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Yanyi who had also not noticed her current posture right now is about to protest and start to forcefully be put down. Unfortunately for her, Luyao tighten his grip underneath her knees and her shoulders. "Don't move or you'll worsen your injuries further." he further prove it by nudging her injured ankle and she scream in pain.
"Fucking hell! Why did you nudge that part?!" She hits his chest with the amount of strength from her tightly enclosed arms. Lugano just shrugged it off and move towards the car left behind and ready to behind the passengers seat. Yanyi insist on being put down even inside the car.
Luyao is a steady man and he doesn't oppose his decision easily. Even when Yanyi is constantly hitting and screaming right before his ear. Seeing the two other individuals still not moving he figured that he might as well get the warning out. "when you drive to the hospital, please lock the doors and put up the glass in between the driver and the passengers seat."
Yanyi — "What?! No! Absolutely no! Irene don't leave me alone behind with this man! Sit next to me, PLEASE!!!"
Luyao — "No you are not! The back seat is not big enough for three people. Plus you have to seat on my lap or you'll further injure your legs."
Yanyi — "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! I AM NOT SITTING ON YOUR LAP FOR THE ENTIRE RIDE!!!"
Loyal — "YES, you will. I am not risking you suddenly getting more sick leave than necessary."
Yanyi — "YOU INSOLENT FUCKING JERK!!!"
With that yelling, Luyao and Yanyi put themself inside the car and close the door with a slam. Though this doesn't mean their bickering has stopped though. It still continues as the car can be seen somewhat moves side to side. Probably by the fact that Yanyi is moving almost everywhere to get off from the man's grip.
"Should we be concerned?" Kazuto ask to Irene as she doesn't seem to be faze by such situation. She clearly isn't by the way she is laughing her heart out. Waving her hand nonchalantly, they made way towards the driver's and passanger's side of the seat.
Of course, Yanyi starts to become a time ticking bomb the moment they stepped in. But fortunately, Irene had twist the knob for the mirror block upwards and this further fuel her rage. Before reaching the top she yelled, "WHAT THE FU-!!"
"Well that's out of the way. Let's go to the hospital and get her to the ER. She'll start killing if we don't move soon." Kazuto start the engine and begin driving to the nearest hospital from their location. Even on the road, the car is still saying side to side and believe me when I say, passerby are seeing it like it was a possessed car or something.
After literally 30 minutes of getting of the nearest hospital and getting the verdict that Yanyi only needs a day off and a few checkup to the clinic to repair her nerves, they finally let out a sigh of relief. Also they put down the mirror block which entailed for such conversation. "Pay me extra for sexual harassment."
Irene — "..."
Kazuto — "..."
Luyao — "It's not sexual harassment when I did it so you won't worsen your injuries."
Yanyi — "You did say that you don't want me to take extra sick leave than necessary. What's that about, huh?"
Luyao — "That is just my responsibility brain at work. But as your partner, my wish for a quick recovery, not you walking around in crotches for a week more."
There doesn't seem to be any more response from the other side. At first he thought that he had win, but the corner of his eyes caught something that he had thought a girl like her wouldn't be able to do. Blushing.
Her face is a s red as a tomato and is really steaming hot by which I mean that a steam is coming from the town of her head. Her lips starts to move, opening and closing them like a fish, aren't able to build up a coherent words at all. "Wow, you really make her speechless, Luyao. I'm impressed."
Irene's comments makes the tomato girl wanted to yell but aren't't able to due to the possible outcomes it might came out. How about we delve deep into Yanyi's mind. You want to see what makes her blush so much, wouldn't you?
Yanyi — "What in the world did he say 'partner' for! We're colleagues. If anything, friend is the most I could take. FUCK! Dude why can't you focus more on your words! AHHHHHHH!"
There you have it, a girl over thinking a sentence made by her superior just because of one word. Weird but she settle it herself. The time is now past 3 in the afternoon and they had yet to eat any lunch. "Hey, wanna grab some lunch together?" "No." She quickly protested before anyone can give their result.
"Let's just go. Yanyi is the only one who can cook and you can't even walk properly, how do you expect to cook?" Irene reasoning has finally crushed her rejections and with reluctance, she keep her mouth shut as Kazuhiro drives to a restaurant of their choice. After arriving at the said destination and getting a table, Yanyi chose to sit at the farther away from Luyao and refuse to even be on eye to eye level with him.
Quietly, Irene whisper to the two men while holding onto the menu. "She act like a child sometimes." After about 15 minutes, their food arrived eating to their heart content they did. Yanyi even let out a little tiny burp that is hardly heard around the table. It's not a good idea to actually sit after finish eating and the better option is to talk a walk in order for the food to digest more.
Yanyi wanted to take a stroll with Irene but the girl had already vanished from her sight the moment they went to pay for the meal alongside Kazuto. This just left her with the dreadfully annoying boss of hers. Luyao didn't say anything when he sees her walked out of the restaurant in a rather childish manner. Wherever she goes he made sure to follow behind as to avoid any unwanted threat from coming in.
Yes, her ankle are still injured but the doctor said that as long as she didn't take a 30 minute walk consecutively or run at any time. Coincidentally, they find a bench nearby and decided that the walk is enough. Although Luyao had been following her without initiating any conversation, he didn't feel like it is appropriate for him to sit alongside her. So, they stayed there in silence.
"I apologize." Her ears starts to peak at the mention of apology and her overall mood just turn to be a bit better. Still not quite satisfied, she starts to milk the reason of his apology even though she very well knew why he apologize.
Yanyi — "What for?"
Luyao — "Don't try to get more out of me. Be grateful that I apologize to you."
Yanyi — "So you're saying that you don't apologize to someone after harassing them?"
Luyao — "I will but I never had never harass anyone. And for context, I'm helping you, not harassing you."
"Whatever." She decided that the more she fight, the more she'll fail. After about 10 minutes of resting, she decided to move back to the restaurant to hopefully meet up with the other two to go back home. Before she could get up a question from Luyao turns her face to confusion. "If I did it again for your own good, you won't be furious would you?"
"If for reasonable reason, then I wouldn't mind.". "Good." The next moment she feel as if her body had gotten lighter and the distance between her feet and the ground had enlarged. It didn't register in her mind yet but after feeling a coat covering her shoulder, she starts to stare to the hand that is gently tucking her shoulder between his coat.
"I don't need your help to get myself back to the restaurant. It's not even a 30 minute walk and I had rested." Her nagging came into a stop when his hand squeeze her nose in order to shut her up. Feeling that it was hurting, she message the nose gently after being pinch. "I already ask your permission and I do it so that you can recover quickly."
"What, now you're going to carry me all the way back into my room and came and get me to work tomorrow, huh?" "If I deem it necessary, then I have no shame to do such thing." Her eyes shape-shift into a a round one with how her question got a firm affirmation from the man. Instead of the previous bridal carry, Luyao carried her by supporting her thighs and balancing her weight on his arms.
Feeling quite embarrassed, Yanyi hid herself in between his shoulder so that he has no clue on what or why her ears slightly turning red. You know how some people don't turn into a tomato easily when they are embarrass? Well Yanyi is one of those people and I bet Luyao is also someone like that. It's just that his lack of mannerism makes it hard for him to show any emotion.
Reaching the restaurant area, they located Irene and Kazuto standing by the restaurant lobby possibly waiting for them. Catching Luyao's blood eyes from the dark night, Kazuto pulled Irene out so that they can go back home. Seeing Yanyi being carried yet again by Luyao, the two didn't say anything and just smile gently while the two walk infringe of them.
On the way home, Yanyi had unconsciously fell asleep and when they reach their designated residence. Irene wanted to take her away from the car but before she could reach inside, Luyao had walked out with Yanyi in his hand. "Where's her room?" Irene pointed to her room and the Inspector walked to the door he was shown.
Seeing his brother coming out, Kazuto turned off the engine temporarily and walked to the room with Irene to see what he is doing. Lo and behold, the most unexpected thing that the red hair and baby blue eyes boy had never seen before. Right before his eyes Luyao is tucking Yanyi in her bed and using his slender index and middle fingers, remove the strands of hair that is stuck to her temple.
Irene — "Has he ever done something like this before?"
Kazuto — "No, never. Not even when we were younger. After some time he became rather empathetic and didn't even show his emotion freely."
Irene — "So this is the first time he really shows affection, huh."
Kazuto — "How about Yanyi. Had she ever become so unguarded with someone she met less than 2 years before?"
Irene — "You wish. Even I need to thread carefully for 3 years before she considered me her best friend. The only exception is Devlior. After all they are soul-sibling."
Kazuto — "To conclude, two person who had never outright trust anyone is showing trust towards each other in less than 3 months. Fucking hell, what is wrong with this world."
Seeing that Yanyi had feel comfortable in her bed and after changing her bandage, Luyao move to the door where the two is leaning against the door discussing. "What are you talking about?" They replied with 'Nothing' and proceed to get into the car to go back to the manor. Before going away, Luyao said to Irene something for tomorrow. "Irene, tomorrow morning after she takes a bath, change her bandage and wait until I came to get her. She's not going to work alone tomorrow or until she's better. Got it?"
She nodded and bid farewell to the two male before closing the front gate and locking the remaining door and getting in her room to sleep. After a bath and a change, she lay on the bed and starts to wonder what she could do with their mysterious relationship. "*sigh* Yanyi, if he suddenly becomes your husband, I believe that you'll be the most happy girl that you'll ever be or that I'll ever see."
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Because yesterday they had to leave early, they ended up giving the interrogation job to the on duty officers and decided to look over their testimony in the morning. Speaking of morning, the bird starts to chirp and a little creatures starts to rub against the sky locks cheeks. Opening her eyes slowly, a little 'chirp' bring her to the real world.
Yanyi — "Good morning Willow. How's your sleep?"
Willow — "*chirp! chirp!!!*"
Yanyi — "Haha, well you seem to have a nice sleep. How about going out and enjoy your day today."
Willow — "*chirp chirp? Chirp!*"
Yanyi — "Sure. Send my greetings to him. Oh, and please come back within three days. I can't have you away from me all the time."
Willow — "*Chirp!!! Chirp!*" * rubs against Yanyi's cheeks*
Without delaying the little blue bird flew away from the window and out of her sight. Just as she was about to get off from the bed a sudden stern voice prevent her feet from touching the floor. "You better not move from your bed, young lady." Really, if it weren't for the fact that she was in a foreign land, she figured it was going to be her mother.
Irene came into the room with a silver tray with food made for two people. Wait, she can't cook! "I buy this from a cafe nearby, dumbass." Phew, her facial expression must have shown everything if she address them quickly. After all, no more second case of going to the ER for food poisoning anymore. "It's berry pancakes, fried egg and sausages. Glass of Galnovil berry to make you energize and quickly recover."
Yanyi — "Ew. Galnovil berry tastes bitter. I don't want to drink that."
Irene — "You know my profession in brewing drinks. And I know that you're a picky eater so if you don't believe in me and want to continue being carried like a princess by the Inspector be my guest."
Yanyi immediately chug the juice down and halfway done, she realizes that it didn't taste sour at all. It's rather sweet to say. "Wow. You really are a witch of the forest." Rolling her eyes, Irene eat her portion of breakfast while conversing with Yanyi. They didn't talk about much, just the overall route they're going to take for the case. "I don't really think that journaling is my foreground."
Yanyi — "You're going to quit?"
Irene — "Perhaps. I might stay for a couple of months more just because. Maybe even get a chance to be on the cover of the news again."
Yanyi — "I wish you luck. People are fighting to get materials nowadays."
Finishing their energy refinement, Yanyi slowly make her way to the bathroom to clean herself. When she stands in front of the mirror she realized that she is still wearing her clothes from yesterday. "Weird. Usually I change my clothes even if I don't take a shower." Turning her feet she twist her ankle teeny weeny which then brings back all the last night memory.
She didn't remember at all walking to her room. Heck, she can't even recall the time she reached their house. HOW THE FUCK DID I GET IN MY BED!!! Is what she is screaming inside. Then as if a rock, no a boulder dropped on her head, Luyao had been the person who has been carrying her all night. "Oh GOSH! Did he fucking tuck me in my bed!?!?"
She tried to forcefully shake her head to get such ideas out of her brain. Little did she know, both of her ears are boiling red like a tomato. Pushing everything aside, Yanyi proceed to clean and dress herself.
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She was about to grab her coat from the living room and goes to work when she realized that a car is parked right in front of their gate. "Irene, did someone came in early today?"
"I came."
"Ahh!" The sudden voice scared her till the point of suddenly twisting her ankle. Because she was leaning closer to the stairs to get a closer look at the car, she was for sure that her head is going to smash on the stairs. 'Goodbye World! I hope to see you again!' She thought to herself before someone leap and grab her, yet again between his arms.
"Yanyi? What happened?" Irene came from the living room alongside Kazuto who she might think the owner of the car belongs to. And where there's Kazuto there will always be Inspector Chen. And she had instinctively know where he would be.
Yanyi — "Proper greeting, Inspector."
Luyao — "Forgive me."
He lay her back on her feet and simply stands behind her to provide any emergency support if she needed them.
Irene — "Kazuto and Luyao came to pick you up to work. You hurt your ankle and walking of even hitching a carriage is time consuming."
Kazuto — "Which will worsen your state."
He takes the flask thermos from Irene's hand and move to the car.
Irene — "I've prepared some Galvonil smoothie for you enough for the day. You'll high likely recover by tomorrow if you don't 0ver exert yourselves."
Yanyi — "Thanks Irene."
Irene — "No worries. I'll be going to work with Kazuto so you and Luyao can go first. I'll lock the gate later."
So they each went according to their designated path. One pair goes to the station and the other goes to the newspaper company. The ride all the way is kind of awkward but what would you expect to come out? A lovely conversation about 'Its a nice weather isn't it?' Blerghh! Cliche.
"They finish the question of those girls yesterday evening. Those who has the night shift or those who volunteer to do it has already filed the testimony. All of it will be in my office and we will go through them." Luyao came out with a work related topic which brought over Yanyi's serious mode. She didn't really like to intertwined work and personal that much.
"Any gist of what they say?" She question while playing with the strap of her thermos and bag.
Luyao — "Not really. Seems likes most of what has been said is according to what we'd already know."
Yanyi — "I guess the only way to find clue is the old fashion way."
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Yanyi and Luyao read through every and each testimony. Much of it tells the same story. They came back from the concert and walked down the road together, find a dead body and was taken away from the area to an unknown place. They hadn't much time to see what is happening around them.
It continue for a good 10 testimony until Luyao found something out about the current one he is reading. "What?" Yanyi ask, fleeing her eyes away from the files in hand.
"I find a rather odd one of the ball." He put the files on the table and pointed towards the second paragraph of the story. It says that there's a particularly brave girl that guide them to another alleyway to avoid going through the dense fog. However, they ended up still being in the fog just when they find the dead body.
Yanyi — "Is the other unread ones said anything about this girl?"
Luyao — *open two of the files* "Affirmative. They told stories about what they could figure out by what they felt and heard."
"Well the others are not as important anymore." She takes two of the files and read through them. Just as Luyao said these ones are more detailed. Probably on the facts that they felt that more info they give the sooner justice is given even when they are afraid.
Each one had their differences but some of them do agree in the fact that there is a single girl so brave to lead them across the dense fog. "The same as the LCTV" "What?"
Yanyi tell Luyao about what she found out in the LCTV control centre. She figure that this girl must be someone so well known to the area but after reading the files, none of the girls had ever seen her before. "And you didn't bother to tell me about this?"
"Forget about it. I tell you about the dense fog and that is the only reasonable oddity I found. I never thought that someone who can lead and bravely go through other pathways so abnormal." She counter and continue to read that files. When reading the last files, she was quite confuse on something. The testimony for this girl is no where to be seen.
Asking Luyao, he himself didn't find the said girl testimony. All of them are from the perspective of the followers not the leader. "Did she escape somehow?" Luyao question but this put Yanyi into a thinking mode. He figure that she must've had found something and waited for any response. At last, he received nothing.
Luyao — "Don't you have something to tell me?"
Yanyi — "Tell you what?"
Luyao — "..."
Yanyi — "..."
"Nothing." He stand up and collected all the unnecessary files to be put away on the shelves. Whilst he is doing that let me tell you what Yanyi is thinking about all this time. She was actually thinking about the possibility of this said girl to be the person she know yet didn't know. If she were to tell Luyao, how do you expect her to tell him. "Oh she's someone I know yet I didn't know." That'll be more suspicious.
Scanning quickly from the files to all across the room she felt uncomfortable feeling coming from her wrist. Looking down she sees that her silver bracelet had been colliding with Luyao's metal pen holder. The sound of 'Clang' 'Clang' pose her to look back to the files. A single line of 'silver' and 'long' made her starts to sit properly.
Reading back every single files left on the table she find a quite similarity to the descriptions. "'Sound', 'Silver', 'Accessory', 'Continuous' and 'Command'. Every single one of them has a similar descriptions." Thinking and making her own hypothesis, she suddenly jump from the chair and thump her injured leg hard on the ground.
Of course you would think the next thing to come is the scream. Luyao drop the files on the floor and catch Yanyi who is about to fall on the floor. "Why the fuck did you jump all of a sudden?!" Grabbing onto his collar, he felt somewhat awkward with her demeanor and glared a warning to the girl.
"I FOUND SOMETHING!!!" She scream at the top of her lungs even louder than her scream of pain. Her face is so close to him that he can't help but to slightly pull his head away from the close distance. Placing her on the table and checking the ankle, he tell for her to start saying her theory.
She takes all of the files and multiple highlighter, beginning to mark out the synonym words in one specific color. After doing that by the time Luyao reapply the medication and re-bandage her ankle, she shove all files to him. He sat down on her chair and open them read it again with more focus to the highlighted word.
Seeing his face change to catch what she is referring, she begins with. "Let's set a trap where they won't get away." Luyao look up from his peripheral view to her expectation gaze with a smug grin. He respond back with a simple smirk and place a call to a specific office.
*Tutt... Tutt... Tutt... Clack!*
"Hello, Uncle Ryu. We have a favor to ask."
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After a few days a sudden invitation for a special ball spread throughout all of Kinsey. Apparently, they are holding a banquet on the special occasion that they will announce soon. The whole city starts to gossip on what the news would be. Luyao's and Kazuto's birthday is far from close and they usually won't held a banquet unless something special is about to come.
Of course, all of the nobles are invited to come and some can even invited those who wish to make a great connection. Yanyi and Irene is not close directly with the Ryuichi family with the reputation they currently hold right now. So they will some as a plus for both young master of the house.
Something exciting is about to come. So please, await the next journal of their story.
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