Chapter 3128: Iluna's Homecoming Journey

Speaking of "Fate," Luweiya frowned slightly, not knowing what she was thinking of. Xia De reached out and held her right hand holding the card:

"Don't think so much. Before the Year-End Festival and the exam week end, it's still this year's winter vacation. Whatever you want to do, leave it until 1855. And look at my fortune; it's the best among us. I won't trigger related events, so I don't have to worry about related events hitting me."

Luweiya nodded hesitantly, but looking at the card, there was still an unresolved worry on her face.

The doctor sent everyone to the eastern district of Tobesk, then drove the carriage back with the three "Fate Weaver remains." Xia De said goodbye to Luweiya, Duo Luo Qian, and Priest Ao Gu Si, then Xia De returned home alone, while Luweiya and Duo Luo Qian arrived ten minutes later.

"We were embarrassed to let the priest see us go straight home with you. Unmarried girls have to care about their reputation."

They hugged Xia De, who was waiting for them in the foyer, and even squeezed Little Mia, who had just come to welcome Xia De, onto the shoe cabinet.

Afterward, the unmarried girls who cared about their reputation spent a wonderful night with their lover.

The events of Wednesday night didn't cause too much of a stir in the city. The talk of the idlers in Tobesk, which was snowing, was still about the conflicts on the border between the north and south countries.

Although under the influence of the sudden blizzard that swept across the central part of the Old Continent, the possibility of a full-scale war this winter was already very low, small-scale frictions had been breaking out continuously from the north of the Moon Bay area on the west coast of the Old Continent to the Rommel Mountains on the east coast of the Old Continent.

On Thursday morning, Xia De received another letter from his good friend Major Rads from afar. Now his naval fleet was near the Archipelago Kingdom on the west side of the Old Continent, involved in a standoff with the Karsenrik Navy.

In addition, the current King of Kelageli of the Archipelago Kingdom rebuked the "Continentals" for attempting to ignite the flames of war in their homeland. Now the three navies were gathering near the "Eye of the Storm." Major Rads pessimistically believed that it would be very difficult for him to return to Tobesk for the Year-End Festival this year, so he sent a letter to greet Xia De in advance and also sent a Year-End Festival gift for Xia De.

The gift was an exquisite sextant and a small jar of pearl powder in a porcelain jar. The jar was also engraved with the emblem of the Delarion Navy. Xia De guessed that this should be a tight commodity circulating among naval officers.

"Then what gift should I give him..."

This was what he was most troubled about recently.

Iluna was originally going to return to the capital from her hometown next week, but she came back on Friday. The eighteen-year-old girl brought souvenirs for her friends. Among them, the one for Luweiya was a handmade sun hat that was very famous locally, and the one for Xia De was a four-leaf clover medal sold in the local town that symbolized good luck.

She returned early not because she didn't want Xia De and Luweiya to know. After all, she had some unpleasantness with her family before ending her "vacation" early, and she didn't think this was a good thing.

But it just so happened that on the Friday Iluna returned, Priest Ao Gu Si saw her when he was sent by Bishop Owen to do business for the Church of the Sun, and that afternoon the old priest mentioned this casually when Xia De was "shopping" from him.

So at dinner on Friday night, outside the window of No. 6 St. Theresa Square, snowflakes swept rapidly past the lampshades of the gas street lamps surrounding the square, making the dim yellow light even dimmer.

Xia De, Luweiya, and Iluna were eating dinner around the dining table. Although Iluna didn't want to speak at first, once she opened the conversation, she was not polite at all when complaining about her family;

"I am not the oldest child in the family, nor am I the youngest. I wasn't valued much when I was at home before. Because of some characteristics I showed when I was a child that were different from ordinary people, my family members were even a bit... in awe of me."

She said, while tearing the bread in her hand into two pieces, one of which she handed to Xia De, and Xia De tore off a small piece and threw it into the cat's food bowl.

What Iluna wanted to say just now was actually "fear" rather than "awe." She believed that Xia De and Luweiya could understand what she meant:

"Do you know what I found after I returned home this time?"

Luweiya guessed:

"Your original bedroom was moved to other uses, such as a storage room in the house?"

The angry girl shook her head:

"It is true that my bedroom was used as another room, but it wasn't a storage room, but a nursery. I have no opinion on the room being occupied; after all, I am away all year round, but my mother gave birth to another sister while I was away from home. I didn't know about this until I walked into the house on Monday!

They could have sent a letter to tell me the news. During my time in Tobesk, I sent a letter home every quarter to ask about them!"

She tore the remaining half of the bread into pieces and threw them into the soup bowl, then stirred them vigorously with a spoon. Xia De highly doubted that Iluna didn't realize what she was doing herself.

"I feel like my family members are very glad that I can be away from home all year round, and after I left, they seem to be trying to pretend that I am just a distant relative of theirs."

"What kind of difference did you show when you were a child?"

Xia De asked because he didn't know much about Iluna's past. Iluna was willing to answer this time:

"I like to stand in the sun and bask in the sun. Sometimes I would take other children in the town with me. One summer, three children who were basking in the sun with me got heatstroke, but they were all saved later.

And I could see some things that normal people couldn't see from a very young age. Isn't it the same when Ajelina's spiritual sense was powerful before she awakened? Once, when my family went out for a walk together at night, I said that the dead old woman next door was waving at us from the window on the second floor. Since then, they never went for a walk with me again."

Luweiya kicked Xia De under the table, signaling him to say something, but Xia De was still struggling to phrase it and couldn't speak in time. Iluna continued to recall:

"And I was very strong when I was a child. I don't seem to have ever been sick since I had memories. This was clearly a good thing, but I don't know which bad people in the town started rumors that I was a witch.

And also, my initial talent as the chosen one of balance is a certain ability to read minds, so I always easily saw through my family's thoughts. For example, my father going out to meet friends was actually going to a tavern to drink, my sister saying her skirt was accidentally scratched by a nail was actually wanting to buy a new one, and the math teacher in the town saying his eye was punched was by a drunkard, but actually it was by the husband of his mistress."

She put down the soup spoon, held her face, and tilted her head to look at the ceiling:

"Thinking about it carefully, I was really amazing when I was a child... But I wasn't the kind of disobedient and naughty child. I have always been well-behaved. Why did they treat me like this?"

Luweiya under the table kicked Xia De again. This topic was opened because of his question, and he had to clean up the mess:

"Children always have to leave their parents when they grow up. Besides, they just alienated you. According to your description, they didn't refuse your reappearance."

Xia De said with a forced smile:

"If you think returning to your hometown makes you unhappy, then you can come back completely. The young Iluna regarded the small town as her hometown, and now the place where Luweiya and I are is your hometown. On such a snowy night, the three of us are sitting around the dining table with Little Mia eating dinner. Doesn't this give you a feeling of home?"

Iluna nodded with a smile:

"Yes, of course this feels like home. Humph, I brought Year-End Festival gifts for all of them when I went back this time. If I had known it would be like this, I would have... changed to cheaper gifts."

"At least you didn't accidentally encounter a relic in your hometown this time when you went back."

Xia De comforted her. Iluna's eyes drifted for a moment, and she was too embarrassed to say that she had assisted the town church in dealing with the cemetery evil spirit.

Luweiya invited Iluna:

"Since you returned early, why not take advantage of the time to deal with work before the festival. How about spending the Year-End Festival here? The house next door has been bought. It will be very lively here during the Year-End Festival. After the celebration activities of the church for the Year-End Festival are over, come here."

Iluna didn't agree immediately, but looked at Xia De. Xia De of course understood:

"Yes, how about coming to my place for the Year-End Festival? Difa and the others have already gone to prepare for the dinner during the Year-End Festival half a month in advance. I am very glad now that the dining room and living room at home are connected, otherwise the long table wouldn't be able to be set up."

Iluna then accepted the invitation reservedly, and to show that she didn't actually care much, she also asked if Emilia would come during the Year-End Festival.

As for the Church of Peace's actions in the city on Wednesday night, Iluna, who had just returned to Tobesk, also knew some things:

"It was indeed the Sage-level relic 'Crazy Puppet Theater' that appeared in the city at first. When the Church of Peace noticed when the incident happened, a mutual aid group for psychological trauma composed of retired veterans had all been turned into puppets.

Before the Church was ready and sent a squad to solve the problem, the Divination Society sent a letter directly from its headquarters in the Principality of Lagson to the Holy See of the Church of Peace, requesting an investigation into what kind of reward the puppet boy would give after the puppet show performance ended this time."

Because the Divination Society headquarters directly connects with the Holy See, the local Divination Society didn't know about this either, and Luweiya naturally didn't know:

"What important matter, to contact like this?"

Luweiya asked Iluna, and Iluna shook her head:

"After all, it's not our church's business, and I just heard about this."

"In short, although the Church of Peace squad knew the characteristics of 'Crazy Puppet Theater' in advance and made preparations, they didn't expect that after entering the puppet show performance, there were actually cultists who believed in 'Mr. Misfortune' inside, which led to the incident on Wednesday night almost not being controlled. The explosion you heard and the distress signal you saw at that time were because of this reason.

After the action on Wednesday night ended, because of the accidental appearance of your group, the puppet show didn't reach the end, so no one knew what exactly was in the hands of that puppet boy.

The squad present at the time saw that the puppet boy gave you a box. Although they didn't understand why the puppet boy still gave a reward when the performance clearly failed, this matter has been reported to the Church. Now the Church suspects that the item you took away is the thing the Divination Society wants to find. But don't worry, you hid it very well, and even the diviners can't divine your tracks."

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