Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 34 Thirty-Four. New Partner: Anna

   The translucent ghost fluttered into the sofa and sat down with a noble gesture—perhaps not so standard, but enough to fool Lu Li.

   Lu Li, who was behind the desk, calmly recounted what happened after dawn.

   After sitting for a while, Anna felt uncomfortable, because she couldn't touch the surrounding entities, it was just an imaginary sitting on it, and she floated back to the desk.

   "Finally, I returned to the detective agency with your portrait and sculpture."

  Lu Li put an end to the narration.

   Anna leaned forward under the oil lamp and approached Lu Li. There was a hint of blush on the delicate doll's cheeks, and the clear eyes were sparkling, as if there were thousands of stars twinkling, conveying a message: "So you bought me?"

   "Strictly speaking, it's debt repayment." Lu Li replied, maybe he didn't notice the difference in the atmosphere.

   or found it and didn't care.

   "I thought you would want to go back to the gallery."

   "It's alright." Ana was easily distracted, realizing that she was too close to Lu Li and retracted behind the table. The blush on his cheeks was not sure if it was the light of the oil lamp or what.

   "The gallery is not my home, and it's so empty and full of scary ghosts."

  Anna was not at all aware that she belonged to the "Scary Ghosts".

   "The ghost of the gallery has been resolved by me. It's safe there now." Lu Li replied unexpectedly.

  Anna mistakenly thought that Lu Li did not welcome her, she lowered her head, her face fell into shadow, she could not see her expression clearly, but could hear a faint sob.

   Lu Li still had a poker face: "No... I mean, you can stay here."

  Anna raised her head quietly.

  Lu Li continued: "But I may need your help for a long time in the future. To put it in a simple and understandable way: I will hire you. As an exorcist, my job is destined to be dangerous."

  Anna asked cautiously, "Then do I have a salary?"

"No."

"why?!"

   "Can you spend money?"

   "No...I can't..."

   "So why give you money?"

   "Yes, yes..."

   After Lu Li said that, Anna also felt that asking for a salary seemed too much.

   Lu Li's upper body leaned forward, his arms fell on the desk, his hands were crossed on his lips, and he quietly thought about how to arrange Anna.

  Although the detective agency has an additional ghost employee, he doesn't plan to do anything. Lu Li is casual and free, and he is reluctant to make rules, including forcing Anna to obey his orders.

   He said, "First of all, I apologize for bringing you back. In any case, I didn't ask your opinion on this point, which is my mistake."

   "It's nothing..." Ana scratched her head and smirked when Lu Li was halfway through.

"I hate unnecessary hassles and cumbersome rules. So I won't restrict you, you are free to stay here or even outside, do what you want, except break the law. But it's better not to get too far from me. After all this There are a lot of exorcists like me in the world, but they can't talk like me."

  Lu Li's black eyes looked at Anna calmly, and continued speaking regardless of the touch in her expression.

"If there is a new commission, I will ask you if you are willing to accompany you instead of forcibly taking you. In other words, you are actually free. If you are not worried about causing trouble, I will not care what you want to do. Above, you How do you feel?"

  A few dozen seconds after Lu Li asked, Anna woke up like a dream: "Uh... so good?"

   "Although I came back with your portrait, we are not in a superior-subordinate relationship." Lu Li leaned back and squeezed into the seat. "If you describe it, it's more like a friend who needs to live together for various reasons, but is not familiar with each other yet."

"live together…"

  The teenage girl is always concerned about strange words and distorts the original meaning.

   But speaking of it, this proposal is good for each other.

  Anna got what she wanted fresh and alive. Lu Li got a ghost helper, and he didn't need to pay the salary yet.

   Win-win.

  Anna's placement problem has been resolved, and now the only thing left is some questions about the ghost.

   "Can you feel the limitations of portraits on you?"

  Anna nodded hesitantly, then shook her head again: "You asked too general."

   "Then I'll break down the question. First of all, do you only show up after nightfall?"

   "It seems to be possible to come out at other times, but I haven't tried it... The gallery will have staff and guests during the day, and I don't want to scare them."

   "Does the day and bright environment hurt you?"

   "Bright is not, I don't know during the day... After all, I only come out at night."

   "How long can you come out every day?"

   "It's usually a night... I'll be tired in the morning and I have to go back to the frame to rest."

   "Will you be tired?"

   "It's like being sleepy while you're alive."

   "How about a break?"

   "It's almost like sleeping...I don't feel tired when I wake up."

   "In other words, except for the reversal of work and rest, there is no difference from ordinary people, right?"

   "Well...that's it."

   "Can you use abilities?"

   "Huh? What ability?"

   "Special abilities of ghosts, such as Athena's intestines...attack, or Lucy's shielding vision, and disturbing the surrounding hygiene."

   "I always feel that what you said about Daisy is weird...I'll try it."

Snapped-

   "Hey, that's actually possible."

   "Next time you can try it against an empty glass, soaking the floor will reduce its lifespan."

"Oh."

   "That is to say, your ability is similar to psychic power."

   "What does mind power mean?"

   "Literally interpreted is the power of thoughts, which can manipulate things around you according to your thoughts."

   "Oh~"

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   "Huh...huh... This chair is so heavy."

   "That means your current limit of ability can only make the chair move slightly?"

"Um…"

   "It's not bad. So will you use your abilities to consume anything, such as physical strength."

   "It seems there is, I feel a little tired."

   "And when you are tired, you will return to the portrait and rest, right?"

"Um!"

The    question came to an end for the time being, and Anna also asked some questions, such as what is an exorcist, and why the gun on Lu Li can harm the ghost.

   At two o'clock in the morning, Lu Li asked Anna to return to the oil painting to rest, and wait until dawn to come out to see if ghosts can move during the day.

  As Anna returned to the portrait, the detective agency fell into dead silence again, and the sculpture by the door did not move at all, and still did not wake up.

   Because of leaving the gallery, or because of what?

   Time goes by.

   At 5:00 in the morning, a white awn began to appear on the horizon, and pedestrians began to appear on the street.

  At a certain time, Anna floated out of the oil painting, inevitably attracted by the hazy scene outside the window screen, she floated to the window, her fingers brushed the light screen.

   Pedestrians on the noisy bluestone road crashed into Anna's mind, and she suddenly felt that she had come to life and no longer belonged to the night.

   She turned her head in a daze and looked at a figure behind the desk.

   "Good morning, Anna."

   he said calmly.

   (end of this chapter)