Chapter 13 Where is Edith???
"Morning, Mr. Mashi."
Lin Qi politely saluted the swordsmanship teacher, frowned and looked behind him, "Why did you only bring two swords today?"
Did the teacher see that he didn't want to listen to her lecture and only wanted to fight with Edith? No, that's not right. It should be that he felt that the three-carrying bag was too heavy and planned to share one with Edith.
He suppressed the slight uneasiness in his heart and waited quietly for Edith to arrive.
It was strange. Although he got up early today because he was excited, the other party didn't have the habit of catching up, so he should not be much later than him. How come there was no movement at all...
"You're happier than I...thought."
Mahi tried to choose her words.
To be honest, she was prepared for Lynch to go crazy and smash things or go on a hunger strike and not attend classes, so she had even blunted the blade in advance. After all, even though she was slow-witted, she could tell that the young master's attitude towards Edith was a little different. Although he was not merciful in words, he rewarded and gave gifts, and beat up the servants who laughed at him.
Edith left early that day, and the servant who was sweeping the floor looked at the sawdust all over the floor and scolded her for being vulgar. But Lynch became furious and drove the servant to the fields outside the mansion.
Unexpectedly, after learning that his tutor had left, Lynch looked the same as usual.
Mashi sighed. She thought the nobles also had some real feelings, but it turned out that it was all just a face-saving job... It was better this way, at least today's class could continue smoothly.
Thinking of this, she coughed a few times and called back Lin Qi who was looking around for someone: "Since you came early today, don't wait until the class starts, let's start early."
Lin Qi: “?”
Lynch: “Start now?”
Ma Xi said patiently, "If you don't want to, you can wait a little longer."
She deftly untied the sword on her back and took her own sword to warm up. Lynch stared blankly at the other's hand, then looked down at the sword left on the ground.
…without Edith’s.
The handle of the original sword polished by Mashi was too thick. Although Edith could hold it steadily, there would always be red marks on the palms of her hands after the competition.
He had seen the girl blowing into her palm, so he specially asked a craftsman to grind the hilt of the sword into a fine surface and apply a protective layer to ensure that she would not be injured by the weapon itself again.
But the sword lying on the ground now was obviously uncarved and looked very new. It should be replaced by the one that was broken by Edith yesterday.
Why is there no Edie?
He suddenly raised his head and grabbed the personal servant who was reinforcing his hairband. His golden eyes turned red. "Where's Edith? Why hasn't she come yet?"
Carmen dodged her master's eyes and quickened her movements: "...It's getting cold, so I can't help but stay in bed for a while."
Lynch felt that he was lying. He shook off his hand and asked around the edge of the training ground, but the answers he got were exactly the same.
It’s either “I haven’t seen it” or “I don’t know”.
The panic in his heart continued to grow as the number of people asking questions increased, and his hands began to shake uncontrollably. He could only hold on to the last bit of hope and walked towards Mashi in the center of the venue with a pale face.
Ma Xi was halfway through her warm-up and had just started to sweat a little. She turned around and saw beads of sweat on Lin Qi's forehead. She was surprised and said, "Wow, you warmed up pretty fast."
"Then let's get started."
"Why don't you wait for Edith to start?" Unexpectedly, the boy grabbed her arm and stared at her face. "She's sick, so she won't come to practice today, right?"
Ma Xi was a little confused. She looked up at Carmen who was not far away. The short man was jumping up and down anxiously. When he saw her looking at him, he nodded frantically as if he was grasping at a life-saving straw.
He looked like he was going to kneel down any second, and kept mouthing the word "yes". Mashi followed suit and said, "Uh, yes."
Lynch breathed a sigh of relief.
Carmen also breathed a sigh of relief.
Before the two of them could completely relax, they heard Mashi scratching her head and suddenly realized, "It turns out that Edith left the manor and stopped being a study partner because she was sick."
"I thought it was because Mr. and Mrs. didn't like her,"
Carmen froze in place.
There was only despair and wailing in his heart. He kept repeating "It's over, it's over" and slowly turned his head towards Lynch.
Lynch was staring at Mashi's face blankly at this moment, and the words she had just said kept echoing in his mind.
Leave the manor, leave the manor, leave... leave?
Why did you leave? What does it mean to not be a study partner?
His hand fell from Mashi's arm due to weakness, and his body collapsed and fell backwards. Carmen screamed, stepped forward and quickly tried to catch the other person.
Lynch pushed the other person away.
After this action, he seemed to have regained some strength, turned around and stumbled towards Edith's residence. Carmen was pushed to the ground, and she was in so much pain that she saw stars, and she missed the best opportunity to stop him.
Lynch had a smooth journey.
Edith's residence was far away from the manor castle and far away from people. As he ran, the only sound he could hear was his own rapid breathing.
Finally, the independent small brick house appeared in front of him. There was a pair of shoes next to the flower stand at the door, which obviously belonged to Doreen. Lynch calmed down a little, patted his chest and slowed down: Fortunately, Edith couldn't abandon her sister. Maybe she was just afraid of infecting him, so she went out of the manor to recuperate.
After confirming this, he could have gone back, but the vague sense of uneasiness in his heart drove him forward and pushed open the door of the room.
It’s not locked.
The rustling sound of the door rubbing against the ground was not loud, but it was particularly harsh at the edge of the extremely quiet manor. Lynch frowned subconsciously and paused for a second before looking into the room - although he himself could not tell whether the pause was due to the sound or fear.
The room was empty.
Even the sound of Lynch's breathing disappeared from his ears.
All the personal belongings in the house disappeared, leaving only some messy tables and chairs, which showed that the owner left in a hurry.
Lynch stood there blankly for a moment, then stepped forward and buried his hand in the ashes in the fireplace.
Cold.
It was so cold, if you didn't burn firewood overnight, you would freeze to death. In other words, no one lived here since last night.
…
"Sister, I'm missing a pair of shoes."
Doreen woke up and checked her luggage and found that the pair of leather shoes Lynch gave her were missing.
She only has two pairs of shoes!
Edith slapped her head and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot."
She remembered that the pair of shoes was placed outside the door because they were dirty. She left in a hurry yesterday and only packed up the things in the house. She didn't expect to forget that thing.
But compared to the discovery of the disappearance of the Red Sword by Marquis Charles, the loss of a pair of shoes was still within controllable range.
"Lin Qi gave it to me? There's no need to accept it."
Heda stood at the door of the bedroom without knowing when. She leaned against the door frame and raised her chin, trying to show the pride of a young lady. "Since you have left the manor, you should cut off everything from the past and throw away everything you brought from there."
"I'll take you to make two new sets of clothes."
......
Edith finally went out wearing Charles' family servant's uniform.
There was no special reason, it was simply the only dress she had now. Hedda tried to put her own dress on her, but Edith's body had not recovered yet, so the dress hung empty on her body and did not fit her.
"It's okay, I'll just put something on to cover it." She quickly rejected Hedda's attempt to ask the tailor to alter her clothes on the spot, and borrowed a black cloak from her. The cloth hung down in front of her chest, covering the family emblem of Charles' family.
When she was in the royal capital, her wardrobe was always filled with black robes issued by the association. When she went out, she would add a cloak to cover the association's logo. Therefore, keys and other things were always stuffed in the interlayer of the cloak to avoid forgetting them.
Unexpectedly, she forgot to bring her keys when she rarely wore a dress, and encountered something that led to her death when she went to stay at Shelly's...
Edith shook her head. Only a month had passed since she started her researcher life, but she already felt like she was in another world.
Hulda City is indeed the center connecting the three major regions. Even in the coldest time before the Fire Festival, the streets are still bustling. In addition to the taverns and hotels that are open to welcome customers, there are small vendors selling special foods and novel items all over the streets, and even bookstores and bards that are not seen in Oliver City.
Hedda pulled Edith to stop and listen to the story for a while. After the minstrel finished singing the heroic epic that passers-by were tired of hearing, he finally began to slowly tell the latest news.
"A new manager of the Royal Capital Pharmacy Association has died. The cause of death was alcohol poisoning. The alcohol merchant who supplied the banquet was fined a large sum of money." He shook his head, looked at the red-faced drunkards pouring out of the tavern in front of him with ill intent, and said, "Drunkard rats, pay attention, don't poison yourself before you freeze to death!"
"Don't worry about us, you can't even pay for the wine!" Someone said, and threw a copper coin from the crowd. The bard rushed to pick it up, but the gray coin rolled around under the feet of the crowd and was kicked into the sewer by a passerby.
The crowd of onlookers suddenly burst into laughter.
No one cared about the dead "new manager", only Edith showed some subtle expressions.
This description...seems, seems, to be talking about myself?
So my death was determined to be caused by alcohol poisoning...
Before she could think deeply, the bard, covered in dust, had already tried to pick up the money, but failed, so he could only return to his accordion in disappointment.
"Why don't you tell me anymore?" The pot-bellied man felt bored when he saw the other party packing up and preparing to leave. He raised the money bag in his hand and shook it in front of the bard like a dog, "You didn't earn enough for food today, did you? Tell me two more stories!"
The bard heard the clinking sound in the bag and couldn't help swallowing.
"Then tell me two more things." He tried to ignore the laughter that rose again because of his shamelessness, and continued with the previous topic, "The Pharmacy Association intended to bury the administrator with the highest standards, but the deceased's students refused. It is said that an extremely fierce dispute broke out during the period."
"Before I left the capital, the three towers and most of the research laboratories of the Pharmacy Association were blown up, and the manager has not been buried yet."
Edith: “…”
Who? What exploded?
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