Chapter 126: Getting to know each other
Chapter 126 – Getting to Know Each Other
Nina’s focus seemed to be placed in a very subtle way, but to Sherry, that was good.
She had already taken this innocent and ordinary-looking girl in front of her as a dependent of some subspace shadow from the bottom of her heart, and it was the kind of dependent that was at the level of her own daughter – the less negative impression she had of herself in front of this dependent, then of course her chances of surviving in front of the big brother would be a little bit higher.
Nina didn’t know how much Shirley’s heart was hiding under that awkward and stiff smile, the girl was surprised and a little bit excited, because she had never been in such close contact with a real transcendentalist (not counting the usual church visits), her knowledge about this kind of thing was limited to books, and in her eyes, the girl who had used some kind of “Transcendental Illusion” to sneak into the school to investigate the incident seemed to have been categorized as a “transcendental illusion”, and she was not sure if it was a good idea to use it. In her eyes, Shirley, who used some kind of “supernatural illusion” to infiltrate the school to investigate the incident, seems to have been shrouded in an aura of mystery and power.
She even forgot about the other party’s little “deception” to herself for a short time, and instead focused all her attention on the extraordinary life and adventures of the extraordinary people – even if these adventures were basically made up in her own head:” Where do you usually live? Do you have your own secret base or something? Or is there a very mysterious organization?
“Do you usually hide in caves? Or a sewer or something? Do you have a warehouse of sorts where you store all sorts of ritual objects?
“Are you born with special abilities? Or do you have some powerful transcendental items? Are you one of those legendary ‘secret mages’? I’ve heard of such an ancient profession where secret mages can release spells without relying on any deity, and it’s said that their power comes from their bloodline ……
“What do you usually eat? Do you have to drink a lot of herbs or strange animal blood? What? You eat normally? Really?”
Nina’s questions crackled and crackled, and a cold sweat broke out on Sherry’s forehead halfway through her response – not because she couldn’t answer them, but because there was a Duncan next to her!
Duncan had been watching Shirley silently since a moment ago, his smile gentle and kind – on the surface, he looked like the parent who showed up to entertain the family when the kids were having their classmates over.
Unassuming, gracious, harmless.
But one look at him, and Shirley broke out in a cold sweat.
“You seem to be afraid of my uncle,” even if Nina’s reaction was slow in this regard, she could still notice this odd behavior of Sherry, together with the memory of the other party’s reaction earlier at the museum, which made her unable to resist asking, “What’s going on between you two . . what exactly happened between you two?”
“No…… nothing! Really!” Shirley sat up straight in almost a jolt, shaking her hands vigorously, “What could I …… have happened with your uncle, I’m still a child ……”
Duncan heard this on the feeling that there seems to be something wrong, he knew that he could not let the two girls continue to free play, quickly in Shirley’s mouth full of trains before coughing twice to interrupt: “In fact, there is nothing, but she took the bus to escape the ticket, just be caught by me once.”
“Because of that?” Nina looked at Sherry in surprise, “That’s not so bad to leave such a big shadow right …… But uncle is right, fare evasion is bad.”
Shirley’s tears were coming down, “I really won’t skip tickets in the future, okay!”
Nina nodded, and then immediately seemed to remember something, couldn’t help but look at Shirley very seriously for a couple of moments, “Then …… can you tell me, what exactly are you investigating? Are you being friends with me also because of your ‘investigation’?”
Shirley’s body tensed up and her eyes began to drift off to the side, but just halfway through they met Duncan’s calm gaze.
“I’m investigating the fire eleven years ago,” Sherry said in a low voice, suddenly lowering her head slightly, as if she’d figured something out all at once, or simply given up on it, “It’s the one that was brought up in the official records, that factory leak in the sixth block… …”
“A fire eleven years ago?” Nina’s eyes widened instantly, shock in her tone, “Wait …… you know about that fire eleven years ago too?!”
“…… You know about it too?!” Surprisingly, Sherry acted surprised as well, as she directly stood up from her chair, “You also experienced that fire?”
“Of course I know, my parents died in that fire – I was six years old, and it was Uncle Duncan who saved me from it,” Nina spoke sharply, subconsciously gesturing with her hands, “But all this time everyone said that I was confused by the poisonous smoke from the streets, and they all said there was no fire at all, and even the newspapers later said there was just an accident in one of the factories at the time ……”
“I was also six years old that year …… and my parents died in the fire, I remember it clearly,” Shirley looked straight into Nina’s eyes, “but people around me also told me there was no fire at all at that time …… No wonder, no wonder Dog said he smelled something familiar on you ……”
As soon as her words left her mouth, Duncan’s voice suddenly came from the side, “So it was Dog who guided you to get close to Nina you blended into the school – and you didn’t really know why you did it, that’s why you also looked so surprised after hearing Nina’s words just now.”
Meeting Duncan’s calm gaze, Sherry nodded hurriedly, while Nina revealed a somewhat puzzled look, “Dog? Who is Dog?”
“Ah Dog it ……” Shirley said, but hesitated in the next second, she glanced at Duncan and then looked at Shirley again, “Ah Dog is my friend, it’s right next to me, but its appearance might be a bit scary ……” Shirley said this with her mouth, but the feeling in her heart was extraordinarily strange – because there was obviously a sub-space shadow that was countless times more scary than Dog sitting next to her, and this sub-space shadow was also spending time with Nina, and as a result, she had to go along with the big brother’s “personal hobby”, pretending that Dog was a friend of mine. As a result, she still has to cooperate with the big brother’s “private hobby”, pretending that Dog is the most scary existence here, and also treat the big brother as an ordinary human being. ……
To be fair, she usually use Dog’s camouflage ability to move around, with the cultists have dealt with, with the sheriff has dealt with, and even with the regional chapel priests have dealt with, can be on all of these together, are not as nervous as sitting in this antique store for ten minutes to the thrill of the thrill.
This mediocre store was almost on the same level as a subspace portal in her eyes.
Nina, however, just curiously looked around, looking for the figure of “Dog” beside Shirley, probing and poking her head for half a day before curiously asking: “Then you let ‘Dog’ come out to meet me, since it’s your friend! …… what’s so scary about me?”
Sherry was still a bit hesitant, while Duncan suddenly tapped the table gently and said to Nina, “Then you have to be prepared, I’ve seen ‘Dog’ and it’s really ugly.”
“…… Then I’m even more curious,” Nina saw Uncle Duncan and Sherry’s reaction and instead became even more curious, “I’d really like to meet that ‘Dog ‘ gentleman, and want to know why Shirley’s friend has such a strange name ……”
“Well, since you want to see it,” Duncan shook his head and looked a little helplessly at Shirley, “let Dog come out and say hello, after all, he’s also today’s ‘guest’.”
Under normal circumstances, Shirley would never expose her and Dog’s secret to the world, because in the city-state of order, traveling with a Phantom Demon was an extreme taboo in itself, and the clerics of the Church of the Deep could dislike the eight-pounders and six-barrel machine guns right in front of her if they detected even the slightest bit of Phantom’s aura.
Now, however, a subspace shadow level existence demanded that she summon Dog out.
“…… Oh.”
She nodded, then slowly raised her arm.
In the next second, in Nina’s stunned and slightly tense line of sight, pitch-black flames and thick smoke suddenly rose up around Sherry!
Chains extended from the flames, and the figure of a spectral demon coalesced at the end of the thick smoke and black flames.
The Phantom Hound emerges from the flames and quickly shrinks into a ball in a second, cradling his head again with his front paws to hide the most frightening eye sockets on his body, and greeted Nina sullenly in a cloud of black smoke, “Good evening, miss, I’m Dog, Shirley’s friend and guardian dog, and my looks don’t really fit in with the prevailing aesthetics of mankind, but you can look at them with abstraction and forgiving view so that I am just a pile of cleverly stacked bone fragments and a ball of flame of a slightly more fantastic color ……”
Duncan gave Shirley a faint look, “To be fair, I really haven’t seen a dog in my life that can move so well from the heart …… On personality alone he’s kinda cute.”
On the other side, Nina was dumbfounded and looked at Dog in shock for half a day before finally letting out an exclamation, “Ah!”
Shirley hurriedly spoke, “I told you you might be scared ……”
As a result, before she could finish her sentence, she heard Nina pick up the second half of the sentence after the exclamation of surprise, “This is also awesome!”
Sherry: “……?”
“You …… hello?” Taking advantage of Shirley’s momentary lapse of concentration, Nina was already trying to greet Dog, “Mr. Dog? Uh, are you a ‘Mr.’?”
“The Phantom Demon doesn’t have a gender, but you can call me that if you want,” Dog replied in a muffled voice, while also seeming to be a bit surprised, “You …… aren’t afraid of me?”
“Not really, although it does look a bit scary,” Nina thought about it with a wide smile on her face, “but I’m pretty bold~”
(End of chapter)