Mystery: The Stars Returner

In the study, Audrey and Hasta were sitting on the sofa, enjoying afternoon tea at Earl Hall's house. Susie lay at Audrey's feet, looking at Ai who was curled up in Hasta's arms from time to time. Sarah.

Azshara, who had stolen the dried fish, walked around in a big circle, then came back, openly took the dried fish that Audrey brought specially, and hid it in Hastur's arms.

"You said Susie was awakened by Azshara?"

After listening to Audrey's description of Susie's awakening status, Hasta looked down at Azshara in surprise, who was contentedly eating small dried fish.

Why didn't he know that Azshara could heal diseases?

Did it learn it from Sharon?

Facing Hastur's disbelief, Azshara closed her eyes and was too lazy to explain.

"Yes, Susie was sleeping until Azshara arrived and she woke up from her slumber." Audrey described in detail how Azshara woke up Susie.

Lying on the ground, Susie quietly raised her ears and listened.

"..."

Hastur was silent for a while, and looked at Azshara with a complicated expression, if he guessed correctly.

Azshara patted Susie on the head, not intending to use this method to wake Susie up. She just watched Susie sleeping and her hands were itchy and wanted to pat Susie a few times.

Unexpectedly, Susie woke up at this moment, giving Audrey the illusion she had just now.

"Meow."

Azshara responded softly, and then buried her head.

Hasta did not explain it to Audrey, but just smiled and said: "Maybe there is a communication method between them that we humans cannot understand."

"Woof, woof woof?"

Susie subconsciously tried to communicate with Azshara in dog language. Azshara lazily squinted at Susie, then reluctantly meowed.

"?!!"

Susie stood up from the ground, her eyes widened, and she looked at Azshara in disbelief.

"Do they really have their own way of communicating? Even if one is a dog and the other is a cat?"

Audrey looked at Susie and Azshara back and forth curiously, but still couldn't believe Hastur's words.

"Ants and bees all have their own languages, let alone smart magical creatures like Susie and Azshara."

"Azshara too?"

"Well, it's a natural assassin."

Audrey showed an expression that seemed to be enlightened. No wonder her little tricks could not deceive Azshara. It turned out that Azshara, like Susie, had intelligence that was no less than human.

His behavior just now to seduce Azshara with dried fish must have been childish, right?

"Meow."

Azshara meowed at the right moment, as if she could hear Audrey's little thoughts.

She couldn't help but glance at Azshara, and then realized that she was thinking too much. Azshara just urged Mr. Hastur to give it another small dried fish to eat.

"You've eaten a lot today, and your stomach is almost full."

"Meow……"

Azshara was immediately discouraged and lay motionless in Hastur's arms.

Audrey watched with envy the interaction between Mr. Hastur and Azshara, then inadvertently glanced at Susie, who had rounded her belly, and sighed.

Obviously, Susie was very cute when she was little. She was so small that she could hold her in her arms and occasionally feed her some goat's milk.

Now, Susie's body was so strong that it was difficult to lift her up from the ground.

"Woof?" Susie raised her head and looked at Audrey. The meaning she wanted to express in her eyes was very clear. Is it my fault for growing up?

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Hastur left Earl Hall's house. He originally came to see Susie at Audrey's invitation today, but unexpectedly, Azshara solved the problem by mistake. This saved him a lot of time. I also said goodbye to Audrey.

In a few days, after Backlund returns to its former peace, he will set off to return to South Wales.

Back home, Azshara jumped out of Hastur's arms and accurately found Sharon who had arrived at an unknown time.

"Meow meow……"

Azshara meowed one after another, as if she was discussing something with Sharon, or secretly informing or instigating something.

Hastur ignored the ghostly Azshara and said to Sharon: "This time Maric wants to return to South Wales with us. What do you think?"

Sharon didn't answer, just looked at Hastur.

"I will reject Maric's request right now. He is young and it is time for him to work hard. It is best to stay in a metropolis like Backlund." Hasta said quickly.

Sharon withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and stroked Azshara's little head.

……

At around nine o'clock at night, Hastur came to the Brave Bar and righteously rejected Maric's idea of ​​going to South Wales.

Maric's already pale face looked like a corpse that had been dead for many days and was buried deep in the soil. He stared at Hastur with a resentful look, "A guy who forgets his friends when he sees sex!"

Hastur turned a deaf ear to this, with a natural look on his face. He drank wine while appreciating the quality of this glass of wine.

"You pay for tonight's drinks!"

"no problem."

Hasta raised the corner of his mouth slightly and generously took out a stack of 10 gold pound notes from his coat pocket. Then in front of Maric, he counted ten of them and put them on the table: "This money is enough for you to drink for three times." It’s been three days and three nights.”

"..." Maric was speechless, "Do you think money can make up for the behavior of forgetting friends after seeing sex?"

"That's it."

Hasta made a gesture to take back the money, but Maric was already one step ahead of him and held down the money with the palm of his right hand. "There is no reason to take back the money that was taken out."

Hastur clicked his tongue and leaned back slightly, "I can take back all the water I spilled without missing a drop, let alone just one word."

It is difficult to collect the water, which is normal.

But in this extraordinary world, it is very simple to do this.

Maric hummed twice without retorting, then called the bartender, took five 10 gold pound notes from the table to him, and asked him to go out and shout that Mr. Hasta would pay for all the guests' consumption tonight. .

"..."

Hastur almost coughed out the wine in his mouth, but luckily he held it back in the end.

"Maric, you are such a talent." Hasta expressed heartfelt admiration.

"What do you need to say?" Maric glanced at him disdainfully.

When Hastur came out of the billiard room, the bartender greeted him loudly: "Mr. Hastur, thank you for your generosity tonight."

This greeting made the drinkers in the bar look over, and then the thanks came one after another.

Hasta's face was slightly stiff, while Maric hid in the shadows and watched the joke.

Then he left the Brave Bar under the watchful eyes of the drunken drinkers.

As soon as he came out to breathe some fresh air, a carriage stopped beside him at the right time, waiting for him to get on.

Hastur took a look and saw that the carriage did not belong to his family, nor did it look like it was hired by the Brave Bar.

"Earl Campbell, you are really hard to find." A voice with hidden anger came from inside the carriage.

"Who are you?"

"hehe."

The person inside the carriage chuckled softly, opened the curtain, and revealed his face.

Oh, he is the son of George III, His Royal Highness the Second Prince. What is his specific name?

Hastur thought for a while and realized that he really couldn’t remember.

He only remembered that the second prince once threatened him because of the affairs of his predecessor, the Archduke of Southwell.

"Is something okay, Second Prince?" Hasta asked politely.

Lennart Augustus said with a dark face: "I am a prince now!"

Forgot about this.

Hastur showed a look of astonishment, and then sighed: "The voice and smile of King George III are still before my eyes."

"..."

Lennart Augustus did not expect that Hastur could hold back such a sentence, so that he could no longer blame the other party for his rudeness.

"Get in the car, I have something important to discuss with you!" He frowned and said in a commanding tone.

"I drank a lot and need to go home to rest, or does the second prince want to argue with a drunk person?"

"..."

Lennart Augustus suppressed his anger and said: "You can go and wash your face first, and then you will wake up."

"No."

Hastur refused directly and didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore. Lennart Augustus was so angry that he turned completely black. Finally, he angrily lowered the curtain and asked the coachman to drive the carriage away.

"George III has just died, and I have no interest in getting involved in the internal affairs of your royal family."

Hastur didn't need to guess to know the purpose of the other party looking for him. Currently, he had become famous in South Wales County. In addition, the Archduke of South Wales fell into the water and died, so he was considered the actual controller of South Wales County.

In addition, he is still very young, so he does have the value of winning over.

Maybe tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, when Govington II is free, he will send someone to find him.

He had no interest in participating in such a troublesome matter.

Let people like Earl Hall worry about taking sides.

Sure enough, the next afternoon, the new King of Loen Kingdom, Govington II, sent someone to invite him to tonight's dinner.

Earl Hall, Prime Minister and other powerful nobles all received the invitation.

Hasta didn't want to get involved in these things, but he hasn't left Backlund yet, and there is really no reason to refuse.

Moreover, this Govington II has just come to power. If he refuses, it will give too many associations to others.

Therefore, Hastur went to Earl Hall's house first, and then followed him to attend tonight's dinner.

Even if something really happened, Earl Hall would still be there to discuss it.