Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 235 Roselle's Valentine's Day

Adele originally thought that the speed of the Honeysuckle Queen was faster than that of a normal sailing ship, but only to a limited extent. When it came here, it was on a whaling mission and also participated in a gun battle. It actually spent three and a half days on the road, so it would take at least two days to go back this time.

However, when the "Honeysuckle Queen" actually started at full speed, Adele found that her estimation of its speed was ridiculously wrong.

In this era when most ships rely on a combination of steam and sail, the average speed of a normal passenger ship is only 8 knots, and a faster clipper can reach 15 knots. The largest ironclad ship in the kingdom, the Pritzker, has an average speed of only 16 knots, which is more than twice the speed of an ordinary ship.

However, compared to the battleship "Pritz", which was equipped with heavy armor and a large number of huge cannons and was synonymous with the "big guns and big ships" theory, the "Honeysuckle Queen" was strictly speaking a destroyer specialized in speed. Its speed can be imagined as it used a steam engine of almost the same power to drive a hull with a displacement far less than that of the "Pritz".

Adele was surprised to find through the speedometer in the captain's room that the stable speed of the "Honeysuckle Queen" after the repairs was completed even reached a terrifying 27 knots, more than three times that of an ordinary passenger ship!
“It’s like flying…”

Adele sighed as she watched the seascape rapidly receding outside the window. This speed was already on par with the normal operating speed of the kingdom's steam trains.

And the "Honeysuckle Queen" has not even reached its maximum speed!
"Sister Vesper once relied on magical items to run on the sea and chased pirate ships at the speed of a steam train... But if it was the 'Honeysuckle Queen' traveling at full speed, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to catch up without using other magical items, right?"

Adele thought about it in a rather divergent way. Of course, Sister Vespe couldn't have no means of breakthrough, so she was just thinking about it.

At this rate, I'm afraid we'll arrive in Constance shortly after dinner tonight... Damn, I might be with the Witch Cult during the Tarot Meeting next week!
Adele suddenly realized that she had originally thought that the Little War Horse would be on the road until next Wednesday. However, if this continued, she would most likely not be able to attend the next Tarot Club due to suspicion.

"I have to ask for leave in advance... I'm likely to run into a big shot from the Witch Cult this time."

As Adele thought about this, she set up the prayer ceremony in her room while Wendy was away.

Although Tracy didn't say it explicitly, Adele, who knew from the "Witch" card that Sequence 3 of the Witch Path was "The Immortal Witch", had a similar guess in her mind:
It might involve the remains of a Sequence 3 witch's relic. The witch sect couldn't have just sent out Tracy, who was still at Sequence 5. There must be a demigod-level warrior on board!
Considering Tracy's interpersonal relationships, the person most likely to act with her is her mother, "White Saint" Katarina, who is her aunt according to the Witch Sect.

Adele wasn't confident that she could hide it from her eyes, so she kept it to herself, briefly explained her current situation, and then passed the information to each member.

Afterwards, Adele sat in the cabin bored for a while, and then took the only book in the luggage she brought from Backlund from the bookshelf.

It was the biography of Emperor Roselle the Great, a universal Loen translation published in 1350, with a few pages of Roselle's notes collected by Altaïr tucked inside.

When Adele was free, he always liked to stare at those pages of notes and guess what they meant. However, he had never heard of anyone being able to successfully decipher similar notes, and even if there was anyone, they were most likely scammers.

When doing meaningless things, time often passes quickly. Before Adele even realized it, the clock in the captain's room struck twelve.

"It's noon so soon..." Adele rubbed her eyes and prepared to go to the hall to eat something.

Just then, there was a knock on the door of the captain's room. After Adele opened the door, she found Miss Wendy holding two lunch boxes.

"It still feels a bit awkward to be the only lady in the hall, so would you like to have dinner together? I see you haven't left your room all morning."

Wendy raised the food box in her hand to Adele. The first thing Adele did after buying the Honeysuckle Queen was to recruit a new chef, so the food standards on the ship have improved a lot.

"my pleasure."

Adele nodded gracefully, put the open book aside, and made room for Wendy to put the two lunch boxes containing fried keel fish, lamb stew with black peas, and oatmeal bread with pork sausage on the table.

"Would you like a drink?"

Adele was about to turn around and make tea when she saw Wendy staring at the notebook intently with a strange expression.

"Are you also interested in Roselle's secret notes?"

Adele smiled and said, "That's right. After all, you are a Beyonder of the Universal Path. You must admire Emperor Roselle, the Son of Steam, very much."

"Yes, I admire Emperor Roselle very much."

Wendy came back to her senses and answered subconsciously, but her mind was full of the content she had just seen. The powerful memory provided by the generalist allowed her to remember all the text even if she just glanced at it.

"February 2th. Since there is no similar holiday in this world, I almost forgot that today is Valentine's Day. To remind myself, I plan to go find the witch I met last month. She left a deep impression on me, but I have to find a way to avoid Bernadette. I can't let her find out that her old father went out to celebrate Valentine's Day without her knowledge, otherwise she might ignore me!"

It's actually in Chinese, and in simplified Chinese? Also, although you looked embarrassed when you were hiding from your own daughter, you looked really handsome when you dared to find a witch as your lover...

Wendy knew that her expression might be very interesting, but she couldn't care less at this moment. Although she had suspected that Emperor Roselle might be a time traveler before, this was the first time she had seen such evidence.

Could it be that the mysterious symbols that Emperor Roselle was said to have invented were actually Chinese, and that Roselle's so-called secret notes were actually his diary?

And Miss Adele is obviously a wild Roselle fan who can't read Chinese... She wouldn't really tattoo the words in Roselle's diary on some part of her body, right?
Wendy tried to control her expression while choosing her words, and tentatively said:

"Can you lend me this biography this afternoon? I've read a lot of similar biographies in Intis before, and I want to know what the people of Loen think of Roselle."

"Okay, no problem. Although I didn't bring many books, there should be quite a few good ones here. You can take two."

Adele did not doubt him and agreed generously, however, her unintentional words made Wendy confused again.

Was she just...playing a joke with me?

(End of this chapter)