Chapter Ninety-Three: The Magician and the Portrait
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Although there was a slight aberrations at the end of the meeting, it was just a trivial episode in terms of the whole process, and it didn't hurt.
Judging from the layout of the Red Devil Pavilion, this is a Western-style Western-style Western-style mansion with blood-red paint, exquisite decoration, and a combination of the style of the European Renaissance era and the gloomy Gothic style used by vampires.
In the corridor alone, fairy maids come and go and are busy with their own work. Aside from the different wings on their backs and their colorful hair and eyes, these fairy maids were dressed almost exactly like Sixteen Wild Sakuya: of course, they didn't have a ring of silver throwing knives hanging from their left thigh.
Passing through the corridor, you will be greeted by a long, richly decorated hall, the floor of the hall is covered with thick classical carpets, the walls of the hall are lit with bright lights in every place, and a dozen large marble tables are neatly arranged on both sides of the hall. And from Feng Longde's point of view, each portrait here should be created in a different era.
As soon as Feng Longde paid attention to these portraits, he had to turn his gaze back: there were already several guests waiting in the hall who had already arrived here, and they were all people he had met or at least recognized!
"Reimu, why are you here?" Feng Longde looked at the Porie witch who was staring at the food on the long table from time to time, "The head of the Scarlet family has also invited you?"
"Remi came to call me yesterday with a parasol during the day, so I came. Reimu waved his hand to say hello, and then couldn't take his eyes off the food, "When will the meal start, I've been hungry for a week."
Feng Longde: ""
At this time, Remilia came over and pulled Reimu and didn't let go: "Reimu, this is yes, I forgot, you are the retreaters and the retreatees of this cross-border mutation, you should know each other." ”
"Lord of the Night, Reimu looks like she's going crazy with hunger. Feng Longde looked at Lingmeng's already green eyes and felt helpless, "Maybe let her eat first?"
"Reimu, you eat first, as for you" Remilia looked at Feng Longde, and rarely called the latter with an honorific title, after all, Feng Longde's title was not inferior to her at all, "So, what do you say you are, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights belonging to the Teutonic Empire?"
"That's right. Feng Longde nodded, according to the information Caroline gave him, he knew that the immortal king during the Teutonic Empire also served as the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, "You can call me Grand Master, or call me by my name Feng Longde, then I need to call you by?"
"Just call me Remilia, that's what everyone calls me except Sakuya, the little devil, and my sister, and you're the only one who calls me by a serious honorific title now. Remilia crossed her hands on her hips and straightened her chest, barely a decent amount for her current size, "Feng Longde, there is still some time before the banquet starts, you can go and meet the other people I invited first, and I will talk to Reimu for a while." ”
"That's goodbye. Von Rond bowed slightly—and of course his gothic plate armor couldn't bow widely—and walked like everyone else, with Caroline and the Guards Knights slowly following behind.
The guests at the banquet, except for Feng Longde who he had met and knew who it was, were more goblins—yes, they were dressed in fine clothes, polite and courteous, and their manners and movements looked no different from ordinary nobles. However, the messy wings behind them reveal their identities: they are fairy maids in the Red Devil Pavilion who have received a certain amount of aristocratic etiquette guidance, and their professional job is to make heads.
Feng Longde's eyes were sharp, and he soon saw two familiar figures: one was a girl wearing a black triangular wizard hat with long blond hair and a braided hair hanging down in front and a bow on the whip, and the other was wearing a short golden haired girl with a hairpin tied and locked with a bow tied with a bow and wearing a black hair dress with a blue color and a black striped shawl draped over her shoulders. The whole person looked like a living puppet, and Feng Longde also saw that the girl was accompanied by two blonde maid costume dolls, which looked almost the same, except that one was a dark blue maid costume and the other was a bright red maid suit.
"Oh, here, here, Da☆Ze!" Originally, Feng Longde really didn't have the intention of accosting a certain big thief, but the latter was also sharp-eyed, and after seeing the former, he pulled his companion and squeezed all the way over like a tractor, not caring at all about how many fairy maids she had squeezed over, "I heard Reimu talk about you and your subordinates, you are the culprit who set off the cross-border mutation, Uncle Faceless, right? Even if you have a face, it looks easy to find you Da☆Ze!"
Feng Longde: ", when did I have the new title of faceless uncle? And this title actually has the word uncle!"
"Haha, I'm Marisa Kiriyu, a quasi-magician, who lives in the magic shop that I opened in the Enchanted Forest. Marisa pointed to herself with a big grin to introduce herself, and then pulled her companion over to her, "She's my neighbor, the puppeteer Alice Margot Royd, who seems to be a magician from the Demon Realm at the same time." If I hadn't dragged her to Remi's banquet this time, she would probably still be stuffy as a doll in her house!"
"Do you think you can do it all the time? It depends on the feeling. Alice sighed, as if she was helpless about her old friend (or Ji You?), who was going straight and rampage, and then looked at Feng Longde, "Hello, the culprit of the cross-border mutation, may I ask who you are?"
"Von Longde, a prototype, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. This is "After introducing himself and the others separately, Feng Longde tilted his head, "You were also invited by Remilia, and did anyone else be invited?"
"That's right, the other people who were invited were over there, Da☆Ze. Marisa pointed in the other direction of the hall, "The March Spirit is also the object of the invitation, and the three sisters are going to cooperate with the fairy maid band of the Red Devil Pavilion, and they are here to play music in the banquet, and I am going to take Alice to the big library to read books at the banquet later, what about you?"
"Stay honestly in the banquet hall, we are no better than you regular customers, and it is easy to get lost without guidance. Feng Longde shrugged his shoulders, the shoulder armor on his shoulder clanging, "Is it you who Remilia invites to every banquet?
"It's usually us, after all, we are more compatible with Remi's style, and Reimu has a good personal relationship with her. Marisa thought for a moment and said, "Sometimes Yakumo-murasaki's intermittent youkai will bring Yakumo Blue over to join in the fun, but it's rare - she's too keen to sleep. The new face this time is you uh, Teutons, Teutons, and you look like Da☆Ze who fits in well with Remi's style. ”
"It's strange that the styles are not similar, and in the outside world, they all come from Europe. Feng Longde nodded, "I'll go to the wall over there to see those portraits, and I wish you both a happy banquet." ”
"I'll give you the same words, Da☆Ze!" Looking at Feng Longde and the others who were gradually leaving, Marisa turned her head to look at her good friend Jiyou, "Alice, you still don't like talking to strangers as always." ”
"There's nothing to talk about, and you've been able to say it, what else can I say?" Alice shook her head slowly with her eyes closed, "This group of people is silent except for the man in the lead, and I can't say anything." ”
"Hehe, but you're obviously interested in them, aren't you?" Marisa slapped Alice on the shoulder, "What? What interests you about your mage and puppeteer profession?"
"The man named Feng Longde has a special connection with his sister and subordinates. Alice's expressionless face, like a puppet, began to show a faint doubt, "The connection between him and his people is somewhat similar to the connection between me and my puppet, and the way his subordinates exist gives me the feeling that they are just like my dolls, and the most important thing is that they have their own will!
"What?!Alice, are you sure Da☆Ze?" Marisa was a little surprised, "You mean that faceless uncle is as capable as you, and he's good at manipulating a thing?"
"I don't know, judging by looking at the photos of "Wenwen News", that man's ability should be a strong level of combat skills and regeneration, so this is what puzzles me the most. Alice didn't know what to say about her feelings, so she replied vaguely, "And his sister feels familiar to me, as if there are many places between us." ”
"Is it" Marisa lowered her head and thought for a while, then raised her head to look at Feng Longde and the others who had already walked to the other side of the hall, with an interested look on her face, "Isn't their location marked by the Wenwen News?
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Unaware that his house was targeted by a thief, Feng Longde was watching the portraits on the wall with his old sister, and the knights of the guards also began to wander around the banquet hall after seeking Feng Longde's consent, some tasting snacks and chatting with each other, very busy.
Feng Longde looked at the portraits of men and women, and every time his gaze swept over them, the stiff-faced Scarlett ancestors seemed to be more alive: their eyes were fixed on the outsiders in the hall, their gaze was stiff and cold, and lifeless, but they were indeed looking at everyone who was looking at them.
The Scarlett family, as Remilia calls it, the "Counts of Burzenland of Romania", are wealthy and rich in history - the elegant and luxurious interiors of the mansion reflect their wealth and history, and the mansion has been renovated and remodeled many times over the centuries, but the most important part has not been changed, which shows how much they value their traditions, even if there are only two vampires in the current Scarlett family.
Von Ronde silently and carefully looked at each portrait, these portraits of the ancestors of the Scarlet family have been carefully maintained, from the most recent generation (that is, Remilia and her sister Flandrew), the first dozen portraits are portraits of Remilia and Flandrew in different eras: looking at the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, During the Industrial Revolution and World War II, two vampires, dressed in fashionable costumes of different eras but still with eternal youthful faces, projected a cold and ruthless gaze at themselves in different picture frames.
Beginning with the Scarlet sisters' fathers, the original oval or rectangular picture frame disappeared and was replaced by a full-length portrait with the life story of its owner marked next to it: for example, there is a pair of portraits of the mother and father of the vampire sisters, dressed in the aristocratic costumes that had begun to develop gradually in the late Middle Ages, wearing feathered hats that seem silly to modern people, and pinnacles and jeweled scepters, which look very silly and graceful.
Feng Longde wanted to see the lives of the vampire sisters' parents, but unfortunately found that it was written in Latin in an ancient font, which was quite inconvenient to decipher. In order to save time, Feng Longde had to suppress his curiosity and look at the next portrait.
The subsequent portraits are not much different: the grandparents, great-grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers of the vampire sisters have basically the same painting style, and the ones that are close to the vampire sisters are all dressed in fancy clothes, and the farther ones are portraits in armor, but the style of painting makes people feel that they look too rigid.
When he was about to abandon the paintings and quickly turn to the nomadic style of the portraits, a full-length portrait caught his eye: according to the annotations, the figure was the great-grandfather of Remilia and Flandrelu's great-grandfather, and the seventh generation head of the Scarlett family. I saw this middle-aged man with a handsome beard and a blue-purple hair, wearing heavy chain mail and plate armor accessories attached to the chain mail, holding a knight's sword in one hand and an earl's scepter in the other, his eyes seemed to be looking outside the painting, as sharp as an eagle on the grassland.
Originally, Feng Longde was still a little surprised, after all, it was the first time he had seen the portrait of a person wearing chain mail, but what he saw next made him stunned: the seventh-generation head of the Scarlet family was wearing armor at the same time, he was also wearing a pure white burqa and hooded cloak, and the logo on it was the most familiar to Feng Longde-
The hooded mantle is sewn with a large black striped cross on each side, while the burqa depicts a black ancient Greek letter "T" with a small black iron cross on the chest.