Should I raise you too?

The maid laid out the newspapers, turned off the gas lamps, and closed the doors and windows.

The bedroom was pitch black, all the furniture was shrouded in shadow, only the light curtain remained clear.

Elisa suspects that the light screen is not a visual image, but some kind of object residing in her mind.

She opened "The Young Lady's Late Night Class," selected "Occultism," and prepared to continue teaching the male servants.

However, the class did not start for a long time because the male servant had not fallen asleep.

Simon is researching occult knowledge within the mind.

"Are you so excited about learning about the occult that you can't sleep?" Elisa guessed.

It's so nostalgic. When I was a child, I played all day long after learning my first ritual from my teacher, and I didn't sleep at all.

This male servant is quite childish in some ways!

Elisa turned off the light curtain and covered herself with a thin blanket.

Little Simon, play by yourself. Mature Miss Elisa needs to go to sleep. We'll see what you played with tomorrow morning.

……

The silver bracelet had been returned to Eve, and Simon used the chain of the gold pocket watch to repeat the "finding ritual" several more times.

He wasn't looking for anything; he was simply familiarizing himself with and simplifying the rituals.

With the spiritual assistance he had skimmed from Elisa, and a whole day of practice, he was able to perform the "object-finding ritual" without the aid of white candles and water, relying solely on a chain.

After the final practice session, Simon held the gold pocket watch in his palm, pressed the button with his thumb, and the cover popped open with a click. The blued steel hands twitched on the white enamel dial, pointing to the Roman numeral 1.

It's already 1 a.m.

The action is gone.

He stood up, opened the bedroom window, and climbed into the moonlit courtyard.

Elisa rents a 7-acre estate for £1800 a year, a large part of which is due to the estate’s location.

The manor is somewhat remote, but it's still considered part of the city of Sel, and there are police patrols at night. Because it's near the eastern district, there are more police officers than in other areas.

Therefore, the manor has neither the custom nor the need for night watch.

No thief would be foolish enough to steal from a 7-acre estate. Even a servant who has just entered the estate often gets lost, let alone a thief who knows nothing about the estate's layout.

But right now in Sel City, there happen to be a few idle people familiar with the layout of the manor, and their leader happens to be penniless for some reason.

They also happened to have connections within the manor, which allowed them to recruit an insider.

Under the moonlight, the mole George tiptoed out of the mansion and across the courtyard. He was terrified by the slightest sound, so he walked very slowly.

When he arrived at the back gate of the manor and unlocked it with his key, his companions outside immediately slapped him.

"Why are you so slow!" the masked man in black cursed.

“Mr. Charles, I’m a little scared,” George said, trembling.

“Don’t call me by my name!” Charles slapped George again.

“Don’t be nervous,” another masked man reassured them. “I have already assured you that no one will be able to find us.”

"Really, Mr. Sheldon?" George asked, half-believing.

“I told you not to call me by my name! Shut up and don’t say another word!” Charles glared angrily at George.

Sheldon waved his hand to stop their argument.

He assured them, "I have a special way to make sure that even if we walk in front of others, they won't notice, as long as we don't make a sound."

He looked up at the moon, took out a grayish-white finger bone from his pocket, and beckoned to his two companions: "Come here, I'll cast a spell on you. This spell will last for an hour, during which time we will both become invisible!"

Chapter 22 Elisa: Another Peaceful Morning

To demonstrate the power of his finger bones, Butler Sheldon first enchanted Charles.

The magic is simple to use: just tap the center of your forehead with your finger bone, but you have to tap it accurately for it to work.

The moment the fingertip touched him, the valet George's mouth dropped open, and Charles vanished from his sight!

"Mr. Sheldon, Mr. Charles is missing!" George shouted in a panic.

Even the good-natured old butler couldn't tolerate the foolishness of this lowly servant. He glared at the servant and said, "Shut up! Don't speak! Don't call us by our names!"

George covered his mouth.

“This is the magic I was talking about. We can become invisible and won’t be detected by anyone.” Sheldon then pointed at George and himself with his finger bones. “Hurry up and let’s go steal the silverware first.”

The three invisible individuals could see each other as they walked together toward the manor.

On the way, Sheldon, worried, broke off a twig and had George bite it to keep him quiet.

The theft went very smoothly. They were familiar with the manor, and George knew the location of the silverware. Half an hour later, they decided to call it a day, carrying the silverware in a cloth bag, and quickly walked out of the house and across the courtyard.

As they approached the courtyard wall, they saw the manor gate and a figure standing in front of it.

That was an acquaintance of theirs, Simon, formerly a lowly male servant and now a first-class male servant.

Simon stood in the moonlight, holding a gold pocket watch, seemingly studying the hands; the watch chain hung down, swaying gently.

George stopped, picked up the stick, and turned to look at Sheldon.

Sheldon whispered, "He can't see us, let's go!"

The three of them walked quietly past Simon and toward the open gate of the mansion behind him.

Neither of them noticed that the gold chain of Simon's pocket watch was strangely swaying, constantly pointing in three directions, which were precisely the directions they were moving in.

Simon snapped his pocket watch shut and turned around: "Mr. Sheldon, what are you doing?"

what?

Sheldon and his two companions turned around in astonishment.

"You can see us?"

"No no no!"

"Go! Subdue him quickly!"

Sheldon made a quick decision and called on his companions to take action.

There are three of them, while the other side only has one! They are sure to win!

They were certain of victory, but Simon single-handedly defeated them.

Sheldon was kicked in the side, clutching his back and falling to the ground; Charles was tripped by a sweeping leg and hit his head; George fell down on his own, the twig he was holding hitting the ground, and his mouth was full of blood.

"Stop, we surrender!" Sheldon hurriedly raised his hands.

However, the other party ignored them and continued to kick and punch their bodies. Simon was also disappointed. He could determine the location of the three through the "object-finding ritual" and sound, but he couldn't see their movements. In order to prevent them from fighting back, he could only keep attacking.

More than ten minutes later, the effect of the finger bones disappeared, and the three people's bodies were revealed. Simon stopped walking.

He took the cloths from the three men that were wrapped around silverware, twisted them into ropes, and bound them up.

"Why can you see us?" Sheldon didn't understand, since it wasn't yet time for the finger bones to expire.

"Why can't I see you?" Simon asked.

He did not see the three men, but he could not admit it. It was normal for a male servant to know some martial arts, but it was unreasonable for him to know the occult.

“We used magic, thanks to Mr. Sheldon’s finger bone,” George blurted out.

Simon gave him a thumbs up, then pulled the finger bone from Sheldon's pocket: "You guys actually believe in this stuff?"

He laughed and raised his hand as if to throw it away.

"No!" Sheldon stared intently in that direction.

He gritted his teeth and said to Simon, "It's not too late. You can choose to release us, and we can leave the manor together and split these silver items equally! The gold pounds we get from selling them will be enough for us to become small landowners in the countryside!"

Simon stuffed the rest of the cloth into their mouths.

Inside the house, several lights came on, and a few servants, hearing the commotion, got up to investigate.

……

It's another peaceful and beautiful day.

In the morning, Miss Elisa sat up and stretched vigorously.

That night, the "Young Lady's Late Night Class" was not activated, which meant that the male servant really did play with the occult ritual all night long.

Such a grown man, yet so immature.

Miss Elisa sighed helplessly and opened "Simon's Log" to see what baby Simon had been playing.

The logs will show what Simon is doing first by default.

Simon is researching invisibility magic.

"...?"

A question mark popped into Elisa's head.

When did I ever teach you the art of invisibility?