interesting.”

"What did you say?"

"I mean fate has given me another hint that Vanessa is going to have a great time tonight."

"Why would fate tell you this?"

But they didn't expect that what Miss Belindel said casually would come true.

Vanessa has arrived in Tobesk for three days. Now the opera company has settled down and will spend the next weekend. The performance will officially start next week. Therefore, Vanessa still has time to stay overnight at the Shad family this week, such as this Friday night.

However, this time it was Luvia instead of Carina who stayed with her. The girl with purple eyes hadn't been intimate with Shade for most of the week.