Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 492 - 492 11

492: 11.

Raimy and Jimmy 492: 11.

Raimy and Jimmy [Dear Lu Li]

[My brother and I received your reply in Belfast.

Yes, we made it inside; the soldiers didn’t check the carriages.]

[We had just visited the Detective Agency when we got your letter.

The Longhouse Night Watch said you had left earlier.

It’s such a pity; we nearly brushed past each other.

It’s all my brother’s fault—if his other body were lighter, we could have arrived in Belfast sooner and maybe even been of help to you.]

[I’m writing this letter to ask the Night Watch to slip it through the gap in the Detective Agency’s door, and then we’ll head to the refuge you mentioned, the cliff in Elm Forest, right?

We’ll wait there for your return.]

[If we don’t get lost, that is.]

[Wait, my brother has something to say to you, he wants to write it himself.]

The handwriting then changed to a scribble, full of typos and scratches, and words stained with blood.

It could be that Jimmy was illiterate, or his condition didn’t allow him to write properly.

[Lu Li, my sister and I are very grateful to you…

You know, I’ve always felt sorry.

I’ve deceived you, even hurt you…

back in those ruins, or should I say, within that story.]

[But how did you do it?]

[You brought me to my senses, entered the ruins yourself to rescue Raimy, didn’t discriminate against us for being monsters, and even after discovering we could leave the story, helped us do so——]

[Raimy is letting me rest for a while, but I haven’t finished speaking.]

[The new life my sister and I have is thanks to you, and although it doesn’t feel great to be monsters…

at least we’re still alive, aren’t we?]

[I hope you won’t give up hope, a good person deserves a good ending.]

[——Your good friend Jimmy]

[——And Raimy.]

Whoosh——

A breeze snuck into the carriage, lifting a letter held by an illusionary, slender hand.

“I have a better impression of them now,” Anna said as she folded the letter along its creases and slid it back into the envelope.

“Perhaps we could entrust them with Annie’s statue and the refuge.”

“Annie will soon have no need of care,” Lu Li replied, leading the horse by the bridle, his figure gently swaying with the carriage on the elm forest’s challenging muddy road.

“The illusory consciousness of the elm trees that make up the forest is watching over her.

As long as Annie gets through her period of weakness, she will grow stronger quickly thanks to the forest.”

By then, she would be the Uncrowned King of the entire forest, much like the Mother of the Marsh.

“It’s unfortunate we won’t be able to see it with our own eyes…” A tinge of sadness appeared in Anna’s steady crimson eyes, which was quickly replaced by the reflection of Lu Li’s indifference.

Apart from Lu Li, she could abandon everything else.

“Will Raimy and Jimmy make it to the cliffs safely?

The Elm Forest doesn’t welcome strangers.”

“They are not weak,” Lu Li remembered the content of the story, where Jimmy had two bodies, one resembling the Night Devil, strong but with a fatal weakness—his true form.

Raimy…

appeared to be a ghost, but Lu Li thought otherwise.

The part in the story about Raimy escaping from the altar where the Evil God’s consciousness was awakening was glossed over.

If one were to isolate that segment, they would realize how bizarre it was: a weak ghost escaping from an altar where the consciousness of an Evil God was stirring.

Between the siblings, Raimy seemed to be the leader.

Nevertheless, they could be trusted, those who considered Lu Li a friend.

“It…

What do they look like?

Are they like me?” Anna, sitting next to Lu Li, asked.

“Raimy is very much like you and even closer to a living person, except for her ice-cold body and pupils that are all white.

I guess she might have undergone some new changes that make her seem more like a living being.”

“So the siblings successfully came from the Main Affinity Continent to the Ailen Peninsula and didn’t encounter any trouble.”

Irregular grey-brown matter clung to the hard skin, its uneven horny surfaces resembling the rugged reefs near shallow waters, mixed with incomprehensible sinister black stripes, similar to the patterns on a venomous spider’s abdomen that signify death.

Its front jaw protruded, somewhat like the bloodthirsty hyenas wandering the Barbaric Lands, with no lips to cover its ferocious sharp teeth, all on full display.

Its sturdy claws held a person’s waist with as much ease as one might hold a glass of water, and the powerful tail at its end added a sense of eeriness to this frightening figure.

A gaunt young man stood at the end of the tail, as if he had been imprisoned and tormented in a dungeon, examining himself.

His legs merged with the monster’s tail, as if he were parasitic on the creature.

Jimmy’s condition was worse than how Lu Li had described.

Anna, watching the “two” before her with indifference, hoped she could be kinder to Lu Li’s friends, but she found it difficult to invest more emotion in anyone other than Lu Li.

The fact that they were characters from a story also gave Anna a sense of unreality.

Lu Li was doing the same thing as Anna, observing the Raimy and Jimmy across from him.

Lu Li’s understanding of Raimy and Jimmy was limited to text, and it was the same for them.

As if friends who had only corresponded through letters were standing before each other, feelings of strangeness and familiarity intertwined, creating new impressions.

“Mr.

Lu Li, we’ve finally met.” Raimy, whose eyes were no different from others, but with slightly pale skin, greeted with some restraint.

She looked into Lu Li’s black eyes, and although the man before her was different in both appearance and personality from what she had imagined, there was no fear or disgust in his eyes that common people would have.

Raimy gradually relaxed, showing a modest smile like an ordinary girl: “Thank you for your continuous help, we have arrived.”

“Hi…

Lu Li.”

The emaciated Jimmy tried to wave to Lu Li with difficulty.

“You don’t look very well,” Lu Li said.

Weak Jimmy looked as if he could fall into an eternal sleep at any moment, never to awaken.

“It’s not…

too bad…” Jimmy had to muster all his strength for each syllable, as speaking was an extremely difficult task for him.

The indifferent creature standing by, a monster unwavering like a knight, then gently tapped on Jimmy’s back with its claw, a gesture incongruous with its terrifying appearance.

To outsiders it seemed one way, but for Jimmy, it was merely him lifting his hand to tap his own back.

Raimy watched her brother with heartache and explained to Lu Li, “He has been like this for a week.

We thought he wouldn’t make it to Belfast, but fortunately, there was no further deterioration afterward.”

“His health is very poor; he has to spend most of his time in the carriage.

I’ll find him some books to read, now he’s almost like he’s a poet.”

Facing Lu Li’s gaze, Jimmy struggled to pull the few muscles left on his face, revealing an ugly smile.

“Tell me the details when we get to the refuge, and I’ll think of something,” Lu Li said.

The image of Lu Li before her began to merge with the one in her memory.

“Thank you…” Raimy couldn’t help saying.

Lu Li unhitched the carriage and led the horses toward the refuge, saying nonchalantly, “You all say thank you too much.”