Chapter 6 Snake-haired Banshee

When Meiji woke up and got up again, it was already dark. Zia hasn't come back yet. He thought at least Anna would come to find him, but she didn't come all day. He tried to summon the little fairy in his mind, but she threw the sentence "Go by yourself tonight" and then there was no reply.

He had to sigh. It's good to do nothing... but it's too boring.

He wandered around the manor and saw the small room where Princess Sophia summoned him last time. Thinking carefully, Sophia seemed to have said that she would read in this room every evening, and that she could talk to her as long as she wanted to. It's just that he has been exhausted from running during the day for more than ten days and has to report to the little fairy at night, so he can't remember this.

It's better to go to her now... It's better to chat than to be bored.

Meggie walked to that room. A rose knight guarded the door, probably knowing who he was, without questioning, but nodded coldly.

"Well, is Your Highness there?" Meiji asked her. He is also a rose knight, and the one in front of him looks much worse than Su Li.

The Rose Knight opened the door and went in to inform, and then came out to let him in.

Meggie entered the room and saw Sophia wearing a white shirt dress, putting the documents in her hand on the table, smiling at him, looking a little haggard.

"What's wrong with you? You don't look good." Meiji asked.

"Nothing." The beautiful princess rubbed her temples with her hands to relax.

"I'll rub it for you." Meiji walked over, regardless of whether she agreed or not, rubbing her hands on her shoulders.

Sofia did not refuse. In fact, it was Megy who came in rather than anyone else, which made her somewhat relieved. If it were others, I'm afraid that as soon as she comes in, she will have to make some etiquette first, and then say a lot of compliments. It may not be able to get to the point for half an hour. At this time, she really hates that kind of false thing. As for Meji, he said that he did not know etiquette or that he was a rogue, but at least his unrestrained appearance made him a lot more relaxed.

"Meggie, how old are you?"

"Fifth." Meiji peeked at the full chest in her loose collar from above and couldn't help swallowing her saliva.

Six years younger than me, Sophia thought. If Mr. Uno's prediction is true, he will be married to a little husband.

"What upset you so much?" Meiji asked her. Obviously, even while massaging her, she was still looking at a document on the table and wrinkled her head slightly.

Suffia sighed: "Serred missing girls."

"The disappearance of a girl?" Meiji remembers that she once heard the Red Star Knight Lyes mention this as a shade lemon. "Isn't it that the murderer has been found? Is he a priest?"

"Yes, but the priest has died, and there was no same case in the time he died," Sophia whispered. "But these days have started again, and it has become worse. Three girls disappeared at the same time yesterday alone. Although they are all civilians, the shadow of the shadow dragon attacked the palace. It has not been completely eliminated, but now it has made people panic everywhere. In addition, the strangeness of the girl's body that was found before has also been passed on. Everyone thinks that demons have appeared in the royal city, and the church has done nothing in this matter. If it goes on, I'm afraid that no one will trust the royal family and the church anymore. ."

"The abnormality of those corpses?" Meiji asked. Is Wangcheng such an unsafe place? It's Kachidero and a demon. Although it's not uncommon for these things in the fog girl forest, I still have to leave early.

"Well, at the beginning, someone found the bodies of the missing girls in a muddy field outside the city, because most of the missing girls in the slums. Originally, the sheriff did not pay attention to their disappearances and did not even report them. They had to investigate until the bodies were found." Sophia's tone was strongly dissatisfied, "What's more disturbing is that those girls have been drained. There are obvious scars on the body, but no sperm can be found. Liquid. Traces. We secretly investigated the matter, and inadvertently found clues and found that the disappearance of these girls was related to a priest, but before I could continue the investigation, the priest suddenly died, and the church took over the case completely on the grounds that these girls died of demons.

"Since the suspected priest is from the church, isn't it strange to let the church investigate by itself?" Meiji shouted.

"There's nothing we can do," Sophia shook her head gently. "After all, in the Kingdom of Fair, the royal power is nominally attached to theocracy. Even the canonization of the king must be carried out by the pope or the cardinal. In many cases, the influence of the church is much higher than that of the royal family.

That's true, Megji shrugged her shoulders. In particular, everyone knows that the current king Philip III is dying, and although Sophia has two older brothers and a younger brother, her younger brother Louis is still young, and the two brothers are best at holding dances and pulling out a lot of lace news. Even her eldest brother Prince Fengyan had made a shocking scandal of the kingdom, such as a coverless ball. It is said that his father, Feifu III, was blowt by him because of this. In contrast, although Sophia is only a woman, she is far more loved than other members of the royal family. She always works conscientiously, listening to the voices of the common people and maintaining the image of the royal family.

Although a woman like her is strong enough to be respected, does she also deserve people's sympathy?

"Are you tired?" Meiji asked.

Calm down, and Sophia gave a soft "um".

It's a pity that I can't help her. Meiji thought for a moment and asked as she continued to massage her shoulder, "Those girls have been drained of blood. Are they made by vampires?"

Suffia looked up at him and remembered that Su Li said in her letter that he had an amazing understanding of dark creatures: "I don't think so. Vampires generally only bite the arteries on the neck, and the dead girl has multiple bitten wounds and traces of being tightened by the rope. It's not so much that the blood was drained, but it's like being squeezed to dry the blood after being cut out. Although I don't know who did it, it's really... really..."

"Creality."

"Yes, it's cruel." Sophia closed her eyes and sighed weakly. No matter what kind of person or demon it is, if it is hidden in this city, I'm afraid it won't take long for the city to fall into a complete panic.

"The blood was squeezed dry, many bitten wounds and traces of ropes, and the body was violated but there was no sperm. Liquid. ..." Meiji thought. Speaking of which, similar things have happened in the fog girl forest before, but it is still a little different.

"It should be poisoned." He muttered.

At this time, he could feel Sophia's body stiff, and then looked up at him with a clear surprise on his face.

"How do you know they are all poisoned?" She looked at Meiji incredibly, "Indeed, their skin has a light green color. Doctors think they were poisoned before they died, which is a kind of poison that can make people paralyzed and weak."

Can I guess right? Meiji was also a little surprised.

"All the dead are virgins, right?" He continued to ask, "Also, no matter how tragic they die, their eyes should be intact and open."

"That's true." Sophia's tone was full of excitement. She didn't expect Meji to really know what kind of demon it would be that killed those girls. The reason why she talked to him was that she was under too much mental pressure caused by this matter. She wanted to find someone to talk to her. She asked, "So, who or what killed them?"

"Medussa," Megji shrugged, "Obviously, it was a Medusa who killed them, which is often called the snake-haired banshee."

As soon as she heard the name Medusa, Sophia stood up. The nervous and surprised look made Megji feel a little strange. She walked back and forth in the room, then turned to look at Megid: "No, Medusa doesn't need to live by sucking blood. She has never heard of Medusa sucking blood before."

"She's not sucking blood," Meggie whispered, "she's healing."

"Healing wounds?" Sophia doesn't understand.

"In the past, in the fog forest, there was a Medusa who wanted to take my mother's territory, the Black Annes who raised me, but was injured by my mother's magic. In order to heal her wounds, she had to run out of the forest, secretly grabbed two virgins, and washed their wounds with their blood. Virgin blood has a magical power for Medusa, which can help them recover from their injuries and delay aging. In the end, the Medusa died at the hands of several adventurers. Meiji explained to her, "The wounds on the bodies of those girls were bitten by poisonous snakes on Medusa's head. They bit open many blood vessels on the virgin's body, and then strangled her with the snake body to make their blood spewed out. Those girls couldn't struggle because of the snake venom and had to wait for death painfully.

"Then they will go down. Wounds and eyes that can't be closed..."

"They go down. The wound was that Medusa wanted to confirm whether they were really virgins," Megid continued to explain. "As for their inability to close their eyes, it was because they had been petrified. Medusa's eyes are magical, and anyone who sees her eyes will be petrified. Medusa will release the petrification when she squeezes their blood, but their eyes that have looked at Medusa can no longer recover.

Suffia was quiet for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Meiji asked.

"If it's really Medusa," Sophia said slowly, "that's troublesome..."