Emperor Roselle's eldest daughter, the leader of the Element Dawn, Bernadette Gustav!
Thinking of this big shot's name, Ebner had a new connection with the Grant family.
Bernadette had always been searching for the real reason behind her father's drastic change in temperament in his later years… In that case, the matter she got Jane to do should be related to this!
The other mausoleums hidden by the Emperor? Or the many ruins that he had set up in his later years? In short, this place must be related to the Grant Family… It might even be related to Artificial Death!
The good news was that if it was really this mysterious queen, then Jane shouldn't be in too much danger…
Ebner relaxed a little when he heard Xio say, "The last special thing… was that I heard about the Alfalfa tragedy at the gathering… Although I didn't pay for the details, I knew that it ended on the night of July 1."
With that said, Xio looked at Ebner and asked, "When you were at the scene of the seventh level of the Dream Maze Tower, you asked the date of the lady we rescued… At that time, you knew everything, right?"
No wonder her expression was a little strange just now. Was she frightened by my 'Fraud' performance again? Logically speaking, after so much, she should have gotten used to it, right?
Ebner blinked and began to think if he should just make up some random excuse or just leave her with no explanation.
Xio could guess what Ebner was thinking when she saw his expression. After all, they had traveled together for so long that they knew each other very well.
"Ebner, the feeling of knowing everything but not being able to say it… is actually very uncomfortable, right? I can tell that you always have a very heavy burden weighing on your heart, and there seems to be a barrier between you and the things around you…" As she spoke, she sighed and looked seriously into Ebner's eyes again. She said firmly, "I'll work hard to advance to the Sequence and be qualified to listen to those secrets as soon as possible!"
Seeing Xio like this, Ebner felt his heart warm up. He thought to himself, It's no wonder she had so many good friends in the past, as well as friends like Fors who had gone through life and death together. It's because once you become friends with her, she will think of you without any selfish motives…
So Ebner smiled from the bottom of his heart and said, "Okay, I'll wait for the day I can tell you all the truth."
"Then it's settled!" Xio smiled and raised her head.
…
At the ticket counter of the Enmat steam train station, a beautiful lady wearing a lusterless black funeral suit with a purple coat walked over from the ticket counter.
She came to a slightly taller lady and waved the ticket in her hand. She smiled and said, "I bought a ticket to Tingen City."
"Chelly, your expression doesn't match your clothes… Speaking of which, were you so sad and angry a few days ago that you adjusted your emotions so quickly?" The lady who replied was wearing a black hooded robe with blue eyeshadow and blush, giving her a kind of devilish beauty.
"Because I've thought it through! This is the life he fought for me. I want to live every day happily in his place… This is also what he wants to see, isn't it?" Chelly, who was dressed in funeral clothes, said with a slight smile. An inexplicable sense of happiness arose in her.
"Don't you think it's too cruel to talk to a single woman like me?" The lady with a bewitching beauty said with disdain.
"Madam Daly, that's because your standards are too high. It's obviously worth it… Many colleagues and outstanding men in the company are pursuing you, but you always turn a blind eye to them." When Chelly said this, her eyes flashed with gossip as she asked mysteriously, "Ma'am, what type do you like?"
Daly looked at her assistant with a faint smile and said, "Although you've only been in the company for a short period of time, there are many people in the company who have designs on you! If you weren't wearing a funeral suit and had a sorrowful expression earlier, I'm afraid someone would have taken the initiative to attack you."
Chelly curled her lips unhappily and said, "I think they want to approach you through me!"
"Alright, stop joking around. The steam locomotive is about to enter the station. Hurry up and carry your luggage," Daly raised her hand to look at the time and instructed.
"Alright, Ma'am Daly." Although they were talking and laughing, Chelly was still quite serious about her job.
She quickly picked up a small suitcase and followed behind Madam Daly. Then, she asked curiously, "Weren't you transferred to Backlund? Why did you buy a ticket to Tingen?"
"There seems to be a problem with a friend there… I received a letter from one of his subordinates. I wish to confirm it." At this point, Madam Daly's expression turned solemn.
"Is it another Beyonder event? Could it be related to that demon, Tris?" Chelly muttered and stopped talking.
However, as soon as she walked into the station, Chelly saw a young gentleman in a gray suit with a top hat and a cello box on his back walk onto the platform from the entrance on the other side. Beside him was a short girl with messy hair.
The moment Chelly saw the girl, she felt that she had a deep impression of her. She felt that she had seen her before, but she could not recall where. She could not help but walk quickly to the girl. Under the surprised gazes of Madam Daly and the man and woman, she asked in a puzzled tone,
"Ma'am, have we met somewhere before?"
…
Since it was already late, Ebner and Xio rushed to the steam locomotive station after retreating from their hotel room.
After checking their tickets, they stepped onto the platform. Unexpectedly, they saw a lady carrying luggage and wearing a funeral dress running to them. She asked in a puzzled tone, "Madam, have we met before?"
Was she being hit on? Oh, not me, Xio… that would be fine, Ebner mused, then studied the impudent lady before him.
He first found her familiar. After some thought, he recalled that she was the lady that he and Xio had saved in the scene of the Alfalfa in the Dream Labyrinth. After all, Xio had just told him about the Alfalfa.
Although Ebner already knew that the influence he had caused in that scene extended to reality due to Klein's dream divination, seeing the living Chelly made him feel like he had returned to the dream maze tower.
Xio had the same feeling, but she reacted quickly, immediately pretending to be frightened as she hid behind Ebner, as if she were a little girl who had met a bad person.
Chelly only came back to her senses when she saw this. Thinking of what she had just done, she felt a little embarrassed and had to apologize. "I'm sorry… but she looks like someone I know."
Even though Ebner didn't want to have anything to do with her in real life, it would be more suspicious if he didn't reply at this time. Thus, he could only use a polite and distant tone to say, "It's alright, ma'am. Life is full of surprises. It's inevitable to mistake someone else for someone else. However, the train is coming soon. We have to board it as soon as possible…"
"I'm sorry for wasting your time." Chelly bowed and gave way.
After seeing Ebner and Xio enter the train carriage heading to Storn City, East Chester County's capital, Chelly turned around and saw Madam Daly looking at her with a teasing smile. "So you like little girls like that! Jimmy, Carroll, and the rest are going to be devastated."
"Don't spout nonsense. Ma'am Daly… I-I really think she looks familiar. Furthermore, it's our first meeting, but she has a good impression of me from the bottom of her heart." Madam Chelly wasn't in the mood to joke. She simply described her feelings.
Daly's expression remained unchanged, but she stared at Chelly for a long time before she said, "They aren't related to the Alfalfa! And you don't have any traces of spiritual induction on you… It must be fate?" As a Nighthawk, she had read all the files regarding the Alfalfa incident.
"Maybe…" Chelly looked at the train that had begun to move and added in her heart, I hope we can meet again.
…
Sitting on the train, Ebner and Xio looked at each other. They didn't expect to meet someone they knew on the platform or someone they had just talked about on the Alfalfa. Neither of them said anything.
After a long while, Xio hesitantly asked, "Since Chelly exists, then… where's Tris?"
"Tris should be wanted by the official Beyonders of the various Churches, right?" Ebner replied. At the same time, he thought to himself, I've already told Klein a lot of information about the Beyonders of the Assassin pathway. Will he let Tris escape Tingen this time?
Enmat Harbor was neither too far nor too close to Stoen City. It took the steam locomotive ten hours to slowly drive into the station of the capital city of East Chester County.
Ebner stepped out of the station, momentarily at a loss at the sight of the unfamiliar city. They had come here because Xio felt her kin needed another transfer of residence.
At this moment, Xio hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ebner, my mother, and brother are hiding in the countryside near Storn. If you have nowhere to go, do you want to be a guest?"