New Gods of North America

After reaching a preliminary agreement on cooperation, Wayne and the others began to discuss the details.

Dealing with people within the Church, you can't directly start a hot war without strong reasons.

So, Wayne's current approach to retaliating against Pastor Pasil is simple:

It's a very basic "pulling blocks" and "jamming nails" strategy.

Then see if they can find the "load-bearing wall," or "the last straw that breaks the camel's back."

The mayor's philosophy of dealing with things includes a similar idea—"If you want to sit at the negotiating table or in the judge's seat, you must first have the ability to 'benefit' or 'harm' the other party."

Miss Ovelia is not a member of the detective agency and is considered a third party in this matter. She may assist the detective agency out of consideration for personal relationships. If she finds something infuriating, she might become even more proactive.

But even if the results of her investigation are favorable, they may not be directly usable, or even publicly disclosed in her name, otherwise it would be equivalent to indirectly using the influence of the Fiske family to deal with the Church.

Even if Miss Ovelia herself doesn't mind, a large family that has become a wealthy family wouldn't simply view such things.

——The favors of the upper class can be squandered by themselves, but they are not so "easy to borrow" and "easy to repay."

Even if they could try a scheme of borrowing a knife to kill someone and making amends afterward, "good steel" like the Fiske family shouldn't be wasted on this matter.

The detective agency even needs to prevent her from encountering danger.

So, Miss Ovelia's role is equivalent to a non-compliant and unrecordable "bug."

Existing, yet not "existing."

But that's enough.

"Ahhhhh!"

Just as they had almost reached an agreement, a young woman's scream suddenly came from the small courtyard.

It felt like it could scare away all the birds in a radius of dozens of yards.

Can something happen at home too?

The three followed the sound and ran out to see what was happening.

When Wayne and the others arrived at the scene, some detectives and bodyguards had already arrived and formed a small human wall.

Miss Mary was slumped on the grass, her face still showing a trace of terror, her fingers trembling as she pointed to a small wooden house next to her.

Fortunately, no one was dead or bleeding.

"Mary, what happened?" Miss Ovelia crouched down, gently hugged Miss Mary, and patted her back.

"Monster! I was going to find the washroom after touching the guns to clean the gun oil off my hands. Then I saw a monster!"

Miss Mary shrank slightly into Miss Ovelia's arms, still looking a little frightened.

"What kind of monster?" Wayne asked.

"I don't know, but I saw a pair of hands holding up someone's head, and then that head instantly turned into a pile of flesh and blood!"

Uh...

This description...

After hearing this, Wayne couldn't help but want to facepalm...

This small wooden house was originally prepared for guests in need or newly promoted partners. It is currently empty, but the lights are on inside.

The detectives and bodyguards who arrived first had already gone inside to check.

Then, as expected, they led out Emma and that little Miss Yulenka from inside.

The detectives and bodyguards all said that there was nothing unusual inside.

So Wayne took the opportunity to comfort Miss Mary, "Look, there are only these two children playing inside, Miss Mary, you might have seen it wrong."

After speaking, he glanced at Emma.

Emma looked innocent at this time. After noticing Wayne's gaze, she quickly ran behind Inisha to hide.

"Impossible, I saw it very clearly!"

Miss Mary was a little excited in her terror, still insisting on her opinion, "If you don't believe me, ask them, they were in the room at the time."

Wayne could only pretend to ask Emma in public again.

Emma slightly revealed half of her small head from behind Inisha's skirt, her expression looking innocent and a little scared, and then shook her head violently.

The little Miss named Yulenka also looked innocent when asked.

She said blankly that she didn't see anything either.

Miss Ovelia's eyes swept across Wayne, Inisha, and Lina's faces, and then she signaled the maid to help Miss Mary up with her.

While helping her tidy up her clothes, she continued to comfort her, "It's okay, Mary, it's normal to see things wrong after dark, I'm also very afraid of the dark."

This was a blatant lie.

When there are guests, the kerosene lamps in the detective agency's small courtyard are sufficient, and the lighting is quite adequate, otherwise how would Miss Mary dare to wander around alone.

"I didn't..." Miss Mary muttered.

Lina also went over to help tidy up, "Mary, don't be angry. It's all Wayne's fault, he's always reluctant to let people light the lamps. Wayne, look, you scared someone, didn't you?"

Miss Russell tried to speculate on the reason next to her, "It may be a reflection on the window that caused the illusion."

"I really didn't see it wrong..." Miss Mary looked even more aggrieved.

Miss Ovelia continued to pat her back gently, "Okay, okay, it's good that nothing happened anyway."

"Gladys, tell them, I'm not a coward." Miss Mary used on-site help.

Miss Russell nodded obediently, "Of course, Mary, you have always been the bravest. But illusions are always inevitable."

"Really, that was really a monster." Miss Mary was still struggling.

Lina helped Miss Mary walk on the other side, "Yes, yes, let's go in and have a cup of tea and sit down. Don't scare the children."

"We're not afraid, I'm just playing with Emma." Yulenka also came over obediently.

"..."

Looking at the comfort of the people around her, Miss Mary finally gave up her resistance.

...

After sending the ladies away,

Wayne began to ask the reason.

Emma pouted her small mouth and explained, "I was solving a problem in the room, and suddenly I felt that my head was a little strange, it became difficult to use, so I tried to reinstall it..."

Wayne was shocked. He originally thought that Emma was playing a prank, or that the other little miss just didn't see it:

"Aren't you worried about scaring Yulenka?! How can you use extraordinary abilities in front of strangers?"

The big eyes on Emma's small face looked round and slightly blinked, "She's not afraid of this."

"What do you mean? Is she also an extraordinary person?" Wayne asked.

"I don't know..." Emma rarely showed the ignorant expression of her age, "But I know she's the same kind of person as me."

After asking the detectives in the yard a little bit,

Yulenka is also a guest after all. Although the detectives didn't keep an eye on her, some people paid attention to the children's situation from time to time.

As a result, Wayne learned that the two children seemed to have a good relationship in front of people, but they hardly saw any communication when they were alone, and they were playing their own games.

The detectives didn't pay much attention to these aspects of the children, and only thought that this might be the way girls get along.

He also asked Emma, who was being petted by Lina, from the side.

Emma's answer to this was very simple, "She's not fun, and this way we can both be more relaxed."

Wayne had never raised a daughter, and Inisha and Lina's growth experiences didn't seem to be able to be used as a reference.

Therefore, the three pondered for a while, and tentatively put Yulenka on the observation list, and asked Seth to confirm their family's situation later.