Chapter 84: Elizabeth

Chapter Eighty-FourElizabeth

Seeing the puzzled look in his sister’s eyes, Klein suddenly felt that this was an opportunity. He looked Melissa up and down a few times, then said with a grave expression, “Melissa, you are also showing insufficient respect for tonight’s dinner.”

“What?” Melissa looked completely baffled.

Klein pointed at her neck.

“As a lady, you are still missing a necklace to adorn this area.”

Without waiting for his sister to speak, he smiled and drew from his pocket a silver amulet surrounded by clusters of angel feathers.

“Fortunately, I prepared one for you.”

“…” Melissa froze at first. Then she blurted, “How much was it?”

Sister, your priorities are a little off…

Klein silently grumbled, then explained with a smile, “Actually, it was not expensive. At first, it was only a half-finished piece. I imitated certain relics I had seen before and carved blessing incantations and pretty patterns onto it myself.”

“You carved it?” Melissa’s attention was indeed led astray.

“How is it? What do you think of my workmanship?” Klein handed the amulet to his sister as if following the current of the conversation.

Melissa turned it over and examined it several times. Lightly biting her lip, she said, “I like the angel feathers around it.”

If you think the incantations and symbols I carved are ugly, just say so. There is no need to hide it… What matters most for an amulet is its effect!

The corner of Klein’s mouth twitched. Just as he was about to persuade his sister to accept it, he saw Melissa put on the silver necklace with an expression that said she was doing so only with great reluctance. She then carefully adjusted the amulet’s position.

“Perfect,” Klein praised, deliberately exaggerated.

Melissa glanced at him, lowered her head to look at the amulet, and said in a muffled voice, “Klein, you were not like this before. This kind of…”

“Perhaps it is because I have a good job now, and a decent income. A person naturally becomes more confident,” Klein interrupted, offering an explanation first.

Sigh. Although I inherited the original owner’s memory fragments and there are no major problems, in some details, I still habitually reveal my true personality… especially now that I get along with Benson and Melissa more and more naturally…

He sighed inwardly.

Melissa seemed to accept his reason. She pressed her lips together and said, “You are very good like this now. Truly very good…”

After the siblings chatted for a while, Benson finished changing and came downstairs. White shirt, black waistcoat, tailcoat, black bow tie, and straight trousers completely transformed him. He now looked like the kind of successful man who, after years of struggling, had at last built a career of his own.

His hairline also looks very much like one…

Klein laughed silently.

“Excellent, Benson. This kind of outfit suits you.”

He spread his hands with a brilliant smile.

Melissa nodded seriously in agreement beside him.

“Facts prove that clothes are more important than the person wearing them,” Benson said, mocking himself.

Taking the chance, Klein drew out the remaining amulet, repeated the explanation from earlier, and ended with, “I made one for you too.”

“Not bad. I will carry it with me.”

Benson accepted it frankly, then teased, “Klein, even if one day you suddenly know how to cut hair, make clothes, repair clocks, or feed curly-haired baboons, I will not find it strange.”

“Life is always full of surprises and accidents,” Klein answered with a smile.

After that, the three siblings finished preparing themselves, left the front door, and took a trackless public carriage to Fania Street in the North Borough, where Selena’s family lived.

The Wood residence was also a row house, but unlike Klein’s, it had a porch and a small patch of grass in front, making it look more refined.

Klein, Benson, and Melissa pulled the doorbell and waited only a dozen seconds before seeing Selena Wood, the star of today’s…