Seeing that after a moment of shock and nervousness, Ni Na was only left with excitement and curiosity, Shirley couldn't help but
He kept muttering, "You can't even describe this as bold..."
Nina didn't hear what Shirley was mumbling at all. Her attention was completely attracted by the dark skeleton hound in front of her. After jumping down from the chair, she walked around Agou twice, looking him up and down carefully. When she saw Agou's empty eyes filled with blood, she was finally startled, but that was all.
"So amazing..." She repeated it again, and even looked like she wanted to reach out and touch Agou's skull, but she took her hand back at the last second and looked up at Shirley, "This is the first time I have seen such an extraordinary being with my own eyes... What is Agou? Is he a creature summoned by magic? Or...
"It's a demon," Shirley answered frankly, as if she wanted to scare Nina and make her realize how dangerous Agou was. "The most dangerous kind of demon."
Nina was indeed a little shocked. She probably didn't expect that this polite Agou, who looked ugly but polite, would be called a "devil". She looked incredulous: "It is... a devil?"
"Strictly speaking, it's a Deep Demon," Ah Gou raised his head slightly, staring at Nina with his hollow eyes, "Miss, this may be the first time you see a Deep Demon. Don't get the wrong impression of the Deep Demon because of my existence. My compatriots are diverse, but the common point is that they are all extremely cruel and ruthless..."
"Deep..." Nina was stunned. She finally woke up from the novelty and tension of seeing a supernatural being for the first time and recalled what she had said before, "Shirley, you..."
"As you can see, I am tied to the Deep Demon. Shirley raised her arm and showed Nina the chain that was fused with her body. "So I don't want anyone to know my secret, do you understand? If the people of the Deep Sea Church knew, they would not hesitate to throw me into the fire or into the endless sea."
Shirley's expression was particularly serious. Nina realized something from her serious attitude. She looked at Shirley with a slightly complicated expression, and then looked at Agou: "... I have seen in the book that the Deep Sea is full of crazy evil creatures. They are the residue discharged from the Deep Saint. From birth to death, they are dominated by chaos. But Mr. Agou looks...
"Agou is special," Shirley said calmly, "Normal deep sea demons don't have hearts, and don't understand human emotions, but Agou does. Although he himself doesn't know why he has undergone this change, this change makes it impossible for him to survive in the deep sea."
Nina was stunned for a moment, then nodded, half understanding: "Oh."
As she spoke, she fell into a brief silence, then suddenly scratched her hair and looked at Duncan in distress: "Uncle, I feel a mess in my mind.
She recalled her chaotic experience that day, her experience with Shirley, and looked at Ah
Dog, a sense of absurdity that was detached from reality finally came up slowly.
"You've been through a lot today," Duncan's gentle and calm words came, like a candlelight in the dim light, which made Nina's consciousness, which had suddenly become a little hazy, stabilized all of a sudden, "It's normal to be a little confused.
Nina blinked her eyes, finally realizing what she had overlooked from the beginning. She looked at Duncan steadily.
: "Uncle, if you have known Shirley for a long time... do you also know her secret? Do you also know Agou
"Earlier than you," Duncan smiled, "but I didn't know she was the 'friend' you mentioned.
"That
Nina hesitated for a moment, "Are you also investigating what happened eleven years ago
Start an investigation?"
"I guess so. We've worked together once or twice by chance." Duncan nodded.
"Why do I feel like you're hiding this from only me?" Nina muttered belatedly, and you're investigating what happened eleven years ago... What secrets are there about what happened eleven years ago?" "We don't know yet, but we all agree that there was a fire that was erased," Duncan said in a deep voice.
Then, his eyes fell on Nina, "I'm sorry, I did hide it from you, because this is not something you can accept now.
It’s too dangerous to touch the field.”
"Uncle, what about you?" Nina suddenly got angry. "Uncle, aren't you in danger?!
As soon as she said this, before Duncan could say anything, Agou and Shirley beside him covered their faces at the same time. Shirley even muttered in a low voice: "Of course your uncle is dangerous, your uncle is the most dangerous..."
Duncan looked at Shirley silently, then shook his head gently at Nina: "Uncle is an adult, and I am much more powerful than you think."
Nina's eyes kept moving between Duncan and Shirley. Her expression changed several times, and I didn't know what was going on in her mind.
There were so many messy thoughts in Duncan's mind, but just when Duncan thought that this girl might become stubborn, or like ordinary people,
When Nina was throwing a tantrum like a normal teenage girl, she suddenly sighed.
"It's getting dark," she looked up at the sky outside the door, as if all the topics just now had never happened.
"I'll go cook. Shirley, you should stay too. It's not safe to travel in the dark." "Ah...ah?" Shirley was stunned and couldn't react for a moment. She couldn't keep up with Nina's train of thought. Then she
He waved his hands hurriedly, "Ah, no, no! Agou and I can catch up if we go back quickly...
Before she finished her words, Duncan's voice came from the side: "Stay, the sun will set in a few minutes.
Shan--The streets will be full of guards by then. Are you sure you want to go through the city under martial law under such circumstances?"
Shirley's whole body froze. She turned around to look at the sky outside the shop, then looked at Duncan's calm expression, and finally realized that she would not be able to leave the antique shop today.
"Well... okay," the girl sat down dejectedly, and forced a smile to look at Nina, "Is there anything I can do for you?" "No, I'm the one who cooks at home," Nina smiled and walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor.
But when she was about to step onto the stairs, she suddenly stopped. She stood there, looking at Shirley very seriously. After several seconds, she spoke, "Shirley, are we friends?" Shirley was stunned. Her first reaction was to look at Duncan, but the latter looked away. She had no choice but to look at him again.
Turning back to look at Nina, after a few seconds of brief but uncomfortable silence, she shook her head: "... No.
But then she nodded again: "But I can try,
Nina laughed. Although the other party did not give a very affirmative answer, she seemed to have gotten the perfect answer.
Shirley watched her run upstairs in a daze, then suddenly heard a calm voice coming from the side.
Come: "Thank you.
It was Duncan who was speaking.
Shirley was startled, and quickly sat back in her chair and turned to Duncan: "What are you thanking me for?"
"Nina has no friends at school," Duncan was already used to her overly nervous reaction, he said calmly, "so when she mentioned that she had made a new friend at school the other day, she seemed very happy.
Shirley blinked in confusion, not quite understanding.
“So first of all, thank you for not just telling Nina you were her friend, and secondly, thank you for saying you could give it a try.
"I... don't quite understand." Shirley was still confused. In fact, she was even more confused than before. "You are here... just acting as an ordinary person, right? Nina... doesn't seem to know how special you are. She doesn't have any sense of existence in school. If it weren't for Agou's guidance, I almost couldn't find her when I first went to school. But common sense would tell me that a "special person" like her who is under your care would be...
"Not a relative, but a niece," Duncan emphasized again, and then looked at the other person with an extremely serious expression. "Now that Nina has left, I have a question for you."
"You said, you said..."
"It was Agou who directed you to approach Nina, right?"
"right."
"Because Agou "smelled" a certain scent on Nina? It judged that Nina was the same as the one eleven years ago.
Does fire have anything to do with it?"
"right"
What kind of smell is it? Is it the same smell as that factory? Or something else?" This time Shirley did not answer, she cast her eyes on Agou.
Under Duncan's gaze, Agou hesitated for a few seconds before finally lowering his head:
"There are ashes floating around her, countless ashes, Mr. Duncan."