Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 769 Sixty. Oil painting, second

  Purse's shape prevents him from appearing outside.

  Although he cannot return to the streets of human beings, Prius has already satisfied everything for now. It sat greedily on the windowsill, looking out over the street that looked like Cline's University.

   It's just that his eyes were not the same as what Lu Li saw.

   In the afternoon, Dean Lawrence led a painter to come.

   "This is Mr. Camilla Valverde, former court painter of the Lennon Islands, painting your portrait."

   Dean Lawrence introduced to Lu Li why the window was covered with a gray cloth.

   "Hello, Your Excellency Lu Li, your rumors are known to everyone in my hometown." The sloppy old man with a long beard put his left hand on his chest, respectfully bowing to Lu Li in the royal palace etiquette of the Lennon Islands.

  Because the Lennon Islands were involved in the second expedition to the Third Calamity, they paid special attention to them, and also knew about the third expedition launched by Lu Li alone.

   "It's an honor to paint your portrait myself."

   "Will it take a long time?" Lu Li frowned.

   He didn't want to sit there motionless for hours.

   "Not too long. Lennon's Court School is great for quick painting. Outline first, then fill in with color," answered Mila Valverde painter.

   He let Lu Li sit in the seat in front of the fireplace, filled the fireplace with some smokeless wood, so that the light and shadow would appear on Lu Li's face, and then he went back to the door and placed the easel.

   Dean Lawrence did not leave, and reported the next arrangement to Lu Li while watching the outline on the drawing board.

   He put a list on the low table next to the chair, and on it was written the people he wanted to meet with Lu Li. Dean Lawrence had already sorted them by importance.

   "It's okay, you can pick it up and see," says Mila Valverde, painter.

  Lu Li picked up the list, on which was written a long list of names and identities, such as the Hunter Guild, the Lord, and the Ghost Pavilion.

   "Help me refuse." Lu Li put down the list and leaned back in his seat.

   "Um...Aren't you going to see them?" Dean Lawrence asked tentatively.

   Lu Li nodded in response.

   "Okay, I will help you refuse these unnecessary private meetings..." Dean Lawrence almost understood Lu Li's style. "The city hall has decided to hold a reception party about you tomorrow night, and it is best if you can go."

  Lu Li is the protagonist of the party. If he doesn't go to the party, there is no point in holding it.

   "I will go." Lu Li didn't refuse anymore.

At least one task has been completed, Dean Lawrence thought, and before leaving, he thought of one more thing: "By the way, the Hunter Guild hopes to contact Miss Katerina. I think they want to promote Miss Katrina escorting you. …”

   "It's up to her."

"OK."

   Dean Lawrence left the room and went to the next room to inform Katerina.

   The only sound left in the room was the rustling of brushes on the drawing board.

   A few minutes passed and the calm was broken.

   bang bang bang ——

  Mila Valverde, who was focusing on painting, ignored it.

   bang bang bang ——

   The knock on the door soon sounded again, becoming more urgent.

   Mira Valverde frowned, still ignoring the people outside the door.

   bang bang bang bang!

The    wooden door trembled, making Mira Valverde unable to calm down.

   "You'd better drive off, or she might hit the door." Lu Li said at this time.

   "Of course..." Mira Valverde sighed helplessly, put down her paintbrush and opened the door.

   In the corridor, Katarina has already retreated a few steps, ready to slam the door as Lu Li said.

   By then, Mira Valverde, who was behind the door, was the first to suffer, and the painting may have to be repainted.

  Caterina walked into the room, Mira Valverde vented her dissatisfaction with her disturbing behavior with a loud slam of the door, and returned to the drawing board to continue painting.

   "Should I not disturb you?" Katerina, who wanted to sit by the fireplace, stopped and asked after realizing it.

   "What's wrong." Lu Li asked.

   "The dean just came to me and told me that the Hunter Guild wanted to use me to promote something, I wanted to ask you."

   Lu Li is the person she knows best, and the only person she knows. The unfamiliar environment made her a little uneasy, but staying by Lu Li's side could relieve her a little.

   And the hyena on the windowsill.

   "This is your business." Lu Li said.

   "So?" Katerina said she didn't understand.

  Lu Li said directly: "I don't mind if you say it, just make sure it's true."

   Katarina wanted to say something, looked at the third person in the room, and her vigilance against strangers prevailed.

  Mila Valverde suddenly tore off a few strands of paper, rolled them into a ball and stuffed them into his ears.

   "You can say it."

  Lu Li looked away from Mira Valverde.

   "...Actually, I don't want to be a hunter anymore," said Katarina, who no longer wore a fluffy bathrobe, but switched to men's shirts and trousers because the skirt made her feel like she was wearing nothing. "The two days of life have made me very... the water is not bitter, the meat can be cooked so deliciously, and carrots and green leafy vegetables are actually used as food rather than precious medicines..."

   "I was like a rat living in the sewer suddenly running into a house, warmth, food, safety... The mouse only stayed for two days and didn't want to go back to the sewer... Can you understand what I mean?"

   "Then stay." Lu Li said calmly, "You will soon get your resident status and enough money for food and clothing."

   "...I'm afraid that these are all fake, all my hallucinations in the Emerald Dream."

   Katarina sinks into self-doubt.

   But before Lu Li said anything, Katerina, who had been struggling to survive since birth, convinced herself that a beautiful illusion is better than a cruel and bad reality.

   Katerina has no obsession with "I have to return to reality", even if everything that is happening now is not true, she can accept it, but she wants to know the facts.

   The confusion of whether this is the Emerald Dream will haunt her for a while.

  Mira Valverde painted for nearly two hours, finishing it towards evening.

The    drawing board was covered with a white cloth, ready to be taken back to be processed by court craftsmanship. Make it a perfect oil painting.

   This painting has been seen by Lu Li and Katerina, who has not left. It is realistic and artistic, but it has not yet revealed the heaviness and historical sense of oil painting.

   Mira Valverde left with her drawing board in her arms, when a commotion broke out from outside the door and spread to the room.

  The people gathered outside the door were discussing something loudly, and with excitement and excitement, some people turned and left.

   Dean Lawrence quickly came to Lu Li's room. Instead of being as excited as those outside, he showed a kind of unease that never appeared.

"What's wrong."

   Dean Lawrence did not answer, and handed Lu Li a crumpled newspaper.

   The front page news above prominently reads:

  《The one and only becomes the only two, another exorcist from the old days returns! 》

   (end of this chapter)