Huh?
She almost thought that Mr. Fool was repeating her previous words, and then she remembered what she had reported to Him after praying to Him early in the morning, and realized that it was His response to this matter.
Don't worry, it seems that Mr. Fool doesn't care about the pursuit of "Aurora Order" and "Demoness Sect". Also, his followers and favored ones are either Mid Sequence Beyonder who hides their identity like Sherlock, or they are High Sequence strong men who can easily kill Qilingus. Naturally, there is no need to care.
Gray Fog disappeared, and the confused expression of middle-aged teacher Benny appeared in front of Angel.
"Watson, are there any problems with the translation?"
"No, it's okay, I just..." She quickly denied it and said casually, "I was just thinking about the student I met yesterday. Well... she helped me show the way. She was very kind and her name was Lily Granger."
"Lily Granger? The female student from Department of Mechanical Engineering?"
Unexpectedly, Benny, a teacher from the Department of Archeology, actually remembered students from other departments. This made Angel regretful for randomly looking for topics, but he could only nod his head and said:
"It should be her, blond hair, round face."
"It's her, but Miss Granger... maybe she's kinder in front of outsiders."
Benny replied with a smile, as if there was something in his words.
Seeing that Angel was a little confused, he cautiously added, "Miss Granger seems to be a little worried recently. He is a little... not polite to his classmates and teachers. Well, I shouldn't say this. I'm sorry, but don't take it to heart."
Maybe he didn't want to talk about negative news about students, so Benny quickly stopped talking, carefully folded the 15-pound note and put it away, and returned to his seat under the envious eyes of his colleagues.
Angel thought about it and left the office. In her, or Cole Granger's, impression, Lily Granger was a kind-hearted and somewhat cowardly girl. She was like this until she left Tingen and went to Backlund a year ago. Cole was worried that she would be bullied here.
Such a girl is "not too polite" to her classmates and teachers?
Angel quickly caught the keyword "Something has been on my mind recently" in Benny's words, and speculated whether Lily's temperament changed drastically after learning about the disappearance of Cole and the death of "cousin" Angel.
Thinking of the haggard face of Lily he saw yesterday, Angel wandered and hesitated in front of the train at the entrance of the college, and finally made a decision and returned to the college.
Waiting for the after-school time at noon again, Angel followed Lily Granger out of the college from a distance and came to a residential street in North Borough. He watched her return to a two-story house in a familiar way, and Door Opening walked in.
Apparently this is her residence in Backlund.
Angel did not visit rashly, but went around to the alley at the back, quietly observed the inside of the house by the window, and quickly figured out the structure of the house and the location of the people inside.
"It's a pity that the 'Crimson Eye' was lost. Otherwise, there would be no need to scrape the wall, and we could easily understand the situation inside the building..."
Angel complained inwardly. Fortunately, Assassin Pathway's body strengthening gave her extraordinary flexibility, and no accidents occurred during the exploration process.
Apart from herself, Lily's residence only had a maid who was cleaning the house, and she prepared lunch herself. Such a simple life made Angel almost suspect that Church of Evernight had not handed over his pension to her.
But it may be that Lily does not want to reveal his wealth on Backlund. After all, 8,000 pounds is not a small amount, and it may cause unnecessary danger.
I found a cafe nearby to simply fill my stomach. Angel waited until Lily left in the afternoon and the chore maid also went out. Then she pried open the back door and entered the kitchen, and then went to the living room on the first floor.
The layout here is more compact than the house Angel rented in Bridge District, with only about two-thirds of the area. Apparently, North Borough's high rental price affected Lily's choice, and she lived alone, so she really didn't need such a large area.
The furniture and furnishings should have come with the rental, and the appearance is very old, but the entire living room is very clean, and the potted plants on the windowsill and decals on the walls also make the place full of life, which is much better than Angel's house which is only used for hiding.
After inspecting the first floor, Angel came to the bedroom on the second floor. He saw the upside-down photo frame on the bedside table at a glance. He was moved and stepped forward to help him up. He saw that in the frame was a photo of Cole and Lily Granger, which was the same photo of Angel at Tingen's home.
"Looking back, it seems that Lily has probably guessed what Cole's disappearance means..."
Angel put the photo frame back into place, went to the study room on the second floor, and rummaged through a pile of books on mechanical principles and design. He did not find any useful information. Instead, he developed a phobia of complicated content and got a headache from reading professional books one after another.
Fortunately, she quickly found a letter in the drawer. The envelope had the emblem of Church of the Evernight Goddess printed on it. It was pressed under some notebooks. Angel opened it and looked at it. Sure enough, it was an obituary sent by the church. It briefly mentioned the sacrifice of Angel Granger in Tingen, as well as formulaic words of comfort, without revealing anything that should not be disclosed.
Angel restored the position of the objects in the drawer, sat down in front of the desk that Lily should use frequently, took out Magic Mirror, wiped the mirror, and began to perform divination.
"Magic Mirror Magic Mirror tell me the reason for Lily Granger's recent change in personality."
This divination sentence is very general, but Angel has no more clues, so he can only cast a wide net and hope to see something.
The mirror stayed in pure black for almost ten seconds, and then the real divination screen was displayed.
Obviously, the divination was interfered with by some force, but the opposing force was not strong.
In Magic Mirror, Lily was holding up a few letters in distress, then threw them aside, rushed to the window of the study, slammed the window, drew the curtains, and finally stuffed all the letters into the gap behind the desk and left the study.
Putting down Magic Mirror, Angel fumbled behind the desk for a moment and took out a few pieces of letter paper. They were covered with a lot of dust, but the handwriting was still clear.
"Lily Granger, I know what your family has done!"
"I've been watching you!"
"You can't escape either!"
"..."
It was filled with similar threatening words, which made Angel confused.
The handwriting is very sloppy, and the strokes vary in thickness. It looks like it was written with a non-dominant hand in order to cover up the handwriting. There are no other marks or printed letterhead on the letter paper, so no clues can be found.
"Oh, if an ordinary Detective encounters this kind of thing, he would have to give up, but I..."
Thinking of what happened recently, she still didn't pronounce those two words. Instead, she returned to the desk, pressed the mirror on the letter paper, silently recited the incantation, and soon saw the face of the letter writer.
In a sparsely furnished room, a middle-aged man was holding a pen with his left hand, writing down threatening words one by one, and then putting them into unmarked envelopes. The scene turned and he stuffed the letters directly into the crack of the door.
Similar clips flashed several times, and the mirror returned to normal. It seemed that these threatening letters were all written by the same person.
"The first divination was interfered with, but there was no threat letter later..." She looked at the letter paper placed on the desk and analyzed the matter, "Anti-Divination's power is to protect Lily Granger himself, and it should come from Backlund's Nighthawkss, they have properly protected the families of their fallen comrades, and the middle-aged man who sent these threatening letters does not have Anti-Divination's abilities, but he has certain anti-tracking skills. If I didn't have divination, I might not be able to catch him..."
Angel tried to conduct a deeper divination on the middle-aged man, but failed this time. However, the reason for the failure should be insufficient information rather than supernatural factors.
After thinking for a moment, she stuffed the threatening letter into the gap on the wall behind her desk, restored everything in the study, and left Lily Granger's home.
Since extraordinary means are useless, she plans to use some "traditional" methods to find more clues.
When returning to the street from the back alley, Angel found a man standing against the wall at the door of the cafe across the street, wearing a thick black windbreaker and a half-top hat. He stood steadily in the cold wind, his eyes scanning the door of Lily's house from time to time.
She walked past him in a natural manner, glanced at him from the corner of her eye, and found that he was completely different from the middle-aged man in the divination results just now.
Windbreaker and top hat, attention to Lily's family... Could it be that Nighthawks, they also know about the threatening letter and are following and "fishing"?