Whispering Poems

Chapter 2676 Trio Dance
The flames seemed to dance with the lively atmosphere and brisk music at this summer evening banquet in 1821. The black-haired lady turned around on the spot and leaned her back against Shad's chest. Then she took Shad's raised right hand and turned back again:
"Don't worry about the ball. I'm already looking for it. As long as the ball is still in this manor or nearby, it will be found."

This thirteen-ring lady had the confidence to say such a thing. Xia De nodded:
"Then I'll go back and tell my companions. They are very worried about me."

He let go of the black-haired lady's hand, turned around and held Iluna's hand. The scene changed to 1854, and Shade found that he seemed to have mastered the trick.

Iluna was surprised at first when Shade appeared out of nowhere and hugged her waist again, but she soon realized that he was back:
"how's it going?"

"I found a helper in 1821, and she will help me find the ball. But what about now in 1854? Should I let Miss Winslet and Miss Bell look for it?"

Compared to the lively dance of 1821, this dance is much slower, so Shad has to adjust his dancing posture.

Iluna leaned forward against him and shook her head:
"If the incident caused by this humanoid Secret Keeper-level relic could be solved by just mobilizing manpower, then it would not be worthy of the Secret Keeper-level evaluation. Fortunately, we have mastered the method to deal with this relic. This was discovered by the Peace Church twenty years ago. The Secret Keeper-level relic [Ball Catching Glove] currently existing in Saint Byrons naturally restrains this kind of hide-and-seek game."

She looked at the outside of the crowd. Miss Bell had disappeared. Only the witch was left, still holding the wine glass and looking at the two with an ambiguous look:

"The message has been passed on, and the lady at the hotel should be back soon with the gloves."

"Well, I'll go talk to the lady from the past as well."

He let go of Iluna's hand, turned back, then turned sideways, holding the black-haired lady's hand again, and looked at him curiously with his rose-red eyes:
"Your talent for timing is even stronger than I thought."

"Thank you for the compliment, but there will be no problem in the future. The True God Church discovered a way to control this relic more than ten years ago. That is..."

"Don't tell me about the future."

The lady who had put away the beige sun hat, which was the angel-level relic [A Dream in the Shade of the Tree], said, her black hair looked very shiny in the night and the firelight:

"Even if there is no solution, it's fine on my end. But compared to how to deal with this relic, I'm actually more curious about what will happen to Danister in the future."

She moved closer to Shade, and the two of them took the same pose as the people around them:

"These days I have been thinking about what will happen in the future that will lead you to come to Vestal Glades together. Judging from the last time you asked me several times whether you wanted to meet Danister, I think I should have guessed the truth."

She looked at Shade from a fairly close distance, with a gentle smile on her face:
"My future self disappeared one day, right?"

Xia De was silent for a moment:
"Can I ask what the time curse is that has hit you?"

Lady Helena Carter still looked at him with a smile:
“I think if I really leave Danister without saying goodbye one day, it should have nothing to do with this curse.

But since you asked, young sir, well, I am irreversibly transforming into a tree. This process is not instantaneous, but happens slowly. My powers remain unaffected until the moment of my death, when my body will be completely transformed into a tree.

This curse fits her identity as a thirteen-ring person.

"Miss Danister and I have investigated from the future and found out that you used a relic that postponed the curse until the moment of death."

The black-haired lady nodded slightly, indicating that it was time for Shade to move:
"Yes, and because I used the relic, its power and the time curse deepened. The moment I die, my body and soul will turn into a cursed tree instead of an ordinary tree. I can imagine how powerful that tree will be, so I will make arrangements for the disposal of my body before I die."

".I noticed you were laughing while telling this."

"That's all after death. If Danister can really find me, please check the status of my body with her. If the cursed tree still exists, please destroy it and don't cause trouble for others."

Her tone was still relaxed, but Xia De just wanted to sigh at this moment:

"Please don't give me such an important task casually. Can you talk to Miss Danister? She told me that she wants to see you again no matter what."

The black-haired lady shook her head slightly, staring at him with her rose-red eyes:
"She is still as stubborn as before, so I have no choice but to ask you to stop her. She is different from you. She already knew me in the present era, but you were not even born yet. If she and I have been interacting too much, will it lead to someone watching us from behind? It's really strange, I can clearly feel it, but I can't see it."

Shade was startled, and continued dancing with the black-haired lady and turned his head naturally, but he also didn't see anyone spying on them.

Then he suddenly thought of something:
"I'll go back and confirm the situation."

As he spoke, he let go of her hand, then took two steps forward behind the white light and grabbed Iluna's hand. The left eye of the girl with long brown hair was glowing slightly:
"That black-haired lady is very beautiful~"

She said this, and Shade laughed:

"Iluna, you won't see us, will you?"

The eighteen-year-old girl nodded and pretended to be relaxed, which was very different from the relaxed tone of Ms. Helena Carter just now:

"Since you didn't come back, I wondered what you were doing, and then I saw you dancing with that black-haired lady. Who is that? I don't think I've seen her before. Does Luvia know her?"

Xia De did not feel embarrassed, but explained softly:

"That lady is now deceased. She was Miss Danister's teacher."

He briefly told Iluna about this matter while dancing with her, and also asked Iluna to keep it a secret and not to tell her unless she asked.

The 18-year-old girl was a little unhappy at first, after all, someone had taken up her dancing time. But after learning the other person's identity, she became sad again. Iluna Beyath was a kind and considerate girl in this Sixth Era.

Then she talked about what happened here:
"Miss Danister has come with the relic, and Miss Bell is here to assist her. Miss Winslet just told me not to move here. She's worried that the relic will keep an eye on the two of us and prevent the [Catching Mitt] from taking effect."

"I see."

He gently held Iluna in his arms and swayed with the music. Looking over Iluna's shoulder, he saw Miss Winslet still standing alone outside the dance floor, watching this place.

She was also looking at him at this time, and the two looked at each other in silence. Thinking of the new spell "telepathy", Shade wanted to try to talk to her at this time. He thought it would be difficult, but probably because Flora Winslet was an owl, this attempt was successful:
"Want to dance together later?"

"Aren't you busy?"

The witch's voice also appeared in Shade's mind, and he continued to hold Iluna and move forward and backward:

"I mean to settle the matter. I have cleared up some of the York Bronte business, and there is nothing else to be done at this party."

"I don't want you to ask me to dance because you think I'm lonely."

The witch said this again, and Shade asked:
"So, you really think that's why I invited you?"

Flora Winslet did not answer, but just turned her head slightly away from looking at Shad, and Shad took it as her agreement.

To prevent the lady of 1821 from worrying, Shad danced with Iluna for a while longer, then let her go and turned around to hold the hand of the black-haired lady behind him.

The night of the summer night of 1821 seemed to be getting darker and darker. The various figures around seemed to have become an unimportant background covered by the halo. For the outsiders, in this era when they absolutely did not exist, only this black-haired lady was real:

"Don't worry about prying eyes. It was my future female companion who saw you."

He explained quietly, and the lady dancing with him smiled and asked:

"Since you used such a description, then the one dancing with you was not Danister. Tsk tsk~ So is that lady angry? I saw that you left for quite a while this time. Are you explaining my identity?"

"She wasn't angry, she was just worried about my situation."

He continued to answer in a low voice, without stopping his dance.

The search on both sides of time and space was carried out "simultaneously". Then Xia De frequently traveled through banquets held at the same place 33 years apart to determine whether the black ball had been found in the corresponding time and space.

In the time and space of 1854, he danced with Iluna in his arms while whispering to her about the Dead Apostles and Bronte, and shared his speculation about Theodore Benn York.
In 1821, Shad continued to chat with the lady who had not asked his name until now about the grown-up Miss Danister, shared the little things about his relationship with the "Red Moon Witch", and even talked about the gifts they gave each other at the end of the year last year.

And the grown-up Danister Gustave was someone this lady was destined not to see.

The light and shadows floated, the night was deep, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The two banquets 33 years apart seemed to have become one as Xia De kept turning around.

This is not only the feeling of Shad himself, nor is it just the feeling of Iluna who has a strange left eye that can see the past, but also the feeling of the Great Witch of Death in 1854.