“Miss Amy, let me put your things away…”
Inside Avena’s mansion, a maid was carrying two large boxes of luggage upstairs. Amy, standing beside the butler, seemed a little nervous.
This was her third time at Avena’s house. The last time was for a banquet.
This time, it was a private visit, and she even had to stay overnight… Ciel said the train tickets had been booked for tomorrow. The speed of departure far exceeded Amy’s expectations.
A familiar voice sounded from the reception room on the right. Amy looked towards the sound and saw Adele leaning against the doorframe, looking listless.
“Adele, what’s wrong?”
Amy knew Adele was also staying overnight, so she wasn’t too surprised. She politely nodded at the butler, then hurried towards Adele.
Amy slightly bent down, pulled Adele up, and asked, “What exactly happened?”
Adele, who had been pulled up, sighed slightly and casually asked, “Where is Ciel?”
“Ciel had me come here and then went to find her sister… She’s in the Gem District. She should be back soon.”
Amy suddenly thought of something and asked, “How about the paper? Has it been published? What did that professor say about it?”
Adele was about to speak, but noticed the maids walking around nearby, so she said, “Let’s talk in the study.”
The two went to the study on the second floor. In the study, Adele told Amy everything that had happened, without holding anything back.
Amy was very interested in transcendent topics, so she listened intently to Adele’s account.
After she finished listening, she roughly understood what had happened.
Although she and Adele had similar interests, as a noble’s daughter, Amy’s intuition regarding politics and human relationships was far more sensitive than Adele’s, who came from an orphanage.
“That violet… might be even more important than we thought, Adele,”
Amy hesitated for a moment, then continued, “Right now, we should be like children walking in Clock Tower Alley with a thousand Su Pound banknotes in our hands…”
This mutated flower is actually worth a thousand Su Pounds?!
Adele was shocked. This was more than her peak savings.
“Our discovery is likely effective,”
Amy said with a reassuring smile, “But perhaps to avoid attracting some people’s covetousness, Ciel wants to gather us here for convenience and protection.”
“Then why did Ciel also ask someone to look for those ‘Physicians’?”
Adele thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, “To pay them hush money?”
Amy was a little hesitant, but then she thought of the wealthy and influential Avena and nodded. “She probably went to pay hush money to prevent information about this flower from being leaked to more people.”
After the two chatted about this for a while, they saw another carriage drive into the manor through the window and stop by the fountain.
Amy: “Is that Ciel’s sister?”
Amy asked curiously, “Is Ciel’s sister also a transcendent?”
Adele shook her head and said, “I don’t know. I haven’t met Ciel’s sister yet.”
She hadn’t met Ciel’s sister either.
When she sent someone to investigate Ciel’s address, she had heard some rumors about Ciel’s sister. Most of what she heard were strange nicknames like “freak.”
Seeing a red-haired figure, Amy could no longer calmly sit in her seat. She stood up directly and said, “Let’s go meet her!”
At this moment, she was a little afraid to see Ciel…
Because she had, with good intentions but poor execution, caused Ciel to have to go to Ansu City earlier, disrupting Ciel’s original plan.
Moreover, the kind Ciel hadn’t blamed her but had worked with Avena to clean up the mess she had made… To be honest, Adele would rather Ciel scold her severely. Otherwise, the guilt in her heart would be hard to dispel.
Meanwhile, Ciel was walking towards the mansion with her sister, nodding at the old butler who was waiting at the entrance.
“Little Ciel… are we really staying here tonight… Didn’t little Avena say she was kicked out by her family and is almost bankrupt now…”
Lichie looked at the magnificent and luxurious building before her, holding Ciel’s hand tighter.
Is this really a house where someone who is almost bankrupt lives? Is little Avena’s understanding of bankruptcy a little different from hers?
Lichie felt she would likely be exhausted to death just by walking around the entire manor twice…
“It’s alright. We’re just staying for one night.”
Ciel held Lichie’s hand and walked into the mansion. She saw Adele and Amy walking towards them.
Amy smiled and waved towards Ciel.
Adele, on the other hand, clasped her hands in front of her and also quietly greeted Ciel.
She hadn’t slept all night and was already nervous, so her voice was so low that even Amy in front of her could barely hear it.
“Let me introduce you. This is my sister, Lichie.”
Ciel began introducing them to each other. “This is Adele. She is a doctor. This is Amy. She is a friend I met at the academy.”
Lichie looked at Amy with some curiosity and whispered in Ciel’s ear, “Do you have friends at the academy? You never mentioned them?”
“We weren’t very close at the academy. We became closer later.”
Ciel finished replying to Lichie, then looked at Adele and said, “Adele, I need your help with something.”
“Okay… huh? What is it?”
Adele, who had instinctively agreed first, asked later what it was.
Ciel: “Let’s go to the room first.”