Shade chose to discard the Crystal Shoes and return home, since the Blue Ink Library in the Lower District was obviously closer from there.
When he reappeared in the library, no girl was waiting for him this time. The rain outside, however, was much heavier than it had been in the morning.
The Hohenheim Opera House in the Lower District was not far from Green Vine Street, where the library stood. Shade opened his umbrella at the library entrance and stepped into the rain.
Though the opera house was in the Lower District, it was not small at all. The City of Scholars had many Academies, and young students without the money to visit the Upper City District's opera houses naturally had a demand for affordable yet worthwhile performances in the Lower District. Furthermore, the citizens of the City of Scholars were generally more cultured, so even opera houses in the Lower District did good business.
The Holborn Opera Troupe was an opera troupe that had emerged from the Lower District. Although they no longer performed there, the opera house was still willing to temporarily provide them with a place to work and perform.
The opera house stood beside Greenland Park in the Lower District. The park was for ordinary citizens, and the opera house mainly made its money from clerks, small shop owners, ordinary families, and students.
But it was Wednesday morning, so the opera house was not open for business. Since it was still raining, there was barely anyone even in the public park beside it.
The opera house's front entrance was closed, so Shade circled around to the back courtyard. There, he found several workers unloading goods in the rain, while two middle-aged women checked the items in the crates beneath the eaves.
Shade saw that the