Chapter 148 Death, Newcomers, and the Leader's Movements (asking for monthly tickets)
The bedroom was quiet. The housekeeper pushed open the door and walked slowly out of the darkness, his footsteps extremely restrained.
After a while, he stopped and stared at the crystal ball on the bedside table, remaining silent for a long time.
At the same time, Yagubaru in the crystal ball suddenly opened his eyes.
The man and the shark looked at each other quietly in the moonlight.
The shark's upright pupils sparkled, reflecting a barely visible dark blue hue, like a ferocious beast protecting its master.
Since the butler didn't say anything and didn't do anything, Ji Minghuan didn't plan to let Yagubaru do anything. He just continued to pretend to be a harmless Nobel shark. It was not the right thing for a shark noble to lose his composure.
"I have a question... You are on the side of His Royal Highness the Third Prince, right?" After a long silence, the butler spoke.
Yagubaru was stunned. Since the housekeeper already knew that it was abnormal, there was no need to pretend.
If the butler stood on the side of the eldest prince and the second prince, then he must be aware of the attack on the third prince last night. When thinking about the fact that "this Nobe shark is not normal", he would think that it was Yagubaru who swallowed the werewolf in one gulp and saved César.
So the butler asked this question instead of taking action directly, which means that the butler should also be on the third prince's side and is not aware of what happened last night.
"What else?" asked Yagubaru.
The butler lowered his eyes, then raised them again and took a long breath: "Then I feel relieved..."
Yagubaru made a gesture to keep quiet: "Shh... He is sleeping. Shark is going to sleep too."
The housekeeper thought for a moment and said, "Even if you knew that you might become enemies with the entire world, would you still stand on the side of the Third Prince?"
"Of course." said Yagubaru.
It thought to itself, my main mission is to protect the third prince, what else can I do besides completing the mission? Let a shark over 100 meters long try to eat a 200-meter whale?
"That's good... Please make sure to protect him." The butler pondered for a moment, bowed to the shark in the crystal ball, and said respectfully: "I am just a low-level wonder user. I can only use some daily wonder fragments. I can't do anything else... But I have watched His Royal Highness the Third Prince grow up since he was a child. I can't bear to see him die in this cruel and ignorant struggle for the throne."
Yagubaru did not respond, but just observed his expression quietly.
"Then I'll take my leave first." After saying that, the butler turned around and was about to leave, but Yagubaru suddenly stopped him:
"Hey, don't leave in such a hurry."
The butler stopped where he was and turned half his body to the side. "Excuse me, is there anything else?"
"If you have the ability, please help me find some strange fragments. No matter what type or level of strange fragments, I don't care whether they are raw or foreign." Yagubaru said.
"Is this also to protect the third prince?"
"certainly."
"Then I will try my best to help within my ability."
"That's good. Goodbye."
The little shark in the crystal ball couldn't help but hum with pleasure, thinking that now it had one more owner.
The butler nodded, then walked out of the bedroom and closed the door gently and silently.
"I thought he was just another person who was going to give me food and drinks, but he turned out to be a good person?" Yagubaru said, "But even if he has bad intentions and is just pretending to be nice and planning to bite back, as long as he is willing to give me the fragments of strange stories, I can use him."
Seeing that there was no more sound from all directions and only the faint snoring of César could be heard in the bedroom, Yagubaru slowly closed his eyes in the crystal ball.
The next morning, when Yagubaru opened his eyes, he saw nearly twenty pieces of strange story fragments stacked on the bedside table.
Seeing that César had not woken up yet, it pushed open the lid of the crystal ball and controlled the undercurrent to approach the fragments.
Like a funny and exaggerated scene in a cartoon, the shark's open mouth suddenly expanded at this moment, and then it swallowed all twenty pieces of strange news fragments into its throat, and its gills returned to normal size.
[Has swallowed 14 "general-level" oddity fragments, triggering the effect of the exclusive training system "Oddity Taotie", your real body size increases by 7 meters. ]
[You have swallowed 6 "popular-level" anecdotes fragments, triggering the effect of the exclusive training system "Anecdotes Gluttony", and your real body size has increased by 12 meters. ]
[Your true size increases by a total of 19 meters. ]
[Unit 3 - Eternal Shark "Akubaru" changes in size: 103m → 122m. 】
After eating all the fragments, the little shark returned to the crystal ball with the black water, closed its eyes contentedly, and continued to sleep soundly in the sea water.
However, not long after, it was awakened by César's hurried voice.
"What's wrong, Cesar?"
Yagubaru slowly opened his eyes from the crystal ball.
I saw Xizel kneeling on the bed, his white hair was messy, his eyes were red, and he was pale, like a piece of paper that would break at any time.
After talking for a long time, Xizel couldn't utter a complete sentence. In the end, he just hugged the crystal ball and cried hysterically: "Why...why, why did my brother do that?!"
Tears of resentment flowed from the corners of his eyes and fell on the surface of the crystal ball.
Yagubaru tilted his head and stared at him with a strange look on his face.
It is said that on this morning, shortly after César's butler "Ikar" stole from the royal family's warehouse of oddities, he came to the palace to surrender. According to the royal court's rules, the second prince executed him on the spot. Most of the royal family saw the scene of Ikar's beheading.
After waking up, Cesare searched for Ikar in the castle for a long time but couldn't find him. Finally, he learned what had happened through a pigeon messenger. So he angrily wanted to see the eldest prince and the second prince, but he couldn't find anyone at all.
Finally, César returned here, kneeling on the bed like a dog with its spine removed, crying to the crystal ball for the whole morning.
After learning the whole story from Xizel, Yagubaru guessed that the reason why the butler turned himself in was probably because he did not want to be the third prince's weak spot.
From what the butler said last night, it can be heard that the butler also understood that a war would most likely break out within the royal family after this. As one of César's closest people, if he unfortunately fell into the hands of the eldest prince and the second prince, César would most likely be greatly affected.
But if he died, the Third Prince wouldn't have these worries.
Of course, there may be another reason besides this. Thinking of this, the shark in the crystal ball said:
"He died for a reason."
"What's the reason..." Xizel raised his red eyes, wrinkled his nose like a mad wolf, and asked hoarsely, "Tell me, why?"
"Ikar wants to tell you...your two brothers are not good people."
Xi Zeer sobbed and remained silent for a long time.
"Your brother wanted to kill you... Your butler knew very well that you wouldn't believe it, so in the end he had to use his own life to warn you. Otherwise, think about it, why didn't they even notify you before executing your butler?"
Yagubaru paused and said, "They don't take you seriously at all, so they won't take the people around you seriously either."
Xizel still didn't say anything. He just sat down against the headboard, lowered his head, and stared out the window with empty eyes.
So I said, I hate the atmosphere of deep hatred and bitterness the most...
Xizel said nothing, and Shark also said nothing.
Shark Shark just kept eating, and after eating, he synchronized his consciousness to the second machine, Xia Pingzhou.
It was already very late at night, and the local time in Venice was two o'clock in the morning.
In a pub box, orange-yellow light spread out, covering everyone's face.
Xia Ping Zhou was drinking with several people from the group, but while others were drinking wine, he and Ayase Origami were drinking orange juice.
It's not because he's not old enough. In the character setting, Xia Pingzhou is 19 years old, which is old enough to drink. He had taken two sips of whiskey in the afternoon, trying to act like a mature man.
But it’s better not to pretend at all.
In the pub box, Andrew sat there, gushing over wine while mumbling about his past with Lan Duoduo. It seemed that he was the one who recommended Lan Duoduo to the group leader, and he and Lan Duoduo had the best relationship, so he was the one who felt the most guilty and heartbroken after Lan Duoduo's death.
Xia Ping Zhou felt that Ayase Origami should feel the same way. After all, Oda Takikage was recommended by Ayase Origami to join the group, so he turned his head and glanced at the eldest lady.
Ayase Origami just lowered her eyes and silently looked at the little wild cat pendant that Xia Pingzhou bought for her in the gift shop.
If Andrew had been talking like this on other days, everyone would have told him to shut up. But that night, no one spoke up to stop him. The more he drank, the more he talked, and there was no sign of him stopping.
The relationship between Xueyi and Lan Duoduo seemed to be good. She held the girl's cheek and listened quietly without paying attention.
This old woman who has lived for a hundred years rarely shows such a quiet and reserved side, as if someone had cast a silence spell on her.
Not long after, someone pushed open the door and walked into the box. It was a girl in a black and white school uniform.
It was clearly the brigade's No. 2 "Jack the Ripper", and at this time, a strange figure followed behind the Ripper.
Xia Pingzhou raised his eyebrows slightly and looked up from the glass. What he saw was a man wearing a monocle and looked to be in his thirties.
The man's skin was as pale as a vampire who had not seen the sun for a long time, but his face was kind and intellectual, and his long white hair was tied into a ponytail. At this moment, the man was wearing a pair of white gloves and a white windbreaker.
Like his hair and skin color, everything about this man seemed pale.
"You guys haven't all been drunk to the point of being brain dead, have you?"
The Ripper said this calmly, hugging his shoulders and looking around. At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the man in the windbreaker.
Andrew burped and asked intermittently: "This, this is the newcomer?"
"Nice to meet you." The man nodded slightly and said in fluent English, "I'm the new No. 5, Bernardo Edward."
Bai Tanlang stared at the man with his left eye, hugged his shoulders and pondered: "The strange news is the 'Black Death', right?"
"That's right." Bernardo nodded with a faint smile on his face.
Xia Pingzhou looked at Bernardo's face quietly, wondering if this was the man who caused the king to contract the Black Death?
He originally thought that Bernardo was either vicious or crazy, or at least a gloomy and fierce-looking guy. Unexpectedly, this man looked like an easy-going and intellectual elder.
The Blood Descendant leaned back, resting his slender back against the sofa, and looked at the man curiously with his red eyes: "Is this the newcomer?"
It seems that everyone is surprised by the appearance of this "Black Death Fragment Holder". Who would have thought that a person with such a terrible name actually looks like a gentle guy in reality, which is a complete contrast.
Ayase Origami just took a glance and then lowered her eyes to continue reading her haiku collection.
Bernardo put his hands behind his back and turned his head to look around: "Isn't the captain here? I've always wanted to see him."
"The commander is in China." The Ripper sat down.
"China?" Bernardo repeated.
Xia Pingzhou also raised his eyebrows, thinking that the captain was actually in China. It would be easy if Hei Pupa could find him.
"Yes, the leader is in Lijing and said he wants to meet another new member." The Ripper picked up Ayase Origami's cup and took a sip of the remaining orange juice.
The Bloodline took a sip of red wine, licked his lips, and looked at the silent Bernardo: "No one knows what the leader is thinking, and few people can find him."
"If you want to see him, just wait until the next operation begins." Bai Tanlang said.
Li Jing, another new member? Xia Pingzhou thought, could the new member the captain is talking about be my number one machine?
So he raised his head and asked expressionlessly, "The other new member you mentioned, isn't that the 'Black Pupa'?"
(End of this chapter)
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