Chapter 35: Hot Spring Negotiations
The detective girl, who has had an extremely low sense of presence since her debut, suddenly didn't know which one she came out of at this moment.
She crossed her hands on her hips and tried to make a vicious expression to scan everyone present, but because of her petite and cute appearance, she could only think of a small rabid dog like a Chihuahua.
Li Wu felt that her demeanor was a bit like that of a discipline committee member who was trying to maintain school discipline.
But the strange thing is that even Li Wu didn't find out how she was hidden before, and how she suddenly appeared, it seems that it is not a simple stealth ability.
"What is the law? Is there such an unspoken rule in the supernatural world? ”
Li Wu asked the magical girl next to him in a low voice.
The other party also replied in a low voice: "That's why everyone doesn't like the Nine Lessons of Public Security, they obviously only care about superpowers, but they also formulated a set of "Abnormal Management Laws", announcing that youkai, magical girls, shrine maidens, and other extraordinary powers living on Sakurajima should obey it, but in fact, it ......"
Snow Maiden and Ochiai completely ignore her questioning, and the former, although now childish, has regained his demeanor as an innkeeper.
She bowed slightly to Li Wu: "Thank you for your intervention, let me wake up from the illusion created by other people's lies, I will be responsible for the aftermath of this situation, and I will repair the hotel immediately, and please continue to enjoy the hot springs later." ”
The martial artist didn't say anything, just bowed slightly to the two of them.
Then the two of them left the courtyard.
The detective girl who was left to dry blushed and looked like she wanted to say something, but was scared by the snow girl. The elementary school version glanced at it from the bottom to the top and then held it back.
So inferior! It looks as inferior to a high school student who is bullied by elementary school students!
Perhaps feeling that the other party was too pitiful, Hoshikawa Aoi leaned over and asked, "What about the ordinary woman before?" Did you take her away? ”
Only then did the detective return to normal, puff out his chest and say, "Of course, it is my duty to evacuate the civilians, I have already sent the lady outside the hotel, and she will naturally forget the supernatural phenomenon she saw when the time passes." ”
"But what's going on here? Why the sudden outbreak of fighting? ”
"Why don't you ask the proprietress directly?"
Li Wu took the lead and walked towards the hotel.
After a few moments, the five people sitting around the table finally exchanged the information they had.
The police and the nearby residents who heard the movement were sent back by the proprietress and the detective girl, and with the correction of the [everyday] worldview, they must soon downplay what happened in this inn tonight.
What happened to the Snow Lady proprietress and the martial artist Ochiai and the dead Yuhiko Nagai, Li Wu still doesn't know.
But what happened recently was quite consistent with his speculation, and the puppeteer of the Guiyi Society came to the door a few years ago and proposed the so-called resurrection plan, asking the proprietress to spread strange rumors, and creating Tengu Nagai Yuhiko.
Ochiai, who heard about this, visits his old friend and thinks that the puppeteer has ulterior motives, and that Tengu is not his old friend - and eventually it gets to the point of getting started.
And Li Wu and Hoshikawa Aoi followed the clues of the strange story, and after seeing the Tengu who sneaked up on Ochiai, they naturally started a fight.
As for the detective and the woman of the office worker...... These two were really just passing by.
"Use otherworldly things to create youkai? Such acts must be sanctioned! ”
The detective girl angrily slapped the water and made a splash.
After talking with the proprietress and them, Li Wu originally felt that it was dark and it was time to go to bed.
But Hoshikawa Aoi thinks that if she can't soak in the hot spring, it will be a trip for nothing, and at her willful request, the proprietress doesn't know what spell she used, and quickly repairs the hot spring bath damaged by the battle, and all the holes in the walls are repaired.
"But Lilia-chan, do you think Lesson Nine will take care of this? They're just going to pass the buck and let me register the magical girl's serial number - please our countermeasures bureau doesn't have that kind of thing, okay? ”
Hoshikawa Aoi lazily felt the warmth of the wrapping body, and did not hide her critical attitude towards the ninth section of the public security.
In the conversation just now, Li Wu finally learned the name of Miss Detective, and like Arisa, she is not from Sakurajima, and she has the kind of Lilia Moriarty that makes people wonder "Is this guy really a detective?" Name.
Accused of her workplace in person, Lilia shrank into the water with some embarrassment, hugging her knees, revealing only her face on the water.
"Although the ninth lesson is like this...... But I will not turn a blind eye to such law-breaking deed! She said firmly, "Miss Hoshikawa is looking into this, right?" Please let me join you too! ”
"Don't you deny it?! What an unreliable organization the Ninth Public Security Lesson is! ”
Li Wu, who was leaning against the big stone in the middle of the hot spring on the side of the manyu, heard the conversation coming from the other side of the wooden wall and couldn't help but speak.
"Wow! Li Wu actually eavesdropped on the conversation of the girl when she was soaking in the hot spring! ”
"Huh? Is Mr. Li Wu such a person...... "
"It's too loud."
Li Wu fought back to protect his reputation.
"In the future, I will testify for Li Wu in court, please hold on!"
"Me, I have a lawyer friend I know, did he commit any crimes?"
"What the hell will become of me in the future?!"
After everyone settled down, the conversation finally got back on track.
"You said you wanted to join us......" Hoshikawa Aoi clasped his hands to his chest, creating ripples in the hot spring, "Li Wu-san, what do you think?" ”
"Do you really want to get down to business in the current situation?"
Although at first he was opposed to not sleeping in the hot springs in the middle of the night, after the actual experience, Li Wu still lost to the fatigue of his body.
The rising water vapor lingered in mist, causing the surrounding scenery to fall into a haze.
It was a pleasure to lean on the hot stones, as if the nerves of a great battle had been relaxed.
He said a little lazily, "I think Miss Detective's abilities are indeed very useful...... But we don't know anything about you. ”
"Ah, I was negligent, so let's introduce myself now."
On the other side of the wooden wall, there was the sound of someone standing up and the exclamation of Hoshikawa Aoi: "Lilia-chan...... It's beyond my imagination! ”
"What have you imagined! And introduce yourself, why stand up! ”
"Li Wu, do you know? Clothes are sometimes a limiter of combat effectiveness...... Is there 530,000? ”
"Don't say it like a weight-bearing combat suit!"
Damn, he began to imagine it.
Lilia ignored the two of them, cleared her throat and said, "When we first met, my name was Lilia Moriarty, a superpowered person who worked in the Ninth Section of Public Security, and was born in a family where my father had been detectives for generations. ”
"Is the last name Moriarty's detective family?"
"Ahem, Mr. Li Wu, don't interrupt me!"
Lilia tapped lightly on the wooden wall.
"When I was a child, my parents took me on a trip to the United States. In an alley, we met a mob with a pistol. ”
Her tone was low.
"Lilia-chan......" Hoshikawa Aoi didn't know what to say, and Li Wu also fell silent.
"Fortunately, they had already made a travel strategy, took out the Mossberg M590 shotgun they carried with them, and killed the gangsters."
"Then you're a low fart!"
The other two shouted in unison.
As if she were giving a speech at the council, Lilia waved her hand impassionedly, and the dew on her skin was thrown out with the action.
"Don't you understand? Miss Hoshikawa! It was the failure of justice and order that would have overshadowed the atrocities that night!"
"It's quite a shadow for the robbers."
"In short, this is how I decided my future life aspirations, and I returned to the country where my mother was born, and temporarily registered under the ninth class of public security."
Although it was full of strange slots, Li Wu and the others still got to know Miss Detective better.
"My destination after that is Chiyo City, so please let me do my part!"
"What to do...... Why don't you start a trial period first? What does Li Wu think? ”
Li Wu, who was drowsy, had no objections.
As a result, the partners of justice have added a new trainee member, which is gratifying.
"Then the first task of the probationary period, let me first study how Lilia managed to hide that scale......"
"Huh? Ah, Miss Hoshikawa, what are you going to do! ”