Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 652 - 652 171

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They are so affectionate.

652: 171.

They are so affectionate.

The half face of the girl revealed a strange vivacity, “Do you know us?”

It similarly felt puzzled because the two who entered were like them: a resentful spirit intimately embracing a human.

Didn’t they know each other’s identities?

“If it weren’t for Lu Li, how could you possibly be together?” Seeing familiar faces, Anna indeed relaxed quite a bit, but still stood in front of Lu Li protectively.

“Anna,” Lu Li observed them, his hand resting beside his gun holster, “They are not the Sara and Adam we encountered.

We are essentially strangers.”

Lu Li also recognized them as the death arena of Sara and Adam.

“Is that so…” Anna sized them up.

Compared to the pitch-black silhouette of ‘The Shadow of Puppetry’, the real entities were more animated and also more dangerous.

However, things did not go as Lu Li had imagined.

Sara spoke slowly and gently, “We…

are somewhat interested, tell us what…

those are…”

“We could try telling them, maybe it could avoid trouble,” Anna said, a lesson she had learned from Lu Li.

Lu Li did not object to Anna’s suggestion, which might be a necessary part of regaining emotions.

It was the first time Anna spoke so much since her death, making the story sound obscure and unfamiliar, but as the narration progressed, the full story gradually revealed itself along with the details.

Sara’s efforts for Adam were emphasized, highlighting the costs they incurred and their not-so-good, but not bad ending: they would forever be together, with no one able to separate them.

In some way, it mirrored the scene before them.

“I like this ending…” Sara slowly said.

“It is us…

who like it…” The other half, Adam, spoke for the first time, correcting his lover.

“I never knew you had done so much…”

“There’s nothing left to say, is there…?

We…

are already together…” Sara revealed a blissfully beautiful smile.

“That’s wonderful…” Anna gently leaned into Lu Li’s arms, her eyes curved.

Perhaps she was moved by Sara and Adam’s…

love story.

Lu Li maintained his composure throughout.

First, the Sara and Adam before him were not the ones he knew; even if they were, another Sara was certainly not easy to deal with, and Sara and Adam’s love story masked the underlying darkness of the tale.

The scar from a stab wound on Lu Li’s abdomen still remained on his skin.

Secondly, the uncannily human-like bodied made them look more unstable and malevolent than monsters, along with their twisted love.

They couldn’t even kiss, the hugs they managed were only possible in a comical self-embracing pose.

“We…

do not know you…”

However, the story indeed changed Sara Adam’s attitude toward them: “But you have done a lot for another us…”

A square table slowly appeared in the living room, adorned with what looked to be delicious pastries and drinks.

“Why not have a gathering…

like friends…?”

“We need to investigate something at Echo Church,” Lu Li was not planning to attend the gathering.

“The game will end in half an hour…

then you can leave…” Sara said.

Lifting one side of her skirt, she walked to the table with Adam: “So please, take a seat…”

Indeed, they exuded goodwill, indicating they would let Lu Li and Anna leave.

Lu Li had no choice but to sit down at the table.

I hope the plan at Echo Church hasn’t started yet.

The considerate Adam offered a pastry to Sara’s lips.

Sara shyly pursed her lips, gently opened her mouth to bite, leaving a crescent-shaped notch on the edge of the pastry—this was far from happiness and romance, instead, it elicited an unsettling feeling deep within one’s heart due to its excessive eeriness.

A similar pastry suddenly appeared at Lu Li’s lips, and he slightly turned his head, Anna’s pale hand holding the pastry as she looked at him expectantly.

After a brief silence, Lu Li opened his mouth and took a bite, then, without continuing to chew, he looked at Sarai Adam, “Is this something humans can eat?”

“Of course…

this is what we…

got from other houses…” Sara replied with a dignified smile.

Just like a real gathering, the hostess Sara and Anna were conversing, while the two men present kept quiet.

Except for halfway through the gathering when Adam poured a cup of tea for Lu Li, gently pushing it to the front of Lu Li’s table.

A slightly damp piece of paper was stuck to the side of the teacup, hidden from Sara’s view.

Sara seemed to be unaware of the gentlemen’s subtle actions.

Lu Li removed the note and unfolded it under the table.

The paper was densely packed with writing, obviously not something written in a short period of time.

“No matter who you are, if you have this note, it means I have chosen to trust you and it means you have successfully escaped our game”

“My name is Adam, Sara’s husband…

although we have never been married.

Our story goes back two hundred years, but none of that is important anymore.

What I want to say is…

Sara is becoming…

not like herself”

“How long have you and Mr.

Luli been together?”

Hearing her name called by Sara, Lu Li folded up the note and looked up.

Sara was talking with Anna about the time they had spent together.

Sara mentioned she had been with Adam for over two hundred years, which astonished Anna, as she was as lively as a real young girl.

Half an hour swiftly passed, Sara kept her promise and opened the wooden door leading to the street.

The hustle and bustle of the street infiltrated the room, suddenly reminding Anna that they were in a bizarre amusement park, not a gathering with friends at a manor house in their past lives.

After bidding farewell to Sarai Adam and leaving the cottage, they unexpectedly found the carriage still waiting for them on the distant street.

They got into the carriage and continued their journey toward Echo Church.

At this moment, Lu Li took out the note from his pocket and said to the curious Anna, “Adam gave it to me.”

“When I first met Sara, she often complained in her letters about her father’s noisy bird, but she would never hurt it.

The Sara of that time was so kind and gentle.

Look at what she has done now?

She is merely playing with those poor people because she finds it amusing…”

“Decades ago I tried to stop her, but she convinced me that it was the only way to gather strength so that we could always be together…

How many people have we killed over two hundred years?

Hundreds?

Or thousands?”

“I have gradually grown weary of it all, tired of living this way.

She has always been by my side, her lovely voice always in my ear, but I can only see her face when I look in the mirror.”

“I’ve tried to put an end to all this, but I…

I can’t do it.”

“How could I harm Sara…

who has given up everything for me?”

“I hope you can help me.

Please, for the sake of those who died innocently, kill us”

“Go to Waynefort County, our true origin is in the cemetery at Valrend Sanatorium.

I don’t know if it’s still there, I haven’t been back to that land for a long time…

I hope you can find that cemetery, find the tombstone with both our names on it, dig up our coffins and burn them”

“Please help us find release”

“— I’m pleading with you, Adam”