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"I saw the confrontation between you and Nicholas." Sitting in the carriage on the return trip, Pennis recalled the last conversation with Snape: "Thank you for your maintenance of Catherine."

"It's nothing. I've seen many people like him." Panis leaned against the soft chair and waved his hand casually: "It's arrogant and suspicious. Once he encounters an incomprehensible problem that may endanger himself, he will become very careful and will never dare to attack us easily. When he has the opportunity to do it in a few years, with Catherine's talent and hard work, he has grown to a state where he can only look up to. Therefore, Nicholas is not a problem at all."

"I understand, but no matter what, I'll ask you to take care of Catherine more in the future." Snape was not like the world's richest man at this time, but just like an elder who was worried about his children next door: "The child is stubborn and straightforward, but he likes to meddle in other people's business, and it's easy to put himself in danger, so...hehe, I'll give this child to you in the future."

"Hey." Panis stared: "It's not what you think."

"I know it's not." Snape didn't look disappointed at all: "But Mr. Kyle, have you ever thought about it? It's been several years before, and I urge her every year when I see her, but she would rather take that little girl Lina to come and lie to me that she likes women than just a man to just ask for a perfunctory man. But today, she brought you with you. At least it means she doesn't have any disgust towards you, otherwise would she do this?"

"The head hurts so much." Panis rubbed his head and moaned, "I actually thought of all the things you said, so I have a headache."

"Haha, Katherine is a good kid." Snape said with concern: "No matter whether you will accept her in the future, you will fight with her after all. I hope you can protect her and not let her be hurt in all senses."

"Oh, why did I agree?" Panis sighed, ended his memories, and turned his eyes to Catherine sitting beside him.

Since leaving Snape's villa, Catherine looked very awkward and had never said anything to Panis. At this time, Catherine was stiff all over, her muscles were tense, and her neck was exaggeratedly twisted out the window, as if something powerful outside the window was attracting her attention.

"I say, Catherine." Panis was about to say something to ease the atmosphere in the car, but was interrupted by Catherine.

"Don't speak." Catherine was so loud that she didn't even think of herself: "Forget everything you hear from him."

"Actually, I didn't hear anything." Panis said with a wry smile: "He told me nothing, he just chatted for a few casually."

"Really?" Catherine turned her head slowly, staring at Pannis for a long time before saying quickly: "No matter what you hear or not, I will explain it to you. I have no special intention to ask you to accompany me today. It's just that he kept urging me to get married, which made me so impatient that I took you as a shield. It's not that I'm not allowed to have any strange thoughts about you, you don't have any strange thoughts at all."

"I know, I know." Panis raised his hands with laughter and cry to surrender: "You have absolutely no special intentions, and I have absolutely no strange thoughts, guarantee not."

Catherine stared into Panis's eyes, looked at him with doubt for a long time before snorting: "I hope so."

"Huh." Panis wiped his sweat, looked at Catherine who had finally returned to normal, and asked with a hint: "To put it, was it you... shy along the way just now?"

"Haha, hehe." Catherine was stunned, her lips began to twitch, and her right hand tightly grabbed the handle of the parasol, and said with a gloomy look: "Some people will never learn how to be good. Haha, for such people, they should be allowed to disappear from the world. Are you right, dear Mr. Pannis?"

"Just kidding, I'm joking." Panis explained in a hurry, and suddenly stared at the window and stopped moving: "Wait, look, there are two people standing at the gate of our house."

"Really?" Catherine didn't care about being shy and looked out the window. Sure enough, outside the fence gate of No. 6 Fox Street, two people stood under the oil lamp lights at the door lamp posts and walked anxiously.

"These two people..." Catherine carefully identified: "One of them seems to be the owner of a tailor shop on the street, and the other one doesn't know them. Is there anything urgent to do? Forget it, it'll be here soon, and I'll ask later."

The rented carriage slowly stopped in front of the foreign restaurant. At this time, Catherine was no longer as gentle as before. She pushed open the door and jumped out of the carriage. She ran to the boss of the tailor shop a few steps. Panis also got out of the carriage, walked to the driver and said a few words, and sent the driver away.

"Miss Catherine, you are finally back." The tailor shop owner ran over a few steps and almost fell in front of Catherine. Fortunately, Catherine was held: "You can help."

"Don't be anxious, just say it slowly." Catherine held the old tailor in her sixties and looked at another middle-aged woman in her forties whom she didn't know: "Also, who is this?"

"This is Luna's mother." said the old tailor Ebono, "Luna, something happened to Luna."

"Luna? Is your clerk?" Katherine was a little confused: "What's wrong with her? I saw her at noon."

"In the evening, just like every day, she helped me close the store, preparing to buy vegetables from the market and go home, but Ms. Ally, Luna's mother, was not waiting for Luna until it was dark, and when she wanted to go out and take a look, she found a pack of scattered vegetables on the ground not far from the door. She suspected that Luna had been kidnapped at her door."

"Have you reported to the City Guard?" Catherine shook her head again: "It's useless, the time is too short."

"Yes, the people in the City Guard said that the time was too short. Maybe Luna went elsewhere with fun. A pack of vegetables would not explain anything." Luna's mother, Ellie, said, "But Luna is very obedient. She knows that I am in poor health. She will go back to take care of me quickly after get off work every day."

"Didn't anyone see it?" Catherine asked.

"No." Ellie denied: "My family lives in a relatively remote alley and few people pass by."

"What's wrong?" Panis had already sent the coachman away and walked over: "What's wrong?"

"Luna may have been kidnapped," Katherine replied.

Panis obviously didn't know everyone's name: "Who is Luna?"

"The girl from the tailor's shop." Katherine simply described it: "It's the one you followed the day after you came."

"Oh, her name is Luna." Panis suddenly realized, but said, "But I haven't followed her."

"Ah?" Catherine was stunned: "I didn't tell you the next morning you just came that two girls complained to me and were followed."

"Yes." Panis nodded, "But didn't I say that too, have I only followed one?"

"Aren't you kidding?" Catherine's voice trembled.

"Of course not." Panis said with certainty: "She is not the type I like, I have never followed her."

Catherine blinked blankly and said in a daze: "That's a problem. She told me two or three times later, and someone followed her again. I thought it was your problem. If it weren't for you, that would mean..."

"It means she is really targeted." Panis nodded.

"Let's go, let's go to the scene of the incident." Catherine said angrily: "You dare to attack my friend. This is a declaration of war."

Penis pointed at Catherine: "Don't you change your clothes first?"

"It's too late, leave quickly." Catherine said to Abno and Ellie: "Let me take me to the place where the incident is happening now. The other party has been planning to kidnap Luna for a long time. It will definitely not be so simple to kill her. I will definitely find Luna safely, don't worry."

"It's great that Miss Catherine, you're willing to help." The old tailor breathed a sigh of relief and said to Luna's mother: "I just said Miss Catherine is the kindest person and will definitely help."

"You guys wait a moment, I'll call back the carriage." Pennis pointed at the two seekers: "They can't walk quickly, so take the carriage faster."

"You give the coachman ten gold coins." Catherine took out all ten gold coins from her small coin and purse and handed them to Panis: "Tell the coachman that he borrowed the deposit from his carriage. You drove the carriage back by yourself and asked the coachman to help go to the city guards and say that it was Catherine of Nellie's adventure group who asked them to help him and ask them to send two people at will to Luna's house immediately."

"No problem." Panis jumped far away in a few steps, and the voice came from afar.

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The sound of rolling wheels crushed the silence of the night. The simple carriage advanced along the increasingly secluded and narrow streets, and finally stopped in an alley where the carriage could not pass. There were no lights in the alley, only the afterglow of the sparse public oil lamps on the street outside illuminated a small piece of ground at the entrance of the alley.

"It's not far ahead." Ellie got out of the carriage anxiously and pointed to the dim alley and said, "My house is at the end of the alley, and the bag of vegetables was also found inside."

"Let's go." Catherine nodded to Panis. Panis took off the illuminated oil lamp from the carriage, walked more than thirty meters into the alley, and suddenly stopped.

"That package of vegetables was found here." Panis asked with his head down.

"Yes, that's there." Ellie said with certainty: "How did you know?"

"The footprints are obvious, messy, like two elephants fighting here." Panis could clearly identify without even leaning down: "A man and a woman, the man is about 1.7 meters tall, very thin, and his left leg is a little lame. Is there anyone who meets the criteria living nearby or has conflicts with your family?"

"It doesn't seem to be there." Ellie thought for a long time before she said, but before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Catherine.

"Shh." Catherine stopped Ellie's words, listened carefully for a while before saying to Panis: "I heard it right."

"That's right." Pennis affirmed Catherine's judgment: "Before."

"Let's go." Catherine strode forward: "Don't hurry you two, there is no danger around you, just follow along."

After running for more than ten meters, Catherine stopped in front of a door.

"Whose house is this?" Katherine said to herself.

"Do you want to carve a monument for him or write a birthday greeting?" Panis shrugged: "Or who cares about him?"

"That's right." Catherine gave Panis a blank look, grabbed the parasol with both hands and twisted it, separated the handle and body of the umbrella, pulled out a sharp and thin sword from the parasol, and then kicked open the locked door with one kick.

As soon as the door was kicked open, the scene inside the door was revealed in front of the two of them.
Chapter completed!