Queen's Quarter, side view of Viscount Stratford's residence.

Fors, who was wearing a black dress, hid in a dark corner with Xio, staring at the closed iron gate, patiently waiting for the target to appear.

It didn't rain tonight, so they didn't have to face too difficult an environment. The carriage parked at the edge of the street lamp made them realize that the harvest would definitely come, only the difference was sooner or later.

After an unknown amount of time, the iron gate made a metallic friction sound and slowly opened backwards.

A figure in a dark cloak flashed out from inside, lowered his head, walked to the side of the taxi, and climbed on it lightly.

"Is it her?" Fors lowered her voice and asked Xio who was beside her.

She did not have the extraordinary ability to restore the other person's image and characteristics through description, and she had never seen the other person before, so she could not rely on spiritual intuition or "astrology" to make a judgment.

Xio nodded affirmatively:

"right!"

As they were talking in low voices, the hired carriage slowly accelerated and drove away from the side door area.

Xio immediately left his hiding place, ready to rely on the extraordinary ability of the "Sheriff" and the physical improvement brought by the "Interrogator", and jog to follow the target from a distance.

"What do you want to do?" At this moment, Fors pressed her shoulders and ruined her plan.

"Following!" Xio looked back at his friend in confusion.

Fors looked at the rental carriage that had not yet completely pulled away, and asked thoughtfully:

“Why are you following?

"Also, didn't you say that after the target enters the Backlund Bridge area, there will be a very powerful Beyonder protecting him?"

"Yes." Xio answered the latter question first, and then said, "Your question is very strange. Tracking is of course to confirm the target's appearance, identity, origin, and purpose."

Fors withdrew his left hand from pressing on Xio's shoulder, smiled slightly and said:

"Since the target is protected by a very powerful Beyonder, it will be difficult for us to complete the tracking in the Backlund Bridge area. We cannot find her residence and figure out her real identity. Do you want to directly conflict with the protector? Although I can help you, have you confirmed the other party's strength? How confident are you? Will it be dangerous?

"Moreover, as long as a fight breaks out, it will inevitably alert the target. This is the same as stopping the carriage on the way and questioning him in person. It will destroy your most essential intention and make Viscount Stratford alert so that he will not fall into trouble, giving you a chance to take action."

"If you do it, there is a possibility of failure. If you don't do it, you will definitely fail." Xio emphasized that he was aware of the predicament and just wanted to try again and look for opportunities along the way.

At this time, the rental carriage had turned at the end of the road and drove into the street. Fors watched its back gradually disappear, shook his head and smiled:

“No, no, no, what we need to do is change our thinking!

"We should first try to figure out the target's appearance, wait until daybreak, and then use her appearance to conduct routine investigations in the Backlund Bridge area and gather intelligence from other channels."

"You use words very professionally..." Xio said as he pondered.

"Of course, I've written detective novels!" Fors responded without any modesty.

"But how can we find out the target's appearance without alarming her?" Xio raised the most crucial question.

Fors took out "Lemano's Travel Notes" as if he had been prepared, and said with a smile:

"It's simple. Use the 'Psychological Invisibility' recorded by Miss Justice!"

Although Audrey "Justice" had few opportunities to use "Lemanno's Travel Notes", she was still quite curious and rented it two or three times to study the functions and characteristics of each extraordinary ability, and recorded some of her own extraordinary abilities on it, including the very practical "Psychological Invisibility".

As for her true identity, Xio and Fors became more and more certain, but they did not ask her in person or conduct further investigation. This was the most basic respect for the members of the Tarot Club.

After hearing his friend's answer, Xio's thoughts suddenly became clear and he had several ideas instantly.

Fors continued to speak:

"Using this page of extraordinary power, you will be in the sensory blind spot of the surrounding creatures. Even if you are dangling in front of them, they will not be able to see you. In this way, you can directly get on the carriage, walk to the target, look at her face openly, and remember all her features.

"Haha, sometimes I wonder, if someone uses 'Psychological Invisibility' and has bad luck, they might be trampled to death by a large creature that happens to pass by.

"Uh, don't make too much noise and don't talk to the creatures around you. Otherwise, you will attract attention and the 'psychological invisibility' will be automatically lifted."

"Hmm!" Xio nodded and raised another difficult point, "How can we prevent the target from noticing that the carriage door suddenly opens while driving?"

Without waiting for Fors to answer, she immediately asked:

"Do you have a record of the extraordinary ability of 'opening the door'?"

"What do you think?" Fors smiled and handed the "Lemano Travel Notes" in his hand to his friend, and explained which two pages "Psychological Invisibility" and "Opening the Door" were respectively.

After Xio had firmly memorized it, he immediately ran quickly along the shadows on both sides of the road, chasing after the rental carriage.

Not long after, she saw the target, and she shook her right hand slightly, causing the copper-green notebook to reveal a page of yellow-brown parchment.

As his fingers gently slid across, Xio seemed to see countless waves emerging on the surface of the deep lake and radiating in all directions.

When her vision returned to normal, she quickened her pace and quickly reached the moving carriage.

To confirm, Xio did not move directly, but took a few big steps to overtake the horse.

She immediately turned around and seemed to be crossing the road, but the driver was unaware and did not call out to warn her or rein in the horse.

After proving that "psychological invisibility" was effective, Xiu accelerated, avoided the collision with the horses, and came to the side of the carriage.

After a brief observation, she flipped through "Lemanno's Travel Notes", revealing a piece of white paper covered with strange patterns and symbols, then stretched out her right hand and pressed it on the wall of the compartment.

Her figure suddenly became transparent and appeared inside the carriage.

The woman in the dark cloak was sitting diagonally opposite, looking at the glass window on Xio's side as if she was thinking about something, but she ignored the bounty hunter who suddenly broke in.

At such a close distance, even if her cloak was pulled down low, Xio could still see her face clearly. Moreover, she was not as cautious as when she walked outside. Her every move seemed quite casual, so that her cloak was pulled down to her eyes.

In an instant, her appearance came into Xio's eyes, overlapping with a face that retained masculine features.

This is the extraordinary ability of the "Sheriff".

Xio's eyes suddenly widened, and he couldn't help but blurt out:

"Sherman?"

She could foresee that the woman who frequently came and went from Viscount Stratford's mansion during this period was quite beautiful, but she never imagined that the other party was actually her friend Sherman, a young man!

A man whose appearance couldn't even be described as androgynous has now become so handsome and so feminine!

At this moment, Hugh couldn't help but look Sherman up and down, and he was completely unable to associate the other's figure with the young man he knew.

If it weren't for the extraordinary ability of the "Sheriff" to confirm from the facial features that the person in front of her was Sherman, Hugh would definitely think that she had recognized the wrong person. Even so, she now suspected that the person in front of her was not Sherman, but Sherman's sister who was born on the same day with the same father and mother.

Hearing the surprised question, Sherman noticed that there was a familiar person in the carriage.

Bounty Hunter Hugh Dilcha!

She, who had changed her name to Sherman, was horrified at first, and then she instinctively said some words that Triss often mentioned:

“You can’t be bumped into by your former acquaintances now.

"Do you want your husband, the one you love, to know what you were like before?

"Only by completely severing ties with the past can you gain a new life and be saved!"

Similar remarks flashed through Sherman's mind quickly, causing her to suddenly have a thought that she herself was afraid of:

"Kill her!"

This thought was like a demon from the abyss, constantly whispering in Sherman's ears and echoing in her heart:

“Kill her!

“Kill this man who recognizes you!

“Only in this way can you truly break away from the past and not lose the present!

"Kill her!"

Sherman did not answer Xio's question. Instead, he clenched his left hand at his side, very slowly and tremblingly.

Xio noticed the other party's strong emotional fluctuations and confirmed that it was Sherman. He immediately asked with concern:

“How did you become like this?

"Where have you been during this time? Did anything happen to you? Were you hurt?"

Sherman's lips moved a few times, his left fist loosened a little, and he spoke in a tearful voice:

"I have started a new life, please don't bother me anymore, okay?

"I, I don't want to lose everything I have now, and I don't want to see the people I knew in the past!"

The faster she spoke, the more obvious her pleading became.

Xio was stunned for a few seconds, stared at Sherman, pursed his lips and said:

"good……"

She didn't stop, but reached out to open the glass window of the carriage and jumped out in the same manner as before.

Sherman watched the whole process in silence, finally let out a long breath, and collapsed in his seat as if he had lost all his strength.

She finally managed to control the devil within her.

At this moment, she saw a figure quickly appear out of thin air on the other side.

The figure was wearing a gloomy, dark, old-fashioned long dress, but it did not destroy her sweet and gentle appearance and temperament at all. She was just sitting there without saying anything, but it was hard to take your eyes off her.

Witch Triss!

"Why didn't you kill her?" Triss asked with a smile without any gloom, as if she was chatting about what kind of wine she drank last night.

"She, she is one of the few people who didn't discriminate against me and helped me..." Sherman replied in shock, then frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

Triss smiled and said:

"I'm protecting you."

Without waiting for Sherman to respond, she said:

"You seemed to be in a good mood when you came out."

Sherman recalled what happened before and said shyly:

"Maybe, maybe, I have a chance to be a mother..."

As she spoke, she touched her belly with her right hand, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but move to the sides.

"I feel like he's kicking me, kicking me..." Sherman was suddenly stunned and blurted out in shock, "How could it be so fast?"

She's not even sure if she can get pregnant today!

Seeing her reaction, Triss smiled even more charmingly.

ps: Ask for monthly ticket recommendation ticket on Monday~