Chapter 125

Chapter 125 “Get to know each other”

For Shirley, the fact that Nina was so focused on subtleties was a good thing. From the bottom of her heart, she has regarded this innocent and ordinary girl in front of her as kin of the subspace god, and not just any kind, but a relative at the daughter level. Therefore, her chance of surviving could only go up if she pleases Nina’s antics.CHeCk for new stories on no/v/el/bin(.)c0m

On the other hand, Nina didn’t know how much was hidden under Shirley’s awkward and stiff smile. To her, this merely represented an excellent opportunity to learn more besides the textbooks’ regular stuff. Sure, she’s met transcendent from the church, but those trips didn’t count.

“Where do you usually live? Do you have your own secret base or something? Or is there a very mysterious organization?”

“Do you usually hide in caves? Or somewhere like a sewer? Is there a warehouse-like place to store all kinds of ceremonial items?”

“Were you born with special abilities? Or is there some sort of supernatural item you use? Are you one of those legendary mages? I’ve heard that this ancient profession is where they can unleash spells without relying on any gods, and their power is said to come from the bloodline....”

“What do you usually eat? Do you ever want to drink herbs or strange animal blood? Yes? No? Do you normally eat too? Is it all true?”

Nina’s questions came one after another, crackling endlessly like a tape recording on rewind. About halfway through, Shirley had already broken out into cold sweat on her forehead. Not because she couldn’t answer the other party’s questions, but because there was a Duncan next to her!

Meanwhile, Duncan had been silently watching Shirley from his seat with a cordial smile. From the surface, he looked no more than a parent supervising his children during a play date with a classmate.

“You seem to be afraid of my uncle....” Even if Nina was denser in this regard, she could still notice Shirley’s strange behavior towards her uncle. “Between you two... did something happen?”

“Noth... It’s nothing! It’s truly nothing!” Shirley almost jerked up from her seat and started waving defensively, “I... what can your uncle and I have between us? I’m still just a kid....”

As soon as Duncan heard this, he felt as if something was wrong with that comment. Nevertheless, he knew better than to stop the fun between the girls. Making a cough to clear his throat, he interrupts to keep Shirley from going on a tangent: “Actually, it’s nothing. We merely bumped into each other on the bus when she tried to dodge the fare.”

“Just because of that?” Nina looked at Shirley in surprise, “That shouldn’t have left such a big trauma... But my uncle is right. Dodging your bus fare is bad.”

Shirley’s tears were about to fall: “I really won’t skip the ticket in the future!”

“Well, since you want to see it,” Duncan shrugged and gave Shirley a helpless look, “Let Dog come out and say hello; after all, he is also today’s ‘guest’.”

Under normal circumstances, Shirley would never expose the secrets of herself and Dog to strangers. Walking with a shadow demon in the city-state of order was a highly taboo thing. The priests of the storm church would storm her with a six-barreled machine gun if they ever caught wind of this fact.

“Uhh, alright....” She nodded, then slowly raised her arm.

In the next second, in Nina’s astonished and slightly nervous gaze, pitch-black flames and smoke suddenly rose beside Shirley!

Chains extended from the flames, and at the end of the smoking blackness, the figure of a ghostly demon condensed and materialized.

To the dismay of his mistress and Nina, the dark hound appeared as quickly as he shrunk into a ball. Talk about embarrassing. For a skeletal demon dog, he was posturing with his paws cusped over his hollow red sockets like a baby pup.

Duncan shot a WTF look at Shirley right away: “To be fair, seeing Dog like this isn’t as shocking as knowing a skeletal dog can move and talk. He’s actually quite cute if you ask me.”

On the other side, Nina was flabbergasted and didn’t speak for the longest time until she gawked a word out, “AH!”

Shirley quickly spoke: “I did say you would be scared...”

But before they could go further, Nina suddenly exclaimed gleefully: “This is so incredible!”

Shirley: “...?”

“He... Hello?” While Shirley was lost in confusion, Nina had already begun to tentatively greet the hound, “Mr. Dog? Um, are you a ‘sir’?”

“Dark hounds have no gender, but you can call me that if you like,” Dog replied sullenly while glancing around at the room. “You’re... not afraid of me?”

“No, not really. Although you do look a little scary,” Nina thought for a moment, but then formed a big smile on her face, “but I’m quite bold too~”