Miss Watson of the Sherlock Holmes

"What are you... talking about!" The black-haired girl struggled, trying to break away the hand that was firmly fixed on her slender neck.

However, once the half-elf decides to be serious, the double blockade of magic and power can't make her break free.

"Are you crazy!" she gasped.

"Stop pretending." Eric Holmes performed with an extremely calm attitude, looking at the familiar face with expressions of shock, disappointment, and sadness.

"The force I'm using now is enough to break the neck of a male lion. In this case, you still have the energy to yell at me, which has exposed your non-human identity."

"Ha!" The black-haired girl gave up struggling. "How ruthless! Are you so sure that I'm not 'her'? I'm not afraid that you just misunderstood and cut off the neck of your sweetheart like this."

Eric didn't say a word, but the surrounding wind elements became visibly irritable, so restless that some crew members shouted loudly on the deck that the wind direction had changed.

"Tsk, it's really boring."

"She" let go of that painful expression, she was obviously being tightly bound, and she didn't feel any discomfort at all.Even the reddened area in front of the skin returned to its original state because the owner was too lazy to put it on.

The face of "her" gradually blurred, and gradually turned into a black shadow, which was trying to slip away from Holmes.

"Ok?"

Shadow swayed, and found that he hadn't succeeded, and he was still pinched in the hands of the young detective.

"That, I can explain." Shadow stiffened visibly with the naked eye.

The answer to "it" was a chuckle from the half-elf.

Dr. Watson, who entered the elevator, felt that something was wrong. He couldn't help but look back several times before moving his body back into the elevator angrily, and asked the elevator attendant with a professional smile to press the floor.

"Where's Ursula and Eric? Why are they walking so slowly?"

"I'm not sure about Miss Watson, but Mr. Holmes is probably going to solve some minor troubles, which may take some time." The reliable "manservant" Reginald said very calmly.

"Fu...cough, Reginald, what do you mean, they are not together now? In this case, when a murderer is wandering on the ship." Dr. Watson frowned. "These two children are going to do some tricks behind our backs again?"

"It's so sad to say that, dear Uncle John." Ursula clutched her heart and stepped in through the elevator door that opened after going up to the first floor. .

"Ursula!" said Dr. Watson in astonishment. "How did you come up here?"

"I came running from the stairwell." Ursula pretended to be out of breath, but her hair was still in place, her face was not red, and there was not even a drop of sweat on her forehead.

This kind of extremely false performance can only fool the serious waiter. To Dr. Watson, who is skilled in medicine, it is simply saying that I have a secret.

"You..." He hesitated to speak. "Where did Eric go?"

"To meet an acquaintance, should I?" Ursula replied in an uncertain tone, in return for the "manservant" to stare deeply.

"That's a weird guy," she defined.

In human fantasy, those mysterious people are born with knowledge. Except for creatures like goblins that most people can't touch and can't see, few people wonder where the magical knowledge of witches who are willing to live in the countryside comes from. .

How to use magic power is innate, it is the inheritance in blood and soul, but knowledge is not.

An awakened elemental witch can know how to control the power from the memory of the blood, but it is impossible to obtain the ratio of the potion out of thin air.

Compared with those male alchemists who openly declare that the truth needs to be explored and have a clear master-student relationship, they can go to institutions of higher learning from all directions to conduct research in the name of science, and even organize famous associations. The witch can only rely on her own stumbling and groping.

The word witch, no matter which era, is given by the fool to be different, showing curiosity about medicine, exploration of nature, women eager to seek knowledge, being repelled and isolated.

But in the folklore that has been passed down since ancient times, they are often the bridge between the world and the land of goblins.So when the villagers encounter something that can't be solved, even if they usually keep a respectful distance, they will ask them for help.

In this strange balance, the scope of a witch's knowledge can be estimated. Normally, all she knows is all the mysteries and realities of the land she lives in.

So in general, a woodland witch can't save someone who is bewitched by a sea goblin, and a sea witch doesn't understand the habits of a woodland goblin.Whether bound by gender and age, or the influence of territory on magic, they will never leave the place where they were born easily.

However, Ursula, who seldom wandered around the depths of the goblin country, was too knowledgeable, and Eric once attributed this disobedience to her parents.But Ursula knew that it was a legacy from the previous world.

For example, her knowledge of the strange person she just met, or the strange goblin comes from this knowledge.The man Ursula could tell at a glance that he was a umbral, a umbral in human form, even with the ability to think and express normally.

Such a thing could not happen in a hundred years in the moonless land of London, nor could it happen in the woodlands and fields, for these living places have the sun, the shade of the green land kissed by the sun, and cannot breed This kind of high-level shadow monster.

However, only three years after this photoelectric phenomenon (1887) was discovered by Hertz in Germany, the invention of later generations of night vision devices is obviously still far away.Therefore, I don't know that things like shadows are other witches that can exist under the invisible light of humans. Even if you can clearly see that the other party is using the same attribute power as the shadow monster, you will focus on the other party's strong ocean breath. , will definitely not think that the other party is really a umbral, but will distinguish its weaknesses in the direction of magic and sea monsters.

But as a classmate of Ursula, a witch who has a strange insistence on science, who has seen the creatures flashing green light under the night vision camera and their darker shadows in the videos of the information explosion era, would not Bewildered.In this case, her understanding of the essence of goblin power is more comprehensive than that of this era based on various legends and knowledge in later generations.

It can be said that she had an association the moment she met this kind of guy with unobtrusive umbral characteristics on the ocean.

Sunlight can penetrate seawater. If the seawater is clear and the weather is clear, humans can still see a very faint blue-green light at a depth of 800 meters under the sea.And if you use an instrument to test, you can still touch the residual heat of the sun under a thousand meters.

In seawater, where human beings cannot see with the naked eye, as long as there is light and living things, active shadows may still exist.

Although umbrals hated the sun, the moonlight they obtained their power from was just another form of sunlight in the final analysis.The sea water replaced the lovely natural satellite of the earth, and through layers of refraction, filtered out those things that were not suitable for umbrals, and then gave the wonderful magical creatures stable energy and opportunities to evolve.

Therefore, the moment she rushed over, she directly ignited the golden flame with the attribute of the sun, which she basically didn't use at ordinary times.The opponent had to dodge and let the door open.

At the same time, he used illusion to prevent the other party from continuing to pretend to be a ghost, so as to arouse her fear.

"Well, I'm actually an acquaintance of Eric's." Said the high-ranking umbral who revealed a handsome face from the darkness.

Ursula glanced at him the way she would look at a magical creature, and started to fireball, ignoring what he said.

"It's true! I knew his mother, and I watched him grow up, really! I have proof!" The other party started shaking his pockets in a hurry. "Look! His childhood photos!"

Click!

Ursula looked at the photos of Eric in different periods scattered all over the floor, and bit the mints in her mouth.

Blown by the cold air, she squatted down pinching her nose, and picked up a photo of Mr. Holmes in the form of a cub.

"I want this." Miss Witch said, because the candy with too much mint suddenly spread in a large area in her mouth, causing her expression to be a little grim.

"It's all for you! It's all for you! But can we talk? I really have something to do with you, it's about Eric." The umbral, who completely misunderstood the meaning of her expression, took a step back cautiously and raised his hand in surrender road.

"Why don't you talk to little Mr. Holmes first?" Ursula smiled at the restless and ever-changing shadows on the wall after packing up the photos. "For now, I don't want to hear from other people what he hasn't told me."

"So please talk to him first, umbral... sir." She carefully confirmed the external gender of this umbral, and said.

Then, this umbral who seemed to be a showman made a suggestion, in order not to cause trouble to others (Ursula: huh?) Necessary doubt.And, because of the law, he cannot stay in this sea area in the form of a ghost, and on a passenger ship of this size, he must maintain a human appearance.

So the playwright asks Ursula if he can go to Eric in her best form.

Ursula agreed in an extremely heartless manner, and the straightforwardness of her tone made the other party stunned for a moment.

"Then we'll see you later. I'll go find someone first, and you can go there slowly in about 10 minutes." Miss Witch said with a smile. "Good luck!"

Then, he was spotted by Eric without any twists and turns.

absolute!This kid definitely recognized his identity from the very beginning!Otherwise, he wouldn't have directly locked his shadow!Cunning human beings have agreed to smell as a mark from the very beginning!The Umbrella thought aggrievedly, from today onwards he will hate everything mint-flavored!

"You are too ruthless!" The umbral protested while curled up in a corner. "Completely disregarding our brotherhood! How could you treat me like this! Hey!"

"Who asked you to do such a suspicious thing." Eric said in a cold tone. "Tell me, what are you doing here?"

"Of course I heard that you're engaged, so I came here to congratulate you~" the umbral said with winks. "Are you moved? Young master."

"You mean... in a week's time I'll see the ship navigator of the King of Sparta with the ship (referring to Canopus, the latitude range of the visible Carina), you have been engaged to me for more than one There was no news during the month, but today I suddenly became full of emotions. I can't even wait for a week, and Ji Houhou risked being suppressed by the law, but also left the brilliance of the Southern Constellation to block me... This Congratulations?" Eric said bluntly.

"Also, don't call me that."

"Okay, young master," said the umbral.

"Okay, okay, dear Mr. Holmes, I'm here to inform you." Under Eric's "kind" eyes, the umbral finally put away his pretentious crying and mischief, and his expression became serious.

"The news that you are looking for an alien star suddenly spread in the sea, and several old guys who have been marinated by the sea have offered rewards and want to intervene." Mr. Shadow Monster looked at this man who grew up with him. The eyes of the half-elf youth, grinned. "My dear brother, what are you going to do now?"