In the middle of the night, a sneaky figure carrying a small basket climbed over the façade of 160 Berklund Street, hunched over, shuttled through the shadows between the walls, and soon came to the nearby sewer entrance, carefully removed the manhole cover, got inside, and restored the cover with ease.

High up in the house, Klein frowned and opened the curtains, watching his butler Walter in a tuxedo, doing all this with agility, and there was a sense of absurdity that he was watching a play.

Just two days earlier, after he had attended a ball for the councillor Macht, the councillor's daughter, the haughty and impersonal Hazel Macht, had slipped into the sewers from across the street in almost the same pose, going on a "late-night adventure" underneath the intricacies of the underground.

They are so skilled in drilling sewers, unlike me, with my current status, wearing expensive custom dresses, I will never go in......

He laughed at his nouveau riche mentality, then picked up a cigarette case from his bedside table containing the gold coin of the "Blood General", released the "ghost", manipulated him to jump onto the glass surface of the street lamp next to the sewer, and then took advantage of his lack of body to burrow into the sewers, silently following Walter.

At the same time, Crane double-wired his body to move closer to the sewers, so that Seigor's ghost would not be more than 100 meters away from him, so as not to lose this precious secret puppet.

"Since you've already found me, why didn't you point it out before the man left?"

Since Angel is involved in this, let her decide...... No sooner had Klein made his decision than Triss was heard continue:

"I don't mind having one more of the extraordinary properties of a witch in my collection, but I'm also a little interested in what you just said, and if the information you provide is valuable enough, maybe I'll spare your life."

"I almost exceeded 100 meters, and if that were the case, in order to avoid losing the puppet, I would have to use the flame to jump out of the bedroom and into the street, which would violate the rules of the 'puppet master' and expose myself, the person behind the scenes......"

"If you have malicious intentions, leaving him alone is just one more person to die, will the 'Blood General' Monsieur Segnor be worried about an ordinary person?"

Seeing him like this, Triss moved in the corner of the wall, leaning into the cloak with one hand and pulling the placket with the other, as if trying to cover her bare shoulders, but inadvertently exuding the charm of a witch, her eyes were gloomy, and her expression was weak.

Crane muttered silently, watching Hazel writh around the door in terror, trying to find the person who possessed her, and finally with tears in her eyes, she turned back to her home the way she came, and then relieved herself to manipulate the "Wraith" to sink into the ground and return to Walter's location.

"I'll continue to send some food tomorrow, you can recover with peace of mind, and if you leave because of an accident, contact me the old way."

"He's going back to the manor on the outskirts tomorrow, there must be an extraordinary escort there, and today is the best chance."

It's a pity that he is just a dead "secret puppet" in front of him, which is equivalent to throwing his eyes to a blind man......

Klein manipulated Señor to approach the shadow in a state of resentment, stopped at the edge of his range, and sure enough, he saw a woman in a black dress, sitting in the corner, her shoulders simply bandaged but still bleeding, and her face was pale.

A Miaoman's figure emerged from the ice, first outlining, then filling in color, and finally his familiar and unfamiliar black hair, purple eyes, and faint smile.

That's the Dixi pie I asked the chef to make in the afternoon, and the sweet iced tea...... He opened his mouth slightly in the bedroom, and Señor, who was in a state of resentment, reacted in the same way.

She had a slightly round chin and a beautiful face, and it was Triszik who almost killed him in the city of Tingen, hid in Beckland, and finally escaped before the Great Smog!

Did she find me?

Klein's heart jumped, but thinking that the witch had a spiritual intuition no less than that of a soothsayer, and that this person in front of him was "Chick", it didn't make much sense to continue hiding, so he appeared directly and replied in an indifferent tone:

After handing the basket to the woman in the shadow of the corner, Walter admonished:

After this delay, his butler had come to a gloomy and secluded sewer road, and began to talk to people in a low voice:

"Hurry back, don't let your new employer find out, this sewer often has strange extraordinaires coming and going, but it's safer than the ground, I'll hide for a day or two, and then leave when I recover."

The female voice chuckled and sighed:

"When he was alive, he had so many subordinates, so many friends, but after he died, only a few were willing to risk it for him."

Her smile became more and more obvious, and Klein frowned when she saw the secret puppet behind her, and she had a faint sense of foreboding in her heart.

Triss's tone grew more and more sad, as if she had really given up the struggle.

"Señor" said coldly, completely unmoved.

Crane waited for Triss's answer for a long time, he appeared in the state of a secret puppet at this time, or a secret puppet who could be turned into a ghost at any time, he could attack when he entered, and he could report it when he retreated, so he was naturally not afraid of an injured witch.

"You know me?"

While Manipulating Señor asked rhetorically with surprise, Klein was also thinking about what to do with the blood-stained witch next.

"Then why are you still hurt? Why don't you even dare to go back to your residence? ”

Although you don't say it now, I will be able to learn everything from Angel's letter in two days, but I don't know what other secrets are in this woman, such as how she became the container of the "original witch", such as who else is in her "investigation group......

“…… First of all, you have no way out! ”

At the moment when her voice rose sharply, a place in the sewer had already condensed, and the ice surface was so smooth that it could reflect the reflection became dark and deep, and countless reflections inside were layered on top of each other, as if it had become a passage to another world.

"Then do it, Monsieur Seignoor, or do you think that a down-and-out witch like me will come...... Save me...... Is it? ”

"Put away your set, or do you want me to 'kill' you now?"

"Of course, I've also traveled on the sea, and I've been following the news of the pirate generals lately."

The female voice replied intermittently:

Walter's voice was filled with concern.

Triss seemed to have the same judgment, and she waved her hand back to withdraw the invisible spider silk, leaving only the frozen puddles, and a faint smile on her face again:

"If you want to listen, I can tell you all about it, including the secret of Prince Edsak Augustus's death, and the inflection between the royal family, but first ......"

William Sykes was a member of the "investigative group" who was in the service of the dead Prince Edssack, and the mysterious woman took the risk to contact William in order to investigate the truth about the prince's death, and was injured and hid in the sewers.

During this time, he was surprised to find that Häzel had slipped out of his house in the middle of the night and into the sewers through another entrance, just as he was about to run into the sneaky Walter. As a last resort, he used the spirit to "possess" the girl with the magical item of the "Thief", ignoring her struggles and self-rescue efforts, and "returned" her to Councillor Mahert's house.

Then, the identity of this woman, according to the content of Angel's letter, can also be confirmed......

If he suddenly saw this woman who was likely to be related to the "Original Witch", Crane would probably be so frightened that he would recall the secret puppet directly, but with Angel's previous prompt, he only felt "reasonable" now.

"What's going on? In the afternoon, the police came and questioned people who had been in contact with William Sykes, saying that he had died in a hotel on the West End, and that it was a murder...... Didn't you say you had to plan carefully and do it all quietly? ”

If you really want to pay attention, you should know that "I" has died at the hands of crazy adventurers...... Klein chuckled secretly, trying to play the role of a pirate general who "doesn't talk much", but didn't answer.

Walter replied in a muffled voice, then turned and walked off the same way.

At the same time, Triss's slender eyes looked at this side, as if she saw the invisible "resentful spirit" Seigno, chuckled, and said:

"I've been watching it for so long, I should show up, right?"

"That's him, a pirate general worth 40,000 pounds!"

In the senses shared by Crane and the secret couple, the sewer space beside Triss was covered with countless invisible silk threads, like huge spider webs, and the stagnant water nearby slowly froze, forming mirrors of different sizes, and she sat in the middle of the spider webs in a black dress, like a poisonous spider waiting for her prey to throw herself into a web.

"As a royal nobleman, he can treat me sincerely, and I am willing to always be loyal to him."

Walter was silent for a moment, nodded, and handed over the basket he had been carrying, and Klein saw that there were several flat objects containing paper packets, as well as a cup with a lid.

Crane, who was hiding in the shadows, quickly understood everything based on these conversations, combined with his own guesses.

He has not forgotten the tragedy of the Alfalfa, nor the series of deaths in the city of Tingen.

But at this time, Triss is focusing on the truth of Prince Edsak's death because of some kind of heartfelt feelings, and this matter will inevitably lead to the secret behind the "Great Haze" and the unknown royal faction. From this point of view, Triss is his and Angel's "deminer", or the voluntary kind.

In the shadows deep in the fork in the road, just stuck in the 100-meter control range of the "secret puppet", a weak, hoarse female voice came out:

"William is stronger than I thought, he is Sequence 5, and he also has a magical item that restrains me, which is in line with his secret identity, and it is also the confidence that he dares to come to the city alone. Fortunately, I still solved him and got the key clues......

As if complaining to a parent, Triss's words of eagerness and schadenfreude echoed through the sewers.

And Angel, who came out of the world in the mirror, and the expressionless "Blood General" Señol, who wore an old tricorne hat and a dark infrared suit, looked at me, I looked at you, and was speechless for a while.

(End of chapter)