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Chapter 421 Application for Team Membership

Lilith slept very well. She seemed to hear the sound of bells outside the window. She turned over and heard the silk pillow making a crackling sound. She rubbed it comfortably. Although she wanted to continue sleeping, the hangover made her extremely thirsty. After struggling for a while, she finally sat up.

"Meow--"

The kitten who had rubbed himself at the end of the bed as a makeshift cat bed called out affectionately when he saw her wake up. Then he couldn't help but bend over and step on the soft bed a few times. His sharp claws hooked out thin lines on the sheets.

"Hey, hey, Roxanne must be heartbroken... Forget it, as long as you're happy." Seeing the innocent face of the orange kitten, Lilith grabbed it and rubbed it a few times. After it disappeared with a "bang", she turned over and got out of bed.

As soon as she walked out of the room, she saw two people sitting and drinking tea in the small living room on the second floor. The little orange cat who had just been taking a nap in her room was now sitting on the armrest, whining and complaining to its owner.

"Good morning, Margaret. Long time no see!" Lilith saw the radiant Rose of Rois at a glance and immediately waved to her enthusiastically.

Margaret covered her mouth with her hands while laughing. She exchanged glances with Catherine before replying to the Sleeping Beauty, "Good afternoon, Miss Lilith. Congratulations on winning the College Cup."

"Ah, it's afternoon already? I'm so sorry for being so rude." Lilith said this, but she walked over and directly picked up the teacup, gulping down the whole cup. She was really thirsty.

"If I had gone through such a rigorous competition, I might have to sleep until the third day. Besides, you are not the last one to get up. When I came up, there were still a row of people sleeping in the hall downstairs." Margaret smiled brightly and used a joke to resolve Lilith's embarrassment.

"Haha, that's true..." Lilith said, but her eyes were attracted by the tea. Catherine pushed her cup over helplessly.

"Drink it, it's at the perfect temperature."

"Hehe, thank you thank you!" Lilith picked it up again and drank it all. Then she finally breathed a sigh of relief and threw herself into an empty rocking chair beside her.

"I'm so sorry, Margaret. Yesterday's bonfire party was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Otherwise, I would have remembered to invite you. I—"

"You don't have to worry, Miss Lilith. The High Court was just as 'lively' last night." Margaret didn't care and quickly interrupted Lilith's apology.

"Oh?" Lilith's memory of last night was long gone, but she still heard some hidden meanings. She turned over in the recliner and looked over curiously, "What's going on? Can you tell me about it?"

Margaret hesitated for a moment, then heard Catherine speak——

"King George was assassinated last night."

Lilith sat up immediately and asked, "Is he dead?"

Then he hurriedly tried to make amends, "Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to curse anyone, I was just asking..."

"No." Seeing that Her Highness Catherine had no intention of hiding anything from Lilith, Margaret simply told her everything that happened last night. This was also the reason why she made a special trip to Gloria as soon as the city gates were opened today.

"A green snake totem appeared inexplicably in the sky? The Knights of Light came out in full force to search the whole city for it?" Lilith was stunned again and again after listening to Margaret's story. What a good show! Why did she get drunk last night?

"We speculate that it should be some kind of ancient protective magic circle. It may not have been triggered for many years, so most people have no impression of it. I will ask the teachers in the school later to see if they know anything about it." Catherine took the teacup lid on the edge of the table, and it was about to be secretly pushed down by the little bad cat.

"So..." Lilith opened her hands to make room for the little orange cat that jumped onto her, and touched it randomly and thought, "The city gates were not opened until recently. Do you think they caught the assassin?" she asked Catherine.

"Probably not." Catherine shook her head. "Several knight groups left the city at midnight yesterday. They haven't returned yet. The city gates were opened only to calm the panic of the people. Last night's actions made many people think that they were going to be forced to conscript soldiers."

Lilith nodded in understanding, and then couldn't help wondering, "Who would assassinate the king at this time..."

As she spoke, her eyes subconsciously drifted towards——

"Ahem!" Miss Margaret cleared her throat with a handkerchief. Her nervous look made the princess laugh out loud.

"I guess she's not the only one who thinks so." Catherine smiled and tapped the rim of the bone china cup with her fingertips. The rose pattern painted with gilded enamel reflected tiny spots of light in the sunlight.

"What if he targets you?" Lilith worried again, unconsciously stroking the cat's blown fur, a familiar tingling sensation throbbing in her temples. In the chaos brought by the hangover, the fragments of memory were being reassembled - in the flickering light and shadow of the midnight bonfire, a giant green snake opened its mouth in the sky, circling and swallowing the stars.

"So I don't plan to go back to High Court in the near future. I don't want to waste time explaining things I haven't done." Catherine poured another cup of tea into the empty cup and handed it to the recliner, saying in a playful tone, "Can you take me in for a while, Miss Lilith?"

"...Ah?" Lilith, who was hungover, was unable to react.

"I heard from Hannah that you are planning to go to Razor Forest this holiday, and there seem to be some vacancies in your expedition team... Why don't Leila and I fill in?" Catherine smiled and blinked at her, her silver-moon-like gray eyes so dazzling that Lilith couldn't think.

"Deng deng deng-"

As Catherine spoke, footsteps came along the stairs, like the beat of a cheerful drum. Leila, who had not been seen since Lilith woke up, ran up and shouted to the three of them like a happy little sparrow.

"I've already bought all the supplies! When do we leave?"