Chapter 127: What did you see?

Chapter 127: What Did You See

Looking at Nina in a moment of shock and nervousness after the only thing left is the appearance of excitement and curiosity, Shirley really did not hold back to whispered: “You can no longer use boldness to describe it ……”

Nina, however, completely did not hear what Shirley was muttering, her attention has been completely attracted by the blackened skeleton hound in front of her, after jumping down from the chair she walked around Dog twice, looking up and down carefully – in seeing Dog’s empty and blood-filled eye sockets she was finally taken aback, but also just A shock, but only a shock.

“That’s amazing ……” she repeats again, and even looks like she wants to reach out and touch Dog’s bony brain, but pulls her hand back at the last second and looks up at Shirley instead, “It’s the first time I’ve ever witnessed a This is the first time I’ve witnessed such a transcendent being …… What is Dog? Is it a creature summoned by a spell? Or ……”

“It’s a demon,” Shirley replied matter-of-factly, as if trying to scare Nina into realizing the danger of Dog a little, “The most dangerous, most dangerous kind of demon.”

Nina was really shocked, she probably didn’t realize that this Dog, who was polite except for his ugly appearance, could be called a “demon”, and was full of incredulity: “It’s a …… demon? ”

“Strictly speaking, is the profound demon,” Dog slightly raised his head, empty eye sockets staring at Nina, “Miss, this may be the first time you see the profound demon, do not because of my existence and the profound demon have a wrong impression, my compatriots are many and varied, and the common thing is that they are all exceptionally The common thread is that they’re all very vicious and ruthless. ……”

“Profound ……” Nina was stunned, she finally snapped out of the novelty and nervousness of meeting a transcendent being for the first time, and recalled what the book had said, “Shirley, you… …”

“As you can see, I’m bound to the Profound Demon,” Shirley raised her arm and showed Nina the chain that was fused with her body, “so I don’t want people to know my secret, do you understand? If the people of the Church of the Deep knew, they wouldn’t hesitate to throw me into the fire, or into the Infinite Sea.”

Shirley’s expression was extraordinarily solemn, Nina realized something from the other party’s solemn attitude, she looked at Shirley with a slightly complicated expression, and then looked at Dog, “…… I’ve read in a book that the Profound Deep Sea is filled with frenzied and evil creations, they’re the remnants discharged from within the body of the Profound Holy Body. From birth to demise they are dominated by chaotic madness, but Mr. Dog looks ……”

“Dog is special,” Shirley said lightly, “Normal Profound Demons don’t have hearts, nor do they understand human emotions, Dog does – though even it doesn’t know why it has developed this change, the change made it impossible for it to survive in the Profound Deep.”

Nina was stunned, nodding her head in half-understanding, “Oh.”

While speaking, she fell into a short silence, then suddenly scratched her hair and looked at Duncan with some distress, “Uncle, I feel like my mind is in a mess.”

She recalled her chaotic encounters this day, recalled how she spent time with Shirley, and looked at Dog in front of her, a sense of absurdity detached from reality finally came up sluggishly.

“You’ve been through so much today,” came Duncan’s gentle, quiet words, as if they were candlelight lit in the dimness, causing Nina’s consciousness, which for some reason had suddenly drifted a little, to solidify all at once again, “some confusion is normal.”

Nina blinked her eyes, finally realizing what she had overlooked since just now, she looked at Duncan fixedly, “Uncle, then you have known Sherry for a long time if …… you know her secret as well? Do you know Dog too?”

“Longer than you,” Duncan gave a small smile, “but I didn’t realize before that she was the ‘friend’ you were talking about.”

“Then ……,” Nina hesitated, “So are you investigating something from eleven years ago as well? You’re investigating together?”

“Sort of, we’ve worked together once or twice by chance.” Duncan said with a nod.

“…… Why do I get the feeling that you guys are just hiding it from me?” Nina chimed in rather as an afterthought, “And what exactly is the secret of your investigation into what happened eleven years ago …… eleven years ago?”

“Right now we don’t know, but we all recognize that there was a fire that was erased back then,” Duncan murmured, his gaze falling on Nina, “I’m sorry, I did keep it from you because it’s not an area that’s too dangerous for you to touch right now. ”

“What about you uncle?” Nina actually got a little angry all of a sudden, “Uncle aren’t you dangerous?!”

As soon as her words came out, before Duncan could say anything, Dog and Shirley beside her covered their faces at the same time, and Shirley even muttered in a small voice, “Of course your uncle is dangerous, your uncle is the most dangerous ……”

Duncan silently glanced at Sherry before he gently shook his head at Nina, “Uncle is an adult, and uncle me ah, can be much more powerful than you think.”

Nina’s gaze kept sweeping between Duncan and Sherry, her expression changed several times, and she didn’t know how many jumbled thoughts were spinning around in her head, yet just when Duncan thought that the girl might get stubborn or make a scene like a normal adolescent girl, Nina suddenly sighed.

“It’s going to be dark soon,” she glanced up at the sky outside the door, as if all the conversation had never happened earlier, “I’ll go and cook – you stay too, Sherry, it’s not safe to travel in the dark. ”

“Ah …… ah?” Shirley froze for a moment, somewhat unable to keep up with Nina’s train of thought, before waving her hand in a panic immediately afterward, “Ah no no no! Dog and I go back quickly can still catch up ……” Before she could say anything else, Duncan’s voice came from the side, “Stay, the sun’s going down in a few minutes – the streets will be full of guardsmen then, are you sure you want to go through a heavily fortified city center in those conditions?”

Sherry stiffened instantly as she glanced back at the sky outside the store and then at Duncan’s calm expression, finally realizing that there was no way she was going to get out of this antique store today.

“Well …… then,” the girl sat down dejectedly, barely managing to hold up a smile as she looked over at Nina, “is there anything I can do to help?”

“No, I’m always the one who cooks at home,” Nina smiled and said as she walked towards the stairs that led to the second floor, but then she suddenly stopped when she was about to step on the steps, she stood there and looked at Shirley very seriously for several seconds before she spoke, “Shirley, are we friends ?”

Shirley froze and her first reaction was to look at Duncan, who looked away, so she had to turn back to look at Nina again, and after a few brief but uncomfortable seconds of silence she shook her head, “…… No.”

But immediately afterward, she nodded again, “But I can try.”

Nina smiled, and even though the other woman didn’t respond in a very positive way, it was as if she had gotten the perfect answer, and she darted up the stairs, her footsteps sharp and light.

Sherry watched in a bit of a daze as the other woman ran up to the second floor, before she suddenly heard a calm voice from beside her, “Thanks.”

It was Duncan speaking.

Startled, Sherry quickly squared herself back in her chair and turned to Duncan, “What are you thanking me for?”

“Nina doesn’t have any friends at school,” Duncan had gotten used to this always overly nervous reaction from the other man and he spoke in a flat tone, “so the other day when she was talking about a new friend she had made at school, she seemed very happy.”

Shirley blinked in confusion, somewhat missing the point.

“So first of all thank you for not telling Nina perfunctorily that you were her friend, and secondly thank you for saying you could try.”

“I …… don’t quite get it,” Shirley was still confused, in fact she was even more confused than she had been a moment ago, “you’re here …… playing exactly the role of a ordinary person isn’t it? Nina she …… doesn’t seem to have the slightest idea how special you are, she’s in school too, she doesn’t have any presence at all, even if it wasn’t for Dog’s guidance, I almost didn’t find her the first time I went to the school, but common sense would dictate that a ‘dependent’ like her who’s favored by you ……”

“Not favored, niece,” Duncan emphasized again, then looked at the other man with an extraordinarily serious expression, “Now that Nina has left, I have questions for you.”

“You name it, you name it ……”

“It was Dog who guided you to Nina, wasn’t it?”

“…… Right.”

“Because Dog ‘smelled’ a specific scent on Nina? And it judged from that that Nina had something to do with the fire eleven years ago?”

“Right.”

“What kind of specific scent? Was it the same scent as that factory? Or something else?”

This time Sherry didn’t answer, and she turned her attention to Dog.

At Duncan’s gaze, Dog hesitated for a few seconds before finally dropping his head:

“There are ashes floating around her, uncountable ashes, Mr. Duncan.”

(End of chapter)