They came to the palace without any hindrance along the way. After the so-called meeting began, Danica followed the other nobles inside, except Samuel standing alone.

I don't know how long I stood there, but when I was tired of standing, I wanted to find a place to sit down, and after a while, someone came over and saw his movements, frowning and trying to remind him that the stone steps were not a place to sit. Seeing him stand up, he still snorted and walked away.

This happened one after another, and when I saw those guys, my mood fell to the bottom.

“……”

He looked around, and Samuel didn't know it was the first yawn.

My feet were also tired, so I had to rub my knees or try to sit down and rest while people were not looking.

He laughed at himself, "I'm the only one who can adapt to this kind of work." ”

It wasn't until a few hours later, when Danica came out with the other nobles, that Samuel stepped forward.

"Great, you're here, I'm honestly a little worried about if something will happen to you!"

"Something?"

Samuel glanced at her, and when he came in the morning, he was really surprised, and thought that what the protector had said was just an exaggeration. As a result, on the road, every time I met someone, I showed them a very disgusted look, or turned a blind eye.

Not only the nobles who took the trouble to dress up, but even some people who didn't seem to be of much status also sneered at them. And this object of protection is very accustomed to this kind of thing.

"Looks like it's fine. ”

Danica shook her head, there have been times when old Dawn was ordered by someone to do this and that before, and when the meeting was over, no one was seen, and he stayed in the palace until dark and searched for a long time before he found Dawn.

However, Vance also came, and this kind of thing never happened again.

Samuel was here for the first time, and was somewhat relieved.

"The discussion is not over so soon, I have some food here, let's eat a little first, it will be uncomfortable in the afternoon." ”

"Thanks, to be honest, I really admire your dealings with these people. ”

"These people?"

Samuel gestured to the nobles who were walking away, presumably somewhere to enjoy their lunch. And he and Danica could only stand under the tree and nibble on rusks.

"I can't help it! Actually, I've always thought their heads were weird!"

Samuel suddenly had a strange expression, it was the first time he had heard such a statement.

Then, he nodded, "I think so too." ”

******

At the end of the day, Hima and Lilil returned to the inn with nothing to gain, disappointed.

Not long after returning to the hotel, Danica and Samuel also returned, and they met in the restaurant.

"I'm starting to want to go to sleep. ”

Danica said to them, "I'm going to find the next Vance, you can order something to eat first." ”

She immediately went to Vance's room, knocked on the door, and went to knock on Path's room.

"Sure enough, they didn't come back......"

"I'm so stupid, how can I ...... at this time?"

Shaking her head, Danica turned to leave the place and walk towards the inn door. Before she could get to the door, someone stopped her.

"Where are you going?"

"I'll go out a little bit, you don't have to come with me like you did during the day, I'll be right back. ”

"It's hard to say, especially at night, and I don't want this mission to fail. ”

"What meow, what meow, meow to get out?!"

"What's going on?"

Hima and Lilil walked over with each hand grabbing the grilled fish and eating it.

"Well, I throw in the towel. ”

There is no point in denying their protection here, but rather that something is better than nothing.

"I'd like to go to the Temple Branch to see how Paz is doing, at least I think the path to the Branch is safe, but I hope you'll come along. ”

When she arrived at the temple branch, Danica asked Vance and Paz about it.

The young knight shook his head and told them, "There are no two men here. ”

"Meow! You should remember my meow! We've all been here before! We're not unrelated!"

Standing behind Danica, almost blocked, Hima poked her head out and shouted, "This Terran lady is not unrelated meow!

"Meow who doesn't believe it, Himma can try again! Meow who wants to test Himma's magic?!"

"Don't, don't!"

"Okay, I'll take you inside. ”

The knight's attitude softened, and he immediately agreed to their request.

"I ask you not to trouble us here, besides you, there are many guests here, can the movement be smaller?"

The knight clasped his hands together and pleaded sincerely.

“…… I'm a little weird. ”

Why hide the fact that Vance and Paz are not here?

It wasn't until she walked where there was no one else but them that Danica asked the knight.

"I've just been told to keep it a secret, and it's best to let the person concerned tell you about it. ”

"Meow...... Actually, Jima also thinks she can't figure it out!"

"Don't brush up on your presence here. ”

"I want you to take care of meow!"

"Calm down, don't meow here. ”

In a spacious, bright room filled with the smell of herbs, Danica finally met Vance and Path.

"I've brought them here, Lord Vance. ”

Vance nodded, and turned around, his face a little haggard.

There were several beds in this room, and there were other people besides Paz lying on the beds.

However, apart from the lying people, there was only Vance.

Danica took a deep breath and looked up to ask him.

"What is the situation, I ask you to report it to me in detail, word for word. ”

"Let's start by stating that we are not suspicious people, and we can swear to the gods of the four directions that we will not tell anyone anything we hear here. ”

Seeing Vance's gaze fall on him, Samuel immediately said, "You may not know that this cat lady behind me is a disciple of the former head priest of the Vermilion Bird Temple, Lolog, and her magic is not inferior. ”

"Meow! Thank you for explaining, that's right, I'm a disciple of Lolog, this wand is the secret weapon of our cat tribe, the staff of nature, like the inheritance of the temple, is also a meow that has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years!"

Hima pulled out the Staff of Nature, visibly proud.

"I can vouch for them. ”

Suddenly, someone opened the door and walked in, and a sudden voice burst into their conversation.

Everyone turned their heads, and Danica and Vance were surprised.

"Who is this?"

"You're not going to patrol?"

The person who came was wearing heavy armor, with a burly figure and a fierce face, which was a little scary.

"I'll make myself official, I'm Seris, the Knight Chief of the Xuanwu Temple. ”

After a brief introduction to themselves, Vance and the knight chief had very serious expressions.

Danica had a distinct sense that what was going to come out of their mouths was likely to be very bad.

Looking at the people around her, she clenched her hands nervously.

"Vance, don't you say that Paz is likely to be hopeless...... I don't admit it. ”

"Where should I start with this?" Cyrus walked over to the edge of a bed, glancing at the people who seemed to be sleeping.

"At the moment, we're experiencing something that we don't know why, because of it, a third of the people in the branch are falling into a strange lethargy. The condition will continue to spread, and there is no cure. ”

He told everyone that the healing magic of the priest had no effect on it, and in order to prevent this strange lethargy from continuing to appear, he had intensified his arrangement of patrolling the streets, and also tracking and monitoring other people who had come into contact with them.

"I roughly understand Meow, although Hima can guess part of it, but what I heard from the knight's mouth feels like a meow is something else!...... Hemma has a bad guess, maybe the two knights are ...... too."

"I did ask Cyrus to arrange for the knights to keep an eye on the inn and the people who had been in contact with Paz. ”

Vance opened his mouth, and he had proposed it.

“…… In short, I just fell asleep without knowing what was going on, even if I was secretly protected...... This is so strange, it's just inexplicable!Even the people of the temple are helpless, so ......!Vance, Path?!" The mood became a little confused, and his speech became incoherent, Danica subconsciously walked in the direction where Vance was, walked a few steps, and noticed Vance's face, as he had noticed when he entered, a rare tiredness.

"I'm sorry. ”

When she heard Vance say this, she pursed her lips and felt sad in her heart.

Why did Paz happen to this?

It's inexplicable!

"Lilil may have asked a stupid question, Lilil's meow doesn't know much about magic, why meow?

"Actually, I've seen these people's meows! I don't understand, what these people have in common is that there is a meow that looks like a magic symbol, but it's not like that!"

"Sigils?"

"Tsuyoshi also said that healing magic is useless. ”

Cyrus said to them.

"What does that have to do with Vivian...... Isn't it a little similar to a meow?"

"With all that, you're all coming over and taking a look at Meow! I've already seen Meow anyway!"

Hima seems to know a lot about the mark, and beckons to Lilil and Danica, who have never seen the mark.

"Either on the neck or on the arm, this mark appears in these two places on the person! And I don't feel any magic on the mark, like a meow that has been painted, but can't be erased!"

Cyrus sighed slightly and looked at Vance.

"I don't think even these people are helping. ”

He didn't really need to put his expectations on these people who had nothing to do with the temple, and there was no need to tell them the truth about it, it didn't make sense.

"At least for now, we don't have any extra clues. ”

The businessman who has been in contact with Paz has not found anything so far, and his family background is just an ordinary businessman who has come from other places to settle here and has lived here for more than half a month.

They came to the edge of the bed where Paz was lying and moved his arm to reveal a black mark.

"Meow with this mark on everyone?"

"That's it, I don't know what this means!"

"Pass......"

Danica looked at Paz worriedly, subconsciously pronouncing the name.

"What's the matter? Lilil, you have such a strange expression!"

Staring at the sigil, Lilil tilted her head and frowned.

"You...... Do you think the pattern of this imprint is a little familiar?"

"Familiar? Of course meow! Of course I've seen too much, of course I'm familiar!"

"It's not a meow that means.,It's the first time I've seen it.,But I feel ...... No, it feels like I've seen it somewhere before!"

"Meow?"

Ji Ma half-squatted down, didn't speak, and stared at the mark for a long time.

"Meow!

Samuel left, found a bakery, bought a few loaves of bread, and returned to the temple branch.

"Let's eat something first. ”

He saw Danica sitting on the ground, sitting and waiting. They had come out of that door half an hour earlier, and they ordinary people who had nothing to do with magic had left the room, only to wait outside the room.

Samuel also stood there for a while, and as he waited, he suddenly remembered that the object of protection did not seem to have eaten anything before they came to the branch. It was like going out for a run to pass the time.

"Here you go, a total of ten silver coins, the original price of eight silver coins plus two silver coins for errands. ”

Samuel held the paper bag with the bread in front of her and shook it back and forth.

“…… No, you don't. ”

Glancing up at Samuel, she wasn't going to take the bag.

“……”

Samuel shrugged his shoulders and told her, "Okay, a joke. ”

Stuff the bread directly with her and drop a sentence.

"I'm going out for a walk. ”

"Wait. ”

"What else is going on with you?"

"I don't think you should go too far...... If you accidentally meet a ...... like Paz."

He sneered and stopped.

"You're right, I'd better not go out. ”

Turning around, his expression had returned to his usual appearance, and he stood in the hallway against the wall, doing nothing but waiting.

Samuel looked at his hand, which was holding the steaming bag, and still had some residual warmth in his hand.

Even in the evening, you can always eat freshly baked food.

In contrast, the kingdom of Remirabel is ......

And myself, too.

He was a person who had nothing to do with each other, why did he do it now? It's really not like before, his blood should be cold. Since getting to know them, along the way, changes have taken place that even I can't notice.

His past, those cold, dark days.

He's an assassin.

Can it really be changed so easily?

So simple to throw away that past?

Can he really do it?

Reason and emotion are really a combination of contradictions.

******

When Danica woke up, she found that she was no longer in the branch.

"Inn?I fell asleep?!"

I guess I was sent to a hotel later.

She wanted to get out of the room, to rush to the branch right away, to see what was going on with Paz as soon as possible.

“…… No way. ”

When she came to the door, her footsteps stopped, because she noticed the time.

"I slept so late!"

Next, she had to go to the palace.

Turning around, I couldn't waste any more time, so I quickly took a casual shower, changed my clothes, and prepared to rush to the palace.

The moment she opened the door, she was a little surprised to see someone standing outside.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

"...... you?"

"If it weren't for the old man named Wan? Wan, who told you to sleep well again and again, forget it, who told me to take this task. I still have to act as your bodyguard today, Vance asked me to tell you, don't think about Paz's affairs. ”

"Hmmm......"

"This is for you, you don't have time to sit down and eat slowly, let's go!"

"Thank you!"

"But I still want to ask, Paz now?"

Danica was grateful to Vance for thinking so carefully with him, but that couldn't stop her from thinking about it.

"Anyway? Didn't that guy who likes to eat grilled fish all day discuss it with the others last night? ”

As they spoke, they quickened their pace and hurried in the direction of the palace.

******

"Lilil, do you remember that basement meow?"

"Meow, basement?"

"It's the basement full of water, and the meow of the place where there are more than you can count the monster eggs in the water!

"That's it! Lilith remembered meow!"

"So, this incident has something to do with Warcraft?"

"No way, we didn't witness the information of the Warcraft, if the Warcraft really got it, it would leave some breath somehow, whether it was a priest or a knight, no one found out, isn't it strange?"

Vance dismissed the possibility on casual thought.

"But meow, it's really the same meow!"

"This is not the direction of investigation. Cyrus thought differently than Vance and decided to look up the books.

"By the way, I almost forgot about meow, that kind of monster is the meow of a psychedelic butterfly!"

Hima recounted what had happened in the basement, including the psychedelic butterfly that burst out of the egg and made a pact with someone.

"Normally, Jima also thinks it's a strange meow, Warcraft eggs rarely have such a special pattern, like a mutated Warcraft?

"I'm going to contact the rest of the branches. ”

Dropping this, Cyrus hurried away.

"I also have an idea. ”

Vance looked at the few people in the room who didn't know magic.

"Those who haven't studied magic better get out of here, I want to have a magic experiment, it will be dangerous for you. Especially you, Danica. ”

“…… Be careful yourself. ”

Vance nodded at her.

Liliel hesitated, glanced at Hima, and said her true thoughts in a firm tone.

"Can Lilil stay? Meow, maybe she can help? Lilil...... I want to know about magic! It's okay to be dangerous!"