Chapter 3237: Visit to the Reinhardt Family

Xia De wasn't worried about Miss Feilian being discovered by Miss Reinhardt. After all, even he, who now had the blessing of the snow mountain, had almost failed to see the truth about the owl just now.

He was just concerned about Miss Feilian:

"Following us all day without showing your face will be very tiring. Not only do you have to fly around, but you also have to hide... Why don't you stand on my shoulder, and I'll say you're my second pet besides Little Mia?"

The girl with dark gray hair patted him with a smile:

"You, how can you let girls become your 'pets'?"

"Sorry, I mean..."

"I understand, I understand everything, but it doesn't matter, it's just one day, and the owl form is actually quite effortless."

Saying that, she turned into an owl again in the light, flew around Xia De's head, swooped down and pecked his cheek, then waved her wings as if saying goodbye, and flew into the woods beside the small path, disappearing.

However, judging from the reaction of the witch detection badge, Miss Feilian was still nearby.

Thinking of the owl Miss, Xia De officially entered the town of Kyle-Todd at nine in the morning. Today, Miss Reinhardt didn't specifically welcome him at the town entrance. Xia De saw her on the third floor of the Harpoon Inn.

The witch was currently assigning tasks to her apprentices and followers, asking them to go assist the local priest with some preparations before the All Souls Festival today. Confirming the safety of the snow mountain route, setting up beacons along the way, and helping to collect strange herbs to be used during the festival—these things could be done by locals, but the efficiency was ultimately too low.

Seeing Xia De appear, the platinum-haired witch Miss signaled him to wait a moment. After the tasks were assigned and Miss Larsen led the sorceresses away, she walked toward Xia De. Today she wore a thick dress with a beige lily-leaf collar on the upper body and orange-red on the lower body. This color combination was bold, but it suited her very well.

"You came really early today. I originally thought if you hadn't come yet in a while, I would go to the town entrance to wait for you."

"You don't have to wait for me there every time; that's too much trouble for you."

Xia De spoke, his peripheral vision noticing that the round-faced owl had appeared on the windowsill outside the room. He tried hard to control himself and not let his eyes look that way, and Miss Reinhardt, as expected, did not notice that her colleague had already arrived:

"How can this be considered trouble?"

She was all smiles:

"You didn't come on Friday or Saturday, and the town was calm. Grandfather familiarized me with the process of the All Souls Festival again and let Elder Ursa take me up the mountain to check the route for passing the fire during the All Souls Festival. It's just that the 'Crown of Glory' ceremony I'm going to participate in is still being set up. I think I probably won't go to participate in the trial until after next Friday.

But speaking of which, a big event did happen on Friday night. Someone fought with a magic sword on the snow mountain. The commotion was quite big at the time. Afterward, Grandfather and the church organized people to go up the mountain to check the situation. Judging from the remaining traces, there should have been no fewer than 7 magic swords, but that angel-level relic was actually the side that was repelled."

She asked Xia De in a tone that was almost certain:

"This matter should be related to you, right?"

Xia De didn't deny it; he originally planned to go to the auditorium in the mountain with the witch in a while to check the situation of the sword:

"How did you see it? I remember we handled the battle traces at the scene at the time. Yes, I wasn't the only one there. A friend who provided me with information came to find me here because of some things, and ended up bumping into that magic sword."

He recounted the giant snake that everyone bumped into on the snow mountain at the time, but didn't mention the space adhesion.

"Giant snake? We didn't find its traces at the scene. You did handle the scene very cleanly, but I still felt the power of the deep night and moonlight. This wasn't sensing traces, but the resonance between the moon and the sun. Yes, under the condition that the snow mountain magnified my perception, my sixth sense was enough to sense you."

She said and boldly took Xia De's hand. Xia De noticed that the owl outside the window had a sharp look in its eyes.

"I haven't encountered people who are good at using moonlight power before, but they didn't give me this feeling. I don't know if it's because you are special, or because we both accepted the blessing of the Holy Mountain.

Let's go, let's act according to the original plan first. If there is time today, I want to discuss some topics about the sun and the moon with you."

"Okay, then let's go visit your parents."

Miss Reinhardt's father, the Professor Reinhardt who gave up his comfortable life in Wilndale for love and settled on the island, lived in the town with his wife. The former continued his folklore research in the small town, while Miss Reinhardt's mother worked at the town's grammar primary school as a Karsenrik language teacher.

Professor Reinhardt and his wife didn't live with Elder Harald. After all, the witch's mother was born to the Elder's second wife, and Elder Harald's wife was now his third.

The two lived in the center of Kyle-Todd town. Because today was Sunday, the children didn't need to go to class, so the couple should both be at home.

"Wait a minute, should both be at home? You didn't say in advance that we were coming to visit?"

Walking down more than twenty steps and returning to the town from the high inn, Xia De asked her in surprise while walking on the gravel path of the small town. So Miss Reinhardt was quite embarrassed:

"I originally planned to say it yesterday, but how did you want me to explain your identity? A friend I met in another place, who came to the island to play with me and specifically wanted to visit my father to ask about local folklore? That would sound very strange, and mother would definitely... In short, just treat it as a casual visit today, and the identity is a friend of Grandfather, so father and mother will understand."

"Do your parents know about ring sorcerers and supernatural powers?"

"They know. Mother is Grandfather's daughter, so it's impossible not to know about this kind of thing. Father came into contact with some occult materials before coming to the island, and after marrying mother, he also learned about some of the Fatum people's secrets. However, they are both ordinary people, so they don't know much about ring sorcerers. You don't need to discuss this topic in a while."

The owl flew over the heads of the two from far away and landed on the roof of that two-story stone house near the small square. Miss Reinhardt's pace subconsciously accelerated. She had only seen her parents twice since returning to her hometown, and she certainly missed them very much.

"Did you spend your childhood here?"

Walking through the bustling crowd on Sunday, Xia De asked with great interest. Miss Reinhardt nodded gently, with many stories in her heart that she wanted to tell Xia De.

The residents of the Fatum town almost never moved, so the neighbors nearby were also the neighbors of the witch when she was a child. The closer they got to that two-story stone building, the more people recognized her and greeted her.

And when they arrived at her own door, Claire Reinhardt, who was about to knock on the door, was rarely a bit nervous:

"I'm returning to my own home, why would I be nervous?"

She attributed the reason to the young man behind her who was looking around curiously. Afterward, she knocked on the door. Soon footsteps came from behind the door. After the door opened, a middle-aged woman with beautiful blonde hair appeared in the door.

She was wearing an apron and seemed to be doing housework. Her height was almost the same as the witch's. Xia De roughly estimated it to be about 1.75 meters. Even among the Fatum people who were generally tall, this height for a lady was quite amazing.

"Little Claire? I knew you would come back on Sunday. Father is really too... to you..."

The woman wearing an apron saw the handsome young man with a northern appearance behind her daughter, was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile:

"May I ask who this is..."

"He is a friend of Grandfather, Mr. John Watson."

The witch said. She understood what the smile on her mother's face meant, but although she was a bit blushing, she continued:

"Mr. Watson wants to find father to ask about some local folklore. Is father in the study?"

Mrs. Reinhardt stepped aside to let the young people in:

"He went to visit a friend early in the morning and said he would be back at noon. You wait at home; you can eat at home together at noon. Good morning, Mr. Watson."

"Good morning, Mrs. Reinhardt, thank you for your hospitality."

Xia De was very polite, and when the witch signaled him to follow her in, she found that he had a basket of eggs and a paper bag of fruit in his hand at some point, even though he didn't have these when they were walking side by side just now.

"I don't know what gifts are needed for visiting people locally, so I brought these worthless things."

He said this to Mrs. Reinhardt, and Mrs. Reinhardt asked with a smile:

"You are really too polite. Oh, Mr. Watson, you look really young. May I ask how old you are this year?"

"I'm 22, I guess. My birthday is in the summer."

"Ah, so you are really that young. That's really a pity. Claire is..."

"Mother, do we have to stand at the door and talk? I'll take these things to the kitchen, can you prepare tea for us? We'll wait for father in the living room."

The platinum-haired girl interrupted her mother's words with a blushing face, then snatched the inexplicable "gifts" from Xia De's hand and walked quickly inside. The owl eavesdropping on the roof almost laughed out loud; this task was far more interesting than she had thought.

Although Claire Reinhardt looked young, in Xia De's view, she was only of a similar age to Duo Luo Qian and Lei Lei Qianya. Plus, witches generally had a younger appearance than their actual age, so Miss Reinhardt must be older than the writer Miss, and therefore must be older than Xia De.

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