Faced with Alice's sermon that seemed like advice, Melissa nodded subconsciously at first, then quickly firmed up her position again, shook her little head, stood up and walked over.

"I'm going to bed right away, but...Miss Alice, are you in any trouble? Just now I seemed to see you walking with a man in a black trench coat..."

She made no secret of her worries about Alice. Although she was one year younger than the gentle and generous girl in front of her, Melissa tried her best to show a mature look on her immature face, as if doing so would

He grew up in an instant and became a trustworthy and dependable adult like his brother.

Ah, speaking of which, that trustworthy and reliable adult should have already fallen into bed and slept soundly...

"Well, it turns out you saw it." Alice was slightly startled and blinked in surprise, "It was mainly some problems at work. Of course, they have been successfully resolved now."

"It's a matter of work... Is the man in the black trench coat Ms. Danitaly's, um, bodyguard?" Melissa picked the right words and tried to put in her explanation.

Alice sighed, feeling that she could not let this girl continue to misunderstand.

"You can't say that, because I have quit my job in the cafe and am planning to try another career that may be more suitable for me."

Melissa was surprised and a little relieved, and her eyes widened.

"Why did Miss Alice suddenly think of changing jobs? The salary of working in that cafe should be pretty good... Ah, it's nothing, maybe I shouldn't ask so many questions... Well, then Miss Alice has thought about her new job.

Got the direction?"

Alice knew from before that the little girl in front of her seemed to have some opinions on Danitaly's personal style, and she was probably imagining some emotional entanglements.

However, she didn't intend to explain, and decided on the result after a moment of thought.

"Well, I've almost finished my investigation and am going to apply for an assistant position in a private detective agency."

So that’s it! That person just now is a detective! No wonder he wears a windbreaker, but not a hat, and doesn’t come home from get off work so late... It’s no wonder if he is a private detective, they don’t have fixed commuting hours!

Melissa suddenly realized that all her doubts had been reasonably explained; Alice silently calculated in her heart that Crestel was sent by the goddess to find her, and in a sense he could be regarded as a different kind of detective... Well,

It's just that the identity of the employer is a little exaggerated.

After giving a few more instructions to the girls to rest early, Alice was planning to go upstairs with the girl and then go back to their rooms to wash up and go to bed, but found that Melissa was still hesitant to speak.

Under her questioning, Melissa finally spoke hesitantly: "Actually, Miss Alice, I think it is necessary to tell you something that happened tonight..."

The girl briefly summarized the experience of attending a friend's birthday dinner tonight, then highlighted some of her brother Klein's actions, and added a comment at the end:

"Klein's explanation was that he explained the pronunciation and meaning of some ancient words to my friend Elizabeth, but..."

She bit her lip lightly and raised her eyes to look at the blond girl with a calm expression and an unchanged smile.

"But there are so many men attending the dinner, and Klein...Klain is the only one who comes to the second floor to chat with girls. This is really, really inappropriate and unfair to you, Miss Alice..."

After hearing this, Alice finally realized, was Melissa suing her brother? Because Klein ran to chat with her friend for a while during the dinner, and even attracted the girl's attention to him?

"Isn't this normal?" Alice couldn't help but laugh. She looked at Melissa's somewhat incredulous look and replied softly, "First of all, Klein and I have not progressed to the point of establishing a relationship, and I respect his

Personal wish. If that's what he wants to do, then other people's opinions or dissuasion must be useless...Melissa, it should be a good thing that a girl is interested in Klein. It means that your brother is rich personally.

Charming, don’t you think so?”

"...Yes, it's true that Klein's personality is much more cheerful now than before... No, that's not the problem." Melissa was almost led astray by her statement. She quickly shook her head and widened her dark brown eyes.

Eye.

"Miss Alice, don't you feel angry? Klein, it's not like he doesn't know the subtext of talking to a girl alone during the dinner..." It's similar to a dinner for a middle-class family, somewhat in the nature of a blind date.

Thinking of a fatal problem, Melissa's expression gradually turned to worry.

"Miss Alice, could it be that you are actually a believer of the Lord of Storms, or have listened too much to the doctrines preached by the pastors of the Church of Storms, and feel that men are the dominant ones in family relationships, and women should unconditionally support and tolerate every decision he makes...

…”

Where did this silly girl go? Why did she suddenly mention male chauvinism?

Alice couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this. She found the gap where Melissa paused, interrupted her criticism of the Storm Lord's teachings, and brought the topic back on track. Then she performed a performance by the way, pretending to be jealous but playful.

Acting generously means that they should trust Klein's character.

"Melissa, do you think your brother is the kind of man who can't control himself when he sees a girl?"

"...No, I believe Klein is not that kind of person." Melissa seemed to have finally regained her confidence in her brother.

"Yes, this is also my idea, so this matter is over. Now, it's time for you to put aside these worries and go back to your room to sleep."

Alice gestured in the direction of the clock in the corner of the living room and urged the girl to go upstairs and rest without any doubt.

Looking at the hour hand that was almost pointing to twelve o'clock, Melissa stuck out her tongue angrily. She felt like she was caught by her mother when she was a child and was caught sleeping late. She nodded quickly and prepared to turn off the lights and go upstairs.

"Wait a minute," Alice called to her, reaching out and stuffing a beautifully packaged candy into the girl's small hand, "This is a sleeping candy that has been popular in Backlund recently. Remember to brush your teeth after eating it, and then

Just lie down and you'll have a sweet dream in less than five minutes...Okay, go to sleep. Good night, Melissa."

"Ah, okay." The girl looked down at the colorful packaging of the candy reflecting the light, and responded slowly, "Good night, Miss Alice."

…

After solving the magic mirror divination incident at Selena's birthday dinner, Klein's life is still moving forward smoothly.

On Monday morning, he completed the task of joining the Nighthawks and resolved the resentment of the ghosts surrounding Sir De Vere.

Through dream divination, Klein felt extremely clearly and intuitively the various misfortunes that happened to the poor people of this era.

It was a heaviness that could not be relieved.

He didn't know how Alice viewed these people and things. When she once mentioned what she had seen to him, she had almost no personal emotions.

But Klein asked himself that he couldn't watch indifferently like her. He could only keep what he saw and thought in his heart, then adjust his mood and live a good life. If possible, he would do what he could to the best of his ability.

Help others within.

Because no matter what attitude you face life, time will pass equally. Instead of immersing yourself in negativity and depression, it is better to face every challenge with a positive attitude.

Every...challenge...

But! But this shouldn’t include corporal punishment fighting training!

No, those exercises are not combat training at all, they are just a combination of dumbbell lifting, squats, running and skipping!

The three-hour training session on Tuesday afternoon consumed almost all of Klein's physical strength and energy.

Like a walking zombie, he went to the restaurant with his colleagues, enjoyed the meal to celebrate his official joining the team, and then was transported home by carriage like a living dead. He returned to the room holding on to the wall and fell into a true state of corpse.

Klein didn't even have the extra energy to think and explore the reason why he had rarely seen Alice in the past two days.

I am really... so tired that I want my brain to stop working...

Perhaps it was the effect of alcohol, but he was suddenly awakened by an idea while he was dazed.

——By the way, that bottle of potion! The bottle Alice gave him before was said to be a potion that can restore energy and relieve fatigue!

Klein struggled to get up from the bed, and moved to the bookcase with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living doctor, flipped to the corner of the drawer that was well hidden at the bottom, and took out the vial containing the light green solvent.

Of course, he had already confirmed the safety of this bottle of potion, and even secretly divined its ingredients and production methods... Although he failed to learn the skill of making potions from his master, he now plans to try the effects of products from another world——

As soon as you open the bottle cap, the sweet apple aroma wafts into your nose.

Klein hesitantly and curiously brought the edge of the bottle to his mouth, thinking of getting a taste before putting it away. But before he could taste any taste, the light green solvent potion was drank in a few sips, and he even drank it.

After smacking my lips, I could taste a little green apple aroma.

"It looks like fake juice..."

Klein complained, and was immediately pleasantly surprised. He felt that his mental fatigue was quickly dissipating, as if he had slept for more than ten hours, and he was full of energy and spirituality.

Potions from another world are really useful...

He sighed in his heart, and tried to use his legs to stand up again, but suddenly realized that his body was too heavy to control, and he almost fell to the floor.

what happened?!

Isn't it a medicine to relieve fatigue? Why is his body still so weak and weak?

Klein reluctantly stood up while holding on to the wall. At the same time, he felt his active and light spirituality, and suddenly figured out a certain fact.

The essence of the energy potion that Alice gave him was similar to the "Goddess's Gaze". It could only restore the spirit and prevent one's spiritual exhaustion! Moreover, she never said that this bottle of energy potion could

Restore a person's exhausted physical strength!

To him, this is like a bottle of blue potion that restores MP, but the color of the potion is misleadingly light green!

Klein secretly cursed the stupidity he had committed in his daze, and dragged his limp body back onto the bed. He felt that it was not as good as before when he didn't drink the potion, so that he could at least sleep through exhaustion.

Well, at least he knew that Alice's potion was indeed very effective. If she was in a good mood one day and was willing to give a few more bottles, he could keep them by his side and drink one bottle when he was lacking spirituality...

But what should I do now? My physical strength is completely exhausted, but my energy is full...

By the way, you can go to the palace above the gray mist! Continue the exploration that you couldn't complete before!

Klein wanted to stand up and jump out of the bed, but in the end he had no choice but to give up this plan. In embarrassment, he slowly sat up on the bed and tried to stand up straight again.

After sealing the room with the spiritual wall, he recited the incantation and walked four crooked steps backwards, barely meeting the requirements of the ritual. The gray mist rose up as his spirituality suddenly became lighter and his senses were freed from restraints.

.

However, it may be due to the limitation of his own spiritual capacity. Although Klein has never relaxed his role as a "divineer" during this period, the feedback from the digestion of the potion is also very ideal, and can even be said to be better than expected, but in the gray fog world

It is still as boundless, mysterious and peaceful as when I first entered.

He didn't find any useful information until more than half of his energy was consumed.
To be continued...