Whispering Poems

Chapter 2668 Iluna's Vacation
As she spoke, she placed her hand on the hidden fire seal:

"In many 'futures', I accepted the fire from Sister Defulin before her death and became the last generation of nuns holding fire in this world. I can use this fire mark to reversely sense the time you are in. No matter where you are lost, no matter when you are lost, I can find you.

Xia De, I won't care about other things this time. I just hope you can keep your promise and stay with me until the end of time."

She broke free of her coat and kissed Shade again, and Shade confirmed afterwards:

"In your current state, you probably can't exert power beyond the level of Luvia, right?"

The long-haired girl nodded, her purple eyes sparkling:
"But if I really encounter an emergency, I can use some abilities beyond the rules at the cost of damaging my soul again. Don't worry, as long as you are by my side, as long as you still love me, my soul can be repaired no matter how seriously it is damaged."

She spoke the love words that belonged only to the two of them, and the appearance of the stranger was reflected in her purple eyes:

"Please don't let go of my hand, Shad, please don't let go of my hand."

(The owl is resting.)

Perhaps because Shade did nothing before going to bed last night, Luvia suspected that her charm was not working in front of Shade. Therefore, in order to verify whether Shade had "changed his heart", the fortune teller woke him up in an alternative way early Thursday morning, which made Shade think that he was still lingering with the long-haired girl in his dream.

"We are all the same person anyway, so there is no difference."

Shad then proved his passion for Luvia and that he was in good health early in the morning. That was why when Luvia was making breakfast that morning and Shad went downstairs to get the newspaper, letters and goat milk at the doorstep later than usual, he happened to see Iluna coming out of the morning mist.

He then smiled and waved to Iluna, and the 18-year-old girl quickened her pace. Only the cat stood on the shoe cabinet and urged Shad to bring the goat milk into the house quickly.

Iluna's visit that day was, of course, to go to Vista Forest with Shade. For this, she used up her precious annual leave, but at least Iluna thought it was worth it.

"I thought there would be a lot of people at your house this morning."

As Iluna sat down at the dining table and waited for Luvia to make breakfast, she looked around and said, while Luvia, wearing an apron, brought the fried eggs to her:

"Iluna, a lady shouldn't say such things. But I wish you all a good time in Vista Glade today. You two can come back later. I will take Mia to the Prophet's Association to take care of her."

"Need I remind you, we're not going there to play."

Shad, who was heating goat milk for Mia, said that preparing this "cat food" did not require any skills, all one needed was the ability to manipulate fire. However, Luvia just smiled and said nothing to Shad. Instead, Iluna, who was standing next to her, blushed as if her little thoughts had been exposed.

If Shad had not focused his attention on the flames, he would have noticed that Iluna's autumn outfit was very suitable for an outing.

[Praise Iluna Beas's clothes. ]

"Iluna, nice clothes."

Xia De said so, and Iluna pursed her lips and smiled reservedly.

Luvia made breakfast for three people. It was the beginning of the month, and when Xia De was dealing with bills and other letters, he indeed received another letter from Miss Gold.

The lady who came to Tobesk at the beginning of last month said that she had returned to her hometown on the east coast. In her letter, she also expressed her regret for not being able to meet the kind-hearted Detective Shad Hamilton, and told Shad that she might come to Tobesk again around the end of the year, and maybe they would have a chance to meet then.

"Do you think I can see Miss Gold at the end of the year? That's two months later."

Shad asked, Luvia and Iluna shook their heads and nodded respectively, but Shad didn't care and continued reading the letter.

Probably because Miss Gold's main activity last month was to come to Tobesk, she did not talk much about her hometown in this letter, but only roughly explained that the town's grain harvest this autumn was not good.

In fact, there weren't many people farming in the town where Miss Gold's declining family lived. Xia De remembered that she mentioned that there was a rumor that a meteorite fell on the abandoned farm in the town, and since then the farm could not grow normal food.

But fortunately, since last year, the town has been recruiting people to explore the ruins, coasts, farms, and sewers, so at least the town is still very wealthy and "full of martial virtue" after the plague. In other words, except for food and infrastructure, they have almost everything.

Therefore, Xia De was not worried about the wintering there.

After breakfast, Shad did not set out for Vista Glade immediately. Instead, he asked Iluna to wait at home for a while, and he quickly went to the Church of Dawn.

Because it was too early, the church was not even open yet. However, the priests and nuns in the church knew him, so he was able to meet Father Augustus smoothly.

After Shade explained the matter of the "dead apostles", just like what the long-haired girl said in the dream last night, the usually good-tempered priest Augustus actually cursed a very dirty Drarion swear word:

"I can understand wanting to live longer, but someone actually dared to play tricks on you! Detective, come back to me tomorrow and I'll make you something good. How can you let it sleep forever? I'll make you a weapon that can kill it directly!"

"So how strong are the Dead Apostles who are transformed from humans?"

Shade then asked, and the priest gave a definite answer:

"Those things are completely immortal as long as they have enough vitality, so it's quite difficult to fight them. But the most difficult part about them is their vitality absorption. The direct gnawing and absorption you described is the basic talent of cursed creatures like them.

But they can actually absorb life force from a distance, and they can absorb more than one target at a time. In fact, I even know that they can directly absorb the life force of an entire city. "

"Will this make them more powerful?"

"Yes, it is very, very powerful, but it will also cause their appearance and life form to undergo a qualitative change again, so those Dead Apostles who are unwilling to leave the civilized world will not do this easily."

Shade thought for a while:
"Can the vitality of plants be absorbed?"

“Of course, plants are also living things.”

"That's bad. In theory, the best battlefield is a deserted desert with no one around, but there is no such place in the Vista Woodlands."

"So tomorrow you can come to me or I will come to you, and I will prepare a secret weapon for you. Remember, detective, you must not be soft-hearted when dealing with this kind of thing. No matter why they became Dead Apostles, find them, subdue them, and kill them. This is the respect for life."

The relic that Miss Danister borrowed from the academy was the [World Travel Handbook] (Chapter 2191) that Shad had used. However, even though it was borrowed, the conscientious and responsible librarian still did not allow Shad to take the relic to Tobesk.

Therefore, after leaving the Church of Dawn, Shad first went to the Vestal Woods alone. After saying hello to the elf girl in the woods, he went to the city, where the two ladies were already waiting.

After Xia De put the six photos of his home into the album, a vertical blue bright line suddenly appeared in the air, and then the bright line split to the left and right until it formed a complete sky blue wooden door frame.

Iluna, who was behind the door, knocked twice politely, then pushed the door open and walked into Room 317 of the Accordion Hotel.

Miss Danister and Miss Winslet were both there at this time. The former had seen Iluna more than once before, but this was the first time she saw the Great Witch of Death. Her first impression of Iluna was that although she and Danister were both eighteen years old, she could tell at a glance that Iluna Beas was still very young and an immature girl.

Iluna politely nodded and greeted the two young-looking ladies. Behind the door behind her, Luvia smiled and waved to Shad, then closed the door.

The witch was observing Iluna all the time, so she didn't notice that there was someone behind the door. When the door closed, she realized that she had lost the first good opportunity to observe Shade's house. Miss Danister put away the [World Travel Handbook] and said to Shade:

"This relic cannot be used this year. If you need it next time, you can only borrow other relics."

"This relic won't be needed again in the short term."

Shade introduced Iluna:

"You've met Miss Danister before. This one over here is Miss Flora Winslet. Like Carina, she's a witch in the council. This one over here is Miss Charlotte Bell. Like Tifa, she's a witch apprentice."

Iluna then greeted them very ladylike, and Miss Danister and the others returned the greetings one by one. Then Shade told them about the plan for today:
"I'll take Iluna to the woods later. We don't know when we'll be back, but we'll definitely have lunch in the woods."

He had no intention of taking Miss Danister or Miss Owl with him, and they both guessed his intention.

Miss Winslet only reminded:
"I have already found out about the wedding that York Bronte will be attending with William of Anjou tonight and I have also obtained the invitation. I plan to go to the wedding party and take a look around. I have already asked someone to do a background check on this person, but I still want to try to contact him.

Shade, are you going there tonight too?"

"Miss Danister, are you going?"

Shade asked instead, but the red-haired girl shook her head:
"Someone has to stay and watch the tree hole, and I don't really like to participate in this kind of activity."