Mystery: The Stars Returner

"You are the one who left endless legends, the pioneer of the steam age, the romantic poet that no one can surpass so far, the consul of the Republic of Intis, and the great Emperor Russell!"

"Ah, my God, I finally saw you in person. You are indeed as heroic and handsome as the rumors say."

"I didn't expect that you would appear in front of me in this way. It really made me frightened and anxious."

Arrodes showed words of praise on the mirror, trying his best to show his admiration for Russell.

Russell clicked his tongue, "Don't be poor, you are a broken mirror. It's not like I haven't met you before when I was in the Church of Steam."

"Oh my God, you still remember that little chance encounter! What an honor!"

"...Speak carefully!" Russell was a little unable to bear Arrods' enthusiasm.

"Okay." Arrodes ended this flattery and remained silent.

"Tell me, where did the master-servant relationship between you and Klein begin?"

"Backlund two years ago."

Arrodes' brief answer appeared on the mirror. Just as Russell was about to ask the second question, he saw a line of words appear on the mirror. This was a question.

"When you know that witches are transformed from men by taking magic potions, are you even more excited?"

"?!" Russell's mouth twitched. He wanted to smash the broken mirror directly. What kind of messy question was he asking!

"I refuse to answer!"

Russell raised his head slightly, and then a bloody thunder descended vertically and struck his long chestnut hair. Russell once again felt the pleasant feeling of electric numbness all over his body.

Russell, who had explosive hair, stared at Arrods for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Are you really afraid that I will just find a cesspool and throw you into it?"

"Afraid." Arrods answered honestly, and then a second question appeared on the mirror.

"What type of women do you like most in your life?"

"I TM..."

Before Russell finished swearing, another bloody thunder came down, scorching his whole body.

At this time, a series of sad and crying expressions appeared on Arrods' mirror, followed by a sentence.

"According to the principle of equivalence, if you ask me a question, I must also ask you a question. This is beyond my control."

"..." Russell gritted his teeth and said, "You definitely broke the mirror on purpose!"

"Is this a problem?"

"..."

Russell said nothing, grabbed a piece of black cloth from the air, and covered the ancient silver mirror.

"I have almost forgotten this feeling. I remember that I seemed to have been hit by this mirror before."

Russell thought about it carefully. He used to use this mirror as a magic mirror to answer questions. At that time, he was struck by lightning many times.

Thinking of this, Russell lifted the black cloth and stared at Arrods with an evil look, "I asked you why you are so crazy about trying to please me when you see me. It turns out that you yourself remember what you did to me."

"Is this a problem?"

"Don't even think about getting away with it. You are really evil in this mirror. You dare to lie to me. Do you really think I dare not split you in half?"

"Is this already a problem?"

"Haha, go ahead and chop me. Every time you chop me, I will hand you back to Klein one day later. You must miss your master very much, right?"

"Please be careful with your words, your thoughts are dangerous."

"I TM..."

……

In the southern continent, deep inside the palace of the Balam Empire, Hasta walked out of his room today and came to the courtyard to relax.

During this period of time, after Russell was resurrected, he could contribute some interesting jokes to him basically every day, allowing him to often stay in the Hall of Stars, overlooking Russell's every move.

"Master, I'm so bored." Azshara, who turned into a little black cat and was basking in the sun on the roof, jumped up and landed accurately on Hastur's shoulder.

Hastur smiled and patted Azshara's little head, "Didn't Sharon arrange some classes for you recently?"

"I don't want to learn..." Azshara flicked her tail, "I don't want to become like Susie, soaking in books all day long."

"And Miss Audrey, she seems to have been stimulated by something recently and has become as diligent in reading as Susie."

After listening to Azshara's report, Hastur smiled and said, "Let's go and take a look."

Azshara lay on Hastur's shoulder and stretched out her right front paw to guide the way. Hastur quickly arrived at the library of the royal family collection of the Balam Empire.

In the rows of bookshelves, Audrey and Susie each occupied a corner, not disturbing each other, and each silently flipped through the knowledge they wanted to acquire.

Hastur did not interrupt, but deliberately controlled his breath and footsteps, standing outside the gate and looking into the distance.

After being enlightened and guided by Hermes, Susie now has an increasingly scholarly aura about her. The pair of gold-rimmed glasses on her face added to her aura of a great scholar.

Just because of his temperament, he must be a college student.

On Audrey's side, she frowned slightly while flipping through the books. When she encountered knowledge points that were difficult to understand or could not be understood immediately, she would excerpt them on a blank paper. Moreover, the books she read were very detailed and basically belonged to the same field.

The sound of rustling books turned Hasta's interest in reading. Since coming to the Southern Continent, he has obviously turned the pages of books much less often than in Backlund.

After watching for a while, Hastur walked to the bookshelf near Audrey, selected a book "A Hundred Years of History of the Balam Empire" and came to the empty seat next to Audrey. Azshara had already ran to where Susie was. place.

"Mr. Hastur, please go to Susie's place to read so as not to affect my study." Audrey said seriously without raising her head.

"Are you starting to compete with Susie in terms of learning speed?"

"Don't talk to me, you'll be distracted." Audrey's cheeks were slightly pouted, like a little bun, which made Hastur want to poke her.

"Okay, I'll go over to Susie's side."

Before Hasta turned around to leave, Audrey put down the book in her hand, coughed lightly and said, "Mr. Hasta, since your arrival has disturbed my interest in reading, how should you compensate me?"

Hasta replied seriously: "Beautiful Miss Audrey, in order to be fair, I will also interfere with Susie's reading and distract her attention so that she cannot concentrate on studying."

"It doesn't have to be so obvious." Audrey's cheeks turned slightly red. "Susie hasn't left the library for a long time. What I mean is that she needs a good rest and can't be obsessed with books all the time."

"This is undoubtedly the right and reasonable decision."

"Really?" Audrey's eyes lit up slightly.

"Of course." Hasta held Audrey's little hand, kissed the back of it, and said with a smile: "Our Miss Audrey should also take a good rest and spend some time with her lover."

"For the sake of Mr. Hastur, I will temporarily stop studying today." Audrey said with an expression of relief on her face.

A few days ago, she actually lost to Susie in knowledge, which made her realize that she needed to study hard, otherwise Susie would quickly surpass her on the road of knowledge.

So she also came to this library and began to compete with Susie.

Today is already the third day, and she does feel a little tired. She likes reading, but reading out of interest and out of competition are two completely different experiences.

But she couldn't take the initiative to admit defeat. Fortunately, Mr. Hastur came here at the critical moment.

"You, you can use Azshara more in the future. She doesn't like to see Susie studying all the time."

"Is it really useful?" Audrey leaned her head on Hastur's shoulder, tilting her head to reveal a pair of bright, obviously moving eyes.

"Of course, Azshara is the one who dislikes studying the least among you."

"Isn't this too despicable?"

"We are doing this for Susie's sake. It is not a good thing to be addicted to books all the time. You need to balance work and rest."

In the end, Audrey accepted the suggestion without much rejection after Hastur's repeated persuasion.

The two of them were in the library, cuddling up against the books for a while, when several cats meowing and a dog barking came from the other side.

"Look, Azshara is very professional when it comes to dealing with Susie."

"Aissala is great!" Audrey showed a sweet smile, her joy was beyond words, and then she pretended to be reserved and said, "I am doing this for Susie's own good."

Not long after, Susie and Azshara came to Hastur and Audrey.

"The weather is nice today, let's go out for a walk." Hastur glanced at Susie and said seriously: "Emperor Russell also has a famous saying, reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles."

"Woof!" Susie, who was originally depressed, suddenly became energetic.

……

At night, after returning from an outing, Hasta took a bath and then fell asleep with Audrey hugging each other.

Audrey snuggled into Hasta's arms, gently traced Hasta's chest with her right index finger, and whispered: "Is Mr. Hasta busy with something important?"

"Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from the person next to you." Hasta's arms around Audrey's waist tightened, "I am indeed making a decision."

"Can't you let go of Miss Sharon and me?"

"If something happens to you, I'm afraid I won't be able to get back in time."

"Going to such a far place?"

"Yeah, Starry Sky."