Operation Red Book

"Right...I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well do one last good thing and clean up the orphanage, get rid of Morris, and let Henry and the other kids suffer less."

Ivy muttered to herself, tears drying on her cheeks, the tight feeling doing nothing to disrupt her thoughts.

"Then I'll go tomorrow. Joshua, do you have time?" Ivy became interested and asked Joshua excitedly.

Joshua nodded as expected, and the two looked at each other, then turned their gazes to Holmes on the sofa.

"I don't have time to play with you. Lestrade invited me to watch the horse race."

Holmes picked up a newspaper beside him and covered his entire face.

Ivy pursed her lips, rolled her eyes to the left, and said reluctantly, "In exchange, I'll tell you about the devil's contract, but you can't tell anyone else, including Mr. Moriarty."

"I'd like to hear more about it." Holmes quickly folded the newspaper in his hand and put it aside.

"On the night of the dance, he kidnapped me and said he would kill me to lure Joshua here. He also said that my soul was fresh and he would eat my soul in front of him." Ivy said with her head down, twisting her fingers.

"In order to prevent him from attracting Joshua... Well, actually I didn't want him to kill me, so I signed a contract with him. The condition was that he would help me until I returned to that world. Isn't this a smart idea?" Ivy spread her hands and tried to force a big smile.

"This is the dumbest method I have ever heard of. You are so stupid, even dumber than Peter III a hundred years ago!" Holmes scolded harshly.

"Is the devil a three-year-old child? The devil is the most cunning and ruthless. He will definitely dig your heart out alive one day!"

Ivy lowered her head after being scolded, and her ankles twirled nervously on the red carpet.

"That makes sense. I always feel like there's something different about Ivy." Joshua said with sudden enlightenment.

Ivy pulled down her left shoulder and tilted her head to the right, showing the round, bluish black spot to the two of them.

"This is the contract. It was originally a blue hexagram."

"You, you really are..." Holmes's face wrinkled together, and he picked up another cigarette with trembling hands. He struck the match several times but couldn't light it. He was so angry that he threw it at Ivy in front of him.

"The contract has been signed anyway!" Ivy dodged the matchbox and cigarette bag thrown by Holmes and said righteously.

"It's all your fault for not telling me ahead of time what to do if you encounter a demon that wants to kill you! I've already told you that you have to accompany me to investigate the Florence Orphanage tomorrow!"

"Ai, classmate Ai Wei, don't be angry...Mr. Holmes..."

Joshua looked at Ivy's gradually reddening cheeks and gently dissuaded her.

Tears welled up in Ivy's eyes. Looking at the angry look of the person in front of her, Holmes sighed, frowned, closed his eyes, and finally agreed.

Before Ivy could celebrate happily, Holmes interrupted the two people's cheers and said, "How are we going to get in tomorrow? We must first make a feasible plan."

There was another silence in the living room. After all, Ivy and Joshua were children from the 21st century. They didn't know the adoption procedures and daily operations of welfare homes and orphanages. For a moment, they couldn't think of how to openly go in and investigate.

Did the plan fail? Ivy felt a pang of anger in her heart again. She shook her head and thought about it carefully.

"I only have some contact with Henry. How about I go and talk to Henry tomorrow and ask him to secretly take us in?" Ivy suggested.

"I don't believe an uneducated child can defeat those cunning and treacherous adults." Holmes rolled his eyes and said contemptuously.

There was another long silence, and the quietness of the night swept the whole house. Ivy suddenly felt a little tired.

"Let's do this. We need to contact a noble and pretend that we want to discuss adoption with the dean. We will act as his servants, and then he will have a good reason to take us into the Florence Orphanage."

Holmes looked at the two men's expressions, raised his eyebrows and expressed his thoughts.

"But it's so late. Where can I find a nobleman who is rich enough and stupid enough to be used by me now?"

Ivy rolled her eyes and thought for a while, and the name of this person gradually appeared in her mind. She took a deep breath and promised the two people in the living room:

"I know the right person to join our operation tomorrow morning."

"Then I'll leave it to you, little lamb that keeps company with the wolf."