Chapter 6: Upstairs and Downstairs
The "Flower Touch Psychological Clinic" is not far from the Tianen Group park, and it doesn't even need to be picked up by a car from Delphia.
After taking the air subway to the entrance of the park, it takes less than 20 minutes to walk.
And to be more precise - that is, near the restaurant where Russell came out for barbecue when he first went on a date with Delphinium.
After Russell followed the navigation to the place, he saw the familiar barbecue restaurant diagonally across the road.
- I'm not hungry, but some cravings are inevitable.
After all, when Russell learned that the suspected demon was Flower Touch, he was actually not so nervous.
The logic is simple.
If the demon is not Flower Touch, then Russell will definitely get the support and help of Flower Touch as long as he clarifies the situation with Flower Touch.
And if this demon is Flower Touch...... Then Russell still couldn't arrest her.
She was the royal psychiatrist for whom Babel didn't know how long, and had been in contact with everything from bad days to deer heads. Not to mention the inferior and identity-sensitive newcomers like Russell.
If Flower Touch is arrested, the entire secret of the Tower of Babel may be revealed.
As a result, Flowertouch will either rejoin the Tower of Babel as a demon, or an insider member like Bad Day will kill her.
Either way, it was Russell's turn to make the decision, let alone the "Godfather of Babel" who was not good at fighting.
And, in Russell's view, Flower Touch is the least likely to become a demon.
Bad Day itself has successfully communicated and cooperated with its own demon, "Dead Sun...... He even taught himself such a technique.
After that, Russell did follow the tutorial of the bad day and successfully pulled out the "vessel of God".
This shows that this technology is quite mature, and there should be more than one person who has learned it inside the Tower of Babel.
And Bad Day is only in his thirties this year.
He had never studied psionics or psychology, and it was clear that this technique could not have been developed by himself...... If Russell guessed correctly, Miss Flower Touch should be the one who taught the technique of bad day.
Even if you take two steps back, Flower Touch has nothing to do with this technology, and is really a psyker.
But her importance alone was enough for Bad Day and Babel to teach her this technique.
…… However, none of these things can be told to Delphinium.
So Russell is not easy to explain why he is in such a relaxed state......
Russell stood in front of the psychological clinic, first tiptoed to see if the barbecue restaurant opposite was open, whether there were many people inside, and what today's half-price dishes were at the door, and then turned around and walked leisurely towards this psychological clinic.
Although in terms of location, the rent in this location is quite expensive.
But from the outside, it is completely impossible to tell that this is a shop opened by an elf......
Because Miss Flower Touch's psychological clinic is not even a separate building.
Her clinic is on the second floor. The first floor is called "Water Divination" and is a divination shop.
The doorway was extremely narrow, with heavy soundproof curtains, and a pile of boxes stacked on top of each other that looked like unopened parcels, covered in dust. That is, Russell is relatively slender, and if he is strangled, it may be difficult to enter the door.
If you barely squeeze through the door, you can see that it looks like a bubble tea shop or a burger joint.
The air conditioner inside was turned on very much, and it could even be said to be a bit cold. Russell felt a chill in his ankles, as if a chill was wrapping around the floor.
There are several round tables in the hall, and next to them are a box of playing cards and three dice...... There are also two empty cups.
And in the symmetrical position of the door, like the bar of a bar, there are quite a lot of messy divination tools - compasses, crystal balls, tarot cards, and even several. It is not so much a divination shop as a wholesale store that sells divination supplies.
Perhaps to set off the atmosphere, the lighting inside is particularly dim.
Only the dark blue and purple lights shine brightly, and there are no customers at all.
Someone slept behind the bar, which even had a bed and a thick quilt.
But the man's exposed hair wasn't pink...... It is dark purple.
Russell took a keen look at the ceiling and saw that there were no cameras installed here.
- Isn't this boss afraid of stealing?
He was a little strange and walked through the stairs to the second floor.
Then I found that the door of the psychological clinic was locked...... Or rather, it's not open yet.
Russell was shocked.
They were already late for work today, and they were delayed for a while...... It's past 10 a.m. now!
This point hasn't opened yet...... Doesn't Miss Flower Touch go to work in the morning?
It's worthy of being an elf, and opening a store is really open for fun, right......
Just as Russell was hesitating whether he would return the way he came or wait here for the flowers to come, he heard a somewhat lazy voice from the first floor:
"Are you going to do counseling?"
“…… Ah, yes. ”
Russell followed the voice and answered, "May I ask, when will Miss Flower Touch upstairs come to work?" ”
"Huh? I'm just a flower touch. ”
It was a smiling girl's voice.
The man sleeping behind the bar yawned, lifted the covers, and got up to his feet.
She wears an open-waisted sports vest, hot pants on the lower half of her body, and sandals on her feet. It looks like a cool outfit.
…… Paired with the thick quilt behind her, it looks particularly individual.
When he saw her ears, Russell was sure it was indeed an elf.
It's just this hair......
"Ah, I forgot to turn off the lights last night."
Noticing Russell's gaze, Miss Elf suddenly realized something.
The next moment, the blue-purple lights that were circulating on the head, reminiscent of KTV, went out.
Without the light, her hair turned pale pink.
"This hair is color-changing," said Hanatsu ostentatiously, "It's not just that the light shows different colors, but the light changes color ~ the blue light will turn violet, the red light will turn black, and the yellow light will turn orange!" ”
"It sounds a bit like an anti-counterfeiting mark."
"You can also think of it as an anti-counterfeiting mark. Take a light and if the hair doesn't change color, it's not a flower touch - wouldn't it be useful to think about it this way? ”
With a smile on her face, she walked around the desk and went to the second floor to open the door to the clinic.
Russell followed her and couldn't help asking, "Is the store on this floor yours too?" ”
"yes."
"I still don't quite understand...... Why is a psychiatric clinic with a divination house? ”
"Some people need counseling, some people need divination. But in fact, they all need the same. ”
Hua Touch's tone was brisk, her tone was as light as a girl, full of affinity: "They are just a little confused and need an answer that has nothing to do with their interests."
"For those who need divination, I am the 'water phase' of the diviner, and for those who need psychological counseling or treatment, I am the psychotherapist 'flower touch'......"
As she spoke, she opened the door to the psychiatric clinic.
It's very different from downstairs - the décor is warm, bright and warm. As soon as Russell walked in, he felt "a light in his eyes".
It's not that your eyes light up because you see something, but you really feel that your vision suddenly brightens, as if the air you breathe has become clear.
Russell suddenly realized something.
"You opened the shop here, and you put it upstairs in the soothsayer...... And keep people coming with heavy soundproof cloths, unreliable décor, dusty obstacles, and the like – just to screen guests? ”
"Yes."
Hua Touch smiled and said: "I am here for regular customer introduction, upstairs and downstairs." But since it's you, I don't need to introduce it. I know you. ”
She went into the hall, served Russell a cup of hot water, sat down across from him, crossed her legs, pulled out a small notebook, and opened it.
"But I still have to register......
"—Excuse me, are you Ultramarine, or are you a barber?"
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