Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 621 - 621 One hundred forty

621: One hundred forty.

The past of Michael Tesla 621: One hundred forty.

The past of Michael Tesla “Visible Song,” “Crowd of Suffering,” “Headless Spirit,” and other Twisted Knowledge flowed towards Lu Li like dim, light veils.

Whispers from the Inner World murmured, polluting the depths of his heart.

Keg Flay exercised restraint, knowing that continuous acquisition of Twisted Knowledge could more easily twist the spirit and the Sanity Value.

However, Lu Li recovered faster than expected.

The comprehensive boost from the “Doomsday Apocalypse” endowed him with attributes surpassing all others.

The murmuring whispers, like water from no source, gradually faded away.

“Is it my turn to tell a story now?” Rhode, tired from leaning against the warm rock, lifted his eyelids and said.

Marvelin poured himself a glass of rum, the shadow of the dark gold liquor casting upon the rocks, “I hope you can tell a good story to conclude the gathering.”

The night was becoming increasingly dangerous; the last gathering had ended at nine in the evening, but now it had to be moved up to eight.

“That’s only right.” Rhode straightened up from the rock, the tiredness fading from his face.

“Let me tell a story about Uncle Michael then.”

Rhode looked intentionally at Lu Li as he spoke.

“Michael Tesla, a member of the Exorcist Tesla Family from Arlen Kingdom, and the uncle who lived with me during my childhood.”

The young Michael Tesla never liked Exorcists.

Never did.

This might have been related to his parents both dying in strange circumstances when he was a teenager.

Just 15 years old, Michael was sent to be cared for by Rhode’s father.

At that time, Rhode was only three or four years old, still far from the adult and strange world, so Rhode often went to play with his “uncle” who was over a decade older.

By then, Rhode already knew that Uncle Michael’s parents had forever left this world.

As a child, they have their unique ways of healing their peers: companionship.

Michael, in his rebellious phase, was reticent and rejected all kindness, except for the ever-running Rhode.

Rhode’s parents saw this and let the two children spend their days together.

As time passed, Michael indeed began to accept the outside world again, and smiles started appearing on his face once more.

But there was one thing only Rhode knew: his uncle had never escaped the shadow of his parents’ deaths.

By then, Rhode was almost ten years old, already possessing more knowledge about the strange due to his family’s heritage than most other children in ordinary families.

Michael had grown from a boy into a young man, but still spent little time outside his family home.

Or rather, spent little time outside the house itself.

Thus, Rhode could not understand how profound a love it was that imprisoned Michael’s heart for six years.

Until one day, while passing by his parents’ study, Rhode overheard his parents anxiously discussing Michael: poor Michael had witnessed his parents being killed at the age of ten and had lived in loneliness for five years before coming to their home.

The death of his parents cleaved open Michael’s heart, and loneliness hardened his wounds.

Even the healing in Rhode’s home could only bind the heart together, not truly heal it.

Michael resisted continuing the family legacy as an Exorcist.

His condition was not suitable to become an Exorcist, so he was assigned to the family’s industries and chose a profession he liked: Mortician.

To dress the deceased and send them on their final journey.

Meanwhile, Rhode, like most members of the Exorcist family, began his training to become an Exorcist.

Of course, he never forgot about the uncle he had grown up with, bringing gifts to his home on a winter night.

Michael drank a lot of alcohol that day, more than Rhode had ever seen him drink before, only later learning that it was the anniversary of his parents’ deaths.

Michael, drunk, narrated a nightmarish scene from that day as if he were dreaming aloud: a massive stone hand, as large as a house and covered in vines and moss, reached out from the abyss, grabbing at Michael and his parents.

His father held up an exorcism object, a black umbrella, to ward it off, while his mother, realizing something, pushed herself out at the last moment, tears streaming down her face as she said “I love you.”

The giant hand grabbed Michael’s parents, squeezed them together, and then…

they became indistinguishable from each other.

The giant hand fell back into the abyss, the awakened colossal will went back to sleep, and Michael was rescued by other family members who hurried over.

At that time, Michael was only ten years old.

Rhode couldn’t understand why his ten-year-old uncle was dealing with the abnormal.

The other family members told him Michael was a genius.

He was born with an astonishing intuition and an even more resilient consciousness—the latter allowing him to resist the influence of the Inner World more easily than ordinary people, stabilizing his Sanity Value.

But no one had foreseen that Michael’s future would be shattered from its most vulnerable point.

Nevertheless, Rhode often visited his uncle, even after he formally became an Exorcist at the age of fifteen.

Separation did not erase the affection between uncle and nephew, although it was indeed difficult for them to gather due to gradually increasing busyness.

Until one time, after dealing with an abnormal event, he heard something from his parents: his uncle had gotten a wife.

His parents were not pleased, and the perplexed Rhode pressed for the truth and was told the reality: Michael’s wife…

was a ghost.

The Tesla family had a history of several hundred years, with ancestors dating back to the founding of the Exorcist Association.

Over ninety percent of its members had died from abnormalities or food related to abnormalities.

Water and fire can never touch without harming each other.

Michael faced resistance from family members, but it was complicated—all family members knew the tale of the genius who was prematurely lost in the family.

Families that were friendly with the Tesla family, such as the Marvelin Family and the Flay Family, also didn’t take any actions against Michael.

In the end, a balance was maintained between Michael and the family: Michael became an Exorcist and left the Main Affinity Continent, in exchange for being with his wife.

Before leaving, Michael and the now 17-year-old Rhode truly met face to face.

Michael regretted being unable to attend Rhode’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Rhode was saddened that Michael was moving away from the family.

He saw his uncle’s wife, a very gentle woman named Aidanvoya.

Michael had discovered her ghost while arranging her body.

She was once the legitimate daughter of a major family, though of an ordinary human lineage.

This was the reason for achieving balance: an exchange of equivalents.

The Tesla family received steady resource support, Aidanvoya’s family no longer needed to worry about abnormalities, and Michael and Aidanvoya, the loving couple, could escape from prejudice and hostility and live happily together.

Michael, heading to Belfast on the Ailen Peninsula, also didn’t break off ties with his family, exchanging letters every few months.

His achievements gradually became known to the family members.

The only regret was that, because of the initial agreement, Michael was not free to return to his homeland.

Even though his family no longer resisted Michael’s ghost wife.

This was a rule for the entire continent: abnormalities are humanity’s enemy.

“So I’m different from these two guys,” Rhode pointed to the others meaningfully, “Like my uncle, I hold no prejudice against abnormalities.”