Prince Charlie was treated very warmly after entering the room, and the two superpowers took turns hugging and shaking hands with him. The sincere and admiring look in his eyes was like an official from a third-tier city in the empire meeting a member of the central government on inspection. The slightly outrageous movements due to enthusiasm and the strength of the two slightly larger hands made Prince Charles unable to find any way to escape.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince missed the opportunity to interact with the knights and sat on the sofa sandwiched between two superpowers. He smiled awkwardly at the two young men and tidied himself up. He picked up his collar and glanced at the house he had just cleaned.
He didn't seem to want to get to the point, but started talking about something unrelated to the purpose.
"Knight Orianna... I'm surprised that you are still living in this cramped little building." Charlie smiled sympathetically, "This is not a place where our seventh knight should live! It is inconsistent with your status."
Orianna smiled very reluctantly: "I think this is not bad..."
"You are an honest woman, but the kingdom should not treat a loyal knight like this." Prince Charlie waved his hand, "I have a beautiful little villa, which is my official residence when I am on vacation. A truly comfortable and elegant house. , that’s the right place for you!”
Orianna stopped smiling and said expressionlessly: "No, thank you."
Prince Charlie raised his chin and said with an almost arrogant attitude: "Ah... you should think again, Knight Orianna. It is your duty to serve the royal family——"
"My loyalty is to the kingdom, not to a specific person," Orianna said. "My job is to fight and protect, not to serve."
Orianna said the word "fight" very strongly, which made Prince Charlie look unhappy. The noble Crown Prince pinched his mustache and spoke faster: "Can you really fulfill your duties on the battlefield? A seventh knight who can't use a sword?"
Mo Yuankai knocked on the armrest of the sofa without showing any emotion.
Prince Charlie was aggressive: "I'm afraid your position is not as secure as you think - ah!"
thump! The sofa seemed to be in disrepair. The cushion under Prince Charlie's butt sank like a collapse, making his body half shorter. His whole body folded like a cat caught in a trap.
Gongsun Ce said exaggeratedly: "Holy King, this is so rude. Orianna, look how right your highness is. This old furniture of yours should really be replaced!"
Orianna couldn't help but laugh: "I'm sorry... are you okay, Your Highness Charlie?"
"Can't you see?! I'm hurt!" Charlie said angrily, "You -"
"It's a small problem, let me help you up." Mo Yuankai kindly pulled him up and used his ability to repair the sofa. "By the way, His Highness the Crown Prince's intelligence seems not very good. Miss Orianna successfully used the Holy Spirit once last night. The sword."
"...!"
Prince Charlie's attitude changed immediately. He tried hard to adjust the expression on his face, hiding his anger as much as possible, and instead showed an expression of approval and joy.
"It's... worth celebrating! You are indeed a powerful knight!" He wiped his hair and looked at the two strangers next to him in order to change the subject: "It's nothing serious, it's just a trivial matter. I'm so sorry. Yes, I was so confused by some trivial matters that I forgot to ask... I haven’t asked yet, who are these two?"
"Mr. Mo Yuankai and Mr. Gongsun Ce are superpowers who came from the Sky Capital to repair the armor of the Knights, Your Highness Charlie." Orianna said with a smile.
"The beard of the Holy King!"
Charlie had just settled down on the repaired sofa, and when he heard this, he jumped up from the sofa in fright.
His expression was colorful, first showing extremely obvious hatred and fear. These two emotions were intertwined with the previous anger, and quickly turned into rage. He immediately looked at the silent Dawn Knight, and was about to shout and say something unpleasant.
However, a faint "sand" sound sounded at this moment, like gravel falling from an hourglass. The sound was to the right of Prince Charlie, coming from the palm of the black-haired boy. Gongsun Ce was playing with a small porcelain soldier. His palms were very gently brushed over the porcelain figure, and the soldier's legs were crushed into white sand little by little.
"?~"
Gongsun Ce whistled and rubbed the soldier's head. The sturdy soldier was like a document being thrown into a shredder, and began to scatter into dust from below, leaving only a majestic head lying in the dust.
He stared at his results with satisfaction, raised his head and smiled innocently: "Hey? Why is everyone silent? Your Highness, please speak quickly, we are all waiting for you to speak!"
Prince Charlie smiled stiffly like a wax figure and spoke quickly: "The kingdom welcomes you, and I am very happy to meet two young talents." After saying this, he immediately stayed away from the sofa and demanded: "Let us get back to business. .Listen, Knight Airandia, I have an important matter that I want to discuss with you alone—"
Alandia spoke for the first time.
"Please just say it."
Prince Charlie was so angry that his fingers were trembling, but he obviously did not dare to lose his temper in front of a world-creating magician, especially the Dawn Knight who had turned the royal capital upside down. He spoke with difficulty: "It concerns the reputation of the Wang family. I hope everyone here will keep silent. My seal was stolen by a shameful thief. You must find it for me within today!"
"Please describe the characteristics of this thief." Airandia said.
"I know nothing." Charlie said firmly, "All I can tell you are the above facts. Please investigate immediately."
Alandia shook her head: "I reject this commission."
The prince's eyes widened and he stood there in disbelief. Alandia didn't even look at him and said loudly: "Mr. Gongsun, please take His Highness Charlie out."
Gongsun Ce clapped his hands, walked to the side of the prince, stretched his right arm forward diligently, and said, "Please, Your Highness."
Charlie finally reacted. He shouted with an offended and angry expression, just like the slave owners in ancient times were angry with their servants: "You refuse?! Airlandia Harrison, do you think you are talking to me?" Who speaks?! I am the Crown Prince of the Kingdom, the Duke of Leinster, Munster and Meath, the future successor of the Morton Kingdom, Leinster Munster Meath protected by the Holy King Morton. Charlie Morton!”
Alandia took a sip of tea and said: "Mr. Gongsun, please ask Mr. Leinster Munster Meath Charlie Morton, who is protected by the Holy King Morton, to go out."
Gongsun Ce grabbed the prince's collar and dragged him towards the door. Silver light emitted from Charlie's hands, as if he wanted to generate something, but his reason restrained his anger. He scratched his neck and roared: "This matter concerns the glory of the kingdom!"
Gongsun Ce said in a gentle tone that was almost sympathetic: "Go away, you are ruining the glory of the kingdom."
He patted His Highness the Crown Prince's face gently, making two soft pops, then pushed the man out of the door and slammed the door.
Gongsun Ce turned around, bowed deeply like a butler, and said in elegant imperial dialect: "The idiot is gone!"
The room burst into laughter. Mo Yuankai held his stomach hard, and Orianna hugged the sofa cushions. She wanted to scold him several times, but she still couldn't hold back her laughter.
"You are too..." Orianna wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "But...I...hahahahahahahahahaha!"
Gongsun Ce leaned against the door, contentedly listening to the faint shouting coming from outside.
"You know, brother. In just a few seconds, for the first time in my life, I felt that Badman was actually a pretty good guy. Orus deserves to be called a humble gentleman."
"John can be called a king, and Zijing is like a living saint." Mo Yuankai said.
It was really an eye-opener for the two of them that the dignified prince of a country could be so mentally retarded that he looked like a wild boar in splendid clothes. Mo Yuankai found it hard to believe that this prince came from the same family as the two royal family members yesterday. After seeing the behavior of other high-level officials in the kingdom, this person's stupidity and incompetence became even more unbelievable - even those who could not be named in Cangdu The leaders of small organizations looked smarter than him.
"It's been a long time since I met such a 24k pure fool. I'm a good person if I didn't shave his ears."
Gongsun Ce sat down on the sofa, turned around and asked, "Do you still care about this matter, Dawn Knight?"
"Perhaps." Alandia was rummaging through the pile of newspapers, "May I ask what the itinerary of Mr. Mo and Knight Orianna is today?"
"I want to try the repaired enchantment center module. I heard the mages say that I need to enter the Shadow Mist City from the museum." Mo Yuankai said.
"Please go to the headquarters to discuss the work first." Alandia opened her pocket watch and looked at the time. "It is 8:03 now. If everything goes well, we should meet at the museum."
Mo Yuankai and Orianna looked at each other, wondering why the Dawn Knight spoke like this. But since the other party had plans, they didn't bother anymore and went out first.
"What do you think, Mr. Gongsun?" Alandia took the newspaper from the past few days and sat at the reception table.
Gongsun Ce pulled out the headline of yesterday's entertainment page, "Prince Charlie is suspected of being involved in a same-sex relationship scam", and read in a cadence: "...our romantic highness, His Royal Highness, has suffered a rare setback on the road of love...Since the scandal was exposed last week, , the legendary male beauty never appeared again...According to well-informed sources, Prince Charlie spent a lot of assets pursuing this new love. This is likely to be a fraud tailor-made for him..."
Gongsun Ce put down the newspaper and said: "It's not surprising for lovers to come in and out of the inner room. It's a piece of cake to find the right opportunity to steal a seal. Compared with simple money or treasures related to the inner world, seals are neither big nor small but are Important stuff is obviously a more suitable target. It won't really alarm you experts, but it will grossly disgust Charlie."
"It's very possible." Alandia commented, "This can also explain His Highness Charlie's reluctance to say more."
"Are you really going to take this idiot's order?"
"I will not accept his commission." Alandia glanced at her pocket watch, "In about half an hour, the new client will arrive."
Alandia spoke confidently, so Gongsun Ce calmed down and waited while playing with his mobile phone. The incident unfolded exactly as she said. 35 minutes later, the doorbell rang. Gongsun Ce went to open the door and found a blonde girl with braids standing outside the door. She seemed to be in a hurry and there were beads of sweat on her head.
"Hello, sir. Is the Dawn Knight here?" asked the third princess Gray.
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Rumor has it that Prince Charlie inherited his father's brown hair and suave style, while Prince Jackson inherited his mother's blond hair and decisiveness, but the third prince, Gray, was unpopular with both. She is not as strong-willed as her mother, nor as sociable as her father. The golden color in her hair is not as pure as that of her second brother, but slightly yellowish. When matched with the mage robe, she really looks like a yellow-haired girl who is still in school.
"Alas..." Gray took a sip of tea and said listlessly, "Brother King Charlie just told me about this. I apologize to everyone on his behalf, even though it is meaningless. His reputation has long been hopeless. ”
Gray's shabby attitude made Gongsun Ce embarrassed to speak sarcastically. Her Royal Highness the Third Princess held the palm of the Dawn Knight and said tiredly: "Good knight, I can't give you any useful reward, so just help me and use your smart mind, okay?"
"..."
Alandia did not answer directly, pushed the newspaper forward and said, "I guess it was a theft by a lover."
Gray couldn't help but cover her face.
"Holy King," she said desperately, "I introduced them to each other."
Gongsun Ce couldn't help but interjected: "The person you are introducing is still... so open-minded?"
"It's not what you think!" Gray sighed, "I don't even know where to start... You know that I am a mage apprentice, right?"
In Gray's explanation, the two gradually understood the full story of the incident.
As a mage's apprentice, Gray often visits the Morton National Library (which seems to be an institution in the inner city of the Mage College) and conducts academic discussions with scholars. She and a young man named Jekyll The men met in the process. Jekyll is a scholar from the outside world. Although his family is poor, he is young and promising. He has done in-depth research on the history of the kingdom and medicine. It happened that Prince Charlie was in urgent need of medical tutoring, so Gray introduced Mr. Jekyll to the prince's brother and hired him to be the prince's personal tutor.
"I would like to ask, why is he in urgent need of tutoring?" Gongsun Ce asked.
Gray said awkwardly: "He was pursuing a female doctor during that time..."
"Oh~~~" Gongsun Ce suddenly realized.
After gaining some temporary medical knowledge, Prince Charles found a common language and successfully tracked down the female doctor. But things developed strangely after that. He seemed to be very satisfied with the medical course and asked Mr. Jekyll to continue tutoring for him. This tutoring seemed to have changed his taste, and the learning venue was moved from the desk to the bed.
Then a scandal broke out and the seal was stolen. Prince Charles immediately suspected his lover, but when he investigated, he discovered that this person's identity was all false. There is no man named Jekyll in the whole of Superbia who can match his teacher's name. What's even more bizarre is that there is no trace of this person even in the entry and exit records of the Great Library. Mr. Jekyll seemed to appear out of thin air and then disappeared without a trace.
"What's the result of the divination?" Alandia asked.
"The information left by the other party is all false, and the divination failed." Gray shook his head, "I'm a little bit broken, Alandia, the friend I know not only has a different sexual orientation than ordinary people, but he is also a fake who never existed. people."
The former is not so rare in your kingdom.
"His false identity eluded the intelligence agency's preliminary investigation. It was a premeditated attack." Airandia nodded, "Any other valuable information?"
Gray thought hard for a while and said: "I don't know if this will help... Brother Wang came to ask me about perfume some time ago. He seems to want to make his own perfume as a gift for someone."
A fragment of information appeared in Gongsun Ce's mind, and he and Alandia asked in unison: "Violet perfume?"
Gray looked back and forth between the two of them, her surprise evident in her words.
"Yes...why?"
Gongsun Ce clapped his hands and said with a smile: "We roughly understand the situation. Miss Alandia?"
"This case should be over within today." Alandia said, "As for how Prince Charles wants to get his seal back, let him think about it himself."
Gray put on his hood and said with a smile: "Alandia~ Sometimes I think you are more like a mage than Mr. Roninlus! Then I will take the first step and let's have a tea party together when you are free. !”
Gongsun Ce sent Princess Gray away and sat down on the sofa. His fast-moving mind made him feel a little hot: "Where is the Morton National Library?"
"The largest library in Superbia, it is also one of the institutions managed by the Royal Master Academy."
"I guess so... you think, if Jekyll has his eye on Gray and wants to have a relationship with Charlie, he needs to meet Gray frequently. Or his information is accurate enough to know exactly where Gray went to the library. Time, or he often goes to this place so he can pretend to encounter him casually."
"Both are possible." Alandia said. "Jekyll's entry and exit did not leave a record in the system. Assuming that the record is trustworthy..."
"It means he entered with another identity and then disguised himself in the museum." Gongsun Ce pointed his finger on his forehead, "Your place doesn't like technological products like Cangdu and Hezhong. I prefer him to use The impermanent method. A person who has reason to frequent the library and can use the impermanent method in the library without suspicion is likely to be..."
"A mage apprentice affiliated with the academy." Airandia nodded, "You thought of the commotion yesterday morning."
Gongsun Ce touched his nose: "That thing impressed me a lot. I remember Knight Sarah said it was the perfume on the apprentices' bodies."
The speculation is over, now it’s time to confirm. Alandia picked up the phone in the house, dialed and asked: "Good morning, Knight Sarah. I would like to ask you to help me check the list of mage apprentices who came to the headquarters yesterday morning... If you can, please send your pet to transport it. ……Thanks."
"Send the dog to come over?" Gongsun Ce asked in surprise.
"As evidence." The Dawn Knight sat down on the sofa.
They didn't wait long. Knight Sarah's dog ran from the headquarters ten minutes later. It was a Shiba Inu with bright eyes. There was a note hanging on its collar. Gongsun Ce took the note off and patted the Shiba Inu on the head: "Good dog, here's a piece of bacon."
The Shiba Inu finished eating the crispy bacon, licked his palm, and said in Gongsun Ce's familiar voice: "You're welcome, but I prefer sausages."
The superpower sat down on the ground. He said in shock: "Aren't you a golden retriever?!"
Shiba Inu Sarah lay down on the floor, folded her paws, tilted her head and said, "Maybe I have a genetic mutation?"
"Sorry, I was preconceived..."
Gongsun Ce stood up awkwardly and propped himself up on the floor, and then he understood. Obviously, a dog cannot take on the important task of a knight. Most of the knight Sara often uses these dogs as her familiars or microphones, just like those with super powers who are good at controlling animals.
"You don't really think I'm a dog, do you?" Sarah asked with interest.
"Where, how could it be!"
Gongsun Ce denied it repeatedly and handed the note to Alandia. The two of them and the dog looked at the list together. Alandia's finger crossed the list and finally stopped at the last name.
Crikey Hyde.
"What a coincidence." Gongsun Ce sneered, "She did claim to be a mage apprentice yesterday."
Now he could explain Mr. Charlie's sudden change of sexual orientation. The man had never come out.
A ball of pure white amorphous substance appeared in Alandia's hand. Gongsun Ce could see clearly from the sidelines that the substance only appeared for a moment before turning into a bottle of pale purple perfume in the knight's hands.
Gongsun Ce smelled something familiar. The last time he smelled this fragrance was when Kriji was chatting with him yesterday. At that time, they were very close.
"How did you make this? Just with that little taste?"
"This is my ability." Airandia said, "Knight Sara, please help me."
Sara the Shiba Inu came forward, sniffed, and sneezed: "That's it!"
Alandia put away the perfume, stood up and said, "Get ready, Mr. Gongsun. Let's go to the Royal Morton Museum."
"Don't you want to go to the troupe?"
"No, the museum is the Chief Mage's studio." The Knight of Dawn put on his hat, "And Criqui Hyde is the Chief Mage's apprentice."
