Lord of the Silver Crow

Stepping on the flat road paved with cement, passing through the road formed by the fragrance of flowers released by the dewdrops of flowers on both sides of the flowerbed, Yago walked into this large three-story building.

Yago, who was not here for the first time, opened the door in a familiar manner.

"welcome-"

Accompanied by a deliberately prolonged but tactful welcome, Yago entered the lobby, and a counter appeared on the left side of his vision.

Glancing at the three classical sofas and long tables that are empty on the right, Yago came to the counter and stared at the woman in the maid costume and said:

"I am Diago Claurido Fast."

"I'm looking for Mr. Friesen of'Thorn Tree'."

Hearing "Thorn Tree", the maid looked at him up and down, then turned sideways slightly, showing a girlish pure smile, stretched out her right hand and pointed her palm to the right:

"Mr. Friesen, please go to the prayer room on the far left."

"Thank you." Yago nodded, holding the silver-handled cane, turning to the left and walking towards the prayer room pointed to by the maid.

When he turned and left, the maid picked up the pen on the table, opened the notebook on the table, and wrote a note after the name of the third person on the last page of the list:

"Mention the'thorn tree' directly, and look for Friesen."

Lifting the pen, she wrote another word on the next grid.

After writing, she glanced at the list.

"Eileen Villa"

"Sitting on the sofa and waiting for an afternoon"

"cautious"

"Pauline Villa"

"Ask where Mr. Friesen and Mr. Fast are, and have an appointment with them"

"Flexible negotiation"

The third name is impressively "Diago Claurido Fast".

After silently scanning the name behind the third person, the maid silently closed the notebook.

.......

Yago walked along the corridor to the far left of the townhouse.

Looking at the "prayer room" in the maid's mouth, looking at the rose pattern on the prayer room, Yago reached out and knocked on the door. After waiting for about five seconds, he found that no one responded and no one opened the door. A double-page door with a red and blue rose pattern carved on each side, walked in.

It is not so much a prayer room as it is a church.

After he walked in the door, he saw a statue two meters high.

It was a beautiful woman surrounded by flowers, sitting in a seat made of flowers in a sitting position, with her hands crossed on her chest and pressed on her shoulders. Between her fingers, there was a flower drill growing from the vine. Out, there is quite a kind of aesthetic feeling.

Rose goddess.

The patron saint and friend of women and flowers.

When something about the rose goddess appeared in his mind, Yago turned his eyes and scanned the "prayer room".

Between the gate and the statue is a passage, which is sandwiched by two rows of ten rows of benches on the left and right.

Yago noticed that the chair on the left was white, while the chair on the right was black.

At this moment, a young girl in a black dress is sitting on the black bench in the first row on the right, with her hands folded on her chest and pressing on her shoulders.

This is a gesture of prayer.

Yago is no stranger to the way of praying in the largest church in Catcia.

After a short pause, he stepped forward, sat on the white chair on the left in the first row, took off the top hat, and turned to look at the young girl.

It seems that because of his arrival, the young girl ended her prayers, a pair of clear eyes looked at a gray Yago, and tilted her head:

"Do you have any troubles?"

nun?

Yago shook his head: "I'm Friesen from the Thorn Tree. He asked me to find him today."

Hearing Yago’s blunt question, the young girl was stunned for a moment. Then, she nodded slightly, showing a gentle smile:

"You come with me."

With that, she stood up and motioned to Yago to follow her.

After that, the girl came to the small door on the right side of the goddess statue and knocked gently on the door—

咚咚—

With two soft sounds, the small door was opened from the inside.

"Let's go." The girl walked into the room while leaning on the door frame and lifting the long skirt slightly.

Yago also followed the other side and walked in.

Then, what appeared before his eyes was an empty room.

Only in the center of the room, there is a huge pillar in the shape of a vine.

By the door, there was a man in armor standing there, seeing Yago coming in, he just nodded and closed the door.

Yago looked at the closed door with some confusion. It looked like a wooden door from the outside, but a metal door from the inside?

Then I swept my eyes around. In this empty room, apart from the huge vine-like pillars, there is only a small table by the door. There are a few books on the small table. It seems to be used to pass the time. s things.

However, when Yago was about to keep looking, the girl's call sounded again—

"Here, let's go down from here."

Standing next to the vine-like, black-and-white pillars, the girl said.

When Yago came to her, he understood the meaning of "go down".

The huge "vine" seen from the angle just now is indeed a pillar, a hollow pillar.

Among the pillars, there is the disintegration of the spiral, just in the same direction as the twisting of the vine pillars:

"Friesen should be on the third floor now. You and I will go to the first floor and wait."

Yago nodded, and walked down the stairs with the girl.

Although it looked like underground, Yago could clearly see the spiral staircase.

......

Yago didn’t realize that after walking down the stairs with the girl, the man in the room picked up a pen and a notebook from the table. It also turned to the last page and wrote his name on the list. The position of the name, wrote down his actions, and wrote a few words in the last box:

"Curiosity, without asking, easy to get distracted."

.......

After carefully stepping down the stairs for more than ten seconds, Yago also came to the "first floor" with the girl.

Entering this first floor, Yago's vision showed a long straight corridor with gas lamps hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor.

There are several rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor.

The girl walked straight to the first room on the left and opened the door directly.

There was no one else in the door, except for a very large table and a few chairs, this was completely an empty room.

"You stay here first, I'll call Friesen and the others over."

After Yago sat down on another chair near the opposite side of the door, the girl gave him a gentle smile, then turned and left the room.

Amid the sound of the door closing, the girl disappeared from Yago's sight.

Yago boringly tossed the silver in the pitcher until he took out his pocket watch for the third time, which was nearly ten minutes later, before the door was opened again.

This time, it was the girl and the green-eyed young man who called himself Friesen that he had seen before entering Yago's vision.

"Hello~ I was a bit busy because of yesterday's case."

The green-eyed youth spoke quite familiarly, then scratched his head, and handed the book he was holding to Yago:

"If you are boring, you can take a look at this first."