Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Jasmine quickly flew over and corrected her, "I have a name, my name is Jasmine."

"I don't care what you call me, my brother is owed five thousand gold pounds. Can you take us to Ansu?"

"As long as you can help me find my portrait!"

"That settles it then, what else is there to say!"

Ellie slapped the tower's back and said cheerfully, "Hurry up! I'm taking you to make some money, remember to split it 70/30!"

Chapter 338 Vera's Choice

Saint Laurent and the neighboring National Museum of Ansu opened on September 8th and 9th of the Holy Calendar.

Vera, seeing that she was about to have to go to the church in the Fog Harbor district of Silver Castle to be a slave again, picked up her luggage with a long face and was kicked out of the house by Isabella.

Annie had some reservations about her father's arrangements, but when she heard that Tia was also going to the Iris Flower Garden for work, she blinked and let it go. She was quite happy when she picked up Vera later.

She thought she'd only be able to spend these last few days with Tia! She never expected they'd even get to go to the iris garden together!

Does this count as a romantic trip?

Anne wasn't sure either, but she was quite happy. Vera and Eleanor were completely baffled by Anne's happiness.

However, the start of school wasn't a big deal for Tia, as she had just gone to the Foreign Affairs Office of the Anti-Suppression Bureau to hand over her work a while ago.

Someone will be sent to New York to take over her work, and as for Saint Laurent—she hardly ever attends classes anyway, spending all her time fooling the old folks at the college.

As people age, their thinking becomes sluggish and they become complacent, less willing to accept new things. Therefore, the older people get, the less likely they are to become extraordinary individuals.

Of course, the older they get, the easier it is to fool them. Tia and Annie, in their spare time between going to and from school, would casually concoct some alchemical potions that were useless except for calming the nerves, helping to sleep, and hydrating, but also harmless.

They would grab any elderly person in the history, theology, literature, or art departments and start selling their products.

She doesn't have much money on hand these days. Even with her salary and bonuses, she only has a little over a thousand gold pounds. She'll burn it all up with a super fireball later. It doesn't last long.

Of course, Tia originally had quite a bit of savings.

Why return to traditional industries now? Well, you'd have to ask that fairy who ordered a doll but didn't pay for it.

Getting back to the main point, Tia is skilled in interpersonal communication, and she is very familiar with many professors and lecturers.

The saying goes that strangers are cheated halfway, while acquaintances are cheated the whole time. Tia wasn't that wicked; she treated everyone equally, cheating halfway through everyone's life, not even sparing her cheap tutor, Professor Horner, and Bishop Famas of the church, leaving Famas speechless.

They've managed to sell it to a legitimate crowned bishop!

Famas didn't have any problem with Tia promoting health products at the school all the time, but she was too close to her beloved student Vera and often came to the seminary to eat with Vera.

Famas figured out that the two probably had some secret, and hearing that they were actually living together made him feel uneasy. He was always worried that the two girls would fall in love and accidentally do *that*.

So the next day, FAMAS went to 16 Crown Street for a home visit to investigate their progress.

You won't know the result until you see it, and when you do, you'll be shocked.

The Father of all things is above!

The four of them are living together!

This even includes Anne of the Mercury family and Princess Eleanor of the royal family! Famas had been wondering why Tia and Eleanor were performing the nail ritual at the Mercury house, now he understands!

This is a real headache. The relationships between four people are too crowded, and Vera is such a complete idiot, how can she compete with the young lady and the princess?

Putting everything else aside, what if the Queen finds out and gets angry, exiling her overseas?

Moreover, Famas is a rather old-fashioned priest. Although the doctrine does not stipulate whether girls should adhere to monogamy when they are in love, they have only been living together for a year, right?

Sulf dated three girls in one year, six in two years, and nine girls in four years.

Even the Father of All Things only had eight angels, but Sulph suddenly had nine pairs of wings!

This was simply a succubus from hell. As an upright bishop of the church, Famas felt he had to warn Vera.

So in the following days, while Vera was on her shift, Famas called her to the church in Fog Harbor to discuss the matter of going to Iris for a study tour.

It's also good to separate the two of them for a while first, so that hormones don't dominate the brain.

Vera was also completely bewildered. At first, she hesitated and didn't agree. She had no desire to go to the Iris Garden! She was already full of cake from listening to that idiot's lectures every day; it was pure torture.

So when evening came, Vera returned to 16 Crown Street and took the apples and onions she had bought at the market to the kitchen.

This was initiated by the College of Engineering. She wanted to ask Tia about the study tour to the Iris Flower Garden. First, she gave Tia an apple, and then she very attentively helped Tia wash and chop vegetables, mince meat and cook soup.

Her voice is lovely, sweet and gentle, and she can even call out "baby."

Offering unsolicited favors is either a sign of malice or theft.

Tia sensed that Vera was acting very strangely. She reached out and touched Vera's forehead, asking warily, "Do you have a fever?"

Vera asked curiously, "No? Where are you touching?"

Seeing Tia reach out to touch her lower abdomen, Tia leaned in incredulously to listen, "So you're pregnant? Why are you so maternal?"

Vera was speechless for a moment and said, "That's right, that's right, it's the fruit of our love."

"real or fake!"

"No way! How could we possibly get pregnant? I need your help with something... Wait, look there! I'm really not pregnant, and I couldn't possibly have breast milk!"

"I thought you were the Virgin Mary or something."

Tia knew that Vera was a vessel, which meant the physical body that gave birth to a god, and could be considered a holy virgin for the time being!

Tia didn't know if she could be born inside Vera's body, but it sounded quite dangerous, and if she were born inside Vera, their relationship would be too strange.

She played Vera's aunt in a nightmare, which is practically Vera's mother.

Now Vera has given birth to her again, and Vera has become her mother once more.

It's unclear.

Upon hearing this, Vera retorted, "You've been reading too many books from your church..."

The two of them chatted casually when Annie returned from school. The aroma from the kitchen was so enticing that she came running over like a little glutton.

As soon as I arrived, I overheard the two girls talking about things that veered off-topic, from the concept of a virgin's pregnancy to mother worship and Oedipus complex, along with incomprehensible terms like "loli mother" and "cute catgirl."

It's something that leaves people only half-understanding.

Annie asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"

Vera sensed the topic was veering off course and was about to escalate into a philosophical debate, so she quickly corrected herself: "I came to ask about the exchange between Tia Engineering College and the Iris Flower!"

"Huh!?"

Anne was stunned and glanced at Tia.

Tia waved the spatula and said, "Tia doesn't know anything."

After saying that, the girl smiled and put a piece of soft, creamy stewed cauliflower to Annie's lips.

hateful.

This stew is so delicious!

Anne's stomach was growling with hunger, but she couldn't resist accepting Tia's bribe.

She chewed on the cauliflower covered in creamy white sauce and asked tentatively, "Vera, are you interested in this too?"

"Well, I'm not really interested... Actually, Bishop Famas wanted to arrange for me to go to the Iris Flower area for an exchange and further study."

Vera said with distress, "But making a decision about going to the Iris Flower Market isn't something that can be done so easily."

Chapter 339 We have a huge exchange trip!

Dinner was quickly prepared, with the main courses being rosemary roasted lamb chops and pan-fried duck breast with cherry sauce, as well as garlic oysters and vegetables.

Vera was still hesitant about the study abroad exchange program, but when she saw the oyster, she swallowed all the words she was about to say, and bad memories flooded back to her.

The child, still suffering from aftereffects from the oysters, looked at Tia, who was carrying a plate, and quickly asked, "Did you remove the red and green parts from the oysters?"

This has definitely been removed.

After all, Tia herself needs to eat too.

Annie asked in confusion, "What do you mean by red and green?"

Tia said, "The red stuff is inside the oyster shell. It's bouncy when you squeeze it, and when you curl it up, it looks like a pearl stained with blood. When you bite into it, it bursts with juice."

Anne asked curiously, "What?"

Tia said, "Actually, they are some leech larvae."

"Waaaaah! I shouldn't have asked that! Don't say it!"

Annie quickly stopped herself and asked, "What about the green one?"

Tia put down the silver plate of roasted lamb in her hand and said, "The green stuff is the filling inside the oysters. Actually, it's the entrails and seaweed that they eat."

The silver platter was placed down, and the bottom of the four plates next to the roasted lamb were smeared with pesto. Annie glanced at it and immediately lost her appetite, glaring fiercely at Vera.

"Vera, don't bring up this kind of topic during dinner!"

Tia put down her plate, took off her apron, and joked, "Because Vera got to eat it herself last time."

Vera tried to cover Tia's mouth when she saw this, but she was too late and stood there trembling.

Anne burst out laughing and comforted Vera, who was helplessly trying to justify herself by saying things like "eating offal doesn't count as eating your thesis defense," "seafood is very clean," and "leeches are entirely the problem with the street vendors."

The villa was instantly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Seeing how pitiful Vera was, Annie felt bad about telling her not to go to the iris flower shop, so she decided to prepare dinner first!

Because everyone was not busy, dinner was unexpectedly plentiful.

Anne brought over the cream of vegetable soup and made a refreshing melon and ham appetizer. Vera, on the other hand, went to a corner to roast potatoes, completely unwilling to mention the oysters. Although Vera's cooking skills were embarrassing, she was very good at unconventional cooking methods.

She melted the butter, added sugar and cinnamon, and threw it into the oven. Then she cut potatoes and apples into chunks and threw them into the oven as well. After stirring them, they became candied apples and candied potatoes.

Eleanor returned exceptionally late, so Tia raised the shrine to remind her to buy crème brûlée at the crossroads of Crown Street when she came back.

This task was extremely difficult for Princess Eleanor. She spent most of the day gesturing in front of the shop window, but couldn't buy anything and didn't have any money. Finally, with a determined look in her eyes, she looked into the corner of the alley and shouted, signaling the royal guards hiding in the shadows to come out and pay for her.

Miss Konoe watched the penny fly away from her wallet, then silently walked back into the shadows without saying a word.

When they returned to 16 Crown Street that evening, Eleanor happily brought the pudding, one for each of them.

While having dinner, the group chatted about study abroad and exchange programs.

Seeing that Annie was silent, Tia asked curiously, "Annie, are you going to the Iris Garden too?"

Vera was stuffing meat into her mouth when she heard this and exclaimed in surprise, "Are you two both going!?"

Tia said, "Yes. Annie mentioned before that she signed up for a study abroad program because she was worried I'd be too lonely at the Iris Garden. Vera, you can come too."

Anne was immediately embarrassed.

Now that things have come to this, I can't bring myself to say that I want to spend some quality time with Tia in the iris garden and don't want Vera to bother me, damn it!

Anne stammered, "It's like this..."

Eleanor was interested in this. "I want to go too!"

“You want to go everywhere.” Tia rolled her eyes at her, then forked a melon and stuffed it into her mouth, saying, “Eleanor, there’s no way you can go to the Iris Flower Garden again! You could only go before because Lady Bernice was there, but now she can’t go to the Iris Flower Garden!”

"Oh, that seems to be it!"

Eleanor, biting into the melon Tia offered, wasn't particularly sad. She nuzzled against Anne, munching on a melon strip, like a cat who had found something good and wanted to share it.

"Waaaaah~~~"

Anne reached out her finger and shoved the melon strip back into Eleanor's mouth. "Eat it yourself."

Eleanor stuck her mouth out again, trying to rub against Tia, but Tia ruthlessly rejected her once more.

Tia also forked a melon and fed it to Annie. Annie chewed a few bites absentmindedly before Tia said, "The Iris Alchemy Society put a lot of effort into this academic exchange."

“I heard that they shared with the church the complete rituals of several sequences of the Life School, including the fire in the furnace of the forging hammer and the oak in the earth.”

Upon hearing this, Anne's eyes widened slightly, and she listened intently. She chewed a few bites of melon and looked at Tia.

Wow—it's so sweet!

The melon juice burst forth, but Anne's mind was still on the ritual.

Because the path she chose was "fire in the furnace".