Seeing Nina's expression of excitement and curiosity after a moment of shock and nervousness, Shirley really couldn't bear it.
He muttered in a low voice: "You can no longer be described as bold..."
But Nina didn't hear what Shirley was muttering at all. Her attention was completely attracted by the black skeletal hound in front of her. After jumping down from the chair, she walked around the dog twice, up and down.
Looking carefully - she was finally startled when she saw Agou's empty and blood-filled eyes, but it was just a startle.
"It's amazing..." she repeated again, and even seemed to want to reach out and touch Agou's skull, but at the last second she took her hand back and looked up at Shirley, "This is me
This is the first time I have seen such an extraordinary existence with my own eyes... What is Agou? Is it a creature summoned by magic? Or · afh4sfp
"It's a devil," Shirley replied frankly, as if she wanted to scare Nina and make her slightly aware of Agou's danger. "The most dangerous and dangerous kind of devil.'
Nina was indeed a little shocked. She probably didn't expect that Agou, who looked very polite except for his ugly appearance, would have the title of "Devil". Her face was full of disbelief: "It is...a demon"
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"Strictly speaking, it's the Nether Demon." Agou raised his head slightly and stared at Nina with his empty eyes. "Miss, this may be your first time seeing the Nether Demon. Don't make mistakes about the Nether Demon because of my existence.
My impression is that my compatriots are diverse, but what they have in common is that they are all extremely cruel and ruthless..."
"Yousu..." Nina was stunned. She finally woke up from the novel nervousness of seeing a supernatural being for the first time and recalled what was said in the book, "Shirley, you..."
"As you can see, I am tied to the Deep Demon." Shirley raised her arm and showed Nina the chain that was integrated with her body. "So I don't want people to know my secret.
Do you understand? If the people of the Deep Sea Church knew about it, they would not hesitate to throw me into the fire or into the boundless sea."
Shirley's expression was particularly solemn. Nina realized something from the other party's solemn attitude. She glanced at Shirley with a slightly complicated expression, and then looked at Agou: "...I have seen it in the book,
The deep sea is filled with crazy evil creations. They are the residues discharged from the body of the deep saint. They are dominated by chaos and madness from birth to death, but Mr. Agou looks...
"Agou is special," Shirley said lightly. "Normal deep demons don't have a heart 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 unable to survive in the deep sea."
Nina was startled, then nodded in confusion: "Oh."
As she spoke, 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 the chaotic experience of her day, recalled the process of getting along with Shirley, and looked at the Ah in front of her.
Dog, a sense of absurdity that was divorced from reality finally came up slowly.
"You have experienced too many things today," Duncan's gentle and calm words came, like candlelight lighting up in the dimness, which made Nina's consciousness suddenly stabilized for some reason, "Some confusion is normal.
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Nina blinked and finally realized what she had ignored from the beginning. She looked at Duncan steadily.
: "Uncle, if you have known Shirley for a long time...do you also know her secret? Do you also know Agou?"
"Before you," Duncan smiled, "but I didn't know she was the 'friend' you mentioned before.
"That
Nina hesitated for a moment, "Then are you also investigating what happened eleven years ago? You were together
Start an investigation?’
"That's right, we have collaborated once or twice by chance." Duncan nodded and said.
·Why do I feel that you are only hiding this from me?" Nina started to talk rather belatedly, and you were investigating what happened eleven years ago... Are there any secrets about what happened eleven years ago?" "
We don’t know yet, but we all agree that there was an obliterated fire,” Duncan said solemnly.
Looking at it, his eyes fell on Nina, "I'm sorry, I did hide it from you, because this is not what you can accept now.
It’s too dangerous to touch the area.”
"Uncle, what about you?" Nina Jing suddenly became angry, "Uncle, aren't you in danger?!
As soon as she said this, before Duncan could say anything, Agou and Shirley next to them covered their faces at the same time, and Shirley muttered in a low voice: "Of course your uncle is dangerous, your uncle is the most dangerous..."
Duncan glanced at Shirley silently, and then shook his head gently at Nina: "Uncle is an adult, and uncle, I am much more powerful than you think."
Nina's eyes kept flicking back and forth between Duncan and Shirley. Her expression changed several times, and she didn't know what was going on in her head.
There were so many random thoughts running through her mind, but just when Duncan thought that this girl might become stubborn, or be like ordinary people,
When ordinary adolescent girls got into trouble like that, Nina suddenly sighed.
"It's getting dark," she raised her head and glanced at the sky outside the door, as if all the topics just now had never happened.
As if passing by, "I'm going to cook - Shirley, you can stay too, it's not safe to travel in the dark." "Ah...ah?" Shirley was stunned for a moment and didn't react, and she couldn't keep up with Nina.
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He waved his hands hurriedly, "Ah, no, no! Agou and I can still catch up if we go back quickly...
As a result, before she finished speaking, Duncan's voice came from the side: "Stay there, the sun will set in a few minutes."
Shan—then the streets will be full of guards, are you sure you want to pass through the city under martial law under those circumstances?"
Shirley froze immediately. She looked back at the sky outside the store, then looked at Duncan's calm expression, and finally realized that she would not be able to leave the antique store today.
"Then...Okay," the girl sat down in frustration, and looked at Nina with a smile on her face, "Is there anything I can do to help?" "No, I've always been the one to cook at home," Nina laughed.
, while walking towards the stairs leading to the second floor.
She said, but when she was about to step onto the steps, she suddenly stopped. She stood there and looked at Shirley seriously. After a few seconds, she said, "Shirley, are we friends?" Xue
Li was stunned, but her first reaction was to glance at Duncan, but the latter looked elsewhere, so she had no choice but to look elsewhere.
Turning back to look at Nina, after a few short but uncomfortable seconds of silence, she shook her head: "...No.
But then, she nodded again: "But I can try,
Nina laughed. Although the other party did not give a very positive answer, she seemed to have got the most perfect answer.
The answer was that she ran upstairs quickly, her footsteps quick and brisk. Shirley looked at the other person running up to the second floor in a daze, and then she suddenly heard a calm voice coming from the side.
Come: "Thank you.
It was Duncan speaking.
Shirley was startled, and quickly returned to her chair and turned to Duncan: "What do you want to thank me for?"
"Nina has no friends in school," Duncan said calmly as he was used to the other party's always overly nervous reaction, "so when she talked about a new friend she made in school two days ago, , she seemed very happy.
Shirley blinked in confusion, not understanding.
"So first of all, thank you for not telling Nina that you were her friend, and secondly, thank you for saying you could try it.
"I... don't quite understand. Shirley is still confused. In fact, she is even more confused than before. "You are here... just pretending to be an ordinary person, right? Nina... doesn't seem to know you at all. How special she is, even in school, she has no sense of existence at all. If it weren't for Agou's guidance, I almost didn't find her the first time I went to school. But common sense can judge that a 'favourite' like her is favored by you.
"Not a dependent, 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 to ask you."
"You said, you said..."
"It was Agou who guided you to approach Nina, right?"
"right."
"Because the dog 'smelled' a specific scent on Nina? Based on this, it judged that Nina was the same as the one she had eleven years ago.
Does fire have anything to do with it?”
"right"
What kind of smell is it specifically? Is it the same smell 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 are ashes floating around her, countless ashes, Mr. Duncan."