I am the heroine's godfather!

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"...?"

Loran tilted her head, looking confused. What destined person? Did he tell you that you're here to find a boyfriend?

"I have a feeling you're thinking something that makes me want to punch you."

"No, that's just your imagination."

"Aren't you starting to look more and more like that Lucifer guy?"

"You are slandering!"

Serena, watching the two who had inadvertently veered off-topic again, smiled helplessly. She took a sip of her black tea and said softly, "You two, we've gone off-topic."

"Oh, right, it's all Loran's fault."

"No way."

"cut."

Without arguing with Loran any further, Christine continued, "That old guy just said one thing to me, something about 'fate guiding you to meet,' and then he sent me here."

"Is there any other information?"

"Hmm... they say this person's fate has been changed."

"That's it..."

Loran gently tapped the sofa armrest, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Was it said to be a man or a woman?"

"They said it's a girl."

Loran probably knew who that guy Rentilan had sent Christine to find; this destined person was most likely Charlotte.

In the original novel that Loran had read, Charlotte was described as a person favored by fate and a candidate for sainthood. The world setting of the original novel is completely different from the present one. There is no person named Loran in the original novel. Messiah did go to fight the Demon King as usual, but she did not break through to demigod status. Instead, she perished after the ritual failed. In fact, in the original novel, Messiah was not able to kill the Demon King. Instead, she chose to seal him away at the cost of her own life.

The rest of the story is quite simple: the demons plot to unleash the Demon King to wreak havoc on the world, but the protagonist draws the Hero's Sword, gathers his teammates, and reseals the Demon King.

This story felt somewhat clichéd, and something about it always seemed off to Loran. If Messiah didn't become a demigod, then who would suppress the Church of the Evil God?

However, these are not the main concerns for Loran right now. After all, that's just the original story, while in his reality, Messiah killed the Demon King and became a demigod.

Therefore, the so-called story in the original work is not very reliable for reference.

So why is Charlotte still considered the chosen one? Being a candidate for sainthood is possible—after all, Messiah can't remain sainthood forever without grooming an heir—but being the chosen one...

Isn't that a bit too serious?

Lorraine felt there was still some information he hadn't obtained, but in any case, it was almost certain that Charlotte was the destined one.

The rest, I guess, I'll have to go to St. Casta Magic Academy to find out.

"Loran?"

Serena tilted her head slightly: "Do you know who this 'destined person' is?"

"There is some speculation."

Loran nodded slightly: "If nothing unexpected happens, it will probably be little Charlotte."

"......ha?"

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Now, let's turn to another part of the story. Charlotte and her two companions had already entered the clock tower. As the most prominent building in Enshia, it should have been bustling with tourists, but it was completely deserted.

The entrance to the clock tower was heavily guarded, and no one was allowed to enter. Even Anna's presentation of her credentials as a princess was of no use.

As for why the three were allowed in later... it was because the guards saw the Morganfeller family credentials on Charlotte's body.

For children like these, Morgan Fleur is far more useful than a princess.

Morgan Fleischer, supremely noble, invincible.

"Hmm, why won't he agree to let me pass, even though I'm a princess? Charlotte, if you show Mr. Loran's mark, they'll let you through!"

Anna's mutterings, accompanied by footsteps, echoed in the dark stairwell.

"Um, I'm not really sure either."

Charlotte scratched her head; she genuinely didn't know why Morgan Fleur's mark was so useful.

"Perhaps it's because Mr. Loran has connections in the patrol department?"

Daisy offered a hypothetical scenario, but Anna clearly couldn't accept it so easily: "That can't be the case!"

"Hmm, maybe they just don't recognize your credentials, Anna? After all, they might never even see the princess in their entire lives."

After hearing Charlotte's guess, Anna finally accepted it: "Hmph, I see. Then forgive them."

A few lights appeared ahead, and Charlotte and her two companions finally reached the top of the clock tower.

"Phew, phew, I'm exhausted..."

Anna sat on the rooftop floor without a care in the world, completely unconcerned about whether her clothes were dirty.

Daisy was also quite exhausted, and she was panting heavily as she leaned on the handrail.

Charlotte, aren't you tired?

Anna stared in astonishment at Charlotte, who appeared perfectly normal except for a slight blush on her face.

"well enough."

Charlotte thought to herself that she was a first-level martial artist, and they thought they could tire her out with just a few stairs?

Just kidding, this isn't.

"Wow, Charlotte is amazing."

Daisy took a while to catch her breath, and looked at Charlotte, who looked completely relaxed, with great admiration.

"Haha... Let's look for any traces of bombs first."

"By the Goddess of Light, there must be a bomb here, otherwise all my climbing this stairs will have been for nothing."

Anna stood up while praying, and the three of them split up to search. Then, Anna exclaimed, "Look at this!"

What appeared before the three of them was a strange object shaped like a red rabbit, with numbers jumping around in the middle.

Below it, a few lines of text were written on a wooden board:

"Only the wise can stop it."

Question: There are 49 chickens and rabbits in total, and they have 100 legs. How many chickens and rabbits are there?

"...?"

Chapter 55 Miss Charlotte seems to have sensed something

"This, this is...?"

Silence descended upon the entire attic. After a long while, Anna blinked, seemingly somewhat unsure.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's a math problem."

Miss Daisy was starting to have doubts too. She felt like she was hallucinating—why would there be math problems at the place where the cultists hid bombs?

"Yes, it's a math problem."

Charlotte squinted, feeling that something was amiss... But just as she was about to ponder it further, Anna's voice interrupted her thoughts: "Never mind, never mind, anyway, as long as we solve this math problem, we can defuse the first bomb, right!"

"If nothing unexpected happens, yes..."

But why would followers of evil gods use such bizarre methods of hiding?

Miss Daisy still couldn't accept it; the existence of this math problem even overshadowed the ridiculousness of the red rabbit-shaped bomb.

Charlotte sighed: "Whatever the mastermind's plan is, since the bomb is right in front of us, there's no reason to ignore it."

Miss Charlotte stopped calling them followers of the evil god and instead said they were the masterminds. Although the clues weren't enough to piece together the truth, she felt that something was off about the whole thing.

"Ahem, since that's the case, then let this clever and quick-witted princess handle it!"

Anna, hands on her hips, stared at the question and began to recite: "There are 49 chickens and rabbits in total, and 100 legs... Chickens have two legs, and rabbits have four... By the way, did you bring paper and pens?"

Seeing Miss Anna's increasingly serious expression, Charlotte and Daisy exchanged a glance and both gave a helpless smile. Daisy coughed twice: "Well, if the chicken and the rabbit both raised both legs..."

"There should be 100 minus 49 multiplied by 2 left on the ground, which is two legs!"

Anna clapped her hands: "So there are two rabbits!"

"..."

A crow flew past the window at some point, cawing sharply. Charlotte silently covered her face, and Daisy's expression also became tense. She took a deep breath: "Anna, rabbits have four legs. If you lift two up, there should be two left."

“…Hmm!”

Anna paused for a moment, then realized she had made a mistake even a child wouldn't make, and her face immediately turned as red as a monkey's bottom: "No, no, this, this was an accident, an accident!"

"Hmm, an accident."

Miss Daisy's tone was surprisingly sincere; my goodness, Daisy, you are so gentle.

Charlotte looked at the two of them and suddenly felt like she was looking at a naughty child and a gentle, weak-willed mother.

How strange! Let me take another look.

Despite some unexpected events, the mystery was solved. As Anna wrote the answer in chalk, the countdown on the bomb stopped. Charlotte reached out, carefully picked up the bomb, and then put it into the storage item that Loran had given her.

Anything produced by Lorraine is guaranteed to be of the highest quality, so even if the bomb explodes inside, it will absolutely not harm Charlotte in the slightest.

"Great! A resounding success!"

Anna extended her hand, Daisy chuckled softly, and then extended her hand as well, and Charlotte, of course, wouldn't spoil their fun.

The three high-fived: "Operation to protect Enshiya, the first step, a success!"

What's next?

"Well......"

Daisy recalled, "The sleeping figure reflected the first sacrificial victim, and then the river, flowing past dawn, buried the second."

"The river flows through the dawn? Wait, I think I'm remembering something."

Anna frowned, then suddenly clapped her hands: "That's right, in fairy tales, when the Goddess of Light walked among the earth, she promised the poor who showed her kindness that the river would turn into a magnificent robe when the banquet began."

"Ah, right, I remember now, it's the story of Cinderella!"

Daisy also said, "In the story, Cinderella showed kindness to the beggar who was the incarnation of the goddess of light, so the goddess of light gave her a beautiful dress that she could wear at dawn. At dawn the next day, Cinderella, wearing a dress woven from river water, met the prince, and the prince and Cinderella fell in love at first sight. They lived happily ever after."

Charlotte listened with blinking eyes. As an outsider from the Kingdom of Antaya, she was indeed not very familiar with Isnar's fairy tales. Although Loran knew them, Charlotte was already an eleven-year-old girl when they met and would no longer be listening to fairy tales.

This is indeed a blind spot in her knowledge.

"But......"

Anna pouted, "Is this really the right answer? Besides, even if it is related to this story, where could the bomb be hidden?"

Charlotte pondered for a moment. Although she hadn't heard the story before, she could guess a bit from Daisy and Anna's accounts. So she tentatively asked, "Could this riddle be hinting at the 'place of the banquet'?"

“唔，所以夏洛蒂你的意思每^日.发！书，群【6`5,0/5^0”2*3>3.8】是说，炸弹可能埋藏在宴会广场上吗？”

Daisy frowned: "But the security of the banquet square is of paramount importance. The patrol department has searched it so many times. It's impossible for an ordinary person to hide anything there."

"makes sense."

"Oh, let's not worry about that for now. Do you have any ideas about the puzzles that follow?"

Following Anna's advice, the two continued to look at the remaining puzzles.

"The third person died from old age?"

"Is this also one of Isnar's fairy tales?"

"...not really."

Daisy and Charlotte fell into deep thought, while Anna muttered, "Old-looking young? Surely someone doesn't look old but actually look incredibly young."

Daisy and Charlotte looked up abruptly at Anna, who was startled. "I... I was just saying, don't take it to heart."

"No, that's not right!"

Charlotte and Daisy seemed to remember something, exchanged a glance, and said in unison, "That's it!"

"...Which one?"

“I will punish you, but not with swords or spears, nor with fire.”