Xia De hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth: "It's not like I always spend the night alone... Actually, Princess Leia invited me to watch an opera with her tonight... in a private box."
The girl with the headscarf raised an eyebrow: "Speaking of that princess, I still don't understand why Dorothy agreed to her and her to be with you..."
She couldn't discuss this topic in public: "Have a good time tonight, and I hope that poor princess remembers to bring the youthful immortality leaf."
She stopped speaking because Xia De's expression suddenly turned serious.
The Outsider looked towards the staircase again: "Someone else has appeared."
"Who?"
Luvia didn't look over; too much direct gaze would alert a sensitive Ring術士.
"How interesting, it's people from the Apner Library. They wouldn't also be looking for Miss Pa Wo, would they? Then they'll need a bigger table. There are three of them in total. I don't know the first one, the second one I met when I helped Old John pick up goods, and the third one is... Guiding Moon?"
"What Guiding Moon? Do you know someone with that nickname?"
Luvia asked with a smile. Only when Xia De confirmed that the three newcomers had sat down at the table next to Miss Pa Wo's group did she slightly turn to look at them.
She still watched for about half a minute before turning her head back with a relaxed expression. She lightly tugged at her headscarf, making sure her face with the strange makeup wouldn't be seen more clearly by Xia De:
"I finally found it."
"Found it... hmm? Found what?"
"Of course, the person I came here to find."
Luvia said, tapping the table with fingers painted with strange purple nail polish: "Otherwise, what else could it be?"
"The Chosen One has really appeared? Which one is it?"
Xia De was extremely surprised, completely unexpected such a gain this afternoon.
"The one you called 'Guiding Moon'."
Luvia picked up the wooden cup filled with juice. In winter, the price of juice at the Three Cats Inn had increased quite a bit: "Since you know him, tell me who he is. It's a bit far, and although I can't see his face clearly, I don't think I've met him before."
"Sir Leikins Prisha, he is an attendant in Princess Margaret's visiting delegation."
Xia De frowned: "But why would it be him? He's not only a correspondence student at Success Higher Medical College, but he's also suspected of being an academic spy for the Apner Library."
"So what?"
Luvia smiled. Having confirmed the Chosen One's identity, weeks of 悶情绪 vanished: "Compared to Iluna, Ivan Darkness, and Joey Barton, this identity isn't particularly strange."
She gazed at the cup, Xia De gazed at her. Regardless, on this snowy winter afternoon, the identity of the fourth Chosen One was finally confirmed.
Although the identity of the Chosen One was revealed, Luvia was not in a hurry to leave. She rarely had the opportunity to be alone with Xia De in a place like the Three Cats Inn, so she specifically ordered two drinks and asked Xia De to have one with her.
Unlike the previous two Chosen Ones, the background of "Guiding Moon" Mr. Leikins Prisha is somewhat complex. He has identities in two Ring術士 organizations, and his own ordinary person background is quite extraordinary.
This also led to the fact that this was not someone Xia De and Luvia could easily win over. Ivan Darkness is from the Blood Spirit School and is destined not to align with the Church; while Joey Barton has not done anything bad, he belongs to The Society of Truth and is unlikely to cooperate with the Church immediately; as for Sister Devlin, the blind nun herself is a leader of a Ring術士 organization, and she also has some thoughts about Xia De, which is why she was able to cooperate with the two of them.
However, if Sir Prisha truly wanted help, choosing the Church would be much more convenient than choosing Xia De and Luvia.
Both the Outsider and the female Diviner knew this, so this time Luvia did not mention asking Xia De to confirm whether Sir Prisha might cooperate with them:
"You need to confirm whether he is a good person or a bad person."
The girl with the headscarf said, tilting the wine glass so that beer flowed onto the plate. This was a "water divination" method, though it was uncommon in this era. Diviner of this era preferred to use divination cards, coins, and crystal balls.
"Good and bad are not so easy to define."
Luvia said softly, her pretty purple eyes staring at the liquid flowing in the plate: "What you need to confirm is, if he truly becomes the Chosen One, what attitude does he hold towards the world and civilization. Once all thirteen Chosen Ones appear, the opened door will decide many things. Even if we cannot cooperate as we did with Iluna and Sister Devlin, we must at least determine what kind of person he is."
Luvia's implied meaning here was that if Sir Leikins Prisha was the kind of anti-social, anti-civilization madman, or secretly had other intolerable habits, then they would have to find a way to deal with this Chosen One; if he was a truly good person, then they could secretly help the Sir become the true Chosen One.
Miss Pa Wo's group of seven did not stay long, leaving one by one after only about ten minutes, without attracting much attention.
Once they confirmed that they had all left, Xia De got up and went to where they had just been sitting, attempting to use "Echoes of the Past" to listen for sounds. But unfortunately, in a place like the Three Cats Inn, which has guests almost twenty-four hours a day, it was impossible to accurately hear sounds from a specific time period.
Moreover, among Miss Pa Wo's seven, someone seemed to possess the power of time, which greatly affected the casting of "Echoes of the Past." Xia De tried a few times and then gave up, returning to Luvia's side:
"I don't know what they talked about, but the Truth Society, the Pantanal Voodoo Society, and the Apner Library appearing together shouldn't be to discuss the price of vegetables in the City."
Luvia smiled: "How many coins do you still have?"
"Two, the Cat and Dog Coin, and the coin of wisdom. But I haven't been to Coldwater Port recently, maybe the black market there will have something."
"I still have the diviner's silver coin here. Yesterday, Iluna brought me an Elephant Coin, which was confiscated by Iluna's team when they raided contraband."
The Elephant Coin is not the formal name of the relic; its formal name is the Document-level relic Animal Coin. The number of these coins is uncountable, with each one having a number on the front and an animal pattern on the back. For example, a coin with an "elephant" pattern is an Elephant Coin, and a coin with a "moose" pattern is a Moose Coin.
The unique property of this coin is that after tossing it, at the cost of the coin itself, it summons the animal corresponding to the coin.
The dark iron-colored coin that Luvia pushed across the table to Xia De at this moment could summon an elephant at any time.
The reason why the Animal Coin is Document-level (Level 4) is that when using the coin to summon an animal, there is approximately a one-tenth chance of summoning a bizarre creature that looks like an animal but is not actually an animal.
"I heard the old Fortune Teller at the Diviner's Association mention that about fifteen years ago, a local Ring術士 in Tobesk used an Elephant Coin to summon a white elephant, which he kept in an abandoned manor outside the City."
Luvia whispered about the past:
"Later, that Ring術士 was arrested by the Church for selling potions with huge side effects on the black market. When the Church went to deal with that elephant, the Eleven Ring Sorcerer leading the Dawn Church team claimed that what he saw was clearly a white rabbit."
Xia De's interest was piqued: "And then?"
The purple-eyed girl shook her head: "That manor was directly leveled by three Thirteen Ring Sorcerer temporarily transferred from out of town. The old Fortune Teller of the association are very wary of this and refuse to tell me the full details of the incident.
At the time of that incident, only Doctor Schneider in our group was already a Ring術士. Later, when I asked him, he recalled for a long time before remembering that in the summer of that year, the academy suddenly issued a warning to local correspondence students, stating that a malevolent entity with powerful reality-distorting abilities had appeared in the Tobesk area. That was equivalent to an Angel-level relic out of control incident, and they strongly advised local students to go to other places to avoid it."
Xia De's mouth slightly opened in surprise, and Luvia seemed to have anticipated his expression:
"Don't worry, that's all in the past. This City always has a few major incidents every few years, and the Church usually handles them very well."
Xia De nodded, wondering if there would be a "Cat Coin." As for the dark iron-colored coin in his hand, its density was greater than expected, so its weight was somewhat surprising. The patterns on both sides of the coin matched Luvia's description, and there were very difficult-to-observe patterns on the side of the coin:
【Zoos imprison them, the world imprisons us.】
"Let's use this one. This relic sounds much more dangerous than the others, so let's not keep it. This time, we found the Chosen One's identity without consuming a coin, so we have plenty of coins and don't need to save them here."
Xia De said.
Luvia nodded, closed her eyes, and held the coin between her right thumb and forefinger. As her fair, slender fingers gently twisted, tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the dark iron-colored coin. The cracks quickly spread across the entire coin. At the same time, rust appeared on the coin's surface, gradually enveloping the coin itself. Upon reaching a certain limit, the Elephant Coin completely turned into dust.
But it didn't even fall to the table; even the dust disappeared.
The eyes beneath the headscarf opened, and the fleeting purple 流光 in her eyes was only visible to Xia De. It was the first time he realized that when Luvia used special divination, tossing the coin into the air was not a mandatory action.
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