The sunny boy in Cardcaptor Sakura

Chapter 650 Big Ben

London, Elio's house.

After the small gathering, Sakura and the others did not say goodbye and leave, but were led by Nakuru to play around Baker Street.

When traveling, you naturally want to enjoy the exotic customs.

They played for a long time until it was getting dark, then they said goodbye to Elio's family and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Elio solemnly told Sakura to tell him if anything happened, and he would provide all the help he could.

After listening to this, Sakura nodded heavily and promised that she would never forget it.

The second day of my trip to the UK passed slowly.

In the evening, in the manor, at Akiho's house.

"Did something like this actually happen?"

At the dining table, Kaito, who was serving dinner to everyone, couldn't help but frown as he listened to Akiho telling him what happened during the day, that feeling of being peeped that came without any warning.

He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then looked up at Sakura and asked, "Miss Sakura, besides that prying gaze, do you have any other feelings?"

"No, after that time, the feeling of being spied on never came back again." Sakura shook her head slightly.

Seeing this, Haidu turned to look at Xia Yu. Xia Yu also shook his head slightly. Although he did not reply, he also gave his own answer.

Seeing that he could not get any more clues, Kaito frowned even more tightly. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of worry in his peripheral vision. It was Akiho's worried look.

After a short pause, he immediately hid all his worries behind a smile and said, "It's okay, I will investigate it clearly, please don't worry."

"Since Miss Qiusui has invited you all to come and play, then as Miss Qiusui's housekeeper, I will definitely ensure that you have a good experience and will not allow any villains to disturb you."

"As Miss Akiho's personal butler, how can I be without this ability?"

Hearing this, Sakura quickly said, "Mr. Kaito, there is no need to do this. I will take on the responsibility of protecting everyone. Please believe me."

Kaito was startled by Sakura's sudden words. He couldn't help but chuckle and said, "It's not that I don't trust Miss Sakura, but this matter is related to my duties. I hope you can forgive me."

"Eh? Is that so?"

Sakura blinked, and her original determination instantly turned into cuteness.

Kaito smiled and replied, "That's right. A butler's duties are not limited to daily management. Ensuring the safety of the master is also one of the duties a butler needs to perform."

"Besides, no matter what, I know some magic, so I am not powerless when facing abnormal situations."

Seeing that Kaito said so, Sakura had no choice but to nod and stop refusing.

After convincing Sakura, Kaito bowed slightly and said, "I have already had dinner in advance, so I will not have dinner with you. Please enjoy your dinner. I will take my leave now."

After saying this, he turned around and left without any hesitation. After leaving the restaurant, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

After silently listening to the conversations in the restaurant for a few seconds, Kaito took out his pocket watch and looked at the watch dial.

Looking at the ticking second hand, his face was slightly gloomy, and he muttered to himself: "Spying... Could it be those stubborn old guys?"

Thinking back to those old magicians in the Akiho family who refused to give in, Kaito's face didn't look very good.

Where there is a family, there is power. Where there is power, there will naturally be stubborn people who are greedy for power. And the ones who are most greedy for power in the family are the group of elders under the patriarch.

The patriarch might not be obsessed with power for the sake of the family, but the elders are different. The elders are almost all the most experienced magicians in the family.

According to the information he had heard by chance, the previous generation of patriarchs in the Akiho family were sometimes controlled by the elders, not to mention Akiho, who was forcibly pushed to the position of patriarch by him.

He had originally wanted to give the elders a chance. After all, they were Akiho's elders and had not participated in the plan to turn Akiho into a magic prop.

Those magicians who had planned to make Qiu Sui into a magic prop had long since disappeared from the world under his time magic.

There is no need to save hopeless people. It is better to let them go to the afterlife early, where they may be able to get a new life.

It was precisely because the magicians left in the family and the association were those who had not participated in that plan that he did not use extreme measures.

Of course, the family and the association also suspected that the disappearance of those magicians might be related to him, but things without evidence would eventually turn into rumors.

Although it is not a rumor, who can know?
Let’s get back to the point. Judging from the unusual events that happened today, not everyone can seize the opportunity.

Even though he had no evidence to prove that the people who were secretly spying were the elders of the family, he still didn't think that his guess was wrong. This was the intuition of a time magician.

A magician's intuition is often a sign that cannot be ignored.

Sure enough, a rotten orange is a rotten orange. As long as the old guys in the family do not give up the power in their hands, they will be selfish for the rest of their lives.

ka ka ka-

The hands of the pocket watch were still ticking away, but Kaito had come to his senses. He casually put his pocket watch into his pocket and took a deep breath.

It looks like he will be busy tonight. Whether it is those ambitious people in the association who seem to obey him on the surface but are secretly doing something unknown, or those selfish old stubborn people in the family, they all need him to have a face-to-face talk with them.

"Please tell Miss Qiusui that I have something important to do tonight and I'm afraid I won't be back until tomorrow."

After giving instructions to a maid in the house, Kaidu turned around and left without hesitation. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

……

night.

Dreamland.

The night sky covered the earth, and it was pitch black in all directions, making it almost impossible to see anything.

Boom--boom--!
Suddenly, the sound of bells coming from far away penetrated the darkness. The sound was heavy yet smooth like silk, slowly vibrating the eardrums.

"Huh? This is it?"

On a bridge, Sakura opened her eyes and looked around in surprise. This time she was no longer dazed, but completely awake.

The previous two dreams also came to her mind, causing her to open her eyes wide subconsciously and wonder, "This dream... could it be a precognitive dream!?"

The moment she realized this, the world changed in an instant, the darkness faded away, and the surrounding scenery became clear in front of Sakura.

The spire of the bell tower pierced the darkness, the Gothic carved stone railings glowed with a purple-black halo in the night, and an inexplicable breath of despair rose from the surface of the bell tower.

Feeling this breath, Sakura quickly looked around. She knew that this was a hint from her dream, so she had to remember the scene in the dream.

There is a bridge under your feet, with a river flowing under the bridge. On the south bank of the river is a huge Ferris wheel, like a giant eye overlooking the city.

Suddenly, with a snap, the dream shattered, and countless space fragments carried Sakura down from the sky. The sudden feeling of weightlessness made Sakura tremble, and her eyes suddenly opened. The vague dream gradually became clear in her mind, and Sakura blinked and sat up.

The sunlight shines into the house through the curtains, making people feel warm. This is the guest room of Akiho's house, where she and Tomoyo slept last night.

The bedding had been folded on the big bed next to them, but there was no one in sight. It seemed that Tomoyo had already gotten up.

"Oh right, precognitive dreams!"

After being stunned for a few seconds, Sakura suddenly reacted and immediately remembered the precognitive dream just now, as well as the two forgotten dreams before.

The three dreams were just like her previous precognitive dreams, from being confused to gradually clear, and also represented that the event was approaching.

Recalling the somewhat horrifying dream, Sakura quickly took off her pajamas, changed her clothes, and got out of bed.

When everyone gathered at the table and prepared to have breakfast, she hurriedly told everyone her dream.

After that, she looked at Qiusui eagerly and asked, "Qiusu, do you know any places in London that fit these descriptions? There are clock towers, rivers, and Ferris wheels."

“This is central London.”

Qiu Sui recalled and said, "The clock tower you are talking about should be Big Ben. It is located in the Westminster area of ​​London. The river is probably the Thames River, and on the riverside is the Ferris wheel called the London Eye."

"Yes, the scenery in my dream might be there. It all corresponds."

Sakura suppressed her anxiety caused by the precognitive dream, she calmed herself down, looked at the others and asked, "Since the precognitive dream made me dream about this place, how about we go investigate it together today?"

In response to Sakura's question, everyone else at the table nodded and did not refuse.

"Sure, Sakura."

"no problem."

"go together."

Sakura, who was originally a little nervous, clenched her fists in her heart when she heard her friends' answers, and she cheered herself up and made up her mind secretly.

This time she won't wait for things to happen to her, she will take the initiative!

Although she didn't know what would happen, since the precognitive dream made her dream of this place, and she also felt an inexplicable sense of despair in the dream, then no matter whether the matter had anything to do with her or not, she would not escape, she would face it!

"By the way, where is Mr. Kaito? Why can't I see him?" After deciding on today's schedule, Sakura looked around but did not see the figure who always stayed by Akiho's side.

Hearing this, Qiu Sui pursed her lips and replied, "Mr. Kaito had important matters to deal with, so he went out last night. He left a message saying that he would be back today, but he didn't give a specific time."

"That's it."

Sakura nodded and replied, "I was going to tell Mr. Kaito about this, but since Mr. Kaito isn't here, there's nothing I can do."

"Oh, and Elio!"

I just made an agreement with Elio yesterday, so I have to tell Elio.

Remembering the agreement, Sakura took out her cell phone, edited her predictive dreams and guesses into a message and sent it to Elio. Only after everything was done did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Okay, now let’s wait until we finish breakfast and go investigate!

Breakfast time passed quickly. Since they had a specific location, Sakura and her friends didn't delay too much. It didn't take them too long to reach the center of London.

In the city center, a thin mist rose above the Thames River and the sunlight in the sky was covered by clouds. Today's weather was not very good, with a cloudy day.

When Sakura arrived here, she looked up at the towering spire of the clock tower. The pendulum of Big Ben trembled slightly in the morning light, gradually overlapping with the clock tower in her dream.

Turning my head and looking around, I saw the London Eye across the river was slightly rotating, exactly the same as the scene in my dream. The only difference was that it was daytime now, while it was night in the dream.

"The flow of magic here is not right."

Suddenly, Kero came out of Sakura's backpack, blinking his little eyes and staring at the Big Ben in the distance.

"There seems to be a huge amount of magic power suppressed in that clock tower, and this magic power is on the verge of going out of control. Even from such a distance, I can vaguely feel it."

"Kruberos is right, something seems to be happening there." Li Xiaolang also nodded and looked towards the Big Ben with a serious expression.

He even vaguely sensed an ominous aura from that magic. It was not the magic of the sun, the moon, or the stars, but a deeper, darker magic.

But this dark magic was different from the dark attribute magic he knew. After all, Clow Reed's magic was also dark attribute magic, but Clow Reed's magic did not give him this ominous feeling at all.

"so serious?"

Listening to what the two said, Xia Yu put his hand on his forehead and squinted his eyes at Big Ben.

After a few seconds, he frowned slightly and said, "It's true. There are people fighting inside."

He got some information from the wind blowing from the direction of Big Ben. There was a battle going on inside the clock tower, and there seemed to be the presence of Hai Du.

The aura was still a little messy. How could someone force that guy to this extent? Who could it be?
Just as Xia Yu was thinking, Xiaoying had already taken a step and said, "Then let's go over there quickly, everyone together, no matter what it is, it's okay!"

Looking at Sakura's determined back, Tomoyo stroked his face with one hand and said with some regret: "What a pity! If there is enough time, I really want Sakura to change into a special set of clothes."

“Sometimes the everyday is also special.”

Xia Yu collected his thoughts and joked beside him. Zhi Shi heard it, narrowed his eyes and smiled, "You're right. In special events, everyday clothes will also become special. Xia Jun, are you ready for the photo shoot?"

"I've been prepared for this. It's impossible to forget a moment like this."

With the target determined, it didn't take long for the group to quickly arrive in front of Big Ben.

As one of the world's famous Gothic buildings, Big Ben actually refers to the giant clock in the clock tower of the Parliament Building. The clock tower itself is not called Big Ben, but Elizabeth Tower.

However, because the name Big Ben was so widely spread, over time, Big Ben became the common name for the clock tower.

As an iconic building in London, Big Ben can be visited, but its interior is not open to the public. Therefore, the first problem Sakura and others encountered was that they could not enter the clock tower through ordinary and legal means.

Sakura, who was stopped, looked at the Big Ben so close at hand and felt a little strange. This was the first time she was officially stopped by someone.

Like in the past when she needed to sneak in, either no one was there when she went, or she was able to sneak in without being seen.

Since there are people here now, we can only...

"Let's sneak in."

Sakura brought her friends to a corner and secretly planned how to sneak into the clock tower of Big Ben.

(End of this chapter)