Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1201 One hundred and thirty nine. Final confirmation

  The gardener did not return as soon as expected.

  Claire was about to lose her patience and let the Lizard Maid go to the cemetery, when the odious little gardener with stitched corpses came to the manor and delivered a letter from the gardener.

  The wind blew off the rancid smell that permeated the surface of the letter. Claire unfolded the letter in front of Lu Li. The graceful and elegant handwriting seemed to be written by an aristocratic woman, rather than stitched pieces of hateful flesh.

  Lu Li thought of the pale woman's arm holding a dagger he saw earlier.

  The letter said that the gardener had found surveillance—the bat monster, the servant of Lord Viscount, was hanging upside down outside the tomb. If they did not want to be discovered, they should not contact them for the time being.

   "I never knew the gardener was so smart..." Claire inserted the letter between Lu Li's cat's paw: "I thought it would reveal the stuff and expose us, is the gardener like me?"

"do not know."

  Claire doesn't know more than Lu Li, and Lu Li doesn't know more than Claire.

  Maybe the gardener also left a mark similar to "The Head Maid and Little Remi" in advance. Maybe the gardener's chaotic thinking made it have some kind of illusion after reading "The Sunken Land".

   "Little Leimi, can you restore mother's memory?"

"do not know."

   Lu Li's answer did not change.

  Claire can leave a mark, and Chris should be able to do it too, but Lu Li didn't have the chance to meet the Viscount played by Chris in the fantasy world of late night city, and knew nothing about her.

   "Quickly think of a way! Quickly think of a way!"

  Claire, who was lying on the bed, lifted Lu Li and shook it vigorously. The letter paper between the cat's claws slipped, was torn into pieces by the wind, and floated to the candlestick, touching the flame to spread a short-lived flame like a veil.

   "I'm Lu Li...not a real cat." The nasal structure of a cat, which is very different from that of humans, made Lu Li whimper and meow as he was shaken.

   "When you look like a cat and feel like a cat, then you are a cat." Claire grabbed the cat's paws and said while pinching the pads.

   She is indeed gradually rediscovering herself——the indifferent head maid would not have such sophistry.

  Lu Li let Claire play with it, sinking into his mind, thinking about Chrissy.

   Like Claire said. As the vice president of the Giant Tree Academy, Chris should leave a similar mark.

  Claire should not be a solitary example.

   And if Chris left her mark...would the rest of the late night city do the same?

   There is no doubt that many of the existences in the late night city have been sacrificed, hoping that Lu Li can rest their souls in peace. But like Claire, being buried with Midnight wasn't their only option.

   So what's the way to activate the imprint they left?

  Perhaps the gardener will not know their secret until he brings the eyeballs of true vision and can discern the soul in the depths of each strange body.

   "The crown of knowledge."

   Lu Li, who was teased by Claire imitating the meowing of a cat, suddenly said.

  Claire paused, the information of the memory and the crown of knowledge poured into her mind, guessing Lu Li's thoughts: "Do you think this is Midnight City's self-help?"

   This is indeed the reason why Midnight City Illusion gave Lu Li the crown of knowledge and let the cursed title come back to reality.

   "You can try."

   Getting rid of the teasing, Lu Li sat opposite Claire who had bent his legs, and transformed and shaped some of his shared memories with Claire into a mass of strength.

   "Be patient, it may hurt a little."

  Lu Li raised his right paw and touched Claire's outstretched palm.

  The damage from the Crown of Knowledge only caused a brief, needle-like sting to Claire—it was only a brief and unimportant memory after all.

   "What did I forget?" The black gem cat's pupil reflected the contemplative Claire.

   "The Musketeer Theory...is that right?" Seeing Lu Li nod, she pointed to her head: "I remembered the Musketeer Theory for no reason just now, and I was impressed."

   Lu Li, who recovered the memory of the "Musketeer Theory" from other places, almost confirmed that the crown of knowledge is their self-rescue.

  The survivors of the late night city may not only be the remnants, but also these souls...

   But how to make the memory belonging to Lu Li become their memory still requires thinking and experimentation.

   They need a voluntary cooperative trial presence.

   Gardener is a good candidate.

  Because of surveillance, Claire wanted to imprison Lu Li and the lizard maid who had seen him at first, but was stopped by Lu Li. At this time, the more you do, the more loopholes.

  So, Claire decided to maintain her usual routine and just let the lizard maids keep it a secret, then let them prepare hot water and carry Lu Li into the bathroom.

  Lu Li quietly stepped out of the bathroom while Claire was testing the water temperature.

  嘭——

  Wind closed the bathroom door, held up Lu Li, and fell into Claire's arms.

   "You're so dirty, Leimi."

   The dusty Lu Li changed from a black cat to a gray cat.

   "I can wash myself." Lu Li tried to get rid of the wind.

   "You're shy? Didn't you experience it?"

   "When you thought I was a cat, I thought you were weird."

"But I'm still weird now, and it's hard for you to ask a weirdo to have a sense of shame." Claire felt Lu Li's resistance, put him down and walked out: "You can restore your body. This can also help me restore my memory. ."

"Um."

   Lu Li didn't reject Claire's proposal, and sat at the door of the bathroom and asked Claire to get her clothes: "My clothes are in my stomach."

  Claire grabbed the stomach pouch on the desk and took out Lu Li's clothes.

  The wind rolled up the clothes and sent them to the bathroom, but when they were about to approach, they ripped violently and ripped the clothes to shreds.

   "Oops, the disobedient wind ripped your clothes... It doesn't matter, I'll prepare a set for you." Claire's artificial voice floated.

  Lu Li calmly watched Claire's lame acting, watching her ask the Lizard Maid to bring a folded maid outfit with a bow and put it in front of the door: "You can put it on after you wash it."

   Lu Li refused.

   He asked Claire to summon the merchant to bring clothes, and then suddenly changed his mind - Claire might destroy the merchant's eyeballs as well.

  The Devil's Daughter never wants to be called around as a servant again.

   "The form of a cat is not easy to find." Lu Li said, and did not return to his human form.

   Jump into the bathtub to wash off the dirt, and the black hair after being blown dry by the cool wind is restored to fluffy and supple. Claire was lying on the bed with Lu Li in her arms, obsessing about listening to the story.

  Lu Li was coaxing a child into the middle of the night. When he was about to rest, the gardener unexpectedly sent something.

   A treasure chest with True Sight Eyeballs.

  Claire inserted the Gold King Gold coin into the keyhole as a key, opened the treasure chest, and the True Vision eyeballs lay in it peacefully, no falsification allowed.

  Claire picked it up and saw Lu Li's soul curled up inside the black cat.

   "What if I wasn't Claire..."

  Claire was hesitant and apprehensive, and was encouraged by Lu Li to stand in front of the dressing mirror, and then she was relieved to see that Claire's soul was curled up inside her body like a baby.

"Great……"

   (end of this chapter)