After Varina left the room, Miss Sharon, wearing a complicated black court dress and a small black soft hat, completely appeared on the oriel window.
She asked in a calm tone: "What kind of ability is that?"
"It's a connection ability in the spiritual realm," Maric sat back on the sofa and analyzed with a frown:
"It feels a bit like our ability to control living corpses or ghosts, used in reverse... It may also be more like the kind of spiritual communication between demigod hunters and comrades..."
"It separated a small part of my thoughts and desires into the connected living corpse, which greatly eased the difficulty for me to suppress myself."
Sharon put her chin in her hand, thought for a moment and then said: "The Devil also has similar abilities."
"devil"? Maric was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that the "Devil" could indeed affect the target's thinking ability, and manipulating desires was also the "Devil's" specialty.
He asked nervously: "Is it dangerous?"
"Probably not," Sharon said through the wall, "I'll go check on him." and then left the bar directly.
…
After leaving the Brave Bar, Varina went to Braum Street and checked a mark on a crack in the wall next to the street restaurant.
This was the place where he and Xio agreed to mark their meeting.
Varina discovered that the mark he left in the afternoon had been modified, which meant that Hugh had received the message and would meet him at the Shure Shooting Club tomorrow morning.
This time he asked Xio to meet mainly for two things.
The first is to pay the reward for helping solve the last missing person commission.
He met Detective Zarrell at the shooting club in the morning and received his due reward from him, a total of 42 pounds. In other words, after receiving the results, his cousin Reyes gave a total reward of 70 pounds.
Another thing is that he wants to ask Xio to help keep an eye on the movements of the Dead Eel Gang and the Gray Rat Gang.
He wants to confirm the news of the two gang bosses Kent and Eugene. Kent is related to the two hours of memory he lost, and Eugene is the target of his assassination mission.
If he could find Kent, he would be prepared to go find him to interrogate what happened that day; and if Eugene came back to Backlund, he would complete the commission before the deadline.
After Varina confirmed the mark and left, Sharon appeared at the crack in the wall and observed the mark for a while.
In the end, Sharon, who couldn't decipher any information from that simplicity, had to follow Varina again and returned to his residence.
While Varina was resting, Sharon explored several rooms around her and determined that the renters were just ordinary people. When she returned to Varina's room, she saw him learning Hermes.
According to the book, he copied the character he wanted to learn while practicing his pronunciation through the pronunciation marked in Rune language in the book. He continued many times. After he had an impression, he moved to the next character.
Varina's original plan was to be more prudent, slowly get in touch with Maric and Miss Sharon, deepen the relationship little by little, and use them as helpers that he might need in the future.
But the amnesia incident changed everything, and he had to risk skipping the foreshadowing and instead seek ways to restrain madness and suppress desires inherited by the temperance school.
This was the best way he could think of to fight against his heart.
Varina knew that Extraordinaries on the "criminal" path would lose their humanity little by little and transform into alien beings like demons and demons, and he was afraid that he would become like that too.
This is absolutely unacceptable to him. It is an option that is far more unacceptable than becoming a woman!
So he goes to showdown.
Of course, before that, he had already imagined some possible development directions and thought about some responses.
Sharon's follow-up investigation was a development he had envisioned.
He couldn't be sure, but in fact he didn't need to be sure. He just had to prepare based on the premise that she would definitely come.
He had considered that apart from not letting her find out that he knew Rosselvan, everything else could be exposed, so there was no need for any special preparations.
…
the next day.
In the morning, Varina met Hugh at the shooting club.
After some conversation, Xio accepted the commission to inquire about the movements of the two gangsters, and Varina handed her this reward together with the last one, giving her a total of 45 pounds.
During their conversation, Sharon learned that the contact mark last night was agreed upon by the two of them, which also eliminated one doubt.
In the afternoon, Varina stayed at his residence to study and rest.
In the evening, Varina set off for the Brave Bar.
Sharon rushed back to the bar before him to discuss countermeasures with Maric.
Maric breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Sharon reappearing on the glass of the bay window.
Fortunately, it seems that the young man is not a conspiracy of the Rose School.
"Did you find anything?" he asked.
Sharon shook her head slightly and said, "He should be under the control of a witch now."
This was her judgment based on the box of communication ointment left by Qili.
That was a communication method that only witches could use, and apparently Varina had never used it even once.
Maric naturally came to a reasonable guess: "So, he wants to use us to get rid of control?"
"It's possible." Sharon nodded slightly.
Maric thought for a while and said:
"Given our current situation, it's best not to provoke the Witch Sect. Otherwise, let's reject him."
"Although his ability can help me relieve the pressure, it obviously won't last long and it's not worth the risk."
Sharon closed her eyes slightly and looked to the spirit world for answers.
After a moment, she opened her eyes, and when she was about to speak, Varina knocked on the door.
"Promise him." Sharon's figure disappeared while speaking.
Varina opened the door and entered, saying hello, "Good evening, Mr. Maric."
"Well, you came on time," Maric's expression became serious, "I still have a few questions to ask before I answer your request."
Varina's heart was moved when he heard it... If he didn't refuse directly, then there was something interesting.
"Excuse me, I will try my best to answer." Warina's attitude was very sincere.
Maric raised a finger and said, "First question, why do you want to learn the ideas of the temperance school?"
You can’t tell the truth about this issue, but you certainly can’t tell the truth either.
You must know that "Resentful Soul" is a sequence that can be divined by instinct, and it is really easy to judge whether the answer is true or false.
Varina thought for a while and replied:
"I tried playing 'assassin' but didn't want to create a demon inside me."
This sentence actually revealed a lot of information, but Maric simply nodded because it was not particularly important to him.
He then extended his second finger and asked:
"Do you want to use me to deal with the witch who controls you and help you regain your freedom?"
"No."
"Or maybe I haven't thought about this deliberately," Varina explained: "Although I want to be free, I haven't thought about dealing with my leader in the extraordinary world."
Maric picked up the wine glass on the table, put it back after a moment, and said:
"On the 11th of next month, which is the day before the full moon night, come see me again with 600 pounds."
"You can go back."
