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"I suddenly felt like I had made a bad decision. Shekha said, "I mean, to investigate who killed Lord Pamu. ”

"You're just finding out now?"

Despite the sarcasm, Moshi could understand Sheka's mood at the moment.

"I feel a great responsibility. ”

The two of them walked down the corridor. Snow flakes fall on stone bricks.

After a while, Mo Shi asked, "Have you ever killed someone?"

Shekka replied with a complicated look: "My swordsmanship is superb, but I have never been on the battlefield and am not an executioner. ”

"Excluding these two cases, why do you think people would kill their own kind?"

The man's tail flicked under his cloak, and his ears twitched.

It seemed that the mere mere impossibility of imagining these things was displeasing to him.

"I think...... Hatred, or jealousy. There are probably other reasons, but I haven't thought about them. ”

Mo Shi nodded thoughtfully.

"What do you think we should do now?" he asked again.

"You ask me?"

"I've been here for too short. Mo Shi said, "Why don't you tell me, as a bystander, what do you think of Pamu Autumn Crow?"

They walked through the promenade and did not have a clear destination.

They were followed by Moshi's maid Duna, as well as one of Norwen Tsui's henchmen, and a few other servants. It's not too far. Some of them can be called helpers or overseers.

"I'm a swordsmanship instructor to Diffindor and Dino, and at most some authority to manage the arsenal," Shekka said, "What can I think of Pamu Crow? Of course, I'm shocked by his death. Poor young man, my poor young lady. You know, he's Miss Dia's betrothed to ......"

Shekha paused, not going on.

"What's the matter?" asked Mo Shi, "do you know more about this marriage?"

"Miss Dia doesn't learn swordsmanship. Or rather, she stopped learning since she was twenty-five. I don't have much to do with her. But ......"

"But what?"

Sheka was silent for a moment, then moved closer to him and said in a low voice, "Young Master Dino mentioned it to me, and he said that his sister was not satisfied with his marriage partner. She thought Pamu was too vulgar and rude. ”

"Vulgar and rude......" is a statement worth noting.

"Maybe Pamu had offended Miss. But that's not what I know. ”

With that, Sheka immediately retracted. He's probably the kind of guy who hates the root of his tongue.

"How long have you been teaching the young masters?" asked Mo Shi.

"This year is the eleventh year. ”

"Eleven years?" Mo Shi was a little surprised, "but you look very young. ”

"I'm still young," Sheka pouted, pouting, "just turned fifty-five." I served in the Central Knights, but I returned to Shiba Castle because of a leg injury. ”

Fifty-five is indeed a very young age for an orc male here.

These "snowwalkers" have forty years of age as the age of majority for men.

"Mr. Shekha, you are a young man. Mo Shi complied, "In that case, you are indeed the object of study and respect for me. Presumably you have a good relationship with the young masters?"

"Of course!"

"In that case, we should talk to Young Master Dino and Miss Dia. We'll know more with you. ”

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Although the snowwalker is a canine orc, it may not have a high fertility rate due to the harsh living environment.

During his married life, the Duke had three sons and one daughter: the eldest son Diffondor, the eldest daughter Dia, the second son Dino, and the infant son.

Of course, he also had a legal mistress (known as a side wife, which was actually a vice-wife) and a possible secret lover, although there do not seem to have been any children born to him.

Diffonor was raised as an heir, while Dino recently patrolled the Duke's realm as an inspector of the tax corps - and thus became acquainted with Moshi.

Moshi and Shekha travel to the West Tower, where they meet Dino on the way, and the three of them go to visit Miss Dia.

On the way over, Dino introduced his sister to Mo Shi.

"My sister's name is 'Diya', which means to bloom like a flame. My sister is beautiful. "And very smart." When I was little, Diffonor and I followed her in the castle playing various knightly games. She plays the princess and also the prince. ”

It sounds like she is not a woman who conforms to the requirements of the times.

Dino continued: "But soon she was no longer allowed to play with us or go to class. I was very young at the time, so I didn't understand why. ”

"Why?" asked Moshi.

"Huh?"

"I mean, do you understand why now?"

"Of course. "Because she's a girl, my brother and I are boys." ”

"Is that the reason?"

Because Mo Shi blurted it out, Dino couldn't understand what he wanted to say. On the one hand, because Dino's education did not include this, and on the other hand, because he was indeed very simple, and did not understand the overly complex and subtle tone.

Dino wanted to ask, but they had already reached the door of the Duke's daughter, Dia's room.

Mo Shi stood respectfully two steps behind him.

Dino raised his hand and knocked on the door, knocked three times, and then pushed it straight in. From this point of view, they are probably indeed quite close siblings.

It was a heavy wooden door.

When it was pushed open, it was not a bedroom, but a living room for ladies to relax and entertain during the day.

A young girl in a gorgeous dress stood in front of the window, as if frightened and turned around. She apparently didn't hear a knock at the door because she was talking to the maid.

She was indeed "beautiful".

No, compared to the jerky description of the boy - if Mo Shi were to say it, it would be called "beauty".

It was a beautiful woman.

And it's a kind of beauty with a sharp edge hidden in the eyebrows, which is very unruly.

But her eyes were moist and seemed to have just shed tears.

But she blinked her eyes and wiped out that depression.

Her maid bowed her head and retreated.

"Dino!" the aristocratic girl walked quickly to this side, her skirt rising backwards, like red petals blown by the wind, "I've been forced to do this and that lately, and I heard that you're back, and I don't have time to see you." Why didn't you come to see me earlier?"

"I haven't been to see Brother Diffonor yet. It's already very busy, and it happens again......"

The young man cut off the topic and gave his sister a gift to his sister - a gesture of touching his fingertips on his chest and then lifting them up, which is a simplification of Fu Xinli.

The beautiful woman laughed too, and she lifted the hem of her skirt and bent her legs twice.

Then her gaze turned to Moshi and Shekka.

"This is ......"

"Ah, this is Mr. Moshi, and he's a master of magic. Father has hired him to teach us magic. ”

"The new teacher?"

The Duke's daughter turned to him and saluted gently.

The color of her hair and fur was probably inherited from her mother, not the reddish-brown of the duke's, but a dark gray. Because of the conservative clothing, Mo Shi could only see the part above her neck, as well as her hands.

"Hello, Miss Dia. ”

"Hello, Mr. Moshi. She turned back to her brother and asked, "Is this the new teacher my father has found?"

It's like finding out the quality of the items and the provenance of the goods, and she is worthy of being the daughter of the duke.

"I met him when I was overseeing the tax situation!" Dino was anxious to ask for credit, and his tail flicked to the point of an afterimage, "I invited Mr. Moshi to come here! Mr. Moshi is amazing—"

He probably wanted to prove himself to his sister, "I'm already an adult who can take charge on my own, and I'll meet new friends outside", this subtext is simply written on his face.

Diya understood, and smiled very gently.

But when she faced Mo Shi, she was still arrogant and vigilant.