Chapter 163 I Know Your Secret
After writing the word "brother and sister", Hevinia did not put down her staff immediately, but tapped the table with her fingers. After thinking for a moment, she drew a question mark after the word "brother and sister".
Although she had heard this information from more than one source, she still couldn't be 100% sure.
After all, most of her sources of information were whispers in the girls' dormitory. Sentences like "Hevinia, I'm telling you a secret, don't tell anyone else" and "Wow, Hevinia, you have no idea what I just heard from XXX" could not be 100% true.
Of course, the authenticity is very high, because there are many real "noble ladies" in the girls' dormitory, they do know a lot of things, and Hevinia has confirmed this information from their mouths more than once, so it is basically certain that this information is true, but there is still a last bit of doubt.
After putting the question mark on it, Hevinia put down her staff and began to carefully look at each name on the paper.
This is the condition for playing the seven-tone divine music.
Yes, playing the seven-tone divine song is Hevinia's goal and her greatest ambition.
She entered this academy as Hevinia just for this matter. Now she has been working hard for it for a year, and the few names on this piece of paper are all her current achievements.
When she first entered school, Hevinia thought it would be easy to find the remaining six golden sounds.
After all, when she entered the school, the entire academy knew that she was the seventh tone of the gold level, so logically, the remaining six tones should be as famous as her.
But the reality was not as Hevinia wished. The golden steps were much more mysterious than she had imagined.
This is not a deliberate concealment by the three major colleges, but the other gold-level students are not all freshmen like Hevinia.
There are two types of students in the three major colleges of Shengyin.
The first type was normal students who attended the academy every four years, and then graduated and worked normally. Many of these students came from noble families, so even if they were at the gold level, they would return to their families after graduation, so Hevinia naturally couldn't find them.
The other type is students who stay in school, who have a longer student career than normal students. It can even be said that they stay in the college not only to study, but also to work for the college.
There are very few such students staying on campus, and they must have specific professors as their mentors, just like Hevinia, whose mentor is Professor Leonor, who took her on a mission to Lyra.
So she is also one of those students who can stay in school after four years of normal study.
Back to the previous question.
Except for a very small number of gold-level students with good background and connections who will choose to graduate normally, the vast majority of gold-level students will choose to stay in school.
After staying in school, they disappeared from everyone's sight.
It's not that they disappear physically, but after staying in school, they no longer need to wear robes that symbolize class and musical notes. They will take on more research work and no longer mix with ordinary students. And those classmates who know them, their class and musical notes, have already graduated.
Therefore, as time goes by, fewer and fewer people know about these golden levels.
And this is why, in a year, Hevinia has only found half of the people, and some of these half have repeated notes.
It’s not that she didn’t work hard, on the contrary, this is the result of her hard work.
If she is given more time and allowed to stay on campus, she will have more channels to obtain information and will find all the notes sooner or later.
But the problem is, she doesn't have the time.
The ceremony will begin this year. If you miss it this year, you will have to wait another twenty years, which is something Hevinia cannot accept.
Therefore, we must be more proactive.
But here’s the thing…
Hevinia subconsciously looked at the entangled left middle finger.
She is facing more than one trouble now.
Right now, the only one who sees through her ambition is this guy named Visas.
But even if Visas saw through it, Hevinia couldn't admit it because there was no way she could cooperate with Visas.
They all wanted to play the seven-tone divine song.
But the seven-tone divine song they wanted to play was definitely not the same one.
If the ultimate goals are not consistent, then short-term cooperation will only lead to greater division.
And in this world, Hevinia doesn't trust anyone.
She didn't even believe what Bai Wei said about cultivating her soul and then being able to leave this matter behind. If possible, she wanted to cut off this finger right now to prevent future troubles.
But her intuition told her that she couldn't do that now.
Not to mention that she lost a finger for no reason, what would people outside think of her?
For example, since Bai Wei has the ability to help her light up the notes, does he also have the ability to extinguish her notes?
No matter which of these two points, it is unacceptable to Hevinia now.
So, now she can reject Bai Wei’s transaction request, but she must not turn against him.
Even if we want to take action against him, we must do so after we have a thorough understanding of him.
This is also Hevinia's current principle of doing things.
At this moment, the entangled middle finger moved slightly, and Hevinia realized that she had taken a long time to "change clothes", so she changed clothes and packed up her things within ten seconds, then released the seal.
When the paper with the curse fell off, Hevinia felt Bai Wei return to her body.
It seems that the seal is indeed effective.
"Miss Hevinia, you took a really long time to change your clothes." Bai Wei said in a relaxed tone.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Visas." Hevinia apologized, and then said honestly, "I'm still dealing with some personal matters. Please understand."
"Ah, I understand. I'm not here to blame you." Bai Wei said with a smile, "I just want to say that if this happens again next time, you can tie it looser. It's too tight and I'm not comfortable. I can't breathe."
……breathe?
Helvinia looked closely at her middle finger, not knowing how she was supposed to breathe with just one finger.
But she was very tactful and did not ask any questions. Instead, she said, "Mr. Visas, tomorrow is the day I go to my tutor for lessons."
"Is that your bald teacher?"
"...Teacher Leona still has some hair, although not much." Helvinia said, "But what I want to say is that I need to enter the staff building where the teacher is, and there is a magic barrier in the staff building. The magic barrier can detect all forces that do not belong to the Holy Sound, and I am worried that your presence will be exposed."
"So you want to cut me down before you go back?"
"...That's not the case." Helvinia tried hard to keep her expression unchanged. "I just wanted to disguise you and cover your existence with the power of the Holy Sound."
"Oh? What do you think?"
"How about this for today?" Hevinia looked at the talisman on the table. "If you are uncomfortable, I can loosen it up a bit. Of course, if you don't want to, I can think of other ways."
Helvinia was a little nervous when she asked this question.
It's like a child who is trying hard and seriously to tell a lie in front of his parents.
But Bai Wei seemed to notice nothing and just smiled.
"Of course not."
"If you would rather loosen it up a little."
…
"Many people think that Tianqin is a group of people who don't know how to appreciate art and only know how to piece together that black, greasy machine without any aesthetic sense. But I don't think so." Leonor put a disc full of musical notes into a machine that looked very strange. As he put down the "claw" on the machine, a melodious melody soon came out of the machine. "Look at this, these things without any aesthetic sense put together can actually produce such a moving sound. Isn't this a kind of art?"
"On the contrary, those Rhine priests and knights who claim to be orthodox and dress elegantly always exude a kind of vulgarity, just like the things they like... Come on, who would regard a child as a work of art, especially a boy? It's simply... incomprehensible."
Leonor turned to look at Hevinia, his smiling eyes filled with admiration.
"Look at you, Helvinia."
"You are a true work of art, a work of art that can only grow on the pure land of Shengyin."
Hevinia's face was flushed, her expression showed some happiness, some pride, and of course some shyness: "Thank you, teacher."
"Haha, why are you thanking me? I haven't done anything yet." Leona said, "Although I was planning to find some way to help you if you still couldn't light up the notes, fortunately you still lit them up by yourself. Now you are a true golden note, a true work of art... What do you think?"
"It's all thanks to my teacher." Helvinia said, "If my teacher hadn't been encouraging me and reassuring me, I definitely wouldn't have been able to light up the notes so quickly."
"You kid." Leonor said with a faint smile, "Are all your extra talents focused on speaking?"
Although he was smiling, there wasn't much joy in Leonardo's eyes, and even his tone was much colder than usual, as if everything he had just said was just polite talk.
Hevinia knew that Leonor had not yet said what he really wanted to say.
Sure enough, not long after, she heard Leona ask: "Now that the notes have been lit up and become the true Golden Seventh Note, what do you think about the next step? About the ceremony."
"idea?"
"Yes." Leonor asked, "For example, which band are you going to join?"
His tone seemed casual, but Helvinia knew that this was what Leonor really wanted to say.
In fact, Leonor was not a particularly powerful professor in any of the three colleges, or even in the third college, and the reason he became Hevinia's mentor was because he had some connections with Hevinia's family.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the status of both sides is equal, and Lionel's status is even higher. After all, although the gold level is rare, one can still appear every few years.
But the problem is that the golden steps before the ceremony and the golden steps after the ceremony are not the same concept.
If Helvinia lit the notes after the ceremony and could not participate in the ceremony, then no matter how talented she was, Leonor would be able to suppress her.
But it happened to be lit before the ceremony, and it is extremely rare, and it is even very likely that there is only one seventh tone, so the value is greatly different.
There will be countless professors and forces with higher status than Leonor extending olive branches to Hevinia. They all want to play the Seven-tone Divine Comedy, and they are not people that Leonor can afford to offend.
That's why Leona first tried to test Hevinia, and those compliments were just to elicit the last key sentence.
As he asked this question, Leonor kept looking into Hevinia's eyes.
And Hevinia seemed to have noticed nothing, and said stupidly: "Ah? Shouldn't this be arranged by you, the teacher?"
Leonard narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression didn't change much: "Oh? Do you think so?"
"Well...what else?" Hevinia suddenly felt aggrieved. "Teacher, don't you want to take care of me?"
After confirming that Hevinia was not joking, Leonor's expression relaxed and he smiled again.
Of course, this smile was much more sincere than before.
"Since I've made you my student, I won't ignore you." He said calmly, "Since you don't think too much about this, just leave it to me. I will help you find the most suitable orchestra for you. Before that, just focus on your studies."
That is, he will sell himself to the highest bidder.
Hevinia naturally understood what this meant.
Leona did not have the ability to form an orchestra to perform the Seven-tone Divine Comedy. After all, apart from Hevinia, the most capable person under his command was the silver-level Doss.
That's why he loaned out Hevinia as a "commodity".
But Hevinia didn't care. After all, it didn't matter to her who she sold it to, so she answered very obediently, "I'll try my best."
So Leona looked at Hevinia with a softer look.
In that case...
"Now that you have lit up the musical note, as your mentor, I should give you something." Leonor said, "Tell me, do you want anything from me?"
Helvinia's eyes lit up.
Soon, Hevinia came out of the staff building where Leona was.
In her hand she held a small music box, which she had just received from Leonardo.
As for the function of this sound box...
Helvinia glanced down at her gloved left hand.
All I can say is that this was a backup plan she left for Bai Wei.
But it cannot be exposed now.
Thinking of this, Hevinia put away the music box.
Then she looked at the sky again. It was still early before sunset, so she still had some time.
In that case, she decided to go to the library again.
But at this moment, a boy suddenly appeared in front of her.
"Helvetia," he began, "I want you to team up with me."
Hevinia raised her head and looked at the boy who suddenly appeared with some surprise.
She didn't know the other person.
"Who are you?" She remained polite.
"Don't worry about who I am, you have to team up with me!"
The other party stared at Hevinia, and then spoke word by word.
"Because... I know your secret."
Helvinia's smile faded.
(End of this chapter)
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