Chapter 148 – Appearing in the Real World?

Chapter 148 – Appearing in the Real World?
“Uncle Duncan, I’m going to school!”

With a cheerful greeting, Nina stomped down the stairs, she turned around and waved in the direction of the second floor before taking a step in the direction of the front door.

The day off was over, and today was another day to go to school.

But before she could run to the door, Nina suddenly stopped in her tracks, she saw a figure swaying behind the shelves not far ahead – the figure stepped out, it was Sherry.

“Ah, Shirley,” Nina stood happily and waved at the girl in front of her, “I was wondering where you’d gone – want to come along?”

“Together?” Shirley blinked in confusion, “Come along where?”

“School, it’s …… today,” Nina said subconsciously, but reacted mid-sentence with a slightly embarrassed look on her face, “Ah, sorry, I forgot… …”

Yukari wasn’t her classmate and wasn’t attending school, the pleasant experience of getting along on campus before was just a scene – Nina herself was aware of that, but it was after all something that had happened in a tangible way, and a lot of the time, she still forgets.

The expression on Shirley’s face was odd for a moment as well, and an apology flowed from the bottom of her eyes again, but she quickly recovered and gently shook her head, “I won’t be going with you, my …… ‘investigative activities’ at that school has already been completed.”

“Also,” Nina pursed her lips and quickly returned to her usual smile-filled appearance, “Sorry, I forgot. I’ll be off then?”

“Well,” Sherry nodded, but immediately afterward, as if remembering something, she added, “By the way, Nina, I …… I’m going home today.”

“Going home?” Nina froze for a moment, it seemed that after only two days had passed, she had taken Sherry for granted as one of the members here, so much so that she actually reacted a bit when the other party mentioned the word home, “You’re not here anymore?”

“I have to go home, I’m only here temporarily,” Shirley waved her hand and said what she had been meaning to say for a long time, “I spoke to Mr. Duncan as well and he agreed.”

Nina didn’t say anything for a moment, just kind of glowering, and it was several seconds before she spoke hesitantly, “So …… that you’ll come back later?”

But wherever possible, I really don’t want to come in the future, and I even want to steal a boat ticket and run away to Frost to avoid the wind.

Shirley’s mind for a split second surfaced from the bottom of her heart the idea of running away, but immediately after that, it was as if she felt a line of sight was falling through the floorboards of the second floor on her own body, and she hurriedly and subconsciously shrunk her neck, “I …… I’ll come to you in the future when I have the opportunity, after all, my family doesn’t live too far away, ha. Haha ……”

Nina tilted her head, for some reason she always felt that Sherry’s reaction for a moment was strange, but soon didn’t think too much about it, she was already happy again, satisfied with the other party’s promise of “coming to see her when I have the chance”, so she waved her hand happily, turned around and ran out of the door like a gust of wind, disappearing into the street outside the antique store. He waved his hand happily, turned and ran out of the door like the wind, disappearing into the street outside the antique shop.

Shirley watched Nina run away in a gust of wind in a bit of a daze, and after a moment, she reacted with a jolt, realizing that there was a figure standing on the staircase not far away, calmly watching herself.

She hurriedly turned around and greeted him with a polite bow that she had rarely seen in her life, “Good morning Mr. Duncan …… Duncan!”

“You’re much more polite now, that’s what a girl your age should look like,” Duncan said lightly, walking slowly down the stairs, “Made it clear to Nina? You’re going home today?”

“Said …… understood,” Shirley bowed her head, not daring to raise her voice too much for fear that the big man would renege on what had been agreed upon if he got upset, “and what you promised, I can leave today. ”

“Why are you nervous again? Yesterday has been fine, you this nervousness can still reset every morning?” Duncan cried and laughed and shook his head, stepped forward and patted Sherry’s slightly thin shoulders, “Relax, I never said I was going to confine you somewhere, I’m just inviting you to be a guest here for two days, you can naturally go back when you want to go back – and naturally, you can come anytime you want to come back. .”

“I …… know,” Shirley nodded repeatedly, then a little helplessly, “its …… actually I’m not that nervous, it’s Dog who’s been nervous, it’s instinctively tensing up whenever you’re near, and then its nervousness transfers to me.”

“Ah Dog …… well, that can’t be helped, its nervousness seems to stem from the keen senses of the Spectral Demon,” Duncan shrugged, then looked at Shirley again, “but are you sure you don’t want to think about it? You could have stayed here. The conditions where you and Dog are staying seem a bit sketchy, and it’s not safe enough after nightfall, so this is a pretty safe place in comparison.”

A subspace shadow saying that its lair was a safe place was a dichotomy of both the reasonable and the outrageous, and after searching for a point to refute this statement (mostly because she didn’t have the guts to do so either), Sherry could only end up letting out a string of giggles, “Ah …… ah ha ha! …… that ……”

“Forget it, that’s all I’m saying, don’t get hung up on it,” Duncan knew what was going on as soon as he took a look at the other party’s reaction, and he waved his hand, “Leave if you want to, you already know how to establish contact with me nowadays anyway, so remember to call out to me anytime if you find any new clues about those Sunists. ”

Sherry nodded silently.

After two days that seemed like a dream, she finally got the permission to leave this place, and got the chance to get away from this terrible existence, but when this chance really appeared …… she suddenly realized that she was actually a little overwhelmed.

Gossiping with a “friend”, living under the care of an “elder”, a warm bedroom, bright lights, good food, and a peaceful life without the fear of nightmares or the need to hide from the guardians.

Now she was allowed to leave. For some reason, a preposterous thought had occurred to Sherry–

A bright world had opened its doors to her briefly, and now the doors were closing.

Clearly, not so long ago, this had been her dream – and indeed it still was – and she was …… just a little torn.

In the mental connection, she suddenly heard Dog’s low coo, “We’re getting our lives back on track, Sherry.”

“Yeah, getting back on track.”

Shirley mumbled softly in her head, then she looked up and tried to say goodbye to Mr. Duncan.

But just then, the expression on Duncan’s face suddenly changed slightly.

In the dark, he sensed a flash of breath in the distance, which …… was one of the imprints he left behind!

“Mr. Duncan?” Shirley noticed the suddenly serious expression on the other’s face, and she instantly became a little nervous, “You ……”

“I sense an aura,” Duncan spoke softly without waiting for Shirley to finish, he looked up into the distance, “It seems to be coming from that direction.”

Shirley didn’t respond for a moment, “A scent?”

“It was a small flame I left for that ‘little bug’,” Duncan lowered his head slightly and gazed into Shirley’s eyes, “Do you remember the umbrella-wielding freak who attacked you at the edge of the dream world?”

Shirley was stunned for a moment, and her eyes widened, “The broken piece you put ‘home’? But …… but that wasn’t in the dream world ……”

“Yes, that was the assailant that appeared in the dream world,” Duncan’s tone became if anything, “but now I perceive that imprint in the real world.”

Shirley stared as she suddenly thought of what Mr. Duncan had told himself in that nightmare:

Perhaps it wasn’t just a dream.

“Shirley,” Duncan’s voice came out of nowhere, interrupting the girl’s memories, he bowed his head slightly, a smile on his face, “Would you like to go scoping with me again before we go home? Of course if you don’t ……”

“Going!” Shirley replied immediately without waiting for the other party to finish, her attitude was so resolute that even she herself was startled, and immediately after as if to ease the embarrassment, she explained, “That …… that ‘thing’ appeared on the street after the fire , must have something to do with the fire back then ……”

Duncan squeezed Shirley’s shoulder, “Then we’ll go together.”

“How are we going to get there?” Shirley took a soft breath, “You can pinpoint the exact location of that thing can’t you? We’ll have to take the bus car like last time ……”

Duncan smiled and shook his head, “I have a much more convenient form of transportation now.”

Shirley was stunned for a moment, she was about to ask what convenient mode of transportation, when out of the corner of her eye she suddenly saw a shadow fly down the stairway from the second floor, accompanied by a series of sharp and strange female voices in between, “To Erxianqiao, take Chenghua Avenue …… Big Seat Er! There is a big seat at the back …… melon seeds drink mineral water! Both sides of the put your feet closed!”

The sudden appearance of the swift shadow and the sudden strange voice both startled Shirley, and when she saw what it was, her eyes suddenly became even wider than they had been a moment before: it was the odd pigeon! The pigeon that could eat almost the same amount of fries in one meal!
In the next second, as Shirley watched dumbfounded, Aey had already circled the air quickly, green flames rising up from its body, and in the blink of an eye what had been a naive white pigeon a second before had transformed into a ghastly spiritual bone pigeon.

Sherry: “……?!”

She stiffened her neck and turned back to Duncan as if she wanted to confirm something with him, but before she could speak, she felt her eyes blink ……

In the midst of Aye’s constant pressing of “Big Seat, there’s a big seat in the back”, the flaming doorway-like vortex flickered, and in the next second, a swift white dove dashed out of the antique store and flew straight into the distance.

(End of chapter)