[Zhongyingmei] Goblin Detective

It was over an hour before most of what they wanted to know had been explained.

"So you're really that... Babyelf?"

James was dumbfounded.

"It's elf, no baby."

Lindell emphasized.

He waited for the terrified expression on the other person's face, even if the goblins in "Legend of King Arthur" sounded harmless, but there are many fairy tales about Nixie devouring humans, sea monsters that make ships stray, and Medusa can catch humans just by looking at them. The frightening tale of turning creatures into stone.

Goblins are dangerous creatures, and some will devour souls. He knows that the gap between goblins and humans is probably hundreds of times that between humans and orangutans. vigilance.

The two teenagers looked at each other, and then James asked: "... Can the goblin eat chocolate? I heard that dogs will die if they eat chocolate."

Steve raised his forehead: "Bucky, you don't need to say the second half of the sentence!"

Lindell: "..."

He replied blankly: "Yes, but it's a bit tiring to digest."

Steve took out the medicine box from home, and imitated the actions in the medical manual to give him a little medicine-even though Lindell said that this method would be better than nothing for a goblin.

The eyes are the first to recover, followed by the nails and pointy ears.Now his ears have changed back to the arc shape of a human, and he can no longer shake and turn the direction casually like a cat.

"It's because the magic power is insufficient, so the wound recovery is so slow."

He watched the other party wipe the broken skin with alcohol cotton little by little, and felt that it was unnecessary: ​​"After I become an adult fairy, this small injury will heal immediately."

"Then when will you be an adult?"

James asked again.

"——'Transformation' requires an opportunity, and before that moment actually arrives, no one knows when it will be."

Lindell said: "Based on the scale of our life, it is difficult to complete in your lifetime."

Steve's expression froze for a moment, and he couldn't help but hit harder, in exchange for the goblin boy softly "hissing".

"Oh sorry, does it hurt?"

He quickly apologized.

"It's okay...it's just that I haven't gotten used to getting hurt for a long time."

So that things that were taken for granted would seem unbearable, Lindell thought, it was really because he had been in the human community for too long.

Afterwards, the three of them went back to Aziraphale's bookstore together. The angel who was cleaning the bookshelf was surprised when he saw Lindell's injuries: "Did a shooting happen?"

Immediately afterwards, he reached out and touched the other party's hair, and took advantage of the situation to sense the magic power in Lindell's body: "...the shooting case cannot be used up so much magic power... What happened?"

It was only after he said it that he realized that his identity had been exposed. He looked nervously at the two human teenagers following him, thinking in his heart whether to use a miracle (Miracle) to make their memories disappear, or find a way to lie about it. Just an inside joke in their family.

But Lindell stopped him from continuing: "Three Goat Demons have appeared here, probably following the trail of magic power... Both of them have already seen it."

Aziraphale glanced at James and Steve one by one. The expressions of the two teenagers were normal, and they even urged him to check Lindell's injury: "He was seriously injured to protect us! Is there a way to treat this? "

So the bookstore owner and superficial guardian waited for Lindell to explain again, with a strange expression as if he had heard for the first time that "angels and demons can be friends".

But Lindell obviously didn't intend to explain his motives: "I think the magical protection technique should be updated again, and a magic workshop should be built with the bookstore as the core. At least we can't let these things touch the tail..."

Steve and James didn't understand the content of the following discussion at all, and even doubted whether they were speaking English.All in all, after the discussion was over, the news they learned was that there was no human in the family of three.

They essentially do not need to eat, and survive by absorbing the magic power (Mana) in nature, but Lindell's digestive function is somewhat defective, just like a whale's baleen plate has a problem, it is difficult to filter and prey on lindell from the sea smoothly. shrimp.

Aziraphale thought that his example was easy to understand and suitable for minors to understand, but the two of them were obviously more worried: "Then what to do! Since magic power is the food of goblins, isn't he always Hungry!"

Apparently, they're taking the fact that "Lindell is a goblin" well.

"During the continuation of the family relationship, Crowley and I will supplement it with magical feathers. When we grow up a bit, Lindell will have his own way...you don't have to worry about this."

Crowley brought out a stack of cookies and placed them in front of the two teenagers: "The Goat Demon must have scared you, eat something to relax."

The cookies were placed in front of the two of them, and they were still fragrant, but Lindell had no intention of eating them.

——This will bring me a burden. At this time, when they think of this sentence again, they all feel a little uncomfortable in their hearts.

Before Aziraphale could say anything, the two teenagers clapped their chests and said that they would keep it secret. In the end, even Crowley couldn't say "just erase the memory of these two guys".The two guys who have lived for 6000 years don’t know what to do. In short, after a busy afternoon in the room, the man wearing big black sunglasses firmly stated that there will definitely not be a similar situation in the future. .

The school life after that was exactly the same as in the past, but it seemed a little different.

James and Steve began to cover Lindell spontaneously, including but not limited to sharing the extra lunch between the two of them, and secretly feeding chocolate after repeatedly confirming that the remaining mana of the other party was still enough. feed him.

"Only a man like Aziraphale would like to eat human food!"

Despite what the other party claimed, the feeding process did not stop. James took it for granted that there would be no creatures that would not like chocolate, and if dogs would not die from eating chocolate, they would definitely fall in love with this sweet food: "And Crowe Mr. Li also drinks occasionally, I have seen it once or twice."

So, this is probably the calmness of 6000-year-old angels and demons.

Lindell still sits in the distance during gym class watching a group of people play basketball, with various books borrowed from Aziraphale's second-hand bookstore on his lap, from Mark Tull, who hates Merlin Went to some fairy tales fabricated by humans; Steve’s sketching level has also steadily improved. The profile of a young man is outlined in the sketchbook, with pointed and long ears and an iris that is bigger than a human.The boy in the painting looks quietly into the distance, as if the wind blows his light golden hair down to his temples.

Lindell also came over to look at his draft: "Why did you draw it that way?"

Obviously, in order to pretend to be a human being, he has to consume an extra part of his magical power every day...

"This is because..."

As a result, the other party's face turned a little red: "I am, I think..."

"...Are you going to have an asthma attack?"

Lindell began to skillfully take out the medicine in his backpack: "Human beings are really troublesome."

They'll lose their lives to anything insignificant—car accidents, gunshots, asthma attacks, and, reportedly, nut allergies that require only a bite or two of peanut butter to kill.

"No, it's not asthma."

Steve stopped his goblin friend with a complicated face. Mr. Crowley once said that their long-lived creatures have different mental development rates from humans, and their soul forms are also different. Lindell has a great possibility of a long life For a period of time, he maintained his current height, appearance and temperament.

Now even he himself is obviously taller than the opponent, as for James, he has already jumped up suddenly, and the three of them stand together like a row of arithmetic progressions.

The other party still looked worried, and turned his head to listen to his heart rate: "But your heartbeat doesn't sound very normal..."

So goblins are really foul creatures!Steve blushed and explained, saying that human beings have all kinds of situations!The other party nodded in conviction, saying that you humans are really troublesome.

Steve was a little worried again, he believed Lindell whatever he said, it was too easy to deceive.

But there should be no one in this world who can really make him suffer.

After all, their growth rates are different. He and James will one day become bearded adult uncles, but the other may always maintain the appearance of teenagers in their lifetimes.Such thoughts flashed by, and Steve closed his sketchbook, "Want to go to the movies today?"

"I also can."

The other party didn't have much choice, in fact, it was like "all human beings look the same to him", and the videos made by human beings were not particularly attractive, but he still stood up obediently and followed step by step. behind.

On the plus side, goblins have exceptionally long lives, so their friendship lasted quite a while, Steve consoled himself.