Mystery: The Stars Returner

Hasta was in a good mood today. He was sitting on the balcony on the second floor, drinking a cold fruit drink, petting the cat, and occasionally admiring the setting sun in the distance.

Since she rejected Mrs. Germani's invitation last time, she has never written to herself again, nor has she visited her directly.

It seemed that his advice had an effect.

Another thing that is gratifying is that Sharon and the others have found extraordinary materials for the assassin's potion formula. All he has to do is go to the Brave Bar to trade tonight.

Hastur lowered his head slightly and said with a serious face: "After tonight, you will no longer be an ordinary cat. You can no longer touch the lust of the world. If you are tempted, you will fall into the abyss. It’s miserable.”

"Meow?"

Azshara opened her big eyes and looked at Hastur in confusion, then raised her head and licked the palm of Hastur's hand.

"You'll understand later."

"Meow."

Azshara turned over, changed her position, and curled up in Hastur's arms.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, Hastur brought a certain amount of gold pounds, and also brought the final chapter of "Pinocchio" that Sharon had been looking forward to.

The Brave Bar was still lively, and Hastur's arrival quickly attracted Kaspars' attention. He led Hastur to where Maric was.

Tonight, Maric did not stay in the billiards room, but moved to a more private place.

Hastur saw Maric and his living corpse, but did not see Sharon, which made him a little disappointed.

He was planning to use the finale of "Pinocchio" tonight to bribe Sharon, build a link, and see if he could sense Sharon's emotional fluctuations.

"Are you alone tonight?"

"You sound like you really don't want to see me?"

"Of course, I prefer chatting with Miss Sharon."

"..."

Maric was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Hastur to speak so directly.

Hastur found a place to sit down, glanced at Maric, and said slowly: "Rosell once said: Smart people always like to chat with smart people, because this way there is no need to waste time arguing with stupid people."

"..."

Maric chuckled softly, "Hasta, you are more and more in need of a beating now!"

"Oh, I sometimes wonder, why didn't I become a hunter in the first place?"

"Hmph, you'd better become a witch first."

Maric said, and asked a living corpse beside him to hand something to Hastur, which was the extraordinary material that Hastur entrusted them to find.

"The total amount is 100 gold pounds. Credit is not supported and cash transactions are required."

Maric spread his right hand and signaled Hasta to pay the money quickly.

"Didn't we agree before that we only need 80 gold pounds?"

"Oh, that was before. Now I'm in a bad mood. Isn't it too much to take your 20 gold pounds for your hard work?"

Hasta smiled, handed the 100 gold pound note to Maric, and then said: "Want to play cards again?"

"Do you want to win back these 20 gold pounds?"

"I just thought I got pretty lucky tonight."

Naturally, Maric did not refuse, and the two agreed to bet three times, winning two out of three games, with a bet of 20 gold pounds.

Unfortunately, the gambling game did not proceed to the third game, because Maric lost twice in a row quickly and returned the 20 gold pounds that had not been warmed up to Hasta.

"Russell also said: No one can occupy wealth that does not belong to him."

"..."

The corner of Maric's mouth moved slightly. He wanted to ask, did Emperor Russell really leave such a famous saying?

Russell was able to get involved in any topic, and what he said every time seemed to make some sense.

By the way, shouldn't I also buy a copy of "The Encyclopedia of Quotations from Russell's Life"?

When chatting with others in the future, if you casually throw out a sentence that Russell once said...does it appear that what you say suddenly becomes weighty and connotative?

The last time he passed by a bookstore, he glanced at it. Such a "Complete Collection of Quotations from Russell's Life" was not expensive at 3 soles and 6 pence.

Hasta ignored Maric's complicated mood. He just habitually placed it on Russell's head with what he said just now.

Anyway, only he knows whether Russell said it, and now he cannot show up, let alone refute him face to face.

After staying in this room for almost half an hour, Sharon arrived silently.

"Sharon, if you don't come again, someone will be waiting in a hurry." Maric said something rather sinister.

"Maric, it seems that you have consciously classified yourself as a fool."

"..."

Maric wanted nothing to do with Hasta. When it came to his ability to talk, he was far from a match for a quick-thinking lawyer.

Sharon's face didn't show any specific emotions because of Maric's words. She just looked at Hastur and signaled him to tell him if he had anything to say.

"I have been forgetting sleep and eating recently, working day and night, and spent a lot of energy to write the end of the story."

"Bring it here."

"What a ruthless tone. Shouldn't you care about my health first?"

Hastur sighed and handed Sharon the completed chapter of "Pinocchio" he had written.

"what story?"

Maric came over curiously, and Sharon disappeared without a trace, running to a mirror alone and reading the story of the final chapter of "Pinocchio".

Without the rules prohibiting invisibility, Hastur could not find Sharon's hiding place, even if it was in the same room.

But after three or five minutes, Hastur could vaguely detect Sharon's aura. He followed the vague feeling and looked into a small mirror two meters in front of him on the right.

Was this a successful bribe?

Hastur was a little unsure. This connection was too weak and he was basically unable to sense Sharon's emotional fluctuations.

He closed his eyes and after sensing carefully for a while, he could barely detect one or two of Sharon's emotional fluctuations.

Happy, excited, sometimes a little angry, seemingly not very satisfied with the ending of the story, then a little relieved, confused...and then angry!

Then, this weak connection was severed, and Sharon came out of the mirror, sat opposite her, and looked at herself calmly.

Is she angry?

He must be angry.

Hastur glanced at Sharon out of the corner of his eye. Although Sharon looked calm on the surface, as usual, the last emotion he felt just now was anger.

Tsk, you are obviously angry, but you still pretend to be nonchalant. It turns out you are like this Sharon.

Before Hastur could be happy for too long, Sharon looked over.

This time there was no need to establish a bribery connection, Hastur could clearly feel the chill in Sharon's eyes.

"It's getting late, I should go back. I'll see you some other time when I'm free."

Hastur chose to leave wisely, and Sharon did not stop him. Maric felt it was a pity. He originally wanted to have a drink with Hastur.

……

As soon as Hastur returned to the hall at home, Azshara ran briskly along the stairs from the second floor, and the maid behind was chasing it.

"Aisshara, you haven't rested yet. It's okay. You can go to bed later today."

Hastur knelt down, picked up Azshara from the ground with a smile, and then went up to the second floor.

He asked the irrelevant maid and others to leave the second floor first, and then came to the room where various potion materials were kept.

Here are some materials for the Black Emperor Path potion formula, most of which are ordinary materials that can be purchased on the market.

As for the expensive and rare extraordinary materials, Hastur prepared another place to put them.

Hastur asked Azshara to stay where she was as much as possible, while he took out the extraordinary materials traded tonight and combined them with other ordinary materials to start mixing them.

During the preparation process, Hastur looked at Azshara many times. Don't eat the food here casually, and Azshara is quite greedy sometimes.

Fortunately, Azshara tonight seemed only interested in the potion that Hastur was mixing.

At first, it stayed where it was. As the preparation of the assassin's potion was completed, it couldn't hold back its curiosity and came to Hastur's feet with elegant steps. It raised its head and revealed a pair of faint blue eyes. Staring at the vessel containing the assassin's potion.

Maybe it smelled something edible, so it seemed a little impatient, but in the end it lay down at Hastur's feet, just staring at the assassin's potion.

"It should be almost done."

After Hastur prepared the assassin potion, he carefully thought about the operation just now. After confirming that there were no omissions or mistakes anywhere, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He was holding a glass vessel with a round bowl-like bottom that contained the assassin's potion. He squatted down and gently stroked Azshara's little head with one hand.

"I want to remind you again, after drinking this bowl of assassin potion, you will no longer be an ordinary cat. You can no longer be tainted by the lust in the world. If you are tempted, the curse of the witch who died of love will be on you. If it comes true on your body, you will be in great pain."

Hastur's expression was serious and his tone was serious. Even Azshara seemed to be infected by this atmosphere and meowed softly.

"Before you drink this bowl of assassin potion, is there anything else you want to say?"

"Meow?"

Azshara raised her head, and her little claws began to pull at Hastur's arm holding the assassin's potion.

Hastur gently rubbed Azshara's head a few times, sighed and said: "Okay, now that you have made your decision, I will no longer stop you. You need to make your way on your own for the rest of the journey. .”

After speaking, Hastur placed the assassin potion in front of Azshara, indicating that it was ready to drink.

Azshara's nostrils twitched slightly, first she sniffed, then observed for a while, and then slowly tasted tonight's supper.

"Aisshara, you are extremely lucky tonight."

Hastur gave a blessing, and then stared at Azshara's reaction.

Azshara could only get through this level by herself, and he could only choose to watch.

According to his observations of Azshara during this period, its intelligence is not low, and it is not difficult to adapt to assassin potions.

But caring is messy, and this sentence is also used on him.

After all, as long as things are not 100%, accidents may occur.