The black-haired Maid hurried along the gravel pathway from the entrance of the estate toward the imposing three-story mansion. If Shard remembered correctly, she was the very maid who delivered the "Vampire Ring" to him on behalf of "that lady" on the third floor of the Lucky Southern Cross Club.
"'That lady' has come too?"
Shard stood by the long table, glanced up at the manor not far away, and could only see a few young ladies in formal dresses chatting with each other on the second-floor balcony.
One of them, holding a glass of wine, with long red hair, noticed Shard's gaze and pointed him out to her friends.
Seeing the girls from the second-floor balcony looking in this direction, although he did not want to invite trouble, Shard still nodded slightly as a salute before nonchalantly moving away from that spot.
"Seeing so many hair colors at once is indeed a novel experience," he thought to himself as he reached the backyard courtyard of the manor.
