However, he heard the sound of the wind, accompanied by a hollow sound, like a kitchen knife cutting through pieces of meat and landing on the board.

"Hey, are you alright?"

On the path in the dead of night, under the cold moonlight, the girl lowered her head, revealing a cold and delicate face.

"It's you!"

The girl's voice was filled with panic and disbelief.

"Miss Lu Ling!"

Kiriba's mood is equally complicated.

He turned his head and found that Lu Ling was stepping on the monster's back, and the knife in his hand passed through the vertebrae of the back of the monster's neck (you can see that the knife was stuck in the middle of the two vertebrae from the protrusion of the spine), through the front chest (the position of the rib cage), and nailed to the ground, only about two or three centimeters away from Tong Ye's body.

Cyan liquid flowed out of the wound, and Kiripa hurriedly got up and burrowed out of the monster's underneath.

"Why are you here?"

"Just go out for a walk, and ......"

"What time is it?"

"Ten o'clock in the evening. ”

"Don't you know that demons are rampant during this time?"

Lu Ling frowned and asked a little angrily.

"I ......"

"If I hadn't been here today, you'd have really become one of the 'collections' in the coroner's room over there. ”

"I'm sorry. ”

"Why the hell are you in this place?"

Lu Ling didn't seem to intend to let Tong Ye go like this, and asked one after another.

Kiripa bowed his head and was silent for a while. He didn't know what kind of mood he was in at this time, and the mood that seemed to have been relieved when he was planning to go back began to fluctuate again after being attacked by demons and seeing the girl in front of him.

He realized that now was a good opportunity, and if he missed today, the chances of seeing the girl again in the future were slim.

"I ...... I don't know, maybe it's just a little irritable. ”

He carefully organized the wording.

"Irritable?" Lu Ling didn't expect Kirilla to answer like this. "Why?"

Perhaps because she was also in an unspeakable mood at this time, her expression was a little flustered.

"Because Miss Lu Ling said that I am a person who is not needed, I have been struggling with this. ”

Even though he knew that it was a shame to express his emotions so directly, Kiritha decided to say it decisively.

"I, I didn't mean that......"

Lu Ling didn't expect Tong Ye to understand what she said so much, she was stunned.

"Then why don't you let me continue to assist you in your investigation. ”

Tong Ye's counterattack began, although he kept saying sorry to Lu Ling in his heart, he still kept asking Lu Ling.

“...... You've done what you need to do. ”

This argument is clearly fragile.

In a sense, Lu Ling may be extremely mature as a demon hunter, but in some aspects, especially in the handling of human feelings. If it were to be changed to Juli, I'm afraid I wouldn't care so much about Kiriha's thoughts, but would tell Kiriha bluntly, "You will increase the risk of my work, to put it more bluntly, it is cumbersome, and it would be wrong to let ordinary people participate in the work of demon hunters", not to mention that Lu Ling said that the original meaning of the word "no" is not this, but simply refuses Kiriha to participate in his work.

"Yes, did you accomplish your purpose in inviting me to assist in the investigation?"

Tong Ye quickly understood the meaning, and he felt even more that what he was doing was really despicable, and he was taking advantage of Lu Ling's feelings for his sake.

"This ......"

"No, right? So, why?"

"That's enough, I admit that the above is all my excuse, and this is my fault. ”

Lu Ling was obviously also a little impatient, and the repeated persecution of Tong Ye also made her unhappy.

"Then you at least tell me, what is wrong with you?"

"It's not a very obvious question, and I don't want to answer it. Go back quickly, too. ”

Lu Ling shook off the liquid on the knife and began to wrap the knife in gauze, she couldn't leave yet, and she had to wait for Juli to transport the body back to the police station before she could completely complete the task.

Kiriha just sat there, looking at the girl.

"What the hell are you going to do?"

Lu Ling was a little anxious.

"I wonder why Miss Lu Ling thinks it's her fault. ”

Kiritha realized that he seemed to have some kind of misunderstanding about Lu Ling's words.

"I said, it's pretty obvious. ”

“...... I don't understand. ”

"You don't understand?"

"I feel that it was my personal fault that what happened that day, and that I did not follow your instructions and follow you closely. Even if I am knocked away by the demon, I should run to you as soon as possible. And, at that time, you tried your best to save me. All in all, I don't think there's anything wrong with you. What's more, I'm still standing here safe and sound. ”

Kiritha earnestly expounded his own point of view.

"How can you understand it that way? The whole thing started because I had some selfish wishes and overestimated my own abilities, and I had brought you, an 'ordinary person', into a dangerous demon incident. I don't think you're going to tell me, 'You should pay all the blame because you agreed to my request to help with the investigation,' and I guess you're going to be such a self-righteous bastard, right?"

Lu Ling's tone sharpened.

"Isn't that exactly what happened?"

"No matter what, there is absolutely no way I can involve an 'ordinary person' in such a dangerous thing again. ”

"Why do you think that? I'm still alive, isn't that the result of this?"

"You're still alive, but that's just a result. Not everything in the world can be done by looking only at the result, not at the process. If there had been a slight mistake that day, you would not have stood in front of me now, but would have been lying in the morgue as a test subject for specimens. Lu Ling took a deep breath and seemed to be restraining herself. "I don't want to quarrel with you, I'm tired. ”

“...... If you're blaming yourself, I want to say that I don't blame you at all. ”

Kiriba spoke after the atmosphere was silent for about half a minute.

Even so, my mood will not change because of these three words. ”

"Since I, the client, don't blame you, why do you punish yourself with excess self-blame?"

"You're saying I'm digging into the horns, right?"

Lu Ling's tone became sharp again.

"I just don't think it makes sense. ”

"No point?" Lu Ling repeated, her emotions getting excited little by little. "Then what do you think is meaningful? Do you know what kind of mood I have been in these days? It is light, it makes no sense—whenever I think of the scene, I tremble with fear, and my whole body breaks out in a cold sweat. If it hadn't been for the Pyromancer to save you, and you were in the morgue right now, maybe the coroners would have made you die a dignified death, sewing your head or severed limbs back into your body, like a broken rag doll. And your death will be a burden for me for the rest of my life, so that I will always bear the guilt and guilt, and I will always remember this tragic lesson...... I know you want to continue to assist with the investigation, but I don't want to see that happen again anyway. I can't afford it. ”

Lu Ling even gritted her teeth a little as she spoke, her eyes flashed with tears, in the end, no matter how strong she was physically, in fact she was only a fifteen-year-old girl.

"So, please live a good life, or don't have anything to do with people like me. ”

Kiripa was silent for a long time, feeling that when things came to this, he was not in the mood to continue, just when he felt a little disheartened, he thought of a possibility and suddenly asked.

"If you're an 'ordinary person', you'll never be able to help you, right?"

"Yes, that's right. ”

Lu Ling said it categorically, and there was no room for retreat in her tone.

"Well, if I'm willing to join your family. ”

“...... What do you say?"

She lifted her face hidden in her knees.

"As you said, I have the potential to become a demon hunter. ”

"That's what I said......"

"I accept your invitation now. ”

Lu Ling saw Tong Ye's serious eyes.

"That's too sloppy......"

"I've thought about it. ”

"How long have you been thinking about it?"

"Probably, just five minutes. ”

“......”

"That's the only way to do it now, isn't it?"

"You have to understand that everything has a price. ”

"I guess I can figure it out, so I'll give you a servant later, right?"

Kiritha said jokingly.

"Not really. ”

"That should be a lot of restraint, right?"

"There should be, and there are many, many of them. Lu Ling wiped away her tears. "Isn't it good to be an ordinary person, and why does it have to be involved in such dangers?"

"On the one hand, for their own reasons. On the other hand, I would like to express my gratitude to you. ”

"As I said, I am not the one who saved you. ”

"You forgot to include Northbridge and just now. ”

"This ......"

In this way, he has indeed saved the young man in front of him twice.

"That doesn't count!"

"Why?"

Kiriba really didn't understand why these two times didn't count.

Lu Ling also froze for a second, she felt that Tongye's question was really difficult to answer, because her sentence "that doesn't count" originally had a bit of a trick in it.

“...... So, what do you mean by yourself? Curiosity? I can't accept such nonsense. ”

"It's not just curiosity this time, but of course curiosity is part of it...... As for the rest, can I leave it alone now?"

This answer is equivalent to not saying anything, Lu Ling will naturally not be satisfied, but she still did not continue to ask as always.

She stood up and turned her face away.

"It's still too sloppy to discuss it. ”

"Good. ”

When Lu Ling turned back, she found the relieved expression on Tong Ye's face.

"You didn't think of this in the first place, did you?"

"That's what I just guessed. ”

"When?"

"Well, probably, when you shed tears. ”

The girl suddenly became ashamed.