Narrow roads, flashing street lights, dark shadows of trees, goose feathers of snowflakes.

Zack, the protagonist of this story, said that the road trip will definitely be interesting~ So, let's keep our eyes on the car parked in the middle of the white road, the front of the car is emitting muddy smoke, pushing the snowflakes to land. Funny, really funny.

"There you go!" James, who had finally given up destroying the car keys, stared at Zach in the rearview mirror.

"Where?" Zach wasn't sure what James meant.

"Get out of the car!" to show his level of irritation, and James's entire body twisted and twisted with the twisting car keys. But of course, there could not have been a roar of the engine being ignited in response to him. The car, dead.

Zach still didn't understand what James meant, "Get out of the car?" he shrugged and glanced at Dale, who was sitting in the back seat with him, telling Dale 'If you want to learn, this is what I'm teaching'. The words, still to James, "I know you adore me." "To be funny, isn't it, sarcasm is essential," thinks I can heal everything. But I'm sorry, I can only heal living things, not machines. I can't cure my brain either, if you're curious~"

James in the driver's seat began to move violently, but before he could reach the back seat, Weiss pulled back and pressed back into place, "Jaime sit down! I'll go down and take a look!" ’

Weiss got out of the car and stood at the front of the car for a few moments before dissipating the unsightly smoke and opening the front cover.

Zach wasn't prepared to accept Wes's petition, "You know no, if you hadn't picked this broken car, we wouldn't be where we are now." ”

Scold!

Knowing that Wes wasn't there and no one was stopping him now, James was just taking a deep breath in the front seat at this time~ It seems that his brain is healthy~

Wes didn't seem to do anything to come back, rubbing his tight shoulders in a suck, his voice trembling a little, "Even if I give me tools, I don't think I can fix it." Glancing back at Zach, "We're stuck here. Then he looked back at James, "I told you, don't pick this car!" can you understand the meaning of the action - explain the situation to the central character, and then blame the person who made the mistake.

James apparently wanted to express his disappointment with his friend, but was preempted by Dale -

"We can't stop here. Looking out the window, "In the middle of the road, where it's nowhere nowhere, we can't even turn on the headlights." In this case, there is no point in anything negative or positive, just a statement of facts, "It's so late again, a random car that doesn't notice us can knock us off." ”

Zach said lightly, "At least I won't let the three of you die~" A statement of fact, right~

Dale didn't finish, "The heating will also be consumed quickly." "Dell's mood, it's probably a little ...... Not so much, feel for yourself, "It's not a big deal, I can't freeze any of us, it's just that this night will become long and sad." To any of us here, people. ”

In the long breath of the three humans, Zach hummed the melody that popped up in his head, "Uh-huh~~uh-huh~~" Dale, who got started, cares a lot about the words used in the narrative, doesn't he. So Zach was just assisting Dale.

"You, get off!" was James again, and the same thing.

"Why. ”

"Go, push!"

Being watched by three pairs of eyes at the same time, Zach was quite natural, "I feel...... Innocent. It's not my fault, but only I can save the damage caused by this fault. Then with your attitude now, I'm sure no one will thank me after I've given it. There's definitely something in that. Whether you can understand it or not depends on the talent of the audience.

In this situation, only Wes understood, so he once again pressed James, who knew what the ghost would say, and looked at Zach seriously, "I will thank you, I will always thank you." ”

Zach nodded, "Okay." Well, I have a better idea. You ......," pushed open the car door, who had already unbuckled his seat belt, "wait here, I'll be back." "Get out of the car, close the door. Leaving a trail of falling snow that seemed to be exactly one person high, it disappeared.

James took advantage of Wes's stunned moment to push away Wes's hand that was gagging his mouth, "He just ran away!!"

Wes reacted from his stunned gaze with a strange expression, "He said he would be back." ”

"Come back?!he doesn't want to go to the Feast with us!!" James yelled at the steering wheel and turned to Dale, "and he obviously doesn't want you to follow him!!"

Don't assume that Dale is on the side just because Wes is the only one who understood what Zack is saying. Dale didn't, and besides, he didn't stand on James's side—

"Do you think I'd be stupid enough to follow him to places where there are more of them if I knew he was immortalized in blood?" Dale didn't mean to show kindness to James, for a simple reason - James's attitude.

Remember what James said when he first saw Wes on the train? He asked in a mocking tone how Dale had ended up with Zach. Ignore the facts, you have to bear with hearing such words?

Dale didn't put up with it, he was just interrupted by something else on the train, and dealing with something that was obviously more important than talking to a detective.

"But I've followed such a thing to a place I don't even know where, and I'm still alive and well. This, I'm sure. So I don't need to listen to any judgment from you right now. "Now Dell has enough information to make its own judgments.

Dale folded his arms and looked at Wes, "Strap up your friend." "It looks like he doesn't want to talk anymore.

"You're ......" James was pressed back by Wes, who leaned sideways and looked at Dale, "Dale Walker." "It's called the full name, so the content may be a bit serious," Jaime and Zack's personal relationship has become very obvious along the way, and I agree with your attitude of not intervening in the matter between these two people so far. "That's a fair compliment, a twist," but let me remind you that even though we're on vacation, James and I are still detectives at the Barton Police Department. Specifically, we are Chapman's superiors. ”

Dale frowned. One thing that may remind everyone is that from the Susan incident to Dale's entry into the Grande, Chapman was in the Grande for the entire process.

Wes didn't stretch any further, retracting his gaze. As he said, the purpose of the reminder has been achieved. Well, if you don't extend it, it's actually simply understood as 'I'll control my friend James, but it's not your turn to say a word'.

However, James was not grateful for this sincere friendship of 'my friend, I can only be beaten or scolded', typical James, pushed Weis's hand away, "Why did you suddenly mention Chapman? Chapman knows something about this guy?" asked unpleasantly, "Did he tell you something again and then not tell me?!!"

"Can you blame him for not wanting to tell you?" Wes rolled his eyes at James, "That's how everything will turn out when it comes to you!" Pointing to Zach's vacant spot in the back seat, "So yes!" Wes was probably starting to get tired of being James's babysitter all the time, "If one day you can deal with these things rationally, hmph, no one will want to tell you anything!"

James's cheeks twitched twice, he glared at Wes for a moment, and turned to Dale, "So who the hell are you? Why did you suddenly run to Grande!Why do we make you nervous about being detectives!" James's detective instinct really didn't need to say anything.

Dale was quiet. Otherwise, tell James the truth. The incident that allowed Susan's death, which has never entered the police system, has been exposed in the worst possible way?

Because of Dale's silence, the atmosphere in the car instantly became countless times worse than when Zach was there.

"You'd better start talking!" James's eyes had begun to turn cold, and he used the opening of the interrogation...... was interrupted.

"Why do you ask?" Wess shook his head in his seat, looking like he had given up on his friend completely, "Don't you know what Grande does, Jaime? This guy is a newcomer recruited by Old Hank, Old Hank's! Jaime, you're not that stupid. You don't know what the old Hank's people do with Zack, do you think that after Zach leaves Grande completely, do you think there is still someone in Grandry who will be willing to play detective games with you and protect Barton City? It's time to grow up, James. This Dale Walker was just unlucky enough to follow Zach on this road to the west, and he regretted it himself. He's just another Hank now, and you really don't know what the reason he doesn't like the detective could be? uh, why ask? Jaime? Why do you ask?" Shaking his head continuously, he didn't want to talk anymore.

James listened to Wess's words, stopped looking at Dale, and was unexpectedly quiet, staring at the steering wheel in a daze.

Dale listened quietly to the passage and looked at Wes in the rearview mirror, who was also looking at him. The two seemed to have an inexplicable tacit understanding, and they turned their eyes away together and remained silent.

There won't be anything going on in this car for a while. It just so happened that Zach, who was running along the road, finally saw the artificial building.

"Leprechaun Lodge. The white-covered figure raised its hand and wiped the snow off its face. Zach raised an eyebrow and looked at the hotel in front of him, wondering what he had found in his inhuman perception, and smiled a smile that was not easy to describe. Jumping twice, shaking off the snow on his body, he stepped into the main entrance of the hotel, and looked at a pair of small eyes that appeared behind the front desk, "I need help." My friend's car and I broke down on the road. ”

"We're only accepting humans!" the little eyes stared at Zach, "Vampires are not welcome!"

A non-frontal road, a hotel owned by an alien race. Interesting. Fun is what Zach wants, right~

"My friends are human. Zach walked steadily to the front desk, "There are three~"

"Three?!" The little eyes lit up, but immediately, the vigilant rejection was restored, "Friend? It's your mobile food! It must be a guy who doesn't have fun! We don't want it!"

We?

Yes, this is already in the interior space, where there are gaps, between the clock and the wall, between the seat and the floor, between the vending machine and the cabinet...... All have a pair of small bright eyes.

"Oh~" Zach leaned comfortably against the front desk, "Trust me, they're all energetic guys." Leaning forward a little to see the full picture of the owner of those little eyes.

The voice came in a different direction, and the little guy behind the front desk had already hidden, "I don't believe you!"

"How am I going to convince you?" Zach pulled out a jar of his own snacks, put it on the front desk, and unscrewed it, "This is not going to work." ”

"En......" The voice began to be mixed, "Is that sheep blood?" "Why does this vampire have sheep blood?" "I think this is telling us that his food is sheep blood, right?" "What do you mean? And then?" "His friend is not his food?" "Why does he bring sheep blood to prove that his friend is not food?" "Otherwise, he has friends, or three energetic friends, why do you still have sheep blood on him?" "I don't understand, you say it again." "Well, he's saying why this vampire has fresh, delicious milk around him, so why should he drink disgusting, spoiled yogurt. "Oh. ”

Zach had to interject, "Actually, sheep blood is not that bad......"

"We're talking about trusting you, vampire!

Zach shut up and waited quietly with his head sideways.

It was another messy discussion, and gradually there was a clear conclusion - the act of carrying bad food with him when he had good food around him proves that this vampire is not lying.

The owners of this inn are finally about to show up. One-pair, two-pair, three-pair...... The little eyes disappeared into the gap where they were.

Zach looked back and forth and looked behind the counter, where a twisted fat man was slowly standing up against the counter. Zach held out his hand, "Need help?"

"Thank you. Several voices blended together, and then a noticeably louder voice, "I control my mouth, I speak!" and a string of "oh" responses.

Zach laughed and pulled the fat man up, "My friend is stuck in the middle of the road, you guys...... Do you have a trailer? We need to pick them up. ”

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then twisted back behind the counter in front of Zack, "Why didn't you say it earlier! The key is in the cabinet! The car is in the garage at the back! Go get it yourself!"

"Aren't you going with me?" Zach blinked. Looking for the little eyes that were talking to him again, these little guys whose scientific name is 'Raiboken' are super fast.

"Our left foot died last year and we couldn't drive. ”

"Oh. Zach pursed his lips, "I'm sorry. ”

"No! pick up your friends!

Zach nodded, smiling back before leaving, "At the very least, get the hot water ready, my friends will need a hot shower." ”

"No problem!Hot water!Is there any more request!"Eagerly.

"Well—" Zach pondered, "maybe hot food?

"Yes, the food, it's hot, it's fine, what's more!!"

"Milk, you'll probably need to prepare it yourself. ”

"There are many!!and!!!!

"It's gone. Zach smiled and vanished.