Jenkins believed that he must have been terrified the moment he turned his head, while Hathaway, who pushed the door and walked in, had a look of surprise, but it soon turned into unexpected joy:
"Hey, Jenkins, I didn't expect to meet you here."
"I-I'm happy too."
For the first time, Jenkins knew that he stuttered when he was nervous.
Of course, Hathaway didn't come here specifically to find Jenkins, she just came to pick up a piece of custom-made jewelry. Of course, Hathaway knew that this remote store was also introduced by her father, so Jenkins had to wonder whether her father had other purposes in letting him handle his own affairs just now.
After the old craftsman took the order from Hathaway, he turned around and went to the quiet room behind the shop to pick up the girl's earrings. Only Jenkins and Hathaway were left in the store, which made the man feel that this was a good opportunity, and he knew that he could not go to the ball to confirm who his partner was.
"Meow~"
Chocolat, standing on Jenkins' shoulder and looking around, thinks he's been overlooked.
"Thanks for inviting me to the dance, it must be fun, no?"
This sentence made Jenkins feel a little embarrassed.
"I think you'll like it."
The red-haired girl stared into Jenkins' eyes, as if trying to see her own reflection in his eyes.
"This shop is very interesting. My father introduced me to it."
Jenkins changed his mind anyway, perhaps not as directly as he asked.
"I was also introduced by my father, Jenkins, what are you doing here? Are you picking up antiques restored by my father?"
Some gems on antiques will fall off due to various reasons, such as time, accidents such as falling off, and professional gem craftsmen are required to repair them.
"No, no, it's my own business."
He touched the suitcase on the side and back with his hand, and when Hathaway came in, the old craftsman put it back together.
"Maybe if I ask a question now, I can solve two troubles at the same time."
He had a bold idea.
Jenkins is not a timid man, but he is always quite cautious in the choice of key issues. After the idea arises, he will seriously think about the possible consequences of this choice and think it is a good habit.
The eyes left Hathaway's face subconsciously, and casually scanned the narrow and crowded shop. There are quite a lot of strange things here, not just chocolate curiosity, but Jenkins is also quite curious. The craftsmen who grind gems presumably also grind lenses, and Jenkins saw what looked like a microscope.
He was contemplating what he was going to say in his mind, and then he suddenly noticed five wooden soldier dolls in a golden empty birdcage in the corner.
These dolls were obviously placed here casually. Their workmanship is not good, and there are still unsmoothed edges and corners at the position of the elbows and the brim of the hat. The paintwork had peeled off a bit, and it was clearly a bargain, not comparable to Miss Stuart's dress-up princess puppets Jenkins had seen.
"What's wrong?"
Hathaway noticed Jenkins' daze.
"Someone once said that I am quite sensitive to the spirit... This cannot be said to be true, but it cannot be said to be a wrong conclusion."
Jenkins didn't open the Eye of Reality, and this time he really knew that it was something great just by intuition.
The eyes blinked, and a dazzling red aura burst out from the doll. And as Jenkins pointed at them, the soldier dolls suddenly moved.
"Warning! Humans have discovered us!"
The only puppet with military rank was dealing with a high-pitched voice, with a surprised expression on his face no bigger than a thumb.
Under its command, the puppets lined up tacitly and jumped out of the cage. Their bouncing ability is quite amazing. After leaving the cage, they hop around like fleas, and then they are knocked down one by one by the chocolate with faster bouncing ability and faster reaction speed. The cat triumphantly pushes the puppets to Jenkins.
The man stretched out his hand and patted the little cat's head on the round table twice. Chocolate squinted his eyes and made an expression of enjoyment.
"I thought you only bullied squirrels or pigeons."
Jenkins joked, and was immediately slapped on the back of his hand by the cat's paw.
Those puppets are quite powerful, and the guns in their hands are actually real guns. But Hathaway knew this thing and warned Jenkins to be careful in advance, so it didn't take much effort to subdue them.
"B-09-4-3927, Charlotte Corps."
The red-haired teenage girl is very interested in these little things tied up with ropes. She is not the "lucky guy" like Jenkins who encounters numbered objects almost every day.
"These little guys are very rare. Although they are puppets, they firmly believe that they are a legion of the ancient country [Athemagus Empire] in the 13th era. The leader of the legion calls himself Charlotte, so we call them Shalot Lot Legion. But in fact, these puppets were made later than the 15th century, and their cognition is obviously different from the truth."
She was very happy to watch the chocolate stretch out its paws and pat the puppet's head one by one, which reminded her of the action of Jenkins slapping the cat's head just now.
"So, the identity of B-09-4-3927 is these puppets who have misidentified themselves?"
Jenkins didn't stop Chocolate's movement, but he wondered why the soldiers who were slapped didn't yell, but were tied there tremblingly and dared not move.
"Oh, you hurt me!"
Finally, some soldiers couldn't help but started to complain, but it looked more like a hat that was hurt by a sharp cat's claw.
"Meow~"
Chocolat continued with his actions and seemed to be having a good time. The soldier muttered a few words, and then he didn't dare to speak again.
"Of course it's not that simple. These puppets are signs of war. Wherever they appear, there are often tragic wars. From a long time ago, some stupid ordinary people who heard the legend of B-09-4-3927 thought they were The vanguard of the great righteous god [Lord of War God], but in fact these puppets are more likely to be the works of false gods [God of Toys and Games].”
As she said, she stretched out her hand to remove the upside-down glass fish tank that was used as a prison, and untied the ropes that bound the puppets under the nervous expressions. Jenkins hurriedly picked up the cat in the fish tank.
"There is no need to imprison them. They can exist for a short time, and they will disappear automatically when the time comes."
"A harbinger of war? Will war break out in the peaceful Nolan City?"
Jenkins doesn't care about the whereabouts of those puppets, he only cares about the safety of the city he lives in.
PS: Sorry, there are a lot of typos in the morning chapter, I have changed it. The repeated paragraph (6/10) also deleted the repeated paragraph and added some new content. That chapter is still 2000 words, and you can refresh to see the new content.
This is the apology chapter, and there will be a normal update at night.