Chapter 120: "Black-Box Operation"

"Delilah. The daughter of a gem merchant, Le Roy, a married son and a daughter, fond of opera, theatre and literature, was still active in the opera district after the last incident, so she was discovered by my informant in less than a week...... She doesn't have the habit of bringing bodyguards, and only a personal maid and a manservant who does odd jobs when she goes out......"

Sitting in a window box at a street-side café, Jane reminisced about the consolidated information as the well-groomed lady stepped out of her carriage and into Bonny's department store, Trier's prestigious Boulevard Street.

Jana retracted her gaze and looked diagonally across from Anthony. Red nodded and said, "That's her."

"The question now is ......," Franka, who was on the same side as Jana, pondered, "is she fishing, or is she fishing?" If she's just amazed at her own induction, and doesn't really know anything, then we'll start with

She may not be able to get any valuable clues there, if she knows that she has resonated with the 'Fragment of the World in the Mirror', and still listens to opera and plays in a high-profile manner, it is reasonable to assume that she or the person behind her wants to fish out the holder of the 'Fragment of the Mirror'. ”

After analyzing a bunch of things, Franca came to a conclusion:

"It's dangerous to deal with Delilah rashly, or to come into contact with her."

"But the 'Magic Mirror Divination' says that our actions today are safe." Jane objected.

Franka smiled slightly: "Don't be superstitious about divination, and it doesn't have to be dangerous, it may also be that rash contact with Delilah will lead to the interruption of follow-up clues."

"And we're just watching? Wait a month or two until the other party relaxes before acting?" Jana's thoughts turned, and she straightened her back slightly, "I have a way!"

"What's the solution?" Franka was curious.

Jane pursed her lips and smiled, "Use the magical item, use that 'Obscura' of the powerhouse, and ask it to give us a chance to briefly contact Delilah that no one is watching, no one sees."

"In that case, if the problem comes from the person behind Delilah, he will have no way of knowing what he has been in contact with, and the clue will not be broken, and if the problem is with Delilah, we can immediately turn contact to control."

Franka thought seriously for a few seconds: "It's not impossible....."

"I actually want to try how to use that 'power man's dark box', don't rob me, I have a higher sequence than you, and my life-saving ability is stronger than yours, if there are really evil creatures such as devils seeking a deal, I can also ask the 'Judgment' lady, a powerful 'arbiter', to testify!"

This "Witch of Pleasure" looks eager to try.

Janna was silent for a few seconds and said, "Okay."

Anthony then said: "The opportunity for a short contact is given to me, and if you want to leave no clues or traces for the people behind Delilah to discover, 'hypnotist' is the best choice."

"No problem." Franka was not polite, and then looked at Jana, waiting for her to pull out the "dark box of the powerful".

Like many female mercenaries, Jaenna wears an off-white garment with brown leather armor on the key part, and carries a brown leather backpack.

She pulled the small wooden box with dark paint and a film curtain on each side out of her backpack and placed it on the table in the café box.

Franca weighed the words of the request and the price of the bribe to the "powerful", lifted the sleeve of the lady's shirt, and in her right hand carried a small cloth bag containing a hundred gold louis, and slipped through a leather curtain on the side of the wooden box—although the "instructions for use" did not say that banknotes could not be used, Franca, with her rich occult experience, chose the more universal item of gold coins.

The next second, she touched her wrinkled wet skin, and felt five fingers close together, gripping the cloth bag containing the gold coin.

Bearing back the sudden feeling of nausea, Franka deliberately uttered her request in Hermesian:

"I want my friend Anthony, who is sitting across from me right now. Red and Delilah, the gem merchant from Leroy's house, in the nearby Bonnie department store, had a very undisturbed, unwatched, very discreet face-to-face encounter that lasted more than three minutes. ”

Franka added a lot of qualifiers to make sure that the two sides and the way they met were precise enough not to be distorted.

The crumpled and wet palm-like thing lifted the cloth bag containing the gold coins and retracted it.

This means that the "dark box of the powerful" has agreed.

Franka pulled her right hand back, pulled out her white handkerchief and wiped the touched area, and her mouth was grunting.

"Where to wait for the opportunity to meet?" Anthony asks questions.

Franka put away her handkerchief and smiled, "There are only two people in the request, one is you, and the other is Delilah. Leroy, so, you can only wait for the chance to meet if you follow her. “

"Uh-huh....."

Speaking of this, Franca took out the dazzling "Seven Stone Bracelet" from the "traveler's bag" and handed it to Anthony: "If the situation is not right, immediately 'teleport' and flee."

Seeing that this "Witch of Pleasure" had a serious expression and a straight face, Anthony's kind words came to his mouth and swallowed back, and he reached out and took the "Seven Stone Bracelet".

Franka pondered and said, "If you can trust me, I can also use your blood and hair to help you make a 'mirror double'."

Anthony was silent for a few seconds and said, "Okay."

Inside Bonny's department store.

As a "hypnotist" who is good at observation, it didn't take long for Anthony to find Delilah. Leroy.

The lady was standing in the center of the first floor with a maid and a man, watching the performance of a magician invited by the department store to liven up the atmosphere.

At this time, the magician's assistant pushed up a wood-colored box large enough to hold three or four people, and the magician took off his top hat and raised it high: "Next, please ask the two lucky audience members to perform with me."

"This lady, I wonder if you can come on stage to help?"

He was referring to Delilah. Leroy.

Delilah was not too happy, and there was obvious hesitation, but she could not say no, and finally walked up to the wooden platform that had been built to perform the magic trick.

The personality is relatively weak, and he is not too good at rejecting others...... It could also be the influence of the "dark box of the powerful...... Anthony vaguely guessed what the opportunity to meet was, and while assessing Delilah's character, he took the initiative to take a step forward.

Sure enough, the magician saw him: "This gentleman, please come up too."

Anthony deliberately acted reluctantly and squirmed onto the stage.

The magician pointed to the wooden box and said, "Sit in."

Delilah pursed her lips, exhaled, and at the urging of the coaxing audience, she slipped into the wooden box.

Anthony sat down in the position furthest from her, and while there was still light, he smiled and said, "Actually, I'm quite embarrassed too."

These words were plain and kind, and Delilah's tense mood suddenly relaxed.

Anthony then said, "Don't believe me? You can look me in the eye. ”

He pointed to his eyes.

Delilah subconsciously looked over and saw the dark brown eyes that reflected her figure.

My figure...... Delilah was suddenly stunned, and her eyes seemed to be caught in a downward vortex.

At this moment, the magician closed the wooden box, and it was dark inside.

Anthony immediately seized the opportunity and asked, "Did you have a special sense in the opera district a week ago?"

"Yes." Delilah, who felt that the other party was very trustworthy, replied truthfully.

"What's that induction?" Anthony asked as he listened to the magician outside speak the prepared lines.

"My heart is beating faster and my blood is boiling." Delilah describes how she felt.

"Do you know what that means?" Anthony asked further.

Delilah shook her head in the dark, "I don't know, but my real father told me to report him as soon as possible if I had a similar induction."

"A real father?" Anthony had a guess.

Delilah laughed at herself, "Biological father, he is my mother's lover, the current minister of industry in the government, Moran. Avigny. ”

Moran. Avigny ....... Anthony sensed that the magician was starting to experiment with the wooden box, and quickly asked one last question: "Did he know that you had a similar induction, what did he say?"

"Let me not have to worry and live as usual." Delilah was actually still a little worried.

Anthony said "um", "Beautiful lady, it's a pleasure to perform this magic trick with you, can you give me some items of commemorative value?"

"Like, a few hairs."

His voice was low and a little magnetic, which made Delilah feel that this was a very normal request.

So, she pulled out several hairs and handed them to Anthony.

After touching the hair follicles of those hairs, Anthony breathed a sigh of relief, still in a deep voice, "I don't want this to ruin your family, get out of this wooden box, hear my snap of fingers, you will forget our ......relationship here"...

The magnetic voice echoed, and Delilah's thoughts blurred a little again.

Syllable!

The wooden box opened, leaving Anthony alone, and Delilah was pulled out of the curtain behind the stage by the magician.

The audience applauded in high spirits.

When the applause subsided a little, and the magician pressed his hand to his chest and bent down to thank him, Anthony did not look at Delilah, and quietly snapped his fingers.

Delilah originally wanted to make small talk with the man who made her feel close, but when she heard the sound of snapping, she turned up

His body trembled slightly, his eyes were a little confused at first, and he immediately regained consciousness.

She turned and walked down the wooden platform, back between the maid and the man.

Anthony left unhurriedly and disappeared into the crowd.

.........

Monumental Parish, 9 rue Orosse, inside apartment 702.

Franka smeared the ashes of Delilah's hair, which had been scorched with black flame, to the surface of the mirror, reciting the descriptive phrase of the most commonly used object of "Magic Mirror Divination".

In the sound of the rushing water, under the dark glow, Franka asked.3 "Is the owner of these hairs the 'man in the mirror'?"

The old voice replied, "No."