Chapter 2328: Letter from Gao De

Xia De just wanted to say his arrangement for the next "Day of the Red Butterfly", but Rixia interrupted him with a smile:

"Are you in such a hurry? But this time you can't be in a hurry."

"Dorothy and I have agreed with Grace and Helen. Since the Moon Bay incident is about to come to an end, maybe the power of the 'Chosen One of Space' is needed. We can only perfectly fuse with Grace and Helen on the Day of the Red Butterfly, so the 'Celebration Day' next Wednesday is temporarily canceled. If you have any bad intentions, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for a period of time to realize them."

"What bad intentions could I have?"

Xia De asked.

"For example..."

The blonde girl bit her lip lightly:

"Compared to fish tails, don't you like girls' legs more? Speaking of which, I have some very important knowledge about this fairy tale that I haven't taught you yet. Xia De, sit next to me, and I'll tell you what kind of magic the beautiful legs that the Little Mermaid princess pursues have."

Xia De hadn't moved yet, and the two heard impatient knocking on the door:

"Rixia, I don't mind you talking so loudly. But aren't you teaching? Don't flirt during teaching time! And, did you do it on purpose so I could hear?"

Rixia covered her mouth and chuckled. Based on Xia De's understanding of her, she was likely doing it on purpose.

"If you don't want to hear it, can't you just stuff a mute spell through the door crack? Although Dorothy's body is a bit uncomfortable recently, I have ways to be happy with Xia De. I'm starting, don't eavesdrop. Come, Xia De, tell me how much you love us. Yes, you can use any way you want."

"Rixia!"

So that night until dawn, Xia De took the two ladies of the Cavendish family back to their rooms to rest.

After Saturday ended, it was Sunday. Tobesk, which had been raining for three days, finally ushered in a sunny day, but the streets that hadn't dried yet were still wet even in the morning.

"I feel like even the newspaper is wet."

Xia De said at the breakfast table. Beside him was Little Mia, and next to that was the letter from Miss Gao De from afar. Rixia was looking at another copy of the "Tobesk Literary Newspaper" in a good mood. The Duchess, with a rosy face, was preparing to drink porridge with a spoon, but seeing that sticky thing, she immediately thought of what happened last night:

"Xia De is sometimes really not a gentleman."

Of course, when complaining like this in her heart, she was smiling on her face.

Xia De's original summer travel plan had to come to a halt because of the severe plague spread on the east coast of the Old Continent. And the heir of the ancient family whose hometown town was plagued by the plague also made Xia De quite worried.

Although he had spent a lot of time in Moon Bay in the past month, he had also been paying attention to the plague. Specifically, with the cooperation of the Kingdom and the Five Gods Church, the strange plague that was spreading rapidly at the beginning of the month, and even made Tobesk, where no cases had appeared, panic, had been brought under control.

Saying it was under control was actually just not letting the plague spread to more areas. Currently, in each blockade area on the Old Continent, various tasks such as screening of infected people, corpse disposal, patient treatment, and case tracking were still being carried out.

The newspaper had published good news about plague control for two consecutive weeks, and according to the verification of Rixia and Miss Galina, the content in the newspaper this time was rarely all true.

In this month's letter, Miss Gao De also mentioned that the plague spread in the town where her declining family was located had gradually improved.

Because Miss Gao De returned to the family, recruited adventurers and a large number of craftsmen to prepare to renovate the old family land, she had created a series of things in the old house, manor, farm, harbor, wilderness, etc. since last year, so the town, which had been prepared for danger, did not suffer too serious losses in this round of plague attacks.

Although the town was still under curfew control, the order of the town had been restored, and the townspeople no longer gathered in churches and other places to help each other.

From the lines of this letter, Xia De could clearly feel Miss Gao De's joy. She claimed that since the plague was about to pass, she planned to continue to renovate and explore the land left by her wealthy ancestors. Although in the earlier letters, she described the weirdness and abnormality in those "ancestral lands", obviously the ancestral treasures left in them were also worth such a big effort.

"Look, how happy Xia De is smiling now? What kind of person will Little Mia's owner be?"

Miss Galina said to Rixia, who still hadn't "left". The Princess glanced at Xia De, who was reading the letter seriously:

"I don't care what kind of person she is. As long as she is not a cat-eared girl, I don't have to worry about her."

So the Duchess also joked:

"When Luweiya chatted with me once, I asked her if she would worry that the appearance of a beautiful witch would threaten her position in Xia De's heart. But Luweiya said at the time that she would only worry a little when a cat-eared girl appeared."

Xia De certainly heard the "slander" of the Cavendish ladies against him, but he was reading the letter and didn't respond.

The content of Miss Gao De's letter this time was obviously more than before, so more letter paper was used. Xia De guessed that it was probably because she had nothing to do during the plague spread, so she was willing to say more when writing the letter.

The first half of the letter introduced the local plague situation, the middle was the town renovation and family revival plan planned later, and the situation of the town learned from the communication over the past year even made Xia De almost able to draw a map of the town and the surrounding environment out of thin air.

As for the second half of this month's letter, it was Miss Gao De caring about her cat Little Mia. She asked Xia De again to mail her a photo of Little Mia, and believed that the cat, which was already over a year old, should have grown up a bit.

She also didn't forget to thank Detective Xia De Hamilton for taking care of the cat in the letter, and wrote words that surprised Xia De very much at the end.

"What?!"

He stood up from the table, which not only made the Duchess and the Princess look over, but even the cat that was licking goat milk looked at him in confusion.

"What's wrong? Did Miss Gao De say she is a cat girl?"

Rixia asked with a smile, reaching out and pulling Xia De to sit down again. It seemed that she and Galina were still discussing the topic just now.

"Of course not. However, Miss Gao De said that she will likely come to Tobesk to handle some business at the end of this month or the beginning of next month. At that time, she will visit the Hamilton Detective Agency."

Xia De said while picking up the letter again, fearing that he had misread the content.

Rixia asked curiously:

"She is coming? Is she coming to take Little Mia away?"

"It didn't say in the letter, only that she would come here. Now it is the beginning of the month, and there is still half a month to a month."

Xia De muttered to himself and looked at the cat that didn't know what had happened at all.

Galina then said with a smile:

"Look at you, you weren't this nervous when facing dangerous enemies before. Relax, Xia De, no matter whether Miss Mia Gao wants to take Little Mia away or not, I can help you keep Little Mia. Use gold pounds to convince her for legal means, and you can use illegal means yourself.

In short, what are you worried about? Isn't this a very good opportunity? Let you finally have the opportunity to let Little Mia completely become your pet cat."

"Yes, you originally said you wanted to see Miss Gao De yourself. Now she is coming to see you, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

Rixia also asked, and Xia De continued to look at the letter. No matter when Miss Gao De comes, from the time point, it is after the Moon Bay incident ends, and now he cannot be distracted by this matter.

"Miss Gao De is actually a very easy-going person, I can feel it from our communication over the past year."

Xia De said slowly, and looked up again:

"Miss Gao De said, let me take a photo of Little Mia. Now that this cat is over a year old, it won't do if its body shape is still like before. There should be some kind of magic potion that can make Little Mia look bigger, right?"

"Aging potion, barely considered a high-end magic potion, you let Megan prepare it for you, Grandma Cassandra can also prepare it."

Galina said, and Rixia asked curiously:

"Since there is an aging potion, is there a 'de-aging potion'? Xia De's 【Secret Art of Immortality】 is full of spells, secret arts, and magic potions to maintain youth, but there is no method to reverse age."

"Isn't the age of you and Dorothy just right? Do you want to become seventeen or eighteen like Angelina and Emilia?"

The red-haired witch laughed, but still answered this question:

The red-haired witch laughed, but still answered the question:

"Age reduction through illusions is certainly not the answer you want. If you mean a true age reduction through physical changes, there are indeed potions that can achieve it, but what meaning could such a potion have?

Experiencing a return to eighteen for a few hours or a few days, only to return to your original state and face reality again—that is nothing but the moon in the water or flowers in a mirror. I think it is better to face reality."

She used her fork to pick at the bacon quite casually:

"Girls always have to face this fact; the increase of age is something one must face, which is why we must cherish every moment even more... Of course, Lei Qianya, if you want to pursue permanent age reduction, I suggest you have Xia De learn how to make time flow backward as soon as possible."

"Is that so~"

Lei Qianya glanced at Xia De and did not bring up the topic again.

At the breakfast table, Xia De and the two Cavendish ladies discussed the plague once more. By the time breakfast was nearly over, Dorothy returned, lamenting that it really felt strange not having Angelina at the Yoder Palace dining table.