NOVPUB"Cat Boss, calm down and tell me where you are."
Lanci cupped the Communication Magic Card to his cheeks and hurriedly asked.
The communication was very poor.
He wasn’t sure what exactly Cat Boss was trying to convey.
But he could tell that Cat Boss’s voice carried a signal for help.
"Lan...meow...danger...quick..."
All he heard was more or less the same.
Lanci looked at Talia, whose face was full of question marks.
It seemed that not only could they hardly hear Cat Boss’s voice, but Cat Boss couldn’t hear Lanci’s instructions clearly either.
Ding dong, bang bang.
Besides the Communication Magic, there were also doorbell and heavy knocking sounds from downstairs.
It seemed that someone had come looking for him just at this time, desperate and careless of the fact that he was a professor at Saint Kray Monastery.
Under normal circumstances, Professor Landry had just arrived at the Saint Kray Monastery a week ago, and Nara’s Secretary had helped hide his address; aside from Nara’s Secretary and a few inside the academy, no one should know where he lived.
Normally, even if it was an insurance salesman, Lanci would have gone to open the door and have a nice chat.
But Lanci couldn’t be bothered with anyone now; whoever it was came second to the situation with Cat Boss and Elsa.
"Empty...box...alley...meow..."
Cat Boss seemed to be gradually getting smarter; even without hearing Lanci’s instructions, it seemed to figure out that it should say something useful.
"Why are you looking at me? I also can’t understand what Cat Boss is saying."
Talia suddenly felt Lanci was a bit annoying; she wasn’t a cat, so how could she understand Cat Boss better than Lanci?
On the contrary, Lanci seemed to have a mysterious connection with animals everywhere. He could even talk to little birds on the balcony. Talia really couldn’t understand why Lanci could comprehend animal speech.
"Great, despite the poor communication, you still manage to say ’meow’."
Lanci genuinely couldn’t comprehend the compressed text from Cat Boss.
The voice was still intermittent, making it hard for Lanci to discern the meaning. He could only hold the Magic Card to his ear while quickly heading downstairs.
The doorbell was still being rung relentlessly, making Lanci realize for the first time how difficult it was to solve riddles and to take a listening test.
In a novel he read during his spare time about another world, the heroine would only say one word, and the hero could somehow understand her meaning and would reply with just one word, always leaving the readers baffled.
Lanci wished he had the hero’s ability right now.
But that was just a beautiful story that existed in books and had nothing to do with this world, and it was unnecessary to forcibly fantasize about merging fictional tales with reality.
"Lanci, look on the bright side, Cat Boss’s speech pattern is still so clear."
Talia came back to Lanci’s side and went downstairs with him.
She felt Lanci’s anxiety and tried to console him.
Although Lanci appeared calm as usual, she, who could read Lanci’s mind, knew it all too well; his heartbeat was even faster than when she had pinned him against the wall earlier.
"..."
Lanci nodded.
No matter what, Cat Boss was an eighth-order; if it truly released a large-scale eighth-order spell in Brilda, the entire city-state would enter into alert mode. The fact that it was still peaceful outside indicated that Cat Boss was only hiding in the shadows using communication magic to contact him, without playing any of its aces.
As he had instructed, unless absolutely necessary, it was best if Cat Boss didn’t use any spells. Its rank was too high, and its spells too extravagant.
Cat Boss understood the importance of not exposing itself; the best strategy was undoubtedly to get Lanci involved, who had the identity of a sixth-order professor at Landry, which offered much flexibility in the limits of his actions.
Reaching the entrance on the first floor.
Lanci held the doorknob and turned it, as he was about to go out anyway, to see who was seeking him out at this hour.
The night had enveloped the courtyard, with the cold moonlight casting a silvery veil over everything.
Outside the door stood a purple-haired, blue-eyed girl with her hand raised, about to continue knocking. She wore a black slip dress, and her delicate girlish features carried a hint of impatience, yet her eyes, filled with a spirited aura, gave her a boyish charm.
The moment she saw the door open, she suddenly stopped her hand; otherwise, she might have slapped Professor Landry.
"Ursula Roland?"
Lanci hadn’t expected the unexpected visitor to be his student, Ursula Roland.
He had a strong impression of the daughter of the Marquess’ House and sister of the Ninth Army God of the Seat of Amethyst, Marquis Ryan.
Not for any other reason, but she indeed had a talent, being at the top of her class in both Magical Engineering and Magic skills.
"Elsa has disappeared."
Ursula stated urgently, her expression serious.
"Hmm?"
Lanci still held the intermittently meowing Communication Magic Card to his ear, but his gaze was now focused on Ursula.
"As her brother, don’t you care about your sister at all?"
Ursula rolled her eyes in a flash, finding Landry’s befuddled state infuriating.
She had initially planned to stand up Elsa on the theatrical drama they had agreed to watch tonight, using the excuse not to go, so Elsa could go watch it with the brother she always thought of.
Yet Landry, because of his work, flatly rejected his sister’s invitation.
Given Elsa’s cotton-like personality, she likely wouldn’t say another word.
