Chapter 141: Two Guests
Chapter 141 – Two Guests
In Duncan’s perception, Vanna’s aura was approaching this antique store at a rapid pace, and it was not traveling straight ahead, with frequent changes of direction and more unusual pauses in between.
What would an Inquisitor who had been living in the upper city for a long time suddenly do in this antique store in the lower city? And the trajectory of his actions was so odd?
The moment that young Deep Sea Inquisitor’s aura appeared in his senses, Duncan slightly frowned, and then subconsciously glanced at Shirley.
Could it be that it was aimed at Shirley? Had the Church of the Deep finally realized that there was a Summoner in the city who traveled with the demons? Or maybe it was directed at him? But his usual actions are very careful, there is absolutely no horse feet left that can point to the Lost Country, at best, it is the original identity of this body’s sun worshippers that are exposed …… That is not so much as to alarm a hall judge, right?
The rapid and circuitous approaching trajectory of that breath is definitely not like passing by casually, but more like having a very strong purpose.
Thoughts in his mind instantly rose and fell, Duncan did not move and glanced at Nina, who was reading next to him, and got up to walk towards the door of the antique store.
Shirley on the side noticed his move, and subconsciously followed, “Mr. Duncan? What’s happening ……”
“Stay in the store.” Duncan gave Shirley, who should be categorized as a “heretic” no matter what, a look and told her to stay where she was, then went to the front of the store and looked in the direction of the perceived scent.
And then he realized why Vanna’s scent was approaching so quickly–
People drove here.
A dark gray car powered by a steam engine creaked to a halt in front of the antique store, the door opened and two people stepped down from it, one was Vanna, who had changed into her regular clothes but still stood out for her height, and the other was the psychiatrist Miss Heidi, whom he had met once before.
Duncan: “……”
He slightly reflected on his own in the sense of a breath fast approaching after the chaotic brain behavior, think I should not be all related to transcendental things are so white like snow come and go like the wind, now think of just now Vanna approaching the process of those short pause should be waiting for the traffic light ……
Then he saw the psychiatrist lady waving at herself with a rather spirited and pleasant greeting, “Mr. Duncan!”
The corners of Duncan’s mouth quivered, he knew he was overthinking it when he saw Vanna in her regular clothes, but nonetheless he deliberately looked twice at the inquisitor as he greeted her and expressed just the right amount of consternation, “This is ……”
“Ah, you must have recognized her, there’s no one in this town who doesn’t know her-our venerable Inquisitor, Miss Vanna Wayne,” Heidi said with a trifle of a flirtatious grin, “but she’s on leave today, so just take it easy –She’s a friend of mine, and after hearing about what happened at the museum, she had to come along to say thank you ……”
“Friend?” Duncan’s surprise this time had a touch of truth in it, something he really hadn’t expected, “I can’t believe you brought such a big shot ……”
“To say ‘big shot’ would be a bit of an overstatement, Mr. Duncan,” Vanna seemed to have been motionlessly sizing up the antique shopkeeper in front of her since a moment ago, and it was only then that she spoke with a smile, her voice slightly husky and low with a hint of a magnetic quality to it –although for Duncan, it was not the first time he had heard the Inquisitor’s lady’s voice, “Consider me a regular guest, as Heidi said, I’m on vacation today–I’m here today, mostly to thank you for rescuing Heidi in the museum, as well as to find out a few things in passing …… Please be assured that it is not a formal questioning of any kind.”
Learn something?
The expression on Duncan’s face didn’t change much, he just maintained his usual friendly smile and sidled over to greet the two special visitors as they entered the store, “Then don’t stand at the door, come on in – it’s just as well that the store is cold today, it could use a little bustle right now.”
He said as he walked towards the antique store, the first thing he saw after entering was Sherry, who was poking her head out to watch the commotion outside, and casually rubbed the girl’s hair, “Calm down later.”
Shirley froze, “Calm down what ……”
The next second, she knew why she had to calm down.
She saw that Miss Inquisitor who resided at the apex of the force of the church in the city-state of Plainland stride in, the big sister with a height of more than one meter nine walked past the little dwarf with a height of less than one meter six, bringing more than just a visual sense of oppression.
Sherry almost subconsciously popped out the words, “Crouching …… wow, you’re so tall!”
Vanna subconsciously stopped her footsteps, glanced at this girl standing next to her with an oddly tense muscular expression on her face, and nodded her head in a friendly manner, “Hello.” “Her name is Shirley,” Duncan said casually from the sidelines, “Helping out at my store, she was there when the museum went down earlier, Ms. Heidi should have mentioned it to you.”
“Are you Shirley?” Vanna nodded, matching the description she’d heard in her head with the real person in front of her, “A lovely little sister indeed.”
At this time Nina, who was reading a book next to the counter, also heard the commotion over here, and after running over, the first thing she saw was also the amazingly tall Vanna, who recognized the famous Inquisitor lady, and at the same time let out the same gasp of surprise as Shirley.
“…… That’s why I don’t love going out with you,” Heidi, who stood behind Vanna and hadn’t been noticed by Nina for half a day, finally couldn’t help but let out her voice, “You attract all the attention when you stand there! –I’m the star of the show today, okay?”
“But I don’t want to draw attention to myself that way,” Vanna gave her best friend an expressionless look, “I’ve tried to look as ordinary as possible today.”
“…… Never mind, I’m used to it.” Heidi sighed and proceeded to greet Nina and Shelly individually before pulling out the boarding gift she had brought with her and handing it over to Duncan.
“I’m not sure what you’d like, but you can’t visit a doorstep empty-handed, this is what my father asked me to pass on to you, he said someone like you who is widely dabbling and interested in history and the occult should like this.”
“You are too kind, it was nothing more than a show of hands at the time,” Duncan said politely, while reaching out to accept the gift that the other party had brought, it was a wooden box that looked to be a bit old already, he opened the lid on the spot, but was a bit puzzled after seeing what was inside, “It’s ……”
It was a book, a beautifully bound book of great value, it looked like the kind of goodies that only decent scholars in the upper city would keep at home, and on the dark purple hard cover was a line of beautiful fancy letters:
The City-States and the Gods.
“It’s a book from my father’s collection, which is hard to see on the market nowadays-he wrote it a century ago by the great naturalist and theologian, Mr. Muldaino Victor,” Heidi said with a smile, “a book that work describing the historical changes of the City-State era and the influence of various divine beliefs, including the Four Positive Gods, on civilized society, and he said you should enjoy something on the subject.”
Duncan looked silently at the fine writings in the box, a slow smile spreading across his face.
“Of course, I do enjoy it, and thank old Mr. Morris for my thoughts.”
After a bit of politeness and familiarity, Duncan simply closed the door to the antique store anyway, and then used the still spacious first floor as a place of hospitality.
Nina went to move two chairs, Duncan brewed the best coffee for the two guests, Shirley pretended to organize the shelves, but actually found a corner to reduce their own presence, Vanna somewhat curious to look at this seemingly mediocre store, Heidi has already begun to put their own “medical kit” on the counter, while saying to Nina: “I’m not sure what I’m talking about, I’m not sure what I’m talking about, I’m not sure what I’m talking about. At the same time, she said to Nina, “Let’s get right to the point, I hear you’ve been plagued by nightmares for a while now, and you’ve been in a trance?”
“Ah, actually it’s not a nightmare, it’s just a continuous strange dream ……” Nina didn’t expect Miss Heidi to be so harsh, she froze for a moment before answering, “It’s just that I always dream that I’m standing in a very high, very tall place, and I always dream that I’m standing in a very high, very high place. a very, very high place, like on top of a tower, and then seeing that several blocks below my feet have been burned to ashes, not that anything scary has come out ……”
“Stop,” Heidi gestured, speaking casually as she opened the medical kit, “recurring scenes, high places, fires, nothing frighteningly tangible, but the dream itself visited frequently resulting in mental fatigue that could not be relieved… . let me see it ……”
Nina probed towards Heidi’s medical kit, and at first glance saw the adze chisels and axes and saws as well as the bottles and jars inside, and instantly scowled, “That …… Ms. Heidi …… can I not treat it, I actually think that I’m not in that bad of a state ……”
Duncan also saw the things in Heidi’s medical kit, and his eyebrows jumped, “Forgive me for asking – is this really something that needs to be used for spiritual healing?”
The elegant and gentle looking physician lady in front of him is this a psychiatrist or a veterinarian?
(End of chapter)