In fact, there are many problems in the world that cannot be solved by fighting and killing. For example, a gun full of ammunition cannot help you choose what to eat in the evening, and it cannot make a rebellious girl go home quickly. When these two problems come together, they will become a significant trouble.
In a restaurant on the street, Lorenzo looked at the glass that was covered with water droplets due to the heat. The pedestrians on the road were walking in the misty fog, like a lone boat sailing in the sea of white fog. The street lights lit up one by one, and were stained by the fog, like tiny stars one after another.
"I guess they are looking for you all over the world."
Lorenzo turned his gaze and looked at the girl opposite. She was going to become a so-called duchess in a month, but she didn't behave like an adult at all and was very willful.
But if it is just simple willfulness, it is easy to solve. But when the child is talented and has received true teachings from someone, everything becomes very complicated.
"Yawei and I have an unspoken understanding. If he can't find me, he will give up, and I will return home safely before midnight. It's like an unwritten rule."
"It seems that Yawei has also been tortured by you."
“It’s just a mutual compromise.”
Seleu cut the food with a knife and put it into his mouth. His movements looked a little clumsy, as if he was not used to it.
A few years ago, this Seleucid did not have the life he has now. He had nowhere to go on cold nights and had to hide in street corners to eat frozen bread. Even when he met Lorenzo, he had to flee all the way and eat food that was barely warm. The changes in the past few years are simply dreamy. Even now, when he thinks back on it, it feels like a dream.
Lorenzo held his chin and relaxed. Selyu's cold expression had always been her best disguise. Sometimes even Lorenzo couldn't guess what she was thinking.
"Are you still used to life?"
"Reluctantly, people always have to adapt to the living environment, right?"
"You're taking it too far with 'barely'! Barely Duchess?"
Lorenzo glanced at Seleuco. He thought that this girl might have had her life bored by the impact of wealth. But that was true. Only when she was tired of those luxurious banquets would she be interested in those strange things from the Far East.
"You taught me to remember what I was."
Seleu didn't even bother to look at Lorenzo, or maybe it was because of her inherently cold personality that she had no reaction at all.
"It's all like an illusion, even more than an ugly duckling turning into a phoenix."
She cut with a knife and ate all the food on the plate, then sat up straight in the chair with a stern temperament.
"Old Dunling, the beginning of a new life. If there really was a new life, you wouldn't be a detective, would you?"
"This is my lifelong dream, Seryuu."
Lorenzo fought back hard, he was very dedicated to the profession of detective.
"A detective with a gun? It's still a life of fighting and killing, just disguised as a detective. We are very similar, Lorenzo. We both don't trust the current situation. We can only trust ourselves. Even a new life is just a beast resting and grinding its teeth, because he knows very well that such a life is just a short dream."