Chapter 6: The Devil

"Mr. Oreo, what are you thinking?"

Angelyl called softly.

Reka and Tamia sat across from each other, their faces full of oddity.

Seeing that Oreo still didn't react, Angelil stretched out her right hand and shook it in front of his eyes.

"Mr. Oreo?"

Seeing the suddenly approaching shadow, Oreo jerked up, and when he saw that it was Angelil, he sat down again, looking dejected.

"Ahem."

Reka coughed twice, "Oreo, your favorite steak is on it." ”

"Oh."

Oreo answered, and he cut off a large piece of steak and swallowed it, and sure enough, he choked.

So he grabbed the lemonade on his left and poured it into his mouth.

Angelyl's muttering was heard beside her.

"It's ...... This is my cup. ”

Seeing this, Tamia snickered twice, but didn't squeeze Oreo again.

Reka had an inexplicable expression, because his impression of Oreo was not so shy.

Does it have anything to do with Angelil......

In this eccentric atmosphere, dinner is finally over.

Taking advantage of Reka's time to pay, Tamia whispered.

"Oreo, what's the plan for tomorrow?"

"Arranged..."

Oreo's lips trembled, "I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

Tamia asked.

"Is that there no arrangement for the time being?"

"Yes, yes."

Oreo repeated.

With that, he stood up, buttoned his top hat over his head, and staggered out.

Seeing his unyielding appearance, Reka hurriedly followed.

Angelyl whispered.

"Sheriff Tamia, what the hell happened in the afternoon."

Looking at her worried face, Tamia's heart softened.

She reached out and rubbed Angelyl's cheek before she spoke.

"We went to Viscount Borg, but we didn't make much progress, and I think that's why he's not happy."

"Oh."

Angelyl suddenly realized, "It turns out that Mr. Oreo will also encounter something that cannot be solved." ”

Tamia blinked.

"Angelyl, looks like you adore him?"

Angelyl said as a matter of course.

"Of course I worship, not only my sister and me, but my mother actually trusts him too...... Including the residents of Back 3rd Street, when they encounter problems that cannot be solved, they will go to Mr. Oreo. ”

"Angelyl, to be honest, I don't mean to look down on the poor."

Tamia paused, then continued.

"But I still can't understand why he lives on Back 3rd Street, knowing that people like him ......"

Tamia didn't go any further, but stared meaningfully at Angelyl.

Angelelle thought for a moment and shook her head slowly.

"I don't know... But Mr. Oreo moved to Back 3rd Street two years ago, and I think something happened to him. ”

Tamia shook her head and continued.

"But before that he bought your sister, and that's a lot of money."

"He did call out the highest price."

Angelil paused, "But he hasn't produced a ...... yet"

“......”

Tamia fell silent, thinking of the detective's dirty behavior, and she really thought he would do such a thing.

She opened her mouth and whispered.

"Looks like your sister likes him a lot."

Angelyl nodded, and continued.

But he didn't like his sister...... This is what my sister said herself. ”

Tamia was stunned.

"How so?"

Angelyl lowered her head and said calmly.

"Sergeant Tamia, what kind of person do you think Mr. Oreo is?"

She didn't expect Angelil to ask these questions, and Tamia thought about everything about the detective, and she tried to find an appropriate word to describe him, but in the end, she had to admit that Reka's description was the most accurate description of Oreo.

- He's like a black hole.

But Tamia couldn't admit it, she pursed her lips and said as if she didn't care.

"He's a weird guy."

Unexpectedly, Angelelle actually laughed.

She said in fits and starts.

"Sheriff Tamia, your description is really accurate, but I want to tell you that when he first came to Turin, Mr. Oreo was ten thousand times more eccentric than he is now."

Tamia said confusedly.

"Ten thousand?"

Angelyl said firmly.

"Yes, 10,000 times."

"Why do you say that?"

Tamia became interested, and she adjusted to the most comfortable angle and listened.

Angelyl thought for a moment and said slowly.

"I hadn't met Mr. Oreo before, I heard these from my sister's descriptions......

Mr. Oreo does not seem to be a native of Turin, he originally ran an antique shop on Sixth Street, and it was at that time that his sister met him. ”

Tamia interrupted her.

"Antique shop? Would Atifa be curious about it? ”

"Yes."

Angelyl nodded, "My sister is an adventurer at heart, and she is full of curiosity about everything she doesn't know. ”

"That's right."

Tamia nodded, and instead stared into Angelil's eyes.

"Angelyl, what about you?"

It was a sharp question, but Angelil was quick to react.

"Sheriff Tamya, women are curious, right?"

Tamia sat up straight and shook her head.

"I don't want to be curious, I just made a deal with him."

"Deal?"

Angelyl laughed again, and somehow the smile grew more and more terrifying the more she looked at it.

"This should be a good deal, right?"

Tamia was stunned.

"Why do you ask?"

"My sister also made a deal with him, and it was a very good deal."

Angelil gestured, "No, a loss-making trade to be exact, and Mr. Oreo has always liked to make that kind of trade. ”

Tamya's expression became strange.

"It doesn't sound logical."

Angelyl said approvingly.

"That's what my sister thought from the beginning, so she began to wonder about Mr. Oreo's starting point for the deal, he must have his purpose."

Tamia asked nervously.

"For what purpose?"

"My sister told me about this."

Angelil said in a low voice.

"There was a jewelry store next door to the antique shop, and the owner of the jewelry store was a very good taker, and he exchanged the jewelry for a large number of expensive antiques from Mr. Oreo.

With this windfall, the owner of the jewelry store rented the Fifth Street shop, and Mr. Oreo bought the store next door. ”

Tamia blinked.

"That doesn't sound like anything special."

"Something special is in the back."

Angelyl smiled wryly and said, "After investigating, my sister found out that the owner of the shop on Fifth Street was Mr. Oreo. ”

Tamia shook her head, "Even if the shop is Oreo's, the jewelry store owner is not a fool, and he has no reason to rent Oreo's shop at a high price. ”

Angelil took a breath.

"Here's the problem, not long after the store moved, a large number of jewels appeared in the market, which caused the jewelry store owner's shop to be unpatronized. In less than two months, the owner of the jewelry store went bankrupt and the shop was taken back by Mr. Oreo.

After that, jewelry prices in the market returned to their usual levels, as if nothing had happened, except for the opening of a bankrupt jewelry store. ”

After being stunned for a long time, Tamia said.

"This ...... Maybe it's a coincidence? ”

Angelil's voice was lowered.

"Sheriff Tamia, my sister also said that what if the person who bought the antiques at a high price in the hands of the jewelry store owner in the first place was Mr. Oreo?"

This sentence connects everything, and in Angelil's narrative, the jewelry store owner is like a hamster, always running in a cage.

Without time to pay attention to the expression on Tamia's face, Angelyl said to herself.

"My sister said that he was like a devil who manipulated people's hearts, but who made her want to be manipulated."

"That ......"

Unable to absorb any more information, Tamia decided to ask one last question.

"And what did he get from your sister?"