Chapter 55 (2/2)
During this time, Sui Xiong finally managed to pull himself together, then he asked Ray to buy a pen and a few pieces of paper in the city. He then held the pen with his tentacles and began to draw on the paper. Soon he drew a vivid and unedited portrait of the girl with glasses.
“So this is the person we are going to find?” Staring at the picture, Ray secretly praised Sui Xiong. He never thought a jellyfish could be so good at drawing a picture!
“Of course! This is the ‘most suitable and talented lord-to-be’ that was found by me via the magic spell,” Sui Xiong said proudly.
“But I have a question,” Ray said, “the scene we saw just now was a scene in the future, right?”
“Not the future, but a scene in the future which is made possible on the condition that the Geerteng Manor is led by the most suitable talent,” Sui Xiong corrected Ray.
Ray nodded and asked, “Then, the lord we saw, I mean, she is the future self of the person we are going to find?”
Sui Xiong was in a daze, he never thought about this.
“Then, Your Majesty, how does ‘the most suitable and talented lord-to-be’ of the Geerteng Manor look like now?”
Sui Xiong was annoyed by this. He contemplated for a long while and drew a few portraits on a few papers.
Based on his painting knowledge, Sui Xiong predicted how the girl looked like at her different ages. He drew three more portraits in addition to the one of her thirty-year-old self he had drawn earlier: her ten-year-old self, fifteen-year-old self and twenty-year-old self.
With these portraits, they went straight to the pub in the Geerteng City; they paid a few gold coins to an information broker who knew everyone in the Geerteng City and got the information on the girl.
“This is the little Olian. She is a distant relative of the late Viscount who lives in the library.” The old information broker was telling the truth; he immediately recognized the girl after just seeing the girl’s ten-year-old portrait, “But she is already fourteen or fifteen years old. This is a portrait of her younger self; you have preserved it well.”
“Living in the library? Is she the curator of the library?” Ray asked.
“No way! She is just an administrator who is responsible for people borrowing books and registration,” the information broker smiled. “But she also sells books which she has transcribed herself, but those books are not that useful and are just some invaluable books.”
After he found out where the library was, Ray immediately made his departure and it only took him a short while to locate the library.
“Are you sure this girl is the suitable heiress to the title of Viscount?” Watching the young girl in glasses who was sitting quietly behind the long desk in front of the library gate, Ray began to doubt. “Is it possible that because she is wearing a furry shawl that looks like a jellyfish’s tentacles, you thought she was the person we are looking for?”
Sui Xiong was so angry that he knocked Ray’s head with his tentacles and said, “You can doubt my ability, but you can not doubt my personality! I would never choose a person for such a ridiculous reason!”
“Does a jellyfish have a personality…?” Ray gently touched his head. If this were an online game, Ray would have lost one point of his health point, but for him who had an HP of two hundred and fifty, this knock was basically nothing.
Ray could complain as much as he wanted, but knew he had more important thing to do. Ray checked his appearance to make sure he was not that frightening, then he slowly walked over to her and began to talk with her.
“Hello, I am an adventurer who is interested in studying, so could you please tell me how can I borrow a book here?” he asked.
The young girl put down her book and looked at him carefully, then she shook her head.
“You could not possibly be man who is interested in studying,” she said.
Ray was a bit embarrassed when his lies were seen through. He forced a smile and looked around, trying to make himself look mysterious, then he said in a very low voice, “Actually I found a treasure map by accident, and I need to find some clues in this library…”
“Please do not think I am stupid simply because I am still young.” The young girl helped her glasses back onto the bridge of her nose and said, “This is the place where the predecessor’s knowledge was preserved. If you want to perform a comedy, I suggest you go to the pub.”
Ray was speechless for a few seconds, he sighed and said honestly, “My boss thinks you are a girl of great potential, and he wants you to be the next Viscount of Geerteng. I am not lying.”
The young girl who was calm all this time suddenly became worried and said, “A Viscount? How can I be a Viscount? I am just someone who came from the collateral branch of the Geerteng Family… I can never be a Viscount.”
Hearing this, Ray’s eyes lighted, and he said, “But you have thought about this before, right?!”
Before the young girl denied it, Ray said, “Do not deny it, you are not a good liar. It is impossible for you to lie to someone like me, who is very experienced! And do not mention the so-called the collateral branch of the Geerteng Family, you know the former King of the Kingdom of Eagle, which is located in the center of the continent, came from the collateral branch of his family. Since you can see through my lies, which means you are indeed quite capable, and a capable person should be ambitious, there is nothing wrong with it!”
Ray meant to continue to persuade the young girl, but suddenly Sui Xiong gave him a warning, and he instantly jumped ten steps away.
Meanwhile, there was a poor old man with white hair wearing old clothes and holding an old broom, who stood right now right in the place where Ray previously stood, as if he had been there all the time.
Ray looked at the old man from the distance, although he did not feel pressured or threatened by the old man, he indeed felt a oppressing sensation, as if his heart and lungs had been gripped by an invisible hand. He found it difficult to breath.
“A legendary strong man?” he said slowly while taking a deep breath to calm himself down.