Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 127 What did you see

Seeing Nina's expression of excitement and curiosity after a moment of astonishment and nervousness, Shirley couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "You can't be described as bold..."

But Nina didn't hear Shirley muttering at all. Her attention was completely attracted by the group of dark bone hounds in front of her. After jumping off the chair, she walked around Agou twice, up and down. Looking carefully - when she saw Agou's empty and blood-filled eye sockets, she was finally startled, but it was only a shock.

"It's amazing..." she repeated again, and even seemed to want to reach out to touch Agou's bone and skull, but she took her hand back at the last second and turned to look up at Shirley, "This is my first time. I saw such an extraordinary existence with my own eyes... What is Agou? Is it a creature summoned by magic? Or..."

"It's a demon," Shirley replied frankly, as if she wanted to frighten Nina and make her realize the danger of Agou. "The most dangerous and dangerous kind of demon."

As expected, Nina was a little shocked. She probably didn't expect that this polite dog would have the title of "devil". She was full of disbelief: "It's... a demon ?”

"Strictly speaking, it's a deep demon." Agou raised his head slightly, staring at Nina with empty eye sockets, "Miss, this may be the first time you've seen a deep demon, don't make mistakes for the deep demon because of my existence." My compatriots are diverse, but the one thing in common is that they are all extremely cruel and ruthless..."

"Youxu..." Nina was stunned. She finally woke up from the novel tension of seeing an extraordinary existence for the first time, and recalled what was said in the book, "Xue Li, you..."

"As you can see, I am tied to the dark demon," Shirley raised her arm, showing Nina the chain that merged with her body, "so I don't want people to know my secret , Do you understand? If the people from the Church of the Deep Sea knew about it, they would throw me into the fire or into the boundless sea without hesitation."

Xue Li's expression was extraordinarily solemn, and Nina realized something from the other party's solemn attitude. She glanced at Xue Li with a slightly complicated expression, and then looked at Agou: "...I saw it in the book, You Yuan The deep sea is full of crazy and evil creations, they are the residues discharged from the body of the deep sage, and they are dominated by chaos from birth to death, but Mr. Agou looks..."

"Agou is special," Shirley said lightly, "Normal deep demons don't have hearts and don't understand human emotions, but Agou does—although it doesn't even know why it has such a change, but This change makes it impossible to survive in the deep sea."

Nina was startled, and nodded half-understanding: "Oh."

While speaking, she fell into a brief 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 experience of the day, recalled the process of getting along with Shirley, looking at Agou in front of her, a sense of absurdity out of reality finally came up dully.

"You have experienced too many things today," Duncan's gentle and quiet words came, like a candle lighted in the dimness, making Nina's sudden trance consciousness stabilize again for some reason, "Some confusion is normal. .”

Nina blinked, and finally realized what she had overlooked from just now. She looked at Duncan fixedly: "Uncle, if you knew Shirley a long time ago... do you also know her secret? You also know Agou?"

"Earlier than you," Duncan smiled, "but I didn't know she was the 'friend' you mentioned before."

"Then..." Nina hesitated, "Then are you also investigating what happened 11 years ago? Are you investigating together?"

"Well, we have cooperated once or twice by chance." Duncan nodded.

"...Why do I feel that you are the only one keeping it from me?" Nina muttered with some belated awareness, "And you are investigating what happened 11 years ago... Is there any secret about what happened 11 years ago?"

"We don't know now, but we all agree that there was a fire that was erased back then," Duncan said in a deep voice, his eyes fell on Nina, "Sorry, I did hide it from you, because this It's not a field you can touch now, it's too dangerous."

"What about you, Uncle?" Nina was suddenly a little angry, "Aren't you dangerous, Uncle?!"

As soon as she said this, before Duncan said anything, Agou and Shirley beside him covered their faces at the same time, and Shirley murmured, "Of course your uncle is dangerous, your uncle is the most dangerous..."

Duncan silently glanced at Shirley, then shook his head slightly at Nina: "Uncle is an adult, and uncle, I am much stronger than you imagined."

Nina's eyes kept sweeping back and forth between Duncan and Shirley, her expression changed several times, and she didn't know how many messy thoughts were turning in her head, but just when Duncan thought that the girl might become stubborn, or Nina suddenly sighed when she was making a fuss like an ordinary adolescent girl.

"It's getting dark," she looked up at the sky outside the door, as if all the topics just now had never happened before, "I'll go cook——Shirley, you can stay too, don't you hurry when it gets dark?" Safety."

"Ah... ah?" Shirley didn't react for a while, she couldn't keep up with Nina's train of thought, and then hurriedly waved her hands, "Ah, no, no! Agou and I can catch up if we go back sooner..."

As a result, before she finished speaking, Duncan's voice came from the side: "Hold on, the sun will go down in a few minutes-then the streets will be full of guards, you are sure to pass through under that condition A city under martial law?"

Shirley froze immediately. She glanced back at the sky outside the shop, then at Duncan's calm expression, and finally realized that she couldn't get out of the antique shop today.

"Then...alright," the girl sat down in frustration, and forced a smile on her face to look at Nina, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"No, I always cook at home," Nina laughed, and said as she walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor, but she stopped suddenly when she was about to step on the steps. She stood there, Looking at Shirley very seriously, it took several seconds before she spoke, "Xue Li, are we friends?"

Shirley was taken aback for a moment, but her first reaction was to look at Duncan, but the latter turned her eyes elsewhere, so she had no choice but to turn back to look at Nina. After a few seconds of short but uncomfortable silence, she shook her head. Shaking his head: "...No."

But then, she nodded again: "But I can try."

Nina laughed. Even though the other party didn't give a definite answer, she seemed to have gotten the perfect answer. She ran upstairs quickly, her footsteps quick and brisk.

Shirley watched the other party run up to the second floor in a daze, when she suddenly heard a calm voice from the side: "Thank you."

It was Duncan who was talking.

Shirley was startled, and quickly sat back on the chair and turned to Duncan: "What do you thank me for?"

"Nina doesn't have any friends at school," Duncan said in a flat tone, accustomed to the other party's overly nervous reactions, "so two days ago when she mentioned that she made a new friend at school, , she looked very happy."

Shirley blinked in confusion, a little confused.

"So first of all, thank you for not perfunctorily telling Nina that you are her friend, and secondly, thank you for saying that you can try."

"I... don't quite understand," Shirley was still confused. In fact, she was even more confused than before. "Here... are you just playing an ordinary person? Nina, she... doesn't seem to know at all. How special you are, she is also in school, she has no sense of existence at all, even if it wasn't for Agou's guidance, I almost didn't find her when I went to school for the first time, but common sense judges that a "family" like her who is favored by you ..."

"Not a family member, but a niece," Duncan emphasized again, and then looked at the other party with a particularly serious expression, "Now that Nina has left, I have a question for you."

"You said, you said..."

"It was Agou who guided you to approach Nina, right?"

"……Correct."

"Because Agou 'smelled' a certain smell on Nina? Based on this, it judged that Nina had something to do with the fire 11 years ago?"

"Correct."

"What kind of breath is it? Is it the same breath as that factory? Or something else?"

This time Shirley didn't answer, she turned her attention to Agou.

Under Duncan's gaze, Agou hesitated for a few seconds before finally lowering his head:

"There were ashes floating around her, a lot of ashes, Mr. Duncan."

(End of this chapter)