Time flew by. Throughout the first half of Newborn Moon, because of another punishment from Tree Father, Shade did not use a single Time Key. He spent his time on his own life, asking Old John to acquire new relics that could temporarily increase his luck, studying the Elixir of Immortality and the Demigod Crystal of the witch Chloe, and even sharing the secret arts from the Elixir of Immortality for caring for one's skin and preserving youth with the girls around him.
Of course, during this time, he received another letter from Little Mia's true owner, Miss Mia San Gaode. The lady thanked Shade for sending her photographs of Little Mia before the Year-End Festival, and this time, Shade finally jokingly mentioned in his reply that, if Miss Goode found it inconvenient, she could leave the cat at Saint Derain Square forever and let him take care of it.
He tried his best to make his tone sound like a joke in the letter, even asking Dorothy to help polish it. After sending it, he anxiously wondered how Miss Goode might react, but her reply would not arrive until next month at the earliest.
During the first half of January, aside from two commissions to find lost pet cats, Shade also handled three somewhat more complicated but very interesting detective cases: Murder of the Heirs, Tobesk Country Villa Haunting Incident, and Stolen Pendulum.
The first case involved a dull aristocratic family, where brothers turned against one another over inheritance rights. Though someone pointed a gun at Shade's head midway through and threatened him not to continue investigating, Shade successfully dealt with the bad guys who wanted to threaten both him and Mia.
The second case involved someone deliberately pretending to be a ghost and attempting to use Shade's reputation