Actually, it's not that Eve can't become an adult like Evan. In fact, because her transformation ability is more convenient than Evan's illusion, Eve can become whatever she wants, so to speak, she doesn't need to spend any effort, and she doesn't have to worry about the time limit of any illusion.

However, perhaps because of the mentality that there is nothing to want more, Evan himself will never be able to grow, so he especially wants to break his 'fate' in various ways. However, Eve, who has only been modified and has not changed some basic physiques, does not have the psychology of Evan's persistence in wanting to grow up. On the contrary, she seems to like the way she is now, and almost never uses the transformation to transform herself into something else. It's not at all like some people imagine that if you have the ability to transform, even if you don't become someone else to make trouble everywhere, you will at least turn yourself into the most perfect appearance of your ideals.

"Is that the painting you and Alice brought back the day before yesterday?"

Lévy had come home with Alice the night before with the painting, which everyone had seen. Aside from that painting, Levi has not gained anything else until now.

The painting is still in Aosaki's office, and Kurokiri is trying to find some useful clues from it. But Lévy doesn't have much hope for it. After all, it's just a replica. He had discussed it with Alice that day. If the secret hidden in that painting can be seen from the picture alone, there is no need for the thief and the organization behind him to go to the trouble of making a fake and stealing the real thing, right?

The photos in various art albums are not clear enough and not big enough, so I can sneak into the museum at night and set up professional equipment to take a picture. Why bother stealing the original?

If it weren't for the fact that the thieves stole the original, there were rumors of haunting among the museum staff. Kurotong would not have found out about this museum, and Levi had no way to grasp this clue.

"It's the painting, but it wasn't me and Alice who stole it. ”

Lévy hastened to clarify. It's not that he hasn't stolen anything, but it's not his pot and he can't carry it indiscriminately, right?

Now, those people must be Lévy's enemies, at least the undesirable ones who have caused him trouble.

"The painting was stolen more than a month ago. The person who stole the painting used a copy of the fake to drop the original in his bag. And the day before yesterday, when I came to investigate with Alice, I found the fake and brought it back, and Alice used illusion to simulate what the painting was still looking like. ”

"Is that because the illusion doesn't work now?"

In the past, Eve didn't really know much about magic and spells. Although she has been a killer for many years in the past, she is said to have accepted the target of all kinds of people. But she was able to make such a big name in that line of work, because she thought that the super high success rate and the special objects with high difficulties and high rewards that she had solved.

If you talk about the experience in the industry, the experience of facing different opponents. At the beginning, the famous golden darkness, not to mention compared to someone like Levy, who was also a little famous. It's those half-hangers who have been mixed in at the bottom and are always neither high nor low, and they are much stronger than her.

But fortunately, after Eve came to this world, she still worked hard to train herself. But the McDowell family has no shortage of people with all kinds of strange abilities. All kinds of spells that are nominally called magic, but they are fundamentally different from each other, Eve has seen many of them during this time. Not to mention that Evangeline, who is still nominally her 'master', is already very good at confusing illusions.

"When Alice simulated that painting, she was ready to make that illusion work today. ”

"Wait until today to fail, and then you two will be able to stay out of suspicion? ”

Eve picked up the paper bag in her hand, took out a small round golden ball and stuffed it into her mouth. It is a crispy snack fried on the surface and sweet and soft on the inside.

Although Eve insisted just now, this kind of thing can't compare to her favorite taiyaki. But now, when she bit down, her little face didn't know whether it was blown by the cold wind or whether she had eaten something good, and she was red with excitement. Levi heard her and looked down at her as cute as a little squirrel nibbling on a pine cone, and reached out amusefully and gently pinched her bulging face.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's ok. ”

It's okay to say it, but Eve's hand movements don't stop. She took another snack from the paper bag and was about to put it in her mouth, but after a moment of hesitation, she raised her hand and put it to Levi's mouth.

"Well, it tastes good. ”

Lévy swallowed the snack in one gulp, and the soft and sweet texture made him feel good for anyone with little interest in sweets. If you want to talk about the shortcomings, it's still the same old problem, this thing is a little too sweet for Lévy.

"It's a little too sweet, and it's easy to get tired after eating too much, and it's not as refreshing as taiyaki. ”

Eve fed Levi herself another one, commenting like one of those hosts on a food variety show on TV.

"Probably because people of different races and nationalities have different tastes. Indeed, there are a few Western countries like the United Kingdom, and their desserts have always been particularly sweet. Among them, especially the United States and Russia, the sweetest, people are worried about whether people in these countries will be more prone to diabetes. ”

Naturally, Levy didn't know that diabetes didn't have to be caused by eating too much sugar. However, he was right, and people in these countries did have a much greater preference for sugar than most countries in the East.

In fact, Eve loves taiyaki very much, and in Levy's opinion, it is a sweet one. But this is relatively 'light' compared to some of the desserts provided by the country's famous afternoon tea that the girls have tasted these days.

If Eve had used 'refreshing' to describe taiyaki at another time, Levi would have to complain in his heart if he didn't say it. But after a few days, he actually felt that Eve was still in place.

"When we get back, I'll take you to buy taiyaki right away. Just go to the store last time, buy a lot of it and put it back!"

Lévi could see that Eve was eating from the bowl again, thinking about the pot. I was still chewing dessert on my mouth, but I was thinking about taiyaki in my heart. It's not a bad thing for a person to be so single-minded about what they like.